A woman and her partner will go on trial later this year charged with the murder of her two-year-old son.

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Sarah O'Brien, 32, and Martin Currie, 36, are accused of murdering Keigan O'Brien, who died from head injuries in hospital on Thursday.

The defendants, both of Bosworth Road, Doncaster, appeared at Sheffield Crown Court earlier.

No pleas were entered and both were remanded into custody to appear in court for a further hearing on 18 May.

A provisional trial date was set for October.

A photographer who's taking an epic walk around Britain's coast is due in East Yorkshire by the end of today.

Image source, Quintin Lake

Quintin Lake is on a five-year photographic project called The Perimeter, which will see him cover the 6,000 miles of Britain's shoreline.

He starts off in the Filey area today and then treks south towards Flamborough Head.

Over the past five years, the Cheltenham-based camera-wielding adventurer has been hiking the route in sections - taking in places like Devon (above) and Ayrshire (below).

On the way, he takes pictures and sells the prints to help fund the self-supported project.

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Leeds Rhinos appoint club legend Jamie Jones-Buchanan as assistant coach following his retirement from playing.

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A former York psychiatric hospital could be turned into a retirement complex if plans are given the go-ahead later.

The Bootham Park Hospital site has now been sold to Enterprise Retirement Living after the failure of attempts to keep it publicly owned.

The psychiatric facility was shut in 2015 after inspectors from the health watchdog the Care Quality Commission said it was no longer fit for purpose.

Plans for the site include 125 homes for people aged 55 and over, with parts of the grounds opened to the public.

Senior councillors will be asked at a meeting today to allow officers to negotiate with the NHS and future owners of the site.

South Yorkshire firefighters are heading to Westminster today to call for tackling flooding to be made an official responsibility of fire services in England - meaning they can then receive more funding for equipment and training.

Currently, the fire service's "statutory duties" are to extinguish fires, to protect life and property in the event of fire, to rescue and protect people in the event of a road traffic collision and to rescue and protect people in the event of "other emergencies".

However, the Fire Brigades Union (FBU) says fire services are not being adequately funded to deal with floods and it needs to be added to the list of statutory duties.

It comes after large parts of South Yorkshire were affected by flooding following heavy rainfall in November last year.

The FBU has been campaigning for flooding as a statutory duty since the floods in 2015, it said.

Music retailer HMV has confirmed its Leeds Headrow store is among five due to close at the end of this month.

The company said the five sites were no longer viable due to "extortionate" business rates in certain locations.

While the Leeds Headrow branch will close, the branch in the nearby St John's shopping centre will not be affected, it's been confirmed.

The Sheffield Meadowhall store had been at risk of closure but will remain open, the retailer added.

In a previous statement, the company said: "The closures are no reflection on our superb staff and where we are not able to come to a new agreement or relocate staff within the business elsewhere, unfortunately this does mean some of our staff will lose their jobs."

HMV was purchased in a rescue deal by music mogul Doug Putman in February last year after it went into administration for the second time in five years.

A man and his dog have died after being hit by a car which mounted the pavement in South Yorkshire.

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It happened just before 08:30 yesterday morning on Oaks Lane in Barnsley and involved a silver Kia Rio, according to South Yorkshire Police.

Officers say the vehicle, which was travelling in the direction of Pontefract Road, mounted the pavement and hit the 32-year-old man and the dog he was walking, killing them both.

Police want anyone who stopped to help at the scene, or who has any information about the collision, to contact them.

An online petition supporting the long-standing cast of York Theatre Royal's pantomime has now been signed by over 1,500 people.

The current cast - some of whom have worked at the theatre for more than 25 years - claim they've been told they won't be asked back after this year's run of Sleeping Beauty ends.

The theatre has told Martin Barrass, David Leonard, Suzy Cooper and AJ Powell this will be their last panto at the theatre.

Mr Barrass (pictured above in his 2014 panto role), who stars as the Queen in the current panto, said he'd been telling audiences at the end of the panto about the decision.

The move was “shooting the goose that lays the golden egg”, he added.

But Tom Bird, York Theatre Royal's executive director, said demand for the venue's pantomime was "collapsing", with ticket sales falling since 2008.

Mr Bird said: "York deserves a panto that is full on Christmas Eve and full on the last night and that's not happening, that demand just isn't there.

"We need to make something fabulous that is even more fabulous than what we do already."

Mr Bird described planned changes coming to the theatre as "brave" and said future Christmas plans would be revealed on 3 February.

BBC Weather

This morning should be dry with some sunshine, but it will become cloudy towards the middle of the day with outbreaks of rain this afternoon.

It will become very windy during the afternoon and into the evening.

The wind will continue tonight with further rain which should clear overnight:

Police searching for a man missing from Queensbury in West Yorkshire say they've found the body of a man.

Melvyn Kaye, 62, was reported missing on 10 January and was thought to be in the Ripponden area.

Officers say they found a body in Baltings Reservoir in the area yesterday afternoon.

While formal identification has not yet taken place, Mr Kaye's family have been made aware of the development, according to police.

Detectives investigating an assault on a man in Huddersfield have released CCTV images of three people they want to speak to who officers believe may have witnessed what happened.

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A 58-year-old man suffered "life-changing injuries" during the attack at a property in Wakefield Road, Aspley, on 19 June last year.

West Yorkshire Police have released images of several people they want to speak to as possible witnesses.

The man pictured above got into a taxi from the rank on Wakefield Road at the time of the incident, police believe.

Meanwhile, the couple pictured below walked up Wakefield Road past KFC in the direction away from the town centre, officers say:

Image source, WEST YORKSHIRE POLICE

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If you're making a journey on the rails in Yorkshire this Tuesday morning, most services appear to be generally running on time.

For all the latest live updates from the county's main railway stations, click on the links below:

• York Station, external
• Leeds Station, external
• Sheffield Station, external
• Hull Station, external
• Doncaster Station, external
• Wakefield Westgate, external
• Bradford Interchange, external
• Bradford Forster Square, external

A "technology issue" is being blamed for problems on the M62 at the moment, meaning the "smart motorway" hard shoulder can't currently be used as an extra traffic lane.

If you're on affected parts of the M62 in West Yorkshire just now, you're being warned to expect some delays to your journey, according to Highways England:

A Yorkshire university is to hire 20 of its own students to challenge language on campus which could be seen as racist.

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The University of Sheffield is to pay students to tackle so-called "microaggressions" - which it describes as "subtle but offensive comments".

The students will be paid £9.34 per hour as "race equality champions", working between two and nine hours per week to tackle "microaggressions" in the university.

These are described as comments or actions which might be unintentional, but which can cause offence to a minority group.

It gives examples of what it means by microaggression - such as:

• "Stop making everything a race issue"
• "Why are you searching for things to be offended about?"
• "Where are you really from?"

Rather than being about controlling people's speech, the university says it is "opening up a conversation".

It says the equality roles are being created in response to demand from students, training them how "to help their peers understand racism and its impact".

Three people caught drink-driving in North Yorkshire over the Christmas period were more than three times the legal limit, police say.

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Latest figures show 100 people were arrested on drink or drug-driving charges during a 24-day campaign by police.

They're due to appear in court over the next few weeks.

The new figure represents an increase on the same period last year when 82 motorists were arrested on suspicion of driving under the influence.

Sgt Andy Morton said: “It’s disappointing so many have now ruined their new year with an act of stupidity and they’re facing 2020 without a licence and with a criminal record.

“We have absolutely no sympathy for them. My team and I see the consequences of drink and drug-driving first-hand, and they are utterly horrific."

Police trying to find this missing 82-year-old man from Hull, saying they are "concerned for his safety":

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Donald Francis was last see at 09:00 this morning at Thornton Court on Linnaeus Street.

Mr Francis could have travelled to his previous address of Nornabell Street, police say.

He is about 5ft 7ins tall and of slim build with white or grey hair.

Anybody who has seen him is being asked to get in touch with police.

Superfast mobile internet launches in Leeds today as part of Vodaphone's 5G network.

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Rival 5G operator EE is already available in the city with Three launching shortly.

Vodaphone says speeds could be up to 10 times fast than 4G, allowing users to download HD films in seconds.

Speeds could vary from 100Mbps to 1Gbps.

Two men have been arrested after a cannabis farm was raided by police in Wakefield at the weekend.

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More than 400 plants were seized by officers at a house on Cross Street during the raid on Saturday.

The arrested men have been released under investigation while police continue with their inquiries.

Insp Helen Brear said: "This was a significant seizure and we would always encourage members of the public to contact us if they have information about possible drug production in our communities."

Jason Scherer, 47, was stabbed in the neck by one of three passengers in the Armley area of Leeds.

He is thought to have been caught up in a fallout between organised crime groups, police say.