A man has suffered serious facial injuries and lost two teeth after being bottled in a Barnsley pub.

This was on Sunday night, just before midnight, at the New Bank pub in Goldthorpe.

The man who is thought to have thrown the bottle has been described as white and stocky with short ginger hair and was wearing a dark coloured top. 

He is also thought to be linked to a dark Mercedes car that was in the car park at the time of the incident. 

A petition, external calling for Sheffield's central library to remain a public building will be presented to councillors after attracting more than 8,000 signatures.  

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Rebecca Gransbury, from Wybourn, set up the petition after Sheffield Council revealed it had given its Chinese investment partner Sichaun Guodong Construction Group 12 months to look into turning the building into a five-star hotel.  

The council promises to keep a full library service in the city centre if the proposal were to go ahead. 

The historical child sex abuse scandal engulfing football has deepened with a special helpline set up for victims receiving 860 calls in its first week. 

The children's charity, the NSPCC, described the number as "staggering". 

Former sports minister and Sheffield MP Richard Caborn told us earlier this week "real concerns" existed when he was in government more than 10 years ago.

A crowd of around a hundred people has turned up at Sheffield Magistrates Court to support two men charged in relation to a protest against tree felling in November. 

A Police investigation will continue today after workmen found a body in a college sewer in Doncaster.

The grim discovery of a male body was found at the High Melton Campus of Doncaster College on Tuesday. 

The dark and cold hampered the initial inquiry until Wednesday morning. 

South Yorkshire police are working alongside Yorkshire Water, underwater search teams and CSI officers to find out what happened.

A Rotherham councillor's due to be sentenced for sexual assault at Leeds Magistrates Court this morning.  

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41-year-old Andrew Roddison, who denied allegations of groping, was found guilty at a hearing last Tuesday. 

The Brinsworth and Catcliffe councillor has been suspended from the Labour party since the allegations came to light.  

BBC Radio Sheffield has seen a letter from the Police and Crime Commissioner Alan Billings indicating he wasn't informed about the controversial early morning operation removing healthy trees on Rustlings's Road.

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The council has since issued an unreserved apology for the way in which the lime trees near Endcliffe Park were cut down.

It turns out the Police and Crime Commissioner hadn't been told about the operation by South Yorkshire Police before it happened.

Writing  to the Sheffield Hallam MP Nick Clegg, Alan Billings says if he had been told he'd have advised against it, because "the likely outcome was not difficult to predict".

A local young people's charity, SAYiT, is calling for improved sex and relationships education and HIV awareness campaigns to halt the rise in new diagnoses of HIV.

Eve Joseph from the charity says many people assume HIV has gone away because they don't hear much about it anymore:

The charity is holding a World AIDS Day candlelit vigil today at the Winter Garden in Sheffield from 17:00 - 19:00

BBC Travel

Traffic is very slow both ways on the A57 at Aston close to the junction with the M1.

Oli Constable

A riding school in North Derbyshire is threatened by the proposed HS2 high speed rail line.

One family has run the Parklands Equestrian Centre & Riding School at Aston for 40 years. 

Robert Sampson and his family live and work on the premises and have just invested half a million pounds in new stables:

The historical child sex abuse scandal engulfing football has deepened -- with a special helpline set up for victims receiving 900 calls in its first week. 

The children's charity, the NSPCC, described the number as "staggering". 

Former sports minister and Sheffield MP Richard Caborn told us earlier this week "real concerns" existed when he was in government over 10 years ago.

Two men who were arrested at a protest over tree felling in Sheffield are due in court today.

56-year-old university lecturer Simon Crump is due before Magistrates alongside fellow tree protester Calvin Payne, over a protest they staged on November 2 trying to protect a 100-year-old plane tree from being felled on Marden Road in Nether Edge. 

They were charged under the Trade Union and Labour Relations (Consolidation) Act 1992, which criminalises anyone deemed to be stopping people from carrying out lawful work. 

The council has faced months of criticism over the way it's been handling diseased and damaged trees in the city, with campaigners saying some healthy trees are being removed needlessly. A rally is being held outside the Magistrates Court.    

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Kate Linderholm
BBC Local Live, Sheffield

The heated debate at BBC Radio Sheffield: Too early to trim the tree? It seems quite a few have already got the Christmas decorations up, including Owls fan Peter Ash. In fact his went up last Saturday!

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I'm here until 18:00 with news, travel, sport, weather and anything else that might be of interest in Sheffield and South Yorkshire.

If you've got something to get off your chest about the area, get in touch.

Kate Linderholm
BBC Local Live, Sheffield

Had a busy day? Well here's a quick catch up on the key events in Sheffield and South Yorkshire:

• Body found in sewer tank by workmen at Doncaster College High Melton Campus
• Plague pit uncovered by Sheffield University team full of victims of the Black Death
• FOI requests by the BBC show the ambulance service under increasing pressure
• New reservoir planned for Rotherham's Boston Castle grounds
• Sheffield Cathedral offers digital calendar for advent

Have a great evening, I'm back tomorrow from 08:00 and I leave you with this beautiful image taken by Tom Shackford out in the Peak District.

Image source, Tom Shackford

Paul Hudson
Weather presenter, BBC Look North

Breezy and periodically rather cloudy during the evening and overnight, although it should stay dry. Much less cold than recent nights, with any frost very limited given the possibility of a few lasting cloud breaks.  

Heeley City Farm has two new arrivals.  

Pebble, lurking on the far left below, on a festive fir bedding, is a chinese quail.

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Dudu is a chinchilla, getting cosy in a mini log tunnel.

Image source, Heeley City Farm

Yorkshire Water say plans for a new underground reservoir near a castle in Rotherham, will improve the visitor attraction. 

The company want to use green space at Boston Park to create the facility.

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Friends of Boston Castle and Parklands, external said they were "gobsmacked" and concerned by the loss of green space.  

If you had the chance to see the sky before it got dark in South Yorkshire tonight there was plenty to enjoy. This was at Hoyland Nether:

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The sky was pretty Turneresque in Doncaster too:

Image source, Mo's back yard

And Brincliffe in Sheffield was also pretty majestic:

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BBC Travel

There are tailbacks on the B6071 near the Bernard Road incinerator in Sheffield due to an accident. 

Search teams from South Yorkshire Police are at High Melton having found a body on the Doncaster College campus.

The grim discovery was made by workmen yesterday afternoon.