Mick Lunney
BBC Local Live, Sheffield

Thanks for dipping into our coverage today, we're back at 08:00 tomorrow.

Today we've heard about:

• The blaze that's wrecked a former club in Barnsley town centre
• Five potential routes for a trans-Pennine tunnel
• Sheffield-born TV presenter Charlie Webster is in a coma in Rio
• Sheffield's former ski village has seen fifty fires in four years
• And Yorkshire is bidding for the cycling Road World Race Championships

Here's a lovely photo send in by Jim Carroll from Rawmarsh.

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Image source, Jim Carroll

Keeley Donovan
BBC Look North

No sign of rain tonight. 

It'll probably make up for it during tomorrow, though.

Andy Kershaw
BBC Radio Sheffield News

Golf's back in the Olympics for the first time in 112 years, as you've probably seen.

But here's a first in this area; a new course, external at Chesterfield College is trying to help more people into the golf industry.

It gives people who wouldn't normally have access to the sport a chance to get lots of different skills. 

It's free for 16 to 18-year-olds and low cost for people over 19. The only other similar one in the country charges about £7,000.

Radio Sheffield's Andy Kershaw has been given a taster:

Mick Lunney
BBC Local Live, Sheffield

Today the government has published a new report into how Sheffield and Manchester can be linked up by a road tunnel. 

It could be between 10 and 18 miles long. Here's a summary of the potential routes for the tunnel.

Meanwhile, there's been plenty of interest and reaction on social media to the ideas. Here are a few of them from the BBC Radio Sheffield post about it: 

Oli Constable

A derelict church on Loxley Road in Sheffield was in flames earlier.

The fire was in the early hours of Wednesday and the cause is being investigated. 

Image source, SYFR

Mick Lunney
BBC Local Live, Sheffield

A man's appeared at Rotherham Magistrates' Court charged with assault and threats to kill following an incident in which a police officer was injured. 

22-year-old Jamie Lee Winter from Rotherham, has been granted conditional bail to appear at Sheffield Crown Court on September 15th. 

The charge relates to an incident on Tuesday in Maltby. 

A South Yorkshire Police officer was taken to hospital but he is not believed to have suffered any serious injuries.

Image source, Google

Andy Giddings
Sports Editor, BBC Sheffield

BBC Radio Sheffield understands that Sheffield United are trying to finalise the transfer of Cardiff City goalkeeper Simon Moore. 

It's believed the player has successfully undergone a medical, with only the paperwork to be finalised. 

A fee in the region £500,000 appears to have been agreed for the player.

Image source, Getty Images

Doncaster Rovers' on-loan Aston Villa defender Niall Mason will be out for eight weeks with a knee injury.

Mick Lunney
BBC Local Live, Sheffield

A man's denied driving carelessly and causing the death of an off-duty police officer in Sheffield.

Waqas Khan's case will go to trial in the new year.

Image source, South Yorkshire Police

Mick Lunney
BBC Local Live, Sheffield

Now that firefighters have controlled a big blaze in Barnsley town centre, we're reminded about its past.

This photo, courtesy of Barnsley Archives, shows the building in 1952 when it was a branch of the Co-op.

Image source, Barnsley Archives

Mick Lunney
BBC Local Live, Sheffield

Sheffield City Council is buying back some houses it sold through the right-to-buy scheme. 

It's part of a new effort to increase the stock of council housing. 

It's already bought back hundreds of them, but is nowhere near regaining the tens of thousands of homes that were bought buy former tenants:

Mick Lunney
BBC Local Live, Sheffield

A motorcyclist as been left with life-threatening injuries after h was involved in a crash with a car in Doncaster.

The 38-year-old is in a critical condition in hospital after the incident at the entrance to the Asda supermarket in Edlington yesterday afternoon.

The 27-year-old car driver escaped injury.

Police are appealing for witnesses., external

Image source, Google

Mick Lunney
BBC Local Live, Sheffield

Image source, South Yorkshire Police

After 93-year-old Doris Wilcock from Sheffield was reunited with her stolen jewellery, the children who found it have received an award.

Amelia and Tyler Exelby found the jewellery buried in a wood. 

They've been presented with a superintendent’s commendation for their courage and honesty.

The pair discovered the jewellery, which was stolen in a burglary two years before, while playing near their home.

Mick Lunney
BBC Local Live, Sheffield

Barnsley Council has welcomed news that five routes have been shortlisted for the Trans-Pennine tunnel – the most ambitious road scheme undertaken in the UK in more than five decades.

All five routes join the M60 east of Manchester to the M1 north of Sheffield, with four options starting at the M67.

Image source, Steve Fareham

Mick Lunney
BBC Local Live, Sheffield

From Donny to Dublin.

The airline Flybe has added the route to its schedules at Doncaster Sheffield Airport, external.

It'll be operating in October and will fly six times a week. That adds up to an extra 40,000 seats on offer each year from the airport, it says. Tickets have gone on sale today.

Mick Lunney
BBC Local Live, Sheffield

Here's another short video of the fire which has wrecked the former Chicago Rock club in Barnsley town centre.

Crews now have it under control.

Liz Roberts
Political Reporter, BBC Radio Sheffield

Sheffield City Council's leader is welcoming a report into a proposed tunnel link across the Pennines.

The government report, external is out today.

Catch up on our summary of the plan here.

Mick Lunney
BBC Local Live, Sheffield

Here are some images from South Yorkshire Fire and Rescue of the former Chicago Rock building in Barnsley town centre.

Fire broke out this morning around 0520 and thirty firefighters tackled the flames.

Image source, SYFR

Image source, SYFR

Peter Spencer
Reporter, BBC Radio Derby

Sheffield Sharks, external have signed the former University of West Florida forward Marquis Mathis on a one-year deal.

Image source, Sheffield Sharks

Mick Lunney
BBC Local Live, Sheffield

Social media is seeing an outpouring of support for Sheffield-born TV presenter Charlie Webster.

She's very ill in hospital in Rio. It began as a case of dehydration but has now turn into a very worrying situation with her being in a coma. 

Read the latest here.

Image source, Twitter