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All public venues owned by Sheffield City Council will become breastfeeding-friendly, with designated spaces for mothers and babies.

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There are 260 sites across the city which accommodate breastfeeding but the council want more venues to open private rooms for mothers.

A designated breastfeeding space should have a comfortable chair, baby changing facilities and clear signage.

The council added they want to see Stagecoach, all Sheffield International Venues, South Yorkshire Police, schools, libraries, housing offices and family centres to become breastfeeding friendly too.

The A658 road near Harrogate will remain closed after a driver was seriously injured in a collision earlier this afternoon.

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A silver Honda and a green HGV collided between Castley Lane and Riffa Business Park at about 13:00.

The driver of the Honda was admitted to hospital.

The road is likely to be shut for some time while police examine the scene.

If you witnessed the crash, or you have dash-cam footage of the incident, get in touch with police.

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Filming of the art heist movie The Duke had to be paused so a council meeting could take place in Bradford City Hall earlier today.

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School budgets were being discussed in one room, while in another Dame Helen Mirren was being shot for the comedy-drama.

The plot follows a taxi driver, played by Jim Broadbent, who steals a portrait from London's National Gallery in the 1960s.

The chair of the Schools Forum jokingly told members Dame Helen had been asked to stop filming to allow the meeting to take place.

Some of the rooms at Bradford City Hall have remained virtually untouched for decades, and used to film other period pieces such as the ABC Murders.

Nine men are on trial accused of raping the teenager in Sheffield between 2010 and 2012.

Police are trying to find the members of the public who helped a woman who was being forced into a car by a man in Doncaster last month.

The 21-year-old victim was walking along Broxholme Lane at about 08:00 on Friday 20 December.

She was verbally abused by a man, who then tried to drag her into his car, prompting members of the public to intervene.

South Yorkshire Police is appealing for help in identifying the people who stepped in to help as part of their investigation.

South Yorkshire Police has referred itself to the police regulator in connection with the death of a Doncaster man last month.

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Jerry Appicella's body was found inside a property on Craganour Place in Denaby on Sunday 15 December after calls to police about concerns for his welfare.

Three people have been charged with murder, South Yorkshire Police said.

The force says it's made a mandatory referral to the Independent Office for Police Conduct because the police were in contact with the 51-year-old three weeks before his death.

A search is on across North Yorkshire to reunite an eight-year-old boy with a cuddly toy given to him by his late mother.

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Matthew Lindley, from Harrogate, is said to have been inseperable from the fluffy orangutan toy since his mum died of cancer two years ago.

The toy was left on on a train between Leeds and York at Hornbeam Park on Saturday night.

Mathew's dad Stuart says: "It's one of the few things he has left given to him by his mum, it's his favourite toy.

"The orangutan is one of the few things he has to remind him of the happy times he spent with his mum and he's shattered."

One of 13 lions brought to a wildlife park in Yorkshire has died, the venue has announced.

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Yorkshire Wildlife Park rescued the pride ten years ago when their previous home, a zoo in Romania, said they planned to kill the animals if a new home couldn't be found.

The Doncaster park has announced that the oldest lion, Allis, has been put to sleep by vets due to ongoing health issues.

More than £150,000 was donated by the public to bring the lions to the UK back in 2010.

Dramatic CCTV footage of a ram-raid on a jewellers store during which one of the thieves was nearly crushed by his accomplice has been released by police.

The footage shows raiders reversing a Ford Ranger 4x4 into the front window of Hyman’s Jewellers, in Call Lane, Leeds, in October 2017.

The two men involved John Kitchen, 28, from Seacroft and Dominic Bailey, 30, from Chapel Allerton, have been jailed alongside six others for a series of thefts across the country:

Two men have been arrested in West Yorkshire after a suspected shotgun was fired in Newcastle at the weekend.

Police were alerted on Saturday evening when the occupant of an address in Ridsdale Avenue in West Denton reported that their window had been damaged by what officers later concluded was a firearm.

A man and a woman had earlier been seen arguing in a car on the street before the man got out and shot the weapon in the direction of the vehicle.

It missed, but caused damage to the property in question.

On Monday, five people were arrested in Cowgate - two were later released while investigations continue and one with no further action.

A 31-year-old man has now been arrested in Bradford on suspicion of attempted murder, and another man, 30, on suspicion of assisting an offender.

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The government is being asked to provide more money to help people in East Yorkshire at risk of losing their homes to coastal erosion.

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Councillors from East Riding of Yorkshire Council are to write to the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (Defra) to ask for help to support those affected.

Under current government guidance places like Skipsea can be left to naturally erode, external and, as a result, no Whitehall funding has been provided for sea defences.

However, councillors say it would be "unsustainable and inappropriate, external" for it to maintain defences for all 53 miles of coastline it is responsible for and has appealed for help.

Conservative councillor Jane Evison said she hoped the letter would "raise awareness about the devastating situation of coastal erosion, the effect it has on people, on their lives, the people who live on our Holderness coastline, and the cost to the East Riding of Yorkshire Council of managing those coastal changes".

Defra says local authorities take the lead in managing coastal erosion and it can’t comment on any letter until it has been received.

Claims of historical abuse at a school for children with special educational needs are being reviewed by police.

Thirty ex-pupils at William Henry Smith School (pictured above), in Brighouse received an out-of-court settlement in 2013 over alleged abuse in the 1960s, 70s and 80s.

Nobody has ever been convicted over the claims but police said a review of the case was "in its early stages".

The school governors said they were "saddened" by the allegations which "did not lead to any convictions".

Scientists say they've unlocked the secrets behind the preservation of an ancient human brain discovered in North Yorkshire.

The Iron Age brain, believed to be one of the oldest found in the UK, was found inside a skull during excavations in the Heslington area of York in 2008.

When it was discovered the big mystery was how the delicate tissue of the brain was able to survive intact and had not rotted away.

Now, in a new study, researchers found proteins which hold the brain together can fold themselves into a tight structure, preserving the brain for more than 2,500 years.

Lead researcher, Dr Axel Petzold, spent years researching two types of filaments in the brain which act like scaffolds holding matter together. Both were still present in the York brain, suggesting they played a key role in keeping the brain intact.

Dr Petzold believes the manner of this individual's death may also have enabled the brain's long term preservation.

He said: "Something cruel must have happened to this person, pointing to evidence the person was hit hard on the head or neck before being decapitated."

Dr Petzold also said the findings about brain protein folding and unfolding could help biomedical research into diseases like dementia.

Hull-based telecoms company KCOM is to invest an extra £100m in its full fibre broadband network - taking it to new areas of East Yorkshire and North Lincolnshire.

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The communications group recently reached 200,000 homes and businesses, but has now announced a further expansion.

Work is to start next month on the project, which is also likely to create dozens of new jobs.

KCOM says the rollout will double its investment in bringing full fibre internet to homes.

It allows speeds of up to 1Gbps to be reached by customers - meaning a 20GB 4K-resolution film would take less than three minutes to download.

The company said the plans were "ambitious".

Bradford City recall the EFL's top goalscorer Eoin Doyle from his loan spell at Swindon Town.

A murderer who killed a pregnant Lincoln teenager and dumped her dismembered body in the River Witham has died.

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Stephen Hughes, then 41, was convicted of killing his 18-year-old neighbour Kim Newson in 2003 and was jailed for life.

It emerged he was out of prison at the time of the murder on licence for previous offences.

Hughes killed Miss Newson in his flat in Lincoln's Monks Road and then tried to cover up what he had done.

She was five months pregnant.

A prison service spokesman said Hughes had been in Full Sutton Prison, near York, but died in hospital on December 20.

An independent investigation will be carried out by the Prisons and Probation Ombudsman.

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The number of gull attacks on people on the Scarborough coast have halved in the last year, although it is not clear why.

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The number of "muggings" by the birds - which include snatching food from people's hands - have been tracked in Scarborough, Filey and Whitby by the council since 2016.

There were 47 reports in 2018 which dropped to 25 in 2019.

Scarborough Council said there was "no clear explanation" for the decrease, but a scrutiny board will be asked to continue to gull-proof buildings and warn the public about feeding.

MK Dons sign Norwich striker Carlton Morris on loan for the rest of the season after his spell at Rotherham is cut short.

Sheffield City Region mayor and Barnsley Central MP Dan Jarvis has said he won't be joining the race to become the new Labour leader.

Mr Jarvis said he was "humbled" by messages of support but that he is committed to serving as mayor for the region.

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Double Olympic triathlon champion Alistair Brownlee is setting his sights on a return to the world stage and tilt at qualifying for Tokyo 2020.

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Brownlee, who was born in Dewsbury, won Olympic gold in 2012 and 2016 but after a number of injuries and with a slew of younger rivals chasing him down he had intended to leave 2020 to his brother, Jonny, and the kids coming up behind.

However, he says that after an injury free year it would "be a bit mad" to pass up on the chance to compete.

"It's quite easy to get carried away and think, I'll only go if I can win medals," he says.

"Well maybe, but I need to look at it one step at a time. Do some World Series racing, see how competitive I am. Try to qualify, see how that goes.

"In my head, the perfect scenario is that I'm in a position where I'm stood on the start-line and I think I can win the race. But if I'm instead thinking I can scrape a third here, or I'm thinking, I could help another British athlete win a medal here - I would be happy with that. I would."