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Have you ever dreamed of handing in your notice and just starting up your own business?

Well say hello to 12-year-old Elliot Baines from Mytholmroyd, who started his own event lighting business when he was at primary school.

Elliot has been responsible for illuminating some of the UK's biggest stages.... including Glastonbury!  

Mostly cloudy with patchy rain spreading eastwards overnight. Minimum temperature 13C (55F). 

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A cloudy damp start tomorrow with a little rain in places, becoming dry and brighter through the morning, leaving a fine and sunny afternoon. Maximum temperature 18C (64F). 

A man who lost both his legs, eight fingers and part of his nose after contracting septicaemia is to become a father for the first time.

Dean Smahon, 54, had a 10% chance of survival when he fell ill in 2010 and hospital staff missed opportunities to treat his sepsis in time.

He was placed in an induced coma at Leeds General Infirmary after his flu-like symptoms. The pain worsened and his body fell into septic shock.

He and his wife are expecting their first child in February after IVF treatment, something Mr Smahon said he never dreamed they would be able to do.  

As far as jobs go, this isn't too bad is it! 

Thanks to Ruth Metcalfe for sending in this great shot of Holme Valley and her new friends. 

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Businesses in Bradford are calling for the ban on advertising A-boards to be lifted. 

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The boards are thought to cause problems for people who are blind or use a wheelchair. 

Bradford council has been trialling the ban in Bradford city centre, Ilkley and Saltaire since January, with disabled groups having welcomed the move. 

But businesses say the ban is affecting their takings. 

Some good news, the previous search for Julie Walsh has been called off as she's been found safe and well.

Looks like the A635 in Holmfirth has reopened after the earlier accident. It looks like a fairly nasty crash, I hope everyone is ok.

A 67-year-old woman with severe dementia has gone missing from her home in Leeds.

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Julie Walsh was last seen at her home in Garforth at about 11:10 today.

She was wearing a pale pink trouser suit and carrying a handbag. She generally wears a lot of jewellery including necklaces, bangles and bracelets.　

Quote Message: We are very concerned for Julie's welfare given her condition and we would like to hear from anyone who has seen her." from Insp Louise Gibson West Yorkshire Police

We are very concerned for Julie's welfare given her condition and we would like to hear from anyone who has seen her."

The Paralympics starts next week, one of the sports you'll see is tandem racing. 

It's a fast-paced, exhilarating sport in the velodrome and on the road. 

Steve Bate and Adam Duggleby from West Yorkshire were only put together in 2014, but they've already formed a winning partnership. 

BBC Look North's Sally Hurst went to meet them.

A tow truck was used to steal an Audi from the car park of a Leeds railway station. The driver’s window of the car was smashed while it was parked at New Pudsey Railway Station in Farsley.

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An £85,000 NHS project to test new equipment which checks if a patient needs antibiotics, is being trialled in Huddersfield. 

It's a machine which measures the protein in your blood to see if you'll benefit from medication. 

The aim is to reduce unnecessary antibiotic usage, which in turn will save the NHS money and stop patients becoming immune to drugs. 

If you've not had a look yet, head over to Instagram and have a look at all of our lovely pictures of Yorkshire.. Very nice.

This is Castle Hill in Huddersfield. 

If you're in or around Holmfirth this lunchtime, this is worth trying to avoid

Sadly, we're all used to things being stolen from cars but it appears someone in Kirklees is going around stealing bits of cars.  

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West Yorkshire Police say that this morning the bumper and lights have been removed from a Vauxhall Astra. A bumper was also stolen from a Vauxhall Corsa overnight on the same road.

And in a third similar crime, a bumper stolen from an Astra in Honley last week. 

They say that they've seen a spike in thefts from cars over the last few weeks. Make sure you keep yours safe!

He used to be the MP for Morley and Outwood and he was the former shadow chancellor, but now Ed Balls will be part of the latest line-up of Strictly Come Dancing contestants.

Mr Balls told the Today programme why he has ditched suits for sequins and why he is particularly worried about some of the dance routines coming his way.

If you see this lot around in Halifax, don't worry you're not having a funny turn, it's just the cast of this year's panto.

If you've been out to the coast over the summer, were you a victim of a "gull mugging"?

A total of 22 people say they've been the victim of one this year.

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The figures have been published by Scarborough Borough Council, the first time it's recorded the number of attacks on people by seagulls.  

It's a problem up and down the Yorkshire Coast and officials have been taking steps to try and tackle the growing nuisance from seagulls in Scarborough, Whitby and Filey.  

Posters warning against feeding the birds have been distributed, along with gull-proof rubbish sacks.