One sunny day last June children from St Peter’s Primary School joined the police on Westwood New Road to carry out a speeding check.  The kids looked as though they were enjoying it, the people who were stopped obviously didn’t and the police were amazed at the results.

Shot in both Barnsley and Tankersley the film Kes is 40 years old

Kes is the 1969 film based on Barry Hines novel "A Kestrel for a Knave," and was directed by Ken Loach.

Kes is a story of Barnsley boy Billy Casper, an academic failure and victim of social and spiritual poverty.  This was no "Disney" boy and his pet type story, but a story of a disaffected Barnsley lad living on a grim estate, who first nicks a book on falconary and later steals a Kestrel. With infinite patience and dedication Billy trains the bird. For the first time in his short life he finds fulfilment and a sense of identity through the rearing and training of the kestrel.