EAST YORKS: Rail-users experienced major delays during the bank holiday weekend after power lines were damaged.
Passengers of the East Coast Main Line services faced scores of cancellations and delays after overhead lines were damaged in two separate incidents.
Journeys on the route, which runs between Aberdeen and London's Kings Cross, were affected for much of Sunday, after power lines in Copmanthorpe, south of York, were damaged.
Diesel trains carried passengers through the affected area, but many travellers faced hour-long delays.
The problems followed hours of chaos on the line on Saturday, when 200 metres of power lines were damaged near Grantham, Lincolnshire, leading to disruption on 70 scheduled services.
A spokeswoman for service operator East Coast said both incidents had been resolved and trains were running as scheduled yesterday.
EAST HULL: Arsonists attacked children's play equipment. Wooden playground equipment at the recreation ground off Stonebridge Avenue was deliberately set on fire.
Firefighters were called out to the blaze at 6.37pm on Sunday.
Police are now investigating.
WEST HULL: A newsagent has been fined �200 for selling cigarettes to children.
Rakhshinda Mufti, 25, of Muftis in Albert Avenue, west Hull, was fined �200 for selling cigarettes to youngsters who were underage.
He pleaded guilty at Hull Magistrates' Court and was ordered to pay a �15 victims' surcharge and �260 court costs.
EAST YORKS: The cost of owning a property by the sea has more than doubled in the past decade.
According to Halifax, house prices in seaside towns have soared by 128 per cent since 2001, with seven out of ten towns seeing increases in property values.
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