The winners of the Hull and East Yorkshire tourism awards have been announced.

Among the winners - Burton Constable Hall (pictured) won the remarkable visitor attraction competition, The Head of Steam won best pub while best tourism event went to Hull Street Food Nights.

A charity that provides homes for women and children escaping violent situations in Hull has secured funding to provide more safe homes.

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Preston Road Women's Centre (pictured) plans to buy 10 more properties with the money from Social and Sustainable Capital, a social enterprise project.

Sophia Ewen
BBC Radio Humberside

Here are the latest headlines for East Yorkshire and northern Lincolnshire:

• The Arts Council England is investing £12m in Hull over the next four years
• There are plans for extra police to be brought in for the derby between Lincoln City and Grimsby Town
• Campaigners say they are confident a new pier will be built at Withernsea

Hull North MP Diana Johnson is supporting lecturers and students at the University of Hull who are taking part in another day of strike action over pensions.

Members of the University and College Union say proposed changes to their pension scheme could see lecturers losing as much as £10,000 a year.

On Tuesday an agreement reached by university union leaders and employers to end the pensions dispute was turned down by strikers.

Latest news, weather, sport and travel from across East Yorkshire and northern Lincolnshire.

Owain Wyn Evans
Weather presenter, BBC Look North

It's going to be cold and some weather warnings are in force overnight for snow and ice.

Here's the full forecast:

A three-man British expedition team, which includes a man from East Yorkshire, has set a new speed record for an unsupported crossing of the world's largest frozen lake.

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Scott Gilmour covered 397 miles in 12 days 21 hours and 13 minutes across Lake Baikal in Siberia.

The team had to cope with strong icy winds and temperatures of -35C (-31F).

There are plans for extra police to be drafted in for Lincoln City's local derby with Grimsby Town at Sincil Bank this weekend.

The added security announced by Lincolnshire Police is in light of violent scenes at the Mariners' match on Saturday.

Fighting broke out between rival fans inside and outside the ground.

It's hoped the added security will deter any trouble in Lincoln this weekend.

Campaigners say they're confident a new pier will be built at Withernsea after a study, funded by the National Lottery, concluded the project was feasible.

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The new pier would be built on the same site as the original one (pictured), which was demolished at the start of the last century.

The Withernsea Pier Association says it's hoping to build the new pier in stages as money becomes available.

The number of council-run schools operating at a loss in the Yorkshire and Humber region has trebled in four years, according to a new study.

The region had the second highest proportion of council-run schools in deficit between 2016 and 2017, with the number standing at 33%.

The Education Policy Institute has looked at more than 1,100 secondary schools over seven years.

The figure includes council-run schools only.

The area with the highest proportion of schools in deficit between 2016 and 2017 was the south west, with the number standing at 35%.

Hull KR run in six tries to overwhelm Huddersfield with a huge away win at the John Smith's Stadium.

Jonathan Willis
BBC Local Live

Here are today's top stories for East Yorkshire and northern Lincolnshire:

• Over five million people visited Hull last year for the City of Culture in 2017.
• The Grimsby Ice Factory is 'one of the most endangered buildings' in Europe.
• Parents in East Yorkshire were issued the second-highest number of fines for children's school truancy and term-time holidays in the country.
• Grimsby's Kevin Clifton and his wife Karen have split up
• The Met Office has just issued a Yellow Warning for snow and ice for tomorrow.

BBC Weather

Tonight it will stay generally cloudy with further outbreaks of rain, which could be heavy at times.

The rain is expected to turn showery during the early hours.

Tomorrow will be cloudy and windy with further spells of rain continuing for much of the day.

A police officer has been sacked for using money from a club for his own purposes and having a police interview tape he was not entitled to.

The legally-qualified chair ruled Pc Neil Giles had used the funds of a club for his own purpose and possessed a master interview tape when there was no reason for doing so amounting to gross misconduct.

The chair also ruled that he had accessed police systems for a non-policing purpose which amounted to misconduct.

Hull City Council has announced that they will try to acquire land on the East Bank of the River Hull in order to build 850 new homes.

The council will enter a contract with Homes England to secure nearly £6m worth of funding to build 117 affordable homes and 733 other buildings.

Part of the funding will be used to buy the former Clarence Mill and the Northern Divers sites.

A motion put forward to reverse cuts to Hull's public health budget has been voted down by councillors.

The motion was put forward by the Liberal Democrat group, who suggested the Labour-led council should put less into the reserves, in order to avoid reducing spend in areas such as drug, alcohol and sexual health services.

Lib Dem leader Mike Ross says he's disappointed at the decision especially when council tax is going up.

The council's deputy Leader Daren Hale says the savings were unavoidable following millions of pounds worth of government cuts and says their reserves needed bolstering

The managing director of Transpennine Express Leo Goodwin has agreed to meet with Hull's MPs.

It's after the rail company was strongly criticised by the Local Government Minister, Jake Berry, in Parliament for failing to turn up to a meeting to discuss changes to rail travel in the area.

Transpennine want to increase the number of stops on the Hull to Manchester train service.

The train company says it would only add a few minutes extra on to journey times and enhance the service.

Grimsby Town have signed former Coventry, Birmingham and Scunthorpe forward Gary McSheffrey on a deal until the end of the season.

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The 35-year-old was a free agent after leaving National League side Eastleigh in November.

He could make his debut for the Mariners in Saturday's trip to Lincoln.

A report out today has looked at how successful Hull's year as City of Culture for 2017 has been.

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Here are some of the figures:

• There were more than 2,800 activities, installations and exhibitions during the year-long cultural celebration
• Younger audiences aged 16-34 years old were under-represented at events, though there was a high representation of people aged 55-64
• The 800 new jobs created since 2013, in the visitor and cultural sector, were a result of £220m investment "fully or partly attributable" to the City of Culture award
• There was a "significant increase" in arts and culture participation and a new confidence in the city
• About 2,4000 volunteers provided an estimated 337,000 hours of help
• Annual visitor figures are expected to see a 1.3m increase on 2013, when Hull was chosen to be city of culture

Grimsby Town sign former Coventry, Birmingham and Scunthorpe forward Gary McSheffrey on a deal until the end of the season.