The Latest Breaking News from Pontefract

The former England international endured a lengthy battle with motor neurone disease.

“Range anxiety? Why does it have to be range anxiety?” Just like it was for Indiana Jones and snakes, with prospective owners of electric cars the issue is always range anxiety. Worrying about whether you’re going to make it to Pontefract without stopping to recharge. But as someone who has…

Newsboy reckons Real Stone (5.55) will be hard to beat at Kempton on Monday and he also fancies Cumulonimbus (3.00) to soar to the task at Pontefract

Home of the Grand National has chance of more awards for their Community Initiative as well as Raceday and Non-Raceday Events

Farrah Khilji-Holmes, from Pontefract, took the test after saying to relatives she was “nothing like” her family and to her shock the results revealed a close match with a man called Steve Bolton, who lived in Canada

Daisy Campbell had been out in Pontefract celebrating her birthday.

Danny Haw, 30, from Pontefract, West Yorkshire, posted the funny footage today as a heatwave strikes the country, writing “cooking breakfast on a fridge in the English sun. Cooked today!”

John-Paul Newlands claims he tricked the Black Monk of Pontefract into appearing in a photo by taking a picture of him in the mirror - but sceptics say the image is just a light reflection

Flint Hill, at Pontefract, and Angle Land, at Windsor, are Newsboy's best bets from Monday's racing meetings