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Queen Elizabeth Grammar School in Wakefield has been awarded the silver Artsmark award, accredited by Arts Council England, for embedding arts, culture and creativity across its curriculum.

Wakefield school receives recognition from Arts Council England with award

FRANCOIS-OLIVIER DOYON & NICK RADCLIFFE (QUEEN EXTRAVAGANZA)

Official Queen tribute band celebrates 50 years of Bohemian Rhapsody in Sheffiel...

Pontefract Civic Society has been awarded The King’s Award for Voluntary Service for 2024 – the highest award a local voluntary group can receive in the UK and equivalent to an MBE.

Pontefract Civic Society receives The King’s Award for Voluntary Service

Wakefield Grammar School Foundation applied to chop down ten trees and carry out pruning work on a further 29 at the site on Northgate, close to the city centre.

Grammar School refused permission to feel trees in its grounds

Cruise With Jane McDonald will see everyone’s favourite cruise star charter Ambassador Cruise’s flagship Ambience in October 2025 offering guests an exclusive Jane McDonald experience.

Here's how you can have a seven-night exclusive cruise with Jane McDonald

The ‘Queen of Wakefield’ continues unwavering support for local Hospital Charity in a bid to help raise funds for MRI Appeal.

Win tickets to see Jane McDonald and meet her after her show

Steam locomotive Princess Elizabeth hauling the luxury Northern Belle train

Bagpipes send-off as passengers board Britain’s poshest train at Wakefield

Pokemon characters, like those pictured, are among toy deals at Aldi (Photo by Tomohiro Ohsumi/Getty Images)

Cowabunga! Iconic 1990s retro toys comeback in supermarket deals

Escape taxing times to enjoy luxury Lisbon 'Liberty'

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An extremely rare chess set depicting key political figures of the Miners’ Strike 1984/85, including Margaret Thatcher and Arthur Scargill, has gone on display at National Coal Mining Museum for England (NCMME) as part of their free year-long exhibition, 84/85 – The Longest Year.

Rare Miners’ Strike chess set goes on display at National Coal Mining Museum

Gawthorpe's maypole procession covers around 4 and a half miles. Picture Scott Merrylees

Gawthorpe's 150th Maypole Procession: 28 pictures from the day

Every year, audiences enjoy the best UK Tribute Acts

Livefields Festival 2024: home to the best UK tribute acts for legends

Scenes from the Gawthorpe Maypole Procession 2023. This year's procession will take place on Saturday, May 4, 2024, and will be the event's 150th anniversary. Picture: Scott Merrylees

Maypole Procession: Historic annual event to celebrate 150th anniversary

LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA - JANUARY 19: Helena Bonham Carter attends 26th Annual Screen Actors Guild Awards at The Shrine Auditorium on January 19, 2020 in Los Angeles, California. (Photo by Leon Bennett/Getty Images)

Actress Helena Bonham Carter leads guest list of Queen Camilla's Reading Room fe...

Roy and Hilda Johnson were married in 1959 after meeting a dance at Knottingley Town Hall and have lved in Ferrybridge all their married life.

Anniversary celebrations for Ferrybridge couple, Roy and Hilda Johnson
A Ferrybridge couple are celebrating their sapphire wedding anniversary today – and started it off with their very first selfie!
Leanne Clarke

Jane McDonald will appear as a celebrity guest on the upcoming season of Drag Race UK vs The World.

Jane McDonald to appear on upcoming Drag Race UK series

Parent Power 2024: The Times releases its list of Best UK schools & league table

The Sunday Times releases Parent Power 2024 UK guide

The signed card which the academy received from King Charles III and Queen Camilla.

Wakefield primary school receive card from King Charles and Queen Camilla

The 2004 L322 Range Rover, formerly owned by The Queen, which went under the hammer for £132,000 at Iconic Auctioneers

Queen's old Range Rover is sold - for twice as much as expected

Range Rover Velar

How the Velar adds a delicate new string to Range Rover's bow

The video, ‘The Queen Remembered’, shows how the district came together to pay their respects, following the death of the Queen.

Watch: Wakefield remembers Queen Elizabeth a year on from her death

Queen Elizabeth’s death date & cause of death

Farmer Copleys is once again opening for pumpkin picking - with even longer hours and more snacks and entertainment

Farmer Copleys Pumpkin festival returns for 2023 bigger than ever

Castle for sale UK: 956-year-old fortress used by Kings and Queens hits the market - but there’s a catch

956-year-old castle used by Kings and Queens is on the market

King Charles III enjoys a dram during the Mey Highland Games at the John O'Groats Showground in Caithness. Photo by Robert MacDonald/PA Wire

King Charles’ ‘unwelcome reminder’ as family portrait disappears

Prince Harry and Meghan Markle

Prince Harry and Meghan won’t mark Queen’s death with royal family
The Duke and Duchess of Sussex will not join other royals in marking the first anniversary of the Queen’s death, according to reports.
Sam Johnson

Prince Harry and his then-fiancee, now wife, US actress Meghan Markle arrive to visit the Terrence Higgins Trust World AIDS Day charity fair at Nottingham Contemporary on December 1, 2017

Harry and Meghan had request to fly on Air Force One denied

Barbara Windsor’s widower finds love with EastEnders star

Madonna

Madonna is ‘on the road to recovery’ after intensive care ordeal

King Charles III and Queen Camilla on the balcony of Buckingham Palace following the coronation on May 6, 2023. Picture: Owen Humphreys/PA Wire.

King Charles & Queen Camilla criticised over gender pay gap to staff

Castleford Boat Festival will take place this weekend.

Setting sail: Castleford Boat Festival to dock at Queen's Mill this weekend

King Charles III

King Charles makes major change to royal family’s summer tradition

King Charles and Queen Camilla expected to honour late Queen’s Royal Ascot tradition (Photo by Samir Hussein/WireImage)

Royal Ascot returns as fans place bets on Queen’s hat colour

Queen Camilla

Queen Camilla names horse which will lead Trooping the Colour parade

Charles Hanson, owner of Hansons Auctioneers, with a childhood drawing of Queen Elizabeth II drawn by a very young King Charles.

Childhood drawings by King Charles to fetch thousands at auction

Queen Elizabeth II Coronation carriage and procession coming through Admiralty Arch on the way from Westminster Abbey to Buckingham Palace

A look back at Queen Elizabeth II’s coronation

Queen Camilla meets wellwishers as she visits Enniskillen Castle

Queen Camilla’s title if she were to outlive King Charles revealed

King Charles III tribute to Tina Turner during Changing of the Guard

Unsealed FBI documents reveal IRA plot to kill the Queen

IRA plot to kill Queen in San Francisco in 1983 revealed by FBI

17 inspirational messages from iconic singer Tina Turner on life, strength and happiness.

Tina Turner’s cause of death revealed

Prince William was a big fan of the late Tina Turner

Prince William’s emotional admission following Tina Turner death

King Charles III and Queen Camilla wave to the crowds from the balcony at Buckingham Palace (Picture: Christopher Furlong/Getty Images)

Queen Camilla confirms her favourite ‘fuss free meal’

Queen Elizabeth II: Government forked £162 million on state funeral

Cost of Queen Elizabeth II’s state funeral revealed by Government

Queen Elizabeth Grammar School will host the HIS Story Matters event for Year Five pupils next month.

Wakefield boys grammar school to stage “HIS Story Matters” event

The sun was shining for Saturday's Gawthorpe Maypole Procession.

Gawthorpe Maypole Procession 2023 brings fancy dress and floats to Wakefield

Sam Ryder, the UK Eurovision entrant in 2022, performs during the final of the Eurovision Song contest 2023.

Queen legend Roger Taylor joins Sam Ryder on Eurovision stage

Here’s everything you need to know about Badminton Horse Trials today

Badminton Horse Trials - everything you need know today

Royal fan decorates house with more than 100 Union Jack flags

Royal fan decorates house with more than 100 Union Jack flags

King Charles has made a last minute change to the coronation

King Charles bans TV cameras from filming ‘sacred’ part of coronation

Some of the members of Wakefield choir The Sandal Singers.

Wakefield choirs link up for Dewsbury Minister charity concert

Union flags hanging from the street furniture outside Buckingham Palace on the Mall, London

Watch the Royal fans camped on The Mall forKing Charles’ coronation

The ‘world’s most beautiful coin’ depicting Queen Victoria as a royal fairy guiding a lion has sold for £267,000, 182 years after it was minted for her coronation.

Coin depicting Queen Victoria as fairy fetches huge amount at auction

The two chairs from Queen Elizabeth II's coronation (Photo: SWNS)

Queen Elizabeth II coronation chairs up for auction

A post topper to mark King Charles III Coronation has been created by Lynn Clegg in Walton near Wakefield. Picture Scott Merrylees

Wakefield postbox topper placed to celebrate coronation of King Charles III