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PROUD: Danny Smith.

Kestrel homage added to Hoyland home by Danny

CELEBRATION: Kathleen Richmond celebrated her 107th birthday yesterday. Picture: Scott Firth.

Kathleen still enjoying the finer things in life at 107

BEAT THE STREET: The event has been deemed a success.

Thousands took on Beat the Street challenge

PLEA: Jim Thorne, John Robuck, Tim Rodgers and Harry Stenton. Picture: Andrew Copley.

‘Don’t let railway plans hit buffers’ - volunteers

BARNSLEY PRIDE: The event is returning tomorrow.

‘Pride shows town stands for equality’

Riad with the president of Bosnia

Refugee says he’s never forgotten Barnsley and its people

HEARTBROKEN: Elisha Rollinson and Harry Wheeler have lost everything in the blaze.

Couple’s puppy dies as blaze rips through house

MISS BARNSLEY: 18 year old Lillie Jackson who will represent Barnsley in the British Isle beauty pageant. Picture Shaun Colborn PD094225

Miss Barnsley Lillie determined to make her hometown proud

CELEBRATION: Dorothy Foulstone.

Dorothy celebrates 100th birthday with family and friends

FUTURE: John Gostelow.

Listed church hit hard by spiralling costs

PROPOSAL ACCEPTED: Frances and Billy outside Barnsley Town Hall. Picture: Charley Atkins.

Couple find love six decades on after dating app mishap

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Child benefit at odds with national trend

FAR FROM BOARD: Ann Jones.

The game is on ... at Civic exhibition

MAKE ME A WINNER: Ausra Egley.

Huge cash win for radio competition winner

BARNSLEY BOUND: The British Army Red Devils.

Barnsley first for world-famous Red Devils

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Former Holy Rood priest to have say on new Pope

RALLY: More than 60 people attended the protest on Easter Monday.

Dozens attend ‘trans rights’ protest outside town hall

A tribute will be paid to Anne Scargill at the meeting.

Anne Scargill tribute planned at ‘Unity in Strength’ meeting

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Anne remembered as a ‘true socialist’

‘Assertive’ plan could have helped Claire

END OF AN ERA: Paul Wilkinson with the first - and last - issues of Memories of Barnsley.

Final issue for popular nostalgia magazine

LIKELY FIND: Joann Fletcher.

Latest discovery ‘no real surprise’ - Barnsley Egyptologist Joann Fletcher

TRIBUTE: Mary Bramall.

Mary’s role in youth work remembered

SPECIAL FUNERAL: Tractors brought traffic in parts of Barnsley to a standstill as part of a funeral escort for 15-year-old Jack Allott. Picture Shaun Colborn PD093935

Moving tractor tribute to teenager Jack

Mary Thickett enjoying her 100th birthday.

Mary still living life to the full at 100

Ralph Swindells.

Widower’s anguish over banks’ letters to his wife

Former RAF Corporal and Invictus Games competitor Chris Platts.

Incredible turnaround as Chris set to compete in Invictus Games

REMEMBERED: Ken Capstick., pictured with Arthur Scargill.

Tributes paid to former NUM vice president Ken Capstick

Mary Brook during her military service.

Town’s oldest resident dies, aged 104

Fr Bill Bergin.

Town’s people showed ‘a fundamental goodness’ says Father Bill

Canon Darren Percival has launched an appeal to raise almost £750,000 to carry out urgent repairs to St John’s Cudworth. Picture Shaun Colborn PD093813

£750k bill looming for historic church

Research shows that households in fuel poverty are reducing their energy consumption.

Energy use falling in town’s households

Richard Kitson Launches his new book “From Life”

Hometown serves as inspiration in artist’s book

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Celebrity sheep is putting Baa-rnsley on the map

Peter Clarke with his wife Janet on their diamond wedding annoversary last year.

Well-known community character dies, aged 82

HEARTBREAKING: Leon with his grandson Michael.

‘It’s not just Christmas without him - it’s a lifetime’

DEFENCE: Callum Simpson.

More changes are coming in 2025 ...

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South Yorkshire Mining Villages - A History of the Region’s Former Coal Mining Communities

Lay Minister Fred Thompson leading a service at the memorial.

Mining disaster victims remembered

Malcolm Ford and partner Jennifer Huxtable receiving a cup for best black fantail from the Fantail Club president, Roy Baker.

Malcolm’s quest to find new flock of pigeon-keepers

Frustrated residents Stewart Kirk and John Taylor.

Posties’ year-long stand-off over dangerous dog

MP Marie Tidball

Assisted Dying Bill: ‘I begged parents to let me die’ - MP

100-year-old Kenneth Kingsley.

War veteran Kenneth celebrates 100th birthday

ASK THE QUESTION: Amy Hoyle, Sarah Thompson-Rutherford, Mayor John Clarke, Ruth O’Leary and Couns Jo Newing, Pauline McCarthy and Wendy Cain.

New campaign aims to help ‘lose the stigma’ of sexual harm

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Barnsley boxers victorious on Metrodome show

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Identical twins defy the odds to celebrate 101st birthday

Bar supervisor Jackie Knowles Picture Shaun Colborn PD093690

Pub manager hits back at disrespect claims on Remembrance Sunday

Cllr Steve Bullock and Cllr Phil Wright

Support grows for revamp of ‘no man’s land’ street