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What’s next for Voice star?

AFTER a “crazy” month of appearing on the new BBC One talent show The Voice, teenage singer Frances Wood’s time in the competition has come to an end.

Connie Barstow, widow of author Stan Barstow, died on May 9.

Tributes to kind hearted Connie

A GENEROUS and kind hearted woman who encouraged her husband, Stan Barstow, to become a modern day literary legend has died.

Shaun Michael Deakin at Wakefield Magistrates Court after being charged with carrying a crossbow in the city centre on Saturday, 19th November.
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Prison for crossbow man

A MAN who carried a crossbow through the city centre and near a children’s playground has been jailed.

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Simon Wallis, director of The Hepworth Wakefield, celebrates the gallery's 1st birthday and it's 500,000th visitor.

Half a million people visit Hepworth

The Hepworth Wakefield celebrates its first birthday this weekend.

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Roadworks warning for motorists

MOTORISTS could face delays when roadworks begin next week.

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Ossett’s Pyrah ready for return to Yorkshire fold

OSSETT cricketer Rich Pyrah is hoping to return for Yorkshire in their Clydesdale Bank 40 match against Derbyshire Falcons at Headingley Carnegie on Sunday.

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Team WFR takes on world-famous Nurburgring

GERMANY’S world-famous Nurburgring will welcome Ossett-based Team WFR for the second round of the British GT Championship this weekend.

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Wakefield Wildcats centre Cowling enjoying the benefits of Doncaster move

CENTRE Danny Cowling says he’s benefiting from his dual registration move to Doncaster from Wakefield Trinity Wildcats.

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Wakefield Wildcats: Lauitiiti, Southern and Johnson to face Warrington Wolves

ALI Lauitiiti, Steve Southern and Paul Johnson are all expected to return to the Wakefield Trinity Wildcats squad for Sunday’s Stobart Super League XVII clash with Warrington Wolves.

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Sharlston Rovers make it a cup double with Brian McDermott Memorial success

SHARLSTON ROVERS made it a Wakefield cup double as they beat Westgate Wolves 28-16 in the final of the Brian McDermott Memorial Trophy.

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Wakefield Tulip Society show is a blooming success video

A BRIGHT array of tulips from all around the country and as far as Sweden lit up this year’s annual show.

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Common touch helps turn club around

Ever since the club scene began its slow contraction in the mid 80s, I have been reporting on clubs that are either closing or losing money.

JOHNNY DEPP as Barnabas Collins in Warner Bros. Pictures' and Village Roadshow Pictures' gothic comedy

Another kooky role for Depp

LONG before Robert Pattinson’s fangs spawned a billion dollar franchise – and even before Sarah Michelle Gellar routinely staked the undead – a cult US TV show gripped a 60s generation.

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Twenty years in folk

YORKSHIRE folk star Kate Rusby is touring to celebrate her 20 years in showbusiness.

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A green-fingered show

IT’s an unusual venue for a play – but an allotment site in Wakefield will be the backdrop to a story about the love between people and their giant vegetables.

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Final helping of American pie

THE first instalment of the American Pie series formed the foundations of many teenagers’ personal VHS collections in the 90s.

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Community rss

letter - No money on trees

I must reply to Mr Wildie’s Hands Off Health Care letter (Express, April 27).

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Letter - Same old, same old

WELL, the local election results are in and it’s the ‘same old same old’ which is not surprising considering that out of 257,530 people in the Wakefield district who are eligible to vote, only 73,180 bothered to do so (although an additional 367 did vote in the mayoral referendum).

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Letter - No cause for celebration

IF you lost a child in a grocery store among the cabbages and lentils, it would be understandably worrisome. If you lost the same in a large multi-level department store, it would be panic time. But if you lost an empire, as has happened during this monarch’s reign, how could you possibly excuse it, never mind celebrate it?

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...but I’ll have a party

I WAS interested in the letter from HM Queen reproduced in the Express.

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Letter - Fuss over Hepworth

MY wife and I decided to visit the Hepworth and see what our money had been spent on and what the fuss was about.

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Saturday 19 May 2012

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