| Harvest festival |
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| Children at Lound Infant School celebrated Harvest Festival in the traditional manner by finding out where our food comes from and giving thanks for everything that we have.
Our School Council collected generous donations from parents and we decided to give them... |
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| Pit-Stop races into tenth year |
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| The Pit- Stop Youth Project celebrated its 10th anniversary on Friday with a special presentation of GCSE certificates in front of an invited audience of VIP guests.
The evening was held at Pit -Stop's base in St Johns Parish Centre Chapeltown.
For... |
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| Beavers bury time capsule |
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| BEAVER Scouts celebrate being in existence as recognised by the Scout Association for 25 years this year.
The Beavers are proud to note that in Stocksbridge, the 93rd Sheffield Beaver colony has been running longer than this! The first Beaver leaders... |
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| Council hand out Autumn Citizen Award |
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| At the Town Council meeting held on October 13 the Mayor, Cllr. Martin Brelsford, presented a certificate and gift vouchers to the value of £50 to Catherine Cotterill, winner of the Citizen’s Award for Autumn 2011.
Catherine was nominated for... |
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| High Riggs helps Stannington remember in style |
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| FREEMAN College students based at the college’s High Riggs Garden Centre site have helped the local Royal British Legion by tidying up and planting new pansies and wall flowers at The Stannington War Memorial in preparation for Remembrance Day on November... |
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| COUNCILLOR'S SCARY STORY FOR CHARITY INSPIRED BY BRAVE SON LOUIS |
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| Sheffield councillor Matt Dixon has written a spooky story for Halloween to raise money for The Children’s Hospital that saved his youngest son’s life.
Louis, aged four, suffers from severe allergies and breathing problems and has visited the Emergency Department at... |
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| COMPETITION WINNER PASSES DRIVING TEST! |
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| Readers may recall Look Local running a competition in April for driving lessons with driving school Pass with Nick.
This week the winner of the competition, Louise Kirk of High Green, passed her driving test!
Louise said: ' I can't thank Nick enough... |
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| Players play on! |
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| Grenoside and Birley Carr Players will shortly perform the Sheffield Premier of Rick Abbott’s hilarious comedy ‘Play On’.
The actors are squabbling, the dress rehearsal goes awry and the author keeps rewriting the script! A recipe for a hit? Definitely... |
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| Penistone film to get home premiere |
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| ZOMBIE comedy film Harold’s Going Stiff, featuring South Yorkshire talent, is set to be shown at the Celluloid Screams film festival in Sheffield, and will be attended by the cast, crew and just maybe a few of the living dead.
Written and... |
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| Lib Dem and Labour debate leisure centre |
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| STOCKSBRIDGE Leisure Centre's £300,000 refurbishment budget could be cut by two-thirds following a meeting this week.
A report will be coming to the Labour-run Council’s Cabinet on Wednesday October 19 which recommends re-allocating £200,000 previously intended for Stocksbridge Leisure Centre.
The funds... |
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| A shockingly good show |
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| A SPOOKTACULAR extravaganza of frighteningly fabulous burlesque and vaudeville-style cabaret acts featuring a manic host, and special guest performers displaying devilishly tantalising dance routines, flame and fire, sideshow and carnival, sultry singers, buxom undead beauties, beastly 'Boylesque', terrifying acrobatic feats, and... |
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| Well, what have we here? |
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| AN OUGHTIBRIDGE woman uncovered an old well in her home by accident recently when she fell down it.
Francesca Bethell-Collins had been living in her Oughtibridge house for almost one year and had been using the cellar as storage space believing... |
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| Macmillan benefits |
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| MACMILLAN Cancer Support benefited from the eager planning of hundreds of groups across the country on Friday September 30 when the Macmillan Biggest Coffee Morning took place.
The north of Sheffield was no exception and Look Local’s What’s On section was jam... |
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| Get down them apples and pears |
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| Wortley Hall Walled Garden celebrates national Apple Day by holding it’s first ever ‘Apple and Pear Day’ on Sunday October 23 from 12pm to 4pm, thanks to East Peak Innovation Partnership funding.
Visitors can come and see the orchard, try some... |
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| Club gets public to try Tai Chi |
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| ON Sunday October 9, the Valley Tai Chi Club collected over £130 in aid of the Teenage Cancer Trust outside the Co-Op in Stocksbridge.
The club were very pleased with the response. The photo shows club members doing tai chi together. The... |
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| Greek police re-open case of missing Ben |
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| THE case of missing Ben Needham is to be re-opened by Greek police, 20 years after he first went missing on holiday.
Ben was on holiday on the island of Kos in 1991 when he disappeared. Ben’s mum, Kerry Grist, has never... |
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| War stories sought on 90th anniversary of legion |
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| LAST week marked the 90th year anniversary of the founding of The Royal British Legion organisation.
The Penistone branch held a special service and coincided the anniversary with a new campaign they are running.
Joe Pinguey, an active branch member of the... |
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| Popular hall refurbished |
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| A POPULAR community hall at Parson Cross has been given a new lease of life following a £16,382 facelift.
St Paul’s Church and Community Hall on Wordsworth Avenue now has new windows, electrics and flooring following the four-month refurbishment, which was... |
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| Hair studio in charity raffle |
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| CAROLINE’S Hair Studio held a raffle at both the Penistone and Stocksbridge branches to raise money for Breakthrough Breast Cancer Charity.
Between them, the studios raised an incredible £1,074 for the charity, which funds research into a condition that blights so many... |
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| Nanny Hill bulb and oak planting |
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| AN OAK tree and a variety of bulbs were planted on Nanny Hill, Stocksbridge, recently.
Stocksbridge in Bloom and the Trefoil Guild asked for a tree for the highway triangle at the top of Nanny Hill just up from the clock tower... |
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