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Leeds shopkeeper left with serious injuries following robbery

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Police are appealing for information following a robbery at a newsagents shop in Leeds last week which left a shop worker seriously injured. Police received reports of a robbery at Sholebroke News, on Sholebroke Mount, at 7:35am on Wednesday 10 January. The male suspect threatened…

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