Two residents, aged 65 and 81, were taken to hospital after being injured at the Wakefield home.

Jared O'Mara is accused by a former staffer of using ill health as an "excuse" to avoid issues.

Kirsty and Craig Williams got married after businesses in Harrogate came together to help them out.

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Residents living near a newly-approved storage site for explosive material in North Yorkshire claim they have been ignored following a decision to proceed with the plans despite objections.

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It follows Harrogate Borough Council’s decision to allow explosives supply company Brexco to locate a storage site at the former Tockwith Airfield.

The decision was made after a consultation process which saw over 200 objections and 600 signatures received on a petition opposing the proposal.

Councillors were split on the motion, ahead of eventually voting six to four in favour of it.

Following the decision, Tockwith Residents’ Association chairman Peter Poozman said: "I don’t think they’ve taken into account our concerns. Nothing was done to reassure our concerns about police response times."

An agent for the applicant said each of the containers was designed to withstand any explosive incidents, with each individual protective earth "bund" also fenced off.

Sensor lights and live CCTV monitoring will be installed on the site as well, the agent added.

A man from South Yorkshire who was at the centre of a crowdfunding campaign after he was scammed out of almost £15,000 has donated some of the money to charity.

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Former police officer John Thompson, 91, from Sprotbrough, in Doncaster, lost £14,700 when he was tricked on the phone into transferring the money.

A crowdfunding campaign by a newspaper raised almost £16,000, some of which Mr Thompson will now donate to The Fire Fighters Charity.

The money will go towards providing life-changing physical and mental rehabilitation for firefighters and fire service staff, according to South Yorkshire Fire and Rescue.

Members of staff from the South Yorkshire brigade collected the money on the charity's behalf.

Police pulled over the driver of a Lamborghini in Bradford for having no insurance and he claimed he was just borrowing it.

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Officers said they stopped the motorist on Barden Street and "despite an hour's worth of phone calls he cannot show any insurance".

In a Twitter post, West Yorkshire Police said the man was also given ticket for not having a number plate on the front of the sports car.

A former FA official says he heard David Duckenfield make the claim minutes after the 1989 match was stopped.

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A residents' parking scheme could be introduced around Barnsley Hospital in a bid to tackle notorious parking problems in the area.

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The parking scheme could be put in place for all streets within a 15-minute walk of the site, ward councillors in Old Town have suggested.

Hospital bosses say spare land around the hospital "should be used first to expand medical facilities", with a multi-storey car park needing a lot of land for building.

The council says it's looking at the problem and working with the hospital to come up with a solution.

The proposed residents' parking scheme is due to be discussed at a meeting next month.

A goat which was found wandering the streets of Sheffield in the early hours of this morning has found a new home after its original owners "didn't want him back".

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Affectionately named "Billy", he was found by police officers on Greenland Road this morning.

His owners have been found following an appeal but they don't want him back, according to police.

He has now been taken to Wigfield Farm to be looked after, officers add.

The six members of the group had been accused of using violence and falsely imprisoning men in two sting operations.

The 21-year-old student's body was found seven weeks after she vanished on a night out in Hull.

Several children from Rotherham who have been identified as being at risk of forced marriage have been granted protection by a Sheffield court.

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Officers in Rotherham’s Protecting Vulnerable People team, supported by Rotherham Council and South Yorkshire Police’s Legal Services department, made the application after concerns were raised about several children being at risk.

A 42-year-old woman from Rotherham was arrested on suspicion of forced marriage offences.

She's been bailed pending further inquiries.

A group of paedophile hunters accused of assault and falsely imprisoning men they suspected of being child sex offenders have been acquitted.

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Six members of Leeds-based Predator Exposure had confronted two men on separate occasions in August 2018 and January 2019.

Both men were arrested on suspicion of inciting a child to engage in sexual activity but were not charged.

The four men and two women were cleared of by a jury at Leeds Crown Court.

Speaking after being cleared, one of the defendants, Philip Hoban, who set up the group said: "This is just the first start and we'll be back hunting, very soon. Tune in people."

Those cleared included:

• Phillip Hoban, 43, and his son, Jordan McDonald, 19, both from Leeds, were cleared of two counts of false imprisonment and one of common assault
• Jordan Plain, 26, from Leeds, and Dean Walls, 52, from Moortown, were acquitted of one count of false imprisonment and one of common assault
• Kelly Meadows, 40, from Leeds, was cleared of two counts of false imprisonment
• Christine James-Roberts, 60, from Leeds, was acquitted of one charge of false imprisonment.

A birth centre and beds in a stroke unit are to be shut due to staff shortages at Pontefract hospital.

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The Mid Yorkshire Hospitals Trust said it would close the hospital's Friarwood Birth Centre "on the grounds of safety" until next October.

It is also closing 12 of the 42 beds at the hospital's stroke and rehabilitation unit.

Martin Barkley, the trust's chief executive, said the hospital was struggling to recruit in a "national shortage of midwives".

"Nor is it fair to our staff to continue to stretch our midwifery resource so thinly", he added.

The trust would still offer midwifery-led facilities at Pinderfields Hospital in Wakefield and Dewsbury Hospital, it said.

It would continue to run antenatal and postnatal clinics at Pontefract and the closure would be reviewed next autumn.

Labour MP Yvette Cooper called the midwife unit closure "an absolute disgrace".

Staff at a North Yorkshire fire station have created a unique tribute to remember those who fought and died in war and conflict.

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Firefighters at Huntington Fire Station in York created the impressive show of respect using hoses and helmets.

It was done ahead of Remembrance Day commemorations on 11 November.

Police officers are trying to find three men who they believe could have been injured in a shooting in Sheffield last night.

It's believed a blue Audi pulled up alongside a parked taxi on Margate Drive, Grimesthorpe, at about 21:35 on Tuesday. A gun was then fired at the taxi, damaging its window.

The three passengers in the taxi, all men believed to be in their 20s, left the scene.

The taxi driver was uninjured in the shooting.

South Yorkshire Police are appealing for the passengers of the taxi to get in touch as they could be injured and need medical help.

A 23-year-old man has been arrested on firearms offences, the force added.

North Yorkshire baker David Atherton has been crowned winner of this year's Great British Bake Off.

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The Whitby man beat fellow finalists Alice Fevronia and Steph Blackwell in Tuesday's finale, which included chocolate cake and stilton souffle.

David, an international health adviser, said winning was "the best feeling in the world".

He triumphed despite not having been named star baker during the series.

Susan Howells from Harrogate was last seen in February and reported missing in August.

A would-be armed robber who forced his way into a house in Doncaster and opened fire on one of the residents has been jailed for 14 years.

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Michael Swift, 27, broke into the house on Athelstane Road, Conisbrough, in the early hours of 23 January while the family living there were asleep upstairs.

When a 31-year-old man, who was woken by Swift entering the property, went to confront him, Swift pointed a gun at him and fired two shots before fleeing empty-handed.

South Yorkshire Police said the man was not seriously injured but said the "truly terrifying incident" had had a "profound effect".

Swift, of Beaumont Mews in Sheffield, was jailed for 14 years five months at Sheffield Crown Court on Thursday after he pleaded guilty to offences of attempted robbery and possession of a firearm.

A shortage of midwives has forced a West Yorkshire hospital to close its birth centre.

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Mid Yorkshire Hospitals NHS Trust has announced the Friarwood Birth Centre, at Pontefract Hospital, will close from 8 November until 30 September 2020.

The trust said the closure was due to a national shortage of midwives.

It said that after failing to recruit enough staff it had taken to decision to move its midwives to Pinderfields Hospital and Dewsbury's midwife led-unit.

"We have to deploy our midwives where they are most needed and therefore we have reluctantly taken the difficult decision to temporarily close the Friarwood Birth Centre on the grounds of safety", trust CEO Martin Barkley said.