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The lease for the district’s Walk in Centre on King Street, Wakefield has been extended for three years.

Wakefield walk in centre on King Street to remain in the heart of the city

Coun Michael Graham and Coun Melanie Jones.

South Hiendley Park's £28K play area improvements complete

Midweek meals have turned ‘boring’ and ‘repetitive’ for many adults

Coun Michelle Collins reading an original copy of Mathew Tomlinson's journal.

19th century manuscripts and diaries hidden from public to be digitised

This calculator reveals the monetary value of your free time

The top 10 business challenges CEOs face

These two groups of people may experience imposter syndrome at work

The Hepworth Wakefield is set to be granted a new 30-year lease as the art gallery is having “difficulties” attracting funding.

Council to grant new 30-year lease to ease gallery's 'funding difficulties'

Work is continuing on the Counting House. Guy Lister, far right

Horse manure used to fill Counting House walls in next stage of restoration

Drivers planning to travel on the M62 in West Yorkshire have been advised to allow more time for their journeys tonight and tomorrow due to a lane closure for essential bridge parapet repairs.

Drivers advised to allow more time to travel as M62 lane closures in place

The top 20 modern wonders of the world, according to UK adults

Freddie Flintoff to make TV return months after Top Gear crash

Marygate House, on Westgate, will be developed into new apartments and homes.

Work starts on £2.5 million mixed-use refurbishment project in Wakefield

Nandos is giving away free chicken for students on results day

Free food for GCSE students on results day - including Nando’s

Hannah Lumley, 42, moved into her detached three-bedroom redbrick town house, in Northstowe, Cambs eight months ago and is the town's only child minder.

Why mum in UK’s most soulless town ‘wouldn’t live anywhere else’

Nandos is giving away free chicken for students on results day

Free food for A Level students on results day - including Nando’s
A Level Results students will be able to get free food at some major restaurant chains on results day

A fifth of parents would be ‘unlikely’ to encourage their children to go to university.

Many parents would struggle to support their child financially

Matt and Carlie with their children Lincoln, seven, Delilah, four and Adelaide in Bali.

UK family who sold everything to move to Bail say they ‘struck gold’

James Martin - Credit: Getty

TV chef James Martin reveals cancer diagnosis

A £1million mansion could be yours for £550,000 - but buyers should be aware it comes with a huge catch.

£1m mansion up for grabs for bargain £550k – but there’s a huge catch

Oppenheimer cast leave UK premier: SAG-AFTRA strike explained

Tips for Tending your lawn following UK thunderstorms and flooding

Murderer who threw petrol on wife and set her on fire jailed for life

Murderer who threw petrol on wife and set her on fire jailed for life

Iconic UK game show rebooted after 22 years with a new host

Boots to close 300 stores in the UK over the next year

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Wakefield district planning applications

Montel (L) and Mal (R), both 25, are the new bombshells set to enter the Love Island villa and date four new singletons after a shock twist.

Love Island 2023: Who are new bombshells Mal and Montel?
The Love Island villa is ready to welcome two new bombshells including an Edinburgh lass who can’t flirt but is ready to ‘laugh the boys into bed’ and a semi-professional footballer who’s got his sights set on Ella.

Aldi is offering a special voucher ideal for parents when you spend £30

Aldi offering special voucher ideal for parents when you spend £30

Hairy Bikers Dave Myers cancer update following 30 rounds of chemotherapy

Hairy Biker Dave Myers issues health update after cancer diagnosis

Jodie Comer is in the running to play the next James Bond after her Tony award win for Prima Facie.

Who is the next James Bond? Bookies odds on Jodie Comer playing 007

Famous Pulitzer Prize winning author dies aged 89

Rhys Whittock the prince harry lookalike dressed up.

Meet the Prince Harry lookalike who earns over £1,000 a day

Call the Midwife fans rejoice as they finally get an update on the 13th series of the show

Call the Midwife new series update as picture released

A Stockport woman’s eyes swelled over two days after she experienced sun poisoning.

Woman could barely open eyes due to sun poisoning as heatwave hits UK

TV legend reveals breast cancer diagnosis

Kelly Rogers, 45, piled on the pounds after second helpings and boozy weekends took their toll. But she now looks like a different person after losing six stone.

Mum used annual leave to lose 6 stone -and is now unrecognisable

King Charles is looking for students to live and work at Sandringham

King Charles looking for students to live and work at Sandringham

The new footbridge, which is fitted with lifts to make it fully accessible, will link the recently improved station building and facilities to the station’s reconstructed second platform, which has been out of use for more than 20 years.

Castleford rail station set to get £720K from Network Rail to fund upgrades

Who’s set to join the latest season of Celebrity Gogglebox

Nasa holds first public meeting about UFO sightings

An e-bike owner has been left terrified after his scooter randomly burst into flames

Watch the dramatic moment dangerous e-bike explodes into huge flames

Lidl staff are set to recieve a third pay rise in a year

Lidl gives more than 20,000 staff third pay rise in a year

Shannon Canning, 24, disappeared in the early hours of Friday after leaving her home in Lancaster.

Diving team joins search for missing woman who disappeared 5 days ago

More than 2,000 people signed an online petition calling for the centre to be saved

Health chief approves plan to find new Wakefield base for NHS walk-in centre

George Logan was renowned for his double act as Dr Evadne Hinge (right) with Patrick Fyffe as Dame Hilda Bracket (left) - Credit: Getty

Hinge and Bracket star George Logan dies aged 78

Amy Walsh confirms she is returning to Emmerdale

Russian President Vladimir Putin

Plans reveal Vladimir Putin’s secret bunker beneath the Black Sea

Changing retorts at the London Gas Company’s works at Vauxhall in 1889. Picture for illustrative purposes by Rischgitz.

Research unearths children ‘worked to death’ in Industrial Revolution

Wakefield MP Simon Lightwood has nominated the initiative, led by Dr Llinos Jones, to be honoured the 2023 NHS Parliamentary Awards.

Asthma campaign nominated for NHS Parliamentary award

Phillip Schofield and Holly Willoughby have hosted This Morning regularly on ITV since 2009 - Credit: Getty

Holly Willoughby ‘considered quitting This Morning’

Eamonn Holmes takes swipe at Phillip Schofield and Holly Willoughby

Austria's Teya & Salena sing Who The Hell Is Edgar?

Austria Eurovision spokesperson demands ‘equal pay for women’

Work has started on modernising Castleford and Pontefract markets with the hope of attracting new traders.

Work begins on the transformation of Castleford and Pontefract markets

The positive report comes after inspectors assessed the work of the authority’s children’s services department in March this year.

Ofsted praises Wakefield council’s support for vulnerable care leavers

Priyanka Chopra Jonas and Sam Heughan star in Love Again at the Arc Cinema. Photo: Getty Images

Outlander’s Sam Heughan on possibly starring in Bollywood film