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Christopher Farrow, who murdered Wendy Speakes.

Wendy Speakes' daughter on ‘appalling’ plan to move murdering rapist

Wakefield One, Wakefield Council's headquarters building.

Council U-turn on plans to cut opening times at museums and libraries

The Six Chimneys in Wakefield reopened last February after a major extension and refurbishment

City centre Wetherspoon gets opening hours extension approval

CGI of proposed mixed housing and employment development at Broad Cut Farm, Wakefield. Image: AAA Property Group

Objections lodged against plans to build new business park and homes

Wakefield One, Wakefield Council's headquarters building.

Art stolen from Wakefield Council headquarters cost almost £200k

The decision to shut Hazel Garth, in Knottingley, at 24 hours’ notice sparked outrage in May last year and led to the local authority issuing a public apology.

Dementia care home closed by Wakefield Council set to reopen

Scott Haslam was elected to represent Featherstone on Wakefield Council

Labour holds council seat in by-election after death of councillor

Planning officers refused the proposal on access and highways safety grounds

Council rejects plans for luxury bed company’s extension

Arriva in West Yorkshire, which serves Leeds, has been ranked England’s worst bus operator. Photo: James Hardisty.

Bus firm to cut services due to ‘ongoing driver shortage’

Arriva said areas including Wakefield, Castleford, Dewsbury, Halifax and Leeds will be affected from February next year.

Arriva confirms 'significant' bus service cuts due to driver shortage

Arriva in West Yorkshire, which serves Leeds, has been ranked England’s worst bus operator. Photo: James Hardisty.

Council to ‘take on’ bus operator over plans to cut vital services

Wakefield Council plans to ‘take on’ Arriva over the bus operator’s plan to cut services, the authority’s leader has revealed.

Jack Hemingway, Wakefield Council’s cabinet member for environment and climate change.

Wakefield to get £1.5m for more EV charging points across city

Plans have been approved for a temporary mosque to be installed while a new permanent place of worship is rebuilt in Wakefield. Wakefield Council has already approved an application for Jamia Masjid Swafia, on Park Hill Lane, Eastmoor, to be demolis

Wakefield to receive temporary mosque while city's oldest is rebuilt

A former primary school in Wakefield looks set to be demolished after being closed for more than a decade. Plans have been submitted to bulldoze the old Waterton Junior and Infants School, in Lupset. Image: Lost Places & Forgotten Faces

Former primary school branded ‘resource headache’ set to be demolished

The Crimea Tavern has been a target for anti-social behaviour and vandalism since it closed in 2009.

Plans submitted to bulldoze former pub as part of town revamp

Wakefield MP Simon Lightwood and Wes Streeting, then shadow secretary of state for health and social care, pictured in May 2022, at the launch of a campaign to save King Street NHS Walk-in Centre

Plans to build apartments above NHS walk-in centre

The site, on Barnsley Road, serves as Wakefield's main bus depot, providing garage and engineering facilities, as well as offices for Arriva Yorkshire.

Bus HQ and depot permanently shut due to ‘structural problem’

Councillors have granted a premises licence for The Corner Shop, Smawthorne Lane, Castleford, with a condition that alcoholic slush is not sold at the store.

Shop boss scraps plan to sell ‘vodka slushies’ to customers

The Cedar Court Hotel, Wakefield

Tesla plans for ‘ultra-rapid’ EV charging station outside hotel

A housing charity cautioned a generation of young people have had their lives "blighted by homelessness", with campaigners calling for long-promised rental reforms to be strengthened.

Hotel paid £1m a year to house homeless as council’s costs rocket

Woolley Hall in Wakefield

Council set to sell off 17th century house amid wedding venue plan

Wakefield Council and police have promised to clamp down on drivers entering a pedestrianised area in Pontefract.

Broken town centre barriers causing chaos

Pedestrians in a town centre are being placed at risk due to drivers taking advantage off an automatic traffic bollard fault, it has been claimed.

CNG Fuels Ltd has applied to build a biomethane fuelling station for trucks on the site of a former abattoir at Flanshaw Business Park.

Nearly 200 objections to plans for huge 24-hour lorry biofuel station

Leeds Bus Station

£375K temporary repairs approved for leaking roof bus station

Wakefield Council has refused permission for a swimming pool at a private home in Ossett to be hired out for public use.

Council refuses bungalow public spa hire plan

More than 10,000 low income families across Wakefield are set to receive £75 shopping vouchers over the school summer holidays, the city council has said. Photo: John Clifton.

Wakefield families to get £75 shopping vouchers over school holidays

Laughing gas was found on sale at Simply News & Booze, in South Kirkby, when it was searched by police and Trading Standards officers, according to documents. Photo: Matt Cardy/Getty Images.

Laughing gas found on sale during police search of shop, say documents

Plans have been approved to open a new alcohol sales warehouse at the former car dealership in Barnsley Road, Sandal, Wakefield. Pictured left, a stock image showing inside an alcohol sales warehouse.

New 'unique' alcohol warehouse set to open

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