Hull Kingston Rovers sign Daniel Murray on a one-year deal, as Ryan Lannon goes the other way to rejoin Salford Red Devils.

Leeds railway station will be closed to most trains from midnight tomorrow until midday on Sunday.

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Network Rail say replacement buses will run on some routes and the station will be closed from Saturday evening until midday on Sunday.

• Saturday 26 October– Limited service to/from Leeds Stations
• Sunday 27 October– No service to/from Leeds Station until 11:45 (replacement bus service will serve passengers across all routes)

It's so work can take place to build a new platform zero, part of an ongoing £161m investment to redevelop the station and its surrounding area.

Work on a new roof was finished last month.

The project started in December and is expected to be completed by 2021.

Whitby's famous goth weekend is under way with thousands of people expected to visit the seaside town over the next few days.

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The event, which was first held in 1994, was prompted by the town's association with Bram Stoker's gothic novel, Dracula.

Organisers have previous said the weekend is one of the biggest of its type anywhere in the world.

The event is also said to generate about £1m in revenue at what could otherwise be a quiet time of year for local hoteliers.

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Alcohol and drug abuse in York has led to a “public health crisis” in the city and people are struggling to access treatment because of government cuts, according to councillors.

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People are struggling to access treatment because of cuts and experienced staff losing their jobs in the city's substance misuse treatment service, a council meeting heard

Concerns were also raised about the the number of people admitted to York hospital for drinking and related illnesses which has significantly increased above the national average.

Cuts to public health budgets mean funding for services to help drink and drug users will be slashed by more than £500,000 during the next five years.

Councillor Michael Pavlovic said: “There is a lack of urgency in addressing what I would argue is a public health crisis."

Councillor Anna Perrett, said she will write to the government to argue for better funding for York – saying the service is “chronically underfunded”.

Fiona Phillips, assistant director of public health at the council, said: “We're working to make sure we are still providing a service, especially to the most vulnerable."

Bradford boss Gary Bowyer says he is concerned for the wellbeing of Chris Taylor after cancelling his contract because of a registration issue.

Rina Yasutake was found dead at a house in Helmsley, North Yorkshire in September last year.

A judge tells jurors David Duckenfield's demeanour and appearance do not indicate his state of mind.

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BT has been urged to reconsider plans to remove more than 40 phone boxes from one of England’s most rural districts.

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The telecommunications firm wants to get rid of 43 phone boxes in Richmondshire, North Yorkshire because of a huge decline in usage.

The area covers a large part of the Yorkshire Dales which some local residents argue relies on phone boxes because of poor mobile phone coverage.

BT said it wasn't proposing to remove payphones in areas identified as suicide hotspots, accident blackspots or without any mobile coverage.

Three people have been charged with preventing the lawful and decent burial of a dead body following the death of a woman in North Yorkshire.

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Rina Yasutake, 49, was found at a house in Bondgate, Helmsley on 25 September 2018.

A 76-year-old woman, a 47-year-old man and a 52-year-old woman, all from Helmsley will appear at Scarborough Magistrates' Court on Monday.

Tram services are to be suspended when Sheffield Wednesday play Leeds United tomorrow after trouble flared last season.

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Stagecoach Supertram said fans vandalised trams and subjected staff to physical and verbal assaults.

The tram operator said Wednesday had ignored its safety recommendations, external.

South Yorkshire Police said it "fully supported" the decision, although it was "disappointed" a satisfactory resolution could not be reached. The Owls have yet to comment.

Trams will not operate between the Cathedral, Middlewood and Malin Bridge stops from about 10:30 until 12:30, when the game kicks off, with services suspended between the same stops from about 13:30 to 15:30.

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Planners have approved the building of a major new housing estate in Kirklees.

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A 50-bed care home and 161 homes will be built on the council-owned site off Ashbrow Road, close to Ashbrow Infant and Nursery School, in Huddersfield.

More than a third of the properties will be affordable homes.

It's been approved after developers Keepmoat made changes to the previously criticised lay-out.

There had been concerns that a previous one would “stigmatise” less well-off people living in the development.

All the affordable homes were set to be sited on one street.

Discover Bradford's population frozen in time in a collection of lost archive photos from Belle Vue studio during the 20th Century.

The images are a record of Bradford at a time of extraordinary change and reflect the growth of the city's diverse communities.

There will be more police officers on a Hull estate after objects were thrown at cars.

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People on Orchard Park reported incidents to police following a series of attacks on vehicles.

Officers in Hull say they're stepping up patrols in the area.

Anybody with information about the attacks is asked to get in touch with police.

The Carlos Tevez affair - Saturday's unusual Premier League grudge match between West Ham & Sheffield United that comes with 13 years of baggage.

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A vital multi-million pound scheme to stabilise cliffs behind Scarborough’s Spa complex has been delayed.

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The £16m works to the South Bay cliffs, which started in May 2018, were due to be completed next month, but are now forecast to be finished in February next year, Scarborough Council's confirmed.

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Project manager Chris Bourne said: “The cliffs were very unsafe so a large number of properties and the Spa were at risk, the solution was to install soil nails and some piles that would secure the cliff in place.

"That project's now in its final stages, all of the structural work is in place and it is just a matter of finishing off."

The council says despite the delay the project will not go over budget.

A Sheffield bus driver was injured when a "noxious substance" was sprayed in his face earlier this month.

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It happened at about 14:35 on Saturday 5 October on Moonshine Lane.

A small red car pulled up alongside the bus and a passengers sprayed the substance through the window of the bus.

The 57-year-old driver was taken to hospital with injuries and still suffers from the attack.

The male suspect is described as being white, between 19 and 21 years old, with short, light brown hair.

Witnesses to the attack are asked to get in touch with police.

A new David Hockney exhibition has opened at an art museum in West Yorkshire.

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Alan Davie & David Hockney: Early Works is on show at The Hepworth in Wakefield.

The exhibition includes about 45 paintings and works by Alan Davie and David Hockney.

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It explores the moment when Hockney, then a student at Bradford College of Art, saw an exhibition by Davie at Wakefield Art Gallery in 1958.

It changed his career, inspiring the Bradford-born artist to move to London and start abstract painting.

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He is now one of the most famous artists in the world, with his painting Portrait of an Artist (Pool with Two Figures) selling for £70m last year - an auction record for a work by a living artist at that time.

The exhibition runs until 19 January.

A series of flypasts have been taking place to celebrate the RAF's Tucano training plane which is flying in North Yorkshire for the final time today.

The plane's been used to train fighter pilots and navigators, including the Duke of Cambridge, at Linton-on-Ouse, near York, for the last 30 years.

Today is graduation day for the final group of RAF pilots to be trained there.The base, which is 80 years old, is due to close next year.

The plane is being replaced as training moves to Anglesey:

The £16m scheme to stabilise the South Bay cliffs are now due to finish about three months late.

Wakefield Trinity re-sign forward Jay Pitts on a two-year deal from London Broncos.