A boom in short-term lets and a competitive rental market is blamed for York's rising living costs.

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A floating pumpkin house and a pumpkin Greta Thunberg are the stars of a three-day event in Hebden Bridge.

This year's Pumpkin Festival is highlighting climate change and the house, in the middle of the canal, represents the repeat flooding in the Calder Valley.

The organisers say they want to get the message across in a fun and engaging way.

One pumpkin has been carved up to symbolise the schoolboy Jude Walker from the town, who marched to Westminster to lobby MPs about climate change.

Organiser Liz Warrington said: "It's all around Hebden Bridge town centre on Saturday and Sunday, with a live carving in St George's Square. You can download a map to follow a trail. It's a great way of exploring Hebden Bridge and the issue of climate change."

Goods will be moved by rail between Immingham and Doncaster to help ease supply issues.

Hull City will be without Tom Huddlestone for four to six weeks after he picked up a hamstring injury in their loss to Peterborough.

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Reporter BBC Radio Humberside

New flood defences between Ferriby Sluice and South Ferriby have been completed, improving protection for 150 properties as well as agricultural land and other infrastructure.

The £14m work which started in April 2019, following a tidal surge in December 2013, includes embankments, flood walls, and de-mountable barriers.

The project also includes 13-metre (42.6ft) flood gates which slide across the A1077 and are the country's first such defences to operate across an A-road.

Sara Haddon, chair of the South Ferriby Parish Council Flood Protection Committee, said: "Residents of South Ferriby Sluice are delighted that the new defences are now complete. Memories of the 2013 floods are still raw and the new defences mean that they can sleep easy as we approach the coming winter."

They would be the first major water supply reservoirs to be built in the UK in 30 years.

The 800-year-old ceremonial title is "pointlessly gendered" and discourages women, a meeting hears.

Two men have been arrested over the death of another whose body was found at a house in York.

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Police discovered the man at an address on Markham Crescent, York, just after 23:30 BST on Tuesday.

Officers continue to investigate the circumstances around his death.

The arrested men, aged 34 and 40, have been released under investigation.

More than 800 cannabis plants were seized in a raid by police in Bradford.

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Officers attended at commercial premises on Thornton Road on Monday and found 469 adult plans and 430 plants in a small state of growth, said West Yorkshire Police.

The raid follows a seizure from another property on the same street in February 2021 in which 152 plants were recovered.

Insp Richard Baildon said: “The information provided by communities is critical in the fight against the organised production of drugs and I want to thank residents for their support.

“We are now conducting further enquiries into this significant seizure and continue to appeal for any information about drugs production in the city centre as I can promise every piece of information is reviewed, assessed and where possible developed to give officers the evidence to obtain search warrants.”

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Ahead of the autumn Budget, is there any impact at all from "levelling up" in Yorkshire?

Relationship education is now compulsory in England, including sex education at secondary schools.

West Yorkshire Police says there have been reports of "suspected spiking and attempt spiking".

The Army is hoping to boost the number of Muslim women who join the British armed forces.

Jean Bishop was known in Hull for collecting money dressed as a bee and raised more than £125,000.

Venues in Leeds bring in new measures after students report spiking being rife in the city.

Two black Yorkshire firefighters have been discussing their life-saving work as part of a fire service's look at Black History Month.

South Yorkshire Fire and Rescue Service brought one retired and one serving firefighter together to discuss their experiences and how the organisation has changed over the decades:

More than 80 arrests in Yorkshire as police take action targeting county lines drug dealers.

Hygge in Sheffield responded to a one-star online review referring to a staff member in a hijab.

A baby red howler monkey, thought to be the first born in the UK, has been seen being held by its mother at a Yorkshire wildlife park.

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Pablo, who is now two-weeks-old, was born at Yorkshire Wildlife Park near Doncaster.

Seen clinging to his mum Tila, the vocal Venezuelan red howler joins a troop who only arrived at the park earlier this year.

Named after their loud cries, the red howlers are the most common species of the howler family and can live up to 20 years in the wild, according to National Geographic.

In the wild, howlers can be targeted by hunters for their bushmeat.

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Primates team leader at Yorkshire Wildlife Park Greg Clifton said the park is the only one in England to hold them.

He said: "This is an extremely important birth for this rare species of primate and could be the first time that this species has been bred in the UK."