THREE Barnsley schools ran up a £250,000 legal bill defending themselves at employment tribunals and disciplinary hearings.
One of the biggest spenders was Richard Newman primary school which spent more than £100,000 over the same four year period.

A NINE-year-old boy is hoping Santa will make a special delivery when he celebrates Christmas - on Sunday.
Nathan Padgett was diagnosed with leukaemia last December and was too ill to enjoy Christmas Day.

FIRE-fighters were called to a blaze at a derelict house on Victoria Road, Barnsley yesterday.
Two pumps from Barnsley and one from Mansfield Road attended Westfield at 12.55pm. It is believed the fire started when rubbish outside the building was set alight.
No one was inside the property.

WHAT a colossal cucumber.
The 2ft 2in whopper was grown by Bill Owen in an allotment in Royston near the leisure centre and given to Ralph Taylor.