Callers to the 101 non-emergency service at three Yorkshire police forces are having to wait longer to get through compared to two years ago.

There was an eight-fold increase in the time it took West Yorkshire Police to answer calls in 2015 compared to 2013, figures obtained by the BBC show.

In South Yorkshire the time tripled and more than doubled in North Yorkshire.

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