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Disgraced rock star Ian Watkins died from stab wound to the neck, inquest hears

The 48-year-old died after an alleged attack at HMP Wakefield, where he was serving a 29-year sentence for child sexual offences.

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Two men charged with the murder of disgraced rock star Ian Watkins

Rashid Gedel, 25, and Samuel Dodsworth, 43, both of HMP Wakefield, have been charged with murder.

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Paedophile Lostprophets singer Ian Watkins killed in prison knife attack as police make two arrests

The convicted paedophile was attacked with a knife while serving a 29-year sentence

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‘Extremely rare’ Barbara Hepworth sculpture to be saved after £3.8m is raised

Sculpture With Colour (Oval Form) Pale Blue And Red will go on permanent display at The Hepworth Wakefield.

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Jenny Eclair backs £3.8m fundraiser to ‘save Hepworth artwork for the nation’

A museum and national charity wants to raise enough money to secure it for permanent public display in Wakefield, West Yorkshire.

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Helen Chadwick: Life Pleasures – a rich and witty retrospective that smells like chocolate

A bubbling Jacuzzi-sized fountain of molten chocolate greets visitors at the entrance to Life Pleasures, a major retrospective of British artist Helen Chadwick at the Hepworth gallery in Wakefield. The piece, named Cacao, was made in 1994, two years before the artist’s sudden death of a heart attack aged just…

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Inside HMP Wakefield, where Peter Sullivan was wrongly held for murder

Peter Sullivan has been freed from notorious prison nicknamed ‘Monster Mansion’

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Suspected crossbow attacker died from ‘self-inflicted airgun injury’

An inquest into Owen Lawrence’s death was opened and adjourned in Wakefield

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Suspected Leeds attacker died from self-inflicted airgun injury, inquest told

An inquest into Owen Lawrence’s death was opened and adjourned in Wakefield on Monday.

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Leeds United fans to pay tribute following crash which killed three teenagers

The tragedy happened in the village of West Bretton, near Wakefield.

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One of three teenagers killed after car hit tree named as family pay tribute

Koby Jones, 18, from Flockton, was killed in the crash near the village of West Bretton, near Wakefield, on Friday.

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Three teenagers killed after car hits tree in Wakefield

Police said two other passengers were taken to hospital, one of whom remains in a life-threatening condition.

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Three teenagers killed after car hits tree near Wakefield

Driver, aged 18, and two 19-year-old passengers confirmed dead after collision on Friday night

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Where tourists seldom tread, part 13: three more British places with tales to tell

We visit Wakefield’s rhubarb triangle Britannia’s westernmost amphitheatre in Carmarthen, and Colne - home of Monty Python’s favourite cobblestones

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Man arrested after family and motorcyclists killed on A61 near Wakefield

Police appeal for information from anyone who saw a grey Porsche 911 being driven in area on Sunday

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Wakefield horror crash: Man arrested on suspicion of causing deaths of six people on A61 near Barnsley

An 11-year-old girl’s entire family was wiped out in the collision

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Man arrested over crash that left six people dead including two young girls

Man arrested on suspicion of causing death by dangerous driving after collision on rural West Yorkshire road

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Girl, 11, showing ‘unimaginable strength’ after tragic crash that killed family

A GoFundMe has raised more than £100,000 for Poppie after her parents and sisters were killed in a tragic crash between Barnsley and Wakefield

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Girl, 11, left orphaned after family killed in Wakefield car crash

Shane Roller, Shannen Morgan and two daughters killed in one of two collisions in 24 hours that left 10 people dead

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Weerhoud at The Hepworth Wakefield: the spirit of dance animates Igshaan Adams’s reflection on South Africa’s history

To understand the history of South Africa, you must understand how the the laws of apartheid forced South Africans to live in assigned racial spaces. To comprehend present day South Africa, you must understand that even 30 years since my country’s first national democratic election, these racist and fascist laws…

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Two young girls among six people killed in ‘absolutely tragic’ horror crash near Wakefield

Pictures show burnt-out vehicle and scattered debris after car and motorbike collided on country road

The Guardian - UK

‘It wouldn’t happen to the men’: Wakefield AFC women’s team dropped

Players at non-league side said it was obvious club had no intention of supporting and developing the women’s side

The Guardian - UK

Roger Kojan obituary

Other lives: Economic development officer with Wakefield council, in West Yorkshire

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Yorkshire estate known as world’s first nature reserve gets Grade II listing

Eccentric Victorian owner of Waterton Park, near Wakefield, made pioneering decisions to protect wildlife

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Groucho Yorkshire: Soho's legendary members club heads north

It could have been New York — instead it’s Wakefield

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