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Leeds extend lead at top of Super League after thrilling late win at Wakefield

Chris Hankinson’s late try helped Leeds hit back from 16-0 down to beat second-placed Wakefield 24-22 in a Super League classic

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Yorkshire’s WallFest launched to protect crumbling boundary wall of ‘world’s first nature reserve’

Pioneering environmentalist Charles Waterton enclosed his parkland and lake near Wakefield in the 1820s

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‘They deserve to lose’: Labour at risk of ‘red wall’ collapsing in May elections

Voters in Barnsley, Sunderland and Wakefield express frustration with party amid strong Reform UK challenge

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‘Am I at peak popularity? I hope not’: on the road with Zack Polanski, from protest to podcast to Heaven nightclub

With polls and membership at an all-time high, the Green party are having a moment – and it’s largely down to their charismatic (if slightly cheesy) new leader. Can he really pull off a socialist revolution?

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Kate praises grassroots rugby league and community spirit during club visit

The princess visited Wakefield Trinity’s ground during a day spent in northern England.

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Princess Kate reveals Charlotte’s love of sport during rugby club visit

The princess visited Wakefield Trinity’s ground during a day spent in northern England

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Imprisoned hunger striker linked to Palestine Action tells friend: ‘I’m dying’

Francesca Nadin visited Heba Muraisi, 31, in a Wakefield prison at the weekend and says ‘her body is shutting down’

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I taught art in a high-security prison – Waiting for the Out took me straight back to my classroom

Watching Waiting for the Out, the BBC’s flagship new drama series, transported me straight back to my classroom in HMP Wakefield in the mid-1990s. This decaying Victorian building at the heart of a challenged city in the north of England is one of the UK’s ten category-A, high-security prisons for…

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Health clinics on the high street can revive flagging town centres – NHS leaders

Health minister Stephen Kinnock said locating health centres in towns offered ‘real regeneration and a clear win for the community’.

Evening Standard

Disgraced rock star Ian Watkins died from stab wound to the neck, inquest hears

The 48-year-old died after an alleged attack at HMP Wakefield, where he was serving a 29-year sentence for child sexual offences.

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Two men charged with the murder of disgraced rock star Ian Watkins

Rashid Gedel, 25, and Samuel Dodsworth, 43, both of HMP Wakefield, have been charged with murder.

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Paedophile Lostprophets singer Ian Watkins killed in prison knife attack as police make two arrests

The convicted paedophile was attacked with a knife while serving a 29-year sentence

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‘Extremely rare’ Barbara Hepworth sculpture to be saved after £3.8m is raised

Sculpture With Colour (Oval Form) Pale Blue And Red will go on permanent display at The Hepworth Wakefield.

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Jenny Eclair backs £3.8m fundraiser to ‘save Hepworth artwork for the nation’

A museum and national charity wants to raise enough money to secure it for permanent public display in Wakefield, West Yorkshire.

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Helen Chadwick: Life Pleasures – a rich and witty retrospective that smells like chocolate

A bubbling Jacuzzi-sized fountain of molten chocolate greets visitors at the entrance to Life Pleasures, a major retrospective of British artist Helen Chadwick at the Hepworth gallery in Wakefield. The piece, named Cacao, was made in 1994, two years before the artist’s sudden death of a heart attack aged just…

The Independent UK

Inside HMP Wakefield, where Peter Sullivan was wrongly held for murder

Peter Sullivan has been freed from notorious prison nicknamed ‘Monster Mansion’

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Suspected crossbow attacker died from ‘self-inflicted airgun injury’

An inquest into Owen Lawrence’s death was opened and adjourned in Wakefield

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Suspected Leeds attacker died from self-inflicted airgun injury, inquest told

An inquest into Owen Lawrence’s death was opened and adjourned in Wakefield on Monday.

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Leeds United fans to pay tribute following crash which killed three teenagers

The tragedy happened in the village of West Bretton, near Wakefield.

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One of three teenagers killed after car hit tree named as family pay tribute

Koby Jones, 18, from Flockton, was killed in the crash near the village of West Bretton, near Wakefield, on Friday.

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Three teenagers killed after car hits tree in Wakefield

Police said two other passengers were taken to hospital, one of whom remains in a life-threatening condition.

The Independent UK

Three teenagers killed after car hits tree near Wakefield

Driver, aged 18, and two 19-year-old passengers confirmed dead after collision on Friday night

The Guardian - UK

Where tourists seldom tread, part 13: three more British places with tales to tell

We visit Wakefield’s rhubarb triangle Britannia’s westernmost amphitheatre in Carmarthen, and Colne - home of Monty Python’s favourite cobblestones

The Guardian - UK

Man arrested after family and motorcyclists killed on A61 near Wakefield

Police appeal for information from anyone who saw a grey Porsche 911 being driven in area on Sunday

Evening Standard

Wakefield horror crash: Man arrested on suspicion of causing deaths of six people on A61 near Barnsley

An 11-year-old girl’s entire family was wiped out in the collision

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