Wren Kitchens recruits workers for its Scunthorpe worktop factory amid "unprecedented demand".

A giant bear statue forming part of a public art trail in Sheffield has been removed after it was damaged.

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The 6ft (180cm) tall 'Be Nice and Be Together' sculpture in The Moor was found damaged on Sunday.

One man said he thought it had been "rugby tackled" because of the way it was damaged.

The statue is one of 60 dotted around the city that have been decorated by artists and which will be auctioned off to raise money for a new cancer and leukaemia ward at the Sheffield Children's Hospital.

A spokesperson for the Sheffield Children's Hospital Charity said it would be fixed but asked people to be "extra gentle" with the bears.

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An 18-year-old man has been charged with murdering a man who was stabbed in a North Yorkshire park.

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The victim, in his 40s, who has not yet been officially named, died in hospital after the attack in Aireville Park, Skipton on Wednesday evening.

Brooklyn Bell, from Keighley, West Yorkshire, is due to appear at York Magistrates' Court later, police said.

A man in his 40s arrested as part of the inquiry has been released under investigation for drug offences.

Two other men arrested previously have been released without further action, North Yorkshire Police said.

Kitchen firm Wren says it is creating up to 300 jobs at a new manufacturing site in Scunthorpe.

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The business said the jobs would be based at its new quartz worktop processing centre, built on the site of the former DHL facility on the Foxhills Industrial Estate.

It said the facility, which opened last month, will be operating at full capacity by December 2021 and recruitment will continue throughout the year.

UK Manufacturing Operations Director, Kes Serelis, said: "We’ve reinvested back into our business to create this new state-of-the-art facility which is required to cope with our increased demand of fabricating high-quality quartz worktops for our customers across the UK.

“It will create a significant number of manufacturing and support roles for the region such as machine operators, team leaders, compliance officers and managers."

A man has been charged with murdering a man stabbed to death in a Sheffield street.

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Anthony Sumner, 42, died after being injured in an attack on Windy House Lane just before midnight on Thursday, South Yorkshire Police said.

Richard Sampson, 49, of Fretson Court, Sheffield, has been charged with his murder and is due to appear before Sheffield Magistrates' Court later today.

He is also charged with possession of a bladed weapon.

A 15-year-old boy from Sheffield, who was arrested on Saturday on suspicion of murder has been released on bail.

The Rugby Football League is to investigate claims that Leeds Rhinos prop Mikolaj Oledzki was racially abused by a Warrington supporter.

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Barclays bank is set to close its last branch in Rotherham in November.

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The branch, on Bridgegate, will close on 2 November, after which the nearest branch will be in Attercliffe, in Sheffield – almost four miles away.

It is one 650 branches that have closed, or are scheduled to close, by the end of 2021.

A Barclays spokesperson said: “Before we make the decision to close any branch, we think carefully about how it has been used so far.

“We consider how many customers have been visiting, what kind of transactions they’ve been making, and all the other ways they’ve been choosing to bank with us. We also take into consideration the availability of other branches in the wider community.”

Timothy Cawley, 35, is jailed for 10 years for causing death and injury by dangerous driving.

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A 77-year-old man has been arrested after a 74-year-old died following a suspected car collision in Lincolnshire.

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Lincolnshire Police said officers were flagged down at about 23:15 on Friday by a motorist after a man was found seriously injured in Middlefield Lane, Gainsborough.

The man is believed to have been struck by a car.

Medics were called to the scene but the man was pronounced dead a short time later.

His next of kin have been informed and are being assisted by trained officers.

Detectives said a 77-year-old man was arrested in connection with the incident and is in police custody.

A Linoolnshire Police spokesperson said: "We are appealing for information from witnesses or anyone with dashcam footage to come forward and help our investigation."

Four of eight huge cooling towers have been demolished at a former coal-fired power station in North Yorkshire.

The 300ft (90m) high structures in Eggborough, near Selby, were brought down shortly after 08:00 on Sunday as part of a plan to redevelop the site.

It stood for 50 years in an area where all four Yorkshire counties - North, South, East and West - meet.

The Yorkshire Day demolition was watched by spectators who were dotted in fields around the rural site.

Police had closed roads and 40 security guards patrolled a 350m exclusion zone while contractor DSM carried out the work during drizzly conditions.

Billy Young, a technical director at the company, thanked members of the community for their patience and said it had been "a successful demolition".

The 2,000-megawatt power station was decommissioned in 2018 because it was no longer financially viable.

It started generating electricity in 1967 and produced enough to power the equivalent of Leeds and Sheffield combined.

BBC Weather

Yorkshire should be mostly dry today, with a mixture of sunny spells and cloud throughout the day. Just a chance of the odd isolated shower in the afternoon.

Lincolnshire will also see a dry start, with patchy cloud and sunny spells. Later on, the sunny spells will become less frequent, and one or two isolated showers may develop.

Police are appealing for witnesses and information after a crash in North Yorkshire in which a woman died.

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It happened on the A6055 between Catterick and Leeming Bar at about 02:20 on Sunday morning, according to North Yorkshire Police.

It involved a black Audi A7 which was travelling southbound and a blue Kia Ceed travelling in the opposite direction.

The Kia driver, a local woman in her 60s, was pronounced dead at the scene, officers say.

Police are appealing for any witnesses to the collision to come forward, including those who may have seen either vehicle before the crash.

Anyone who has dash camera footage is also being asked to save the footage and to contact the North Yorkshire force.