Doncaster Free Press Daily Bulletin with Stephanie Bateman - Friday February 21, 2025

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00:00Good morning everyone it's Steph at the Doncaster Free Press on Friday February

00:0421st bringing you some of our headlines today. There is a piece out that went

00:11came from the police yesterday the leader of a Doncaster drugs line has

00:16been jailed after a covert investigation caught him and other suppliers in the

00:21act. Jason Vicarage was a leading role in the GAV drug line that's what it

00:29was called which was investigated as part of Operation Dream Alpha so he was

00:36part of a quite a number of people involved in the running of drugs

00:41supplying of drugs and he's finally been put behind bars so you can read all

00:45about what he's been up to and the sentence that he faces on the website

00:51today. Yesterday was a pretty bad day for On Our Roads quite a number of them

00:56serious incidents we had one like I put out late last night it sounds like

01:04somebody had been hit by a bus in the Balby area we did had didn't have quite

01:11scant information on that so I'm just waiting to hear back from the emergency

01:14services exactly what happened there. Around about the same time there was

01:19also road traffic collision which led to a lane closure on the

01:23m18 motorway as well so we'll bring you as much as we can updates on that later

01:32today obviously that affected traffic last night so if you're wondering why

01:36you were in tailbacks that one of those will probably have been the reason. Then

01:41another piece that's just over the border there in the Isle of Axome which

01:46a Homicide Police cover a man suffered facial and head injuries after he was

01:51kicked and punched to the ground by a group of three in what appears to be an

01:55unprovoked attack. Again we've got little information from the police

02:02they're obviously searching for these three people involved in that incident

02:08so you can read all about that and let police know if you know anything at all

02:13so for those three stories and for anything else that's happening in

02:17Doncaster please visit www.doncasterfreepress.co.uk and of course we'll keep you updated on

02:24Facebook and X but I'll speak to you later today I hope you have a great

02:29weekend and watch out because it's going to be a bit windy