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A REPEAT county lines drug dealer, who brought crack cocaine and heroin into Harrogate, has been jailed for five years and four months. Lee Bavin, 27, from Bradford was sentenced at York Crown Court today (January 15) following an investigation by North Yorkshire Police’s proactive drugs team, Operation Expedite. In September 2018, Bavin, who was part of a wider network of dealers and drug runners targeting Harrogate, was a passenger in a white Mercedes that was stopped near Huby by the force’s Operational Support Unit as it travelled towards Harrogate. Officers searched the ve...

Detectives secure justice for Fairburn sex attack victim Last modified: 19 January 2021 at 12:34pm A predatory sex attacker whose “despicable actions” left a woman traumatised has been jailed for 12 years with an extended six years on licence. Thomas Joshua Bird (pictured below), aged 30, from Knottingley, near Selby, was sentenced today (Friday 15 January 2021) at York Crown Court. Bird was found guilty of all four offences following a trial in November last year. These included two counts of attempted sexual assault, sexual assault, and failing ...

New Year's Eve in Birmingham, and the impact of Tier 4 COVID restrictions is all too apparent. Occasional fireworks, and a rainbow of lasers, light up the sky, and optimistic taxi drivers line up on ranks in the city centre. But the bars are closed, the restaurants have their shutters down, and the nightclubs are quiet. Only the takeaways are open, their customers walking home with familiar white plastic bags through the eerily quiet streets. On any other New Year's Eve, these same streets would be thronging with people. The city centre would entertain tens of thousands of party-goers. The ba...

BBC News Published image copyrightGetty Images image captionTwenty fines were issued, but most people kept within tier four rules and stayed at home, police said Officers in the West Midlands broke up some large New Year's Eve parties after finding some "shocking Covid breaches", the area's police chief said. Chief Constable Sir Dave Thompson, who spent time with the force's Operational Support Unit on Thursday, said some people had ignored new tier four rules. However, he tweeted the "majority have done the right thing". The force issued 20 fixed penalty notices and said about 50 party go...

Two arrested as police recover over £1k worth of suspected stolen items from car in York The car seized by police. Picture: @NYPRoadCrime on Twitter TWO women have been arrested after police recovered more than £1,000 worth of suspected stolen items from a car stopped in York. North Yorkshire Police's Operational Support Unit wrote on Twitter that they stopped a car "suspected of some Xmas shoplifting." As well as recovering more than £1,000 worth of suspected stolen items, they found £1,000 in cash "thought to be proceeds of crime." The unit confirmed that two women were arre...