HUNDREDS have wished a speedy recovery to two Barnsley teenagers caught up in a rollercoaster crash at Alton Towers.

Former Darfield Foulstone pupil Joe Pugh, 18, was on the front row of The Smiler with girlfriend Leah Washington, 17, when it slammed into an empty carriage on the same part of the track that shouldn't have been there.

Joe, of Ardsley, and Leah, of Gawber, were treated at the scene before being taken to Stoke hospital.

Joe's dad, Simon Pugh, has spoken to the Chronicle to say the family are by his side at the hospital.

**The full story appears in the Barnsley Chronicle dated June 5**