Dan Jarvis

Speakers and guests at Northern College's strategy launch during Colleges Week 2023.

Northern College unveils its ambitions

“Mrs Barnsley” Mel Dyke - family say she passed away peacefully after a stroke

Ad Feature ‘Mrs Barnsley’ Mel Dyke MBE dies aged 86

Dan Jarvis. Picture: Chris Etchells

Evidence-based decision-making on public transport

Sewer overflow. Former South Yorkshire mayor Dan Jarvis slammed the government for allowing on average more than 26 sewage spills a day in the region last year. (Photo by GLYN KIRK / AFP) (Photo by GLYN KIRK/AFP via Getty Images).

‘South Yorkshire isn’t a sewer’, former mayor’s horror at 26 sewage spills a day

Mr Parkinson, 38, a paratrooper who lost both his legs in a blast in Afghanistan, was praised by fellow veteran Dan Jarvis for helping to secure the funding.

MP and Afghanistan hero head successful campaign to restore veteran’s fund

Sir Steve Houghton CBE said the funding was a “positive news story'” adding that “it ought to be a lot more, in my view, given where we used to be in terms of European funding.”

Government cash to replace EU funding ‘ought to be a lot more’

Dozens of bus passengers gathered outside the offices of South Yorkshire Mayoral Combined Authority to protest poor services and call for them to be brought back under public control.

Bus passengers rally for reliability outside South Yorkshire Mayoral office

Langsett is one of four reservoirs where Yorkshire Water has proposed a trial to charge visitors for parking.

Calls for proposed parking charges at Langsett Reservoir to be scrapped

Dan Jarvis, Labour MP for Barnsley Central, said that the terms of reference have not even been agreed yet, 14 months on.

MP calls on minister to ‘get on with’ plans for HS2 line through Sheffield

Dan Jarvis, MP for Barnsley Central, has defended accepting a total of £100,000 in donations from a little-known firm.

Barnsley MP Dan Jarvis defends accepting £100,000 donations from MPM Connect Ltd

Here is a closer look at the nearly £100,000 in donations and gifts made to Sheffield MPs since the 2019 election, as well as £210,000 to former Mayor of South Yorkshire Dan Jarvis.

A closer look at the £100,000 in donations to Sheffield’s MPs

Barnsley Churches Drop-in Project has been providing hot drinks, food, clothing and toiletries to the town’s homeless and vulnerable for almost 20 years.

Rough sleeper charity looking for new premises after being given notice to leave

A Labour MP says towns like Barnsley will be the hardest hit by the impact of the Chancellor's Autumn Statement announced today.

Autumn Budget: MP says towns like Barnsley will be “hardest hit”

The bill would extend redundancy protections to the period of pregnancy, adoption and shared parental leave, and for a period after a new parent returns to work.

Bill to protect parent’s rights at work reaches final stages

The marathon was the ninth for Dan Jarvis, who was one of 40,000 runners to take part in the 26.2 mile course through the capital yesterday (October 2).

South Yorkshire MP Dan Jarvis runs London marathon to raise more than £11,0000 f...

Mayor of Barnsley Councillor Sarah Tattersall signs the book of condolences in the Town Hall

Mayor of Barnsley leads tributes to Queen Elizabeth II following death aged 96

Research from the Equality and Human Rights Commission (EHRC) found that 54,000 women a year lose their job for getting pregnant,

South Yorkshire MP Dan Jarvis’ bill to protect employment rights of new parents ...

Dan Jarvis

Barnsley MP says new prime Minister Liz Truss has “work cut out lifting the gove...

A single bus fare in Sheffield costs up to £3.50 - in Greater Manchester it will soon be capped at £2

Most expensive bus fare in city will soon be nearly twice that in Manchester

Ex-mayor and city councillor in row over bus cuts

Councillors condemn city bus cuts and Labour launch campaign

Dan Jarvis MP

Potential closure of Doncaster Sheffield Airport is the “reality of the Governme...

Dan Jarvis, MP for Barnsley Central, has called for Boris Johnson to "leave immediately", after the Prime Minister said in a speech that he will remain in post "until the new leader is in place".

Barnsley MP calls for Prime Minister Boris Johnson to “leave immediately”

The number of Barnsley pupils in receipt of free school meals has increased by 55 per cent since 2018, new figures show.

How free school meals receipient figures have changed in four years in Barnsley

The aircraft have less than a tenth of the CO2 footprint of a passenger jet planes, the company says.

Eco-airship contract to launch 1,800 jobs

PM Boris Johnson yesterday (June 10) announced that 2.5 million tenants who currently rent their homes from not-for-profit housing associations will be given the right to buy them.

South Yorkshire Labour MPs' concern over extension of right to buy scheme

The Trussell Trust say that the figures cannot be used to fully explain the scale of food bank use across the UK, as they only relate to food banks in their network

How food bank use has changed in the last year in Barnsley

Thomas Atkin has launched the South Yorkshire Public Transport Forum Facebook group to try to get more people talking about public transport in South Yorkshire and how to fix what he says is a broken system

Frustrated carer launches public transport forum

Business leaders and unions outlined hopes for new South Yorkshire mayor Oliver Coppard
Picture : Jonathan Gawthorpe

Businesses and unions outline hopes for new mayor

(From top left to bottom right) Bex Whyman, Green Party - Oliver Coppard, Labour - Joe Otten, Liberal Democrats - David Bettney, SDP - Simon Biltcliffe, Yorkshire Party - Clive Watkinson, Conservative Party.

South Yorkshire mayor election candidates 2022: who is standing in the election,...

Conservative Rother Valley MP Alexander Stafford and Labour Barnsley Central MP and South Yorkshire mayor Dan Jarvis clash in a Westminster Hall debate on public transport.

South Yorkshire MPs Alexander Stafford and Dan Jarvis clash over Government deci...

Unions have called on all South Yorkshire mayoral candidates to commit to beginning the statutory investigation into public control of the region’s buses within 100 days of taking office, if elected.

‘Begin bus franchising within 100 days’ – Unions calls on new South Yorkshire ma...

Oliver Coppard, Labour candidate for South Yorkshire mayor.

‘A new approach and a different type of politics’ – Why Oliver Coppard of Labour...

Simon Biltcliffe, Yorkshire Party candidate.

‘I’ll give my salary to charity’ – Why Simon Bilftcliffe of the Yorkshire Party ...

Clive Watkinson, Conservative candidate for South Yorkshire mayor.

‘Other Tory mayors show how effective we can be’ – Why Clive Watkinson of the Co...

David Bettney is the Social Democratic Party (SDP) candidate

‘I can wake up the sleeping giant’ – Why David Bettney of the SDP thinks he shou...

Green Party candidate Bex Whyman

Our environment will be the heart of every decision’ – Why Bex Whyman of the Gre...

Liberal Democrats candidate Joe Otten.

‘After four wasted years, it’s time for change’ – Why Joe Otten of the Liberal D...

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South Yorkshire Fire and Rescue have said an investigation is underway after a blaze at a residence in Rotherham this morning.

Investigation launched after fire at residential property

Children's author, Carly Hart, visited Emmaus Catholic and Church of England Primary School in Sheffield after 116 local primary schools received around £2,000 worth of book donations from Bookmark Reading Charity. (Photo courtesy of Bookmark Reading Charity)

Massive £232,000 book donation to 116 local primary schools

June Hall at The Bakers Shop, on Howard Road, in Walkley, Sheffield, which she has run with her sons Darren and Derek for the last 30 years. It is closing for good on Saturday, November 25

Popular bakery in Sheffield closing after 30 years