Barnsley Council

Oakwell, home of League One outfit Barnsley Football Club.

Barnsley FC exclusive: CEO on Oakwell plans and Reds reconnection with council

35 restaurants have been closed with immediate effect

Barnsley Council defends spending £1 million on TGI Fridays fit-out

Barnsley Council are looking to implement a hardship fund following cuts to winter fuel payments.

Barnsley Council to set up hardship fund for pensioners after fuel payment cuts

Rachel And Elaine, Stop Mu2 And Mu3 Group

Government planning inspector overturns council’s refusal of 200 new homes

The Story Shell

Ad Feature The Story Shell brings art space fun with Barnsley Libraries

Flexographic Print Machine At JK Machinery

The family business revolutionising the fight against counterfeit goods

Barnsley Council have been ordered to pay the man £150

Yorkshire council failed to rehome man targeted over his sexuality

Cannon Hall

Work to begin to replace Cannon Hall Museum’s historic roof

The quarry at Yorkshire Brickworks in Stairfoot

Disused quarry to be transformed into ‘regionally significant’ nature reserve

Glassworks Site.

Yorkshire council deny rumours that asylum seeker accommodation building

Great Houghton speed bumps

'Hazardous' speed bumps in Yorkshire village won't be replaced despite petition

A file photo of a Job Centre Plus. PIC: Philip Toscano/PA Wire

The rhetoric has not matched the reality on getting people into work

A discussion around devolution in Yorkshire is to take place later this month

Devolution debate to be held by grassroots campaign for Yorkshire assembly

Big Weekend

Ad Feature Barnsley’s Big Weekend is back this July 13 and 14

Barnsley’s Big Weekend returns to the town centre in July with an exciting, packed line-up of free events and entertainment, with something for everyone.

Graham Walker

Two people were arrested in Barnsley as anti-immigration protesters and a counter demonstration gathered outside the town hall.

Yorkshire council to agree tough new rules on school absence

Philip Waller, 65, returned from a shopping trip last week to find that a broadband firm had erected the pole outside his house in Barnsley, South Yorks. Lee McLean/SWNS

Watch: Broadband pole was put outside my home but I had it taken down

The Cucina Sky Lounge at the Glassworks has closed down. Picture: Jonathan Gawthorpe.

Cucina Sky Lounge closure controversy in Barnsley explained

The bridge

The Bullhouse Bridge: Council told to ‘get on with repairing bridge

Ice cream vans to be banned from trading near schools in Yorkshire town

Ice cream vans to be banned from trading near schools in Yorkshire town

Cooperative Street

Council bosses defend their decision to demolish 30 terraced houses

Award winning social supermarket, Community Shop, is set to open a new store in Hoyland, Barnsley, this summer, providing hundreds of local people with access to discounted food and household products, as well as learning and development programmes.

Community Shop: discount food retailer to open in Barnsley

The hall

Great Houghton Miners’ Welfare Hall: Another twist in controversial name saga

Residents object to changing the name of the Great oughton Miners' Welfare Hall.

Tensions run high over plan to change name of miners’ welfare hall in Yorkshire

Co-operative Street in Goldthorpe

Two streets of terraced housing to be demolished in £3m council scheme

Parkside Protest, copyright Danielle Andrews.

Barnsley Council seeks contractor for £1.7m replacement works

A £1.7 million contract to build a new pavilion to replace existing facilities at the Rockingham Sports Ground in Hoyland has gone out to tender.

Danielle Andrews

The bridge

Council reassures public after three road bridges labelled ‘substandard’

The council is asking the public for names for the bridge

Barnsley Council has invited residents to suggest name for new bridge

The former working men’s club in Roston near Barnsley, up for auction with Mark Jenkinson this month

Barnsley working men’s club to go up for auction with guide price of £225,000

Barnsley Council said it has been the worst cut authority in the country, except for Liverpool

The Yorkshire council facing the ‘worst cuts in country bar Liverpool’

Tooth Brushing

Schools to offer toothbrushing clubs in Yorkshire

Sheffield City Council has paid just under £10m to businesses taking space in its Heart of the City development, The Yorkshire Post can reveal.

Sheffield council paid over £9m to businesses in Heart of City scheme

Barnsley Council took the case to the High Court

Man mixed sperm with his father's to get partner pregnant, court hears

Oakwell, home of Barnsley FC.

League One club Barnsley submit application for safe standing area at Oakwell

Oakwell, home of League One outfit Barnsley Football Club.

Future of football at Oakwell safeguarded after Barnsley agree 30-year lease

Councillor Steve Hunt at the new Market Gate Bridge

New £13m bridge in Yorkshire town centre branded 'vanity project'

Barnsley Council is facing an estimated £21m budget overspend next year to keep essential services running – but the council leader has reassured taxpayers that a balanced budget will be delivered. Picture Scott Merrylees

Barnsley Council facing £21m budget overspend next year

Elsecar Heritage Centre, the site of the Fitzwilliam family's ironworks and industrial workshops

Elsecar Heritage Centre: Earl Fitzwilliam's railway station to be upgraded

Barnsley

Government grants £48m for rail line through South Yorkshire

Chancellor of the Exchequer Jeremy Hunt speaks to the media outside BBC Broadcasting House in London. PIC: James Manning/PA Wire

Local authorities need financial support in the Autumn Statement - The YP says

Matt O’Neill is executive director for growth and sustainability at Barnsley Council.

How we can help town centres across the country thrive again - Matt O’Neill

Parkside

New sports facility set to be built in Hoyland

A number of roads through Penistone, Cawthorne, Wortley and Stocksbridge are set to close for a motor rally to take place next month.

More than 50 roads to be closed for motor club rally next month

Goldthorpe Underpass

Dearne Valley bypass reopens after car arson causes structural damage

The Salt House

Councillor resigns after town centre bars closed over six figure unpaid rent

Youth Zone

Barnsley Council grants money towards £9.2million youth zone

Pool

Near future safe for pool after £400,000 grant in face of bills increase

Opium's owners accused Barnsley Council of supporting only the Glassworks development and drawing people away from other areas

Yorkshire bar to close due to 'change in drinking culture and lack of support'

Barnsley Town Centre

Barnsley council set to buy Alhambra shopping centre in £4.5 million deal

A developer proposes to create 215 new homes on Shaw Lane in Barnsley.

Plans for 215 new homes in Barnsley refused despite calls to resolve concerns

A homeless person sleeping in a tent. (Pic credit: Carl Court / Getty Images)

Strategy to end homelessness in Barnsley over the next five years to be reviewed

Elsecar, near Barnsley

Residents of Yorkshire village win campaign to keep parking restrictions

Alan Milburn, Dan Jarvis MP, Oliver Coppard and more at the launch of the Pathways to Work Commission. A joint-venture between Barnsley Council and South Yorkshire Mayoral Combined Authority to help people get back into meaningful employment.

Barnsley announces independent commission to help people back to work

Calls for council to get help from Barnsley dubbed "attention-seeking insult"

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