News, sport, travel and weather updates resume at 08:00 Tuesday
Updates on Monday 7 September 2015
Live updates for Leeds and West Yorkshire have finished for the day but we'll be back from 08:00 on Tuesday with the latest news, sport, weather and travel updates from across the county.
Join us then.
Paul Hudson
Weather presenter, BBC Look North
Tonight is going to be dry with a minimum temperature of 8C (46F) along with a light north wind.
Tomorrow it will be another fine and dry day with some sunny spells, maximum temperatures reaching 15C (59F).
BBC Look North, Yorkshire
On BBC Look North tonight:
A West Yorkshire man has been filming on the frontline in Iraq as he joins Kurdish fighters against the so-called Islamic State.
The Tour de Yorkshire bike race in May was described as a success, but now, at least six Yorkshire councils, do not want to host the start or finish for next year.
Find out why from 18:30 on BBC One.
Ian White
Journalist, BBC Look North
Do you think you've got a story that should be on BBC Look North?
If you do then please get in touch with me via Twitter, external.
She's best known for presenting the weather on BBC Look North but now Keeley Donovan has landed her first national TV job for a 15-part series about how to avoid being burgled.
Ambitious plans to provide new council homes for older people are about to get under way as building work starts on two key developments.
Image source, Leeds City CouncilOfficial ceremonies will mark the start of the city council’s flagship extra care scheme in Yeadon , externaland for new apartments in Swarcliffe, external.
Bradford Telegraph and Argus
Detectives hunting the killer of Bradford grandfather Clement 'Butch' Desmier (pictured) in 2012 have re-arrested two men in connection with his murder, external.
Image source, Telegraph & ArgusThe suspects, aged 32 and 20, were detained today by murder squad detectives in what is seen as a significant development. They are being held in custody.
Pontefract and Castleford Express
Radio favourite Chris Moyles has announced he will return to the airwaves on a new station, Radio X - the new name for XFM.
Image source, Pontefract and Castleford ExpressChris Moyles worked on Wakefield’s Broadcast to Hospitals Service as a teenager.
He will host an early morning show from 06:30 to 10:00 after a three-year radio exile.
Halifax Courier
BBC drama series Last Tango in Halifax is hoping to pick up an award intonight’s TV Choice Awards, external.
The drama, staring Derek Jacobi and Anne Reid, filmed across Calderdale, has been nominated for best drama series after capturing the hearts of millions across the nation.
BBC Travel
There's one lane closed on the M62 westbound with slow traffic between J23, A640 (Huddersfield) and J22, A672 (Rishworth Moor), because of a broken down vehicle.
Traffic police were forced to use specialist tactics, external to stop a car on the M62 motorway.
Image source, Todmorden NewsOfficers from West Yorkshire Police Roads Policing Unit (RPU) stopped a silver Vauxhall Vectra on the motorway near Brighouse.
Huddersfield Examiner
A devolution bid has been submitted to the government, external for large swathes of Yorkshire.
Image source, Huddersfield ExaminerThe bid covers the West Yorkshire districts of Kirklees, Bradford, Calderdale, Leeds and Wakefield plus the North Yorkshire districts of Craven, Harrogate, Selby and the City of York.
Dewsbury Reporter
The River Spen, which runs through runs through Cleckheaton, Liversedge, Heckmondwike, Ravensthorpe and Dewsbury, could turn bright green tomorrow as pollution tests with a harmless dye are carried out, external.
Image source, Dewsbury ReporterEnvironment experts will be using the dye to locate the source of a leak in the sewage system, which they say could be allowing pollution to flow into Sykes Beck and the river.
Daragh Corcoran
Reporter, BBC Radio Leeds
Bradford Metropolitan Council is making a bid to be a Tour de Yorkshire host city for next year's cycle race.
The city hopes to have either a start or finish event and reap the benefit of tourism which other parts of Yorkshire have experienced.
Welcome to Yorkshire say the event generated an extra £40m last year to the local economy.
Daragh Corcoran
Reporter, BBC Radio Leeds
Leeds City Council tell me they are interested in hosting the Tour de Yorkshire, external again next year.
Image source, PAIt comes as several councils in neighbouring North Yorkshire say they do not want to host the start or end of the race.
This cycle race was launched as a legacy of the Tour de France which was held in Yorkshire in 2013.
The top stories in West Yorkshire so far today:
- Three men arrested over historic sex abuse at Thorp Arch Grange children's home
- Wakefield Council pledges help to refugee families from Syria
- Commonwealth featherweight champ Josh Warrington hopes to fight IBF world champ Lee Selby in the spring
Huddersfield Examiner
An escapologist's attempt to escape from being buried alive almost proved fatal as Antony Britton was pulled from the ground unconscious., external
Image source, Hudderfield Examiner
BBC Sport
Commonwealth featherweight champion Josh Warrington hopes to fight IBF world champion Lee Selby (pictured left) in the spring.
Image source, Getty ImagesSelby, 28, fights Mexican Fernando Montiel on 14 October and Warrington hopes the Welshman can win and arrange an all-British world title clash.
"Selby is the fight we want," Warrington told BBC Radio Leeds.
Three men have been charged with historic offences relating to sexual abuse at a children’s home in Leeds., external
The charges relate to the former Thorp Arch Grange Children’s Home in Wetherby, in the 1970s and 1980s.
Anthony Gordon Poles, aged 77, from Boston Spa, Mark Walker Wyllie, aged 59, from Linlithgow, West Lothian and Roy Leonard Allen, aged 71, from Burnley are due to appear at Leeds Magistrates Court on Friday 2 October.
