Four things you should know in Yorkshire today

Today we welcomed the Flying Scotsman back to Yorkshire after a £4.2m refit; congratulated four Yorkshire women on their record breaking row across the Atlantic; heard how Jimmy Savile exploited a culture of fear that still exists at the BBC; and learned of a shocking sex attack by a burglar in South Yorkshire.
Flying Scotsman heads north from Doncaster on it's journey from London to York. (Picture Scott Merrylees)Flying Scotsman heads north from Doncaster on it's journey from London to York. (Picture Scott Merrylees)
Flying Scotsman heads north from Doncaster on it's journey from London to York. (Picture Scott Merrylees)

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

Steaming back to the Broad Acres

The Flying Scotsman has arrived in York following an inaugural run from London but the journey as delayed by over-enthusiastic photographers standing on the tracks to capture the historic journey.

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Made it! Yorkshire Rows home and dry

The Yorkshire Rows - four friends aged from 45 to 51 - became the oldest all-women crew to row an ocean after arriving in Antigua after 67 days 5 hours and 2 minutes at sea.

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Savile took advantage of ‘fear’ at the BBC

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A review into the activities of Jimmy Savile has concluded that there was a culture of “reverence and fear” towards celebrities at the BBC and that “an atmosphere of fear still exists today.”

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Doncaster rapist sought

A manhunt is underway to find a rapist who attacked a woman after burgling her home at Woodlands, Doncaster.

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