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BBC Look North

BBC Look North's Harry Gration and Amy Garcia are at it again. 

In 2014, the pair pedalled hundreds of miles along the route of Yorkshire's Tour de France Grand Depart and today, they're starting five challenges for Children in Need.

Today they're wing walking and next week they'll be dancing with the stars, abseiling down a 13-storey building and roping in weather presenter Paul Hudson and Look North presenter Lara Rostron for a selfie challenge. 

They'll finish next Friday, on Children in Need day, back on their tandem for a 45-mile ride between Pudsey and Bradford. 

A total of 12 houses have now been evacuated in Ripon following the appearance on Wednesday night of a large sinkhole at the back of a row of houses on Magdalen's Road.

Investigations are due to continue later this morning into what the situation is now - and how safe nearby properties are.

Here are some pictures from the scene:

Andrew Barton
BBC Local Live, York

Pupils at a school in Sowerby have been making felt poppies for Remembrance Day on Sunday.

It's to help Thirsk's Yarnbombers, who've knitted thousands of the flowers, to decorate several churches.

Here are Rosemary, Benedict, Freya and Bethany, from All Saints Catholic Primary School, with their thoughts on what Remembrance Day are all about:

Alina Jenkins
Weather presenter, BBC Look North

A cold and frosty start with patchy mist and fog. 

For most of the day it will be a dry day with some good spells of sunshine.

Watch my full forecast here:

With investigators due back in Magdalen's Road in Ripon this morning to further examine the site of a big sinkhole which has appeared there, this is what we know so far:

• Emergency crews were called to the scene of the sinkhole at about 22:30 on Wednesday night after the hole appeared, consuming two gardens
• Seven homes were originally evacuated, with people in a further six homes asked to leave later on Thursday due to a collapsed drain
• Ripon is a well-known hotspot for sinkholes because of several underground deposits of gypsum, a highly soluble rock, which are slowly dissolving
• In February 2014, another sinkhole appeared just round the corner at Magdalen's Close which led to the demolition of one property
• Experts from the British Geological Society are due to visit the site of the sinkhole later today in a bid to find out more about what's happened

The Press

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In York, Railway Chaplain Rev Angela Levitt-Harwood and Tom Hanham, of Virgin East Coast, will lead today's Act of Remembrance service at 10:50 at the North Eastern Railway War Memorial.

Image source, The Press

BBC Travel

There are a few pinch-points on the roads in North Yorkshire at the moment to be aware of:

• As we've been hearing, Magdalen's Road in Ripon is closed in both directions between the A6108 North Road junction and the Stonebridgegate junction due to the sinkhole
• Traffic's currently building up on the A19 Fulford Road inbound in Fulford, York, around the Broadway junction
• And it's also getting busy on the A1036 Foss Islands Road in both directions in York at the Layerthorpe Bridge junction

Andrew Barton
BBC Local Live, York

Engineers are due in Ripon once again later to find out what caused a sinkhole to appear on Magdalen's Road on Wednesday night, leading to the evacuation of seven properties.  

Yesterday afternoon a sewer collapsed due to the sinkhole, leading to a further five homes being evacuated. 

Fire crews were called out to properties on the road at about 22:30 Wednesday night.

Station Manager Ben Cairns, from North Yorkshire Fire service, told us yesterday: "It's not the first time sinkholes have been encountered in the area".

A house on Magdalen's Close had to be demolished in February 2014 after it was damaged when a 25ft sinkhole opened.

BBC Weather

There's some frost and patchy fog at first this morning. 

The fog may be slow to clear in places, especially the Vale of York.

Elsewhere, mainly dry and bright conditions but feeling a little chilly, especially in any lingering fog.  

BBC Radio York

The top stories from our York newsroom this morning include:    

• Investigators are due back in Ripon later to try and find out why a sinkhole appeared on Magdalen's Road on Wednesday night leading to the evacuation of several homes
• Children seeking asylum say a safe haven in North Yorkshire is making a real difference to their lives 
• People living in Harrogate will be able to have their say from today over a new "Local Plan" to develop the district over the next 20 years

BBC Travel

If you're about to leave the house and head out this morning, you shouldn't find any significant delays to disrupt you on the roads.

However, if you're in the Ripon area, Magdalen's Road is closed in both directions between the A6108 North Road junction and the Stonebridgegate junction, because of emergency repairs.  

A 50ft-wide sinkhole appeared in the road on Wednesday evening.

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And here's the live departure board at York Railway Station, external, showing all services currently running to time - except the 07:19 service to Blackpool North which has been cancelled.

Andrew Barton
BBC Local Live, York

I'll be with you until 14:30 with all the latest news, sport, weather and travel from across North Yorkshire.    

Yesterday, as dusk approached, I saw a gorgeous double rainbow in York. I snapped away with my phone but, to my dismay, couldn't capture it. 

I needn't have worried... I should've known a BBC Weather Watcher would come to my rescue:

Thanks to Smiffy in York for sending in this spectacular spectrum of colour. 

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