West Yorkshire-born Capt Tom Moore, has been awarded a prestigious gold Blue Peter badge for raising almost £33m for the NHS.

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The badge is the show's highest accolade and famous recipients include the Queen, Sir David Attenborough and Mary Berry.

It was presented to Capt Tom by his grandchildren Georgia (above left) and Benji (above right).

The war veteran, who is originally from Keighley, completed 100 laps of his Bedfordshire garden before his 100th birthday last week, receiving donations from more than 1.5m supporters.

Presenter Lindsey Russell described him as "a beacon of light".

Only a handful of gold badges are presented by Blue Peter each year to outstanding individuals who are considered to be role models, inspiring the nation's children.

Capt Tom's birthday last Thursday was marked with an RAF flypast and a message from the Queen.

He was also made an honorary colonel, by the 1st Battalion The Yorkshire Regiment, in which he had served during World War Two.

Student midwives from Bradford are joining the NHS workforce to help with the coronavirus effort.

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The 40 final year students are being paid instead of doing normal work experience as they complete their courses.

They will help on maternity wards in Bradford, working alongside colleagues to deliver babies during the pandemic.

Karen Khan, who is from the University of Bradford, said: "There is a bit of apprehension, among the students going out into practice, of course. The crisis has impacted on services and staffing, with quite a lot of service reconfiguration.

"The students want to support their practice colleagues and help provide care to women during this time, but we must also ensure students can be appropriately supervised in the midst of a crisis.

"We are working closely with our Heads of Midwifery and practice partners to enable the final year students to complete their programme."

Huddersfield Town confirm interim chief executive Mark Devlin has been appointed on a full-time basis.

A CCTV image has been released of a man police want to speak to after a bag of dog mess was posted through the letterbox of an address in Barnsley.

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It's reported that a bag containing excrement was posted through a letterbox on West Street, Hoyland at about 15:15 on Monday.

A CCTV image has been released of a man police want to speak to in connection with the incident.

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

Lloyd-Mason Edwards stepped on to help parents waiting to receive food vouchers.

Police are asking for help finding scaffolding which was stolen from a Hull firm last week.

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A "large quantity" of poles, as well as other equipment, was taken from a site on Frome Road, near the junction with Wansbeck Road, between 14:00 on Monday 27 April and 16:00 on Thursday 30 April, officers say.

Each pole was marked with white paint and some also had "Caspian" painted on them in orange and purple, according to police.

At least two people would have been needed to take the poles due to their size and weight and they would have been loaded onto a large vehicle – most likely a lorry – to remove them.

Anyone who saw a suspicious vehicle around the site, or who has CCTV images, is being asked to get in touch with Humberside Police.

A man is in a critical condition in hospital after he came off the quad bike he was riding in West Yorkshire yesterday.

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Emergency services were called to Huddersfield Road, Liversedge, at about 18:00 yesterday to reports of a single-vehicle crash.

Police say the rider, a man in his 30s, had come off the quad bike and he was taken to hospital in Leeds where he remains.

Anybody who saw the crash or the quad bike is being asked to get in touch with police.

Up to 20 sites in places like Scarborough, Blackpool, Canterbury, Grimsby and Portsmouth will shut.

Two Sheffield United-supporting NHS workers have been honoured by having their pictures displayed on the side of the club's stadium.

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Yvonne Lait and Matt Cotton both work in the A&E department at the Northern General Hospital in the city.

Their pictures were put up alongside captain Billy Sharp and striker David McGoldrick.

The two Sheffield staff members were praised by the football club for their "work and bravery".

Operations director Dave McCarthy said: "The work of those in the NHS, along with all other key workers and volunteers, continues to be admired and appreciated by everyone; not only those associated with the Blades, but also across our region and indeed the whole country.

"Having Yvonne and Matt's images emblazoned on the South Stand cladding signifies the work and bravery, on a daily basis, of those within the NHS throughout this period in our history," he added.

A man who snatched a purse from a woman in Sheffield and then waved a syringe threatening to infect passers-by with coronavirus, AIDS and hepatitis has been jailed.

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Donovan Gaskin, 35, of no fixed address, took the purse from a woman on Norfolk Row, Sheffield (pictured), on 27 March.

He was tackled to the ground by a passing bus driver, whom he threatened with the syringe before doing the same to a group of passers-by.

Gaskin was jailed for three years and eight months for robbery and affray.

He denied the charge at Sheffield Crown Court on Monday.

In this incident, he threatened the bus driver then the group of people who stopped to help, making jabbing gestures and saying, "Leave me alone or I'll stab you. I've got hepatitis, corona and AIDS. I don't care, I'll stab you."

Jonathan Sharp, from the Crown Prosecution Service for Yorkshire and Humberside, said: "Gaskin acted in an unbelievably stupid and reckless manner.

"This incident took place on the fourth day of the country being locked down in response to the Covid-19 pandemic, when everyone had been alerted in the starkest terms to the danger posed by the virus."

Some sites across Leeds could reopen but with a booking system in place.

A North Yorkshire NHS group has thanked members of the local community for their help in making thousands of items of personal protection equipment (PPE) for front-line staff fighting coronavirus.

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Across the county, businesses, schools, colleges and volunteers have been helping to make face shields, masks and scrubs.

NHS North Yorkshire Clinical Commissioning Group has thanked the "community heroes" for their work supporting staff in hospitals, care homes and GP practices.

Dr Charles Parker, from the group, said: "The way communities are pulling together to provide practical support for NHS and front-line health and care workers during this national crisis is extraordinary and humbling.

"On behalf of our GP practices in North Yorkshire, I want to say an enormous thank you to each and every one of these community heroes who has been involved in this effort to make PPE or volunteer to help the NHS."

A woman whose husband and daughter died within days of each other with Covid-19 has spoken of her shock.

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Joanne Rennison, 52, died in an East Yorkshire hospital on 5 April. Seven days later, her father David Whincup, 79, died at Hull Royal Infirmary.

Margaret Whincup said she was devastated by the loss of her daughter and husband.

"I feel as if I'm a bit like a zombie. I need to be pointed in the right direction," she said.

Mrs Whincup said she was getting through with help from her other daughters and friends.

"People have been so kind. We've had flowers and cards and messages," she said.

A distillery in North Yorkshire says it's supplying hand sanitiser for free to more than 50 hospitals, schools and charities across the country.

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Cooper King distillery in Sutton-on-the-Forest, near York, usually produces gin and whisky, but has been producing the hand cleaning gel for more than a month.

It's also selling the sanitiser online with proceeds going towards maintaining its free supplies to hospitals.

Company spokesman Chris Jaume says: "We received inquiries from NHS staff who had seen a distillery down south also producing hand sanitiser and they asked if we could help.

"We've got the skills, so it was a social responsibility for us."

The company says it's following a World Health Organisation recipe for the gel, which is the standard they've been following.

One NHS volunteer says he was told to visit a mobile testing centre more than 250 miles away.

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Traffic wardens have gone back to work in Leeds after parking charges were suspended in March at the start of the coronavirus lockdown, it's been revealed.

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Despite not publicly announcing the changes, Leeds City Council has now confirmed ticketing restarted last week on illegally-parked vehicles, claiming the problem was beginning to affect traffic flow.

All council-managed car parks in the city will still be free to use for NHS and social work staff, the authority said.

A Leeds City Council spokesman said: “While the majority of drivers are continuing to park appropriately, there have been some instances where parking on yellow lines has created issues for traffic flow, public safety and access, especially in the city centre.

"As a response to this, from last week, Leeds City Council parking officers have been issuing parking penalties to vehicles parked illegally," he added.

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There's a warning some pharmacies could go bust because of spiraling drug prices brought on by the coronavirus pandemic.

Jonathan Cooper, who runs pharmacies on Teesside and in North Yorkshire, told BBC Radio Tees the cost of some drugs has risen by more than 15% but the re-numeration pharmacies get from the government to help pay for them has only gone up by 2%.

He's calling for urgent action.

"It would take the pressure off us and we could supply these drugs without worrying we're going to go bankrupt," he said.

BBC Radio Tees have approached the Department for Health and Social Care for comment and are waiting for a response.

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Police say the pair "were told to return home immediately" after travelling to the seaside resort.

People have been turned away from Hull's A&E department after they showed up asking for treatment for verrucas and minor sprains, the hospital has said.

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The hospital said people were turning up to the accident and emergency department when their conditions could be treated elsewhere.

In the last two weeks, front-line staff have been asked to see people with skin complaints like verrucas, minor sprains and long-standing complaints which would be treated best by a GP, pharmacist or Urgent Treatment Centre.

Anyone who turns up at the hospital with something that isn't a genuine emergency will be turned away, it said.

It's being done to protect services during the coronavirus pandemic which has seen the NHS move resources around to protect staff and provide the best care for people who genuinely need it.

Hull University Teaching Hospitals NHS trust boss Teresa Cope said: "We have had a long-standing problem with people using Hull Royal’s Emergency Department for minor health complaints which are not serious, let alone an emergency or life-threatening.

"Now, more than ever, we need people to use alternatives like the Urgent Treatment Centres, pharmacies and the GP walk-in service at Wilberforce Health Centre so our limited resources and staff are used for the people who need us most, such as those with breathing difficulties caused by the virus, and those having heart attacks and strokes."

A charity bear trail which was expected to raise hundreds of thousands of pounds for a Sheffield charity has been postponed because of the coronavirus pandemic.

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The Bears of Sheffield trail would have seen sculptures placed across the city this summer, with more than 200 schools, businesses and artists taking part.

However, because of the coronavirus outbreak The Children's Hospital Charity has decided to postpone the trail until next summer.

The bears would be decorated and placed at key locations in Sheffield - similar to the Herd of Sheffield, a charity trail held in 2016 using elephants.

More than £600,000 was raised during that event which then saw the elephants auctioned off.

Money from the bear trail would go towards transforming the cancer and leukaemia wards at the Sheffield Children's Hospital.

Charity director David-Vernon Edwards said: "We owe it to everyone who has backed this project with such enthusiasm to make it the best it can possibly be and that can only happen when everyone can enjoy the trail safely."