All news by author: Samuel Port

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Toddler dies after dad reverses on driveway and she wanders into blind spot
Hanniyah Bint Vaqas Younis had been playing in her family’s back garden, before wandering along a path and through an unsecured gate to the front drive, where she sat behind her dad's car
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Life in village swamped in drugs and poverty as residents brand it a 'disgrace'
Residents of Cornholme, near Todmorden, say the area has serous issues with poverty and drug problems and described the picturesque location as "scenic and bleak"
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Once-thriving British seaside town local residents say is being 'utterly ruined'
Locals from Yorkshire are fond of calling the region God's Own Country, however there is one small town which God has not bestowed with kindness
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'Council took me to court over £280 market fine - now I'm £12,000 worse off'
Narinder Sharma, who is a stallholder at a market in Leeds city centre, said he had to pay £12,000 after the council took him to court over an unpaid £280 fine - and he now wishes he just paid it
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Village where residents forced to have green doors and can't buy own homes
Wentworth, located in Rotherham, South Yorkshire, is home to 1,400 people and residents are forced to confirm to a number of strict rules to protect the village's heritage
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Life on one of Britain's most 'notorious' streets where locals live in fear
Scarborough's notorious St Nicholas Street, usually buzzing on a wild Saturday night, is packed with bars and nightclubs, and infamous for its rowdy antics and unruly behaviour
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Pet owner mauled by American Bulldog in park as vets called to sedate 8st beast
A playground was evacuated today in Thorpe Willoughby, North Yorkshire, while a large, aggressive bulldog ran wild and left its owner injured - and police were called
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Man gets bollards to stop 'chaos' of illegal camping and traffic short-cuts
Councillor Sam Firth has won a battle to have bollards and boulders to stop illegal camping and fly tipping on fields and motorists taking short cuts across footpaths in Leeds
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18-year-old killed in violent taxi ambush in broad daylight 'taken too soon'
Jamie Meah, 18, reportedly fled into a fish and chip shop after being knifed on Friday afternoon during an ambush as he travelled in a taxi through Leeds with a friend
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Dying teen 'runs screaming' into fish and chip shop as owner tries to save him
The Leeds shop was full of customers when the teen ran in, bleeding and screaming for help, according to a friend of the owner who tried desperately to stem the bleeding until medics arrived
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Taxi attack sees passenger, 18, stabbed to death and boy, 16, injured
Police rushed to the scene of horror in west Leeds, shortly before 5.30pm yesterday. An 18-year-old man died and a 16-year-old boy was seriously injured
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Mum-of-3 on Universal Credit asks 'what will we do' when down to 'last tenner'
Paris Cambridge, and her family from Seacroft, Leeds, have been hit hard by the cost-of-living crisis like countless Brits, and left desperately asking what she can do when her family are down to her 'last tenner'
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Shopkeeper's fury as he's arrested for attacking thief who fell through his roof
Dad-of-three Ravinder ‘Bobby’ Singh decided to stake out his Premier coroner shop to try and catch a thief red-handed before culprit Jason Urwin fell through the ceiling
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Holiday family return to find everything they own - even cat - destroyed in fire
When Jade Beaumont and husband Jack were on a weekend away with their son, the tumble dryer caught fire in her home in Wigan, Greater Manchester
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Mum distraught as home burns down and family cat dies in tumble dryer fire
Jade Beaumont, 29, has told how her family returned to their Wigan home to find only a "shell" left following a fire started by a tumble dryer that saw their cat killed
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Paul Chowdhry fans evacuated from venue mid-gig as 'gas leak' ends comedy show
Hundreds of fans have been evacuated from a Paul Chowdhry comedy gig in Leeds. Fans were told to keep away from the Leeds City Varieties venue after reports of a gas leak
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Cast of 'disturbing' Winnie The Pooh horror sent death threats from angry fans
Winnie the Pooh: Blood and Honey is a new horror movie expected out next month and it is set to show the famous bear and his sidekick Piglet in a very different light