A FORMER care home which was closed by the council due to a ‘number of breaches of health and safety’ could soon be converted into 24 apartments. Rockley Dene, on Park Road, Worsbrough, was a ...

A NEW parent assessment centre - which will judge the parenting ability of someone over a three-month period - will be created in the town centre after Barnsley Council deemed the plans acceptable.

BARNSLEY College officially opened a first-of-its-kind training facility to create a highly-skilled workforce in the heart of the town. Laing O’Rourke is the UK’s largest privately-owned engineering ...

WAITING restrictions outside a Carlton school are set to be approved by the council following public consultation. In May the council published proposals to introduce waiting restrictions on parts of ...

THE first images of Barnsley actress Katherine Kelly in the upcoming drama The Crow Girl have been released. The six-part thriller, an adaptation of Erik Axl Sund’s best-selling novel of the same name ...

BARNSLEY actor Shaun Dooley will be leaping into the mythical world of Tolkien with his latest outing that is set to release next week. The Lord of the Rings: The War of the Rohirrim is the latest ...

A TOWN centre coffee shop will open on Christmas Day offering free food and drink to those who are spending the festive period alone. Costa Coffee, on Queen Street, will open from 10am to 1pm for ...

BARNSLEY Hospital forked out more than £400,000 in damages for gynaecology medical negligence claims over the last five years, new figures have revealed. An investigation by Medical Negligence Assist ...

TRIPLE Olympic gold medallist Ed Clancy and Barnsley Council’s director of public health Anna Hartley were on hand to officially open the Barnsley Refugee Council’s new Bike Project workshop recently.

A LOCAL athlete has run at least a mile a day every day for 3,289 days straight meaning he now could have circumnavigated the globe twice. The ninth anniversary of Gareth Cooke’s running streak took ...

TWO PLAYERS from Rockingham Cricket Club have been selected for Yorkshire under 18s girls’ squad. Izzy Fidler and Maiya Charlesworth, both 15, were the top two run–scorers for Yorkshire CCC in the ...

A BUSINESS owner whose much-loved firework shop was closed down after more than 20 years of trading has slammed inspectors who failed to tell him the outcome of a three-year-long appeal. John Hebdon, ...