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Photos issued of 'Syria-bound' teens
Pictures of two "ordinary Yorkshire lads" feared to have travelled to Syria are issued by their families.
- 9 April 2015
Victim's sister 'filled with grief'
The sister of a murdered schoolgirl speaks publicly for the first time since the discovery of the teenager's body 20 years ago.
- 9 April 2015
New council chief executive named
The chief executive of City of York council leaves her post to take a similar role in Bradford.
- 9 April 2015
- From the section England
Vaughan & Stewart open to ECB job
Former England and Yorkshire captain Michael Vaughan says he is "more than open" to a job with English cricket's governing body.
- 9 April 2015
- From the section Cricket
Three in court over drug yacht plot
Two men and a woman appear in court charged in connection with a plot to smuggle cocaine with an estimated street value of £150m into the UK.
- 8 April 2015
Overtaking death driver jailed
A driver who killed a 65-year-old man while overtaking a car on a country road in Whitby is jailed for four years.
- 8 April 2015
- From the section York & North Yorkshire
Man remanded over rape of teenager
A man is remanded in custody charged with two rapes and the kidnap of a teenager in Leeds.
- 8 April 2015
Hardaker to attend anger management
Leeds full-back Zak Hardaker has agreed to attend an anger management course and has been fined a month's wages.
- 8 April 2015
- From the section Rugby League
Reward offered for absconded killer
A reward is offered for information to find a "dangerous" convicted murderer who breached his prison release licence.
- 7 April 2015
- From the section England
Faeces 'found on care home sofa'
A care home where faeces were found on a sofa and a window sill is among nine sites rated inadequate by inspectors.
- 7 April 2015
- From the section England
Farage facing court threat from MEP
Nigel Farage is facing legal action from a Yorkshire and Humber MEP who recently defected from UKIP to the Conservatives, the Victoria Derbyshire programme learns.
- 7 April 2015
- From the section Election 2015
Our correspondents
Leon Brittan and the miners who would never forgive him
Three decades on, miners have not forgotten how Leon Brittan used the police to stop the pickets.
Len Tingle
Political editor, Yorkshire
