Mick Lunney
BBC Local Live, Sheffield

That's it from me for today, I'll be back from 08:00 tomorrow with more news, sport, travel and weather.  

Before I go here are five things we didn't know this morning...  

• A plan to finish the Park Hill flats redevelopment will include more than 300 student flats
• 20 piles of rubble on a second site are now being searched on the island of Kos for Ben Needham
• A teenager could lose both feet after meningitis almost killed her
• National Poetry Day has seen a specially-written piece paying tribute to Sheffield's Women of Steel
• Radio Sheffield's ace staff dance crew are rehearsing for a Children in Need performance

We'll round off with a great photo sent in to us by Imari showing a glorious view at Totley.

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Your pics, videos and stories are welcomed and can be sent to us by clicking here.  

Ex-Sheffield United footballer Ched Evans told police he "could have had any of the girls" on the night he allegedly raped a woman, a court has heard.

The Chesterfield forward denies raping a 19-year-old at a Premier Inn in Rhuddlan, Denbighshire, on 30 May 2011.

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Cardiff Crown Court heard the alleged victim arrived "crying hysterically" at a friend's house the next day.

Mr Evans, 27, was found guilty of rape at Caernarfon Crown Court in 2012, but that conviction was quashed in April.

Mick Lunney
BBC Local Live, Sheffield

Staying dry for most, but we might get a shower tonight or tomorrow.

Howard Pressman
Presenter, BBC Radio Sheffield

A woman from Barnsley whose children were killed in a house fire started by her ex-husband has won a national award. 

Claire Throssell lost her two sons, Jack and Paul, in the blaze in which the children's father Darren also died.

Since then Claire has been campaigning for better protection for children in family court cases. 

She's won a "difference-maker" award from the national magazine 'Red, external' and she gave us her reaction:

Police officers, forensic specialists and an archaeologist who have been searching an olive grove next to the farmhouse for the past 11 days have now begun work on a second site, where rubble from the farmhouse was deposited in the days after Ben Needham's disappearance. 

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A bulldozer is being used to clear rubble, trees and other surface debris.

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The two sites are less than half a mile apart.

Sheffield Star

Concerns have been raised over plans to build flood defences ‘taller than three double decker buses’, external at a Sheffield nature spot.

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Mick Lunney
BBC Local Live, Sheffield

On National Poetry Day , externalwe can bring you the full version of a powerful piece of writing by Sheffield poet Rachel Bower.

It's called 'Women of Steel' and brings the past of Sheffield's women in industry and the present day together in a striking way.

There's a statue in the city centre erected in honour of the women. 

Here's the poem:

BBC Travel

The M18 is closed causing severe delays and queuing traffic northbound between junction 1 for Bramley and  J2 for the A1(M).

It also means congestion on M1 to J33, A630 (Catcliffe) and on M1 to J31, A57 (Sheffield).  

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Police searching for missing toddler Ben Needham on the Greek island of Kos have started digging at a second site about half a mile from where he was last seen  

Det Insp Jon Cousins said the search at the second site was of "great significance" and would take four days.

"It is at a different site to the farmhouse but I understand from what other people are telling me... that some material is believed to have been moved from that area and could well be here," he said.

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Mick Lunney
BBC Local Live, Sheffield

Seven guns have been seized in an effort to reduce organised crime in South Yorkshire.

Police say tip-offs from the public have helped and eight people have been arrested.

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Paulette Edwards
Presenter, BBC Radio Sheffield

It's hard to imagine anything worse for a parent than losing a child. 

Each year in the UK more than 5,000 parents leave hospital without the baby they'd been hoping to nurture.

There's a new documentary being shown at the Showroom in Sheffield, external exploring what life is like after losing a baby. It's called Still Loved'. 

Here's a clip.

Tom Ingall
Journalist, BBC Look North

The BBC's Tom Ingall is watching the search for Ben Needham at a second location linked to his disappearance 25 years ago.

Gina Bolton
BBC Radio Sheffield

Teenager Charlene Colechin is recovering in a Sheffiled hospital after almost losing her life to meningitis. 

The 18-year-old, from near Chesterfield in Derbyshire, wants pictures like this one to raise awareness of the dangers posed by the disease.

Image source, Charlene Colechin

She doesn't yet know if her feet can be saved and only surgery will reveal that.

Andy Giddings
Sports Editor, BBC Sheffield

You can hear Tony Stewart talking to BBC Radio Sheffield about Rotherham United's performance and fortunes, along with his "stay calm" message to fans and players:

Sheffield Star

Police officers making an arrest in Sheffield called for back-up when a man was reportedly spotted with a gun, external.

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The regeneration of a once-notorious council estate in Sheffield is to be completed within five years, developers say.

Tom Ingall
Journalist, BBC Look North

A second site containing 20 piles of rubble is now being searched on the island of Kos.

Police have been working near a farmhouse, part of which was demolished yesterday, in their search for clues over the 25-year-old mystery about Ben's fate.

He vanished when out playing as his family renovated a farm building.

Today police have explaining why they're at a second site for their search:

Rony Robinson
Presenter, BBC Radio Sheffield

It should be writ large...

Well that's very much the case for this piece on the side of the Hallam University Media Centre building Sheffield.

It's being highlighted by the City Council to prompt people to share their favourite poems on National Poetry Day, external.

Mick Lunney
BBC Local Live, Sheffield

Thanks to Weather Watcher Dotty in Thorne for this striking image.

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You can send your pics, videos and stories to us here, we'd love to see them.

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BBC Local Live, Sheffield

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Half a dozen vehicle fires in quick succession, all blamed on arsonists, have left fire crews in South Yorkshire frustrated.

Last night they were called to locations in Sheffield, Rotherham and Doncaster.