Nabil Chaudhry, from Northampton, pleads guilty to conspiracy to supply Class A drugs.

A new walk-in coronavirus testing centre has opened in Dewsbury.

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Kirklees Council says rates of positive Covid-19 tests have increased in Kirklees over the last three weeks.

The new centre is in addition to testing units in Batley, Dewsbury, Holmfirth and Huddersfield, external and a walk-through testing centre in Dewsbury.

The additional walk-through centre opened in Dewsbury at the UK Greetings Card Company car park, on Wharf Street, earlier today.

Rachel Spencer-Henshall, from Kirklees Council, said: “Our rates of infection have increased over the last three weeks and are above the national average. This is something we have to take seriously.

“We've been working with the government to introduce more local testing centres to Kirklees, focusing on our highest infection rate areas, to make it easier for everyone to get tested.

"If you have symptoms, no matter how mild they might be, please get a test," she added.

Undercover police stopped a councillor who was trying to arrange sex with a child.

Two men have been arrested as part of an investigation into the abuse of four girls in Rotherham.

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The alleged offences date back about 20 years to when the girls were aged between 13 and 15.

National Crime Agency officers made the arrests as part of Operation Stovewood, which is investigating child sex abuse in the town.

Two men, aged 35 and 40, were arrested in Rotherham and a third man, aged 35, was interviewed under caution

This follows the arrest of 14 men in Rotherham and two in West Yorkshire during July and August as part of the same investigation.

A petrol station which was destroyed in a fire last week is to be demolished.

At it's height about 50 firefighters were called to tackle the blaze at the Harvest Energy filling station in Victoria Road, Richmond, on 14 August.

A number of nearby properties had to be evacuated and residents of all but four have now been allowed to return home.

Richmondshire District Council said Victoria Road would be closed until 28 August while the demolition work is carried out.

A total of five men have been arrested over the death of Glenn Smith at a house in Leeds.

Leeds forward Cameron Smith faces a spell on the sidelines after suffering a fractured jaw during training on Friday.

People living in some parts of West Yorkshire will still not be allowed to visit other households at their homes after coronavirus restrictions were kept in place for another week.

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Last month, Health Secretary Matt Hancock announced Calderdale, Bradford and Kirklees would be subject to the local restrictions.

Under the rules people from different households are not be allowed to meet in private homes or gardens, except when a support bubble has been formed.

It also bans members of two different households from mixing in pubs and restaurants, although individual households, or members of a support bubble, can still visit such venues.

The government has said it will review the restrictions again next week.

Sheffield United defender John Egan signs an improved deal, which keeps him with the club until the summer of 2024.

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Businesses in Scarborough are being encouraged to invest in netting to deter seagulls after complaints from residents about seagull mess on the town's buildings and pavements.

Scarborough Council says it's launched a twin “prevention and management approach” to tackle the issue.

A council spokesman said: “We will contribute 50%, up to a maximum of £2,000, towards the costs of gull-proofing any private buildings in defined areas of Filey, Scarborough and Whitby."

Councillor Michelle Donohue Moncrieff said: “Gulls are part of life in our borough and, love them or loathe them, we’ve got to try to find better ways of managing how we live with them.

“We accept we need to do more to keep the pavements cleaner and, in return, we need those responsible for private buildings to join the collective effort to tackle the problem by installing material to prevent nesting."

The council's also taken delivery of a new high-pressure hot water cleaning machine to tackle the problem.

Councillor Tony Randerson said: "Our dedicated officers will waste no time in putting it to work to make our pavements cleaner and more pleasant places to be."

Detectives investigating the death of a 47-year-old man in Leeds have arrested three more men on suspicion of murder.

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Glenn Smith, 47, was found by paramedics at a property on Whingate Avenue in Armley at about 04:00 on Thursday morning and died at the scene.

Three men, aged 25, 27 and 37, were arrested earlier today, bringing the total number of arrests in connection with he case to five.

Two other men, also arrested earlier today on suspicion of murder, remain in police custody, West Yorkshire Police say.

An 85-year-old woman has suffered life-threatening injuries after the car she was travelling in was hit by a vehicle being pursued by police.

The woman was a passenger in a Hyundai i10 when it was struck by a silver Seat Leon at the junction of Copeland Road and Main Street, in Barnsley, at about 19:45 on Thursday.

South Yorkshire Police say the 85-year-old woman is in a critical condition in hospital. The driver of the Hyundai, a woman, aged 62, suffered minor injuries.

The force said the Seat was being pursued by police after the driver "fled" from officers in Summer Lane, Wombwell.

The 19-year-old driver of the car was arrested nearby on suspicion of driving while over the prescribed limit for drugs, causing serious injury by dangerous driving, failing to stop after a collision, theft of a motor vehicle and other motoring offences.

Police say it is believed there were two passengers in the Seat at the time of the collision and have asked for anyone who witnessed the crash or who has information about the passengers to come forward.

A man's being treated in hospital after being stabbed in his hands and back in an attack in Leeds.

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The assault happened at about 17:25 yesterday afternoon on Harehills Lane at the junction of Strathome Drive, police say.

None of the man's injuries are thought to be life-threatening.

Anyone who saw what happened is being asked to contact police.

The club says its players have been "swimming through duck poo" in the lake after the pool closed.

A total of nine people have tested positive for coronavirus at the Arla Foods creamery in Settle, it's been confirmed.

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The company, which employs 86 people at the site, said a number of staff and some contractors working on site had tested positive for the virus.

Since the cases were confirmed, Arla said it had taken the precaution to carry out full site testing for all employees and contractors.

An Arla spokesperson said: “This site has reported nine confirmed cases from employees and contractors in the last week, and while this is relatively low, given the close-knit community at Settle, the contractors that have been visiting the site for essential work and the short timeframe in which the cases have been confirmed, we have decided to implement full site testing for our colleagues and all contractors.

"This decision has been made with the support of the local authority and Public Health England.”

The nine cases at the Settle creamery have led to a sharp rise in the infection rate in the Craven area, from 1.8 cases per 100,000 people in the week ending 9 August to 24.5 in the week ending 16 August.

Dr Lincoln Sargeant, North Yorkshire’s Director of Public Health said: “We have seen an increase in the number of new cases across the county from approximately two to three per day to about five a day in the last week.

"In addition to the cases associated with Arla Foods, which accounts for the biggest increase in cases in Craven, the increase in Craven reflects this background increase as well as new cases that are detected through whole home testing of residents and staff in care homes as part ongoing measures to prevent outbreaks. “

Two masked men brandishing knives have stolen a "large amount of money" from security staff while they were filling up a cash machine in North Yorkshire, police say.

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The robbery took place just after 08:00 this morning at the Cooperative Store on Finkle Street, in Sherburn in Elmet.

A police spokesperson said: "Two men wearing balaclavas and carrying knives approached security staff, took a large amount of money and left the scene in a white vehicle."

No-one was injured during the incident.

Anyone who witnessed the incident is being urged to contact police.

Direct trains to the capital from Hull have restarted for the first time since the coronavirus lockdown.

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Hull Trains, which runs daily services to London, stopped in March because of the pandemic.

The firm said passenger numbers had "dropped significantly" since the lockdown came into force.

Services have started again today between Beverley via Hull to London Kings Cross and are limited to two services a day, with three on Sundays.

More than 1,000 people applied for one brewery job in West Yorkshire as the number of vacancies plummeted in lockdown, it's emerged.

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Northern Monk Brewing Company in Leeds said 1,021 people applied for one packing vacancy.

HR manager Sophie Lennon said: "When we posted the job within the first day we had a really high number of applicants. We've never seen that before.

"We advertised the job for three weeks and at the end of that time we'd had 1,021 applicants for the job which is way above what we'd usually see."

Between April and June, the number of people in work fell by 220,000, the Office for National Statistics said.

Eli Harrison is hailed a hero but says "I did what anyone else would have done".

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British holidaymakers face another scramble to return home to avoid coronavirus quarantine after Croatia, Austria and Trinidad & Tobago were removed from the safe travel list.

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Transport Secretary Grant Shapps announced on Thursday that travellers from those countries to the UK would be required to self-isolate for 14 days with the restrictions coming into effect from 04:00 on Saturday.

Figures released by Department for Transport indicate that the weekly incidence (cases) per 100,000 for Croatia increased from 10.4 on August 12 to 27.4 on August 19, a 164% increase.

Liam and Jodie, from Keighley, paid around £800 to travel home from northern Croatia via Munich in order to beat the quarantine deadline, after finding it impossible to book a direct flight in time.

"There wasn't an alternative. There are no flights from Pula to the UK on Fridays, only a flight from Zagreb to London runs but obviously that was fully booked," Liam told the PA news agency.

"The only (other) flights available were with stops in Spain through Ryanair but then we would have to quarantine anyway," he added.

Liam, a mechanical assembly engineer, said he had started a new job recently so "didn't want to miss another two weeks' work".

He added that the pair had tried to make the most of their trip despite "the distraction of not knowing what's going to happen", and were treating their visit to Munich as a "city break we got as an extra".