South Yorkshire County, England News

A MORRISONS customer had gauze for complaint when he opened an own-brand loaf - and found a blue plaster embedded in the bread.

Laurie Swift, from Darnall, was hit in the face with a glass bottle by Karen Lee last Christmas Eve outside The New Crown pub in Handsworth.

A woman killed in a road accident in Hemsworth has been named. Ann Oxley, 59, died after her silver Chevrolet was in collision with a wall and a lampost on Barnsley Road at its junction with Moorshutt Road just after 6.30am on Thursday, November 5. Ms Oxley, of Cudworth, Barnsley, worked at Birkenshaw's bakery on Market Street, Hemsworth.

A POLISH man was arrested in Scotland on suspicion of murder after a fatal stabbing in Skelmersdale.

THE daughter of a Sheffield woman killed in a road smash by her husband has spoken of her grief about the tragedy.

A MAN is in a critical condition in hospital this morning after suffering serious burns in a blaze.

A HOSPITAL A&E doctor who discharged a crash victim who later died told an inquest she was convinced the patient had jarred her back.

A Greater Manchester Police officer has been required to resign and another officer fined after an Independent Police Complaints Commission managed investigation into an allegation that excessive force was used on a man during his arrest.

A WOMAN found guilty of glassing a mum-of-two outside a Sheffield pub faces 'years' behind bars after breaching a suspended sentence imposed for a similar attack a year before.

WAR veterans have attacked 'special treatment' given at court to the student who caused national outrage by urinating on Sheffield's city centre war memorial.

A PAEDOPHILE used cigarettes and booze to lure a young boy to his Sheffield home - then subjected him to years of disgusting abuse, a court heard.

A small village in the north of England, Argleton, has been causing confusion with an air of mystery.

A DAD who acted as peacemaker when he intervened in a late night fracas with a group of thugs died after he was attacked two months later by a brick-wielding neighbour, a court heard.

A WOMAN who was raped in her own home nearly two decades ago has finally seen justice done today thanks to detectives from South Yorkshire Police's Cold Case Review Team.

A care worker has been found guilty of abusing vulnerable adults at a South Yorkshire home.

Sheffield United have been granted planning permission by the city's council to develop Bramall Lane, the club has confirmed.

The power of Google is well documented, but locals from Lancashire in Britain are shocked by the search-engine giant's ability to create a phantom town right in their neighbourhood.

A SERIES of workshops has been organised at a South Yorkshire church thanks to nearly A 10,000 of community grant funding.

A father of four died after he was hit with a housebrick as he tried to act as a "peacemaker" when violence erupted between members of his family and a group of young men in Sheffield, a court has heard.

A POLICEMAN has been forced to resign after punching a car thief who had crashed into a police vehicle to escape.