A YOUNG mum and her three children were made prisoner in their own home after a sewage leak in their garden made it impossible to leave the house.

Michelle Wiley says she noticed a build up of waste coming from the drains around her home in Ollerton Road, Athersley North two weeks ago.

She first called the council but was told it wasn’t the authority’s responsibility.

Yorkshire Water were then contacted and she was told they would send someone out to take a look at it... but not until after the May Day bank holiday.

Read more in this weeks Barnsley Chronicle