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Dave Higgens

Dave Higgens is Yorkshire Correspondent at PA Media covering everything that happens in the Yorkshire and Humber region. Based in Sheffield, Dave has covered many of the biggest news stories in the north of England in the last 20 years. He had worked for PA since 1999, moving to Yorkshire in 2001 from PA's Bristol office. His reporting career started at the Gloucestershire Echo in 1996.

<p>Photo issued by Yorkshire Water of human remains that were at discovered at Yorkshire Water’s Full Sutton works</p>

Human remains found at prison sewer site are thousands of years old

<p>Sheffield Magistrates Court </p>

Priest who led Nine O’Clock Service to face 34 sexual abuse charges

A picket calmly ‘inspects’ a line of linked policemen outside the Orgreave coking plant near Rotherham (PA)

‘Heartbreaking’ memories of Miners’ Strike pulled together for 40th anniversary

Mine Director Shaun McLoughlin at the National Coalmining Museum, in the former site of Caphouse Colliery in Wakefield, West Yorkshire (Danny Lawson/PA)

Miners’ Strike should ‘never be forgotten’, says mineworker 40 years on