| Park Steels pre-season matches announced |
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| STOCKSBRIDGE Park Steels have announced three pre-season matches – all to be played at home.
Two of the games will be against Championship opposition with both Sheffield Wednesday and Sheffield United visiting.
Alfreton Town will visit Bracken Moor on Tuesday July 14 with... |
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| Poets' Corner 550 |
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| The Ark
I’ve had myself a vision and it’s clearly understood
I have to build a massive ark to save us from the flood
The girl who does the weather says the rain will be persistent
So I have to push the boat out before... |
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| Keep BNP out! |
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| I am writing in response to the local resident who felt that a vote for the BNP wasn’t racist! In fact, he/she felt that if a number of people put aside their prejudices and read their manifesto we may agree with... |
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| Climate change 'irreversible' |
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| Having read the letter in Look Local on June 10, entitled ‘Response to a Load of Hot Air’, I also feel compelled to write in. I have no knowledge of the detail of ‘Protect Sheephouse Heights’s reports on noise, planning impacts... |
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| Safety on buses |
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| I write about the buses on the Stocksbridge route.
We were promised new buses on our route over three years ago but to date we still get old ones with three steps up, although the 57 do get ones with level... |
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| Response to M. Thompson |
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| As another twenty five years plus comer-in to Stocksbridge, I write to respond to M. Thompson’s letter about the proposed Dransfield development.
I am not opposed to development and actively supported the renovation of the old Victory Club on The Venue.... |
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| Forward - to the 1970s |
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| A local councillor, while acknowledging that not everyone is happy with Dransfield proposals, says ‘We’ve got to look at the future’. Quite so. Nor must we neglect to address the relevant issues as of now at the present moment in time.
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| 'Disgusted' pupils voice opinion on BNP |
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| We were shocked and disgusted to discover the reply to Andrew Roger’s letter: ‘Keep the BNP out’.
According to this resident, the BNP only puts British people first. Well, we have to correct that and say they only put white British people... |
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| Not another Wadsley Village |
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| What are the planners doing to Stocksbridge and district?
1) Main road narrowed.
2) Deepcar building on a flood plane where two streams join Station Rd - over 450 houses access to the bypass (laugh a minute).
3) No council houses
4) No OAP... |
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| Dogs' mess |
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| I am writing this letter to ask those who take their dogs into the Don Field at Deepcar to please, please pick up your dog mess and use the bin provided.
Not only is it disgusting, it’s unhygienic. My grandson and... |
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| Corus cuts - Angela Smith responds |
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| Last week’s announcement that 379 jobs are to go at Corus in Stocksbridge was a huge shock and a tremendous setback for a community that has weathered so much over the years when it comes to the ups and downs of... |
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| Development/Windfarm |
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| I am left feeling rather angry at the recent approval by the planning board of the new retail park in Stocksbridge. Just what we need, a bunch of shops selling stuff we don't need and can't afford in a credit crunch.... |
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| Local theft |
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| Just a brief letter (if you can actually read) to the person who stole two planters, complete with bay trees, from outside my front door this week. It's theft! It's wrong!
We live up a small lane and have no passing traffic,... |
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| Poets' Corner 549 |
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Jelly Babies
Though jelly babies may be delicious,
the trade is quite cruel and vicious.
They are ripped from the tummies
of their poor jelly mummies
who were inseminated against their wishes.
They are taken away from their home
then left... |
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| Valley in Bloom thanks 549 |
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| At the January Community Forum meeting, Ivor Webster approached members of the Valley in Bloom group offering to help set up and maintain a planter at the bottom of the lane. Offers like this are not to be turned down, so... |
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| Penistone Grammar School reunion |
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| I am writing to ask if anyone knows Wendy Puttergill or her sister Jean.
I would like to invite Wendy to come to the Penistone Grammar School reunion on June 26, NEXT year. It is the school year that started attending this... |
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| Dear 'BNP supporter' |
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| Dear ‘Local BNP supporter’,
If you believe in what your party stands for, why did you not sign your name, unlike Mr. Rogers? Or are you really ashamed, if, like your leader, you don’t believe the Holocaust ever happened, etc.
My dad was... |
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| Bus cuts |
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| I was disappointed and angry to read about buses being cut from the 58 and 57 routes.
This is a service that many people rely on and it provides a valuable connection with Sheffield city centre.
Yet again, because of our distance from... |
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| Poets' Corner 548 |
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| My poems are so tortured that my friends’ complaints are vocal
I aim, aspire, desire, conspire, to see one in Look Local
I da-de-dah the metre to try to make them flow
I use my rhyming diction’ry like all great bards I know.
But though... |
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| Seeking Thompson sisters |
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| I am trying to trace two sisters – Nicola and Michelle – from Stocksbridge.
Nicola must now be in her early 30s, and Michelle her late 20s. Their surname was, or perhaps still is, Thompson, and they are the daughters of Tracy... |
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