West Yorkshire
Americannoun
noun
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Bush, 48, of Otley in West Yorkshire, was "preoccupied with his own enrichment", defrauded nearly 200 families out of £562,117 and "caused anguish and pain on a scale beyond comprehension", the judge said.
From BBC ● Sep. 1, 2026
Townsend is thought to be the second man from Yorkshire to die during the war, with 18-year-old James Wilton, from Huddersfield, West Yorkshire, killed in 2024 after he volunteered to fight for Ukraine.
From BBC ● Aug. 24, 2026
Minnie Merriman, from West Yorkshire, died at Ninewells Hospital in Dundee after being found seriously injured at an industrial estate in the town.
From BBC ● Aug. 7, 2026
The BBC's File on 4 Investigates recently found that a school in Wakefield, West Yorkshire, put a pupil in an isolation booth away from the classroom for more than half an academic year.
From BBC ● Aug. 3, 2026
He was a Lieutenant in the 10th/13th West Yorkshire Regiment, and was killed in action on July 1, 1916.
From A Treasury of War Poetry British and American Poems of the World War 1914-1917 by George Herbert Clarke
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