A Barnsley man has come out as completely binary and has asked to be addressed by the pronouns Thee and Thy. Pete Postlethump, 47, writing on the Notice Board of The Barnsley & District Cribbage League said, “It’s been a lifelong complete lack of struggle and I am embracing who I am. I’m a bloke.

A Barnsley pensioner was able to hear music and birdsong for the first time in three decades this week, after finally being persuaded to trim his ear hair. Fred Tattylugs, from Wombwell, went deaf 30 years ago at just about the same time as he went bald and decided to grow his ear hair out