A trainee reporter from The Huddersfield Daily Examiner successfully challenged a court to name a teenage yob.

Anne-Marie Bradley, (26), objected after Huddersfield magistrates issued a section 39 order preventing a 14-year-old girl given an anti social behaviour order from being identified.

She was handed the order after stone-throwing, cannabis smoking and foul language.

Anne-Marie, (right), stood up and made an application to the court for the restriction to be lifted, claiming it was in the public interest for her identity to be revealed.

She highlighted how the success of the ASBO depended on the support of the community to inform the authorities of any breach.

The defendant’s solicitor appealed for the restriction to be left in place because the ASBO was given for an interim period until the full application could be heard next month.

But magistrates agreed to lift the order allowing her to be named.

Anne-Marie said: “It was the first time I had ever had to challenge an order but I knew it was right that the youth be named.

“It was a bit nerve-wracking but I was pleased the magistrates agreed.”

Examiner editor Roy Wright said: “It’s important that newspapers should challenge orders like these but it was particularly pleasing that Anne-Marie took this action on her own initiative.”