BARNSLEY brothers Kerry and Roy Gleadall and their friend from Sheffield raised the alarm and helped rescue holidaymakers in Spain when their hotel block caught fire.
Kerry, 16, of Monk Terrace, Monk Bretton, his brother Roy, 14 and their friend Darren Linfitt, of Greengate Lane, High Green, also 14, ran along smoke-filled corridors on the third and fourth floors of the apartments to raise the alarm.
Darren then smashed open a door with a fire extinguisher to rescue a woman and her two young children trapped in their room on the fourth floor.
“The corridors were black with smoke when this woman came and shouted that her children were trapped in the room,” said Darren.
“I smashed down the door and grabbed her young son, she grabbed another child and we ran out of the building to safety.”
Kerry, Roy and Darren were in the ground floor bar of the Salou International Hotel at about midnight on the fourth night of their holiday when they saw smoke and heard people shouting.
Kerry, a furniture remover with Aparotec Removals of Carlton, said: “Darren and I checked the back of the building and saw a lot of flames. We had to break down a fire door to get in before we could raise the alarm.
“It was terrifying but we ran to get people out of the building as quickly as possible — we didn’t really think what we were doing at the time,” he added.
Kerry and Darren needed treatment for smoke inhalation after the incident.
BARNSLEY’S £14.7m Metrodome complex could be officially opened by royalty.
A prominent member of the Royal Family has been asked to the sports centre’s official opening scheduled for late spring next year.
The question of which royal family member would come to Barnsley is unlikely
to be answered until much nearer the date of the opening.
A town hall source said: “This is a prestige project and we want as important a
person as possible to open it.
“A member of the Royal family has been asked to officiate at what will be a very grand and formal ‘do’.”
The swimming pool phase of the Metrodome is set to open in August and the
sports centre’s dry side including a major sports hall big enough for ten badminton courts to follow next spring.
BARNSLEY’S social security headquarters off Shambles Street have now been given the all clear following an asbestos health scare.
Staff at John Rideal House have walked out twice in the last month after workmen installing wiring for high-tech equipment uncovered old asbestos tiles.
The asbestos tiles, in a storeroom next to the staff canteen, were discovered when
drilling was taking place and staff feared dust may have escaped.
But now the tiles have been marked and sealed to prevent any further disturbance by
workmen.
A PLAN to put Barnsley at the centre of a coast-to-coast network of paths for walkers and cyclists is now more than just a pipe dream, a planning official said this week.
Roger Brown, Barnsley Council’s assistant planning director was speaking as more than 100 campaigners on a walk from York to Southport to publicise the potential of turning 135 miles of old railway lines into paths left town.
“We have had tremendous support for the idea,” he said. “Monday’s march has proved that this is not just a pipe dream. Local politicians, ramblers’ associations and the Countryside Commission are extremely enthusiastic about the idea.”
MOVES towards democracy in Eastern Europe should be recognised and encouraged by the British government, says Barnsley West and Penistone MP Allen
McKay, and the government agrees.
More than 100 MPs have already put their names to a motion, of which Mr McKay is a sponsor, seeking government support for the ‘glasnost’ movement, and he has
now had an official response from William Waldegrave, minister of state at the foreign office.
