Visitors to the East Yorkshire coast who see seals are being asked to leave them alone.

Seals often haul themselves onto the beach at this time of year to rest, but some people who find them think they're injured and ring the RSPCA, according to the Yorkshire Wildlife Trust.

Wildlife officers also says dog owners should keep their pets away from seals, which can be aggressive if they feel threatened.

The government's defended plans to stop RAF operations at Linton-on-Ouse, near York.

The flying school base is set to close in 2020 as part of a wider review of military estates which will also see the closure of the famous "Dambusters" base at RAF Scampton in Lincolnshire.

But during a special debate in parliament, the Conservative MP for Thirsk and Malton, Kevin Hollinrake, warned that local jobs are at risk because of the closure.

The MP said: "The local community is very proud of the base's historic contribution to our previous fights against tyranny."

Defence minister Tobias Ellwood acknowledged it was difficult for communities to see RAF bases close.

However, he said the decision "made sense" given that the Tucano training aircraft is set to go out of service with fast-jet training moving elsewhere.

A petition calling for a picture of England star and former Sheffield United footballer Harry Maguire riding an inflatable unicorn to be featured on new plastic £50 notes has reached nearly 14,000 signatures.

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It comes after the Bank of England said it planned a plastic redesign for the note, following a similar change for £5 and £10 notes.

The petition, to the Bank of England and launched by Jonny Sharples, says the Sheffield-born footballer should feature as "none of these notes so far have featured a World Cup semi-finalist floating on a mythical creature".

The petition has so far been running for a couple of days.

BBC Weather

Any early patches of mist or fog will lift to leave a dry and fine day with spells of sunshine and a light breeze.

This evening and tonight it will be dry with mainly clear skies with some areas of mist and fog forming:

A couple from South Yorkshire have been told to remove a bed of flowers which they have tended for three decades because they are a "danger" to road users.

Brian and Sally Williams planted the blooms on the narrow Hollin House Lane in Loxley, near Sheffield, to encourage wildlife and bring colour to the area.

But Sheffield Council sent a letter saying the couple had a week to do the work or pay for it to be done by the authority.

Their daughter, Elizabeth Williams, said they were "absolutely devastated".

She said her parents had cultivated the dahlias and shrubs for 28 years and at times it had been the only thing that helped her father through ill health.

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If you're making a journey on the rails in North, South or West Yorkshire today most services appear to be running to time at the moment.

In the east of the region, Hull Trains says it's running "most services with a few cancellations". You can click this link for more information, external.

For all the latest live updates from Yorkshire's main railway stations, click on the links below:

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• Wakefield Westgate, external
• Bradford Interchange, external
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Plans for a major redevelopment of Leeds General Infirmary, which include building a brand new children's hospital, are expected to be unveiled later.

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The proposals, which would cost nearly £0.5bn, are at an early stage, but will be discussed with planners at Leeds City Council next week.

Mike Richards, the Clinical Director at the Leeds Children's Hospital says: "It's important to make the changes now because health care is changing.

"We can do more for our children and for all of our patients, so this is hugely important for our future and for the next generation, for the people of Leeds and the whole of the region."

A "devastated" couple have tended the grass verge and flowers outside their house for 28 years.

Councillors have agreed to lease land near Doncaster Dome for a specialist cycling track, according to the Local Democracy Reporting Service.

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Doncaster Culture & Leisure Trust will develop a 1km circuit.

It hopes to encourage and increase levels of cycling in the borough.

The council has been told since Doncaster hosted a stage of the Tour de Yorkshire in 2016 cycling participation and club membership has increased.

A report outlined one barrier to this growing further was the need for a "safe traffic-free" environment for cycling.

British Cycling, along with Sport England, has committed funds to the project, but they have not yet said how much.

Doncaster Council will also fund part of the development.

It is hoped the track will be built before Doncaster hosts a stage of the UCI World Championships in 2019.

BBC Weather Watchers

Autumn is finally here and Yorkshire's looking very good as the leaves change colour.

Our BBC Weather Watchers have been busy capturing some terrific scenes:

Staff at HMP Lindholme in Doncaster must operate a full regime after staff attacks, the High Court says.

The Ministry of Justice (MoJ) has won a High Court order forcing prison officers to operate a "full regime" at crisis-hit HMP Lindholme, meaning staff will be forced to turn up for work.

Staff at the "volatile" prison near Doncaster operated a "controlled lockdown" on Friday after two prison officers were attacked by inmates the previous evening.

At the High Court today, Mr Justice Goss extended an injunction the MoJ obtained on Friday.

It requires the Prison Officers Association (POA) to instruct its members to return to a full regime at HMP Lindholme - until a full trial of the dispute can be heard.

The POA say they did not instruct staff to take any action, and that officers decided to "restrict the regime in the interests of the safety of themselves and prisoners".

HMP Lindholme, which currently holds about 850 prisoners, was named by the MoJ as one of ten of "the most challenging prisons" in England and Wales.

Police want to speak to this man after electrical devices were stolen from a property in Hull.

Image source, Humberside Police

A 22-year-old man was at his home on Cranbrook Avenue when a man broke in and threatened him.

The man took a blue HP Pavillion laptop, a white Samsung Galaxy S6 phone, a brown leather wallet and a driver’s licence.

The Ministry of Justice has won a High Court order forcing prison officers to operate a "full regime" at HMP Lindholme near Doncaster.

Following attacks earlier this month, staff had refused to go back into the category C jail and staged a protest.

More to follow:

Frustrating, expensive and unsurprising - just some of the words used by commuters about Britain's busiest rail stations.

A man has been left with life-threatening injuries after he was hit by a stolen car in a hit-and-run crash in Leeds yesterday evening.

It happened on Gipton Wood Road at about 18:10 and involved a black Audi A1, which police say might have been stolen in a burglary earlier the same day.

The Audi was travelling on Easterly Road when it turned left onto Gipton Wood Road.

As it turned left, the car hit a 35-year-old man who was crossing the road.

The car failed to stop and drove away from the scene.

'County lines' dealer stabbed man with hunting knife five times

Police are trying to find a missing 14-year-old girl who hasn't been seen since Sunday 14 October.

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Jessica Gubb left the Mexborough area of Doncaster at around 23:25, officers believe she may have travelled to Rotherham.

She is thought to be wearing a grey Hugo Boss jumper with "BOSS" written across the front, black leggings and black trainers.

A drug dealer, who was operating in Scarborough, is starting a 15-and-a-half year jail sentence today after he stabbed a man five times with a hunting knife.

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Harry Lomax, 22, of no fixed abode, was dealing crack cocaine and heroin in the seaside town.

He was bringing the drugs from Liverpool, operating what police describe as a county line.

He stabbed a 29-year-old local man on Ramshill Road at 22:20 on 22 February, his victim was taken to Hull for emergency treatment and is still recovering.

Lomax pleaded guilty to wounding with intent to cause grievous bodily harm, two counts of possessing an offensive weapon and two counts of possessing class A drugs.

Six men have been charged with assaulting Humberside Police officers in what police say was a "weekend of violence".

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In total, 11 members of staff were injured in a number of separate incidents.

In once case an officer was strangled and bitten by a dog.

The six men have been charged with a range of offences including assault.