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Pauline's daughter was killed by her partner when leaving a work function in 2019. She'd previously gone to the police with concerns that he was dangerous, and he was convicted of manslaughter on grounds of diminished responsibility after it was found he was going through a schizophrenic episode at the time. Pauline is has launched the BRF campaign in her daughter's memory (BRF are her daughter's initials - Bethany Rae Fields) and it stands for Believe. React. Fast and is a message to police to believe women when they come forward with concerns for their lives.

My daughter's abuser was reported to the police 7 times: Then he killer her

Channel: UK UK 3 days ago By Pauline Jones
Pauline's daughter was killed by her partner when leaving a work function in 2019. She'd previously gone to the police with concerns that he was dangerous, and he was convicted of manslaughter on grounds of diminished responsibility after it was found he was going through a schizophrenic episode at the time. Pauline is has launched the BRF campaign in her daughter's memory (BRF are her daughter's initials - Bethany Rae Fields) and it stands for Believe. React. Fast and is a message to police to believe women when they come forward with concerns for their lives.

My daughter did everything she was meant to - then police failed her

Channel: UK UK 4 days ago By Pauline Jones

Britain's last standing Christmas tree finally removed 80 days into New Year

Channel: UK UK March 26, 2025 By Luke Alsford
Person sits on top of the rocks on Ilkley Moor, West Yorkshire.

UK's 'posh enclave' where prices average £532,000 named best place to live in the north

Channel: Property Property March 25, 2025 By Eleanor Noyce
Sam Varley has given evidence from beyond the grave as chilling footage showing her telling officers how the man accused of her murder would kill her was played to a courtroom. Warren Spence, 54, is standing trial at Leeds Crown Court accused of Sam's murder. Sam's body was discovered on February 12 last year in her bed at the couple's home in Brown Hill Terrace, Harehills, after a concerned relative called 999 due to not seeing her for a few days

Mum predicted her own death and who would kill her

Channel: UK UK March 25, 2025 By Sarah Hooper
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Would-be bomber jailed for plot to blow up 'as many nurses as possible'

Channel: UK UK March 21, 2025 By Sarah Hooper

Thief jailed for 30 years for murdering Amazon driver who tried to stop him taking van

Channel: UK UK March 14, 2025 By Brooke Davies
Louie Clark, 7. A little boy was unable to speak or move after suffering from a stroke while playing football aged seven - leaving him with blood clots on the brain. Louie Clark, seven, was at football practice when he suddenly began feeling dizzy and started vomiting on 24th February. By the time he got home, Louie had lost the use of his legs and was unable to talk so his parents, Ben, 36, and Lindsey Clark, 35, rushed him to Pinderfields Hospital in Wakefield, West Yorkshire. Tests and scans revealed Louie had suffered a stroke and he was transferred to Leeds General Infirmary.

Boy, 7, unable to speak after suffering stroke on football pitch

Channel: UK UK March 7, 2025 By Sarah Hooper
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Machete gang fired gun while chasing boy through streets

Channel: UK UK February 26, 2025 By Sarah Hooper
The boy and his mother

Urgent appeal to find missing mother and son, 8, in Leeds

Channel: UK UK February 24, 2025 By Gergana Krasteva
Play Video Furious Land Rover driver blocks road to dealership for SIX hours after it 'refused to fix his car under warranty'

Furious Land Rover owner blocks dealership in row over repairs to £120,000 car

Channel: UK UK February 22, 2025 By Sam Corbishley
EMBARGOED TO 0001 MONDAY JANUARY 20 A small scar at the corner of Ruvimbo Kaviya's eye after she became the first person in the UK to receive groundbreaking surgery to remove a tumour through her eye socket at Leeds General Infirmary. Picture date: Thursday January 16, 2025. PA Photo. Surgeons at Leeds Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust have performed a groundbreaking procedure that marks a significant advancement in skull base tumour treatment. Ruvimbo Kaviya, aged 40, became the first person in the UK to have a tumour removed using a flexible tube and camera called an endoscope through her eye socket, after being diagnosed with meningiomas on the right side of the back of her brain and left side of her eye. See PA story HEALTH Keyhole. Photo credit should read: Danny Lawson/PA Wire

Tumour deep inside woman’s head removed through eye socket in UK-first operation

Channel: UK UK January 20, 2025 By Sara Odeen-Isbister
A CrossCountry train makes it's way along the line near to Basingstoke in Hampshire.

The UK's longest train journey with 36 stops and ‘breathtaking countryside’

Channel: Travel Travel February 12, 2025 By Eleanor Noyce
A police officer outside the Old Tree Inn pub on the High Street in Kippax, West Yorkshire, where a seven-year-old girl was seriously injured in an accident whilst a passenger on a quad bike. The Honda TRX420 was in collision with a telegraph pole outside the Old Tree Inn late on Boxing Day. Picture date: Friday December 27, 2024. PA Photo. A 16-year-old boy has been arrested on suspicion of causing serious injury by dangerous driving, and a man and a woman, both aged in their thirties, have been arrested on suspicion of child neglect. Photo credit should read: Danny Lawson/PA Wire

Boy and two adults bailed after girl, 7, seriously injured in quadbike crash

Channel: UK UK December 28, 2024 By Katie Boyden
??Andrew McCaren 10/12/2024 Leeds UK. Sophie Marshall Clark & her home on Moor Road in Far Headingley in Leeds, Yorkshire, for The Metro What I Own feature. Photo Credit: Andrew McCaren

What I Own: Our £320,000 Leeds cottage has a country feel, but it's almost in the city

Channel: Property Property December 21, 2024 By Eleanor Noyce
A large detached house in a dip in a garden with purple and pink dusk sky behind it

Inside the remote £1,750,000 house with a life-size Star Wars flight deck

Channel: Property Property December 10, 2024 By Eleanor Noyce
Pedestrian shopping street 'North Lanes' in Brighton, East Sussex, England. With crowds of people.

Map of UK's disposable income shows exactly how rich your neighbours are

Channel: UK UK December 5, 2024 By Sarah Hooper
Play Video Story from Jam Press (Fish Face) Pictured: Video grab of Bob the fish with a human face. They???re hooked! Family-of-three baffled by pet fish because he has human face A family-of-three are hooked on their pet fish because he has a human face. The koi carp - named Bob - lives in Malcolm Pawson???s pond in his back garden. He got him three years ago and he used to just blend with his 11 other fish. The species are known to change colour. Malcolm - who lives with his partner and daughter - then spotted his markings change. Bob is predominately white but black marks on his head form a set of eyes, nose and mouth. Landscape gardener Malcolm, 48, now cannot get over four-year-old Bob???s one-of-a-kind looks. He is easily the most popular with Malcolm???s friends and family. Bob cost his owner ??150, but the unique fish now being rendered priceless in the eyes of Malcolm. Malcolm, from Leeds, told??What???s The Jam:?????My friends and family love him. ???My daughter's friends are always asking to come see and feed him. ???Even people who walk past my house stop and stare if I have the gate open. ???I welcome anyone in to see him, he gets all the attention, it's amazing. ???I bought him three years ago as I noticed him as the most friendly fish in the shop. ???He didn't have the markings on his face when I first got him as Koi can change colour ???The unusual markings have gradually grown. ???I am looking at making the pond even bigger now as the fish have grown so big. ???Bob is very greedy, my partner calls me a feeder.??? ENDS EDITOR'S NOTE: Video Usage Licence:(EXCLUSIVE) We have obtained an exclusive licence from the copyright holder. A copy of the licence is available on request. Video Restrictions: None.

Who do you think this 'greedy human-faced fish' called Bob looks like?

Channel: Weird Weird November 12, 2024 By Josh Milton

Mum gives birth to baby weighing over 11 pounds - the same as a bowling ball

Channel: UK UK November 10, 2024 By Sara Odeen-Isbister
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Mystery solved after source of gut-wrenching smell at bus station is discovered

Channel: UK UK November 7, 2024 By Jasper King

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