A man from Hull has been fined for dumping a mound of building rubbish on a Cottingham roadside.

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Andrew Broadbelt, of Hessle Road in Hull, pleaded guilty to the illegal disposal of waste on land at Hull Road Cottingham, when he appeared at Beverley Magistrates’ Court on Wednesday 17 October.

Mr Broadbelt was fined £500, was ordered to pay £723.68 costs and a victim surcharge of £50.

He also pleaded guilty to a charge of failing to attend court on a previous occasion and was fined a further £50.

The East Riding of Yorkshire Council said it will investigate all cases of fly-tipping.

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Labour MP Barry Sheerman says authorities didn't act quickly enough to investigate grooming.

A 51-year-old woman was robbed at gunpoint in Barnsley on Wednesday night.

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She was walking along Upper Sheffield Road at about 20:30 when she was approached by a man.

He tried to talk to her before snatching her handbag, but when she refused to let go of it he is said to have threatened her with a gun.

The man ran off along Knowle Road and into the Kendray estate.

The men committed more than 120 offences against 15 girls in the Huddersfield area.

Part of the A64 between York and Malton is going to be closed all weekend from tonight.

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The closure is to enable engineers to rebuild part of the carriageway.

This is the first of three weekends when the road's going to be shut.

Highways England say the work will be completed as quickly as possible.

The mother of a Huddersfield grooming victim talks about the years of abuse her daughter suffered.

Four people have been arrested in Beverley today following a series of raids on properties in the town.

Misuse of drugs warrants were executed at six properties in the town – two in Schofield Avenue, two in Coltman Avenue, one in Wharton Avenue and one at a unit on the Beverley Business Park.

Those arrested included:

• A 32-year-old man has been arrested on suspicion of money laundering and supplying controlled drugs
• A man, 23, was arrested on suspicion of possession with intent to supply Class A drugs
• A 20-year-old man has been arrested on suspicion of possession to supply drugs other than Class A
• An 18-year-old was arrested on suspicion of deserting from the army.

All four remain in police custody.

Sexual abuse victims subjected to a "campaign of rape and abuse" in Huddersfield have been praised for their bravery.

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Twenty men have been found guilty of being part of a grooming gang that raped and abused girls as young as 11 in the town.

Michael Quinn, from the Crown Prosecution Service, said the men sometimes used threats and violence and also plied their victims with alcohol or drugs.

“At the heart of this case are the victims, who have all suffered trauma as a result of their childhood abuse at the hands of these men," he said.

"Each of them has shown immense courage in coming forward to assist the investigation and support the prosecution case."

Health officials in Bradford say they are working to make sure computer problems at doctors' surgeries are fixed as soon as possible.

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GPs in the area have been affected by the IT problems for more than a week.

Systems have been affected by a fault in the air conditioning at a new data centre.

Groomed, raped and often discarded on the moors, more than a dozen girls suffered years of abuse.

A motorcyclist has sustained serious injuries and remains in a critical condition after he was involved in a collision on Thursday afternoon.

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It happened on Coldhill Lane, on the outskirts of Sherburn-in-Elmet, at about 13:45 yesterday afternoon.

It involved a beige, Skoda Octavia travelling from the direction of Lotherton Hall towards Sherburn, and a blue and white BMW motorcycle travelling in the same direction.

The road remained closed until 19:30.

A disabled teenager from Hull, who was forced to sit in a train loo because his reserved seat was occupied, has revealed why he was travelling to London.

Connor Lynes works as an ambassador to raise awareness about brain injuries in children, after he suffered a major stroke while playing rugby league.

He had been in London to meet the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge.

On his train journey back home he was left to sit in the train toilet, despite staff saying they would help him get a seat:

An independent review will take place following the convictions of 20 men who had abused young girls in Huddersfield, the council has said.

West Yorkshire Police and the council refused to answer any questions outside court earlier.

However, the director of children's services at Kirklees Council Steve Walker said lessons have been learned and all the agencies in the area now work closely together "to ensure that victims and potential victims are protected and those who seek to exploit and abuse children and young people are brought to justice".

Mr Walker went on to praise the victims involved in this case.

"This has been a long and arduous process for them.

"Their courage in coming forward and giving evidence has brought these offenders to justice. I hope that the outcome today will give them some closure."

He added that the safety of children and young people was the council's "highest priority".

"For that reason we have asked independent expert Dr Mark Peel – the former Professor of Social Work at Leicester University, to undertake a review of these non-recent cases to identify whether there are any lessons we can learn," he said.

A Huddersfield MP has said the speed of which claims of sexual abuse against young girls in the town were investigated wasn't quick enough.

Twenty men have been found guilty of being part of grooming gang that raped and abused girls as young as 11 in the town.

Labour's Barry Sheerman said child sexual exploitation cases in Rotherham and elsewhere in the country had "galvanized" the police into taking action.

However, he said more should have been done much earlier:

A judge has branded the sexual abuse of young girls carried out by a group of twenty men as "vile and wicked".

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The men were convicted of more than 120 offences against 15 girls, some as young as 11, in Huddersfield.

Victims were plied with drink and drugs and then "used and abused at will" in a seven year "campaign of rape and abuse" between 2004 and 2011.

At Leeds Crown Court, the ringleader, Amere Singh Dhaliwal, 35, was jailed for life with a minimum of 18 years.

Other members of the gang were jailed for between five and 18 years.

Details of the men's convictions and sentences can only now be published after reporting restrictions on a series of trials were lifted.

During the three trials jurors heard how the men - who were known by nicknames such as Dracula, Beastie and Bully - preyed on young, vulnerable girls.

Jailing 16 of the men earlier in 2018, Judge Geoffrey Marson QC said: "The way you treated these girls defies understanding; this abuse was vile and wicked.

"As cases of sexual abuse with which the courts have to deal, this case comes top of the scale."

Nigel Farage has said that Sir Nick Clegg's appointment with global social media giant Facebook is "bad news for free speech".

Sir Nick lost his Sheffield Hallam parliamentary seat in 2015.

He has said he is delighted to join the company as vice president of global affairs and communications.

Mr Farage is clearly not quite as delighted as Sir Nick:

Twenty men have been found guilty of being part of grooming gang that raped and abused girls as young as 11 in Huddersfield.

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The men were convicted of more than 120 offences against 15 girls.

Victims were plied with drink and drugs and then "used and abused at will" in a seven year "campaign of rape and abuse" between 2004 and 2011.

At Leeds Crown Court, the ringleader, Amere Singh Dhaliwal, 35, was jailed for life with a minimum of 18 years.

Other members of the gang were jailed for between five and 18 years.

Details of the men's convictions and sentences can only now be published after reporting restrictions on a series of trials were lifted.

Twenty men have been found guilty of being part of grooming gang that raped and abused girls as young as 11 in Huddersfield.

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The men were convicted of more than 120 offences against 15 girls.

Victims were plied with drink and drugs and then "used and abused at will" in a seven year "campaign of rape and abuse" between 2004 and 2011.

Jack Gray stood in for his boss at the last minute, but was disqualified despite finishing first.

Twenty men have been found guilty of being part of grooming gang that raped and abused girls as young as 11 in Huddersfield.

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