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It's another fine day today with plenty of sunshine and temperatures up to 21C in places, well above the average for this time of year.

Overnight it will stay dry with temperatures dropping to about 9C.

If you're making a journey on the rails in Yorkshire this Thursday morning, most services appear to be running to time.

For all the latest live updates from the county's main railway stations, click on the links below:

• York Station
• Leeds Station
• Sheffield Station
• Hull Station
• Doncaster Station
• Wakefield Westgate
• Bradford Interchange
• Bradford Forster Square

It's another dry day with some decent spells of sunshine for most and temperatures up to 21C in places.

Overnight it will remain clear and dry, meaning we're in for a chilly night with temperatures getting down to about 7C.

If you're making a journey on the rails in Yorkshire this Wednesday morning, most services appear to be running to time.

However:

• The 09:20 service from Bradford Interchange to Leeds is running about eight minutes late

For all the latest live updates from the county's main railway stations, click on the links below:

• York Station
• Leeds Station
• Sheffield Station
• Hull Station
• Doncaster Station
• Wakefield Westgate
• Bradford Interchange
• Bradford Forster Square

It will be a fine and dry day though there may be a little bit of patchy cloud in places. Temperatures will get up to about 18C.

Overnight it will be clear and cool with temperatures around 7C.

Resident's of Queensbury near Bradford say they woke up to a "massive, loud bang" in the early hours of Monday morning after a car collided with a lamp-post.

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Amy Stone, who took these pictures, says she heard people shouting and ran outside at about 02:30.

Amy Jade

Outside she saw "a car had gone between a building and a skip," resulting in scaffolding and a lamp-post being knocked down.

West Yorkshire Police confirmed it's investigating the incident on High Street.

The force says: “A man, who was believed to the driver of the vehicle, was spoken to by the attending officers. There were no injuries."

Anyone who saw what happened is asked to contact the force.

Firefighters were threatened with weapons, pelted with missiles and verbally abused over a three-month period, a new report has revealed.

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A report into work by West Yorkshire Fire and Rescue Service between April and June reveals that there were 22 attacks on firefighters.

In Bradford there were nine incidents, including an occasion where a weapon was brandished at a crew from Bradford Station, and four incidents of stones or other missiles being thrown at crews.

Although there were no serious injuries during these attacks, one of the incidents damaged a fire engine.

Knife bins are being put in police stations across our area this week.

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The bins are part of Operation Sceptre, a week-long national campaign against knife crime.

North Yorkshire Police say they allow people to hand over weapons "safely and anonymously".

Det Supt Fran Naughton said: "Operation Sceptre provides an important opportunity to continue the conversation about knife crime, helping children and young people understand the dangers and potentially fatal consequences of carrying a knife, whilst providing support for them and their families.”

If you're making a journey on the rails in Yorkshire this Tuesday morning, most services appear to be running to time.

However:

• the 09:05 service from Wakefield Westgate to Sheffield is running about six minutes late
• the 09:54 service from York to Edinburgh is running about 16 minutes late

For all the latest live updates from the county's main railway stations, click on the links below:

• York Station
• Leeds Station
• Sheffield Station
• Hull Station
• Doncaster Station
• Wakefield Westgate
• Bradford Interchange
• Bradford Forster Square

After a chilly start the rest of the day will be fine and dry with temperatures up to 16C in places.

Overnight it will stay dry and settled.

It will be a dry and fine day today with temperatures up to 18C in places.

This evening there will be clear skies and lots of sunshine and it should stay dry overnight.

If you're making a journey on the rails in Yorkshire this Monday morning, most services appear to be running to time.

However:

• The 08:52 service from York to Manchester Airport is running about eight minutes late
• The 08:54 service from Sheffield to Plymouth is running about eight minutes late
• the 08:56 from Doncaster to London Kings Cross is running about seven minutes late
• The 09:02 service from Sheffield to Adwick has been cancelled

For all the latest live updates from the county's main railway stations, click on the links below:

• York Station
• Leeds Station
• Sheffield Station
• Hull Station
• Doncaster Station
• Wakefield Westgate
• Bradford Interchange
• Bradford Forster Square

A West Yorkshire tunnel has been included in a top 10 most endangered buildings list.

Victorian Society

The Queensbury Tunnel, a disused railway tunnel connecting Holmfield and Queensbury, is among buildings to make the The Victorian Society's list of "absorbing" Victorian and Edwardian architecture most at risk of ruin.

The scheme, now in its 12th year, uses public nominations to determine which buildings to list.

The two-mile (3.2km) long disused railway tunnel was Great Northern Railway's longest tunnel when it was opened in 1878 .

It's currently abandoned and flooded with water and is at the centre of a heated debate.

Campaigners want it restored and turned into a cycle path.

The Department for Transport wants to fill in sections of the tunnel with concrete then leave it to collapse.

If you're making a journey on the rails in Yorkshire this Friday morning, most services appear to be running to time.

However:

• the 09:03 service from York to Newcastle has been cancelled
• the 09:35 service fro York to Reading has been cancelled
• the 09:59 service from Doncaster to Reading had been cancelled

For all the latest live updates from the county's main railway stations, click on the links below:

• York Station
• Leeds Station
• Sheffield Station
• Hull Station
• Doncaster Station
• Wakefield Westgate
• Bradford Interchange
• Bradford Forster Square

There's going to plenty of sunshine around today with temperatures up to 19C in places.

Overnight it should stay dry with temperatures getting down to about 7C.

A drone being flown within 3m of the Yorkshire Air Ambulance (YAA) helicopter almost caused the "most unthinkable disaster", the charity has said.

Yorkshire Air Ambulance

The helicopter was returning to the YAA base at Nostell Air Support Unit near Wakefield at about 18:50 yesterday when the pilot had to avoid a "direct collision".

The drone was being flown at about 1,300ft, which is more than three times the legal limit for operators, according to the YAA.

Steve Waudby, YAA chief pilot, said: “We cannot stress enough the seriousness of what happened last night. The consequences don’t bear thinking about if a direct strike had occurred.

"Whether the operator is aware or not, they have put the lives of our crew in extreme danger."

YAA staff had spent most of yesterday working with the Civil Aviation Authority creating a drone awareness film, the charity added.

There should be some decent sunny spells today for most of us though there may be a few showers on higher ground.

Temperatures could get up to about 23C in places:

If you're making a journey on the rails in Yorkshire this Thursday morning, most services appear to be running to time.

For all the latest live updates from the county's main railway stations, click on the links below:

• York Station
• Leeds Station
• Sheffield Station
• Hull Station
• Doncaster Station
• Wakefield Westgate
• Bradford Interchange
• Bradford Forster Square

Fewer people are being prosecuted for homophobic hate crime, despite police calling on victims to come forward.

A BBC Radio 5 Live investigation found the numbers of people reporting such crimes across the UK more than doubled in the last five years to more than 13,000.

Charges or court summons fell by 10% during the same period.

Lily Cherry, from Woodseats in Sheffield, spoke to the BBC about her experiences:

It's a very mild start to the day with a few outbreaks of rain in places.

This afternoon there could be one or two isolated showers but for most of us it'll be dry with temperatures up to 21C.

The rise in the number of reports of homophobic hate crimes to two of Yorkshire's police forces are among the most dramatic in the country, figures suggest.

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It comes as new figures show fewer people are being prosecuted despite rising numbers of potential victims coming forward.

West Yorkshire Police has seen reports increase from 172 to 961 over the past five years, while South Yorkshire police has seen reports rise from 73 to 375.

Angela Williams, of West Yorkshire Police, said rising reports were in part down to "improvements in the way we record crime and the fact that many victims have the confidence to come forward".

The proportion of crimes resulting in a charge or summons, however, fell over the same time, from 19% to 4% in West Yorkshire and from 10% to 3% in South Yorkshire.

BBC

Across the UK as a whole recorded reports of homophobic abuse increased from 5,807 in 2014-15, to 13,530 in 2018-19.

But during the same period, the number of prosecutions fell from 1,157 to 1,058 - from 20% of all reports to 8%.

The National Police Chiefs' Council said those cases often involved a lack of witnesses and evidence.

It will be a fairly pleasant day today with highs of about 19C.

However, overnight the cloud will thicken and rain will move in from the west.

If you're making a journey on the rails in Yorkshire this Tuesday morning, most services appear to be running to time.

However;

• The 08:20 service from Bradford Interchange to Leeds is running about 28 minutes late
• The 08:21 service from Leeds to Scarborough is running about 25 minutes late
• The 08:31 service from Bradford Forster Square to Leeds has been cancelled
• The 08:47 service from York to Burley Park has been cancelled
• The 08:47 service from York to Scarborough is running about 22 minutes late

For all the latest live updates from the county's main railway stations, click on the links below:

• York Station
• Leeds Station
• Sheffield Station
• Hull Station
• Doncaster Station
• Wakefield Westgate
• Bradford Interchange
• Bradford Forster Square