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- Home-working side-effects revealed
- Three held after far-right protest
- Spain 'snubs Queen's jubilee lunch'
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- PM queries single currency survival
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DETECTIVES have released CCTV images of a man who they believe tried to con his way into an elderly woman’s home.
Havercroft School shut after fire
A SCHOOL has been closed after a fire broke out in the staff room.
Wakefield printing firm Bezier hit with £118,500 bill for crush death
PRINTING firm Bezier has been fined £80,000 after an employee was crushed to death on a press.
Pensioner injured as car overturns in Lofthouse
AN ELDERLY man was injured in a crash in Lofthouse this morning.
Sport
Sharlston and Westgate meet again in Wakefield cup final
SHARLSTON Rovers take on Westgate Wolves in a second Wakefield cup final tonight.
Wakefield Wildcats fans invited to free fans forum
WAKEFIELD Trinity Wildcats fans are reminded that they’ll be able to put their questions to players and staff at a fans forum at the Rapid Solicitors Stadium tomorrow, Thursday.
Pontefract player on Leeds United radar
PONTEFRACT footballer Paul Green hopes to finalise a deal with a new club this week after turning down a new contract to stay with Derby County.
Huddersfield Town defender McCombe hoping it’s lucky number seven in play-offs
DEFENDER Jamie McCombe is hoping Lady Luck for once shines firmly on him and his Huddersfield Town team-mates in the Terriers’ play-off push for promotion to the Championship.
Elite cycling star Duggleby smashes course record
INTERNATIONAL Elite cyclist Adam Duggleby demolished the field and set a new course record in the second Calder Clarion Summer Series 10-mile time trial.
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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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Twenty years in folk
YORKSHIRE folk star Kate Rusby is touring to celebrate her 20 years in showbusiness.
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.
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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Voice stars’ arena date
TEENAGE singer Frances Wood could get the chance to perform in front of millions of people as the new television talent show The Voice goes on tour.
City kids star in top show
A QUARTET of dancers from Wakefield will take to the stage in The King and I.
Community
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?
1 comment...but I’ll have a party
I WAS interested in the letter from HM Queen reproduced in the Express.
1 commentLetter - 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.
11 commentsLetter - Performance concern
I WAS somewhat bemused when Wakefield Trinity Wildcats announced pre-season that their newly-appointed coach Richard Agar was “head and shoulders” above the other candidates.
1 commentLetter - Matters are made worse
WHAT has this council and previous ones done to this wonderful city of Wakefield?
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Thursday 17 May 2012
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