The general Barnsley news section covers some of the breaking stories from around the borough
Stephanie Peacock, MP for Barnsley East, has slammed the Government after new figures revealed Barnsley Hospital missed its A&E target for another month. The figures, released by NHS England, show that for the second consecutive month, over 1000 people waited more than four hours to be seen in Barnsley Hospital’s casualty department. With 7275 people… Read more »
Barnsley Hospice is offering a year of free ‘feel good’ therapy sessions for patients and carers, thanks to a grant from Tesco’s Bags of Help scheme. The £2317 grant will be used to provide sessions in the hospice’s Limes Day Therapy Unit, which provides care and support for people with life-limiting illnesses, and their loved… Read more »
Barnsley 1, Sheffield Wednesday 1 (SkyBet Championship) Barnsley were the better side, but…. The Oakwell Club may have been forced to swap their head coach for a caretaker manager in the past week, but that post-match assessment of this South Yorkshire derby remained exactly the same as in the majority of recent home fixtures. The… Read more »
Local MP Stephanie Peacock has written to the Government to demand answers after revealing statistics that showed her Barnsley East constituency’s broadband speed and connections are well below average. According to independent analysis undertaken by the House of Commons Library, Barnsley East trails the rest of the country when it comes to speed and access… Read more »
Barnsley Football Club have expressed ‘disappointment’ and ‘shock’ at the decision of head coach Paul Heckingbottom to join derby rivals Leeds United. The 40-year-old completed the move to Elland Road today, taking with him first team coach Jamie Clapham, head of sports science Nathan Winder and first team performance analyst Alex Bailey. A statement issued… Read more »
Barnsley’s festival to celebrate poetry and language is back for 2018, supported by the town’s very own Poet Laureate, Ian McMillan. The Hear My Voice Literary Festival runs from 26 February – 31 March and is part of the three-year Hear My Voice programme, designed to encourage the people of Barnsley to express themselves through… Read more »
Yorkshire adventurer Niki Doeg will aim to inspire ladies who lunch in Barnsley next month. Niki became one of the first women to row across the North Sea as part of the ‘Yorkshire Rows’ team of mums, and was also the oldest female crew to row any ocean after crossing the Atlantic. She will share her… Read more »
Stephanie Peacock, MP for Barnsley East, has blamed the Government after she revealed results achieved in key subjects by students on free school meals in Barnsley have fallen drastically. The figures were obtained from the Government by the local MP by a written parliamentary question. They show that since 2011, the percentage of students eligible… Read more »
Queen’s Park Rangers 1, Barnsley 0 (SkyBet Championship) It was ironic that on a day when Barnsley yet again so frustratingly failed to produce any end product to a long period of domination that one of their former players should come up with a stunning goal to send them sliding to a third successive defeat… Read more »
Stephanie Peacock, MP for Barnsley East, got the chance to see local schoolchildren being inspired by nature this week when she paid a visit to RSPB Old Moor to see the reserve’s successful outdoor learning programme. Children from Goldthorpe Primary School came to the reserve for a day with Old Moor’s expert team, discovering pond… Read more »
