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| Once again do we, the voting English People, find ourselves betrayed and let down.
Once again do we bear witness to round after round of cuts, an all too familiar trait of
your typical Conservative Party, but now also an obviously desperate trait... |
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| Leisure centre |
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| The Sheffield Development Framework, which replaces the Sheffield Unitary Development Plan acknowledges the ‘possibility’ of Stocksbridge Leisure Centre being demolished to make way for a housing development, together with the ‘possibility’ of a new leisure centre being sited within the proposed... |
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| The venue |
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| Can anyone please tell us what is happening with the future of the venue?
There are so many conflicting reports / rumours going around the valley that we would like the position clarified.
One of the rumours we have heard is that the... |
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| Watsi on about ~ |
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| Firstly I would like to talk about this year’s X Factor. It has recently been confirmed that producers of the show are using technology to tweak and improve the voices of contestants.
Now I used to be a fan of the show,... |
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| Old folkie response |
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| Dear Look Local,
I am writing with regards to the comments published by ‘Old Folkie’ about Friday Folk, hosted by Charlie Barker at The Venue, Stocksbridge.
As the host and promoter of this night, I felt sad reading the recent letters about ‘Old... |
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| Sheep appeal |
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| Dear Look Local,
My partner rents fields on Hollin Busk Lane where he keeps his sheep. On Sunday August 22, he found that one of his lambs had been attacked by a dog. The lamb had sustained terrible injuries to its legs,... |
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| Bus vision farce response |
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| Dear Editor,
May I respond to Alan (S35) ‘Shocked’ Look Local letters, Issue 606.
Firstly, I have to say that I am very puzzled as to why this person was shocked to read my letter ‘Bus vision Farce’ in issue 605.
I thought like... |
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| Heavy metal alarm clock |
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| To the residents at one property at the top of Schofield Road, Deepcar, thank you for your sterling effort in annoying all your neighbours and initiating a call to the noise nuisance line during the early hours of Tuesday August 3.
Now... |
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| Happy travelling |
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| Mrs Gill Wolff,
If you need to be in Sheffield in minutes Dial 999 and ask for... |
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| Folk club found? |
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| The ‘Last Friday Folk Night’ at The Venue, to my knowledge, has now been running for, at least, the last 12 months and has always been well attended.
You mentioned in your letter that you arrived at about 7.20pm and that it... |
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| ‘Does anyone care?’ response |
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| He does not say in his letter if he attends the council meetings or not. If he doesn't, he should do and if he does, no one else need bother so what's the problem?
In light of all the cuts we are... |
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| About the white bird… |
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| We have seen one in our garden - seen it on and off for about six weeks, but sadly not for the last four weeks.
We’re wondering if it could be the one we have seen in Look Local as... |
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| What is the job situation at Corus? |
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Dear Sirs
On the front page of this weeks edition, it is stated that there are 90 new jobs and 14 new apprentices are needed.
I have spoken to a chap at Metskill and also to a Mr. Goddard at Stocksbridge and was... |
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| Thanks from junior footballers |
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STOCKSBRIDGE Park Steels Juniors would like to thank the following for donating prizes for their raffle held after the club sponsored walk: Angela Smith, MP for Stocksbridge and Penistone, Cadbury’s, Co-Op, DB Sport, Jack Fultons, Lidl, Melissimo, Oceanic, Owlerton Stadium, Pure... |
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| Hunshelf gunsite |
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Hunshelf is a beautiful walk, leading from Ecclesfield (not Chapeltown) to Whitley and Grenoside passing the tops of Ecclesfield School playing fields.
This used to be the wonderful Ecclesfield Grammar School, which I was proud to attend 1943-48, and I well... |
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| It’s Not My Time Yet |
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Bang, thump!
Silence, tranquillity, this is peace
I am once again running as a boy through the woods.
Playing soldiers with my friends,
Running through the cool woods
The hot sun unable to penetrate down to us.
The birds and ambient noises you barely hear are so... |
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| It's a wind-up |
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Come, come now people of Stocksbridge, of course Mr Swift’s letter was a wind-up. He might as well have given his address as Dore or Totley as he was surely just playing on the usual north / south-west Sheffield divide.
With all... |
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| Does anyone care? |
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People of Stocksbridge - wake up! While you are all busy moaning about your neighbours enjoying themselves, Sheffield City Council are busy redesigning your town.
One of their plans is to change green open space on Whitwell Lane to housing land.... |
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| Is this you? |
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You live on a hillside overlooking the bypass. You live in something that looks like a farmhouse.
You have at least four dogs and ride a four wheeled vehicle in mindless circuits around the fields up the hillside, spoiling the grass and... |
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| Changes to Station Road |
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Dear Sir of Madam,
I totally agree with Councillor Jack Clarkson. Bloor is making a mockery out of Stocksbridge folk by summiting so many altered plans for Station Road.
If they are hoping to make changes, it should be down... |
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