World champ Toseland to open village's new garden

The Kiveton Park and Wales Community Development Trust has developed the area to the rear of its Grade II Colliery Road offices.

The centre is used by both elderly and young people’s groups, who were involved in designing the garden.

Trust chairman Steph Hryschko said: “Our dedicated volunteers have been working for some time to develop this.

“All the work has been undertaken by volunteers together with Rotherham Probation Service, with their ‘community payback’ scheme.

“Every schoolchild in our community was involved in a competition to design the garden.”

The CDT was set up in 1997 after the closure of Kiveton Park Colliery three years earlier with the loss of 1,000 jobs.

The garden project includes a gazebo, with many of its bricks dedicated to miners who worked there.

It will be opened by double World Superbike Champion James Toseland tomorrow.