This year’s Women’s Prize for Fiction has been awarded to Dutch author Yael van der Wouden for The Safekeep, a novel about an unlikely romance in the Netherlands in the 1960s.

The gap between the top and bottom of Super League was amply demonstrated as Castleford Tigers were soundly beaten by leaders ...

One UK city has been named and shamed following a recent survey that exposed who is most responsible for ‘wasting’ good ...

A video compilation released by LNER during Rail Safety Week shows cases of train staff facing threatening behaviour.

More than a third of adults have already started budgeting for Christmas – despite it being six months away. A poll of 2,000 ...

Councillors have voted unanimously in favour of plans for a new riverside park in Castleford. The development next to the ...

Waitrose has struck a multi-million-pound deal to open a new 30,000 sq ft store in Brabazon, a brand-new neighbourhood rising ...

Plans to extend a major storage distribution centre in Wakefield have been given the go-ahead. The scheme involves building a ...

Emley AFC are set to face two Football League opponents in friendlies as they look to build towards their second season in ...

Cryer & Stott has opened a new state-of-the-art cheese blending facility in Allerton Bywater. The company said it represented ...

Don’t Stop Me Now by Queen is the nation’s favourite song to blast on the car radio, followed by U2’s Beautiful Day and the iconic Go Your Own Way by Fleetwood Mac, according to a new poll.

A village church in Wakefield said to be causing “considerable noise and traffic disturbance” for residents has been sold.