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BBC News
28-05-2025
- General
- BBC News
Man charged with manslaughter over 2023 Pontefract street death
A man has been charged with manslaughter following the death of a 25-year-old man who was struck by a car in Thompson died in hospital after he was seriously injured in an incident in Front Street in the early hours of 19 November Thompson was hit by a black Ford Fiesta after a fight broke out on the street, West Yorkshire Police said at the time. Dylan Maxwell, 27, of Wood View Avenue in Castleford, is due to appear before magistrates in Leeds on 22 July. Listen to highlights from West Yorkshire on BBC Sounds, catch up with the latest episode of Look North.
BBC News
27-05-2025
- General
- BBC News
Man in court after 14-year-old boy stabbed in Pontefract
An 18-year-old man has appeared in court after a 14-year-old boy was found with stab wounds at a property in were called to assist the ambulance service at a property in Eastbourne View just after 19:30 BST on Sunday. Two people were arrested at the scene, West Yorkshire Police victim was taken to hospital where he was treated for injuries not thought to be life-threatening, officers Clarke, 18, appeared at Leeds Magistrates' Court on Tuesday charged with wounding with intent and possessing an offensive weapon in a public place. He was remanded into custody and is due to appear at Leeds Crown Court on 24 June. Listen to highlights from West Yorkshire on BBC Sounds, catch up with the latest episode of Look North.
BBC News
22-05-2025
- Health
- BBC News
Emergency trauma kits issued to door staff in Wakefield and Pontefract
Emergency trauma kits are being issued to security and door staff at bars and pubs in the event of a knife or bottle trauma kits are being rolled out across Wakefield and Pontefract to enable a fast response before the arrival of police and Security's Nikki Finan, whose staff have volunteered to take part, said the company wanted a third of door staff to be Theobald, whose son Ryan was fatally stabbed on a night out in Doncaster, said: "It's a really good idea, the door staff having these kits, if they can save somebody's life." Ms Finnan said: "All our staff are radioed-up, so if you have an incident where you've got a member of staff who is not trauma trained, you've got a member of trained staff on the end of the radio who can be there to assist." Thirty trauma kits, costing about £7,000, have been funded by Wakefield's Community Safety trauma kits contain a number items to manage a catastrophic haemorrhage, including latex gloves, a tourniquet, haemostatic gauze, pressure bandages and chest seals in case of injury to the roll-out coincides with Knife Crime Awareness Week, which highlights the risks and consequences of knife crime. Ryan Theobald, 21, died after he was stabbed twice during a night out in January 2022. Ms Theobald said her family had been suffering ever since."The pain never goes away, we're still in therapy three years on, it's really hard just to get through a day." Every time there was a stabbing, Ms Theobald said it was like reliving the experience over again."I don't know whether it's because we're more aware of it now, but there's definitely been more stabbings. There's people carrying knives at school. It's getting out of hand."Ms Theobald welcomed the idea of trauma kits being provided to door staff at pubs and clubs in Wakefield."I'm not going to say if they had one they could have saved Ryan, I don't think they would have done because of the amount of blood Ryan lost and where it was he was stabbed, but they could save someone else's life and that's what matters," she added. Listen to highlights from West Yorkshire on BBC Sounds, catch up with the latest episode of Look North.
BBC News
21-05-2025
- Health
- BBC News
'I've been in hospital so long I've been left to rot'
It has become a standing joke for amputee David Taylor that staff at the hospital where he has been a patient for five months will ask him for his Christmas dinner order. The 56-year-old has been in Pontefract Hospital in West Yorkshire since mid-December - and remains there despite being medically fit for treating him say they won't be surprised if he is still on the wards during the festive from nearby Knottingley, has become an unwilling "bed blocker" because his housing provider cannot find suitable accommodation for the wheelchair he now needs to lost his leg after being diagnosed with life-threatening sepsis, and now says he has been "left to rot". He has been living in a side-room off a ward and when he meets the BBC in a park near the hospital with his wife Kerry, it is the first time he has properly been outdoors since his and Kerry have been left distressed by the amount of time housing association Vico Homes has taken to find them an appropriate new tenancy through the online portal it runs."What it must be costing the NHS is unreal – and the standing joke in the hospital is 'what do you want for your Christmas dinner' because the way things are going, I will be in here for Christmas." It is the latest upset in what has been a traumatic six months for the was in November 2024 that David first became seriously unwell.A chest infection developed into sepsis and several "blue blobs" began appearing on one of his needed five emergency operations at Pinderfields Hospital in Wakefield to save his life, including the amputation of his left leg below the December 2024 he was moved to Pontefract Hospital to continue his recovery and the following month was told he could go he couldn't leave because an inspection of his property found the doors and hallway were too narrow for his wheelchair. David tells me that being separated from Kerry and his family for so long has been badly affecting his mental health, which was fragile even before his illness."I'm just in my room crying my eyes out," he says."Kerry's brought some pictures in for me to look at the grandkids and herself, just to try and lighten my mood, but it's getting very dark."I honestly can't see no end," he BBC first reported on David's predicament six weeks ago, but the couple say they are no further have been applying for three houses each week through Vico Homes, which was formerly known as Wakefield District Housing, with no was offered a place in supported accommodation in January but turned it down because he wants to live Council has a duty, under the Homelessness Act 2002, to find David a suitable home to return says his dream is to find a simple home where there is some space to "chill out" with Kerry in the fresh he says at the moment it feels like "more of an uphill struggle" than having his leg amputated. In a statement Vico Homes said: "We understand that this is a difficult situation for Mr Taylor and his family. "A number of options have been explored with Mr Taylor that might help him to leave hospital sooner but these haven't met his specific needs. "We're one of many housing providers in the area looking to support Mr Taylor and his family to find a home, working closely with Wakefield Council."Just before the couple head back to the hospital, Kerry talks about the strain it has put on their relationship."It makes me want to scream and scream and scream," Kerry says."It's a good job we love each other, as I don't know how anybody could get through this otherwise," she says, clutching her husband's starts crying and says David has suggested she could leave the marriage to make life easier."I don't want to, though – he's my baby." Listen to highlights from South Yorkshire on BBC Sounds, catch up with the latest episode of Look North
Yahoo
13-05-2025
- Sport
- Yahoo
York's Racecourse's 2025 Dante Festival ready for Wednesday's start
THE first day of the 2025 Dante meeting at York Racecourse arrives on Wednesday with an incredibly competitive seven-race card for punters heading to the track. The action kicks off at 2.10pm with the Jorvik Handicap in class two before the card comes to a close at 5.25pm with another handicap, this time in class four, and 15 runners are set to take it on. The opening contest of the afternoon sees 12 runners head to the stalls for the class two Jorvik Handicap over the one mile and three furlong trip (2.10). Marhaba The Champ looks the way to go in the opener, trained by Kevin Ryan, despite some patchy form to kick off this season off the back of a seventh at Pontefract on reappearance but has dropped down a couple of pounds in the weights and could figure prominently. Race two on the card is another class two handicap, this time over the much shorter six furlongs (2.42). Likeable types Holkham Bay and Two Tribes are taken to come to the fore in a typically competitive renewal of this handicap. The latter is very appealing on the back of his solid reappearance effort and with top jockey Ryan Moore booked, but Holkham Bay caught the eye at Goodwood recently and he gets the nod. Trainer Kevin Ryan has saddled the last two winners of this and his representatives Bergerac and We Never Stop both have solid claims. The Group 2 1895 Duke Of York Clipper Stakes is up next at 3.13, worth a cool £85,065 to the winner. Night Raider, trained by Karl Burke, was most impressive in a listed race on the all-weather surface when last seen in November and is selected to take the step back up in class in his stride and show he's equally as effective on turf. Ryan Moore takes the reins on last year's Commonwealth Cup hero Inisherin and Kevin Ryan's charge may provide the chief threat ahead of Flora of Bermuda, a course and distance Group 3 winner last year. Six runners will head to the start for the Musidora Stakes, race four on the York card, at 3.45 and another big prize pot is up for grabs, with £73,723 heading to first place. Smoken quickly reached a useful level last autumn and is taken to stretch her unbeaten record to three on Wednesday. Whirl, trained by powerhouse Irish handler Aidan O'Brien, should be better for last month's Curragh reappearance and might be the one to give Ralph Beckett's filly most to think about. Gallant stepped up a little on his reappearance and was better than the bare result as the only one to make an impact from off the pace when fourth in a Newmarket handicap four weeks weeks ago. Appealing as the type to go on improving and completely unexposed at this trip, he earns the vote to come out on top in race five of the afternoon (4.18) for trainer Andrew Balding. A valuable novice stakes is the penultimate race of day one at York (4.55) over the five furlong trip but a disappointing field of six will take it on despite the prize money on offer. Richard Hannon's Ballistic Missile looks the way to go here on debut, for a yard that is on fire with their two-year-old's this season. Finally, the card comes to a closer with the 15-runner class four handicap over the mile and three furlong distance (5.25) with preference in the finale heading the way of Don Simon, who arrives at York on the back of two straight seconds and has the form to go one better for trainer Ed Dunlop, who has taken the plunge and booked star jockey Ryan Moore to ride. York selections - Wednesday 2.10 - Marhaba The Champ 2.42 - Holkham Bay 3.13 - Night Raider 3.45 - Smoken 4.18 - Gallant 4.55 - Ballistic Missile 5.25 - Don Simon
