Summary

  • Driver's lucky escape after 50ft ravine crash in West Yorkshire

  • York air pollution levels 'still too high' - Report

  • Big fall in child arrest rates across Yorkshire

  • World War One Victoria Cross hero honoured in Leeds

  • Rare pine marten returns to North Yorkshire after 24 years

  • Pioneering underground house in West Yorkshire gets listed status

  • Doncaster's 'balloon syndrome' hedgehog released back to the wild

  • Thousands head to Sheffield as Special Olympics get under way

  • Updates on Monday 7 August 2017

  1. That's all from Monday...published at 06:30

    Those are all our updates from across Yorkshire on Monday 7 August 2017.

    Want to find out what's happening where you live on Tuesday 8 August? Just click here.

  2. Our five top stories todaypublished at 18:00 BST 7 August 2017

    That's all from us for today, we'll be back tomorrow from 06:30 with all the latest news, sport, weather and travel for Yorkshire.

    Updates on breaking news will continue throughout the night, but before we go, let's look back at some of our top stories from today:

    1. Driver's lucky escape after 50ft ravine crash
    2. York air pollution levels 'too high' - Report
    3. Rare pine marten returns to Yorkshire after 24 years
    4. West Yorkshire's pioneering 'Hobbit House' gets listed status
    5. Record attempt in Wakefield for princesses

    See you tomorrow.

  3. Man knocks 78-year-old woman's head on kerb as he tries to rob herpublished at 17:53 BST 7 August 2017

    A man knocked 78-year-old woman's head on a kerb as she lay on the ground while he attempted to rob her in Bradford.

    Henderson PlaceImage source, Google

    It happened on Saturday lunchtime in Wibsey as the woman was going home on Henderson Place.

    She was grabbed from behind and thrown to the ground as her attacker tried to grab her bag. He then knocked her head against the kerb to try to make her let go of her belongings.

    He was disturbed by passer-by and ran off empty handed. Police say he is a white man, 5ft 10”, of medium build, with short brown hair.

    He was wearing a grey hooded tracksuit with black stripes down the leg.

  4. Police in Sheffield hunt wanted manpublished at 17:44 BST 7 August 2017

    Detectives in Sheffield are asking for your help to find wanted man Aaron Divers.

    The 22-year-old is wanted in connection with a number of serious offences and anyone who knows where he is, or may have seen him, is asked to contact police.

    Aaron DiversImage source, South Yorkshire Police
  5. Leaders Essex beat Yorkshire in two dayspublished at 17:36 BST 7 August 2017

    Essex strengthen their bid for a first County Championship title since 1992 with victory over Yorkshire inside two days.

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  6. Overseas recruits needed for North Yorkshire hospitalpublished at 17:34 BST 7 August 2017

    Elly Fiorentini
    BBC Local Live, Yorkshire

    It is hoped an overseas recruitment drive will help solve a staffing crisis at one North Yorkshire hospital.

    Health bosses at Northallerton's Friarage have admitted that unfilled doctors posts are making it hard to keep some services safe.

    They are now looking overseas to try to fill vacant anaesthetist and crictical care doctor posts

    Friarage HospitalImage source, Google
  7. A Yorkshire sky full of hot airpublished at 17:25 BST 7 August 2017

    BalloonsImage source, AFP

    More details have been revealed about Yorkshire's first ever hot air balloon festival.

    A total of 50 hot air balloons, from all across the UK, will fly across York, while a festival-style weekend takes place below.

    The inflated display will lift of from York racecourse in the final weekend of September.

  8. Bradford sign Brentford defender Fieldpublished at 17:15 BST 7 August 2017

    League One side Bradford City sign Brentford defender Tom Field on loan until January.

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  9. Relief at finding missing grandmotherpublished at 17:12 BST 7 August 2017

    Police had a huge response after Connie Wilkinson who has Alzheimers went missing on Friday.

    Connie was found yesterday afternoon at the bottom of an embankment at the side of the motorway in Bessacar.

    She was sunburnt on one side and dehydrated - but otherwise in good health, uninjured and extremely happy to be found.

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    She's now recovering in Doncaster Royal Infirmary with her family at her bedside.

  10. Have you seen Bethany?published at 17:00 BST 7 August 2017

    Have you seen missing teenager Bethany Stoakes?

    Beathany StoakesImage source, West Yorkshire Police

    The 16-year-old was last seen in Bradford on yesterday.

    She was wearing black leggings, a black corset top, camouflage jacket and pink and black Nike trainers.

    It is thought she might be with an Asian female of similar age and she has connections to the Halifax area.

  11. Watch: Rescued Yorkshire weasel stars in BBC documentarypublished at 16:49 BST 7 August 2017

    A pet weasel belonging to a Yorkshire wildlife artist is to represent Britain in a documentary about the super powers of the world’s smallest animals.

    Wildlife artist Robert Fuller discovered four-week old Fidget in York in 2016.

    He set up a series of runs and mazes for him at his studio in Thixendale on the Yorkshire Wolds.

    Now Fidget's appearing in the BBC's Super Small Animals.

    Here's a film made a short while after Fidget was rescued:

  12. Gunfire and car hijack in Leedspublished at 16:33 BST 7 August 2017

    Police in Leeds are asking for witnesses to come forward after a gun was fired and a car hijacked at the weekend.

    Spencer PlaceImage source, Google

    It happened on Saturday afternoon on Spencer Place in Chapeltown, after an argument between a group of men. One of them is believed to have been carrying a small handgun.

    The gun went off and damaged a nearby ground floor flat window.

    The group then ran off to the rear of Harehills Avenue where they threatened a man and drove off in his black Honda Civic.

    The car was later found abandoned on Oakwell Crescent, from where it's thought the suspects left in another car.

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    Officers have been conducting extensive enquiries since Saturday, including house-to-house and CCTV enquiries to establish the circumstances."

    Det Ch Insp Jaz Khan, West Yorkshire Police

  13. Seventy-year-old Rotherham woman robbed in own carpublished at 16:19 BST 7 August 2017

    Do you know this man? Police in Rotherham want to speak to him after a 70-year-old woman was robbed in her own car as she waited at traffic lights:

    EfitImage source, South Yorkshire Police

    Last Tuesday lunchtime the woman had stopped at lights on Centenary Way, when a man knocked on her window and opened the passenger door.

    He reached in and grabbed her handbag before running off.

    The 70-year-old was not hurt during the incident but was left distressed.

  14. New signs aimed at stopping 'seagull muggings'published at 16:00 BST 7 August 2017

    New signs are being put up on the North Yorkshire coast warning people not to feed seagulls.

    Over the last few years Scarborough Borough Council has tried various methods to try to stop herring gulls attacking people while they're eating.

    Seagull swooping with chip in beakImage source, Hannah Coleman

    The new signs which say ‘stop attacks - never feed the gulls’ and ‘stop scavenging - never drop litter’ are going up in Whitby, Scarborough and Filey.

  15. Leeds city centre department store evacuatedpublished at 15:51 BST 7 August 2017

    Shoppers were evacuated from a Leeds city centre department store this afternoon:

    Fire engine

    West Yorkshire Fire and Rescue sent two fire engines to the Debenhams store on Briggate at about 15:00.

    No fire was discovered however.

  16. Record attempt in Wakefield for princessespublished at 15:40 BST 7 August 2017

    Nick Wilmshurst
    BBC Yorkshire Live

    A world record breaking gathering of princesses took place in Wakefield yesterday:

    PrincessesImage source, Anthony Longstaff

    Forget Me Not Children’s Hospice was behind the record attempt at the Trinity Walk Shopping Centre.

    The Guinness World Record for the largest gathering of people dressed as a princess stood at 419, but 433 people came along to beat the previous record.

    PrincessesImage source, Andrew Bellis

    All the official information will now be submitted to Guinness World Records for them to verify it and decide if it is a new record.

    As you can see, all types of people got involved. And I mean all types.

    PrincessesImage source, Andrew Bellis
  17. Port Vale sign Leeds' Denton on loanpublished at 15:32 BST 7 August 2017

    Port Vale sign Leeds United left-back Tyler Denton on a season-long loan deal, which can be cut short in January.

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  18. Calf shot dead by intruder at Doncaster farmpublished at 15:26 BST 7 August 2017

    Kate Linderholm
    BBC Local Live, Sheffield

    A calf has died after it was shot at a Doncaster farm yesterday while the family were out harvesting.

    The four-month-old heifer was in a barn in the middle of the yard at Parks Farm, Conisbrough, when an intruder shot it with a gun once in the front and again in the back.

    A vet was called but the calf could not be saved and it died overnight.

    Farmer Billy Collins said he was devastated at the cruel shooting.

  19. Watch: Scientists test car emissions in Yorkpublished at 14:54 BST 7 August 2017

    Scientists at the University of York are testing emissions from cars to see if they match the levels claimed by manufacturers.

    It's partly in response to the Volkswagon emissions scandal in 2015: