Yorkshire breaking news: Latest updatespublished at 07:34 Greenwich Mean Time 18 November 2019
Latest news, sport, weather and travel updates from across West, North, South and East Yorkshire.
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Latest updates on Friday 15 November 2019
Oli Constable and Joe Townsend
Latest news, sport, weather and travel updates from across West, North, South and East Yorkshire.
Read MoreDoncaster Council says there is still a significant safety risk from deep standing water in the area.
Read MoreWakefield Council rejected Glenn Davison's bid to sell it at Castleford's festive lights switch-on.
Read MoreLewis Bagshaw, 21, was found stabbed in the chest in the Southey area of Sheffield in July.
Read MoreBromley prove their promotion credentials as they come from three goals down to earn a draw in a thriller with Harrogate.
Read MoreRotherham United move into the League One play-off spots thanks to a win over Accrington Stanley.
Read MoreHalifax hang on for a goalless draw at Woking in the National League, despite playing the last half an hour with 10 men.
Read MoreA milk tanker overturns, spilling its load and closing part of the road between Whitby and Pickering.
Read MoreVolunteers gathered to clear up the streets of Bentley after floods flowed through the region.
Read MoreDean Whitehead leaves his role as Huddersfield's Under-19 coach to join Sam Ricketts' coaching team at Shrewsbury Town.
Read MoreThat's all for our coverage of the flooding in South Yorkshire for the week:
Here's a recap of some of today's headlines:
A man who crashed a car into a house in North Yorkshire, causing life-changing injuries to three passengers, has been jailed for more than two years.
Bradley Dunlop, 37, was driving so fast along the B1258 near Ebberston, his car smashed into the the first-floor window of a house after leaving the road in the early hours of 29 March.
The silver Seat Ibiza crashed through the window and landed on top of a large porch before coming to rest back on the road.
His three passengers suffered life-changing injuries, while Dunlop himself suffered minor injuries.
York Crown Court heard he tested positive for alcohol and cocaine after the crash.
Dunlop, of Clinton Avenue, Hull, was jailed for two-years-and-four-months after he admitted offences including causing serious injury by dangerous driving, driving whilst over the prescribed alcohol limit and drug-driving
He has been banned from driving for seven years.
A vicar is banned from Church ministry for life over an affair with a mentally ill woman
Read MoreCCTV footage has been released by officers investigating a "serious assault" in Barnsley which left a 69-year-old man in a life-threatening condition for a number of weeks.
The victim was found with severe head injuries in Dobie Street, in Worsbrough Common, at about 07:00 on 27 October.
South Yorkshire Police said the man's condition has improved slightly since the attack and is now described as serious but stable.
Craig Smith, 30, of Honeywell Street, Barnsley, and Scott Toone, 26, of no-fixed-address, have both been charged in connection to the incident and remain remanded in custody.
Police has released CCTV footage of potential witnesses they want to trace:
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A CCTV image of a man has been released by officers investigating a "serious assault" in Leeds city centre which left a man with a fractured jaw.
West Yorkshire Police said the 24-year-old victim was punched in the face in an unprovoked attack in Crown Street in the early hours of 12 October,
Officers want anyone who recognises the man in the image to get in touch.
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Local Democracy Reporting Service
A £90,000 plan to remove trees and shrubs ahead of a multi-million improvement scheme for Scarborough’s South Cliff Gardens is to go ahead.
Scarborough Council approved the spend as part of a £7m scheme to restore the gardens.
The removal of the trees is to give access to contractors to start the works for the Heritage Lottery-funded scheme. The removal will start later this month and run through until February.
A report stated the work would “reinstate key historic views within the park and across the park, from the Esplanade to South Bay”.
It added: “Where trees will have to be removed, new compensation tree planting will take place.
Once at the heart of Scarborough’s seaside resort, South Cliff Gardens include 14 timber and concrete shelters, believed to be the largest number of such shelters in any public garden in the country.
The gardens also feature 19th Century Egyptian gates, Italian steps designed by Joseph Paxton and the the first funicular railway in the country.
Sheffield City region mayor Dan Jarvis says it is "concerning" support was not given sooner.
Read MoreA former school matron has been jailed for sexually assaulting a 12-year-old boy.
Susan Bramwell, 58, committed the offences at a school in Ripon in the 1980s..
Bramwell, from Sycamore Close, in Endmoor, Cumbria, admitted two counts of gross indecency and two counts of indecent assault on a boy under the age of 14.
She appeared at York Crown Court where she was jailed for two years and eight months and placed on the sex offenders' register for life.
John Lawler's neck was broken during treatment at a chiropractors in York.
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