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What looks like a slip road going up a hill, parting with a main road. It goes towards a train station which is out of view. Vans and cars are parked on one side of the road, with double yellow lines on the other side.

Work starts on pedestrian route to train station

The project will improve access to Castleford Station for pedestrians and cyclists.

The back of a police officer's yellow high viz jacket

Police officer denies rapes and child sex assault

PC Joe Lavender, from Castleford, denies a series of rapes and indecent assaults on a child.

Two women inspect a fragmentarily preserved gypsum burial in a stone coffin

Project to reveal secrets of Roman burial mystery

The Seeing the Dead project aims to understand why our ancestors created casts of the dead.

A mum and dad stand with their three young children on a floodlit sports pitch. The children - two girls and one boy - are all wearing and yellow and black sports shirts. The parents are wearing dark denim jackets and black t-shirts.

Mum thanks public for cancer treatment donations

Katie Synnott says cash given by kind-hearted people will help "keep me alive for longer".

A picture of a man who smiles at the camera. He is wearing black clothing as well as an item with a blue collar.

Biker killed due to hedge blocking driver's view

Sean Kershaw, 43, died in a collision on Hangman Stone Lane in Doncaster in June 2023.

Mugshot of Andrei Matei.

Man who stole cash from hundreds of ATMs jailed

Andrei Matei stole more than £19,000 from cash machines across England, court hears.

A man with grey hair wearing a white shirt smiles at the camera. He is sitting in a room with black panelling and an old-fashioned drawing on the wall.

Hit and run victim was club secretary for 40 years

York RUFC say Brian McClure was well-known in rugby community and passionate about the sport.

Brian McClure

'Kind, warm and loving man' dies after hit-and-run

The family of 74-year-old Brian McClure pay tribute to him after his death in Castleford.

A road which leads onto a bridge with a car on it and trees on either side

Man, 74, dies in hit-and-run crash

A man is arrested on suspicion of causing death by dangerous driving after the crash in Castleford.