From Barnsley Council's Farcebook page You may have noticed that a familiar town centre statue is missing . Don't worry, the Dickie Bird statue is safe and sound with its sculptor Graham Ibbeson, who has plans to raise the plinth.
Yeah - they're making flare cannisters out of him. Apparantly there's an acute demand for red ones . . . . :/
He's in the Talbot trying to get another free drink out of unsuspecting punters. "Ey up Dickie, what yer drinking?"