Four things you should know in Yorkshire today

TODAY we heard horrific details of how two men died in a car crash in Doncaster; saw a Harrogate man avoid jail for amassing a huge collection of child pornography; learned that the Culture minister will not block the move of an important collection of photographs from Bradford to London; and whetted our appetite for the Life-of-Pi-meets-Calendar-Girls story of the Yorkshire Rows.

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

Death crash car was overtaking three abreast

A court has heard that a car in which two passengers died was overtaking two other vehicles three abreast at 70mph through a South Yorkshire village just before it overturned.

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Paedophile given suspended sentence

A Gisburn paedophile who amassed a huge child-porn collection of 24,000 images and videos while living at Green Hammerton, Harrogate, has been spared jail.

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Minister turns his back on museum’s lost collection

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The Culture Minister has refused to intervene and block the transfer of a valuable photography collection from West Yorkshire to London.

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Knowing me, knowing the Yorkshire Rows

They’ve braved hurricanes, rowed naked and crucified the hits of Abba on a 7,000-mile trans-Atlantic voyage, so what chance Yorkshire Rows - The Musical?

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