The Latest Breaking News from Wakefield

National Lottery winner scoops £10,000-a-month prize - and buys an air conditioning unit

Suzy Fenton will get £10,000 every month for a year - and her first purchase after her win during the heatwave was a £600 cooling system for her home in Wakefield, West Yorkshire

Daily Mirror · Aug 22, 2022

Horror as engineer dies after roof collapses at Morrisons warehouse in Wakefield

More tragic details have emerged

Leeds Live · Aug 1, 2022

Wakefield Park Raceway ruling sparks concern in motorsport industry

The motor racing industry says a recent court ruling, following noise complaints relating to a NSW racetrack, could have wider implications.

ABC News · Jul 20, 2022

Boy, 16, dies after getting into difficulties swimming in heatwave

A 16-year-old who had just finished his GCSEs has died after getting into difficulties while swimming in Wakefield during the heatwave, West Yorkshire Police has announced.

Evening Standard · Jul 12, 2022

Pharmacy distribution site emerges for Phoenix Group to serve North of England

260,000 sq ft Wakefield site to be completed before end of 2022

Birmingham Post · Jul 4, 2022

North East 'Red Wall' voters would back Boris Johnson in general election, Jacob Rees-Mogg claims

The minister claimed that the results of last week's by-elections, which saw the Tories lose two seats, would not be replicated in a general election

Chronicle Live · Jul 1, 2022

Parliament’s two new MPs take their seats in the House of Commons

Labour’s Simon Lightwood and Richard Foord, of the Lib Dems, triumphed in recent by-elections.

The Independent UK · Jun 27, 2022

Shameless Boris Johnson clinging on as Tory MPs plot switch to Labour

The embattled Prime Minister claimed he felt no shame at losing voters’ trust amid two humiliating by-election defeats in Wakefield and Tiverton

Daily Mirror · Jun 26, 2022

Labour has now claimed the centre ground – and has shown it can win

Last week’s byelection proves that the country is crying out for change, and we are the party that will deliver it

The Guardian - UK · Jun 26, 2022

Boris Johnson is a sorcerer who has run out of spells, a wizard with a broken wand

The Tory leader tried every trick he knew and his party still suffered a double-whammy of byelection defeats

The Guardian - UK · Jun 26, 2022