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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
National
Robyn Vinter North of England correspondent

Poison pen letters leave ‘cloud of vitriol’ hanging over East Yorkshire village

Two women walking along the main street of Shiptonthorpe
Police have carried out inquiries over the letters sent to residents in the village of Shiptonthorpe, which is home to about 500 people. Photograph: John Morrison/Alamy

A “cloud of vitriol” hangs over an East Yorkshire village amid a two-year campaign of anonymous poison pen letters that have caused some people who lived there to move away, they have said.

The “personal, obscene and targeted” letters have caused chaos in the quiet village of Shiptonthorpe over the last two years, leaving residents upset, frightened and unable to know who they can trust.

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