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social services and police failed to protect little Star was published last month. The lengthy document looked at the deaths of 16 month old Star Hobson, who was living in Keighley at the time of her death in 2020, and six-year-old Arthur Labinjo-Hughes in Solihull. The report made numerous recommendations on what changes needed to be made nationally to prevent such tragedies happening again.

A council has issued an apology after accepting that opportunities to protect tragic tot Star Hobson from terrifying abuse were missed and that action should have been taken to save her.

lockdown after Covid-19 cases spiked. New figures have revealed the Yorkshire town and city have some of the highest virus rates in England.

Council leaders in Bradford and Barnsley have said they are not following Leicester into a local lockdown after figures revealed they had the second and third highest Covid-19 infection rates in England.Bradford has said it is “working hard” to prevent another lockdown, while Barnsley stressed new restrictions are not needed.The latest data shows Bradford has 69.4 cases per 100,000 population, the second highest in England behind Leicester with 140.2.And Barnsley is third in the table with 54.7 cases per 100,000.Bradford council leader Susan Hinchcliffe said: “We know that figures from Public Health England show Bradford with a high number of infections along with a number of other northern authorities, although we are some way behind