Schoolchildren were treated to a special visit from bestselling children's author and poet Matt Goodfellow today, as he officially opened a new children's book nook in a railway station.

A grandfather from Bradford is “chuffed to bits” after winning a new competition by travelling to the highest number of railway stations in the North of England in a single day.

The man behind the award-winning flower displays at a station in Yorkshire say they fill him with “a great sense of pride”.