Brighouse Ritz told to change name by London Ritz hotel
North Yorkshire primary school with just 12 pupils to close
One-punch killer Blue Horrobin starting an 11 year prison sentence
Police increase patrols after Sheffield shooting
Plans to transform NHS services in England involve hospital closures or downgrading A&E with changes at Huddersfield Royal Infirmary and Dewsbury Hospital
One of North Yorkshire's biggest landfill sites will close when the county's new waste incinerator opens nearby.
Updates on Tuesday 21 February 2017
Paulette Edwards
Presenter, BBC Radio Sheffield
I've been hearing about a Sheffield student who is seeking help from former residents of Sheffield's Park Hill flats.
Edward Brooks is hoping to make a documentary about the landmark development which has dominated the skyline behInd the railway station since the the 1960s.
He says contributors will be able watch it online:
The FA Cup fifth-round replay between Manchester City and Huddersfield on Wednesday, 1 March will be shown live on BBC One.
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The Press
A 20-year-old man has died after falling ill in a vehicle on the outskirts of York.
A spokesperson for North Yorkshire Police said officers were called to the "sudden death" at 4.40pm on Monday.
It happened at traffic lights at the Fulford, external Interchange.
Image source, York Press
Jim Addyman
BBC Local Live
If you drive regularly on the A1 near Knaresborough you may be wondering what the rather large edifice on the horizon is.
Wonder no more - Allerton Park is the site of a huge incinerator at the heart of a new Waste Recovery Park costing £1.4bn.
The incinerator begins operation in January 2018 but BBC Radio York was given an exclusive tour round the facility:
Adam Pinder-Smith
BBC Local Live, Yorkshire
Police are increasing patrols in an area where a man was fatally shot at the weekend.
South Yorkshire Police says more officers will be in place to reassure the community and gather witness information following the shooting of 23-year-old Assel Al-Essaie at the weekend.
He was taken to hospital and died a short time after being shot.
Image source, SYPQuote MessageDetectives and local officers have been working relentlessly over the last few days to gather as much information as they can about this incident."
Det Ch Insp Steve Whittaker, South Yorkshire Police
Anyone with information is being asked to call 101 or ring Crimestoppers to pass on information anonymously.
Adam Pinder-Smith
BBC Local Live, Yorkshire
The widower of the murdered Labour MP, Jo Cox, has announced that a special weekend event will be held this summer, to mark the first anniversary of her killing.
The event, called "The Great Get Together" will take place on 17/18 June.
Brendan Cox wants the event to celebrate his late wife's energy and her desire to bring communities together.
Mark Ansell
BBC Look North reporter
I've been to the Peak District to meet Will Roberts from Sheffield.
He's gone from nine pints and a kebab on a week night to running 150 miles across the arctic to raise money for an MS charity helping his mum.
Hats off to him (and good luck!). MS Society UK, external
Jim Addyman
BBC Local Live
One of North Yorkshire's biggest landfill sites will close when the county's new waste incinerator opens.
A huge amount of waste is currently delivered to Allerton Park Landfill site near Knaresborough.
But there are plans to mothball it when the nearby Waste Recovery Park is up and running next year.
Head of Construction at the incinerator is Mark James - he says it won't replace recycling schemes:
Jonathan Cowap
Presenter, BBC Radio York
If you're a fan of TV shows like Silent Witness and CSI then you may be interested in what the Ripon Workhouse Museum has in store this weekend.
On Saturday, Tim Thompson, Professor of Forensic Anthropology at Teesside University will be presenting a Talk & Skeleton Workshop.
I spoke to Tim earlier on the BBC Radio York and asked him what the term "forensics" actually means:
Jim Addyman
BBC Local Live
One of South Yorkshire's MPs is campaigning to get more support for children whose parents are alcoholics.
Labour MP for Don Valley, Caroline Flint is part of a cross-party group of politicians working on the issue.
Ms Flint has said she grew up with an alcoholic mother and had to leave home at the age of 17 when the situation worsened as she prepared for her A-Levels.
She says that while there's help available for drinkers to overcome their problem, the children are being overlooked:
Jim Addyman
BBC Local Live
Halifax Rugby Union Football Club are to host a taster rugby day aimed at encouraging the LGBT community to play the sport, external.
The open day wIll be held on Saturday, 4 March at the club's Ovenden Park ground.
The event is supported by the Rugby Football Union (RFU) and gay rights organisation Stonewall.
Fiona Armstrong is Halifax's safeguarding officer as well as a prop forward in the ladies team:
A Brighouse music venue may be forced to shut its doors, external ... because a top London hotel says it must change its name.
The Ritz hotel in London has written to the Ritz in Brighouse saying it must drop the name by February 28 or it will take legal action.
Image source, Huddersfield ExaminerJim Addyman
BBC Local Live
Nearly two-thirds of local plans to transform NHS services in England involve hospital closures or downgrading A&E facilities.
That includes proposed changes at Huddersfield Royal Infirmary and Dewsbury Hospital.
The ideas are designed to get more patients treated in their local communities.
Chris Ham is the Chief Executive of think tank, the King's Fund. He says the proposals offer the best hope for the NHS but believes the aim of cutting beds isn't credible:
Kay Crewdson
BBC Radio York
A teenage cyclist, born with progressive terminal liver disease, is going to compete at the World Transplant Games in Malaga, external.
16-year-old Lydia Mellen from York had a transplant ten years ago and is now a keen sportswoman, coached by her dad Richard.
They spoke to me earlier on the BBC Radio York Breakfast Show about the prospect of Lydia turning out in Team GB colours:
She heads out to Malaga in June for the Women's 5km Time Trial.
Jim Addyman
BBC Local Live
Two teenage boys from Barrow have been given five-year football banning orders after pleading guilty to throwing rocks at a minibus carrying women and children.
The boys, aged 15 and 16, cannot be named because of their age.
Witnesses said a group of youths hurled rocks at the minibus as it travelled along the A590 Walney Road after the National League match on Saturday 24 September 2016 at Barrow's Holker Street ground.
The attack led to two York supporters being taken to hospital with head injuries.
Adam Pinder-Smith
BBC Local Live, Yorkshire
Remember the frozen stampede in Sheffield last summer when 50 elephant statues were displayed across the city?
It was all to raise money for the Sheffield Children's Hospital charity and the scheme has been short-listed for a local award.
Jim Addyman
BBC Local Live
A musical based on North Yorkshire's Calendar Girls has an official opening in London's West End tonight.
It's called "The Girls", with music written by Gary Barlow and is based on the story of the middle-aged women from the Rylstone WI who stripped off for a charity calendar.
York actor Josh Benson plays Tommo and is hoping the stage version matches the success of the 2003 film.
Two hundred cannabis plants have been seized by police in South Yorkshire.
The plants will now be destroyed by an incinerator.
Image source, South Yorkshire Police
BBC Sport
Keighley's Olympic boxer Muhammad Ali (pictured below) has been named in the British Lionhearts team, external for the second fixture of the season in the World Series of Boxing.
The Lionhearts face France Fighting Roosters in Paris on Thursday.
The team is made-up of members of the GB Boxing squad and a number of International selections, overseen by Performance Director, Rob McCracken who also runs the GB Boxing Olympic programme.
Muhammad is hoping he can help secure the Lionhearts' first win of the new campaign after they started the season with a narrow 3-2 defeat away to Italia Thunder.
Jim Addyman
BBC Local Live
The planned HS2 rail line will destroy inheritances for West Yorkshire's future generations, it's being claimed.
That's the claim being made by members of the campaign group, Crofton Against HS2.
HS2 Limited - who will build the track - say the project will provide opportunities like jobs and apprenticeships.
Local cleric and group member, Rev Louise Tinniswood, says that so far, all HS2 has brought to Crofton, near Wakefield, is stress:
