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Hit-And-Run Children In Leeds Were 'Out Buying Food For Their Family'

PA | Posted 19.08.2012 | UK

A two-year-old boy and his 10-year-old sister were critically injured in a hit and run after they walked home after buying onions for the family's Eid...

African Olympic Athlete Asks For Asylum

PA | Posted 26.07.2012 | UK

An Olympic athlete has walked into a police station and asked for asylum in the UK. It is understood the male competitor turned up at the Bridewell...

Flood Helpers Unaware Of £2M Lottery Win

PA/Huffington Post UK | Posted 19.06.2012 | UK

A couple helped clear up their local community which had been hit by floods unaware that they had just scooped £2.1 million on the Lottery. Robin ...

Dalai Lama Leeds Visit Prompts Olympic Pull-out Threats From China

PA | Posted 13.06.2012 | UK

Chinese officials have threatened to pull the country's Olympic athletes out of their training camp in Leeds due to a scheduled visit by the Dalai Lam...

Woman Has To Be Rescued After Getting Trapped In Deck Chair

PA | Posted 29.05.2012 | UK

An 83-year-old woman was trapped in her deckchair for nearly six hours before being rescued by firefighters. She became trapped when the fabric sea...

The Arts Cuts: It's Personal

Mark Skipper | Posted 25.07.2012 | Home
Mark Skipper

2011/12 was one of the most challenging but hugely satisfying years I can remember during my years at Northern Ballet.

Student Paper Nominated For Press Awards Alongside Media Giants

The Huffington Post UK | Lucy Sherriff | Posted 20.12.2012 | UK Universities & Education

A student paper has become the first to be nominated for a national media award with the editor describing the experience as "amazing". Leeds Stude...

Man Jailed For Rape After Group Assault Of 15-Year-Old Girl

PA | Posted 18.07.2012 | UK

A man was jailed for 11 years today for raping a drunken 15-year-old girl who was filmed as she was sexually assaulted by a number of men. Ali Rehm...

Police Given More Time To Question Suspected Killer

PA/Huffington Post UK | Posted 01.05.2012 | UK

Police have been granted more time to question James Allen who went on the run after two people were killed in separate attacks. The 36-Year-Old wa...

James Allen Arrested As Part Of Double Murder Probe

PA/The Huffington Post | Posted 29.04.2012 | UK

Police hunting James Allen, a man suspected of the murders of two people in Middlesborough, announced on Sunday morning they had arrested a 36 year-ol...

James Allen Hunt Widens After Leeds Spotting

PA | Posted 28.06.2012 | UK

A third police force has joined the manhunt for a violent convicted criminal suspected of killing two people in their own homes following a fresh sigh...

Alice E. Vincent

The Home Life Of Britain's Gangsters

HuffingtonPost.com | Alice E. Vincent | Posted 13.04.2012 | Home

Being the family photographer of the British criminal underworld isn't necessarily the easiest job in the world, but it's one that photojournalist Joc...

WATCH: Woman Falls In Love With The Statue Of Liberty

Huffington Post UK | Alastair Plumb | Posted 13.03.2012 | UK Comedy

27-year-old Amanda Whittaker doesn't like to be called Amanda Whittaker. She prefers Amanda Liberty, which makes sense when you realise she's in love ...

Students Leed The Way For University Papers

The Huffington Post UK | Lucy Sherriff | Posted 28.02.2012 | UK Universities & Education

Leeds students have become the first to launch a university paper as an iPad app. Despite setting a precedent for all other student newspapers and ...

'Snowball Six' Suspended Over Mass Playground Battle

PA | Posted 09.02.2012 | UK Universities & Education

School bosses have defended a decision to suspend six pupils for throwing snowballs. The students were ordered home for the week following a snowba...

Inquest To Open Into Death Of Gary Speed

PA/Huffington Post UK | Posted 30.03.2012 | UK

The inquest into the death of former Wales football manager Gary Speed will take place today. Speed, who played for Sheffield United, Everton, Newc...

Primary School Kids To Get Anger Management Classes

Huffington Post UK | Lucy Sherriff | Posted 25.01.2012 | UK Universities & Education

A primary school has taken drastic action to tackle bad behaviour and are giving their pupils anger management, a report from Ofsted revealed. Hill...

English Cities Set For 'Super Thursday' Mayor Elections

Huffington Post UK | Ned Simons | Posted 25.01.2012 | UK Politics

Elections for mayors in 11 English cities will be held in November, after ministers decided to bring forward referendums on creating the posts to May ...

Man Questioned Over Murder Of Woman And Girl Found Dead In House

PA | Posted 15.01.2012 | UK

Detectives investigating the killings of a woman and young girl who were discovered dead inside a house were today questioning a man on suspicion of m...

Man Questioned Over Drugs After Student Dies In Halls

PA | Posted 09.01.2012 | UK Universities & Education

A man is being questioned on suspicion of supplying drugs after an 18-year-old student was found dead in his halls of residence, police said today. ...

Way to Make Money in a Bad Economy #472: Tattoo Yourself

Chris Purnell | Posted 15.02.2012 | UK Lifestyle
Chris Purnell

With winter approaching and more of my income going on heating bills, I have been thinking of ways to raise money, heat my one bedroom flat, and live through this recession with relative ease.

Mother And Baby Son Killed By Single Stab Wound, Say Police

Huffington Post UK | Lucy Sherriff | Posted 13.12.2011 | UK

A mother and her two young children found dead in their Pudsey home all suffered stab wounds, reportedly inflicted by their father wielding a knife ag...

Comic Charlie Chuck Gets a Sexual Disease and is Attacked in Germany

John Fleming | Posted 10.02.2012 | UK Comedy
John Fleming

I first worked with Yorkshire comedian Charlie Chuck in 1990, before his cult-creating TV appearances on The Smell of Reeves & Mortimer. Last week he ...

Murder Inquiry Launched After 'Grim Discovery' Of Family Of Four Found Dead

PA | Posted 12.12.2011 | UK

Police have launched a murder inquiry after the bodies of two adults and two boys were found in a house. Richard and Clair Smith and their children...

UK Cities To Be Given More Powers In Attempt To Boost Growth

Huffington Post UK | Peter Guest | Posted 08.12.2011 | UK Politics

Major UK cities are to be given new financial powers to borrow and spend, as part of a government initiative to decentralise decision making and boost...