Stories to make you smile from across Yorkshire

Every week in Yorkshire we cover uplifting and feel-good stories across our region - and we like to shout about them.

This week, we're featuring a stolen wedding album finding its way back home, a spare room scheme for vulnerable young people and a sofa-based Children in Need challenge.

In 2023, Manasse Kianga was living in Rotherham and playing Sunday league football when he helped Doncaster side Rossington Main to promotion.

Now, the 24-year-old South African striker could soon make his Champions League debut with Slovan Bratislava, a Slovakian Super Liga club.

His former coach at Main, Ben Hunter, described the player as "a really great guy and always played with a smile on his face".

Kianga studied business and accounting at Thomas Rotherham College, with Chris Walls, the college's assistant principal, remembering him as "the best player on the pitch every match".

"We're very proud of him and of the success of the football academy scheme at such a small college in Rotherham," he said.

St John Ambulance has marked 130 years of providing first aid to visitors at Hull Fair.

The charity began attending the annual autumn event on Walton Street in 1896.

Volunteers provide care for anything from minor injuries to more serious incidents, such as strokes and cardiac arrests, and also offer assistance to residents living nearby.

Jacky Bowes, who leads the local branch, said volunteers "save a lot of work for Hull Royal" by providing assistance at the fair.

Colin Hackett, event lead for the organisation, added the role of St John Ambulance had changed since the 19th Century, joking there was "a lot more applying plasters".

A couple from York are encouraging others to sign up for a scheme in which they open up their spare bedroom to young people experiencing homelessness.

Mike and Beth Edwards are currently hosting Ava, their fifth guest, after she was referred to them by youth homelessness charity SASH (Safe and Sound Homes).

Speaking about the scheme, Mike explained hosts "need to have empathy because there are times when young people don't come from the nicest backgrounds".

"It can take time for them to open up and it can take time for them to feel comfortable - so you need to be patient," he said.

When a young person was ready to move on it was "amazing to see that that's their next chapter and they are going on to do amazing things", he added.

The mystery of a wedding album discovered dumped behind a cafe in Wakefield has been solved, thanks to the detective work of an amateur historian.

The owners of Eva's Kitchen in Wakefield found the album, dating back to 1957, and published an appeal in the local newspaper. After some online sleuthing, Anne-Marie Fawcett, from Ossett, worked out the identity of the couple pictured and returned the album to their son Michael Dawson.

Dawson, 65, said he was "absolutely elated" to be reunited with the album, which had been stolen alongside other items from a storage unit.

"I thought I'd lost everything. I can't thank her enough," he said.

The wife of rugby league legend Rob Burrow will join BBC Look North presenter Amy Garcia for this year's BBC Children in Need charity challenge.

Lindsey Burrow and Amy plan to push the programme's red sofa 80 miles (129km) across Yorkshire over five days, covering 12-20 miles each day.

The pair will start in Ripon on 9 November and pass through South Yorkshire before crossing the finish line in Wakefield on 13 November. Their efforts will be broadcast live along the route.

They raised tens of thousands of pounds last year on a three-legged walk for Children in Need.

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