Yorkshire News Briefing: Recent Episodes
Zoe Hu
Keep up to speed with Zoe Hu's two-minute Yorkshire News Briefing - bringing you the most important stories of the day. Available every weekday evening.
Today's stories:
- Tour de Walkshire launched for residents after the region's cycling race postponed;
- Over 1500 York businesses to receive the rest of Council's Additional Restrictions Grant;
- Line-up for Sheffield Tramlines Music Festival announced ahead of July's event;
- Doncaster recovered to pre-pandemic level of job adverts.
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Today's stories:
- Yorkshire found to be the least energy efficient region in Britain;
- Deer Shed music festival cancelled after organisers struggled with Covid insurance;
- Three more men arrested following a stabbing in Sheffield;
- Firefighters in Leeds complete Yorkshire Three Peaks Challenge to raise money.
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Today's stories:
- Statements were altered to mask police failings after Hillsborough disaster, court heard;
- M&S to create 300 jobs as it opens new online warehouse in West Yorkshire;
- Sheffield pub changed opening hours after noise complaints;
- Tom Cruise was seen in North Yorkshire for a film shoot.
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Today's stories:
- Primark to repay £121m furlough money despite lockdown shutdown;
- South Yorkshire Police injured following incident on M18, where one man was arrested;
- Community food bank in York has given more than 1000 packages since it opened in December;
- Tuneless Choirs in Doncaster to return in May after 8 months.
Today's stories:
- York Police Officer boards popular bus routes to talk to residents;
- Sentencing delayed for Sheffield kidnap suspect after judge unable to conclude;
- One way system at Doncaster's Lakeside criticised by residents;
- Sixth-tier football team York City jokingly boycotted the newly-announced European Super League.
Today's stories:
- Government criticised over slow rollout of Kickstart as campaigns call for scheme extension;
- Roman villa remains damaged by trespassers hours after its high status was revealed;
- Kays Catalogue could become clinical research unit in Leeds;
- Sheffield couple who met as teenage workers at Grand Hotel in 1940s to celebrate 70th anniversary.
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Today's stories:
- BBC defends reporting of Prince Philip's death as it releases funeral coverage plans;
- Extra measures and police patrols to tackle littering and anti-social behaviour at Sheffield park;
- Congestion levels in Hull this week "twice as high as London";
- Online workshops to return to Kirklees to help reduce food waste.
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Today's stories:
- Councils across Yorkshire offer Restart Grants to help businesses reopen;
- 18-year-old lost his hand in a machete attack in Leeds;
- Remains of a 'high-status' Roman villa discovered in Scarborough;
- Divers return to Ponds Forge pool in Sheffield.
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Today's stories:
- Moderna vaccine rollout begins in England;
- Investigation launched after shots fired at house in Doncaster ;
- Yorkshire’s largest dinosaur footprint discovered on coast;
- York theatre to open new pop-up bar.
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Today's stories:
- Pubs and restaurants across Yorkshire reopen as part of the latest lockdown easing;
- Protest took place outside an B&M shop in Sheffield over allegations of an ex-worker's unpaid wages;
- Three people in West Yorkshire appeared in court with murder charges;
- Street art featuring key workers on display in York city centre.
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Today's stories:
- MP calls for police protection for Rotherham Covid testing staff who were attacked by rocks;
- People urged not to put padlocks over Hull's new bridge;
- Final seven candidates announced for West Yorkshire Mayor Election;
- Sand drawing created at North Yorkshire beach to launch national clean-up campaign.
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Today's stories:
- Under-30s in the UK are to be offered an alternative to the AstraZeneca vaccine due to blood clot concerns;
- Third electric car charging hub to be approved in York;
- Two people died after motorway car collision in Sheffield;
- Leeds student installed bin bag dispenser at park which was stacked with rubbish last week.
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Today's stories:
- Better public transport needed to help left-behind areas in Yorkshire, report says;
- Fire crews fight Doncaster recycling centre blaze;
- Sheffield Council to consider a crossing after petition;
- A York store destroyed b fire to be redeveloped as a business park.
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Today's stories:
- Culture venues in Yorkshire and across England share the latest round of Recovery Fund;
- Hundreds attended Sheffield's Kill the Bill protest on Saturday;
- York Archbishop criticised for advertising job which pays £90,000;
- Worksop Masterplan launched to transform the town centre.
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Today's stories:
- Shielding comes to an end for millions in the UK;
- Family of Barnsley murder victim appeal for answers;
- Around 47,000 eligible for vaccine in North Yorkshire have yet to come forward;
- Sheffield Recycling centres to extend opening hours after petition.
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Today's stories:
- People urged to avoid busy places if travelling to Yorkshire coasts;
- Police investigate rape report in Sheffield park;
- Harrogate could have Yorkshire's first CYCLOPS junction;
- Yorkshire bus company finds residents want their April Fools boat service to be real.
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Today's stories:
- Great Yorkshire Show to be held over four days for the first time;
- Mounds of litter left at parks in Leeds and Sheffield;
- Hit and run incident left 76-year-old woman from Doncaster severely injured;
- People in West Yorkshire reminded not to have BBQ due to increasing risks of moorland fires;
- New chocolate factory to open in Sheffield this year.
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Today's stories:
- Wetherspoon to open 18 new pubs including in Sheffield and Leeds;
- York Council to fly Pride flag tomorrow to celebrate Trans Day of Visibility;
- Sheffield buses diverted because of vandalism and anti-social behaviour;
- Leeds Festival organiser feels confident about summer event.
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Today's stories:
- People in England allowed to meet outside as lockdown restrictions ease;
- £170m Liberty Steel bailout request rejected by the government;
- Nine officers injured at anti-lockdown protest in Bradford;
- Fundraising campaign launched for a Doncaster shop after window attack;
- York rail operator resumed its services to London after three-month suspension.
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Today's stories:
- ASDA workers won appeal at Supreme Court over equal pay;
- Yorkshire's Nightingale hospital to be dismantled without treating patients;
- Students launch petition to support teacher who showed Prophet Mohammed cartoon;
- Sheffield community group crowdfunding to transform a much-loved park.
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Today's stories:
- Calls for government to support Liberty Steel to save jobs;
- Leeds health leaders urge people to continue the vaccine during Ramadan;
- West Yorkshire found to have the UK's second most speeding offences in 2020;
- North Yorkshire woman offered a reduction operation after being denied by the NHS.
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Today's stories:
- John Lewis to close stores in York and Sheffield;
- Get Doncaster Moving Campaign launched by the Council;
- Trams in South Yorkshire to get further financial support;
- Paralysed lamb able to walk again with the help of modified dog wheelchair.
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Today stories:
- Yorkshire joins the first anniversary of national lockdown;
- Sculpture trail to return in support of Sheffield Children's Hospital;
- York residents consulted over new home development plans;
- Huddersfield Town great Frank Worthingtondies at 72.
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Today's stories:
- Yorkshire Dales prepares for a flood of visitors;
- York Council urges businesses to apply for Additional Restriction Grant;
- Leeds woman made redundant three times lands dream job after radio phone-in;
- Home makeovers in lockdown boosts sales for floor retailer.
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Today's stories:
- Yorkshire Balloon Festival set to go ahead in August;
- All Bradford's street lights are to be upgraded;
- Sheffield University launched project to reduce NHS supply shortages in the future;
- Wellbeing Cafe to open in Leeds.
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Today's Stories:
- Victoria Mills to undergo refurbishment;
- Bradford Covid Fund helps the university students;
- North Yorkshire teacher sentenced over child sexual offences;
- Sheffield protesters dressed as zebras to campaign for a crossing;
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Today's stories:
- UK Uber drivers to be given worker benefits;
- West Yorkshire PCC not convinced by new measures on women's safety;
- New funding to help North Yorkshire businesses grow globally;
- Petition launched to support Sheffield young carers.
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Today's stories:
- York set to vaccinate all over 50s by Easter;
- Delivery driver stopped by police for having too many parcels;
- Doncaster bathroom business to offer free makeover for NHS staff;
- 36 Bus in Leeds praised by the government amid industry overhaul.
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Today's stories:
- Sarah Everard's vigil outside the York Minster;
- Sheffield's 120-year-old Signal-box to be demolished;
- Tree planting in Doncaster to create green gateways;
- Leeds students mapped out bomb locations in WWII raid;
- Dales Walking holiday business to welcome back tourists.
Updated every weekday evening.