IT has provided a home to a popular boozer, a cracking butcher, and a spicy snack shop for years but soon the concrete block that makes up Kendray Street - home to the Groggers Rest, Charlesworth's Butcher and Munjacks takeaway - is to be reduced to rubble.
Compulsory purchase orders are being obtained by Barnsley Council to speed up work on the £50m redevelopment of the town centre.
Cabinet members are expected to approve the CPOs on ground floor retail units underneath the TEC building on on Wednesday.
** The full story is in the Barnsley Chronicle, dated January 9. **
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