Kara McKune
Digital Journalist at Wakefield Express
Digital Journalist for @WakeExpress - proud sausage dog mum - Taylor Swift fan - terrible baker - Got a story? Email [email protected]
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1 week ago |
wakefieldexpress.co.uk | Kara McKune
Tucked away off Barnsley Road is ‘The Chateau’ – an incredible home with a dedicated leisure floor housing luxurious indoor swimming pool, state of the art gym and fully equipped wellness suite complete with sauna and steam room. This luxury mansion is situated in a unique and private setting, surrounded by a striking rock face backdrop and enhanced by dramatic long-distance views to the front. The sweeping driveway offers the property a huge amount of seclusion and a dramatic sense of arrival.
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1 week ago |
wakefieldexpress.co.uk | Kara McKune
Two healthcare support workers from the Mid Yorkshire Teaching NHS Trust have been nationally recognised in the Chief Nursing Officer (CNO) and Chief Midwifery Officer (CMidO) Support Worker Excellence Awards. Ellie Glover and Alejandro St Julien, who work across Pinderfields, Pontefract and Dewsbury hospitals, were honoured with the awards celebrating their outstanding contributions to healthcare.
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1 week ago |
wakefieldexpress.co.uk | Kara McKune
Wakefield will be hotter than Hawaii this weekend, with the Met Office forecasting highs of 31C on Saturday. Today (Thursday) will see highs of 27C despite some light winds into the afternoon. As the week ends, the weather will only get hotter with Friday then seeing highs of 30C in the early afternoon. Into the weekend, the sun will continue to shine with the temeprature set to soar to a vast 31C on the longest day of the year, Saturday (June 21).
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1 week ago |
wakefieldexpress.co.uk | Kara McKune
Wakefield’s Bronwyn James stars alongside Gerard Butler in the live-action adaptation of the Oscar-nominated animated film ‘How To Train Your Dragon’, which premiered in cinemas over the weekend. Based on a book series by Cressida Cowell and the 2010 animated movie by Dreamworks, the adaptation follows a young Viking named Hiccup who befriends a rare dragon named Toothless, despite his community's tradition of dragon hunting.
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1 week ago |
wakefieldexpress.co.uk | Kara McKune
People in Wakefield and across Yorkshire have walked to raise over £100,000 in the 100th year of Yorkshire Cancer Research, celebrating a century of life-saving cancer breakthroughs and progress in the region. Hundreds of supporters laced up their walking boots to take part in the ‘We Walk for Yorkshire 2025’ challenge and the Yorkshire Three Peaks, walking over 30,000 miles across the region and beyond.
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