OLD Silkstone Band members are reeling after a spate of crime and vandalism problems at their headquarters in Cone Lane.
Band members have now had to dip into cash raised in the area to finance their trip to a national competition next month to pay for repairs.
Band members have recently turned up on one occasion to find a lock on security gates outside the building glued up.
On another occasion, locks on the front doors and fire exit had been drilled in a way which prevented the keys being used.
** The full story appears in the Barnsley Chronicle, dated August 14. **
