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BREAKING: Man shot by police in Hull 'axe incident' dies

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Simon Ball

Giggleswick teacher who had sex with teenage pupil on his wife’s wedding dress gets 12 years

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Sheep graze in a frost-covered field after one of England's coldest nights of the autumn so far

It’ll be colder than the Highlands in Yorkshire tonight

Environment
Corie Adams, 18, who has admitted "hideous" sex crimes against seven teenage girls in Rotherham

Rotherham sex abuser may have had more victims, police say

Crime

Video: Police shoot at ‘man with axe’ in Hull city centre

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Children of the plague: Yorkshire experts uncover a terrible secret

Heritage

As its monks win £3m from the lottery, Downton’s creator says it all started at Ampleforth

Heritage

Just three cities issued half of England’s disabled badge prosecutions last year - and one of them was Leeds

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Former chief constable David Crompton

South Yorkshire police chief tried to ‘spread blame’ for Hillsborough says QC

Crime

Andrew Vine: Parky’s star guests had something to say, not just to sell

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Andrew Vine
Charlotte Meek surrounded by some of her designs in her studio at Salts Mill, Saltaire

How sewing helped me through cancer

Analysis
Cyclists taking part in the The World Naked Bike Ride in York. Picture by Gabriel Szabo/Guzelian.

Exercise might be good for you. It’s even better if you do it in the nude

Analysis
Ed Balls was an unexpected hit on Strictly Come Dancing. (Photo credit: Guy Levy/BBC).

Ed Balls - political renaissance man with a spring in his step

Analysis
The swollen River Don at Sprotbrough. (Picture: Graham Beardsley).

Can nature help tackle flooding on the River Don?

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Hull North MP Diana Johnson

Hull MP presses case for city devolution

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Greg Clark

Labour claims new company rules will not stop a repeat of scandals like BHS collapse

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Greg Clark addresses the Commons on Nissan.

Business warn over ‘heavy-handed’ elements of corporate governance shake-up

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Mike Hookem

Ukip leader hands Yorkshire MEP new role

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Sir Bernard Ingham says both Sir John Major and Tony Blair are performing a disservice over Brexit.

Bernard Ingham: Former PMs are lost in a fantasy of blocking Brexit

Opinion
Alan Johnson was a Health Secretary in the last Labour government.

Alan Johnson: Why Theresa May should slay the giant of health inequality

Opinion
Alice Bacon pictured with Clement Attlee.

Rachel Reeves: The passion that drove Alive Bacon and the rise of comprehensives

Opinion

YP Comment: Corporate laws: May pays price. Brexit and responsible business

Opinion

MP demands action to end needless fuel poverty deaths

Health

‘Urgent’ need to tackle homophobia in sport, claims Yorkshire MP

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Yorkshire MPs push for commitment to capital of culture

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Simon Ball

Giggleswick teacher who had sex with teenage pupil on his wife’s wedding dress gets 12 years

Crime
Corie Adams, 18, who has admitted "hideous" sex crimes against seven teenage girls in Rotherham

Rotherham sex abuser may have had more victims, police say

Crime
Former chief constable David Crompton

South Yorkshire police chief tried to ‘spread blame’ for Hillsborough says QC

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Andrew, Billy and John Elam.

Jail for three brothers who helped managing director of Leeds company launder £600,000 of drugs money

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Man suffers broken jaw in assault

Crime

I can see them still, says postmaster who tackled raiders dressed as women

Crime

Bogus council caller targets Hull homes

Crime

Police launch murder investigation after man dies from assault injuries

Crime

Singer Imogen’s
heartfelt plea

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Warning as people living in Hull are twice as likely to die from lung cancer

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Charlotte Meek surrounded by some of her designs in her studio at Salts Mill, Saltaire

How sewing helped me through cancer

Analysis
Younger smokers face an eight-fold higher risk of a major heart attack

Younger smokers run ‘more than eight times the risk of a major heart attack’

Health
Alan Johnson was a Health Secretary in the last Labour government.

Alan Johnson: Why Theresa May should slay the giant of health inequality

Opinion
Fuel poverty must be tackled before more elderly people die needlessly, says Barnsley MP Dan Jarvis.

MP demands action to end needless fuel poverty deaths

Health
Picture posed by models

Approved: NHS surgery ban on fat patients and smokers in Yorkshire

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GPs warn patients’ safety at risk from care crisis

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New 'safe haven' for people on night out to cut A&E numbers

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Call to end ‘sexist surcharge’ and put morning after pill on the shelf

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YP Letters: A few pence a day that can mean life or death to breast cancer sufferers

Opinion
More than half of 48 skeletons found in an "extremely rare" 14th-century Black Death burial pit were those of children, archaeologists said.

Children of the plague: Yorkshire experts uncover a terrible secret

Heritage
Simon Ball

Giggleswick teacher who had sex with teenage pupil on his wife’s wedding dress gets 12 years

Crime
Horton-In-Ribblesdale School

School closure will mean ‘death of Dales village’

Education
Alice Bacon pictured with Clement Attlee.

Rachel Reeves: The passion that drove Alive Bacon and the rise of comprehensives

Opinion

Leeds University spin outs lead the way

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Rachel Reeves: On Alice Bacon - From mining community to Westminster

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Kirklees Council ‘failing’ its most vulnerable children

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YP Comment: Where is North’s missing £10m? Questions over schools promise

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Trains delayed and cancelled in Leeds and Yorkshire after derailment

Transport
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13-mile queue as big freeze brings travel misery to Yorkshire

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Fault on train causes delays in Leeds, Bradford and Skipton

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Traffic jam on the motorway. Picture: Mark Bickerdike

Motorway roadworks in Yorkshire

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HS2 ‘will be obsolete by the time it is built’

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Rail reforms will ensure passengers get cheapest deals, Government says

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TRAFFIC ALERT: Rush hour delays for commuters on M62 motorway near Leeds

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Make OAPs pay half fare to save rural buses, says Tory peer

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Tom Richmond: Hammond Autumn Statement leaves North’s transport in the slow lane – again

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YP Letters: Japanese lessons in gettting things done - like road repairs

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YP Letters: Bus service is vital to health of our tourism

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A target to increase woodland cover in the Yorkshire Dales National Park by 2,000 hectares is "on course" to be met by 2020. Picture: Tanya St. Pierre/Yorkshire Dales Millennium Trust

New funds for Yorkshire landowners to plant more trees

Environment
Sheep graze in a frost-covered field after one of England's coldest nights of the autumn so far

It’ll be colder than the Highlands in Yorkshire tonight

Environment
The swollen River Don at Sprotbrough. (Picture: Graham Beardsley).

Can nature help tackle flooding on the River Don?

Analysis 1
A cold snap heralds the arrival of winter on Thursday

Winter is coming: Wrap up for a week of below-zero nights

Environment

MP opens centre at nature reserve

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Wolds Diary: To the rescue in a week when hounds are abound

Environment

Birdwatch: A spectacle as the starlings are coming home to roost

Environment

It’s official: You’re more likely to feel happy if you live in Yorkshire

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President-elect Donald Trump after his meeting with President Barack Obama in the Oval Office of the White House

Quiz of the Week: Fake news, ‘send to all’ error and web-savvy four-year-olds

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Beverley Thornton, from Meanwood, has battled with mental health issues for 30 years. Picture: Tony Johnson

#SPEAKYOURMIND: Leeds mum-of-six Bev opens up about post-natal despression

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Coun Rebecca Charlwood.

Vital strategy for the mental health of Leeds youngsters is welcomed

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Peter Gibson with one of the stained glass windows at the Spurriergate Centre, York

A life in stained glass: tributes to Minster Window-cleaner

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Leonard Cohen.

Voice in a million: Hallelujah and farewell to Leonard Cohen

Obituaries
Jimmy Young as the veteran broadcaster has died "peacefully at home" on Monday aged 95

When Jimmy Young held court for the world from Yorkshire

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Jimmy Perry (left) and David Croft with their lifetime achievement award during for the annual British Comedy Awards.

Jimmy Perry, creator of TV classic Dad’s Army, dies at 93

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