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Police cordon in place outside Doncaster city centre bank

2026-04-08 06:30:00 UTC

Police have sealed off an area outside a bank in Doncaster city centre.

Fire on Doncaster street LIVE as road closes for several hours

2026-04-08 06:30:00 UTC

Drivers have been asked to find an alternative route if possible

Teen dies and man in hospital with life-threatening injuries after Doncaster horror smash

2026-04-08 06:30:00 UTC

An 18-year-old has died and a 25-year-old man is in hospital with life threatening injuries following a horror road smash in Doncaster in the early hours of this morning which saw a car plough into a tree.

Doncaster (/ˈdɒŋkəstər, -kæs-/ DONK-ə-stər, DONK-ast-ər) is a city in South Yorkshire, England. Named after the River Don, it is the administrative centre of the City of Doncaster metropolitan borough, and is the second largest settlement in South Yorkshire after Sheffield. Noted for its racing and railway history, it is situated in the Don Valley on the western edge of the Humberhead Levels and east of the Pennines. It had a population of 87,455 at the 2021 census, whilst its built-up area had a population of 160,220, and the wider metropolitan borough had a population of 308,100.

Adjacent to Doncaster to its east is the Isle of Axholme in Lincolnshire, which contains the towns of Haxey, Epworth and Crowle, and directly south is Harworth Bircotes in Nottinghamshire. Also, within the city's vicinity are Barnsley, Wakefield, Pontefract, Selby, Goole, Scunthorpe, Gainsborough, Retford, Worksop and Rotherham, to which Doncaster is linked by road and rail.