Doncaster Free Press Daily Bulletin with Stephanie Bateman - Friday, March 7, 2025 - video Dailymotion

Doncaster Free Press Daily Bulletin with Stephanie Bateman - Friday, March 7, 2025

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00:00Morning, it's Steph at the Doncaster Free Press and it's Friday, March the 7th.

00:03Hope you've had a lovely week and have got some great things planned for the weekend.

00:07Just bringing you some of our headlines this morning. Good news all around,

00:11I'm bringing you three stories that are nice stories. Doncaster Council's Children's Homes

00:17are celebrating their third outstanding rating from Ofsted in recent months. Pinewood Avenue

00:24and Cromwell Drive Children's Homes have joined Amersol Road in achieving the top rating.

00:31That's all on the website this morning, I sent that out late yesterday, so that's some great

00:38news. Have a read of that and see what you think. Then some news I'm going to be sending out this

00:45morning, it came in late yesterday. Crufts has been going on, if you're a dog lover like I am.

00:51We've got a couple of winners that have come forward, one a vesting breed amongst others,

00:57so that's absolutely wonderful news. It's a great show to watch, absolutely fantastic

01:04and well done to those that have achieved some awards. And then finally a bus company that set

01:10up a special service to support students after their college minibus was stolen has decided to

01:17make the route permanent. It's the first bus that has introduced a service, it's free of charge

01:22for students at Harrison College. They're collecting them from Doncaster Interchange

01:27in the morning and returning them after school. They had started this before Christmas,

01:33it was part of a huge community effort to support the college which has autistic and SEND pupils

01:41after the theft of three minibuses in a night time raid. They were stolen from a compound there,

01:47so that's fantastic news, well done First Buses for doing that. So for those three stories and

01:52for anything else that's happening in Doncaster today, just visit www.doncasterfreepress.co.uk

02:00and I hope you have a really, really lovely weekend.