Today's news headlines with Sophie Mei Lan Malin:

- Yorkshire Building Society defends £2.5m golden hello to new CEO Susan Allen as 'common practice'
Yorkshire Building Society has defended a £2.5m 'golden hello' payment to incoming chief executive Susan Allen as "common practice" within the financial service industry.

- The Grand Hotel, Scarborough: North Yorkshire mayoral candidate Keane Duncan pledges to 'buy and save' Victorian hotel named one of Britain's worst
A mayoral candidate has pledged to buy an infamous Scarborough hotel and restore it to glory should he win election.

- How to talk yorkshire
- I'm a homeworker - and I agree with 'couch potato nation' warnings: Jayne Dowle
New rules on flexible working risk turning Britain into a ‘couch potato nation’, the founder of a law firm has warned. I’m inclined to agree with him.