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Victoria Finan

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Correspondent at The Yorkshire Post

Social affairs correspondent @yorkshirepost. Mum. Passionate about social equality, the North, dogs, and Doritos. Views all mine.

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  • 2 weeks ago | yorkshirepost.co.uk | Victoria Finan

    A workman who failed to build a promised summerhouse and gate to a pensioner in Skipton has been fined £4000. Andrew Keith Piner, of Clitheroe, Lancashire, appeared at York Magistrates’ Court on Wednesday (June 4) after pleading guilty to one offence under the Consumer Protection from Unfair Trading Regulations 2008. Piner had been commissioned to provide a summerhouse and gate for the Skipton resident worth some £1880.

  • 2 weeks ago | yorkshirepost.co.uk | Victoria Finan

    Police are appealing for information after a man in his 20s suffered serious leg injuries when he was hit by a car in Huddersfield. The man was struck and pinned to a wall by a red Audi which then left the scene on Westbourne Road on Friday (June 6)Officers attended and located the victim, a man in his 20s, who had suffered serious leg injuries. He was taken to hospital for treatment to the injuries which are not being treated as life threatening.

  • 3 weeks ago | yorkshirepost.co.uk | Victoria Finan

    North Yorkshire Police has paid tribute to a special constable who was gunned down by the IRA in 1992. Glenn Goodman, 37, from Sherburn-in-Elmet, died after being shot on the A64 near Tadcaster on June 7, 32 years ago. Special Constable Goodman had a ten month old son and had only been with North Yorkshire Police for eight months when he was killed. The gunman, Paul Magee, made off through nearby villages and shot at another police car near Burton Salmon.

  • 3 weeks ago | yorkshirepost.co.uk | Victoria Finan

    And residents of one very picturesque North Yorkshire village are hoping their horticultural efforts will pay off at their first Open Gardens event in decades. Some 18 properties in West Tanfield near Masham will open to curious visitors to show a wealth of flora and fauna on June 14 and June 15. The village, which sits on the banks of the River Ure, is well known for its charm and Grade I listed church, St Nicholas’s.

  • 3 weeks ago | yorkshirepost.co.uk | Victoria Finan

    Fees for children’s music lessons are set to rise in North Yorkshire despite hundreds of parents cancelling during the cost of living crisis. Peripatetic music lessons are provided by North Yorkshire Council in most schools at an extra cost to parents. The council also runs six Music Centres across the region in Harrogate, Northallerton, Scarborough, Selby, Skipton, and Whitby which provide weekend music sessions for young people.

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Victoria Finan
Victoria Finan @victoriafinan
20 May 25

I'm not really here any more but I wanted to share a piece of writing I've just published about the fact that a month ago, I lost a much wanted pregnancy. With massive content warnings for baby loss. https://t.co/nFwuOL7QRr

Victoria Finan
Victoria Finan @victoriafinan
5 Feb 25

Couldn't agree more.

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David__Osland @David__Osland

Whether Lucy Letby is acquitted after a retrial or not, the uncertainty surrounding her conviction is a major argument against the death penalty

Victoria Finan
Victoria Finan @victoriafinan
7 Jan 25

Ten years ago, I walked into the @yorkshirepost newsroom for the first time. I was terrified. I still am, some days. What a decade. https://t.co/HSDlw3dsmb