A man is arrested in Hull in connection with attempts to set fire to two city centre banks.

There's no suggestion that petrol attacks on two banks in Hull city centre this afternoon are linked to terrorism, according to Humberside Police.

The force says its officers were called to a report a man was carrying "a bladed weapon and a container with liquid thought to be petrol" at about 13:00.

The man entered two banks on King Edward Street and set fire to some of the liquid.

Officers and fire crews "responded quickly" and the man was arrested at Hull Paragon station and is now in custody, police say.

No-one was injured in the incident, but police are still advising members of the public to avoid the area.

Here's video of Humberside Police officers and members of the public reacting to the petrol attack in Hull city centre earlier.

The footage shows fire outside the Santander bank on King Edward Street and officers running into the neighbouring Barclays Bank.

People can be heard screaming and one member of the public can be heard saying, "He's got a machete".

Part of the city centre remains cordoned off and Hull Paragon Interchange is currently closed:

Part of Hull city centre remains cordoned off at the moment following a petrol attack on a branch of Santander on King Edward Street.

A man is in custody and officers don't believe anyone was injured during the incident, police say.

A man has now been led out of nearby Hull Paragon Station on a stretcher, guarded by several officers.

These are our latest pictures from the scene:

Due to the incident in Hull city centre, Hull Paragon Interchange is currently closed:

David Harrison
Reporter, BBC Radio Humberside

Following a petrol attack on a branch of Santander in Hull city centre, a man has now been led out of Hull Paragon Station on a stretcher.

It's not clear whether this is the assailant or not but he was guarded by several officers as he was taken to an ambulance.

More than 30 police officers are currently at the scene - both armed and unarmed - and the station is now completely closed.

It's connected to the incident in Queen Victoria Square where bystanders suggest a man threw petrol inside two banks and he had a knife.

There's a cordon around the branch of Santander on King Edward Street with staff there suggesting a man ran into the building and poured petrol around it before trying to set it alight.

You can still smell petrol in the air.

Andy Comfort
BBC Radio Humberside

Hull city centre has been brought to a standstill after an apparent petrol attack on a branch of Santander.

The fire service and police are at the scene.

Police say a man went into the bank and started a fire using petrol.

They've closed off a pedestrianised section of King Edward Street after the incident.

A man's been arrested and nobody was hurt.

I was in the area and have seen Santander staff visibly distressed.

Richard Clark is jailed for manipulating people to sexually abuse children around the world.

This was the scene when police turned up to a crash in Bolton upon Dearne:

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The silver Vauxhall Astra crashed into a concrete lamp-post in the early hours of Tuesday morning on Thurnscoe Road.

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The lamp-post then landed on top of the car, which then caught fire.

Police say the driver wasn't at the scene when they arrived.

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A total of £15 million will be spent on repairing potholes on the roads around Wakefield.

The money will be used to improve over 5,000 roads in the area over the next five years.

Wakefield Council announced the extra money after the number of holes in the tarmac tripled over the winter.

A North Yorkshire teacher has been jailed for 12 years for manipulating people around the world to sexually abuse children in their care.

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Richard Clark, from Thirsk, was branded a "malign puppet master" by a judge as he was jailed.

York Crown Court heard how Clark convinced web-users to send images and recordings of their own relatives.

In one instance, the person being photographed was so young a nappy could be seen.

The 29-year-old also used fake social media accounts to pose as a teenager, pretending to be friends with victims and asking they send indecent photographs of themselves.

Clark, of Topcliffe Road, also kept a record of his victims, categorising them based on appearance, the size of their genitalia and the ways he had abused them.

He admitted to ten counts of arranging or facilitating the commission of a child sex offence, three of distributing indecent photographs of a child, nine of causing or inciting a child to engage in sexual activity or send indecent images, three of possession of indecent photographs of a child and one of possession of an extreme pornographic image.

A further 54 offences were taken into consideration.

The offences took place between April 2016 and April 2018, ending when he was arrested by officers from North Yorkshire Police.

Leeds United striker Patrick Bamford is ruled out for four months with a knee injury suffered in an under-23s match.

People in Castleford are reluctant to visit the town centre because of street drinking and anti-social behaviour, a ward councillor for the area has said, according to the Local Democracy Reporting Service.

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Councillor Tony Wallis made the remarks during a debate about Wakefield District Council's economic plan for the next five years.

A key part of the plan is to attract more businesses to the city centre and to the Five Towns by offering them support with things like employee training.

Mr Wallis said: "Certainly within Castleford, I get people saying, 'We won't go into the town centre.'

"On the other hand, we're trying to get businesses from outside to come here. But to do that we've got to have a town centre where people want to go."

Cars racing along a dual carriageway in Barnsley are making so much noise locals claim they can't sleep at night.

Unofficial car meets are common at Cortonwood near the retail park, but police have also been dealing with cars racing at 100mph along the nearby Dearne Valley Parkway.

Councillor Denise Lelliot, who has lived in Brampton all her life, says the noise is unbearable.

"You can't have your windows open on a night, it's terrible.

"You can't go to bed early because the noise is horrendous as it comes through with cars racing up and down.

"The young men and women turning up and showing their cars off isn't an issue, it's when they start racing up and down and doing the doughnut.

"It's so dangerous not just for the people driving the cars, but for other road people travelling on that stretch of road."

South Yorkshire Police recently wrote an open letter to the racers "begging" them to stop racing before someone died.

The former chair of Hull's City of Culture year has revealed that she's had surgery for a brain tumour.

Rosie Millard tweeted a photo of herself after undergoing six hours of surgery to remove the benign tumour.

She's thanked the medical team in London who carried out the operation:

Leeds Art Gallery will celebrate its 130th birthday later this month by displaying work by West Yorkshire artist Francis Butterfield.

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A collection of works by the Bradford-born artist, who died in 1968, will go on display for the first time from the end of this month until January.

Works will include Figure Derivation (pictured above) which was the first abstract work to enter Leeds Art Gallery's collection in 1937.

Sarah Brown, principal keeper at the gallery, says Butterfield was an artist with "very strong Yorkshire roots".

"His work often incorporated materials reflecting his early career in local industry, including sand, brick dust and the lens of a flash-lamp," she says.

Leeds Art Gallery was founded in 1888 and claims to be one of the city's most visited attractions.

Sightings of the honey bee-killing Asian hornet have been confirmed in Hull, according to the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (Defra).

The Asian hornet is smaller than the native hornet and poses no greater risk to human health than a bee, but does pose a risk to honey bees.

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The hornets feed by hovering in front of bee hives. They intercept returning bees, bite their heads off and then eat the rest, a behaviour called hawking.

Work is under way to identify nests in Hull and Defra says people should remain vigilant and report any sightings of the hornet.

A York man is beginning a five-and-a-half year jail sentence for manslaughter after injecting a man with heroin in a shop doorway in the city.

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Jordan Hipkins (pictured), 24, of North Street, York, was sentenced at Leeds Crown Court yesterday for causing the death of 44-year-old James Moore.

He also received two three-month jail terms for assault and criminal damage, after attacking a taxi and its driver.

Police received a call from the ambulance service who were administering CPR to Mr Moore who had collapsed in York's Micklegate area in May last year.

Mr Moore, of no fixed address, was resuscitated and taken to hospital where he later died.

CCTV showed Hipkins injecting Mr Moore with a substance that turned out to be heroin - the post mortem showed Mr Moore died from the effects of heroin and alcohol.

A man is in hospital with serious injuries after being stabbed in the chest inside a Sheffield nightclub.

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The 18-year-old victim was attacked at about 01:00 this morning at the Corporation nightclub on Milton Street in the city centre.

Police say about 800 people were at an event in the club and they want to hear from anyone who saw what happened.

The club was closed after the attack and police are working with the owners to establish what happened.

Plans for a £19m sixth-form college in Bradford city centre are likely to be approved on Thursday, according to the Local Democracy Reporting Service.

The New Collaborative Learning Trust hopes to open New College Bradford on the former site of Britannia Mills, next to Trafalgar House Police Station.

On Thursday Bradford Council's Regulatory and Appeals Committee will decide whether to grant planning permission for the college, one of the biggest city centre developments in years.

And the trust, which also runs New College Pontefract and New College Doncaster, will be hoping the plans are approved without any stumbling blocks, as the school is due to open to students in September 2019.