Crime

A GRIEVING daughter who continued to claim benefits after failing to declare she had inherited £40,000 following her mother’s death has escaped immediate jail.

Two men armed with a gun escaped with cash and alcohol after a shop raid in Sheffield.

A ram raider who smashed his way into two shops one mile apart is facing jail.

A man searched in a Sheffield street was found to be carrying crack cocaine.

Thieves used stolen cars to ram-raid a petrol station and steal a cash machine in East Yorkshire.

Two missing South Yorkshire girls may be together, police believe.

Six arrests were made after drugs worth £30,000 were seized in a series of raids across Rotherham.

Police are trying to trace a man in connection with a stabbing in York.

Police in Leeds are appealing for information about a suspicious incident involving a woman who appeared to be in distress.

A man has been taken to hospital after being assaulted in Leeds earlier today.

Robbers wielding a knife tried to break in to a home in the early hours of the morning in Dewsbury.

New pictures have emerged of arsonists who set fire to a Bradford fish and chip shop.

A man has been jailed for life for the murder of a Rotherham shopkeeper he attacked during a robbery for just £40.

A woman has been charged with attempted murder today following a stabbing in Dewsbury.

A DRUNK stepdad who falsely imprisoned two children in a Leeds flat and threatened to burn it down during a three-hour stand-off with police eventually freed them in exchange for lager and crisps.

A SPEEDING driver who got two tickets within three weeks and claimed her seriously ill friend had been behind the wheel on both occasions has been jailed.