ONLY ‘people power’ and organised protest will stop fracking coming to Barnsley, a public meeting was told.

About 50 people attended a public meeting at the YMCA last Thursday night where David Burley, a founder of Frack Free South Yorkshire, gave a presentation on the impacts, dangers and his concerns about fracking.

A fracking licence covering a huge swathe of Barnsley was offered by the government to energy firm Cuadrilla in August, a move that could bring the controversial process to release gas from deep below the earth's surface to Barnsley for the first time.

Read more in the Barnsley Chronicle, dated November 20.