Doncaster Free Press Daily Bulletin with Stephanie Bateman - Wednesday August 13, 2025

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00:00Good morning everyone it's Steph at the Doncaster Free Press and it's Wednesday August the 13th

00:05it looks like it's going to be an absolutely glorious day it's beautiful and sunny today

00:09so please get that suntan lotion on. Now to the news just bringing you the headlines for today

00:16that are doing well first of all an appeal has been launched to help replace garden lights which

00:21were stolen from outside a Doncaster home of an elderly couple and used to help one of them

00:27who has dementia raiders have struck a bungalow in the homestead off Axie Lane in Bentley

00:34taking ornamental illuminations displayed outside the property full stories on the website this

00:41morning for you um hopefully those lights will be returned or maybe some kind soul will come to the

00:48help come to their help and help them replace them um some not nice people about then the story i did

00:56yesterday um follows on from numerous stories another branch of the troubled baker firm Cooplands

01:02has been closed down last week uh we saw the barter premises closed with a shot for let's sign going

01:10up in the window it comes um just a couple of months after the east lathgate branch had been closed down

01:17because of concerns about rodents on the premises and this follows a number of other um branches that

01:25have had to be closed down um at very very short notice um some staff going without wages we've been

01:32told so again that is on the website this morning for you and then finally a member of stafford town

01:39council in Doncaster called the police after its mayor and deputy mayor forced their way into her office

01:45demanding information that they could not have councillor mick glynn and his deputy mark broadhurst

01:52have allegedly forced their way into the staff offices at hatfield town council where emma marsden

01:58was working alone full stories on the website today um the police are involved we are led to believe

02:06so you can read all about that and this um we'd love to know what your comments are on that

02:11uh you just need to visit www.dancasterfreepress.co.uk and of course x and facebook and uh have a lovely

02:20wednesday and a safe one