A BARNSLEY girl has achieved her dancing dream after making it to the finals of a national competition.

Abigail Flatters, 17, has been a pupil since she was six at Lisa Thornley’s School of Dance on Stocks Lane.

And after more than 60 heats, from Wales to Newcastle, she has finally made the cut to go through to the finals of the Miss Dance of Great Britain competition at Blackpool’s Winter Gardens theatre in June.

Abigail, from Laburnum Grove, Worsbrough Dale, said: “I’ve been training since I was six and making it into the competition is something I have been working towards for the past two years.”

Read more in this weeks Barnsley Chronicle