Crowds mourn soldier, 18; IN BRIEF .

HUNDREDS of mourners lined the streets yesterday for the funeral of a teenage soldier killed in an explosion in Afghanistan. Private Jonathon Young, 18, from Hull, died in the blast while on foot patrol in Helmand province on the day of the Afghan elections in August. Around 200 people lined the streets of Hull, East Yorkshire, to pay their last respects to the soldier of the 3rd Battalion The Yorkshire Regiment, who had been in Afghanistan just three weeks when he died on August 21.