BARNSLEY’S beautiful countryside bears an ugly scar which council tax payers spend almost £5,000 a week trying to hide.

Fly tipping is a constant drain on council resources and a major blight on Barnsley’s countryside as highlighted by our feature on today’s front page.

On Monday we asked followers of the Chronicle on Facebook and Twitter to send us photographs of any fly tipping spotted in Barnsley this week, and we quickly amassed dozens of images of locations across Barnsley, including Dodworth, Gawber, Worsbrough, Wombwell Woods, Lundwood, Platts Common, Cudworth, Hemingfield, Great Houghton, Shafton, Bolton on Dearne and Penistone.

Read more in this weeks Barnsley Chronicle