Four things you should know in Yorkshire today

Today we learned that a Leeds teacher who cheated death after being stabbed by a pupil has backed a weapons amnesty; that a man from Hull has been charged after cocaine with a street value of Â£164m was seized; how property inflation in Yorkshire is outstripping wage rises; and why Bradford is a rich source of raw materials for the pop group manufacturing industry.

Stabbing victim Vincent Uzomah who was working as a teacher at Dixons Kings Academy in Bradford in June last year when he was stabbed by a teenage boy with West Yorkshire Police Temporary Assistant Chief Constable Angela Williams, launch of the latest West Yorkshire Police Weapons Surrender taking place between January 20 and January 30 2016. (Picture Tony Johnson)

Here are four things you need to know so far today:

Teacher pledges support to weapons amnesty

Yorkshire schoolteacher Vincent Uzomah, who was stabbed by a pupil in a racist attack last June, has backed a weapons amnesty launched by West Yorkshire Police.

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Man to face Leeds magistrates after drugs seizure

A Hull man has been arrested after the Irish navy seized a yacht carrying a ton of cocaine with an estimated street value of £164 million.

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The property ladder is getting steeper

House prices in Yorkshire are rising faster than wages are increasing, making it harder for many people to afford the house of their dreams.

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No pop rivalry from Bradford duo with the X factor

Why the world likes the cut of the cloth of two singers from a city that was once the centre of the textile world.

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