Newsroom Archive

There’s no need to travel to the coast this summer, Wakefield Council is bringing the beach back!

With the start of the summer holidays and the hot weather continuing across the district, Wakefield Council is warning of potential dangers.

Wakefield Council is taking the stress out of the school holidays by launching a fun-packed summer planner full of activities for the whole family to enjoy.

A public consultation is being launched to gauge people’s views on aggressive begging in the district.

West Yorkshire’s local authority museums contributed over £34 million to the regional economy last year and attracted over 1.7 million visitors through their doors.

A set of legacy maps have been unveiled in Pontefract to mark the completion of major restoration of buildings in the Town Centre.

The numbers of people smoking in the district continues to fall, latest figures show.

Some of the world’s most loved literary children’s characters are set to go on display for the first, and only time, in West Yorkshire at Wakefield Museum.

Wakefield Council has pledged to put the needs of children at the heart of its children’s social care transformation after Ofsted judged the services to be inadequate.

Wakefield residents are being urged to apply for funding that aims to help homeowners and private rented tenants to lower their fuel bills.

A new service to help victims of domestic abuse is to be launched after Wakefield Council made a successful bid for community funding.

The Yorkshire Regiment, who were granted Freedom of the City of Wakefield in 2010, will be exercising their right to parade through Wakefield on Saturday 21 July.

Plans to put new double and single yellow lines along sections of Aberford Road in Stanley have been announced to help resolve recent parking problems.

World Cup fever has hit Wakefield, with the Council showing its support to the national team by flying the England Flag on its public buildings.

Twenty seven town centre buildings in the historic market town have been protected thanks to the Pontefract Townscape Heritage Initiative (THI). This involved an extensive programmes of works to preserve its special heritage for many years to come.

Wakefield’s Market Hall could be demolished early next year to make way for the redevelopment of the site as a new leisure destination.

​The countdown is on for the Pontefract Liquorice Festival which returns to the town centre this weekend, on Sunday 8 July.