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Granddad from Hull who's never gambled more than £10 on verge of £6,000,000 poker win

UK July 19, 2017 By Ashitha Nagesh

Man with boils on face 'forced to remove bandages by Morrison's staff'

UK December 12, 2019 By Jimmy Nsubuga

Carer who bit and kicked dementia patient will not be jailed

UK December 12, 2019 By Jimmy Nsubuga

Dog walks backwards out of rooms and nobody knows why

UK May 30, 2017 By Georgia Diebelius

Headteacher bans primary school kids from taking SATs

UK May 22, 2017 By Ashitha Nagesh

10 things you'll have heard if you live or grew up in Yorkshire

Lifestyle December 12, 2019 By Sam Ramsden

This creepy cloud looks exactly like an eye

Weird December 12, 2019 By Fiona Parker

An entire village in North Yorkshire has just sold for £20 million

Property December 12, 2019 By Edith Hancock

There's a meadow of Lego daffodils growing in the middle of Hull

Lifestyle December 12, 2019 By Miranda Larbi

Britain's steepest street in Bristol is a cyclist's worst nightmare

Lifestyle December 12, 2019 By Edith Hancock

Ruthless men jailed for conning vulnerable pensioners out of £2 million

UK December 12, 2019 By Georgia Diebelius

Couple forced to sleep in a graveyard after being evicted from their council house

UK February 19, 2017 By Jen Mills

Picture by Guzelian A heavily pregnant disabled woman has been left upset after receiving an abuse note calling her a "fat lazy c****" and telling her where the "spas" spaces are after she parking in a parent and child space. The woman, from Leeds, was parked in Morrisons when she found the note on her windscreen when she returned. Pictured: The note which was found on the windscreen WORDS BY GUZELIAN A disabled woman who is nearly eight months pregnant was left upset after she was left an abusive message labelling her a ìfat lazy c***î after she parked in a parent and child space. The 33-year-old mum-to-be was parking at Morrisons in Leeds, when she was unable to find a disabled space at around 3:15pm on Monday (February 6). As well as going through pregnancy, the woman also uses a walking stick and decided to park in one of several parent and child spaces that were unused, displaying her blue badge on the dashboard. However, when the woman returned with her partner to the car after half an hour, she found an offensive note on her windscreen that told her where the ìSpazî spaces are.

Pregnant disabled woman is told to 'park in spaz spaces'

UK February 9, 2017 By Ashitha Nagesh

Video grab of the dramatic moment Helen Wilson was hit by the car when it skidded into her on black ice. A grandma has spoken of her ëmiraculousí escape after coming inches from death outside her motherís home. See ROSS PARRY story RPYMIRACLE. Helen Wilson from Bradford, was knocked off her feet by a driver who is thought to have lost control on black ice on Tuesday morning. And while Mrs Wilsonís car had its front end torn off in the impact, she escaped the collision with bruising and ripped jeans.

Gran knocked down by two cars picks herself up and heads home to make dinner

UK January 26, 2017 By Ashitha Nagesh

PIC BY DAN ROWLANDS/MERCURY PRESS (PICTURED: MOHAMMED ALI, 15, AT WORK) A 16-year-old student who launched his first company age 12 claims he received a multi-million pound offer from American investors for his latest venture - but REJECTED it. Mohammad Ali, 16, from Dewsbury, Yorkshire, has earned more than £40,000 after creating his own video game and a financial app for the stock market. The technology mad teen is now set to launch a price comparison site with 60-year-old business partner Chris Thorpe and claims it is unrivaled by competitors. The sixth-form student said that when the pair met a group of Americans in London to discuss an investment, they instead offered to buy the company for a sum of 'more than £5million'. SEE MERCURY COPY

Schoolboy, 16, rejects £5million for website he created in his bedroom

UK December 12, 2019 By Jimmy Nsubuga

Picture: Lorne Campbell / Guzelian Joshua Gardner (20) of Leeds, West Yorkshire, who was told by a UBER taxi driver that disabled people need disable cars., before leaving him at the side of the road, outside his home (pictured). WORDS BY GUZELIAN PICTURE TAKEN ON TUESDAY 10 JANUARY 2017 A wheelchair user from West Yorkshire has spoken of his disgust at being left at the side of the road after an Uber driver refused to take him. Joshua Gardner, from Leeds, is a regularly user of Uber and sometimes even has three rides a day. He was on his way to meet friends at the pub to watch Cambridge against Leeds United on Monday (9 JANUARY) when an Uber driver refused to take him. According to Mr Gardner, the man told him ìDisabled people need disable carî before driving off. ìOrdering a taxi when you have a lightweight foldable wheelchair is plain and simple,î said Mr Gardner, a 20-year-old freelance journalist.

Uber driver 'abandoned disabled man on side of the road because of his wheelchair'

UK January 11, 2017 By Ashitha Nagesh

Mother says son's death 'wasn't an accident' after he drowned in canal

UK January 4, 2017 By Jen Mills

Funniest reactions to the earthquake off the coast of Yorkshire

UK December 12, 2019 By Nicole Morley

Earthquake hits near North Yorkshire coast

UK December 12, 2019 By Jimmy Nsubuga

Firefighters release super-catchy song to stop you burning your house down while drunk

UK December 7, 2016 By Ashitha Nagesh

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