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A new £14.8m leisure centre has been proposed for Pontefract Park. Should the project be given the green light it will include a ten-lane swimming pool, gym, sports hall and climbing zone.

Wakefield has been named as one of the fastest growing economies in the country in a Centre for Economics and Business Research. Wakefield ranked fifth in terms of employment, with the number of people in work in the third quarter of 2017 up by 0.9 per cent on the previous year.

A lost Bronte manuscript has been restored to its place in history by university researchers. The fragment of Branwell Bronte’s work has been misfiled at the Dunedin Public Library in New Zealand.