BBC Local Live: York and North Yorkshire

That's the end of our live service for today. 

I'll be back from 07:00 on Monday with more news, sport, travel and weather updates from around the county.

I'll leave you today with pictures from some of today's stories and a couple of BBC Weather Watcher pictures thrown in for good measure.

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Emma's Dales sent in the Hawes landscape, which seems to simultaneously capture drama and beauty, and Lilly Pink is responsible for capturing a distant, mist-strewn, York Minster.

Hope you have a lovely weekend - see you Monday!

Yorkshire coach Jason Gillespie says his batsmen need to deliver if they're to start getting results in the T20 Blast.

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The Tykes have lost their opening three matches of the competition so far, and travel to Edgbaston tonight to take on the Birmingham Bears.

Gillespie says: "We need more out of our top five batters. That's the brutal reality.

"We need them scoring runs and firing. Hopefully we can turn it around and put some big scores on the board."

In the closing days of the EU referendum campaign, on the evening of Monday 20 June, BBC Radio York will hold a special EU debate in York - and we'd like you to be part of the audience. 

The live debate will be hosted by Len Tingle, BBC Yorkshire's Political Editor, and starts at 19:00.

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The debate will be recorded for broadcast on BBC Radio York and filmed for social media.   

You can click here to fill in a form to submit your interest in attending, and if you're successful you'll be notified via email at least 24 hours before the debate. 

The closing date for applying for tickets is Sunday 19 June.

I once visited the home and studio of North Yorkshire wildlife artist Robert E Fuller, and the cameras hidden all over his garden and TV screens inside his house, showing what the cameras catch, make it all very much like a mini-Springwatch.

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So I'm not surprised to hear the BBC Springwatch team have made their way to Thixendale, to film his wildlife haven.

Robert uses video to research wildlife for his paintings and will be on BBC Springwatch next Monday and Tuesday, because of the rare footage he's captured of the secret lives of weasels.

Look carefully at the lovely pics of weasels below: the one on the right Robert photographed, the one on the left - he painted!

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Springwatch filmed Robert as he patrolled different wildlife areas in his garden that hosts wild stoats, weasels, barn owls, kestrels and tawny owls.

But his rare footage of weasels mating will headline the episode. Robert's recordings are believed to be the only video of their kind.

Robert says he spotted two wild weasels in his flower borders last year so he left food out to encourage them to stay where he could watch them and built underground feeding boxes with cameras inside them.

Quote Message: Weasels are small enough to slip through a wedding ring and are so fast and secretive that it is impossible to watch them for long in the wild, which is why there has been very little research into their behaviour until now." from Robert E Fuller Wildlife artist

Weasels are small enough to slip through a wedding ring and are so fast and secretive that it is impossible to watch them for long in the wild, which is why there has been very little research into their behaviour until now."

It'll be rather cloudy this afternoon with further showers, some of which could be heavy and thundery but some brighter, drier spells at times too.

Feeling warm and humid with light winds and a top temperature of about 18C (64F). 

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Heavier than usual traffic and queuing traffic is currently being reported on the A64 westbound between the A169 junction in Old Malton and the Barnygate Lane junction in High Hutton.

The top stories from our York newsroom this lunchtime include:

• A man's jailed for two years and eight months after he drove up to 150mph with a three-year-old girl in his car during a police chase in North Yorkshire
• A 16-year-old boy is charged after a woman was stabbed in Carlton near Selby earlier this week
• An extra £1.4m is being given to help rebuild the main road bridge in Tadcaster which partially collapsed during December's flooding

It seems like fire crews in Selby are being kept busy this lunchtime:

More on the news that a man's been jailed after he drove at 150mph across North Yorkshire with a three-year-old girl in the back seat.

A police helicopter filmed Thomas Birkbeck, 31, as they followed him for 50 miles in May.

He's been jailed for 32 months after admitting driving and drug offences.

This is what the police helicopter caught on camera:

A man caught driving at speeds of up to 150mph with a three-year-old girl in his car during a police chase in North Yorkshire has been jailed for two years and eight months.

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Footage shows Thomas Birkbeck, 31, swerving in and out of traffic and hitting several vehicles after failing to stop on the A1 near Catterick. 

His grey Audi was eventually stopped by police near Boston Spa. 

Birkbeck, of Silverdales, Dinnington, Rotherham, admitted four charges, including dangerous driving.

There's a new flower show in town this weekend. 

It's at RHS Garden Harlow Carr near Harrogate and it's the first time they've had one.

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But, judging from the pictures above, I'm starting to think they might be using just a bit too much plant food!

People who donated money to the York Flood Fund are due to meet some of those who benefited from the cash.

Guests at the event, which takes place in York this lunchtime, include the head of Nestle. The company donated £100,000 after the city was flooded in December last year.

The money has gone towards helping people replace things like furniture and carpets.

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Jan Garrill, CEO of Two Ridings Community Foundation, who manage the appeal fund, says with match funding from the government, says the York Flood Appeal Fund "has raised £1.3m to help city residents affected by the Boxing Day floods".  

Quote Message: The event is a chance for donors to meet residents whose homes were devastated and to hear at first hand the difference the fund is making in helping them to rebuild their lives." from Jan Garrill Two Ridings Community Foundation,

The event is a chance for donors to meet residents whose homes were devastated and to hear at first hand the difference the fund is making in helping them to rebuild their lives."

On the day the funeral of boxing legend Muhammad Ali takes place, former Scarborough boxing champion Richard Dunn has told BBC Radio York Ali really was "the greatest".

Ali's funeral is due to be held in Louisville, Kentucky, to allow people from all over the world to say goodbye after the death of the former world heavyweight boxing champion last week.

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Richard Dunn, pictured above on the wrong end of an Ali punch, rose to fame after fighting the boxing icon in 1976.

Quote Message: I didn't start boxing until I was 20, and aged 31 I was fighting the greatest fighter in the world for the heavyweight Championship. He was the greatest fighter ever, and personally I classed him as a friend." from Richard Dunn Boxer

I didn't start boxing until I was 20, and aged 31 I was fighting the greatest fighter in the world for the heavyweight Championship. He was the greatest fighter ever, and personally I classed him as a friend."

BBC Look North weather presenter Owain Wyn Evans says summer's been "cruelly snatched away from us".

There's plenty of rain on the way, and just in time for the weekend, of course...

The A1(M) lane is currently blocked on the exit slip road southbound at J46, B6164 (Wetherby) because of a broken down vehicle. Drivers are being warned to expect delays.

Celebrations are taking place across North Yorkshire this weekend to mark the Queen's official 90th birthday.

A Royal Salute will be fired in York's Museum Gardens tomorrow and later today Barrowcliff School in Scarborough is holding a garden party in her honour. 

You can find out why the Queen has two birthdays by clicking here.

And, as if that wasn't enough royal information, here are nine Queen facts - one for each decade of the Queen's 90 years:

1. The Queen was born as Elizabeth Alexandra Mary on 21 April 1926 -  her family called her Lillybet
2. At her christening, Princess Elizabeth cried so much, she had to be given dill water by her nurse
3. She had to adhere to war regulations, using ration coupons to help pay for her wedding dress
4. Her wedding to Prince Phillip was watched by over 200 million people around the world
5. For breakfast, Her Majesty likes cornflakes with a spoonful of apricots and nuts
6. The Queen's received over three million items in the post and sent 40,000 Christmas cards
7. Her first Corgi was Susan. Since then she's bred over 10 generations of Susan's descendants
8. The Queen is the only person in the UK who is permitted to drive without a licence
9. Her Majesty has a cushion in a sitting room at Balmoral embroidered with the words "It's Good To Be Queen"

The latest headlines from our York newsroom this morning include:

• Campaigners say a decision by North Yorkshire County Council to allow fracking in North Yorkshire is unlawful and are threatening to go to court
• A concert at Scarborough's Open Air theatre by West End and Broadway star Alfie Boe is cancelled due to illness
• People who donated money to the York Flood Fund are due to meet some of those who benefited later today

A concert at Scarborough's Open Air Theatre by West End and Broadway star Alfie Boe  has been cancelled due to illness.

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Boe's concert was due to take place on 25 June to mark Armed Forces Day.

A spokesman for the event's promoters says it's "with regret" that the event's been cancelled "due to medical advice".

Everyone who's bought a ticket for the performance will receive a full refund, according to the Open Air Theatre website.