A pop-up Covid vaccine clinic at this weekend's Leeds Festival means attendees can "pick up a jab as easily as a beer or a burger", the NHS says.

Vaccines will be available during the bank holiday weekend event at Bramham Park, which features Stormzy, Post Malone, and Liam Gallagher as headliners.

Dr Nikki Kanani, GP and deputy lead for NHS England's vaccination programme, urged revellers to get vaccinated at the festival.

"It is great to see the return of live music and performances, and as festival goers head to the main stage this weekend to see their favourite headliners, I am also urging anyone who hasn't to add the 'vaccine tent' to their festival itinerary to get that lifesaving vaccine as the best protection we can get from coronavirus," she said.

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A young ballerina from Leeds has been given the chance to follow her dream, thanks to the kindness of strangers.

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Constance, 13, from Seacroft, lives with autism and has been dancing since she was very young.

She had recently been offered the chance to study at one of the UK's top ballet schools, however, her mum, Laura, thought the £90,000 fees for the three-year course at The Hammond School, external might be out of reach.

Laura said she decided to turn to the power of online crowdfunding: "In just over 30 minutes, £8,000 had gone on this page and I was thinking, 'This can't be right. Refresh, refresh refresh.' But every time I did that, the money went up."

After appearing in a national newspaper, the donations for Constance soon topped £100,000.

"It's not often you can say, 'I've changed somebody's life today'," said Laura.

"But more than 3,500 people changed somebody's life when they did that, and that's just remarkable. We thank them from the bottom of our hearts."

Laura plans to use any leftover donations to create a fund to help other disadvantaged young dancers in Leeds follow their dreams.

Emergency repair works will be carried out at one of York's busiest junctions in September, it's been confirmed.

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Gillygate will be closed at its junction with Bootham for two weeks after inspectors said the traffic signals pose an imminent risk of permanently failing and they're beyond repair.

A report also highlighted a risk to members of the public, including electrocution, because of damaged electrical cables.

City of York Council described the risk as "remote", but has pushed forward the works which were originally planned for 2022, external,

The work starts on 19 September and is scheduled to take five weeks in total.

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Rock legend Francis Rossi is in Northallerton tonight to share the secrets of more than half a century in the music industry.

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The event at the Forum, called Francis Rossi: I Talk Too Much, external, will see the Status Quo founder, singer and guitarist reveal all about the music, the drink and drugs, playing Live Aid and where the band's love of double denim came from.

Rossi has told BBC Radio York that after living the rock and roll lifestyle, he's now "Mr Boring" and during the Covid lockdown he loved just being at home.

He sang the first words at "Live Aid" in 1985, was awarded an OBE in 2010 and has a BRIT award for his Outstanding Contribution to Music.

Status Quo has sold over 120 million records globally.

Police have released images of a car thought to be connected to a shooting in Doncaster.

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It happened at about 23:55 on 18 August on Bentley Road in Bentley, with a 24-year-old man suffering serious gunshot injuries.

Two men from Rotherham, aged 23 and 25, were arrested on suspicion of attempted murder and later released on bail, according to South Yorkshire Police.

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The vehicle in the picture is a black Nissan X-Trail with the number plate YE05 AVO, although this may have been removed, police say.

Anyone who sees this vehicle is being warned not to approach any occupants and to call 999 immediately.

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Over 52,000 driving tests have been cancelled in Yorkshire in the last three months, it's been revealed.

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Horsforth test centre, in Leeds, had the highest number of cancellations, according to figures from the Driver and Vehicle Standards Agency (DVSA), with learners now having to book appointments in 2022.

Ninety six per cent of cancellations are due to the pandemic, with many testers having to self isolate.

Benji Pickin, who runs a driving school near Keighley, said for many young people not being able to drive was a challenge: "They need it for childcare, they need it for work, and it's really having an effect on all of them."

James Pedley, 18, told BBC Radio Leeds he would finally sit his test on Friday: "It's been quite frustrating at times. I've probably been sat at home not having lessons for seven, eight months, so I probably should have passed six, seven months ago."

The DVSA said over half of candidates were currently failing and because of demand "learners should only take their test when they are confident they can pass".

A man has been taken to hospital after he was hit by a bus in Leeds city centre this morning.

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It happened on Park Row at about 09:15, with the 51-year-old man taken to hospital for emergency treatment.

He is in a serious condition, according to West Yorkshire Police.

Officers are now appealing for witnesses.

Park Row has been closed for several hours following the incident.

Footage shows the man squeezing through the central reservation as traffic passes just feet away.

The 89-year-old driver was injured in the collision and died later in hospital, police say.

CCTV images have been released by police in a bid to catch those responsible for a machete attack in Leeds.

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Two males entered Halton's Top Store on Selby Road in Halton on Monday evening, with a 26-year-old man subsequently suffering a serious hand injury during the armed robbery.

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Det Con Samantha Wilson said: “This was an appalling incident where the victim was running to escape when he was slashed on his back, and then suffered the injury to his hand while defending himself.

"We would like to hear from anyone who thinks they recognise them or who saw them in the area at any point before or after the incident."

A two-year-old girl who died in a fire at a caravan park has been named by family and friends.

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Louisiana-Brook died after the blaze broke out in a static unit at Sealands caravan park in Ingoldmells, near Skegness, on Monday night.

The family had been on holiday at the caravan park when the fire happened at about 22:30.

Her three siblings, aged under 11, and their mum Natasha Broadley, from the Newark area, managed to escape.

Lincolnshire Police is currently treating the girl's death as unexplained.

Tributes have been paid to Louisiana-Brook on a gofundme page set up by a friend, with more than £12,000 raised for the family.

An 89-year-old man has died in a three-vehicle crash in North Yorkshire.

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It happened at about 17:10 on Wednesday on the A59 near the village of Moor Monkton, north west of York.

The man's vehicle, a red Audi A3, was being driven towards York when it was involved in a collision with a black Audi Q5 and a silver Mini, both travelling in the opposite direction.

Officers have appealed for anyone who was on the A59 and who saw the vehicles prior to the crash to get in contact with the force.

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Deterioration caused during the Covid lockdown is being blamed for a decision to keep a South Yorkshire leisure pool closed until January next year.

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The pool at Ponds Forge in Sheffield was closed before the summer holidays so damage to the flumes could be fixed.

Sheffield City Trust (SCT), which runs the city centre venue, said the problems would cost £500,000 to repair.

The rest of Ponds Forge, including the competition pool, remains open for use, the trust said.

Work to remove the flumes from the leisure pool was "progressing well", SCT said, and it was bringing forward other planned work including an upgrade to the leisure pool area.

The trust said the closure provided an "opportunity to modernise some existing features".

Councillor Terry Fox, leader of Sheffield City Council, said the prolonged closure would be "disappointing for some people", but it was important "to prevent further disruption and closures in the future".

The whole of Ponds Forge was closed at the beginning of the first coronavirus lockdown and was originally not set to reopen until April 2021 because the trust said it would be too expensive.

But following a campaign by swimming clubs it eventually reopened at the end of October 2021, with the council providing extra money to support facilities.

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Revellers at Leeds Festival this weekend will be able to get a coronavirus vaccine at the site, it's been confirmed.

A pop-up clinic will offer the jabs, but organisers have warned that people under the influence of alcohol or drugs will not be given the vaccine.

It comes as NHS England said over 500,000 16 and 17-year-olds have had their first dose.

At the festival's site at Bramham Park, vaccines will be offered between 10:00-16:00 Friday to Sunday, and from 08:00-11:00 on Monday.

Health professionals will also be available at the clinic on Thursday between 10:00-16:00 for festivalgoers who want to discuss the jab.

The M62 was closed in both directions in rush-hour causing heavy traffic disruption, it has since opened.

Police are appealing for information and footage after an "altercation" in Lincoln city centre which left two men seriously injured.

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Officers were called to reports of an incident outside Home nightclub on Park Street at about 05:00 on Saturday 21 August.

Police gave assistance to two men in their 20s who reported having been assaulted and who had suffered "significant" injuries, according to the Lincolnshire force.

Anyone who can identify the other people involved, or who saw what happened and might have mobile phone or dash camera footage of the incident or nearby streets, is being asked to contact police.

The M62 motorway is closed this morning in both directions between junctions 24 and 25 at Huddersfield and Brighouse.

National Highways say there is nearly seven miles of congestion westbound and three miles of queuing traffic eastbound.

Diversions are in place but these too are very slow moving, the advice is to avoid the area completely if possible.

Police say five people were seriously injured after a car driven at high speed went into spectators.

Claudia Lawrence's mother reacts to a new police search for her daughter who went missing in March 2009. Police said on Monday they were searching gravel pits near York.

Joan Lawrence says "every single day is a nightmare" since her daughter disappeared in 2009.