Ex-servicemen and women with PTSD will be retrained and offered employment as horticulturalists.

The owner of a dog which attacked a man in Hull has been asked to come forward by police.

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The man was attacked by what is thought to be a brown bulldog and suffered injuries to his hand and forearm, said Humberside Police.

The incident happened at around 09:00 on Friday on the A165 Holderness Road through Hull, between the Diadem and Swiss Cottage roundabouts.

Police said the dog's owner was described as a woman in her 30s with grey and brown hair, wearing blue jeans and a brown jacket.

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A Bradford charity which offers cosmetic tattoos for women who've had surgery for breast cancer has been stopped from showing its services on social media.

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The Nipple Innovation Project was founded to provide realistic nipple tattoos to cover up post-mastectomy scars.

However, trying to promote its work online, the charity's posts on Instagram have been removed and restricted, with the account facing deletion.

The social media platform's community guidelines state that while nudity isn't allowed, there is an exception for post-mastectomy scarring, external.

The charity's founder, Lucy Thompson, says: "We cannot pay to boost any of our posts, because of the violations and because we simply have the word 'nipple' in our name. All of that reduces our reach.

"The people giving us permission to share these pictures are being so brave, so other people can see it, and feel as good as they feel."

BBC Radio Bradford has contacted Instagram about its content-reviewing process, but so far hasn't received a reply.

The woman left Huddersfield Royal Infirmary on Monday afternoon, sparking an urgent police appeal.

Police believe the attack near Pearson Park was targeted and poses no threat to the wider public.

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A restaurant in West Yorkshire hoping to transform its car park into an outdoor cinema has had its licensing application rejected.

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Capri, on Bridge Road, Horbury Bridge, had asked Wakefield Council for permission to play films from its premises.

Although only one member of the public registered an objection, the council turned down the bid.

Anthony Sadler, the council’s service director for communities said: “The application was refused following previous concerns around noise nuisance from the premises by local residents."

Capri has been approached for comment.

The closure of Harrogate's NHS Nightingale Hospital, and other similar sites in England, is an "important moment in our national recovery" from Covid-19, the health secretary has said.

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It was confirmed on Monday that the 500-bed Yorkshire and Humber Nightingale Hospital in the North Yorkshire town is to close without treating a single Covid-19 patient.

The emergency unit was set up at Harrogate's Convention Centre and opened by Captain Sir Tom Moore in April.

It was one of seven built in England in 2020 to try and prevent hospitals becoming overwhelmed during the pandemic.

In a video posted on Twitter, Matt Hancock said the hospitals were a "monument to this country's ability to get things done fast when it really matters".

They played a "critical role" in the UK's response to coronavirus, he added:

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Plans for an “unfinished” sculpture at Scarborough Castle which is designed to only be complete when it snows are set to be approved later this week.

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The "dolos"-shaped sculpture, created by artist Ryan Gander OBE, echoes the structure of a concrete coastal-erosion barrier.

Plans for a similar 6ft 5in sculpture to be sited near Whitby Abbey were recently withdrawn after over 80 complaints that it would be an "eyesore".

But Scarborough Council planners are recommended to approve a "sister" sculpture on Scarborough Castle's headland for up to 10 years.

Only one objection has been lodged about the Scarborough Castle artwork - and rather than being an objection to the sculpture itself, the complainant was opposed to the idea that people would have to pay to enter the English Heritage castle grounds to see it.

A decision on the statue is expected to be made by councillors on Thursday.

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Almost 7,000 laptops are ready to be given to youngsters in South Yorkshire after a campaign by councils, schools and charities.

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Sheffield charity Laptops for Kids said it now has enough child-friendly Dell laptops to supply most of the region and the computers will be used for pupils needing to access remote learning during the coronavirus pandemic.

The charity launched in Sheffield in September 2020 because many households were unable to take part in online lessons. The project has now expanded to other northern towns and cities.

The devices will now be distributed to schools by councils in Barnsley, Doncaster, Rotherham and Sheffield, with the schools themselves then sharing the laptops with households in need.

Many schools opened again to pupils on Monday, but leaders have warned people need to be prepared for more disruption to education in the coming months.

David Richards, the technology entrepreneur who co-founded the campaign, said: “Children must be able to safely access technology at home so they can keep up with their education and develop digital skills for the future.

“We applaud local government leaders in South Yorkshire for stepping up to meet the need and invest in the next generation of successful young people.”

Rotherham councillor Gordon Watson (pictured above, with David Naisbit of Oakwood High School) said: “We are delighted once again to be teaming up with Laptops for Kids to distribute a further 500 laptops to children in Rotherham, bringing the total number of children supported who would not otherwise have had access to online learning to more than 2,000."

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Bradford's only professional basketball team, the Bradford Dragons, is currently hosting all of its home matches in a different county to its West Yorkshire base.

As a professional team, Bradford Dragons can play and train during the coronavirus lockdown, using their elite sport status.

However, the team's usual home court, at Bradford College, is unavailable because of the pandemic.

After trying every sports hall in the city and across Yorkshire, club officials had to settle for playing home games at fellow team Nottingham Hood's ground.

Club chair Steve Valentine says: "We're having to wait and see what happens, and whether we can get our courts back, where we're going to base our franchise next season.

"Our home court for the rest of this season is going to be in Nottingham, unless anybody's got a full Basketball England-compliant court in their back garden."

A Harrogate councillor has praised staff at the town's NHS Nightingale Hospital, but says it was located in the wrong place.

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It was confirmed yesterday that the Yorkshire and Humber Nightingale hospital in the town will close next month, having not treated any Covid patients.

The hospital opened at the town's convention centre in April to create extra capacity for Covid patients.

But the NHS said on Monday it was no longer needed because so much had been learned about how to treat coronavirus.

Harrogate councillor Jim Clark, who is also chairman of North Yorkshire County Council and is on the authority's health scrutiny committee, says the 500-bed field hospital was built in "record time" but it was located in the wrong place.

He says: "It was set up originally as an emergency hospital. Well, you don't build an emergency hospital in the middle of the most congested town in Yorkshire."

Burglars who broke into a North Yorkshire School and threw paint over a classroom have caused "considerable" damage as a result, police say.

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The break-in happened between 12:15 and 12:25 this morning at Selby High School on Leeds Road in Selby.

The suspects broke into the school's textiles room by forcing a door, according to North Yorkshire Police.

They are thought to have accessed and left the school grounds from Fairfax Avenue.

Police say the matter is being treated "seriously", and officers have described the burglars' actions as "selfish and inexplicable" at a time when pupils are just returning to the school after months away due to the coronavirus lockdown.

Officers are now appealing for witnesses, or people with CCTV, dash camera or doorbell camera footage from around the time of the break-in, to get in touch.

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Farmers in Bradford are taking part in a national initiative to help school pupils learn about agriculture while the coronavirus lockdown means they can't visit farms.

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Our Lady of Victories Primary School in Keighley is one of the first to adopt the "Farm in a Box" scheme.

The boxes contain farm produce for pupils to taste, seeds to touch and plants to examine.

Year 4 teacher Jennifer Taylor says: "It is really important that children recognise where their food comes from and that it doesn't just come from the supermarket.

"We made butter just from cream and we made ice cream from milk and cream and sugar. The results were great."

Jill Attenborough, from the Country Trust, which is co-ordinating the initiative, says: "We're all part of agriculture because we eat.

"Our project is the start of introducing children to that understanding - that they are participants, they're not passive recipients of food."

A settlement of £3.5m has been agreed for a girl born with a severe disability at a Sheffield hospital.

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The High Court in London heard the girl, now aged 10, suffered a brain haemorrhage when she was born about eight weeks early.

The problems at delivery have left her needing life-long care.

Her family argued her mother wasn't advised by hospital staff about alternatives to the early birth and had the mother's pregnancy been allowed to continue for another two weeks, her daughter would have been born uninjured.

Sheffield Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust strongly denied its staff were in any way to blame.

They said had the mother's pregnancy continued, the risk of an unplanned, emergency delivery would have been increased.

However, the trust expressed sympathy for the family and agreed to pay a lump sum of £3.5m.

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Drivers caught cutting through a pedestrianised street in an East Yorkshire town face a fine of up to £100 from this week as part of efforts to crack down on years of the route being used as a "rat run".

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A new Automatic Number Plate Recognition camera system to catch drivers cutting through Prestongate in Hessle is set to go live on Tuesday.

David Nolan, a member of East Riding of Yorkshire Council and Hessle Town Council, said the cameras would act as a “silent policeman” capable of monitoring the street at all hours.

Hessle Town Council will send a warning letter to a first offender who will then be fined £50 by the police if caught cutting through the street again.

Drivers caught going the wrong direction down the one-way street, from The Weir to Hessle Square, will be fined £100 and get three points on their licence.

Councillor Nolan said: "This got a spur after we heard from eyewitnesses that a child had run out of a sweet shop on Prestongate and was almost hit by an oncoming car.

"Residents have said since that it’s only a matter of time before someone gets seriously injured or killed," he added.

Prestongate is currently only open to delivery vehicles and residents living on or just off it on a town council permitted list.

Yorkshire's 500-bed Nightingale Hospital is to close without treating a single Covid-19 patient.

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The emergency unit was set up at Harrogate's Convention Centre and opened by Captain Sir Tom Moore in April.

It was one of seven built in England in 2020 to try and prevent hospitals becoming overwhelmed during the pandemic.

The NHS said it would offer testing while it was being wound back.

In a statement, the NHS thanked its staff and partners "who worked so hard to set the Nightingales up so swiftly".

"Since the very early days of the pandemic the Nightingale hospitals have been on hand as the ultimate insurance policy in case existing hospital capacity was overwhelmed," the statement said.

"But, as we have learned more about coronavirus, and how to successfully treat Covid, existing hospitals have adapted to significantly surge critical care capacity."

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It should stay largely dry through the day today, with patchy cloud and a few sunny spells.

The odd light shower cannot be completely ruled out. A gentle to moderate wind.

It will stay dry this evening, with cloud thickening from the west.

A band of heavy rain will push eastwards overnight, accompanied by a brisk wind:

Do you recognise this woman? An urgent appeal has been issued by police in Huddersfield who want to identify her due to "serious" concerns for her welfare.

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The woman left Huddersfield Royal Infirmary at about 13:50 on Monday and officers have so far been unable to establish who she is but say there are "immediate concerns" for her welfare.

She told hospital staff she was originally from Scotland but does not have a Scottish accent, according to West Yorkshire Police.

She also said she was staying with a friend named Vicky.

She is described as white, about 5ft 5ins tall, of large build, with long brown hair with a fringe.

She was wearing light brown Ugg boots, black leggings, a green checked shirt, a dark green long puffer coat with a light brown cross-body bag. She also has hearing aids in both ears.

Anyone who has seen a woman fitting the description, or who knows her identity, or who has any information that could help in tracing her is being asked to contact police.

Officers say they'd also like to hear from the friend “Vicky” mentioned by the woman.

A hospital trust agrees to pay £3.5m to the family of a disabled girl delivered prematurely.

Police hunting the people who set light to a memorial bench for a victim of the Manchester Arena terror attack say the fire was “not a targeted act".

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The seat, in memory of Kelly Brewster from Sheffield, was torched on Saturday outside Arbourthorne community centre in Sheffield, South Yorkshire Police said.

The fire service was called at around 17:30 when the police helicopter saw smoke coming from the site on East Bank Road.

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PC Leigh Jenkinson, of South Yorkshire Police, said it was "extremely upsetting" for Ms Brewster's family but added that the force did not think it was a deliberately targeted act of damage to her memorial.

Ms Brewster died in the 2017 terror attack at Manchester Arena in which a suicide bomber killed 22 people at an Ariane Grande concert.

More than 100 others were injured when 22-year-old Salman Abedi detonated a home-made bomb in the arena's foyer as crowds were leaving, just after 22:30 BST on 22 May.

PC Jenkinson said: “We are committed to finding those responsible for this mindless act of vandalism, where a bench that had been dedicated to one of the victims of the Manchester Arena attack was destroyed.

"The fire also caused extensive damage to the Arbourthorne centre, which members of the community regularly use."