A drugs courier was found with up to £1m worth of cocaine after being stopped on the M4 by police.
Dale Wigglesworth, 44, had travelled from his home in the Isle of Sheppey, Kent, at 4am on June 6 this year and was destined for an address in Newport.
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Last updated: Sunday, 29 November, 2020, 15:54
Appeal after woman goes missing from Rotherham care home
Police seek witnsses after armed raid
Yorkshire Wildlife Park to appear on TV tonight
Missing man found ‘safe and well’
Councillors speak out afte…
Last updated: Sunday, 29 November, 2020, 15:54
Appeal after woman goes missing from Rotherham care home
Police seek witnsses after armed raid
Yorkshire Wildlife Park to appear on TV tonight
Missing man found ‘safe and well’
Councillors speak out afte…
A teenage girl was left shaken after she was ‘followed’ by two men in a pick-up truck.
The girl got off a bus outside the Brownlow Arms, Caldwell, North Yorkshire, on Tuesday 3 November at around 4.10pm.
As she walked towards Forcett the girl became aw…
A man has been sentenced to 14 months in prison after going a rampage with a 25-tonne digger and smashing up a truck and his boss’s £100,000 Range Rover.
Darren Verity, 53 who lives in Bradford was put away at Bradford Crown Court after a guilty plea t…
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This really is a bit of a left turn in my lockdown profile series, but the idea was always to build a picture of why Yorkshire has such strength and depth in its theatre culture, so it fits the theme.
Thursday, 19th November 2020, 5:48 pm
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Business advisory firm Grant Thornton has strengthened its Northern tax team with the recruitment of Vicky Carathanassis and Sophie Edwards, amid strong demand for its services.Research and Development (R&D) tax specialist Sophie has moved from the…
Peter Sutcliffe was a Bradford lorry driver who became known as the Yorkshire Ripper and was jailed for life in 1981 for murdering 13 women and trying to murder seven others in the deluded belief that he was on a maniacal “mission from God” to k…
Nicknamed the “Yorkshire Ripper” by the UK press, Sutcliffe was convicted in 1981 for murdering 13 women and attempting to murder seven others during a reign of terror in northern England between 1975 and 1980. He was serving a whole life term.
He ha…
An articulated lorry loaded with cauliflowers has overturned near a major route in and out of the North-east after an early morning accident.
North Yorkshire Police’s roads group said the wagon overturned on the Scotch Corner roundabout near the A1 aro…
Photo: North Yorkshire Police.
A lorry full of cauliflower overturned at Scotch Corner this morning.
The driver was uninjured and police say there is minimal congestion, although there may be delays when the vehicle is recovered.
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The boss of one of UK’s largest transportation firms has questioned a plan to close a well-used lorry park and replace it with fewer spaces at a new motorway service station.
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Coca-Cola’s Christmas truck will not be making its annual tour of the UK for the first time in 10 years, due to the coronavirus pandemic.In a tweet, the company said: “Due to current restrictions around the country, our Coca-Cola Christmas Truck Tour w…
THE Ingleton Fell Rescue Team which Reg Hainsworth led took on the project. The result was a cross-wall shelter topped with a bronze toposcope, or orientation table, completed just in time for the coronation on June 3, 1953.After providing cover from h…
