BBC Local Live: York and North Yorkshire

Police have released a CCTV image of two men they'd like to speak to after a shop theft in Scarborough.

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Two men were caught on camera at about 15:30 on 16 March when they entered Sainsbury's on Falsgrave Road and placed items of clothing into a bag before walking out without paying.

The men have not yet been identified and police say they want to hear from anyone who may be able to help.

A competition has been launched among Yorkshire's schoolchildren to come up with their own artistic interpretation of the iconic white Yorkshire Rose. 

Janice Richardson, from the charity Bloomin' Yorkshire, set up the charity after surviving two failed kidney transplants.

The competition is being held to raise awareness of organ donation, especially among children.

Janice says the new winning Yorkshire Rose design will be displayed in York's Museum Gardens:

Quote Message: It doesn't have to look anything like the original Yorkshire Rose. It can be made out of whatever they like: ceramics, fibreglass. The base colour has to be white, but they can add colours, crystals, photographs, anything to make it original." from Janice Richardson Bloomin' Yorkshire,

It doesn't have to look anything like the original Yorkshire Rose. It can be made out of whatever they like: ceramics, fibreglass. The base colour has to be white, but they can add colours, crystals, photographs, anything to make it original."

Racehorse trainer David "Dandy" Nicholls has denied sexually assaulting two women.

The former jockey, who lives in North Yorkshire, is accused of grabbing a woman, putting his hand up her top and touching her breast underneath her bra.

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In a separate allegation, he is accused of touching another woman's breast over her clothes and touching her between her legs over her clothing.

He pleaded not guilty when he appeared before magistrates in Northallerton.

Mr Nicholls, of Tall Trees Farm, Sessay, near Thirsk, was granted bail and is due to appear at Teesside Crown Court on 24 June.

It'll feel pleasantly warm throughout the afternoon with light winds and highs today of about 16C (61F), although always a little cooler along the coast.

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The latest we have on the York Lendal Bridge accident is that a man has been airlifted to hospital with serious injuries after it's believed he was hit by a bus near Lendal Bridge. 

Emergency services are still at the scene.

Drivers are being asked to avoid the area while investigations continue. 

Here's the latest from City of York Council on the diversions now in place following the collision near Lendal Bridge:

Following the crash a little earlier near Lendal Bridge in York in which one person is reported to have been hurt, police are now directing traffic away from the area.

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The A1036 Rougier Street is currently closed in both directions between the B1227 Rougier Street junction and the Duncombe Place junction because of the incident.

A diversion's in operation, with traffic coming in on Bootham being turned down Gillygate.  

More on the news we mentioned a short time ago about a crash near Lendal Bridge in the centre of York. This is the scene there at the moment:

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The latest information we have is that emergency services were called at about 12:30 after reports a bus had hit a pedestrian.

One person is reported to have suffered a head injury, police say.

The air ambulance attended the scene, landing at the nearby Memorial Gardens at about 13:00.

Police road blocks are currently in place at Bootham and Gillygate.

Drivers in the centre of York are being warned to avoid a main route through the city centre due to an accident:

York has a new Lord Mayor - and he looks quite pleased about it.

Dave Taylor has become the first Green Party councillor to hold the position.  

This picture is from the Mayor Making Ceremony. Doesn't he look happy? Nice to see the joy peeking through the formal ceremony.

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The Lord Mayor is Chairman of City of York Council and the official "first citizen of the city".

City of York Council says York's Lord Mayor is "second only to the Lord Mayor of London in precedence" and its Sheriff holds the "oldest office of Sheriff in England and Wales".

A musical based on North Yorkshire's Calendar Girls is heading to the West End. 

The Girls - written by Take That star Gary Barlow and Tim Firth - opens in February at the Pheonix Theatre. 

It tells the story of members of the Rylstone WI in the Yorkshire Dales, who hit the headlines around the world when their nude calendar became a global sensation.

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Before its call to West End glory, the play was performed in Leeds in December last year, when Gary Barlow joined five of the original Calendar Girls on stage.

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Police in North Yorkshire have renewed their appeal for help in finding who's responsible for the death of a red kite found shot in North Yorkshire at the weekend.

It was the seventh to have been killed in Yorkshire in the past two months:

The A64 in Staxton is partially blocked at the Spital Farm Roundabout, where the A64 meets the A1039, because of concrete blocks on the road. 

For 22 years it was filled to the rafters with furniture, bric-a-brac and the occasional priceless antique.

But now, as York's world-famous Banana Warehouse prepares to close its doors for the final time today, it is empty, save for the memories.

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There's currently queuing traffic on the A61 Ripon Road northbound in Harrogate between New Park Roundabout and the B6161 Otley Road junction due to roadworks in the area.  

The Environment Agency's released these photos, showing why York's Foss Barrier failed at Christmas.

The flood barrier is York's main flood defence and on Boxing Day 2015 its control room flooded.

These are the first pictures of the mess caused by the floodwater.

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The building flooded because of leaks in a tunnel, according to a government report, and the barrier had to be raised flooding hundreds of homes.

For those of you in the know, Yorkshire face Leicestershire in the T20 Blastfalsethis evening and you'll be able to follow live commentary here.

For the less enlightened where cricket is concerned - like me! - I asked the BBC Radio York sport team to educate me on what T20 actually stands for, and have been surprised and interested at the answer.

T20, it seems, stands for Twenty20, which is a short form of cricket.

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Each side has only a single innings, restricted to a maximum of just 20 overs (120 balls) meaning the game is speeded-up considerably and, as a result, both sides are a lot more inclined to throw caution to the wind, given the lower chances of scoring.

Sounds exciting doesn't it?

I'm with Einstein on this: "A day without learning is a day wasted!"