The Latest Breaking News from Wakefield

‘Why would we go to America first?’ London’s Groucho Club to open in Yorkshire

Private members’ club chooses unlikely location of Wakefield for inaugural branch outside capital

The Guardian - UK · Mar 14, 2024

Woman who died after fall from van in Wakefield named as Leah Senior

West Yorkshire police appeal for information over fatal incident as man, 25, is bailed pending further inquiries

The Guardian - UK · Jan 20, 2024

James Akers obituary

Other lives: Expert on the rare English florist tulip whose travels uncovered a new type of daffodil

The Guardian - UK · Dec 15, 2023

Catalans Dragons and Leigh lead exciting Super League campaign – what comes next

A furious battle is developing for the final two post-season slots.

The Independent UK · Jul 4, 2023

Tourist stunned to find 'very poisonous' scorpion inside his suitcase after Cuba holiday

David Judd named the scorpion Brian after he managed to catch it with a pair of litter-picking-style tongs and put it in a plastic tub at his home in Wakefield, West Yorkshire

Daily Mirror · May 27, 2023

Coca Cola summer shortage predicted as wave of strikes set to impact UK production

Unite say that hundreds of members working in a key Coca Cola production site will stage bouts of industrial action from June 8 - meaning that supplies across the UK could be hit hard

Chronicle Live · May 26, 2023

Cocker Spaniel saved by rare blood transfusion at animal hospital

The family took Harvey to Paragon Veterinary Referrals in Wakefield, where the hospital performed its very first platelet concentrate transfusion

Nottingham Post · May 26, 2023

Coca-cola supply at risk as UK workers set to walk out of Europe’s biggest plant

Unite members at the Coca Cola Europacific Partners site in Wakefield voted to walk out for a series of strikes from June 8

The Independent UK · May 25, 2023

Workers at soft drinks plant to strike over pay

Unite members at the Coca Cola Europacific Partners site in Wakefield voted to walk out for a series of strikes from June 8

The Independent UK · May 25, 2023

Massive illegal 'Coronation rave' in quiet village 'sounded like Leeds festival'

Villagers between York and Selby in Yorkshire were up in arms at the loud music which drew crowds from London, Bakewell, Brighton, Leeds and Wakefield for the Coronation rave

Daily Mirror · May 9, 2023