A HOMECARE company manager from Hoyland Common has received a prestigious award. Alison Taylor, general manager of Home Instead franchises in Sheffield and Barnsley, was awarded the Senior Key Player of the Year Award at the organisation’s national conference recently. Throughout 2024, Alison worked alongside her team to set up the Training Centre of Excellence in October, a bespoke health and social care training facility based in South Sheffield. The centre aims to provide career...

Barnsley visit Rotherham United from 12.30pm on Saturday in an all South Yorkshire clash. Both sides are languishing in mid-table in League One, with the Reds now 11th and ten points off the top six following midweek results. Darrell Clarke’s side will look to end a six-game winless run by doing the double against the Millers who are three places and five points below them. LIKELY LINE-UPS Barnsley (3-5-2): Gauci; de Gevigney, Roberts, Earl;...

A GRIEVING widower has blasted his bank for continuing to send correspondence to his wife months after her death even addressing a request for proof of death documents to the recently deceased woman. In November, Susan Swindells, of Wombwell, died aged 79. Her family, including husband Ralph, have been doing their best to deal with the grief. However Ralph has been facing additional problems as he’s been flooded with insensitive correspondence from different companies like...

Barnsley are winless in six and seven points off the play-offs after losing a lead in a 2-1 home defeat to Michael Duff’s Huddersfield Town on Saturday. Jon Russell opened the scoring with a superb goal against his old club but the visitors netted twice in three minutes either side of the hour-mark. The Reds were easily second best after an excellent first 20 minutes and have collected a point from their last...