NURSES at Barnsley Hospital are threatening to work to rule after the trust created a new director post.
Sharon Linter had been acting chief nurse and director of quality standards in place of Juliette Greenwood, who was involved in a car accident, since January 2009.
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WILLIAM Broadhead's trip to buy some eggs left him shattered when he was told he wasn't old enough.
William's mum Katrina had sent him to the Spar in Penistone to buy eggs for Yorkshire puddings.
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IT WILL cost £2.2m and take a year to repair the potholes in Barnsley roads caused by the snow and ice.
Work on the worst affected road, Pontefract Road through Lundwood, will be done within the next two to three weeks, with complete resurfacing needed.
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THE number of 'support' staff working in Barnsley schools has increased by more than 50 per cent in five years.
Meanwhile the number of qualified teachers has dropped by 81 - a reduction of 4.5 per cent.
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SY MODELS managing director Sarah Young knows how it feels to be a Faces of Barnsley finalist - she finished in the top six of the very first.
Sarah, 27, said it was that experience in 2003 which inspired her to set up her own modelling agency.
"That was the reason I got into it all," said Sarah.

A MAN who helped maintain the allotments in Grimethorpe has threatened to report Brierley Town Council to the Standards Board after he was dismissed. Harry Swift of Oldroyd Avenue, was relieved of his duties at allotments on Acorn Way after Brierley Council said it could run the allotments more efficiently.

A HOMEOWNER has been told she will have to pay an extra £5,000 after building a side extension which encroached onto council land - by half a brick. Plans were approved for Beverley Jacques to build a 2.7m two storey side extension on her home on Rose Grove, Wombwell, in August 2008. In May last year she submitted further plans to change the use of a strip of land next to the house from 'urban green space' to private development land on the understanding it would cost £2,590. But when she requested a visit from a council officer she was told that the extension had already encroached onto council land and if she wanted to continue with her application it would cost her £7,000 . The council later explained that the land value had increased because it was no longer going to be used as 'garden land' but land for building which costs more to bjuy. Beverley, 49, said: "I could not believe it, I had only asked a council officer to come out so they could show me exactly where my new border was so I didn't build a fence on council land. "It was then that I was told that the extension, which was nearly finished, was already encroaching, even though all through the process a building inspector had come out and passed every single stage. 'The officer told me it may have to be demolished or that I would be taken to court which caused a great deal of distress." She asked the officer how she could have gone onto council land when planning permission had been granted 12 months earlier for a 2.7m extension. She said: "My extension measured 2.69m but the officer told me it measured 2.8m, a figure which has changed several times since, and that 'planning permission does not mean anything'. "This was a complete shock as a lay person I assumed that it did mean something as I'd had to pay so much money to apply for it." Planning permission for the change of land use was granted in December last year on the proviso that the council receive the £7,000. Beverley said: "I have made numerous complaints about this, to the council who tell me that it is my architect/plan drawer's fault but I have phoned him and he won't return my calls. I did receive an e-mail from him telling me that the council are at fault. "It is currently with the Ombudsman and I am waiting for their response before I can take any further action. That however may take up to a year which leaves my extension with no roof and exposed to the elements." Jeremy Sykes, a council spokesman, said: "The value of the land as garden land would be different to that for land with a building constructed upon it - hence the variations in the valuation. "However, we did verbally advise Mrs Jacques that her plans appeared to make use of the council's land prior to her constructing her extension. Therefore on realisation that her building was on land we offered to sell it to her at the appropriate price in accordance with our statutory obligations."

THREE Barnsley schools have been told they are failing and will be put in Ofsted's most serious category 'special measures', the Chronicle has learned.
Secondary schools Darton High and Darfield Foulstone and primary school Darfield Valley were inspected last week.

FIREMAN Dave Exley has felt the heat many times in his 32-year career. But the worst incidents, he says, have been in the last 12 months.
He retired this week following a long career at Barnsley Fire Station.

THE search is on for the next Faces of Barnsley 2010.
This year, the competition is set to be hotter than ever with an awards evening and a fantastic selection of prizes.

THE family of a Notton man killed in a car crash said he died doing what he loved. Tom Cole, 23, of Bleakley Avenue, died when his blue Vauxhall Tigra was in collision with a VW Beetle on Lee Lane, Royston.

A MOTHER has spoken of her shock after her two-year-old son was diagnosed with leukaemia. Jane-Louise Greenhow, took Jason William to Barnsley Hospital with a rash and painful joints thought to be caused by a hip virus

BARNSLEY Citizen's Advice Bureau estimates it will have dealt with more than £16m of debt by the end of March.
Figures up to the end of December show a 16 per cent increase on the same period the previous year.

A DEVASTATED husband has lost his wife to a brain haemorrhage two years after their son died of a brain injury.
Joan Pocklington, 54, had started a gym session at Shaw Lane sports ground when she complained of pain in the back of her neck, collapsed and never regained consciousness.

THE headteacher at Milefield Primary School missed out on a trip to 10 Downing Street - because she was not informed about it.
Paula Murray was invited to meet Gordon Brown in recognition of her achievements over three years - the school is one of the most improved in the UK.

BARNSLEY'S industrial history will be explored in a new art exhibition at Elsecar Heritage Centre. Black Gold at the Hive Gallery opens tomorrow and features artworks relating to coal mining.
Patrick Murphy, one of the artists to feature in the exhibition, said: "The title Black Gold references the historical impact and value that coal had to Barnsley in terms of its industrial history.

CHAMPAGNE was flowing this week as campaigners celebrated the rejection of controversial plans for a composting site at Woolley Colliery.
More than a 1,000 residents objected to plans to create an open-air unit at the former pit site.

MUSIC student Monika Godlewska was so moved by images of the devastation in Haiti she decided to organise a fund-raising concert at the Civic.
The 23-year-old, in her third year of a music degree at University College Barnsley, has drummed up support from fellow students and friends in the music business for the concert on February 5.

A BARNSLEY publican says the government should scrap 24-hour drinking and return to the licensing laws 'of old'.
Paul McNicholas, manager at Durty O'Dwyers and Pubwatch chairman, says 24-hour boozing has damaged the atmosphere in town and led to trouble at different times of the day.

BARNSLEY'S match at Plymouth on Saturday has been called off – after again being hit by heavy rain. The original clash back in November was abandoned after 58 minutes because of a monsoon-like deluge, with the Reds leading 4-1. This time Plymouth took the decision to call this weekend's game off in advance, with the Home Park pitch already waterlogged.

AUTHOR M C Beaton, who has written the Agatha Raisin detective series, will give a talk at Barnsley library on Friday January 29.
Beaton, who is creator of the TV series Hamish Macbeth, has also written more than 100 historical novels under a number of pseudonyms including Ann Fairfax and Marion Chesney.

A BEREAVED mum whose house was trashed when her four-month-old daughter died, told an inquest she didn't give her the wrong dose of medicine.
Abbie Hope Lesley Jones died in June 2006 after she was 'prescribed and inappropriate amount of medication', the Sheffield hearing was told.
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A TEENAGER who tried to buy a copy of the Sunday Times at a supermarket was refused because he was 'underage'. William Williams, 15, set off the alarm on the self-service till when he put the paper throught he scanner at Asda.

A TEENAGER is 'wheelie' determined to break a world record this weekend. Aaron Stannage, 14, will attempt to cycle eight miles on one wheel to seal his place in the Guinness Book of Records.

BARNSLEY Hospital has shut one of its wards after an outbreak of the winter vomiting bug norovirus.
Ward 27 was closed after 19 patients and staff began showing signs of the sickness and diarrhoea bug.

PARENTS found themselves slipping and sliding as they struggled to get their children to school this week. One mum of two said it took her 25 minutes to walk her eight and 11 year-old to the Hill Primary on Wednesday morning instead of the normal three minutes.

A 'WONDERFULLY large' teapot is just one item on display at a special exhibition of antiques belonging to the late Gerald Margison at Darfield Museum.

John Harding was asked to move seats on a flight to Australia to 'even up the weight' - and that's when he knew something had to be done about his sizeable frame. John, of Cawthorne, weighed 17 stone but after just three months at a gym he has managed to drop four of them

AN URGENT warning has been issued telling people to not risk their lives and stay away from frozen ponds.
People have been ignoring 'thin ice' signs and have ventured onto frozen ponds. Barnsley Council has received reports of fun seekers walking across Milton pond at Hoyland and Park Hill, Darfield.
The warning also applies to rivers and canals.