Tom Wilkinson
Crime19 Apr 2025
Man who admitted A1 police pursuit crash charge drove to work two days later
Mazyar Azarbonyad, 20, was taking a woman out for a first date when the crash took place near the Denton roundabout on April 9.
Science
Babies ‘react more favourably’ to smell of foods mothers ate late in pregnancy
Researchers studied the facial expressions of three-week-old babies whose mothers had regularly taken either kale or carrot powder.
13 Feb 2025
Crime10 Feb 2025
Father stabbed daughter in kitchen play-fight in ‘flash of anger’, judge says
Simon Vickers, 50, was jailed for life with a minimum term of 15 years for murdering his daughter Scarlett.
Crime10 Feb 2025
Dad who fatally stabbed daughter jailed for life
Jurors found Simon Vickers guilty after they heard how he had given three different accounts of what happened
Crime10 Feb 2025
Father sentenced for kitchen murder of his 14-year-old daughter
Simon Vickers was convicted of stabbing his daughter Scarlett to death.
Crime7 Feb 2025
Man jailed for life for murdering partner’s 22-month-old son
Christopher Stockton, 38, was convicted of the murder of Charlie Roberts in Darlington in January last year.
Crime
Man to be sentenced for murdering partner’s toddler
Christopher Stockton shook Charlie Roberts, aged 22 months, to death after a night playing video games
7 Feb 2025
UK
Harvey Willgoose, 15, stabbed at school was ‘our beautiful boy’, say family
Harvey was stabbed on Monday lunchtime at his secondary school in Sheffield.
4 Feb 2025
UK
Family of boy, 15, killed in Sheffield school stabbing visit scene
Harvey Willgoose died after being knifed at All Saints Catholic High School, Sheffield, on Monday lunchtime
4 Feb 2025
UK
School trust says stabbed 15-year-old was ‘precious’ and ‘loved’
Harvey Willgoose was described as ‘an invaluable part of our school community’.
4 Feb 2025
UK
Father pays tribute to son killed by drone on first mission fighting in Ukraine
James Wilton, from Huddersfield, West Yorkshire, left college and travelled to join international fighters.
4 Feb 2025
UK
Family tributes to boy, 15, killed in school stabbing
Harvey Willgoose died at All Saints Catholic High School in Sheffield on Monday.
4 Feb 2025
Crime3 Feb 2025
Boy, 15, dies after stabbing at school
A 15-year-old boy was detained after the incident at All Saints Catholic High School in Granville Road in Sheffield on Monday
Environment
Greenland ice sheet cracking open quicker than before, say scientists
A study, led by Durham University, has been made of its crevasses over a five-year period
3 Feb 2025
Health
Military veterans complete Stormbird Viking longboat
More than 100 former personnel helped to create the 30ft vessel from an oak felled on the anniversary of D-Day in 2018.
2 Feb 2025
UK
Leeds United fans to pay tribute following crash which killed three teenagers
The tragedy happened in the village of West Bretton, near Wakefield.
31 Jan 2025
Environment
National Trust seeks help after losing more than 10,000 trees in Storm Eowyn
Sites across Northern Ireland, northern England and Scotland have reported losses in the huge storm.
29 Jan 2025Crime
Father guilty of murdering daughter after stabbing her in kitchen ‘play-fight’
Simon Vickers, 50, gave different accounts of what happened in the seconds before he plunged a kitchen knife into his daughter Scarlett’s chest.
27 Jan 2025
Crime
Man who took part in Hartlepool and Sunderland disorder jailed for six years
Ashley Wilkinson has come to accept he was taken in by right-wing ‘propaganda’ online, Newcastle Crown Court was told.
20 Jan 2025
Crime
Man who admitted threatening to kill his MP applies to change guilty plea
Benjamin Clarke, 31, was due to be sentenced at Durham Crown Court but his case was adjourned
16 Jan 2025
Crime
Father denies murdering 14-year-old daughter during kitchen ‘play-fight’
Scarlett Vickers died after an incident in the kitchen of a house in Darlington in July last year.
14 Jan 2025