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A RAPIST has been jailed for seven years after attacking a young woman as she slept in his spare bedroom.

THE sister of a Sheffield man allegedly killed by a brick-wielding youth broke down in court as she recalled the fatal blow.

A MAN has appeared in court charged with the murder of an Aughton businessman. Michal Kalinowski, 21, did not enter a plea at the hearing at Ormskirk Magistrates on Tuesday morning.

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.