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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"

Affordable housing solutions for the communities of Yorkshire

Ad Feature Multi-million plan for affordable housing in Yorkshire

Proposal for a pair of large warehouses could be given the go-ahead in Barnsley

Proposal for nearly 200,000sqft of warehouses to be built in Yorkshire

Barnsley Council won the council of the year award at the LGC Awards 2023

The Yorkshire coucil which has been named the best in the country

Coun Dickie Denton said people didn’t feel safe in the area

‘The most useless street light in the country’ which has been 'eaten' by trees

Barnsley Town Hall

Barnsley council: Local election results 2023
Labour has held Barnsley Council after picking up three seats.

Midhopestones, between Barnsley and Sheffield

Planners reject walkers' and cyclists' cafe next to old railway line

Volunteer Gerald Lax pictured at RSPB Dearne Valley Old Moor Old Moor Ln, Wombwell, Bolton upon Dearne, Barnsley, as the site celebrates 20years since it opened. Picture taken by Yorkshire Post Photographer Simon Hulme 28th March 2023

How nature has bounced back after pit closures at RSPB Old Moor

Businesses in Barnsley are benefiting from town centre regeneration work

Barnsley businesses hail impact of 'fantastic' town centre regeneration

Councillor Hannah Kitching, leader of the opposition Liberal Democrat Group, told the meeting that “this is honestly, the most inappropriate and tone deaf move that I’ve seen in my time."

Proposals for gifts of up to £1,000 slammed as “inappropriate” and “tone deaf”

Tenants in Barnsley Council properties will face a 6.5 per cent rent rise in the coming financial year.

Barnsley Council tenants rent to rise by 6.5 per cent

The washing plant at Woolley Colliery is demolished in 1993

Residents of Yorkshire mining village oppose plans for 115 homes on colliery

£9.2m youth centre in Barnsley town centre given green light by planners on site of former electricity depot

£9.2m youth centre in Barnsley town centre given green light by planners

Barnsley Council leader Sir Steve Houghton.

Council leader advised to ‘change route to work’ by police over safety concerns

The original Welcome to Yorkshire collapsed into administration last year after council leaders withdrew funding. They are now looking to set up a replacement organisation.

Council-led tourism body to replace Welcome to Yorkshire will launch in April

The old Hoyle Mill Inn

Yorkshire pub to be transformed into mental health recovery centre

How the Lidl in Hoyland could look

Lidl to resubmit plans for new store in Yorkshire which will create 40 jobs
Lidl are set to resubmit a planning application for a store in Yorkshire after withdrawing plans this week.

The railway in 2021, post-closure

Elsecar Heritage Railway: Track to be lifted at Scheduled Monument site

Strep A advice has been issued by public health bosses in South Yorkshire

Public health bosses in Yorkshire issue Strep A advice to parents

The interns are students of Barnsley College. PIC: Tony Johnson

Help young people with learning difficulties into work - The Yorkshire Post says

The man was diagosed with priapism after being taken to A&E

Care home resident has ‘permanent damage’ after four-day erection, claims mother

The narrow railway bridge near Bolton upon Dearne Station

Yorkshire housing development refused because of traffic safety concerns

Barnsley town centre

First-time buyers to get 30 per cent off a £250,000 newbuild home in Barnsley

'Barnsley became the first town in the UK to ban adverts for ‘junk foods’ high in fat, salt and sugar at council-owned sites such as museums and libraries'.

Why Barnsley Council is right to stop takeaway from opening - Jayne Dowle

Barnsley has “exceptionally high rates of adult obesity”

Takeaway plans in Yorkshire village refused to due to 'high levels of obesity'

Woodland Drive properties devastated by fires

No decision yet made on replacing council houses lost to huge fire during summer

The Alhambra has been put up for sale for £10.5m

Yorkshire shopping centre up for sale for £10.5m - eight months after going bust

Avison Young has been appointed to sell the Alhambra Shopping Centre in Barnsley on behalf of LPA Receivers for a sale price of £10.5m

Alhambra Shopping Centre in Barnsley goes on sale for £10.5m

The petition calls on BMBC to implement an average speed camera, 40mph signs and pedestrian crossings on Doncaster Road, Ardsley.

Barnsley residents calls for safety measures on busy dual carriageway

Barnsley Council’s South Area Team is considering a free bulky waste collection scheme

Council considers free bulky waste collection

The land off Hill End Road

Greenbelt land on site of former Yorkshire mine to be turned into holiday park

The planned Evri site in Barnsley

Council leader defends allowing huge Evri warehouse to be built in Yorkshire

Oliver Coppard.

Oliver Coppard can be the strong voice South Yorkshire needs - Jayne Dowle

Artist Dan Archer' s stunning Borealis in November last year used layers of light and particle clouds to bring the magic of the Northern Lights to Bradford. Picture: Tony Johnson.

Bradford would be a powerhouse as City of Culture - Yorkshire leaders co-chairs

Barnsley Council deputy leader Jim Andrews has lost his seat to the Conservatives

Local elections 2022: Barnsley Council deputy leader loses seat to Conservatives

Thurlstone Moor

Fireworks and sky lanterns could be banned to protect moorland in Yorkshire

Elsecar Heritage Centre is to receive £4m of Government funding

Elsecar Heritage Centre 'can become international attraction after £4m grant'

Oliver Coppard is in the running to be the next Mayor of South Yorkshire.

Oliver Coppard: I couldn't defend the indefensible under Jeremy Corbyn

Allegations were made that Covid marshals “photographed children playing in a park without the consent of their parents”

Complaint made to council after Covid marshals photographed children playing

GB Eye's new home.

Fan merchandise firm GB Eye expects to employ 100 people in Barnsley

Barnsley Markets

Historic market to get 21st Century upgrade with click and collect service

Worsbrough Reservoir

'Sink holes' appear at historic Yorkshire reservoir caused by 'wave erosion'

The plot of land off Cemetery Road

Homes to be built in village despite more than 200 people signing petition

The site of the new warehouses

Plans to build two new massive warehouses - creating 600 jobs - approved

How the two new warehouses would look from a distance

Two new warehouses next to huge Hermes hub in Yorkshire set to be given approval