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Nine-year-old boy running nine marathons for charity

Nine-year-old boy running nine marathons for charity

by Mrinalini Singh | Apr 23, 2026 | Community, Health, Music, News, Top stories

A nine-year-old boy is running the equivalent of nine marathons to raise money for The Brain Tumour Charity. Oliver, from Barnsley, is fundraising for the charity after they helped his family navigate his dad’s brain tumour diagnosis. His father, Tom Smith, was...
17-year old boy saved after remarkable brain tumour operation

17-year old boy saved after remarkable brain tumour operation

by Mrinalini Singh | Apr 23, 2026 | Community, Health, News, Top stories, Top Story 2 - Home Page sub 1

A teenager with an extremely rare blood disorder has undergone a serious brain tumour surgery at Sheffield Children’s Hospital. The surgery took 13 hours and required specialist planning to manage the risk of bleeding caused by Bernard-Soulier syndrome which is a rare...
Man arrested and dogs seized after they attack an emergency service worker in Barnsley 

Man arrested and dogs seized after they attack an emergency service worker in Barnsley 

by Mrinalini Singh | Apr 23, 2026 | Crime, News

A 59-year-old man was arrested on suspicion of owning a dog dangerously out of control, causing injury and assault on a council worker and a police officer. On April 15, at 3.30pm, The South Yorkshire Police received a report that a worker had been bitten by dogs...
Yorkshire Wildlife Park welcomes a pair of capybara brothers

Yorkshire Wildlife Park welcomes a pair of capybara brothers

by Mrinalini Singh | Apr 23, 2026 | Environment, News, Top Story 2 - Home Page sub 1

The award-winning wildlife park in Doncaster has welcomed two capybara brothers from the Netherlands. Chip and Dale have travelled from the Gaia Zoo in the Netherlands to their new home in the Amazonas Reserve at the wildlife park. The duo were born on 9 June 2025,...
Man arrested and dogs seized after they attack an emergency service worker in Barnsley 

Collision on M1 at Barnsley resulted in the death of an elderly man

by Mrinalini Singh | Mar 5, 2026 | Community, Crime, News

Credit: Photo by Ian Taylor on Unsplash A pedestrian died on the M1 southbound at junction 37 after colliding with a white DAF truck. South Yorkshire Police were informed of a traffic collision at 2:15pm on Saturday (28 February) and rushed to the scene with Yorkshire...

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