The Star (Sheffield) (Sheffield, England) back issues from August 2007:
Pupils painting the town ...
Aug 01, 2007 ... PUPILS celebrated the end of their time at a Sheffield primary school with a leavers' prom. The 11-year-old classmates from St John Fisher School in Hackenthorpe dressed up in smart casual clothing for their version of a prom, which is a traditional part of school celebrations ...
'Dome' scheme to save tennis club calling time.
Aug 01, 2007 ... BOSSES at Abbeydale Tennis Club hope a huge inflatable dome will keep the cash-strapped organisation afloat. They're planning to use a covered airdome in the winter months to allow more play in bad weather. The club, off Abbeydale Road South, has been losing members ...
Can you help police to find these suspects?
Aug 01, 2007 ... A SERIAL arsonist on a Sheffield estate could kill if locals don't report the culprit, firefighters warned today. They spoke out after a third arson attack on the same block of flats on Lupton Road, Low Edges, in a week. An electricity metre cupboard at the bottom of ...
Major crackdown on drink-drivers.
Aug 01, 2007 ... POLICE checkpoints will be set up across South Yorkshire this summer to catch motorists behind the wheel after drinking or taking drugs. Officers will speak to motorists at special checkpoints, looking for signs they under the influence of drink or drugs. And anyone ...
Free training in youth work.
Aug 01, 2007 ... FREE places are available on a training course for adults working with young people. The four-session course provides "a range of new insights and practical skills, interesting case studies and bright ideas" and is being held at Young Potential, 43 Carlton Road, Worksop. ...
Fiesta to pay for Spain trip.
Aug 01, 2007 ... YOUNGSTERS from the north of Sheffield are busy preparing for a fun-filled Summer Fiesta to raise money for a cultural trip abroad. The North Sheffield Youth Forum has organised the event as part of its fundraising campaign to cover the cost of a trip to Madrid in October. ...
Ongoing curse of cruelty.
Aug 01, 2007 ... SOUTH Yorkshire continues to be one of the worst places for animal cruelty - as new RSPCA figures reveal a sickening rise in cases. Last year the number of cruelty cases in South Yorkshire almost doubled with 52 incidents - making it the third worst region in the north. ...
Memories come flooding back for Margaret aged 106.
Aug 01, 2007 ... A DRAMATIC flood evacuation was "no skin off my nose" for the great grandmother believed to be Sheffield's oldest resident - it was, after all, the third time she had been an evacuee. Margaret Boardman celebrated her 106th birthday just weeks after being rescued when her former ...
Career pans out for cookery teacher.
Aug 01, 2007 ... ONE of South Yorkshire's top teachers who almost lost his sight while at university is coming to Sheffield to take up a new post. Chris Lord will teach cookery and run an on-site restaurant at Waltheof Park Academy, after three years as food technology and catering tutor at ...
School radio team learn first-hand at how professional station works.
Aug 01, 2007 ... BUDDING broadcasters from a Sheffield school visited Hallam FM's studios for an insight into how the professionals take to the airwaves. Youngsters at Meadowhead School have created their own station which broadcasts on the internet through the Radiowaves network. ...
School play looks back at the flood of 1864.
Aug 01, 2007 ... A SHEFFIELD school's annual drama production carried additional poignancy this year - as it retold the story of the Great Flood of 1864. Youngsters at Malin Bridge study the disaster every year, and putting on a play recounting the events which devastated the surrounding area ...
Sacking over markets con.
Aug 01, 2007 ... ONE council officer has been fired and another suspended following a [pounds sterling]53,000 scam at Sheffield markets, a damning new report reveals. The investigation into the financial management of Sheffield's markets has led to the suspension of one council officer - with ...
Play away.
Aug 01, 2007 ... FAMILIES are invited to a free event in Sheffield today to mark National Play Day. Sports and activities are taking ...
Owls fans in ticket problem.
Aug 01, 2007 ... SHEFFIELD Wednesday have thanked supporters for their patience during difficulties with the club's telephone ticket line which caused frustration for hundreds of fans. The club stated the problem, which prevented its agents Ticketmaster being able to sell tickets for the first ...
Crowds flock to Bakewell show. With picture gallery.
Aug 01, 2007 ... THE sunshine was the very welcome guest of honour at today's Bakewell Show which welcomed thousands of visitors. Warm, dry weather has ensured a top turn-out but with the extra visitors came extra traffic - with queues backed up to Baslow. Honorary Director, Richard ...
Lift threat to evict Esme, 103 - Minister.
Aug 01, 2007 ... A GOVERNMENT minister has intervened in a row over the "eviction" of a 103-year-old woman from her care home. Esme Collins has been told she must leave Abbeymoor Nursing Home in Worksop, Notts, after 10 years because the owners want an extra [pounds sterling]100 a week to look ...
Bean hits back over 'foul tirade'.
Aug 01, 2007 ... ACTOR Sean Bean today hit back at Neil Warnock's claims that the Hollywood superstar made his wife and son cry with a foul-mouthed furious tirade when Sheffield United were relegated. According to Warnock in his soon-to-be-published autobiography, Made in Sheffield, the actor's ...
Venue needed to raise funds.
Aug 01, 2007 ... A FUNDAY organised to raise money for South Yorkshire flood victims may have to pulled unless a new venue can be found. Rachael Pickin was devastated to learn she couldn't get an events licence from Sheffield Council for the original venue at Hillsborough Sports Arena - because ...
Cash crisis in wake of floods.
Aug 01, 2007 ... FLOOD-hit South Yorkshire firms could face critical cash flow problems in the run up to Christmas, a leading Sheffield banker warned Government minister Stephen Timms and business leaders. Chris Forrest, director of commercial banking with the Royal Bank of Scotland, told a ...
Teenager guilty of murdering brother.
Aug 01, 2007 ... A TEENAGER is today facing life behind bars after being convicted of killing his brother in a South Yorkshire house fire. The youngster, who cannot be named, killed his 15-year-old brother after torching the lower floor of the house in Wombwell, Barnsley, following a family ...
Zoo's US acquisition opens up new DVD markets.
Aug 01, 2007 ... DVD Technology pioneer ZOO Digital says it is looking forward to an "exciting year" after unveiling plans to buy a top US authoring company that works for leading Hollywood studios. The Sheffield company, whose ground breaking software is used to create interactive games and ...
City factory will make green fuel.
Aug 01, 2007 ... A REVOLUTIONARY factory making green fuel generators on a commercial basis will be up and running in Sheffield by this time next year. ITM Power, the UK company whose Sheffield-based researchers are developing cutting edge technology for replacing fossil fuels with 'renewable' ...
Paul's scholarship provides hands-on training.
Aug 01, 2007 ... ENGINEERING student Paul Dack has become one of a handful invited to join an elite South Yorkshire engineering scholarship scheme. Paul, 18, from Worksop has been studying engineering at Rotherham College and has been invited to join the South Yorkshire Engineering Scholarship ...
School centre for business.
Aug 01, 2007 ... A SHEFFIELD school has unveiled plans for a multi million pound, hi-tech Business and Enterprise Centre, which will benefit students, staff, parents and the local community. The centre, at Fir Vale Secondary School, will incorporate the latest IT equipment, technical support and ...
Bankers warn that crunch could come at Christmas.
Aug 01, 2007 ... FLOOD-hit South Yorkshire firms could face critical cash flow problems in the run up to Christmas, a leading Sheffield banker warned Government minister Stephen Timms and business leaders. Chris Forrest, director of commercial banking with the Royal Bank of Scotland, told a ...
Wedding stationery designer wisn top award.
Aug 01, 2007 ... A DONCASTER business came away with an accolade from the Wedding Industry Awards 2007 staged by Yorkshire Brides, the largest bridal show in the north of England. A team of independent judges voted wedding suppliers from Doncaster, Leeds, York, Harrogate, Bradford, Sheffield, ...
MP opens new business park ... with a gym.
Aug 01, 2007 ... DONCASTER North MP Ed Miliband has opened one of Doncaster's latest business parks. Property entrepreneur Clive Hutton has opened up the new Hutton Business Park site on Bentley Moor Lane at Carcroft and invited cabinet minister Mr Miliband to cut the ribbon. He and ...
Rate reform risk to area's revival.
Aug 02, 2007 ... South Yorkshire's regeneration could be set back by Government plans to reform the rating system, according to property experts CB Richard Ellis. Some developers could end up demolishing their own properties, if the Government imposes full business rates on vacant commercial ...
World leaders on their metal.
Aug 02, 2007 ... The Sheffield region's expertise with hi-tech metals will go on show this autumn when representatives from world-leading companies attend a major symposium on titanium in the Advanced Manufacturing Park's Innovation Technology Centre. Delegates attending the event organised by ...
Managers take up duties.
Aug 02, 2007 ... Barlows, the Sheffield-based retail interiors specialist, founded more than 130 years ago, has appointed nine new site managers to help it cope with major growth since it focused on project management services and introduced Japanese ...
Gyms fix it as company flexes its muscles with new business.
Aug 02, 2007 ... A Barnsley company which specialises in making and installing fitness equipment is flexing its muscles and expanding after clinching a contract with a major Dutch sports equipment supplier. Nytram Pro Gym Equipment, run by Martyn Stables and his wife Julie, supplies public and ...
Tigers try to tempt Complin to agree deal.
Aug 02, 2007 ... SHEFFIELD Tigers owner Neil Machin has revealed how he will hold talks with Lee Complin as soon as the season is over - to see if he is interested in an Owlerton return. Complin, who won the treble with Sheffield in 2002, has made a successful comeback from retirement this ...
Soccer match road warning.
Aug 02, 2007 ... FOOTBALL fans planning to watch Sheffield Wednesday take on Birmingham City in Saturday's pre-season friendly are being warned of traffic problems in the north of the city. The A61 from junction 36 of the M1 at Tankersley has temporary traffic lights in operation at its junction ...
Charity needs more helpers.
Aug 02, 2007 ... HEALTHCARE charity Sue Ryder Care is looking for volunteers to help with events across South Yorkshire this summer. The fundraising team, based at Sue Ryder Care Hickleton Hall, Doncaster, is looking for people of all ages with some spare time to help out. Fundraiser ...
Sports teams are wanted.
Aug 02, 2007 ... TEAMS are being invited to take part in a basketball contest as part of a community fun day. Groups of three players aged 14 or over are required for the competition being held during the event at Concord Park, Shiregreen, on Sunday from noon. The fun day, organised ...
Singing a song of thanksgiving.
Aug 02, 2007 ... A VISIT from Bishop Jack was the highlight of a week of celebrations marking the anniversary of one of Sheffield's oldest schools. Pupils and staff at Totley All Saints CE Primary welcomed the Right Reverend Jack Nicholls who led a thanksgiving service for the school's 130th ...
Students swing into action to help club's charity day.
Aug 02, 2007 ... SIXTH formers at a Sheffield secondary school donated [pounds sterling]500 raised during their annual charity week to Abbeydale Rotary Club. The money from Tapton School helped boost funds raised during the club's popular Golf Day, staged at Abbeydale Golf Club. A ...
S Yorks rail crime hotspot.
Aug 02, 2007 ... SOUTH Yorkshire was today revealed as one of the worst spots for rail crime in the country - as a summer campaign is launched to get young perpetrators back on the right track. Incidents of trains being hit by stones or other missiles, of obstructions being left on tracks, or of ...
Rare roadster revs-up for city show.
Aug 02, 2007 ... A HOST of exclusive cars will be on display at Sheffield's first city centre motor show. Among them will be the limited edition Pagani Zonda Roadster F - one of only 25 in the world - along with a stylish Lamborghini and classic Aston Martin. A Territorial Army ...
Ahoy there, me hearties ...
Aug 02, 2007 ... CAPERS in the Caribbean featured in an original play staged by Sheffield schoolchildren to celebrate the end of the academic year. Coconut Island featured more than 130 pupils from Crosspool's Lydgate Juniors - over a quarter of the youngsters attending the school. ...
Open house at cemetery.
Aug 02, 2007 ... AN OPEN day is taking place at Sheffield's City Road cemetery and crematorium. During the event, between 10am and 4pm on Saturday, staff will be demonstrating memorial safety equipment and talking about the challenges they face in terms of grave digging and grounds ...
Woman driver bled to death.
Aug 02, 2007 ... A CARE assistant bled to death after crashing her car into a Sheffield house while twice over the drink drive limit, an inquest heard. Helen Sonia Patterson, aged 27, broke nearly all her ribs and severed a major artery after failing to brake at a junction on Wood Royd Road, ...
'Get together' bid for talks on schools merger.
Aug 02, 2007 ... SHEFFIELD Council leader Jan Wilson has invited parents affected by the merger of Wisewood and Myers Grove schools to put aside their differences and attend a public meeting to discuss ideas for the replacement secondary. Coun Wilson is organising the event in September - likely ...
Hotel live music row.
Aug 02, 2007 ... A SHEFFIELD hotel which once angered its neighbours by holding rowdy late night functions has caused fresh controversy by applying to stage live music. Now under new management, Mosborough Hall Hotel in Mosborough boasts on its website of its quiet village location. ...
Stewardships for pupils.
Aug 02, 2007 ... YOUNG people from two Sheffield schools are giving up part of their summer holidays to look after their local environment. Pupils from Bankwood Primary School and Valley Park School are involved in the Young Stewards initiative, being run by Sheffield Council and South Yorkshire ...
Grange open day 'organic'.
Aug 02, 2007 ... ORGANIC gardens will be on show at a north Derbyshire village when Unstone Grange stages an open day. The event, on Sunday August 12, will include advice on how to grow food using ...
Celebration's early start.
Aug 02, 2007 ... HUNDREDS of scouts, cubs, beavers and explorers congregated in Sheffield's Peace Gardens for an 8am centenary celebration yesterday. The Sunrise Ceremony in the city centre was one of hundreds of similar events staged all over the world to mark 100 years since Baden Powell held ...
Bid to save bikers' lives.
Aug 02, 2007 ... COUNCIL bosses in Sheffield are teaming up with the Highways Agency to launch a campaign to improve safety for motorcyclists. Sheffield Council's Road Safety Team is to create a new city-wide Motorcycle Action Forum which will consult and advise on promoting improved safety and ...
Student's battling artistic mission.
Aug 02, 2007 ... INSPIRATIONAL artworks are being produced by a brave Sheffield teenager - even though she is slowly going blind. Nineteen-year-old Sophie Elise Wilson, a student at Sheffield Hallam University, has been diagnosed with the rare condition retinitis pigmentosa. But she ...
Tommy's charity hope.
Aug 02, 2007 ... CHARITY Man Tommy Crowder today made one final super hero appeal - for just [pounds sterling]600 to save a holiday for sick children and needy families. He collects dressed as Charity Man, a take on comedian Russ Abbott's Cooper Man, and has helped to raise more than [pounds ...
Nurses 'disgusted by fat patients'.
Aug 02, 2007 ... CHRONICALLY fat people are being let down by their nurses - a shocking four per cent of whom feel "disgust" for their severely obese patients, according to a study carried out in Sheffield. Now lead researcher Dr Ian Brown is calling for more training in obesity care after he ...
Kids benefit from better play facilities.
Aug 02, 2007 ... KIDS in Firth Park in Sheffield will be able to play games all year round thanks to the installation of artificial surfaces on two grass mini pitches. The pitches have been resurfaced thanks to the Friends of Firth Park and the council securing a grant of [pounds sterling]17,600 ...
Giant 'music box' go-ahead.
Aug 02, 2007 ... IT looks like a huge black quilted box that has been plonked down from the heavens just off West Street in Sheffield. But this is in fact the design for the University of Sheffield's new music practice and recording facility, which will be known as The Soundhouse. ...
Government asks EU for floods cash.
Aug 02, 2007 ... THE Government has finally announced it will apply for emergency EU cash to help South Yorkshire recover from June's devastating flooding. Local government minister and Wentworth MP John Healey confirmed an application will be lodged with the European Union Solidarity Fund - a ...
Hundreds of youngsters gather to mark anniversary of scouting.
Aug 02, 2007 ... HUNDREDS of scouts, cubs, beavers and explorers congregated in Sheffield's Peace Gardens for an 8am centenary celebration yesterday. The Sunrise Ceremony in the city centre was one of hundreds of similar events staged all over the world to mark 100 years since Baden Powell held ...
Prisoner on the run.
Aug 02, 2007 ... POLICE are hunting a man after he escaped from Sudbury Prison in Ashbourne, Derbyshire. Brian Alan Clayton, aged 43, fled on Monday while serving a five years sentence ...
Public make views known on road plan.
Aug 02, 2007 ... COUNCIL bosses in Sheffield have been inundated with responses about traffic regulations at one of the city's most dangerous junctions. The authority has received over 450 comments and views about the temporary traffic restriction at Long Line, Dore. The trial ...
Offenders run lunch clubs.
Aug 02, 2007 ... A SCHEME which gets South Yorkshire criminals cooking meals in lunch clubs across the county has won a national award for helping to stop re-offending. The initiative, run by South Yorkshire Probation, is one of 10 in the country to receive recognition in the Community ...
[pounds sterling]9,000 green grant awards.
Aug 02, 2007 ... CONSERVATION projects in the Peak District have been handed up to [pounds sterling]9,000 in grants to help improve the environment. The Peak District Sustainable Development Fund has given out grants and guidance to projects, which aim to ...
Bin lorries make a great canvas for children's art.
Aug 02, 2007 ... THREE budding young Sheffield artists will see their names in lights - or at least their art work on the side of a giant bin truck. Veolia Environmental Services held a children's drawing competition to raise awareness of recycling, with the winning three designs being displayed ...
Bungalow fire damaged roof.
Aug 02, 2007 ... A MAN was treated for smoke inhalation after a fire broke out in his Sheffield bungalow last night. Firefighters were called to his home on Queens Road, Beighton, at around 10.30pm after a fire started in the hallway ...
Postal workers to step up pay action.
Aug 02, 2007 ... POSTAL workers in Derbyshire are the latest to walk out in a series of strikes across the UK. There will be no postal deliveries in the county today and the action will also affect national and international mail travelling via East Midlands airport. The action by ...
Jobs axed as car dealer folds.
Aug 02, 2007 ... ANGRY staff at Dixons Motors in Sheffield were today given just a few minutes notice to quit after the dealership closed. Staff at Dixon Motors on Manton Street and Savile Street arrived at work this morning and were handed redundancy notices with immediate effect. ...
Rachael finds funday venue.
Aug 03, 2007 ... THE organiser of a charity funday to raise money for victims of the South Yorkshire floods breaths a sigh of relief after a new venue was found. Rachael Pickin was devastated to learn she unable to get an events licence from Sheffield Council ...
'Settle claims quickly' call.
Aug 03, 2007 ... SHEFFIELD'S Master Cutler has warned that drawn-out insurance claim settlements could compound the damage already suffered by Sheffield manufacturers. Alan Reid took advantage of a visit by the Lord Mayor of London, Alderman John Stuttard, to remind the insurance industry that ...