‘Together For Trees’, the new environmental partnership between Tesco and the RSPB, has joined forces with Amazon conquering explorer Ed Stafford to launch a search for the first ever ‘Rainforest Reporter.’

One lucky winner will have the chance to travel to one of the rainforest projects set to benefit from the Together For Trees partnership and experience first-hand, the pioneering conservation work being done to protect these important places.

Ed Stafford, the European Adventurer of the Year, will lead the search to find the Together For Trees ‘Rainforest Reporter’, offering his insight into coping with harsh and unforgiving rainforest environments and mentoring the winning candidate before their trip.

Ed Stafford says: “After having spent two years in the Amazon, saving the world’s rainforests is an issue very close to my heart. I’ve witnessed first-hand the destruction of these beautiful areas, so was really delighted to be asked to be involved in Together For Trees. For me, it is important that people, for generations to come, get to experience the wonder, beauty and benefits that only rainforests can provide.”

Despite being home to more than two thirds of the planet’s land-based creatures, three quarters of all endangered bird species and with more than one billion of the world’s poorest people depending on them to survive, an area the size of a football pitch disappears every four seconds in the rainforest.

The winner will not only  receive an amazing trip to see an endangered rainforest, but will also be given a thorough insight into the conservation projects in place, getting hands-on with the activities, allowing them to report back on the work being done via a series of blogs and videos which will be available at http://www.tesco.com/trees.

The Together For Trees expedition is an exciting opportunity for somebody fit, interested in conservation and a great communicator to report on their experience and highlight the issues facing the world’s rainforests. It’s not for the faint hearted; there are no luxury hotels or restaurants in the rainforest. The winner will experience the reality of staying in the heart of the rainforest and meet some of the locals – human and animal.

Tesco and RSPB today announced their brand new ‘Together For Trees’ partnership to help protect rainforests around the world. The UK’s biggest retailer and Europe’s largest wildlife conservation charity have teamed up to increase awareness of the growing deforestation crisis and raise essential funds to support on-the-ground conservation work to tackle the problem.

To enter applicants must visit http://www.tesco.com/trees and fill out the step by step entry form. Successful entrants in Northern England from stage one will be invited back to a selection day at RSPB Leighton Moss nature reserve in Lancashire where they will be put through their paces in a series of small challenges. Five lucky applicants will then be chosen to progress to the final stage where they will meet a panel of rainforest experts in London with the final winner being chosen from this group. Full terms and condition are available on the website

Groups must first register their details with Barnsley Community Transport and also the details of any eligible* drivers they may be using.

The charges for Self Drive Hire (Group using their own driver) are as follows:

• Cost Per Hour £1.50 (half hour 0.75p)
• Cost Per Mile £1.00
• Minimum Charge £20
• Inclusive of fuel

We also can provide details of charges for:

• Using our Driver (where possible)
• Hiring a Volunteer Driver (when available)
• Longer periods of hire

To book the bus please ring the booking line on 01226 730073 or 732096 Monday to Friday 1 – 4pm

For further information please contact Barnsley Community Transport on 01226 732096 email: despatch@barnsleydialaride-ct.org

*If you are unsure whether you are eligible to drive one of our minibuses please contact Barnsley Community Transport who will be happy to explain the criteria.

Kendray Business Centre, located on Thornton Rd, Kendray just 5 minutes from Barnsley town centre, offers a wide range of excellent offices and light industrial workshops.

Business Centre’s Manager, Pat Farmer expressed her delight at the forthcoming Open Day “This is fantastic achievement for the team at Barnsley Business Centre’s, the Kendray Business Centre has always represented a focus for the delivery of one of our top priorities – supporting local businesses – and putting in place a mechanism that ensures the local economy is vibrant and prosperous and which grows the wealth of our District in the years to come”.

Barnsley Business Centres appeal to occupiers is being able to offer highly flexible, office space tailor made to meet the requirements of the individual business. This flexibility is underpinned by competitively priced and transparent fixed-costs, so occupiers can account for every penny they are spending on their office needs.

Barnsley Business Centres aims to add real value to occupiers by offering a comprehensive range of support facilities, including receptionist facilities, 24/7 access, excellent networking opportunities, professional meeting facilities and free car parking, providing companies the best possible workspace environment for their business to grow and prosper.

In addition businesses can access a range of free business support advice via its onsite advisory team and business support partners including BDA, UKTI , HMRC and Barnsley Chamber Of Commerce. This formula attracts small and medium sized businesses across a broad range of industries alike.

The extension to the Kendray Business centre was funded by the ERDF European Regional Development Fund, SRB Single Regeneration Budget and Barnsley Metropolitan Borough Council and was built to provide a co-ordinated approach to Youth Enterprise strategy by promoting Business Enterprise as a career option, which saw the successful launch of the 3 year Enterprise Diploma courses managed by Barnsley College which ends in May 2012.

Floyd Peltier, Enterprise Development Manager, said “Despite the current climate, demand for quality flexible office and workshop space in the area from SMEs is strong and there remains an appetite for competitively priced office space which companies can access easily and enjoy full serviced office provision.

He continued: “The opening of Kendray Business Centre extension is part of our on-going strategy to strengthen our presence in Barnsley.  It is testimony to our confidence in our product and the market that we continue to open new business centres during a time of economic uncertainty and downturn in the commercial property sector.

The extension to Kendray Business Centre forms part of Barnsley Business Centres portfolio of six business parks across the borough, providing office and light industrial workshop space for more than 300 businesses.”

Companies interested in attending the Open Day and in finding out more about the Barnsley Business Centers should contact  Dawn Day , T 01226 249894 or email: or email us businesscentreenquiries@barnsley.gov.uk  or check out our website www.barnsley.gov.uk/business-centres

DUST has been written to mark the 30th anniversary of Arthur Scargill’s election as President of the National Union of Mineworkers. Producer Ralph Bernard’s and writer Ade Morris have created a new stage play which deals with a national community suffering the cost of the miners’ strike of 1984/85; the impact of what happened then still resonating today.

Ralph is a former radio journalist and award-winning radio producer who established his career in the 1970s making documentaries including an acclaimed, landmark radio documentary series on coal miners and their industry, called Down to Earth. He spent many hours interviewing Arthur Scargill and was struck by the remarkable similarities between Arthur Scargill and AJ Cook the miners’ leader at the time of the 1926 General Strike and always wanted to produce a play, which featured them both.

REASON: Utility inspections and bridge repairs.

The initial closure from Green Road to Bull House Lane is on a rolling programme, so there will still be access along the trail

The alternative for the bridge repair works (Bull House Lane to Hazelhead) is available via the Trans Pennine Trail to Whams Road, then using the Parallel bridleway to Manchester

Road before getting back onto the Trail at Bull House Lane (Using Bridleways 7 and 8 Dunford, and Bridleway 27 Penistone).

PROMOTER: Sarah Ford, Public Rights of Way, telephone 01226 772142.

Alongside them will be volunteers who regularly record wildlife or archaeological sites, do conservation work, or support activities such as climbing, Duke of Edinburgh award schemes or access for black and minority ethnic communities.

Other volunteers have led community building and restoration projects, or food and farming initiatives will also meet the Prince, along with staff from Haddon Hall.

Ian Milne, who celebrates 50 years voluntary service with the Peak District National Park Authority this year, is one of the longest-serving volunteer rangers in the country. Ian, a 71-year-old retired engineer from Marple, started ranger-training in 1962 when he moved down from his native Dundee.

“I was already an experienced mountaineer, and I’d been involved in mountain rescues in Scotland,” said Ian. “Although I loved being an engineer, rangering at weekends took me out of the grime and oil and smoke.”

One of his earliest memories is of a tragedy in 1964 when three young Rover Scouts on the Four Inns Walk died in a blizzard on Bleaklow.

“I was on the team that found one of them in the snow, it was very sad,” said Ian. “But good came out of it – it led to the formation of mountain rescue teams in the Peak District. I and other rangers became heavily involved in that and I became a team leader in Edale, though now they are run entirely separately from the rangers.”

His mountain rescue training included expeditions to the Arctic from 1975 to 1988.

Among Ian’s other outstanding memories are of moorland firefighting – “I remember one blaze in the 1970s when we lived up on Bleaklow for three days, trying to control the flames. Nowadays the fire services and rangers run the Fire Operations Group with moorland owners to co-ordinate firefighting, but in those days we didn’t have the specialist equipment they have now.”

Ian also worked during foot-and-mouth disease outbreaks in 1967 and 2001 when movements were restricted across the countryside. Lately he has been involved in moorland conservation work with the Moors for the Future Partnership, guiding helicopters where to drop their bulk loads of heather cuttings, seeds and fertiliser.

“The comradeship is tremendous and I enjoy the work,” said Ian, who does all this while coping with diabetes and coeliac disease. “I do a lot of fitness training in order to do it and I’ll carry on as long as I’m physically able.”

Apart from rangering, Ian does voluntary work with the British Red Cross as a wheelchair mechanic, and for the Anson Engine Museum in Poynton.

His nine colleagues with more than 40 years service who will also line up to meet the Prince are: Austin Plant from Stanton-in-the-Peak; Dave Tryner, from Matlock; Margaret Anderson, Peter Draycott, Jack Elmore and Derek Styring, all from Sheffield; Peter Jackson, from Glossop; Gavin Fay, from Haydock, Merseyside and Doug Kirwen, of Leeds.

Two more rangers who have completed 40 years service could not attend – John Peaker and Don Wilson.

Applicants will ideally have experience of handling wire and must be able to work on their own initiative to produce a high quality product.

A valid FLT licence is essential. We currently work a 39 hour week Monday – Wednesday 06.00 – 16.00, Thursday 06.00 – 15.00. Shift work may be a requirement after training.Benefits include:- contributory pension scheme and free laundered workwear.

To apply, please write or email with full C V to:

Wintwire Ltd Unit 3 Oxspring Wiremills Oxspring, Sheffield S36 8YW sales@wintwire.co.uk

He said: “We have had a very strong reaction from local people to the planning application including some very threatening emails. The situation has been very distressing for myself and my family and we have been taken aback by the strength of feeling.

“As someone who has lived here all my life I have found this very difficult to deal with and don’t feel I can continue with the proposed plans. I never set out to find myself at odds with the local community but was simply trying to find a solution to new regulations being imposed on farms by the EU.

“I don’t currently know how we are going to proceed but we are working closely with the National Farmer’s Union (NFU) and the Environment Agency to find a solution that is agreeable to all.”

Commenting on the farm’s decision, a spokesman for the National farmers’ Union (NFU) said:

“It is obviously very regrettable that Mr Holmes and his family have found themselves in a situation where by law they need to increase their slurry storage capacity, but finding a site that is acceptable both to environmental regulators and local residents has proved so difficult.

“Complying with NVZ regulations is something dairy farmers up and down the country are struggling with – especially as it requires huge investment at a time when the industry is facing real difficulties. I hope the Environment Agency can now work with Mr Holmes to help resolve the situation.”

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THE WOMAN IN BLACK (12A)

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JOURNEY 2: THE MYSTERIOUS ISLAND (PG)

Friday & Monday to Wednesday: 5.45

Saturday: 1.00, 3.15

Sunday: 2.00, 4.30

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THE MUPPETS (U)

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COMEDY OF ERRORS

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THE ARTIST (PG)

THE WOMAN IN BLACK (12A)

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