Richard Madden
BBC Radio Humberside

A two-mile protection zone has been put into place around a poultry unit in Pocklington, East Yorkshire, after an outbreak of bird flu was confirmed.

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The Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (Defra) has also set up a six-mile surveillance zone which covers Market Weighton and Holme-on-Spalding-Moor.

The zone means bird owners have to make sure their animals don't come into contact with other captive birds from elsewhere.

BBC Radio Humberside has been told the risk to humans is very low, but people shouldn't touch or pick up dead or sick birds in the area.

The flock at the affected unit will now be humanely killed.

The government has confirmed 31 cases of avian influenza H5N1 in England.

The operator of the lorry positioned his vehicle too close to the railway line at Penistone, a report concludes.

Rotherham boss Paul Warne says his players overcame a "banana skin" to thrash Gillingham and stretch their unbeaten run to 19 games.

BBC Radio York

Great crested newts are among a series of unforeseen problems causing delays to a major junction improvement project on the A1(M) in North Yorkshire.

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The scheme at junction 47, Allerton park interchange, is also set to cost considerably more than the original £7.7m budget.

North Yorkshire County Council says the challenges encountered on the complex project have inevitably increased the cost, which was approximately £10m in September.

The authority says unforeseen poor ground conditions has significantly restricted the speed of work, as well as the discovery of great crested newts as they legally had to be relocated.

The project has been supported by £2.47m from the government’s Local Growth Fund, secured by the York and North Yorkshire Local Enterprise Partnership, along with contributions from the County Council, National Highways and developer Forward Investment LLP.

A 20-year-old Sheffield man is held on suspicion of murdering Peshang Sleman.

Leeds United midfielder Kalvin Phillips is understood to be facing a lengthy spell on the sidelines after suffering a hamstring injury.

Richard Madden
BBC Radio Humberside

A seven-year-old girl from North Lincolnshire is helping to turn almost 1,000 empty crisp packets into blankets to keep homeless people warm this winter.

Image source, Outwood Grange Academies Trust

Tilly, a pupil at Outwood Junior Academy Brumby, in Scunthorpe, enlisted the help of her school friends and teachers to collect as many packets as possible before they were sent off to a firm which turns them into survival blankets.

She told BBC Radio Humberside: "When I'm litter picking, I find lots of crisp packets and I found out they take 80 years to break down.

"I think it's better to use them for something helpful, and when I saw a company turning them into blankets for the homeless I thought that was a great idea because it's really sad some people have to be homeless."

Last year, Tilly created care packs for the homeless containing warm clothing, toiletries and food which were donated to The Forge Project in Scunthorpe, which offers food and support services.

Megan Thee Stallion and Dave are among the other artists in the line-up for next year's festival.

Mallard Pass Solar Farm would cover more than 2,000 acres and generate power for 92,000 homes.

Local Democracy Reporting Service

Millions of pounds has been lost from Leeds City Council's income from parking charges in the past two years, new figures have revealed.

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The total amount of money raised by the council in parking charges in the 2018-19 municipal year – the last to have been unaffected by the Covid-19 pandemic – was £11.89m.

Compared with the £4.1m raised during the latest 2020-21 period, this shows a decrease of nearly two thirds - a reduction of about £8m.

During the 2020-21 period, the amount of money taken specfically by pay and display meters in Leeds reduced from £9.2m to just under £3m.

The council suspended all its parking charges when the UK went into lockdown at the end of March 2020.

The city’s council-run car parks remained free to use until 4 July 2020, when Covid restrictions were eased.

The council also offered discounted parking when the charges were reintroduced in an attempt to boost the city’s economy post-lockdown.

The data was released by Leeds City Council via the Datamill North data processing service.

A man thought to be the oldest man in Sheffield is celebrating his 107th birthday today.

Ghulam Mohammed lives in Burngreave and has 23 grandchildren and six great grandchildren.

His grandchildren say he's "very strong, he still does press-ups," and is "fun, fit and amazing".

The supercentenarian was born in 1914 and fought with the British Army during World War Two in Burma (now Myanmar).

Talking about the secret to a long life, Mr Mohammed, who once worked at Sheffield's Laycock steelworks, says: "I eat red meat, lentils, chapatis and I drink milk. I've never smoked cigarettes or taken drugs."

A number of houses were evacuated in Huddersfield in the early hours of the morning following an explosion which damaged a house, police say.

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Emergency services were called to Bradford Road in the Hillhouse area at about 02:00 following "a small explosion at a house," according to West Yorkshire Police.

The property was damaged in the incident, but there are no reports of anyone being injured, officers said.

A police cordon was put in place and a small number of neighbouring properties were evacuated with residents temporarily rehoused, the force added.

Drivers and residents are being urged to be aware of disruption on Bradford Road this morning following the incident.

A section of the road between Honoria Street and Eleanor Street remains closed, police said.

An investigation into the cause of the explosion has been launched by West Yorkshire Fire & Rescue Service.

BBC Weather

Today will be a rather dull and cloudy day, with just a few sunny spells.

There will be patchy rain at times throughout the day and moderate to fresh breezes.

This evening any lingering rain will ease to be followed by a drier night:

Sean Chaytor - Head of the Bridge Board - answers Look North viewers' questions.

James Henry comes off the bench to score a late winner for Oxford United at Doncaster Rovers.

Two Mikael Mandron penalties secure Crewe a win over Lincoln City that lifts them off the bottom of League One.

Paul Tisdale claims a point from his first league match in charge of Stevenage in a draw with fellow strugglers Scunthorpe.

Leaders Rotherham extend their unbeaten run to 19 games after coming from behind to beat 10-man Gillingham.

Ten-man Sheffield Wednesday hold on to draw with Portsmouth and extend their unbeaten run to 11 League One games.

A lack of rooms means Jennie Bianco is staying near Gatwick, while her family are in Milton Keynes.