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Hull City will be looking to move further away from the relegation zone when they travel to Ipswich Town this evening.

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Hull City boss Nigel Adkins could name the same side which beat Norwich 4-3 on Saturday.

Striker Abel Hernandez scored twice against the Canaries in his first start since August.

Ipswich have drawn three and lost seven of their last 10 matches against Hull in all competitions since beating them 1-0 in May 2008.

If you're planning to travel from Hull to London today, you'll need to check the train times before you set off.

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Hull Trains is running a reduced service between Hull and London Kings Cross, with the firm saying it's still repairing some of its trains damaged during last week's bad weather.

Buses are available at some stations to connect passengers to other train services, according to Hull Trains.

The following changes are in place for today::

• 08:23 Hull-London Kings Cross is cancelled
• 10:30 Hull-London Kings Cross is cancelled
• 11:48 London Kings Cross-Hull is cancelled
• 13:48 London Kings Cross-Hull is cancelled
• 15:12 Hull-London Kings Cross is cancelled
• 15:48 London Kings Cross-Hull will terminate at Doncaster
• 17:10 Hull-London Kings Cross will start at Doncaster
• 18:50 London Kings Cross-Beverley is cancelled
• 19:11 Hull-London Kings Cross is cancelled

Aras Rasul Rashid, had a haul of illicit cigarettes and tobacco in containers seized by customs.

Jonathan Willis
BBC Local Live

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

• Hull East MP Karl Turner denies 'inappropriate behaviour' towards a woman.

• A woman charged with the murder of her 80-year-old grandfather has been deemed unfit to enter a plea by a judge.
• Pro-Kurdish protesters have forced the closure of the southbound carriageway of the Humber Bridge.
• East Yorkshire's health bosses are urged to do more to treat Parkinson's.
• A man who mistakenly bid £180,000 for a fairground carousel will not be forced to buy it, the auctioneers have said.

David Harrison
BBC Radio Humberside

Hull City Council is close to completing a deal to buy a large stretch of land next to the River Hull, with plans to build 850 new homes.

The local authority says it's about to acquire the former Clarence Mill site and nearby Northern Divers site, with Homes England providing a grant of more than £2m.

The Manor Property Group had once proposed building a Radisson Blu hotel on the land, but the development never materialised.

The council expects the deal to be completed within weeks.

The rain will continue this evening and part of the night.

It will stop by the early hours but with a fair amount of cloud and a few mist patches.

A Hull shopkeeper who was caught with more than one million illicit cigarettes stashed in self-storage containers has been jailed for five years.

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Aras Rasul Rashid, of Spring Bank, Hull, was caught when sniffer dogs detected the haul of illicit goods during a joint operation between HMRC and Border Force at a self-storage container site in Hull in 2015.

The 40-year-old’s flat was searched and £15,220 cash was found.

Officers also searched the Bekhal General Store on Spring Bank, Hull, which he ran.

Officers seized a million mixed branded cigarettes and 736 kilograms of hand-rolling tobacco from two containers rented by Rashid.

HM Revenue and Customs said that duty had not been paid on the goods.

Police are trying to track down a camper van that was stolen from a house in Shirley Crescent, in Scunthorpe.

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The break-in happened at around 10:55 on Wednesday, 7 March.

Four white men wearing black clothing were seen acting suspiciously in the area.

One of the men, who is described as having a beard and wearing a black baseball cap, was said to be driving the stolen camper van.

A former nuclear bunker on the East Yorkshire coast has been transformed into an art gallery.

The first artworks have been installed at the former underground base at RAF Holmpton, south of Withernsea, which was once on the frontline of Britain's defences during the Cold War.

The bunker had been vacant since 1974.

The "Underground Movement" art gallery will hold a series of exhibitions throughout the year.

Labour's Hull East MP Karl Turner says he rejects any suggestion of acting in a "misogynistic manner", following an allegation in the Financial Times about inappropriate behaviour at work.

According to the paper a witness claims Mr Turner slapped a woman on her buttocks as she walked through his constituency office in the summer of 2015.

It is also alleged he made offensive sexual remarks.

The Labour party says it takes all complaints of sexual harassment seriously and investigates all allegations fully.

A North Yorkshire holiday park business has been ordered to pay £1,548 after putting illegal advertising signs on a roadside in Howden.

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Malton Grange Lodges, of Amotherby near Malton, staked a board promoting the holiday park into the grass verge next to the Hull Road roundabout in October last year.

The company was found guilty of fly-posting at Beverley Magistrates’ Court on Wednesday 7 March.

No-one from the company attended the hearing.

They were fined £1,000 and was ordered to pay £448.50 costs and a victim surcharge of £100.

This is a police e-fit of a man who threatened to use a knife during a robbery.

Police have released an e-fit picture today of this man after an attack on Newland Avenue, Hull.

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The incident happened on Thursday 22 February at around 23:30, when a man standing at a bus stop was approached by the offender, who threatened him with a knife and demanded money from him.

He stole an unspecified amount of cash.

The suspect is described as white, in his 40s, wearing a hooded top and dark grey tracksuit bottoms.

Simon Clark
Sports Reporter

Humberside police are reassuring people in Grimsby and Cleethorpes that they dealt with violence during and after Saturday's football match between Grimsby Town and Port Vale appropriately.

They say officers dealt with fans who sought to cause disorder and disruption inside and outside the ground.

Grimsby Town say they will not be making any official comment.

These images were caught on a smartphone:

Police are trying to find a man in the North East Lincolnshire area after six reports of teenagers having been sexually assaulted.

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The latest incident happened on Sheepfold Street, Grimsby, at around 17:35 on Saturday.

On each occasion a man has approached his victim from behind, mumbled something and sexually assaulted them before running away.

There have been incidents reported in Cleethorpes Country Park, Bargate, Littlefield Lane, and Sheepfold Street.

The suspect is white, of slim build, between 5ft 7in and 5ft 10in tall and scruffy.

A charity which supports people who have Parkinson's says it's willing to provide funding to enable health bosses in East Yorkshire to create a new community specialist nurse.

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Parkinson's UK has offered the East Riding Clinical Commissioning Group (CCG) £90,000 to fund the post for two years.

The charity claims health bosses are delaying their decision to introduce a specialist nurse.

In a statement, the CCG says it would like to reassure patients they're working towards resolving the situation and they hope to work with Parkinson's UK to find the right solution for future services:

This year's trophies for the Tour de Yorkshire are about to go on a bit of a tour themselves ahead of the competition in May.

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They go on display in Beverley, East Yorkshire, today and will then visit the other start and finish towns which are Doncaster, Barnsley, Ilkley, Richmond, Scarborough, Halifax and Leeds.

The Tour de Yorkshire was launched in 2015 following Yorkshire's successful hosting of the 2014 Grand Depart leg of the Tour de France.

The 2018 race has been extended to four days and will be held from 3 to 6 May.

The women's race will also double in length from a one-day event, taking place on 3 and 4 May.

The protesters claim they want to draw attention to the Turkish offensive against Kurds in Syria.

Clare Crooks
BBC Local Live, Hull

Here are the latest headlines for East Yorkshire and Northern Lincolnshire this lunch time:

• Auctioneers won't pursue the man who mistakenly bid for the Pleasure Island Carousel last week.
• Pro-Kurdish demonstrators have caused some disruption and delays at the Humber Bridge.
• Firefighters deal with a fire on Hessle Road in Hull this morning.

James "Eddie" Fish, 80, was found dead at his home in North East Lincolnshire in January.

Caroline Bilton
BBC Look North

A woman charged with the murder of her 80-year-old grandfather has been ruled unfit to plead by a judge.

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The body of James Fish (pictured), known to his family as Eddie, was discovered at a house on Grimsby Road in Waltham, North East Lincolnshire, on 29 January.

Rachael Flemington, 28, of Manor Drive, Waltham, appeared before Hull Crown Court.

She was remanded in custody and there will be a trial of facts hearing on 4 July.