With coronavirus guidance cancelling lots of sport, people are adapting to keep fit and healthy.

Leeds Rhinos boss Kevin Sinfield will run a solo marathon after the Manchester Marathon was cancelled because of coronavirus.

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Some of York's key music venues have announced they are temporarily closing in response to government guidance about coronavirus.

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A crowdfunding page has been set up to help raise money to support one of those venues, The Crescent, which has cancelled all events for the next two weeks.

The venue's operators say the money raised will go towards costs for staffing, utility bills and show cancellation fees – which organisers say can cost up to £3,500 a week.

The Fulford Arms (pictured) has also shut, with owners Chris Sherrington and Chris Tuke sending a message to supporter, saying they had taken the "hard decision to close and put the safety of customers, staff and musicians first".

Meanwhile, the National Centre for Early Music (NCEM) has also announced it will close until the end of April.

A statement on its website says: “Music has always had the most extraordinary power to reach out to us all, and the NCEM will endeavour to share concerts online throughout this difficult period.”

A "Miss Hitler" contest entrant is among four people convicted of being members of National Action.

The leader of Sheffield City Council will remain in her position during the coronavirus outbreak, despite previously planning to step down in May, she's confirmed.

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Julie Dore previously announced she would vacate the role at this year’s local elections, but these have been postponed by central government until 2021 to help prevent the spread of the virus.

Ms Dore says while she had been hoping to leave the post on 7 May, "that is not going to happen now" and "I'm not thinking about leaving".

"I'm here until further notice and I will be here through this difficult period," she added.

Ms Dore said she was "taking each day as it comes" and that these are "extremely worrying times" for people in Sheffield.

"I’ve said many times about how I worry for vulnerable people in Sheffield and I feel something like this will just increase those vulnerabilities hundred-fold," she said.

A North East hospice has urged extra community support as the crisis caused by coronavirus threatens fundraising.

St Teresa’s Hospice needs £3m a year to provide free day, in-patient and community care for people living with life-limiting illnesses and their families in Darlington, South Durham and North Yorkshire.

But the pandemic is threatening income by limiting events and donations.

Emergency measures have already been put in place to protect the health of patients, volunteers and staff and keep open the hospice’s string of charity shops.

Chief executive Jane Bradshaw said: “This crisis is unprecedented and we fully appreciate the worry and disruption the virus is causing worldwide. But we pray, that in the melee, the community we have served for more than 30 years doesn’t wash its hands of us and helps us get through this turbulent period, so we can pay our essential workforce."

The hospice’s charity shops will remain open until further notice with staff and volunteers following official handwashing and sanitising advice.

The hospice eBay shop will be operated by staff from home and house clearances will continue.

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A Sheffield taxi firm whose business has been hit by coronavirus is to start making deliveries for local companies.

City Taxis will start using its network of drivers to deliver food and goods to members of the public.

The owner of the firm, Arnie Singh (pictured above), said: "The taxi industry on the whole in the UK is very much up against it.

"We need to create tools and work together with our customers to try and survive through this."

The firm said its City Grab app, developed before the coronavirus outbreak, could be vital in the months ahead.

Taxi drivers in Sheffield say business is down by a quarter due to the outbreak.

One taxi driver, Lee Ward (pictured above), said: "We're wiping down every surface the public touch and that we touch.

"I'm concerned that at any moment a carrier could pass it to me," he added.

A South Yorkshire Conservative MP is calling on the government to ban black market sellers profiting from the coronavirus outbreak.

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Alexander Stafford, MP for the Rother Valley, says he's written to the prime minister asking him to introduce emergency legislation after constituents told him black marketeers are clearing shop stocks and selling goods on at increased prices.

Mr Stafford says: "A lot of people have told me they can't get supplies of hand sanitiser, toilet rolls, baby formula, thermometers and even tinned food and a lot of people can't afford to pay these vastly inflated prices.

"It's not fair. It's people profiting from other people's misery," he added.

The MP is urging the prime minister to amend competition law to stop what he described as "disgusting profiteering".

A group has been set up in Sheffield to provide virtual coffee mornings for pregnant women.

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Women expecting a baby have been classified by the government as high risk during the coronavirus outbreak and have been asked to minimise social contact for up to 12 weeks from this weekend.

Gill Walton, chief executive of the Royal College of Midwives, has said despite this, antenatal and postnatal care continued to be important.

Julia Clark, a maternity specialist who's one of the people behind the virtual get-togethers in Sheffield, says: "It's important pregnant women can get together to feel less isolated.

"By doing it in this way, they stay safe and can share advice and offer each other support."

Danny Dix died in hospital a week after he was attacked in Rotherham town centre.

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Humberside Fire and Rescue Service says it's put back-up plans covering pandemics into effect as the coronavirus outbreak continues.

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The plans aim to keep the service working, especially if the virus spreads to staff, fire authority members have been told.

Humberside Fire and Rescue Service has been in contact with the National Fire Chiefs Council which is helping local services plan for and cope with the outbreak.

Steve Topham, from the fire service, told fire authority members the service was in a strong position to deal with the outbreak.

Mr Topham said: “It’s quite a fast-moving area, but we’re in a very good place and our arrangements are robust.

"We’re looking at keeping staff movements to a minimum and reducing the number of face-to-face meetings," he added.

Meanwhile, Simon Rhodes, head of corporate assurance at the fire service, said its planning team was meeting daily and that the pandemic plans were well-developed.

"We have contingency plans for all kinds of scenarios, including pandemics which we are well prepared for," he said.

Families in a West Yorkshire town are "devastated" after a food bank was broken into, an MP has said.

Yvette Cooper, MP for Normanton, Pontefract, Castleford and Knottingley said she was "truly appalled" anyone could target the Knottingley Foodbank.

Two teenagers in South Yorkshire have been handing out care packages to vulnerable people during the coronavirus outbreak.

Matty Merry and Sam Hornsby, who are both 17, have been giving out bags containing items such as porridge, toilet roll and teabags to people in the village of Harlington who are self-isolating.

Sam said: "I really advise people to do it if you're actually able to and if you're willing to do it because I think at this moment in time, we really do need to pull together as a community.":

Staff at a hospital in Leeds have pulled together all the things businesses in the area are doing to benefit them during the coronavirus outbreak.

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All the local offers of help have been written up on a whiteboard at Chapel Allerton Hospital under the heading "nice things for NHS staff on the Covid-19 frontline".

The list of pick-me-ups includes free meals and reduced price drinks from outlets in the area.

Staff have been reminded to make sure they take their NHS IDs with them to be sure to benefit from the offers.

York's popular Jorvik Viking Centre has closed its doors as a result of the coronavirus pandemic.

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Writing on Twitter, external, staff said the centre in Coppergate and all its attractions will be closed for "the foreseeable future".

Choir members across East Yorkshire and Northern Lincolnshire have been holding online singing sessions in order to observe guidelines put in place to prevent the spread of coronavirus.

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The sessions were organised by the All For One Choir after the government said on Monday people should avoid gatherings and crowded places.

More than 130 members joined in last night from their homes via Facebook and Zoom video conferencing.

Choir founder Helen Garnett said: "One of the overriding comments we got after we'd done this was how uplifting it was. Everything is so bleak and negative at the moment and this, in a way, is like a little beacon, something for people to look forward to.

"There were a few tears last night, happy tears, and there was the sense that people are just so relieved to be connecting with each other.

"The irony of it is that ordinarily we are geographically limited but last night we had members from Hull and Beverley and Market Weighton all mixing together."

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One of Yorkshire's major beauty spots looks set to be made more accessible to a wider range of people, if the suggestions contained in a new report get the go-ahead.

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The North York Moors National Park Authority is to consider introducing what's known as the Miles Without Stiles system to highlight a selection of routes without steps, stile and steep gradients.

It's aimed at attracting more people to the area who have limited mobility, wheelchair users, families with pushchairs and young chidren, and people with visual impairments.

The authority, which manages 1,408 miles of footpaths, has a legal obligation to remove or minimise disadvantages suffered by people due to their protected characteristic and to take steps to meet their needs.

A report set to go before the authority next week says offering a wider range of accessible routes with a clear grading system would improve the national park for a wide range of users and ensure the authority continues to remove barriers and improve accessibility opportunities.

The move follows the government-commissioned Glover Review of national parks last year, which found a “huge appetite those faced with physical disabilities have for getting out into nature”, but it being made difficult by poorly designed countryside infrastructure.

Train operators across the north of England will be running reduced timetables across several routes due to the coronavirus pandemic.

Northern said services would be affected by cancellations, while TransPennine Express said it would be operating a limited service.

The alterations are down to a decrease in travel and an increase in staffing absence caused by the virus.

Rail services in Yorkshire, Greater Manchester, Merseyside, Lancashire, Cumbria and Tyne and Wear will be affected, Northern has confirmed.

It apologised for any inconvenience caused but said the cancellations were due to increased staff absence:

TransPennine Express has also confirmed cancellations as "a number of our personnel have been unable to attend work".

Two 22-year-old backpackers from South Yorkshire have been left stranded in a hostel in Peru after the country shut its borders amid the global coronavirus pandemic.

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Ollie Timms (pictured left) and Alex Fox (right), both from Sheffield, left for their trip around South America on 8 March, spending a few days in Miami before arriving in Lima.

However, days after landing in Lima, the government announced a 15-day lockdown and general quarantine.

The pair have been allowed out to buy food and are said to be fit and well.

Ollie, from Stannington, and Alex, from Fulwood, graduated from Newcastle University last year.

Ollie said: "Obviously we want to get home. We're just sitting here waiting and spending money, just being here doing nothing."

Ollie's mother, Amanda Holmes, said: "I managed to Facebook message someone from the embassy in Peru and their advice was to get somewhere safe to stay, which he has.

"But if someone gets the virus in his hostel, I don't know what happens. We just desperately want to get him home."

Schools in North Yorkshire are calling for clarity from the government after it was announced they'll be shut from Friday in response to the coronavirus pandemic.

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Lesley Welsh, Principal at George Pindar School in Scarborough, said: "Our Year 11 students have been working so hard and it will feel like they've had the carpet ripped from under them.

"Right now, we're in a state of not knowing, so the more clarity we get, the sooner the better for them."

Trevor Burton, Executive Head at Millthorpe and York High School, described the announcement as "a bombshell".

He said: "We can manage all the other things we've been asked to manage, but the lack of clarity about exams is a real worry."

Meanwhile, Sally Kincaid, Branch Secretary of the National Education Union in Yorkshire, said cancelling exams "actually takes the pressure off".

She said: "I'm so relieved to hear GCSE and A Levels are ditched, because not knowing whether or not exams will be cancelled has caused a great deal of emotional distress over the last few weeks."

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