Stories from across Yorkshire to make you smile

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

This week we are featuring a stonemason who has had his own face carved into a new 'grotesque' for York Minster, a former milkman who won a big cash prize and a Bradford's own Harry Kane lookalike.

A former milkman, who won a £4m mansion and £250,000 in a cash prize, said he could hardy believe his luck.

David Roper, 58, from Rotherham, found out he had won the six-bedroom home in Surrey - complete with a heated outdoor pool and tennis court - at the end of a busy week at work.

Roper, who currently lives in a bungalow, said he was in such disbelief the prize was true he forgot to buy a round of drinks at the pub after hearing the news.

"I wasn't sure I hadn't just dreamt the whole thing, it felt so surreal.

"I'll definitely get a round in now I've seen [the house] for myself and know it's 100% real," he said.

A stonemason who has worked at York Minster for nearly 50 years has had his likeness carved into a stone "grotesque" which will be integrated into the building.

The statue, which features the face of John David, master mason emeritus, was commissioned as part of the regular restoration and replacement of old and weathered grotesques - the gargoyle-like decorative carvings.

The grotesque took five weeks to carve and is due to be installed later this year.

The design incorporates elements of David's Welsh heritage - seen through the reliefs of daffodils and the inclusion of his labrador, Poppy.

"It's very, very humbling, there are so many carvings on the building, and they've survived hundreds of years," said David.

Ex-footballer Chris Kamara MBE has been awarded an honorary doctorate from the University of Bradford.

Kamara, who lives in Wakefield, was made a Doctor of Health, for raising awareness of speech apraxia, a condition which he was diagnosed with five years ago. The condition affects someone's ability to relay speech from their brain to their mouths.

The former Bradford City manager said the award was "unbelievable" given he never passed his 11-plus exams as a child.

"If I'm on any flight to anywhere in the world, and they ask if there's a doctor on board I am putting my hand up," he said.

Before Argentina put paid to England's World Cup dream, Yorkshire's very own answer to Harry Kane came into the studio to drum up some suppot ahead of the match.

Initially starting out as a dare between friends on a stag do, Daniel Bullen's likeness to the England star striker has now turned into a part-time career for the Bradford-based man.

Bullen is signed to a look-a-like agency, which is coincidentally run by a look-a-like of another of England's star players, David Beckham.

Despite the jovial beginnings, Bullen said when Kane hasn't played well, he can become the unwanted centre of attention from surrounding fans.

"At the last Euro's for the final, I was mobbed that night. I had to make a swift exit because they didn't do well, and it can get hairy if Kane isn't playing well," he said.

It's hard to imagine one of Britain's greatest rock stars dropping in to stay with your mum and dad, but that's exactly what happened to John Cambridge, from Hull.

Cambridge was close friends with David Bowie in the 1960s and early 1970s and recalled how he invited the singer, then climbing the ladder to stardom, to come to Hull to get a cheap MOT for his Rover 100.

He put Bowie up at his parents' home in a working-class district and took him out around the city's pubs.

"In one pub we were walking out the door, a girl looked at him and said, 'you look just like that David Bowie'," Cambridge recalls. "He just said, 'Yeah, a lot of people tell me that'."

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