The streets of Pontefract were filled with childlike happiness as residents and tourists came together to celebrate the ...

As the town gears up for its annual liquorice festival, this coming weekend, there is no mistaking the love it feels for the ...

The festival runs in partnership with Pontefract Civic Society which is also hosting ‘Liquorice Shoots’ on Saturday 8 July – a community warm-up event for the main festival featuring ...

The liquorice fields may have disappeared from the countryside around Pontefract but at Liquorice Festival time the town celebrates its famous black sweeties in all sorts of ways.

A street festival has taken place to celebrate the sweet-making history of a West Yorkshire town. Pontefract cakes are said to have been invented in the town by a local chemist in the 1760s and ...

And the annual Pontefract Liquorice Festival is expected to draw in the crowds for a 22nd year, when it returns on Sunday, July 9.

IF you like liquorice, you will have allsorts of fun in Pontefract, West ­Yorkshire, tomorrow. The town’s 16th Liquorice Festival celebrates the product, made from the root of the Glycyrrhiza ...

THOUSANDS OF visitors to Pontefract’s annual celebration of liquorice had all sorts of fun today.

The Pontefract Liquorice Festival, held every July, celebrates the town’s enduring love affair with the plant. Read: Grow easy vegetables for gardening bliss ...

As Pontefract Liquorice Festival makes a return this weekend, Laura Reid explores the history of the crop in the town, and how its use changed from medicinal to confectionary.

A street festival has taken place to celebrate the sweet-making history of a West Yorkshire town. Pontefract cakes are said to have been invented in the town by a local chemist in the 1760s and ...