| Re: Proposed Traveller Camp – Stocksbridge |
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Dear Sir,
I am writing in response to the number of letters published in Look Local last week, with regard to the proposed sighting of a Traveller Camp in Stocksbridge.
I was always of the opinion that the people of Stocksbridge were welcoming... |
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| To live in a valley in bloom |
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I would just like to say what a fantastic job the Valley in Bloom team have done. Stocksbridge and Deepcar look amazing.
It's a pleasure to walk through the centre of Stocksbridge and I'm sure if the Look Local readers cast... |
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| In Bloom feedback |
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Last Wednesday was Summer Judging for the Valley. The frenetic activity over the last week from Streetforce and ourselves had finally come to an end.
Our two judges, Brendan and Paul, needed a lot of stamina to see them through the day.
Checklist:... |
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| We saw it too! |
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Dear editor,
Having just returned to live in Chapeltown, I was pleased to receive a copy of the Look Local as we knew of this paper previously and read with interest your letter from Michael Parker regarding the orange light... |
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| Welcoming the travellers |
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Dear Sir/Madam,
I read with much sadness about the views of some of your correspondents on the possible siting of a traveller camp in the valley.
Working in a school where there is quite a large number of traveller families I... |
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| Your favourite troublesome teens |
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The kids at the party again find it extremely hilarious that so many people have responded to our letters. Only one person (A problem closer to home) was seeing sense, but we greatly appreciate your comments.
As we are no... |
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| The originator of boom, boom, boom |
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As the writer of the original letter about the party noise level I want to reply to 'Problem closer to home'. I stand by what I said as I was upset over my children being upset and tired! Although scumbag was... |
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| Something in the sky |
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Dear Ed
On entering my darkened kitchen at 10.40 pm on Saturday (10.07.2010) I noticed through the curtainless kitchen window a bright, spikey-shaped, orangey-red light in the sky towards the Unsliven end of the valley, which was flying straight and level at... |
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| Scrap metal men |
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Dear Look Local
I live in Deepcar and on three separate occasions that I am aware of, I have witnessed 'scrap metal men' on my property looking around for things to take. My garden is very tidy, so it is quite obvious... |
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| Credit to a very talented dance school |
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I would like to say a big thank you to Lauren and all her dancing girls and boys for putting on another amazing show at the Venue.
The show was a huge success as always and gets better and better... |
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| Boom, boom, boom (There’s always one!) |
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| To the person who called us 'inconsiderate morons' and 'scumbags'. Thanks for that.
For your information, it was my daughter’s sixteenth birthday party.
It was a Saturday night and a one off. There were around thirty teenagers at this party. They were... |
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| Dark Deeds in South Africa |
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| I had to switch the telly off, I couldn’t take much more
I saw the lions on their shirts but didn’t hear them roar
Our 'Team' was truly beaten, time and time again
The Germans can’t have read the script, and where on Earth... |
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| No questions asked |
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| To the thieves who stole my hanging baskets.
You were caught on camera. Please return them, no questions asked. If not returned by Sunday the video will be handed over to the police.
Ian Clancy,
Deepcar Home Improvements.
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| In reply to Boom, boom, boom |
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| We are writing to reply to the letter in last weeks look local, Boom, Boom, Boom. The subject of the letter was a party held last weekend, which we attended.
At this party were a group of 15/16 year old kids... |
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| Nightingale |
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| Dear Ed
There seems to be an increasingly pervasive perception abroad in the media and hence wider populous deriving from certain professional institutions, that binge drinking and the alcohol-fuelled loutish behaviour that results from it in many cases, is a relatively recent... |
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| 'No to Gypsies' |
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| Dear Look Local,
Whoa, whoa Monica of Sheffield. For it may have been a bit appalling to your beloved band of gypsies, but here are some home truths for you to digest.
Both, yes, both Gypsy camps that were built here in seventies... |
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| Rabble |
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| Dear resident that is sick to death of morons.
We at the Misery Guts and Killjoy Society support your cause to have these people hung drawn and quartered.
We totally empathize with your situation. It must have been a traumatic... |
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| Poem corner - The happy colour |
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| What a wonderful colour yellow is,
It brightens up your day.
The yellow rape seed in the fields,
As you pass it along your way.
The daffodils and the buttercups, the yellow of the sun,
This very vibrant colour tells you that summer has begun.
The giant... |
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| Proposed traveller camp, Stocksbridge |
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| Dear Sir,
I feel compelled to write following the publication of a letter in your paper, with regard to the proposal of a Traveller (or Gypsy) Camp to be located in Stocksbridge.
In this day and age, I thought that the UK was... |
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| Where's the folk? |
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| Dear Look Local,
Could you kindly inform me who organises the monthly folk club at the venue?
I walked there from the stubbin estate for the June one - only to come away disappointed. The reason?
There were no directions or floor plan to... |
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