| Brass band boost |
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| SATURDAY November 3 saw a momentous occasion at Oughtibridge Brass Band, as they were awarded the vast majority of funds for their Extended and refurbished facility. Tom Holmes received the cheque for £55,000 from chairman of Oughtibridge and District Community Association,... |
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| Rugby calendar worth a try |
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| STOCKSBRIDGE Rugby Union Football Club launched their new calendar last weekend and it now available to buy, just in time for Christmas!
The calendar features cheeky photographs taken by Pete Revitt and funds from sales will go to the club as... |
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| Wreath making at Chapeltown Park |
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| CHRISTMAS came early to Chapeltown Park on Sunday when, despite the less-than-promising weather, many children and adults enjoyed making Christmas Wreaths.
They were helped by Rangers from Activity Sheffield as part of the autumn programme of events arranged by the... |
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| 16 jobs to go at Tata Stocksbridge |
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| TATA Steel has today announced proposals to restructure its Bar business to focus on supplying hi-tech products to advanced manufacturing sectors. This means a loss of 16 jobs in Stocksbridge.
To support this strategy, Tata Steel is investing a further £2.75 million... |
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| Penistone lads secure apprenticeships |
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| Cawthorne based Naylor Drainage has taken on two apprentice mechanical engineers – Jacob Hobson from Scholes and James Winterbotham from Penistone.
The mechanical engineering framework that Jacob and James will follow includes day release to Barnsley College – a mixture of on... |
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| Councillors inundated with fly tipping complaints |
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| LOCAL councillors in Sheffield have reported an increase in the number of complaints they have received regarding fly-tipping in their areas.
Opposition councillors are blaming the Labour-run administration and their decision to end weekly bin collections while cutting recycling services at the... |
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| Chloe's Mozambique challenge |
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| CHLOE Adams-Pickford of Thurgoland is planning a 23-day expedition to Mozambique as part of a team of young people in July 2014.
Project Mozambique is run by an organization called World Challenge, which sends young people overseas; the main focus being... |
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| Pupils nutty plantings |
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| SHEFFIELD City Council’s Northern Community Assembly (NCA) and Community Forestry launched this season’s projects with two practical activities in and around schools.
The activities involved children in planting and caring for fruit and nut trees on school grounds and in a... |
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| Green fingered Brownies |
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| THE 152nd Oughtibridge Brownies have been busy lending a hand to the Oughtibridge Millennium Garden Volunteers by planting 300 Tulip bulbs in their raised beds.
They challenged the chairman, Phil Hirst, to provide them with a tulip bulb named after one... |
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| Body exhumed |
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| THE body of a woman who died in 2011 was exhumed by South Yorkshire Police from a Silkstone cemetery last week.
The exhumation was done at the request of the coroner from the graveyard at All Saints & St James Church, Silkstone,... |
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| Flying vicar |
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| A FEW weeks ago, Look Local ran a story on vicar, Philip West, who planned to do a skydive. Well, he’s done it! And here’s his account of the jump.
As promised on Saturday October 20, I did my tandem skydive from... |
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| Design victory for local school |
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| THE Yorkshire Branch of the Institution of Structural Engineers this month held their annual awards ceremony and dinner, where they awarded their first prize to Mott MacDonald for their work on the Forge Valley Community School project in Sheffield, South Yorkshire.
The... |
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| Wortley club is a winner |
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| WORTLEY Men’s Club has had that winning feeling quite often of late, having bagged a host of awards and trophies in the last few months.
After being voted Barnsley CAMRA Club of the Year 2012 earlier in the year, it has now... |
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| Village speed limits reviewed |
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| NICK Clegg, Liberal Democrat Sheffield Hallam MP, and Liberal Democrat councillors are celebrating a key victory in their campaign to make local villages safer.
To coincide with the £2 billion Coalition Government funded ‘Streets Ahead’ project, it has been confirmed that two... |
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| Open access course to run at Cupola Gallery |
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| CUPOLA’S social enterprise is launching a series of open access print workshops at the gallery.
The gallery recently held a ‘pilot’ session which was extremely well received, with those taking part impatient to do it all again! So, we are... |
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| Local choirs to help heroes |
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| HELP for Heroes was founded by Bryn and Emma Parry in October 2007 out of a desire to help the wounded Servicemen and women returning from Afghanistan and Iraq and provides direct, practical support to those injured in the current conflicts.... |
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| Lound pupils visit Town Hall |
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| ON Wednesday October 17, Lound Junior School council visited the Town Hall. When they arrived they ate dinner in the Council Chambers before being given a tour of the Town Hall and the Mayor’s Parlour.
A spokesperson from the school... |
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| Wonderfully Made |
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| We are delighted that, yet again, our friends at All Saints Church in the village of Silkstone will be hosting our annual Wonderfully Made exhibition and sale of art and craft work.
From Thursday 9th November until Saturday the 11th the church... |
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| Operation Christmas Child returns |
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| PEOPLE in the valley and beyond have been working all the year found making and collecting gifts to go in the Operation Christmas Child shoe boxes.
Now is the time for them to be collected, checked, sealed and cartoned at the... |
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| Fairtrade clarifies position |
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| In a recent BBC consumer programme Watchdog, the show claimed some branded chocolate bars may not contain any Fairtrade ingredients. A feature questioned the use of Coco Beans in bars of Mars Maltesers, Nestle’s KitKat and Cadbury’s Dairy Milk, all of... |
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