THE public artwork to remember the brave Barnsley soldiers who fell in the Battle of the Somme has been nominated for a national award.

Light Lines by artists, musson+retallick, commissioned by Barnsley Council as part of its Somme centenary commemorations, has been nominated for a National Civic Trust Award and is the only piece of artwork outside of London to be nominated.

The work was on display in front of the town hall from July 1 until Remembrance Sunday to reflect the length of the battle in which more than 800 Barnsley men were killed.

Read more in this weeks Barnsley Chronicle