| Wharncliffe Side is safer |
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| CHILDREN are now stepping out in safety to cross a busy road outside their school with the help of their local Community Assembly.
Pupils from Wharncliffe Side Primary School lobbied local Councillors for help in getting across Main Road, which has a... |
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| South Yorkshire Police not linking North Sheffield sex attacks |
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| POLICE are not linking two serious sexual assaults in the north of Sheffield as they aim to reassure residents about rumours of further attacks.
Detectives are currently dealing with two separate incidents involving sex attacks. On November 4, a... |
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| Update on Jake's charity walk |
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| Earlier this year Hillsborough boy, Jake Armitage, surprised his mum Nadine when he told her he wanted to raise money for a motor neurone disease charity. Jake suggested doing a walk for charity after overhearing a conversation about a newspaper article.... |
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| Would you like to be a snow warden? |
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| The City Council are looking for public spirited people to volunteer to be Snow Wardens- trusted to help with snow clearing of footways and minor roads in extreme winter weather.
The Council has stockpiled 24,000 tonnes of salt (50 per cent more... |
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| Middlewood gym gets sweating for charity |
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| A 24-hour cycling event in a Sheffield pub has raised hundreds of pounds for charity.
The Psalter in S11 hosted the event in aid of Children In Need, inviting pub-goers and staff to take to the bike for an hour at a... |
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| High school pupils brave the cold to help root community project |
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| ON Wednesday November 17, volunteers from Stocksbridge High School braved the weather to help Community Forestry plant three trees on the lower playing field off Victoria Road.
Responding to a request from a resident, the students worked hard to improve the... |
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| Young footballers receive special support from steel giant Tata |
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| A GROUP of young footballers in South Yorkshire are among the first in the UK to receive support from Tata Steel.
The steelmaker’s South Yorkshire business, Tata Steel Speciality, has entered into a two year sponsorship with the Stocksbridge Park Steels... |
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| Billy the Kid dash |
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| ON a week that the nation remembers loved ones lost in battle, it has been announced that the Billy the Kid Dash 2010 raised an incredible £12,700 for the Royal Marine Benevolent Fund.
The total raised adds to the £22,000 previous dashes... |
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| Community knits together |
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| CHRISTINE, who organised the knitting for this year’s Operation Christmas Child had the following to say about the project: “I have just received my second chemotherapy treatment and as my arm feels like a lead weight I am finding it very... |
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| Deepcar man missing |
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| POLICE in Sheffield are appealing for information about a man who has gone missing from the Deepcar area of Sheffield.
22-year-old Jay Craig Whiteley was last seen at Corus Steelworks in Stocksbridge at around 5pm on Tuesday, October 5.
There have been... |
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| Razzmatazz remember the war |
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| THE members of Razzmatazz Community Youth Musical Theatre Company are turning the clock back to 1939 for their next production, Hoffman’s Medal.
As the Nazi force grips Europe, young men sign up to go to war but they are fighting for... |
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| Racey night raises a king's ransom |
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| STAFF at Hays Travel, Chapeltown were surprised by the generosity of friends and family recently when they held a race night to raise money for Sheffield Children’s Hospital.
The total for the night came to £952.79 with everyone in attendance digging deep... |
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| Man stabbed in Hillsborough shop |
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| AFTER a stabbing in the Hillsborough branch of Wilkinson on Thursday October 7, David Anthony Johnson, of Hawksley Avenue, Hillsborough, has been remanded in custody after questioning by Sheffield Magistrates and has appeared once in court. Johnson, 36, is charged with... |
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| Grant allows archives to be available to all |
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| THE STOCKSBRIDGE and District History Society have received a £23,000 grant to digitize their archives.
The archive consists of thousands of photographs and documents collected over many years and from a large number of sources.
But the collection has become so large... |
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| Zipline daredevils brave the drop |
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| A GROUP of friends, most of whom work at Chapeltown Swimming Baths, completed the Marie Curie zipline challenge on Sunday.
The event, on October 17, saw participants start the terrifying ascent in a crane before being launched across the 853ft wire from... |
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| Driftrun to play cancer charity gig |
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| SHEFFIELD group, Steel City Herculeans, have organised a musical spectacular in aid of Cancer Research UK.
The ‘Music Beats Cancer’ gig will take place on Saturday November 6 at Sheffield’s O2 Academy on Arundel Gate and will feature Deepcar rockers, Driftrun..
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| Badminton club continues to grow with second session at Paces |
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| PACES Badminton Club at High Green are looking for new members for their new weekday group recently formed in addition to the already popular Sunday evening session.
Members of the group had requested for some time that an extra meeting should... |
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| Oughtibridge kids like to bike it |
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| THE children at Oughtibridge Primary School take sustainability and healthy living very seriously.
They now have a new cycle shelter to store their bikes when they cycle to school. The school is part of the ‘Bike It’ project which... |
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| Horse of the Year placing for Pennine Equine |
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| LIZ EADON currently manages a small and friendly yard based at Bromley Farm, Wortley, Sheffield and has been competing in many working hunter and showing classes at shows around the country over the last few years .
In May of... |
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| Ruby couple's donation helps church to sparkle |
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| A COUPLE celebrating their ruby wedding anniversary have pledged £1,000 to the ongoing restoration of a 13th century church in Midhope.
John and Val Hollingsworth, 63, live just by St James’ church and are both members of the congregation.
Up to now, the... |
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