A MEMORIAL event will be held at the town hall in memory of a former Barnsley councillor who died last month.

Mike Stokes, who lived at Monk Bretton before moving to Westway, Orkney in 2012, died on May 17 in hospital at Buckie, Morayshire, Scotland, aged 81.

He had been a Labour councillor for the Central ward, and prior to that had served on South Yorkshire County Council in the 1970s.

The memorial event will be held at 2pm on Friday, June 29. it will be led by Rev Ian Newton, formerly of the Church of the Nazarene.