| GRAND PLANS FOR GRENOSIDE WOODS |
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| THE Wildlife Trust for Sheffield and Rotherham has exciting plans to buy Greno Woods, one of the largest and most wildlife-rich ancient woodlands in Yorkshire, within the next two years.
The Trust is working with a consortium of local organisations who... |
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| Stocksbridge's The Venue 'still open' |
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| THE Venue in Stocksbridge has not closed, despite rumours circulating in the area. However, it is only open in a very much reduced capacity and faces an uncertain future.
After hearing the rumours of it’s closure, Look Local asked a number of... |
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| Wharncliffe Side cellar discovery |
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| A BIZARRE turn in events resulted in a forgotten cellar being uncovered in Wharncliffe Side over the weekend.
On Saturday morning, a horse was stood on the village green when it’s owner noticed that one of it’s hooves had started to... |
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| HIGH GREEN CRASH: Appeal for witnesses |
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| POLICE are re-appealing for witnesses ten days after a serious collision in High Green, Sheffield, which left two people seriously injured in hospital.
A silver Ford Focus was reported to have emerged out of Wortley Road on to Westwood New Road... |
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| Midhopestones fair success |
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| MIDHOPESTONES Feast and Country Fair report the event had a great day on June 26 and raised £2,000.
Over a thousand people attended on the day to see the large number of stalls and attractions including a working vintage threshing machine,... |
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| Wortley Top Forge model engineers open day |
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| The Model Engineers Society at Wortley Top Forge will be holding their Annual Public Open Day on Sunday September 5th when there will be a variety of visiting locomotives and miniature trains to carry visitors on the 2 mile of 73"... |
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| Grenoside patient in murder charge |
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| AN INVESTIGATION has been launched by Sheffield health chiefs after a 64-year-old patient of Grenoside Grange hospital was charged with the murder of another patient.
Alexander Taylor had been remanded in custody for seven days by Sheffield magistrates and was not... |
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| Badger caught in careless snare |
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| THE BODY of a young female badger has been found in Onesacre, Oughtibridge after suffering what animal welfare experts say was ‘a prolonged and horrific death’.
The badger was found dead entangled in a fence after being trapped in a homemade... |
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| High Green fraudsters to be sentenced |
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| A TRIO of fraudsters, who managed to wangle more than a million pounds over ten years, are awaiting sentencing at Sheffield Crown court next month.
Fifty six year old David Smith and forty nine year old Susan Clarke from Mortomley Lane... |
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| High Green car crash appeal |
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| LOCAL police are on the search for the driver of a vehicle that was involved in a serious accident in High Green on the morning of Saturday August 21.
The accident involved three vehicles and left three people injured. Police are... |
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| Students celebrate GCSE exam results |
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| CONGRATULATIONS to those of you who have got your exam results this week. Stocksbridge High School came 7th in the Sheffield tables with 59.9% of their pupils gaining at least five GCSEs at grades A*-C or the equivalent including English and... |
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| Burncross man lines up for England |
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| BURNCROSS footballer, Jonathan Heenan, is spending this week representing England in the Blind World Cup 2010 after getting called up for the first time.
Jonathan, 21, who supports Sheffield Wednesday and cites Chris Waddle as his favourite player of all time, is... |
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| Rugby club fun day |
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| STOCKSBRIDGE Rugby Club held a fun day on August 12 at the club's new pitches on Coal Pit Lane.
Seventeen children turned up on a promising looking morning and soon got stuck into tug-of-war, football, rounders, races, a treasure hunt quiz... |
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| Walkers are welcome |
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| THE Peak District Sustainable Development Fund are to award £5,300 to the Bradfield ‘Walkers are Welcome’ initiative.
The money will go straight into the scheme, helping fund walking guides and information. It is hoped this will result in more visits to the... |
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| Children 'graduate' |
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| MAZEHILL Nursery, Burncross recently held it’s own ‘graduation day’.
The graduating children were Alfie Barker, Blake Bignall, Emily Kemp, Ffion Jones, Phoebe Hall, Poppy Minshall, Cameron Taylor, Ellie Kay and Grace Wood.
Rachel Stocks, manager of the nursery told Look Local: “Here at... |
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| The steeling skies of Sheffield |
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| PEOPLE of all ages are being encouraged to come along to a free event to see Concord Park like they’ve never seen it before!
The Steeling Skies Sheffield weekend is coordinated by arts group rednile and commissioned by the Sanctuary Group.
It... |
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| Small book sprouts big results |
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| SPROUTS – love them or hate them they have long been a staple of the traditional Sunday lunch.
And it was after seeing a mountain of the green vegetables at a farm shop that two fundraising friends were inspired to do their... |
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| Baa-my art designs |
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| LIVERPOOL based artists Stephen Mckay and his partner Janet Fishwick have been causing stir in Stocksbridge over the past month painting a flock of three fibreglass sheep for a Skipton arts project.
Stephen and Janet have returned to the Mckay family... |
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| Man goes missing |
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| A LOCAL man from High Green has been missing from his home on Wortley Road since the evening of 31 July, 2010, causing police to become progressively concerned for his welfare.
Thirty six year old Jason Mead is thought to have checked... |
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| Shape the future of your area |
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| SHEFFIELD City Council is calling for local businesses and residents to get involved with work to improve and shape the future of their local area.
Consultation is going on in streets all over the city over the coming weeks, as teams from... |
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