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Work begins on 'outstanding' £2.8m primary academy in Knottingley

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Craig Fletcher was jailed.

Obsessive engineer who sent explicit photos of teen girl is jailed for 66 months

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No previous experience of the education sector is needed as full training will be provided.

Wakefield schools appeal panel looking for volunteers

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Leeds United fan Leeds United.

Appeal to raise £5,000 for Leeds United fan Toby Nye after doctors tell family 'no more treatment options'

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Children in Need 2018: Bake Off contestant joins fundraising in Wakefield

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COLUMN: Yvette Cooper MP - Fighting to keep local services in our towns

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City Tastes & Tipples: Say hello to our very own Falafel Lady...

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City to hold first ever Mawlid festival

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People power has forced a change.

Community joy as car parking plan for beauty spot is scrapped

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Mother Hubbards winner of the Wakefield Express Fish and Chip Shop of the year 2018.

Chippy of the Year: Our top chippy batters all the opposition

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Transport More Transport >>

New platform to be built on long-stay car park at Leeds Station

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Is there a road in Wakefield that you think needs desperate attention?

Repairing Wakefield’s roads: Here’s where you think needs the most attention

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The road in Horbury remains closed this morning.

Wakefield road remains closed after crash

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The crash happened earlier this morning, closing the road in both directions for several hours.

Road re-opened after crash between car and motorbike

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Wakefield Kirkgate Railway station

Extra parking spaces at Kirkgate Station ‘unlikely’

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Crime More Crime >>

Obsessive engineer who sent explicit photos of teen girl is jailed for 66 months

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Mill View Stores, Flanshaw Lane, Wakefield.

Vicious robbers carry out terrifying knife attack at village store

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Concerns about modern slavery

Modern slavery taking place in plain sight on Yorkshire streets

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Britain's most notorious prisoner, Charles Bronson.

Charles Bronson tells Leeds Crown Court attempt GBH trial jury he is ‘innocent’

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Education More Education >>

Work begins on 'outstanding' £2.8m primary academy in Knottingley

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No previous experience of the education sector is needed as full training will be provided.

Wakefield schools appeal panel looking for volunteers

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A commissioner is currently inspecting children's services

Claims social workers asked government to take over Wakefield Council's children's services

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Jerry Clay Academy landed a gold artsmark award

Gold mark for Jerry Clay Academy embracing the arts

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Wakefield Town Hall

How warning signs over Wakefield Council's inadequate children's services may have been missed

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Politics More Politics >>

COLUMN: Yvette Cooper MP - Fighting to keep local services in our towns

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Wakefield Town Hall

How warning signs over Wakefield Council's inadequate children's services may have been missed

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County Hall, Wakefield

Reliance on agency workers costs Wakefield Council £2million

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Wakefield's children's services was rated inadequate by Ofsted in July.

Under pressure children's services set to get more cash

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Wakefield Council leader Peter Box has been under pressure since a Labour coup to oust him failed in September.

Council leader's future debated after tempers flare

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Environment More Environment >>

Our landfills could be full in just four years as waste continues to pile up

Environment

Campaigners demonstrate outside County Hall.

Rudd Quarry in Normanton fails in extension plans after Altofts Junior School pupils object

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Paul Dainton, president of RATS, pictured in 2011.

'Our community is a giant bin' say campaigners in Normanton where clinical refuse has piled up at waste site

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Sobeckis was prosecuted at Leeds Magistrates Court

Fly-tipper told to pay thousands after dumping 'tonne of waste'

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Health More Health >>

Wakefield Hospice Light up a Life services to remember absent friends and family

Health

GPs running out of flu vaccine

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Wakefield NHS spending more on diabetes prescriptions, figures reveal

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Cases of syphilis in Wakefield have doubled since 2012

Syphilis warning after STI outbreaks in Wakefield

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Michelle and Stuart Jackson.

Feature: ‘My whole future has been wiped out...’

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