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There are calls today for subsidised breakfast clubs in schools after it emerged that some teachers are bringing food in to school to feed pupils.

A report found that a fifth of teachers say they've seen a rise in number of children arriving at class hungry while seven in ten claim children who don't eat first thing find it harder to learn.

Jill Rutter from the Family and Childcare Trust says schools should provide breakfasts:

Almost half of teachers across Yorkshire and north Lincolnshire say they are bringing in food for children to eat in the morning, according to a study.

Meanwhile figures for the East Midlands, which includes Lincolnshire, show four in ten teachers say not eating first thing makes pupils more disruptive. Over sixty percent claim it makes them unable to learn.

Plans for two new leisure centres in Sheffield have been approved by the city's council.

The developments, valued at £23 million, are the biggest investment in such facilities in a generation.

The developments, incorporating swimming pools and gyms as well as health and research facilities as part of the National Centre for Sport and Exercise Medicine (NCSEM), will be built on the site of the current Graves tennis and leisure centre in the south of the city, and on a corner of Thorncliffe Recreation Ground in High Green.

The £16m Graves development will include a six-lane 25m replacement for the existing swimming pool, a separate learner pool, a major new fitness suite and studios, two additional indoor tennis courts and the city’s first-ever dedicated gymnastics and trampolining centre.

This centre will be the city HQ for the new NCSEM - a 2012 Olympic Legacy project funded by the Department of Health - with extensive provision for health consultation, specialist treatment services and research facilities.

Meanwhile, the £7m North Active complex in High Green is set to include a six-lane 25m swimming pool and learner pool, a multi-use studio and a fitness suite, over two levels.

It will also house NCSEM facilities including health consulting rooms, treatment rooms and space for other services such as podiatry.

Plans for a 1.9% increase in council tax have been accepted by Lincolnshire County Council. The plans will now go up for consultation with a final decision made by the full Council next month.

The change will add £20 a year on to a band D property and be the first rise of its kind in four years. Here's councillor Martin Hill, leader of Lincolnshire County Council.

One in five adults in Yorkshire and the Humber are being kept awake at night worrying about money, according to findings by StepChange Debt Charity. They say they've seen a massive increase in the number of people contact its helpline since Christmas.

A man from Doncaster is celebrating after scooping the £1,000,000 top prize on a National Lottery Merry Millionaire Scratchcard. He hasn't been named as yet - but all will be revealed at a photocall in the town later today.

As a new cap on payday loans comes into play today, the former MP, John Battle, says the changes could lead to more illegal borrowing.

Rates will now be capped at just under 1 percent per day, and no-one will have to pay back more than twice the amount they borrowed.

The Financial Conduct Authority which introduced the new rules says people who are unable to repay should prevent taking our such loans. Many payday lenders have already closed beacuse of the changers.

More: Payday loan charges cap comes into effect

Speaking in Halifax, West Yorkshire, Prime Minister David Cameron Britain was seeing "the biggest investment in our roads since the 1970s, but in our railways since Victorian times".

At a TUC demonstration outside King's Cross, Manuel Cortes, leader of the TSSA transport union, said: