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Independent Shops in Wakefield are to fight back against online-only businesses by becoming the UK’s first city to sign up to a new website.

Karen Wright writes: Last week must go down in my recent history as the fastest week on record.

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) carried out health inspections as part of their Vessel Sanitation Program.

Now has never been a better time for retirees looking to move to Cleckheaton.  McCarthy and Stone is giving the over 60s the opportunity to live their retirement years to the full, by offering to pay the stamp duty on selected new apartments at its Brooke Dene Court Retirement Living development on Serpentine Road.

A festival that started life scribbled down on the back of a beer mat in a city centre pub is expected to attract thousands of people this weekend.

Businesses, groups and teams from across the region are being urged to roar into action by Forget Me Not Children’s Hospice and take part in its spectacular Dragon Boat Race on September 14.

Lucky Scout, Maddie Furness from Wakefield, is enjoying hospitality Stateside after joining more than 40,000 others worldwide for the World Scout Jamboree.

Popular local radio host Stephanie Hirst will be making a special one off appearance in the region in September courtesy of Wakefield Hospice.

When Sarah Forest moved into a two-up two-down Victorian terrace next to what was once the West Riding Pauper Lunatic Asylum, she was intrigued to uncover the history it held inside of its walls.