Castleford, England News

By Ellen Beardmore SNOW fell on crowds of revellers as Pontefract and Castleford lit up with festive cheer this week.

Wakefield is weathering the economic storm a ' and bucking the trend that has seen other West Yorkshire town and city centres struggle.

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HEARTED fundraisers are putting on a variety of events to raise cash for the BBC's annual Children In Need appeal this week.

SANTA will ride his sleigh through Featherstone as Christmas lights are switched on to brighten up the district.

Tuesday November 17 SLIPPERS Wakefield District NHS and Wakefield Council are holding a slipper exchange at Castleford Salvation Army, Booth Street, from 10am to 2pm.

Friday November 13 PROBUS Castleford Probus Club meets at Trinity Methodist Church Rooms Castleford from 10am to noon when speaker Dr Philip Judkin will give a talk called 'Breakout'. New members welcome.

FIELD The Friends of King George's Field meets at Falcon Drive Community Centre at 6pm to discuss how to improve facilities on the field.

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It was loved and loathed and now it's leaving 'home'. Fans of modern art installation Cratehouse for Castleford reckoned it cast a shaft of artistic light on the former mining town.

The pints may be staying put at a Castleford pub but the pies are on the move. Regulars of the Magnet Hotel can now tuck into their favourite pub grub without leaving the house.

BREATHE Pontefract Breathe Easy Group meets at Pontefract Library at 1.30pm when a speaker from Balfour Beatty tells the group about the community project "To help quit smoking." PORTRAIT Artist Dave Newbould will be demonstrating how to portrait paint using mixed media at Castleford Library from 7pm to 9pm.

REMEMBRANCE services will honour fallen heroes across the Five Towns this week. Hundreds will join silences, lay wreaths and remember those who died in conflict, at services on Sunday, November 8, and Wednesday, November 11, Armistice Day.

Friday November 6 SALE A nearly new sale and coffee morning takes place at Pontefract Salvation Army, from 9am to noon.

Pop star Lisa Maffia is to be a judge in a search for a star contest in Castleford.

Second World War veteran Thomas Place will proudly lead a parade on Sunday, honouring heroes who have made the ultimate sacrifice for their country.

PUMPKIN Pontefract Heritage Group is holding pumpkin carving workshops at Farmer Copley's, Wakefield Road, Pontefract, every day during the half-term holiday from 11am to 1pm, from Monday October 26 to Friday October 30.

HOUNDS who help transform the day-to-day lives of deaf people walked school pupils across the district to lessons this week.

A CHINESE takeaway in Castleford was temporarily shut down because of "an infestation of rats inside the food storage and preparation areas". Environmental health officers from Wakefield Council served two hygiene emergency probibition notices to close The Cherry Blossom, on Lumley Street, as the poor condition of a rear food room was also letting ...

A TEENAGER died after overtaking three cars doing a wheely on a motorbike, an inquest heard.