Police use metal detectors to search for missing Ben
Police from the UK are using metal detectors in Greece to search the farmland where missing toddler Ben Needham was last seen alive.
Police from the UK are using metal detectors in Greece to search the farmland where missing toddler Ben Needham was last seen alive.
A man accused of murdering his girlfriend from West Yorkshire in Greece has been granted bail to the UK.
The wife of a plumber from Otley is preparing to fly out to Greece as he faces trial for offences he insists he did not commit.
A man from Otley who has been cleared of more than 70 armed robberies in Greece could remain in prison for another month.
Fran Prenga was found innocent of the crimes at a court in Athens, but despite being a free man it emerges that the court failed to complete some paperwork, which means Mr Prenga remains behind bars.
It is a requirement under Greek Law that forms are sent to the prison concerned to aid release. However, a strike in Greece meant this has not happened. Mr Prenga could now be in prison for up to a month before all documentation is finalised.
A plumber from Otley who's been locked up in a Greek jail for more than five months accused of more than 70 armed robberies has been dramatically cleared today.
Fran Prenga was taken to court in Athens to face the charges and was found innocent of the lot, including possessing a number of weapons.
Adam Fowler reports.
The wife of a plumber from Otley is preparing to fly out to Greece as he faces trial for offences he insists he did not commit.
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A plumber from West Yorkshire who is jailed in Greece has been tried and found guilty in his absence of possessing a firearm.
Read the full storyThe wife of a man from West Yorkshire, who's been locked up in a foreign jail because he claims an armed robber has stolen his identity to carry out dozens of bank raids, has stepped up her campaign to prove he is the victim of a miscarriage of justice.
Fran Prenga has been in prison in Greece for nine weeks. Michael Billington reports.
The family of a man from West Yorkshire - locked up in Greece for armed robberies he insists he didn't commit - has been to the Foreign Office - in the fight to clear his name. Fran Prenga is accused of 72 raids - but says he must have had his identity stolen, or been set-up by the
real criminals. his wife, Louise has been to ask the Minister for Europe for help to get him released.
The fight to free a West Yorkshire man accused of carrying out dozens of armed robberies in Greece is being taken to Westminster. Fran Prenga from Otley says he's innocent and now his family are travelling to the Foreign Office to try and persuade the Government to help get him released.
His wife Louise and MP Greg Mulholland will meet Foreign Office minister David Liddington to discuss the case in a bid to persuade the Government to step in. Mr Prenga was arrested back in May - while on holiday on the Greek island of Rhodes.
Police say they'd been hunting him for years. After his arrest - officers took him to a prison near Athens - the city where the robberies are said to have taken place. He's due to stand trial in September but his family want him to be released on bail.
Two people hurt in a shootout after armed robbers invaded the Athens home of a former player at Sheffield United.
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MP for Leeds North Greg Mulholland wants the Foreign and Commonwealth office to help British Citizens tied up into the Greek legal system.
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