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A man is due in court accused of killing Paul McTasney, who was attacked in a street in Bradford.

One man has died and another is in hospital following the crash in Brinsworth, Rotherham.

A group of George Formby fans has recorded a version of one of the wartime entertainer's most popular songs.

Members of the George Formby Society recorded a virtual performance of When I'm Cleaning Windows during lockdown to raise money to fight motor neurone disease.

The society's chairwoman, Caroline Stewart, who lives in Whitby, said: "We recorded a song, 27 of us, and our musical director stitched it all together into a video which he put on YouTube."

Dr John Wright is intrigued by some singers who became ill long before the UK's first known Covid-19 case.

The incidents took place in the Burngreave, Sharrow and Nether Edge areas of Sheffield during Friday.

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Bradford City is considering filling seats with cardboard cut-outs of fans when football resumes.

The club's director of communications, Ryan Sparks, said it would give fans the opportunity to be "with us in some form" if matches were played behind closed doors.

Mr Sparks said he had borrowed the idea from Germany - which is set to resume top flight games on 16 May - and fans could be given the option to personalise a cut-out.

The club has produced a mock-up of what it might look like, featuring some famous Bradfordians such as former One Direction singer Zayn Malik and the magician Dynamo.

Six months after floods devastated Fishlake, many villagers are yet to return home.

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Flt Lt Terry Clark, who was a radar operator during WW2, died on the eve of the VE Day anniversary.

Ian Previte was convicted of murder and has served 15 years of a life sentence in Australia.

A flypast with a difference took place in Norton, Sheffield, this afternoon.

Watching from appropriate distances, residents cheered as Andrew Phipps - dressed as a Spitfire - and Simon Harrison - dressed as a Hurricane - ran along the lane at about 14:00 BST.

The pair came up with the idea after the party they had planned at their local village club had to be cancelled.

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A programme of music and memories to celebrate Victory in Europe Day is available to listen to on BBC Sounds.

Put together by BBC Radio York and BBC Archives, it is part of the Music & Dementia at the BBC initiative., external

The programme features events as they unfolded, including the breaking news announcement of VE Day on the BBC on 8 May 1945.

Hear from people celebrating across England with clips from Newcastle, Hull, York, Liverpool, Birmingham, Coventry, Portsmouth, Dorset, Dover and London.

The programme also features music that was broadcast on VE Day on the BBC, plus other wartime favourites from Dame Vera Lynn, Gracie Fields and Glenn Miller.

• Leave us your thoughts and recollections about VE Day on our Share Your VE Day Memories page.

Police have stepped up patrols in the Burngreave and Sharrow areas of Sheffield.

Tom Ingall
Journalist, BBC Look North

Residents of Parkside Road in Hillsborough, Sheffield, came together for a socially distanced street party to mark VE Day.

Organised after the weekly clap for carers, people made bunting, flags and cake and stood outside their homes to mark the minute's silence at 11:00 BST.

The piece was due to be revealed publicly but coronavirus meant it has been revealed online instead.

Laurie Burn was serving as a gunner with the 13/18th Royal Hussars outside Bremerhaven in Germany when he was told by an officer that the war in Europe was over.

He said it didn’t come as a surprise because they had "already seen hundreds of Germans giving themselves up. It was obvious it couldn’t go on very much longer".

"We were very pleased it was over, but of course there was still a war on, with Japan, to face," he said.

"No more fighting, no more killing for the time being."

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The 96-year-old, from Bradford, had joined up at 18 in 1942 just after his brother Peter.

He said it was important to mark the end of the war.

"We need to be reminded of the sacrifice of the men and the women," he said.

Mr Burn, who lives in Harrogate, said he had been looking forward to the major celebrations planned to mark the 75th Anniversary.

"We’re at war with a virus and we need to get that fixed," he said.

The flight from China, which contained five million items, arrived at Doncaster Sheffield Airport.

Police investigating Bonfire Night violence in Leeds in 2019 release pictures of suspects.

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