For students at St Mary Queen of Martyr School in Bransholme, Hull, their lives were turned upside down when their special little friend Stanley Metcalf was tragically shot dead just days into the summer holidays last year.
Crime across Yorkshire has risen by 10 per cent in the last 12 months, with an increase in homicides, violent offences, and possession of offensive weapons.
A new law to crack down on attacks on police and emergency services staff did not go far enough as a deterrent, says Halifax MP Holly Lynch, who campaigned for the legislation.
A car steering lock, a walking stick or an umbrella. To the average person these items are innocent enough, but as one Yorkshire police force explains, they can have devastating consequences when put into the wrong hands.
A man has been sentenced today at Hull Crown Court to 10 years in prison, with a following year on extended licence, for multiple sexual offences committed against a child.
A Yorkshire woman has told of how she could not even tell her own doctor her partner was beating her because he was so highly thought of in the village where they lived.
The shocking picture of domestic abuse in rural areas across the UK can be revealed for the first time today with victims left isolated, unsupported and failed by the system, services and those around them.
