BARNSLEY’S May Day Green Market is almost ready to welcome it’s first customers.

A small army of craftsmen and apprentices are presently carrying out the final fit in the cavernous building.

And Henry Boot’s site manager Laurence Ross is super confident that the market will be ready for the big opening on September 3.

Laurence said his men had been working seven days a week since the building was handed over to Henry Boot by De Boer Structures in July.

Read more in this weeks Barnsley Chronicle