Joanita Musisi
Reporter, BBC Radio York

A very rare aircraft has been renovated in North Yorkshire and is about to go on display.

It's called a Supermarine Swift and is the only complete aircraft of its kind in the world.

There's quite a bit of secrecy around the project, but we know it's been restored by an organisation near Selby and the museum the plane is going to will be revealed later this week.

But I've been lucky enough to have a sneak preview, and now so can you:

Andrew Barton
BBC Local Live, York

Yorkshire is in the running to be named Best UK Holiday County or Destination at the British Travel Awards.

Image source, PA

The region is in the running to be named best UK holiday county or destination at the British Travel Awards.

Competition comes from Northumberland, Cornwall, Devon and Pembrokeshire.

Meanwhile, Whitby (pictured) is also up for the Best UK Coastal Award.

York's Quartz Travel Group is hoping to win three prizes, including Best Independent Travel Agency.  

The gala event takes place in London.

Mike Kemp
Reporter, BBC Radio York

 A judge at High Court in London has reserved judgement in a hearing held to decide whether North Yorkshire County Council made the right decision earlier this year by allowing fracking at Kirby Misperton, near Pickering.

North Yorkshire County Council  approved the fracking site in May.

Anti-fracking activists say the council acted unlawfully in approving test drilling.  

Fracking company, Third Energy, said the process, which involves drilling shale rock and injecting high-pressure water in order to release gas, is safe.

The judge was asked to grant a judicial review of the decision.

However, Mrs Justice Lang has deferred her decision, in what she has described as "a difficult case" and will deliver her judgement later this year.

Andrew Barton
BBC Local Live, York

River levels in North Yorkshire are beginning to go down but the Environment Agency has just added a flood warning on the River Derwent which takes the total in North Yorkshire to three:

• On the River Derwent at Derwent at Buttercrambe Mill

• On the River Swale at Kirby Wiske 
• And on the River Ouse at Naburn Lock

The Pickering to Whitby road remains shut, though, at Blue Bank in Sleights after a serious landslip there on Monday.

Hundreds of keen knitters create a huge scarf which has been wrapped around Selby Abbey.

More on the news that Thomas Mair, 53,  has been found guilty of the murder of Batley and Spen Labour MP Jo Cox in June.

Image source, Julia Quenzler

Earlier, Judge Mr Justice Wilkie told the jury at the Old Bailey that the cause of death had been given by a forensic pathologist as multiple stab and gunshot wounds.

Evidence of gunshot injuries to both her hands indicated Mrs Cox had tried to protect her head, the judge added.

He summarised the prosecution's closing speech which said internet research on Jo Cox and sawn-off rifles pointed to him being minded to kill her, and an apparent confession on his arrest.

He said the defence barrister had reminded the jury of the burden of proof needed to convict Mair.

More on the news that the man accused of murdering Batley and Spen Labour MP Jo Cox has been found guilty by a jury at the Old Bailey. 

Image source, West Yorkshire Police

Thomas Mair, 53, was accused of shooting and stabbing the mother-of-two in Birstall on 16 June, a week before the EU referendum vote.

At his trial, Mr Mair denied murdering the mother-of-two and chose not to give any evidence in his defence.

Thomas Mair, accused of murdering Batley and Spen Labour MP Jo Cox, has been found guilty by a jury at the Old Bailey. 

More to follow...

BBC Look North

What does an average day look like at BBC Look North?

Take a look to find out more as part of our #MannequinChallenge, external attempt...

The challenge is the newest sensation on the internet and requires groups of participants to assume dramatic poses, which is why everyone in the film is static like a dummy. 

Usually, there's a lot more dashing about!

Anyway, we've used the challenge as an excuse to show you behind the scenes at BBC Yorkshire's HQ in Leeds:

BBC Travel

Cattal Moor Lane in Cattal is currently closed in both directions between the Ox Moor Lane junction and the Fleet Lane junction, because of flooding. 

This is also affecting Ox Moor Lane between Cattal Street and Broad Gate.  

Image source, Google

BBC Sport

The latest sporting headlines today include:

• Pickering's Paul Davison started his campaign at the UK Snooker Championships this morning, taking on Gary Wilson in the day's first session
• York City are still looking for their first win since September in the National League, after a 4-1 defeat at home to Lincoln City
• York City Knights forward Josh Tonks has joined Keighley Cougars after spending three seasons with the Knights
• And Tadcaster Albion lost 1-0 at home to Ossett Town last night in the Evo Stick first division - the game kicking off an hour late after floodlight failure at the i2i Stadium

Andrew Barton
BBC Local Live, York

There are just two flood warnings now in place on North Yorkshire's rivers:

• On the River Swale at Kirby Wiske 
• And on the River Ouse at Naburn Lock

The Ouse peaked overnight in York at a height of 3.25m, and the Foss Barrier in the city has been used for the first time since pumps were upgraded following last year's Christmas floods. 

It seems to be working well at the moment, which is making the Environment Agency very happy:

Jurors at the Old Bailey have retired to consider their verdicts in the trial of Thomas Mair, who's been charged with murdering Batley and Spen Labour MP Jo Cox.

Mrs Cox's parents, Gordon and Jean Leadbeater, her sister, Kim Leadbeater, and her husband, Brendan Cox, were all in court as the judge, Mr Justice Wilkie, finished summing up.

After giving the jurors his final directions, he thanked them for their patience before they retired to consider their verdicts just after 10:50.

Jurors have retired to consider verdicts in the trial of the man charged with murdering Labour MP Jo Cox in June.

Thomas Mair, 53, is on trial at the Old Bailey accused of shooting and stabbing the 41-year-old Batley and Spen MP. 

Mair denies Mrs Cox's murder, possession of a firearm with intent to commit an indictable offence and possession of an offensive weapon. 

Andrew Barton
BBC Local Live, York

The A169 in Sleights near Whitby remains closed while 500-600 tonnes of gravel are brought to the area to fill the escape lane on Blue Bank washed away by heavy rain away on Monday evening.

A number of properties were flooded, vehicles abandoned and large amounts of debris, mainly from the gravel trap, blocked the carriageway.  

Nicky Hocking's house was damaged by flood water. She says she was amazed at how quickly the water rushed into her house:

Joanita Musisi
Reporter, BBC Radio York

A very rare aircraft has been renovated in North Yorkshire and is about to go on display.

I'll have a video for you to watch soon to give you a better idea of what this rarity looks like. But for now have a glance at these pics of the Supermarine Swift.

It's the only complete aircraft of its kind in the world:

Andrew Barton
BBC Local Live, York

The unstoppable force that is winter has been making itself very much felt over the last few days and the layers of clothing are beginning to be pulled on.

Nowhere more so than in Selby, where hundreds of keen knitters have been busy with their needles to create something really special for the Abbey.

They've created a 600-yard red scarf, so big it required the specialist equipment of the Fire Service to put it in place. 

The scarf, which took a year to make, is to celebrate 40 years of Christingle services taking place at the Abbey.

Children who attend the services are given a "Christingle", an orange with a red band wrapped around it and a candle on top. The orange represents the world, the candle represents God's light and the red band represents the love and blood of Christ.

The huge scarf wrapped around the Abbey represents the red band around the Christingle, and the service the scarf celebrates has raised thousands for The Children's Society.

Andrew Barton
BBC Local Live, York

River levels in North Yorkshire are beginning to go down and the Environment Agency, external has now reduced the number of flood warnings for the county to two: 

• On the River Swale at Kirby Wiske 
• And on the River Ouse at Naburn Lock

The Pickering to Whitby road remains shut, though, at Blue Bank in Sleights after a serious landslip there on Monday.

Andrew Barton
BBC Local Live, York

Work to repair an escape lane on the A169 Blue Bank at Sleights is continuing today, but North Yorkshire County Council don't know yet when the road will re-open.

The council say replacing the escape lane is a major operation, requiring five to 600 tonnes of gravel.

The road won't open again until all of the arrester bed is back in place.

The road was closed on Monday evening when gravel from an escape road washed out because of the amount of water running down the bank.

A number of properties were flooded, vehicles abandoned and large amounts of debris, mainly from the gravel trap, blocked the carriageway.  

Work to clear the road is ongoing using a gully emptier, JCBs and high pressure jets.  

Nathan Turvey
BBC Radio York News

Campaigners from North Yorkshire are spending a second day at the High Court, as legal action over plans for fracking in the county continues.

A judge has been asked to rule on the decision made by North Yorkshire County Council earlier this year to approve the process near Pickering. 

Philip Tate, from the campaign group Frack Free Ryedale, says the fight will go on to keep fracking out of North Yorkshire, regardless of of the outcome of the High Court challenge.

Planners voted 7-4 in favour of Third Energy's application in May, despite more than 4,300 objections and only 36 representations of support.

The county council said in a statement it had given "proper regard to all material planning considerations before approving the application".