Pontefract
Americannoun
noun
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At the end of April 2024, Wai and Trickett, who both owned private security companies, were in Pontefract in West Yorkshire where a woman called Monica Kwong lived with her school-age son.
From BBC ● Mar. 6, 2026
Simon Bennett, a 65-year-old semi-retired writer from Pontefract, shrugs off a suspected case of trench foot as if he had stubbed his toe.
From BBC ● Oct. 8, 2024
Apprentice bricklayer Alfie Conway, 19, from Pontefract, was jailed for two years and three months at Sheffield Crown Court.
From BBC ● Aug. 20, 2024
Seventeen people are in hospital after a minibus carrying football supporters crashed on the A1M near Pontefract.
From BBC ● Apr. 14, 2024
In the north, Pontefract was surprised by the Royalists, and shortly afterwards Scarborough Castle declared for the king.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 12, Slice 4 "Grasshopper" to "Greek Language" by Various
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