Four people have been hurt after the car they were travelling in hit a house between Pickering and Scarborough, police say.

It happened early this morning on the B1258 near the village of Ebberston and involved a single vehicle.

A silver Seat Ibiza, driven by a man in his 30s, with one male and two female passengers, hit a house, police say.

The two female passengers were taken to Hull Royal Infirmary with serious injuries and the male driver and male passenger were taken to Scarborough Hospital.

The road was closed at 05:25 to allow emergency services to attend the scene.

It's expected to be closed for the next couple of hours and police are advising motorists to avoid the area.

There is nothing to suggest "any substantive threat or any increased risk" to pupils or staff at a Leeds school after concerns were raised about offensive graffiti in the area, police have said.

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Increased patrols have been carried out this morning in the area around Royds School in Oulton after fears were voiced on social media about graffiti found in a nearby park.

The message made reference to a threat to the school and today's date, police say.

Insp Lucy Leabeater said the graffiti was being treated as an "isolated incident of criminal damage".

Increased police patrols were being carried out "solely because of the level of public concern generated by social media, not because of any information suggesting any increased threat," she added.

"We appreciate why people have been concerned and we recognise that social media can be a powerful tool for communication, but we would ask that people exercise caution where speculation about incidents can have an unhelpful impact."

A man missing from Huddersfield could be in Leeds, police say.

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Stephen Taylor, 61, is currently missing from the Huddersfield area but was last seen in the Potternewton area of Leeds.

He's described as 5ft 7ins tall, unshaven, with short hair and was last seen wearing a white long-sleeved sweatshirt with stripes and a black hat.

Anyone who sees him is asked to contact the West Yorkshire force.

Two state-of-the-art electric vehicle charging forecourts are planned for Yorkshire as part of a £1bn national scheme.

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One will be near Easingwold in North Yorkshire, with another in Bilton, East Yorkshire.

The North Yorkshire site is close to the proposed 200-acre solar energy farm which is being built by the firm Gridserve.

The company says it'll have dedicated areas for private cars and fleet vehicles like buses and lorries and that most charges will be done in less than half an hour.

The firm says it hopes that vehicles will be charged using 100% solar energy.

In a statement on Gridserve's website, the company says it hopes to make "electric vehicle charging as easy as using petrol stations".

A Hull comedian has helped set up a scheme to provide hungry children in the city with food at the weekend.

Lucy Beaumont is working with Hull and Humber Fareshare to give struggling families with primary school-aged children a backpack of food.

They've been testing the Backpack Buddies scheme at five schools in the city and are so far helping about 50 children.

She said: "Being a mother, I just wanted to do something to help."

A serious collision at Ebberston, near Pickering, in North Yorkshire has caused the closure of the B1258.

Fire service crews are on the scene and there are delays on the approaches to both Ebberston and Snainton.

Police are asking people to avoid the area for the time being:

A shop in South Yorkshire is closing after 33 years due to a surge of break-ins.

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Harrison clothes shop, on Ecclesall Road in Sheffield, has been hit by thieves six times in the past four months and has lost thousands of pounds of stock.

After four break-ins and two ram-raids, owner John Harrison has said he's shutting up shop.

"It's just been incessant and enough is enough really. We feel we can't continue with those pressures under us," said Mr Harrison.

A 16-year-old boy has received a police caution for an assault on a Syrian refugee filmed and shared online.

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Footage showed the 15-year-old being dragged to the ground and having water poured into his face at a school in Huddersfield.

Prosecutors had decided there was insufficient evidence to bring charges of racially aggravated assault against his attacker, police said.

West Yorkshire Police said the victim's family had been informed.

In a statement, the force said they had "been kept updated throughout the process and has been updated on the Crown Prosecution Service's decision".

The attack happened during a lunch break at Almondbury Community School in October.

After the footage was shared, an online appeal page to help the teenager and his family raised more than £50,000.

A woman's had her pension stolen while waiting in a queue at a bank in York.

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Police say it happened at Barclays Bank, on Parliament Street, in the city centre last Thursday.

As the woman waited in the queue to pay in her pension, a man took part of the cash from her and the ran out of the bank.

The suspect is white and about 5ft 10ins tall.

Anyone who witnessed the incident is asked to contact police.

The brother of a woman who died after she was hit by a stolen lorry is calling for tougher sentences for dangerous drivers.

Jacqueline Wileman died when the truck mounted a pavement in Brierley near Barnsley last September.

She was struck by the HGV, which was being followed by police, just before it hit two parked cars and smashed into a house.

The four men in the vehicle were each jailed last month for between 10 and 13 years.

Her family want judges to have more say on the length of sentences.

Today will be dry and mainly sunny and at times will feel warm.

Tonight, it'll be dry and mainly clear, but patchy low cloud and mist may drift into the west at times, particularly later in the night:

An artist is searching for a big space in the centre of York to paint a mural featuring a giant green beetle.

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The environmental charity New Networks for Nature, external says it's commissioned the giant artwork to "create a lasting legacy" after a major nature conference to be held in York later this year.

The conference will feature writers, artists and musicians inspired by nature and advocates for wildlife, including Chris Packham, presenter of BBC Springwatch.

But for the project to be approved the street artist ATM, who specialises in huge paintings of endangered specie, like the thrush pictured below, needs to find a big blank wall.

Organiser Dr Amy-Jane Beer says what's needed is: "A bridge, warehouse, or something similar, which could provide a highly visible platform for the work."

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Until recently, the subject of the mural, the iridescent tansy beetle, faced extinction in the UK and York's flood-prone river banks were the only place in the country the species was known to survive.

In 2015, a breeding programme was set up for the tansy, which only eats a specific kind of plant and has an unfortunate habit of eating its own eggs.

A Leeds park is sealed off this morning after an incident last night.

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Police say two people were injured in an "altercation" in Potternewton Park, near Chapeltown, which left them both with non-life-threatening injuries.

An investigation into the incident will continue this morning, police say.

People living in and around Preston in East Yorkshire are being advised to keep their windows closed this morning.

It's due to a fire at an industrial estate on Century Road, where a large amount of rubbish and plastic is on fire, according to Humberside Fire and Rescue:

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If you're making a journey on the rails in Yorkshire this Friday morning, most services appear to be running to time.

However:

• The 07:03 Leeds to Nottingham service has been cancelled
• The 07:17 Bradford Interchange to York service has been cancelled
• The 07:30 York to Preston service has been cancelled
• The 07:42 Leeds to York service has been cancelled
• The 07:52 York to Preston service has been cancelled
• The 08:03 Sheffield to Nottingham service has been cancelled

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

• York Station, external
• Leeds Station, external
• Sheffield Station, external
• Hull Station, external
• Doncaster Station, external
• Wakefield Westgate, external
• Bradford Interchange, external
• Bradford Forster Square, external

Police officers will be present at a school in Leeds today after a threatening message was written in a nearby park.

Royds School, in Oulton, says it had been working closely with the police after it was alerted to the message:

BBC journalist Lynette Horsburgh explains what life was like for a female snooker player in a male-dominated world.

Staff are being told to either cover fees of about £44 upfront or have them deducted from wages.

Brad Dwyer scores a dramatic long-range drop-goal in golden-point extra time to help Leeds to victory against Castleford.

A video of the assault on a 15-year-old Syrian refugee was widely circulated on social media.