Katie Galbraith
BBC Radio Sheffield

Thanks for having a look at your BBC Local Live page for Sheffield and South Yorkshire.  

That's the end of our live updates today, there's just time to thank Mark Tomlinson from Sheffield Forgemasters for this stunning picture which we used at the top of the local live page today:

Image source, Mark Tomlinson

Hope you all have a lovely weekend.

We'll be back from 08:00 on Monday with more news, sport, weather and travel updates from across the county.

BBC Look North, Yorkshire

Our business correspondent Danni Hewson reports on the day the last miners cut the last coal at the last deep coal mine in the country.

And despite the sadness of the day it's business as usual at the Kellingley Miners' Welfare Social Club. Harry Gration joins retired miners for Christmas lunch.

Join us on Look North on BBC1 at 18:00.

Keeley Donovan
Weather presenter, BBC Look North

The weather this evening will be unseasonably mild but southerly winds will be strong and gusty over exposed hills.

Katie Galbraith
BBC Radio Sheffield

The top stories in South Yorkshire today include: 

• The final shift at Kellingley colliery signals the end of deep coal mining in the UK.
• A South Yorkshire policeman who was jailed last month for causing a 15-year-old girl to engage in sexual activity has been formally sacked by the force. 
• About 300 people turned out in Doncaster to pay their respects at the funeral of D-Day veteran Eric Gill, who died aged 99.

Sheffield Star

World heavyweight boxing champion Tyson Fury has been spotted Christmas shopping, external - at a Doncaster discount store.

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Rob Staton
BBC Radio Sheffield

Sheffield Wednesday manager Carlos Carvalhal has some festive words for Owls fans:

The fire service in South Yorkshire is looking for people to sign up to its Princes Trust Team programme - , externala 12-week personal development course working with 16 to 25- year-olds leaving care, young offenders, educational underachievers and the long-term unemployed.

A South Yorkshire policeman who was jailed last month for causing a 15-year-old girl to engage in sexual activity has been formally sacked. 

Daniel Cookson, 27, was suspended from his position when he was arrested and charged in August last year.

Katie Galbraith
BBC Radio Sheffield

• The final shift has finished at Kellingley colliery, ending 50 years of deep coal mining in the UK
• The trial of seven people accused of child sexual exploitation in Rotherham has heard from a witness who says a police officer she confided in about abuse took no action.
• Jessica Ennis-Hill says she's thrilled at being re-inducted in the Hall of Champions at Sheffield's English Institute of Sport. 

Sheffield Star

A Sheffield Star poll has found there is huge support from readers for Sheffield's HS2 station to be located at the former Victoria station in the city centre, external, rather than at Meadowhall.  

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The final shift has finished at the Kellingley colliery, ending 50 years of deep coal mining in the UK.

Kevin Larkin, Doncaster reporter, BBC Radio Sheffield

I've been attending the funeral of 99-year-old Eric Gill from Doncaster today.

When Eric passed away his friend Gwen Burrows contacted BBC Radio Sheffield to ask for people to attend today's service.

And they turned out in force with about 300 people in attendance...

More on the trial at Sheffield Crown Court of five men and two women accused over the sexual abuse of children in Rotherham over a period of about 10 years.

The defendants on trial are:

• Arshid Hussain, 40, of High Street, East Cowick, Goole, who faces 30 charges, including five counts of rape
• Qurban Ali, 53, of Clough Road, Rotherham, who faces four charges, including rape and conspiracy to rape
• Majid Bostan, 37, of Ledsham Road, Rotherham, who faces one charge of indecent assault
• Sajid Bostan, 38, of Broom Avenue, Rotherham, who faces seven charges, including four counts of rape
• Basharat Hussain, 39, of no fixed abode, who faces 15 charges including two counts of rape
• Karen MacGregor, 58, of Barnsley Road, Wath, South Yorkshire, who faces four charges, including conspiracy to rape
• Shelley Davies, 40, of Wainwright Road, Kimberworth Park, Rotherham, who faces three charges, including conspiracy to rape

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Mick Lunney
BBC Radio Sheffield reporter

I've been down to the English Institute of Sport to see Sheffield's golden girl, Jessica Ennis-Hill, be re-inducted into the Hall of Champions.

A woman has told the Rotherham child sexual exploitation trial that a police officer she confided in had sex with girls at houses where she was staying and would pass seized drugs to one of the defendants. 

Over three days in the witness box, the woman has described how she was repeatedly abused and assaulted from the age of 11 when she was in the care of the local authority.

She described how she told a detective about what happened but no action was taken. She told the jury at Sheffield Crown Court: "He used to come to houses where we were.

"He used to have sex with girls and he used to take drugs from people and pass them on to Ash." 

The jury heard that two of the seven defendants - Arshid Hussain and Qurban Ali - were known as Mad Ash and Blind Ash respectively. The witness did not clarify which one she was referring to.

Karen MacGregor, 58, Arshid Hussain, 40, Qurban Ali, 53, Majid Bostan, 37, Sajid Bostan, 38, Basharat Hussain, 39, and Shelley Davies, 40, all deny a range of charges. 

Owain Wyn Evans
Weather presenter, BBC Look North

It's 11C this lunchtime around South Yorkshire. Surprisingly warm for this part of the world in December!

Katie Galbraith
BBC Radio Sheffield

I spotted these gnashers on the way intoBBC Radio Sheffieldthis morning.

Did you forget something?

If they are yoursget in touchand tell us how they came to be on Sidney Street today!

Katie Galbraith
BBC Radio Sheffield

• A woman has told the Rotherham child sexual exploitation trial that a police officer she confided in had sex with girls at houses where she was staying

• Kellingley, the last deep coal mine in Britain, closes today. It follows the closures earlier this year of Hatfield and Thoresby.Hundreds of miners will leave Kellingley Collieryin North Yorkshire this afternoon for the final time
• Sheffield Olympic athlete Jessica Ennis Hill has got yet another honour from the English Institute of Sport in Sheffield. She's been "re-inducted" this morning into the Hall of Champions after her World Heptathlon Championship win in Beijing earlier this year

Katie Galbraith
BBC Radio Sheffield

The last 450 deep coal miners in Yorkshire are to receive severance packages at 12 weeks of average pay.  

At its height, Kellingley employed more than 2,000 workers. At the same time, up to 500,000 people were working in the coal industry nationally.  

Hatfield, the last deep coal mine in South Yorkshire, closed earlier this year with the loss of 430 jobs.

BBC Sport

Ben Proud has broken Mark Foster's 14-year-old short-course 50m freestyle British record at the Amateur Swimming Association meet at Ponds Forge.

The 21-year-old, who won two Commonwealth gold medals in 2014, swam 20.74 to beat the mark set by Foster in January 2001 by 0.39 seconds.

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