A HEADTEACHER has been invited to see the Prime Minister next week because her school has improved so much. Kate Davies will meet Gordon Brown at a reception after Worsbrough Common primary was named the fifth most improved in the country.

THE ONLY person from Barnsley to put himself forward to replace MP Jeff Ennis in Barnsley East has been snubbed by the Labour Party. Coun Tim Cheetham has not made the shortlist of candidates who constituency members can vote for to become the official Labour candidate for the seat.

LOTS of interest has been shown in a set of photographs which were displayed at a Barnsley Photographic Exhibition in the 1950s.
They came to light in the loft of the home of exhibitor Douglas Long during a clean-out and have recently been published in Memories.

CARL Evans spotted a photograph in Memories of a group of lads having a pint at a Blackpool pub during Barnsley Feast Week 1964.
It brought back happy memories as he and his pals had visited the same pub four years earlier.

CLOSING the only pub in Kexborough will run the community into the ground, according to residents and regulars. Kerry Fenton, manageress of the White Bear on Ballfield Lane, has been given two weeks to clear out by owner Admiral Taverns after it put the popular watering hole up for sale.