The general Barnsley news section covers some of the breaking stories from around the borough
Next week marks the return of the ever-popular Barnsley Fashion Week, as the Alhambra Shopping Centre showcases its retailers latest fashion trends. From the 27th – 31st March, the local shopping centre will once again be promoting men’s, women’s, kid’s and plus size style from some of the centre’s top retailers including Next, Primark, TK… Read more »
Barnsley 0, Millwall 2 (SkyBet Championship) Barnsley’s new head coach Jose Morais keeps ringing the changes with his team selections but results remain depressingly the same. Defeat by Millwall means that the Reds are now without a home win since November 4 – an unwanted club record run of 11 successive matches. Add away fixtures… Read more »
A gift of two scaffolding towers is set to save Barnsley Hospice hundreds of pounds in future maintenance costs. Following an appeal for help, industrial services company Hertel UK have donated a pair of ‘Razor Decks’ scaffolding towers – which normally cost around £1000 each to purchase new. The gift will save the charity from… Read more »
Stephanie Peacock, MP for Barnsley East, has criticised the Government’s Spring Statement as one of that ignores the reality in Barnsley. The economic Statement, read by Chancellor Philip Hammond on Tuesday, laid out the Government’s assessment of the country’s finances. But local MP Stephanie Peacock suggested the Chancellor’s words of optimism will do little to… Read more »
Barnsley 1, Norwich City 1 (SkyBet Championship) The wait goes on. It is now 10 successive home matches without a win for the Reds. Another failure to pick up three points against Millwall on Saturday and it will create an unwanted club record. They have, in fact, won only two of their last 21 fixtures… Read more »
Barnsley Hospice has received a grant of £1400 from the Masonic Charitable Foundation, to help provide care for patients with life-limiting illnesses. This is just one of 245 grants to hospices around the country from Freemasons. In total £600,000 will be donated to hospices all over England and Wales this year. Contributions from Freemasons to… Read more »
A £2000 funding injection from the Co-op Local Community Fund has paid for new catering trollies at Barnsley Hospice. Customers at the Co-op’s 11 Barnsley stores nominated the charity to receive one per cent of revenue from the firm’s products and services. The £2,191 donation has been used to buy two new catering trollies to… Read more »
A duo who have long established themselves as one of the UK folk scene’s most enduring partnerships are to appear at The Civic later this month. Twice recent winners of the BBC 2 Radio Folk Award for the Best Duo, Kathryn Roberts and Sean Lakeman have earned an enviable reputation as ‘songwriters par excellence’. Their… Read more »
A Barnsley mum who lost her grandma to cancer is encouraging people to sign up for the Barnsley Hospice Bubble Rush. Claire Coles, 36, volunteered at the event last year. She will be there again with her family when the 5km fun run, which sees participants blasted with coloured bubbles around the route, returns to… Read more »
Stephanie Peacock, MP for Barnsley East, is supporting National Apprenticeship Week, which celebrates the value of apprenticeships, and encourages more people to choose them as the best start to their careers. The theme of this year’s National Apprenticeship Week (March 5-9) is ‘apprenticeships work’, and seeks to showcase the impact they can have on the… Read more »
