FIVE vehicles have been seized for offences such as having no tax and no insurance during a multi-agency operation in North Yorkshire.

Police tweeted that a total of 30 vehicles were stopped in the operation yesterday, which involved 17 Specials from the Hambleton district.

The owners of 11 vehicles were issued with documentation and vehicle defect rectification notices.

Fourteen drivers were also breathalysed as part of the Christmas drink drive campaign but all were negative.