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  • 05/09/2023
Leeds Headlines 5 September 2023.
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00:00 Three stories in brief, and Leeds residents have described their shock after witnessing
00:05 an unfinished playground on fire in the Hyde Park area on Monday afternoon. Tarmac and
00:10 a piece of apparatus in the Royal Park Road playground set alight, fire crews extinguished
00:16 the blaze swiftly and no-one was hurt.
00:19 Next, a Leeds child rapist who asked his victim if she could keep a secret was caught after
00:24 the girl's DNA was found on his clothing and CCTV showed them together. Callum Stevenson
00:30 from Rothwell has been jailed for nine years and will be on the Sex Offenders Register
00:34 for life.
00:37 And finally, a family-run gym in South Leeds has been reflecting on 2023 after they took
00:41 over MP Fit in Birstall in January. Gareth Senior, his son-in-law Nick and daughter Jenny
00:48 also took over a second site in Brickhouse and they say the venture is fighting fit.

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