Westlife will stage one of the biggest concerts Doncaster has ever seen with plans for a summer date at the Keepmoat Stadium. The Irish heart-throbs are scheduled to play an outdoor date on July 30 – and fans of the multi-million selling quartet are set to descend on the town in their thousands. The band – Nicky Byrne, Kian Egan, Mark Feehily and...

Doncaster Rovers have released fans thousands of free tickets for their key relegation match against Crystal Palace on Good Friday. Officials are offering up to 8,000 free tickets for the “must win” game at the Keepmoat Stadium. The club’s website said the tickets were available on a first-come, first-served basis. Rovers are currently five...

Up to 25,000 jobs could be created in South Yorkshire with £18m of government cash being ploughed into projects which will bring “major economic growth”. Doncaster Council and private sector partners have won a bid for the Gateway to the Sheffield City Region project. It includes building a link road between Doncaster Robin Hood Airport and the M18...

THE last iconic Vulcan bomber has returned to Doncaster – and talks are under way to make Finningley its permanent home. The aircraft XH558 touched down at Robin Hood Airport yesterday afternoon, and the former Cold War bomber will be based there for the next six months while it performs at air shows around the UK. But the charity which runs the aircraft,...

Labour leader Ed Miliband is to marry his long-term partner, and mother of his two children, Justine on 27 May. Mr Miliband, 41, proposed to Justine Thornton, 40, last year on Primrose Hill near their North London home. He told BBC News older brother David, who he beat to the Labour leadership last year, was “delighted” by the news. Ed, who was best...

Fresh from their fourth MOBO Award and on the eve of their third album release, N-Dubz announce their first UK Arena tour for Spring 2011.  The tour is the first Arena tour by any of the UK’s current urban artists, something which N-Dubz are rightly proud of.  The band have had an unprecedented impact on modern British youth culture, cemented by a...