Barnsley

IT is a sobering thought that the attendance at four separate Premier League football matches at the weekend was exceeded by the 24,300 pensioners and vulnerable people who died from hypothermia and related illnesses last winter.

THE Office for National Statistics has released figures showing that a staggering 24,300 people died from mostly preventable causes over the course of winter last year.

Human stories from the worst mining disaster in Victorian Britain will be told in a new exhibition to mark the 150th anniversary of the tragedy.

IT was an interesting weekend of Yorkshire football, for sure - with introspection for some and positivity and relief afforded for others.

I DON’T doubt that the Prime Minister’s noble vow to help the “JAM” families is well-meaning. She has identified a group, estimated at six million working families, whom she deems especially deserving of Government support.

FORGET ‘Black Friday’ the biggest giveaways last night were to be found at Oakwell.

FEW would deny that the past 12 months have been anything other than a stupendous journey for Barnsley Football Club.

PAUL HECKINGBOTTOM has revealed that Barnsley have held ‘initial discussions’ with a number of players whose deals expire in the summer - with the talks ‘ongoing’.

A FAMILY is blaming Network Rail for the violent death of their horse and pony, after they escaped on to the track and were hit by a train.

THERE was one home truth which Chancellor Philip Hammond did not utter in his Autumn Statement as he came up with various wheezes to help working parents.

From: Brian Sheridan, Redmires Road, Sheffield.

IT should be recalled that while Barnsley captured all the headlines last season, Wigan actually won the League One title, finishing 13 points clear of the sixth-placed Reds.

WHEN it comes to overcoming challenges, Conor Hourihane has shown himself to be rather proficient over the past year.

CONOR HOURIHANE says that the ball is in Barnsley’s court regarding his future and insists he is open-minded about his situation.

Concern is growing for the safety of a man who disappeared after a shopping trip in South Yorkshire.

Teenagers were hurt after a brawl broke out in Barnsley.

Decades of good work by successive Governments to end child poverty risks being undone as a string of punitive benefits cuts condemns an entire generation to a “childhood lottery”, a coalition of 100 charities and civic organisations warns today.

From: Mr CE Hallas, Cubley Rise Road, Penistone, Sheffield.

THE election of Donald Trump as President of the United States is nothing less than a political earthquake. Many feel fear has prevailed over hope, that the outsider has triumphed over the insider.