Tyne Tees Leeds

Middlesbrough manager Aitor Karanka has spoken of his confidence ahead of Middlesbrough's game this weekend:

Middlesbrough will be hoping to continue their positive start to the new season.

They face Leeds in the Championship next and Aitor Karanka says his team will be aiming to make it three wins out of three:

21-year-old Daniel Richardson and 26-year-old James Burrows, both from the Leeds area, have been disqualified from driving for three years, 300 hours community service, suspended prison sentence.

They had both pleaded guilty at an earlier hearing to dangerous driving.

They had been driving at 144 MPH on the A19 near Crathorne in North Yorkshire.

The official trophy that will be presented to the winner of this year's Tour de France Grand Départ is going on public display in Leeds today.

The prize will be unveiled at the city's Civic Hall at 1pm.

Two stages of Le Tour will pass through North Yorkshire when the event starts in July.

A popular teenage guitarist who was about to go to university has died after collapsing at the Leeds Festival.

James Houghton, 19, from Hartlepool, travelled to the event with friends.

Police are investigating the "unexplained death", which is not being treated as suspicious.

A spokeswoman said: "West Yorkshire Police is investigating the circumstances surrounding the unexplained death of a 19-year-old man at the Leeds Festival.

"Police officers working at the festival were called to the on-site medical facilities at 11.22pm on Sunday August 25, following his collapse elsewhere on site.

"He was pronounced dead at the festival site. Police are not treating the death as suspicious at this time."

His family have been informed.

The Government played no part in the decision to suspend children's heart surgery at Leeds General Infirmary, peers were told today.

Health minister Earl Howe said the decision was taken by the local health trust in agreement with the Care Quality Commission and NHS medical director Sir Bruce Keogh.

But Liberal Democrat Lord Shutt of Greetland warned there had been "murky internal health politicking" going on over the issue of children's heart surgery in Yorkshire.

Lord Howe said the premise of Lord Shutt's question was "incorrect", adding:

The Health Secretary Jeremy Hunt said Sir Roger Boyle would play no further part in a review of where children's heart surgery should in future be carried out.

The government's former heart tsar sparked controversy last week when he told the BBC he would not send his daughter for treatment at Leeds General Infirmary's child heart surgery unit.

Mr Hunt said that while Sir Roger was still one of the leading heart surgeons his role in the Safe and Sustainable process aimed at centralising children's heart surgery into specialist centres would end.

He said: "He did the right thing in informing Sir Bruce (Keogh, NHS England Medical Director) about his concerns over Leeds mortality data.

"However it is the view of Sir Bruce, with which I fully concur, his comments to the media on April 11 could be seen as pre-judging any future conclusions made by that review and so it is right he plays no further role in its deliberations."

NHS England has released a statement saying 'immediate safety concerns' at the Leeds Children's Heart Surgery Unit have been addressed.

Local MPs in Leeds have called for Sir Roger Boyle to leave his role on the children's heart surgery review:

Local Conservative MP for Pudsey, Horsforth & Aireborough Stuart Andrew has called comments by Sir Roger Boyle, 'outrageous' after the Department of Health's former National Director for Heart Disease said he would not allow his own daughter to be treated at Leeds General Infirmary: