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Pontefract's local newspaper is the Pontefract and Castleford Express. According to local hoteliers, Pontefract is known for its 'down-to-earth' nightlife, and has one of the highest concentrations of public houses in the UK. Venues include Big Fellas, the Counting House, the Elephant, the Green Dragon, the Tap and Barrel, Wetherspoons, the Malt Shovel, and the Blackmoor Head.
Novelist Jack Vance, in the "Demon Princes" cycle has named the capital of Aloysius, the main planet in the Vega system after Pontefract. The hero of the series, Kirth Gersen, has his residence there.
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