| Mayfest axed |
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| SHEFFIELD'S largest outdoor event, Mayfest, will no longer be taking place each year after organisers deemed it too much of a risk.
Mayfest 2007 suffered a terrible washout after the event was moved to the Don Valley Bowl from its usual Hillsborough Park... |
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| Dance fever sweeps school |
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| PUPILS at Oughtibridge Primary School held their own version of the hit television series ‘Strictly Come Dancing’ to show off their fancy footwork.
They spent a morning attending workshops run by experts, where they learnt the cha-cha-cha, salsa and line-dancing.
Having learnt to... |
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| Angela Smith joins railway fight |
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| LOCAL MP Angela Smith has taken up the fight to reopen the 1953 Woodhead Tunnel as a railway line instead of using it to house electricity cables.
Angela does not agree with the National Grid’s plans to use the tunnel to route... |
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| The big hush |
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| SILENCE will be truly golden at Stocksbridge High School on Friday morning when year seven students will take part in the Macmillan Cancer Relief’s annual sponsored silence, The Big Hush.
Last year, students raised over £500 to help people living with cancer. This... |
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| Grenoside woman supports stop smoking campaign |
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| THE Sheffield NHS Stop Smoking Service held an event in Sheffield City Centre to encourage more people to quit smoking in 2008.
Sheffield Primary Care Trust (PCT) Specialist Stop Smoking Advisors were on hand in the Bandstand on the Moor to provide... |
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| Mayor is rooting for Sheffield Homes tree planting scheme |
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| SHEFFIELD’S Lord Mayor Cllr Arthur Dunworth and the Lady Mayoress Cllr Mrs Kathleen Chadwick will be donning gardening gloves with spades at the ready when they prepare to dig in this week.
They will be helping Shooters Grove School pupils and... |
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| Ecclesfield Priory Players |
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| THE Ecclesfield Priory Players present their new production ‘Wait Until Dark’ this month at their Well Lane Theatre.
The show is a thriller by Frederick Knott and runs from Tuesday February 19 to Saturday February 23, with the curtain rising at 7.30pm.
Tickets are... |
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| Choir auction |
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| WORRALL Male Voice Choir is holding an auction at the Niagara Sports Club, Clay Wheels Lane on Saturday, February 9, starting at 7.30pm.
It is part of a social evening that includes a pie and pea supper. Tickets are £10 and admission is by... |
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| Re-surfacing works on Bradfield Road |
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| RE-SURFACING work will be carried out on Bradfield Road in Hillsborough at off-peak times this month and will cause some disruption to local traffic, but the work has been planned to minimise inconvenience to motorists and residents.
The work is part of... |
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| Pants! |
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| FOR Pam Prior and Heather Johnson, of St. Mary’s Church, Ecclesfield, this year has so far been a load of pants.
The two have been busy sorting around 400 pairs of children’s knickers and pants, kindly donated by St. Peter’s Church in... |
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| Plea for Woodhad Rail Link |
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| GREEN Stocksbridge Town Councillor Dan Lyons joined a protest last Saturday against plans to route power cables through the Woodhead tunnel instead of reopening it as a railway line.
Around a hundred demonstrators gathered at the tunnel in the Peak District National... |
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| Swimming Club President Retires After Over 25 Years of Service |
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| THE President of Chapeltown Amateur Swimming Club, 83-year-old James Hallis, is to retire after giving more than 25 years service to the club.
During his time James, known at the club as Jim, has assisted the Chapeltown ASC in a range... |
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| The Big Breakfast That's Locally-Sourced |
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IT is said that breakfast is the most important meal of the day and it’s hard to beat freshly-cooked local fare.
But many of us neglect breakfast in our haste to get to work, drop the children at school or get on... |
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| He Moves in Mysterious Waves! |
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| LAST summer’s rains caused plenty of loss and inconvenience – but some of those clouds did have a silver lining, as the Lord Mayor and Lady Mayoress of Sheffield found out last Sunday.
Cllr. Arthur Dunworth and Cllr. Kathleen Chadwick were guests... |
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| The Pressure is now on for Young Sports Star |
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| A YOUNG gymnast from Chapeltown is looking forward to another successful year after a whirlwind 2007.
Twelve-year-old Jordan Ramos was catapulted into the limelight at the end of last year when his gymnastics video was featured on the Youtube website, receiving over... |
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| Stop Smoking with the NHS Service |
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| THE Sheffield NHS Stop Smoking service offers free stop smoking support to people across the city - and it’s right on your doorstep.
The service, which is run by Sheffield Primary Care Trust (PCT), holds a range of locally based services to... |
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| Penistone Theatre Group Supports Barnsley College Students |
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| PERFORMING Arts Technology students from Barnsley College have helped members of the Penistone Theatre Group design and paint the set for their forthcoming pantomime, Snow White.
The students, Russ Martin, 19, and Jerome Douglas, 20, from Silkstone and Penistone, were called on... |
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| Road Closed After Crash |
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| A SERIOUS crash in Deepcar left a man trapped as three cars collided on Friday morning.
The accident occurred on the A6102 Sheffield Road near the Dumpit site at around 7am leaving the road closed for one hour and 40 minutes.
The trapped... |
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| Birks Wood Public Consultation |
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FOLLOWING its initial consultation, the Steel Valley Project is inviting local residents of Oughtibridge to visit the site this Sunday, January 20 at 10.30am and meet with representatives of the project to discuss the proposals for Birks Wood further.
This will... |
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| Tenant Faces Eviction |
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| A TENANT from Parson Cross faces eviction from his house due to the terrible state of his garden.
Mr Robbins, a resident of Turie Avenue, may have to leave his home after Sheffield City Council was granted a Postponed Possession Order.
Sheffield Homes... |
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