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image captionThe Arriva bus was travelling towards Walton on Tuesday afternoon when the boy was hit
A four-year-old boy has been taken to hospital with serious injuries after he was hit by a bus near a primary school in Wakefield.
The crash happened close to Shay Lane Primary School, in Crofton, at about 15:20 BST on Tuesday.
The single-decker Arriva bus was travelling along Shay Lane towards Walton when the boy was hit.
West Yorkshire Police has appealed for any witnesses to come forward to assist its investigations.
A taxi driver who dealt drugs from his vehicle has been jailed. Iftiqar Ali, who had been a licensed taxi driver since 2017, was caught with more than £10,000 worth of diazepam in February last year. On Saturday, Bradford Crown Court heard how Ali, 52, had diazepam tablets in his hand after he was stopped by the police on Shay Lane in Halifax on February 28 2020. Subsequent enquiries and a search of his home found a £10,570 stash, containing more than 10,000 tablets of class C sleeping pill type drugs, consisting of diazepam, etizolam and tamazepam. Ali was jailed for 21 months. A spokesperson for West Yorkshire Police said: A taxi driver who dealt drugs from his vehicle has been jailed for 21 months.