Summary

  • Updates on Thursday 23 April 2015

  • More news, sport, travel and weather from 08:00 on Friday

  1. Good eveningpublished at 17:59 BST 23 April 2015

    That's all for today from BBC Local Live in Leeds and West Yorkshire.

    We'll be back from 08:00 tomorrow with the latest news, sport, weather and travel updates from across the county.

  2. A pleasant end to the daypublished at 17:58 BST 23 April 2015

    Paul Hudson
    Weather Presenter, BBC Look North

    It'll be fine, warm and sunny this evening, staying dry and mostly clear overnight with a low temperature rurally of about 4C (39F).

    Weather forecast

    Tomorrow will see a fine and bright morning with sunny spells, tending to cloud over in the afternoon with a little patchy rain later.

    The top temperature will be about 18C (64F).

  3. Coming up on BBC Onepublished at 17:56 BST 23 April 2015

    Harry Gration
    Presenter, BBC Look North

    Join me and Amy Garcia at 18:30 for BBC Look North as we investigate the struggle to find an NHS dentist in Yorkshire.

    Patient organisation Healthwatch says Yorkshire and the Humber is the worst affected region in the country.

    Also we'll be reporting live from Leeds where Labour leader Ed Miliband is set address an NHS rally this evening.

  4. Pace sale 'huge opportunity'published at 17:55 BST 23 April 2015

    Danni Hewson
    Business Correspondent, BBC Yorkshire

    With the news that Pace has been sold to the Arris Group in the USA for £1.4bn, don't be fooled into thinking that the Saltaire-based firm is the poor cousin in this relationship.

    Pace worker

    Pace is a global leader in set-top boxes and it's also number one in the States for "residential gateways" - in other words, the modems and routers that bring broadband into our homes.

    Arris Group's vice president of marketing, Duncan Potter, tells me the two businesses are very complementary and he says there's "a huge opportunity as a combined entity" to create technology which will benefit people in years to come.

  5. Adams 'to stay focused'published at 17:48 BST 23 April 2015

    Dave Fletcher
    Sports reporter, BBC Radio Leeds

    Leeds Olympic and Commonwealth boxing champion Nicola Adams won't be drawn into fighting talk about arch rival Lisa Whiteside, the World silver medallist from Preston.

    Nicola AdamsImage source, ALLSPORT/GETTY IMAGES

    The pair, who could meet in the final of the England Elite Championships this weekend, are vying for one spot on the GB team at the Rio Olympics.

    Adams says: "I never know who's going to be in the final, I might not be in the final. I've just got to stay focused and stay confident. I'm not going to be talking a lot, but I'll be working in the silence."

  6. Special events mark Tour de Yorkshirepublished at 17:44 BST 23 April 2015

    About £7,000 has been awarded to voluntary groups to help them stage events to celebrate the Tour de Yorkshire coming to Calderdale in May, the council has said, external.

    Tour de France in YorkshireImage source, Anna Barnard

    A cycling stunt show, song writing workshops and a community picnic are among the activities awarded cash from a fund created by Calderdale Council for Tour-related events.

    Robin Tuddenham, from Calderdale Council, says: "The events will showcase Calderdale's wonderful creativity, culture, arts and community spirit, building on the amazing success of last year's Yorkshire Festival and Tour de France."

  7. Parents' pride at donor sonpublished at 17:37 BST 23 April 2015

    A couple from Cardiff have spoken of their immense pride in their son after revealing today he became Britain's youngest organ donor, saving the life of a patient in Leeds.

    Houlston familyImage source, Huw John/Cambrensis/PA

    Teddy Houlston survived for less than two hours after birth but his kidneys were used in a transplant at St James's Hospital.

    Teddy's father Michael Houlston (pictured with wife Jessica and son Noah) says: "Everything was successful and when we were told that, it was just a complete feeling of joy. "

  8. Record numbers visit sculpture parkpublished at 17:29 BST 23 April 2015

    The open-air Yorkshire Sculpture Park attracted more than 400,000 visitors in 2014, the highest number in its history.

    Family of Man by Barbara HepworthImage source, Jonty Wilde

    Based near Wakefield it has 500 acres of parkland and five indoor galleries. Works by Wakefield-born Barbara Hepworth and Castleford's Henry Moore are on permanent display.

    The attraction was worth more than £10m annually to the local economy, according to the organisation.

  9. Giant Grix 'confident' over Hull clashpublished at 17:22 BST 23 April 2015

    Dave Fletcher
    Sports reporter, BBC Radio Leeds

    Huddersfield Giants full-back Scott Grix says the squad is confident of winning at Hull FC tomorrow night.

    Scott Grix in actionImage source, PA

    Grix didn't play in the season's opening 19-0 defeat to the Airlie Birds at The John Smiths Stadium, but he says they're ready to make amends on Friday.

    "We've obviously progressed since then and we're looking like we can play a bit now. I'm confident we can go and win," he says.

  10. Police pledge over rapistpublished at 17:12 BST 23 April 2015

    West Yorkshire Police's resolve to find a man who raped and attempted to murder an 18-year-old woman in Beeston is "as strong as it was on day one", the detective leading the investigation says, external.

    CCTV image of rapistImage source, West Yorkshire Police

    A reconstruction of events surrounding the attack will be shown on the BBC's Crimewatch programme tonight from 21:00.

    Det Supt Nick Wallen says: "This was an appalling attack on a young women where a shocking level of violence was used which could so easily have had fatal consequences."

  11. Victim speaks of rape ordealpublished at 16:47 BST 23 April 2015

    An 18-year-old woman who was raped and "left for dead" by her attacker will tell of her ordeal for the first time on the BBC's Crimewatch programme from 21:00., external

    Police tape near rape scene

    A reconstruction of the incident will include information from the victim's police interviews as well as comments from her as she continues her recovery.

    She tells the programme: "I haven't been able to stop thinking about what happened. I've stopped sleeping because I can see what happened when I am trying to sleep."

  12. New image of rapist revealedpublished at 16:31 BST 23 April 2015

    Detectives investigating the rape and attempted murder of an 18-year-old woman in Leeds have released a new e-fit image of the attacker, external.

    E-fit of suspectImage source, West Yorkshire Police

    The victim was dragged from a bus stop in Beeston and bludgeoned with a stone before being sexually assaulted at about 22:40 on Friday 6 March.

    The morphed image has been created by combining the original e-fit image produced from the victim and a new computerised image based on a description from a woman he'd previously stalked.

  13. Police swoop on quiet cul-de-sacpublished at 16:17 BST 23 April 2015

    Telegraph & Argus

    Armed police are reported to have swooped on a quiet cul-de-sac to make arrests this afternoon.

    Police at Clay Hill Drive, WykeImage source, Telegraph and Argus
  14. Pace sale latestpublished at 15:38 BST 23 April 2015

    Danni Hewson
    Business Correspondent, BBC Yorkshire

    I've spoken to Duncan Potter, vice president of marketing for the US-based Arris Group which has just bought Bradford set-top box maker Pace for £1.4 billion.

    Pace HQ in SaltaireImage source, Google

    He says he hopes the deal will be finalised in the second half of the year and cannot, as yet, say anything about jobs at Pace's Saltaire headquarters.

    Mr Potter tells me he's impressed by the "sheer array of talent" in Britain: "It's a reflection of our overall commitment to the UK that we'll become a UK-domiciled firm because of this transaction."

  15. Adams leads GB at Euro Gamespublished at 15:18 BST 23 April 2015

    BBC Sport

    Leeds Olympic boxing champion Nicola Adams will lead Great Britain into the inaugural European Games in Baku, Azerbaijan.

    Nicola AdamsImage source, ALLSPORT/GETTY IMAGES

    She's part of a 163-strong GB line-up which will compete across 13 sports and 19 disciplines from 12-28 June.

    For 10 disciplines, including boxing and taekwondo, Baku 2015 will form part of the qualification process for the 2016 Rio Olympics.