The Star (Sheffield) (Sheffield, England) back issues from May 2008:
Campaign bid to save pub.
May 01, 2008 ... A LOCAL history campaigner has pledged to stand in front of bulldozers himself to prevent a picturesque South Yorkshire pub from being demolished. Roy Newman, chairman of Laughton and District Conservation and History Society, is furious that developers have applied to Rotherham ...
Judge says pervert risks committing further crime.
May 01, 2008 ... A PERVERT has been told by a crown court judge: "Young people should be protected from older men like you." David Alan Brown, aged 41, was jailed for 15 months and told he posed a risk to others after luring a 14-year-old boy into his caravan to engage in sexual activity. ...
Arson attack on speed camera.
May 01, 2008 ... ARSONISTS attacked a speed camera on Manchester Road, Thurlstone, by dropping a tyre around the metal camera box and setting it on fire. A sign outside The Holly Bush pub, Hollins Lane, Rivelin, burst into flames because of an electrical fault with a cable. Live ...
'Incredibly lucky to have little battlers'.
May 01, 2008 ... WITH a beaming brood of children wrapped in their arms Rosemarie and Darren Burgess look the picture of happiness. But their smiles mask 18 months of rollercoaster emotions, after they almost lost three of their babies to life-threatening complications. The couple's ...
Cutting arson toll key for fire service.
May 01, 2008 ... REDUCING arson has been made a "key priority" for the county's fire service over the next 12 months after it emerged that 80 per cent of all fires dealt with in South Yorkshire are started deliberately. The county's fire authority, which oversees the running and performance of ...
Kids buy cannabis with pocket money.
May 01, 2008 ... CANNABIS is so cheap in Sheffield that youngsters are buying it with their pocket money, researchers have discovered. But their study has undermined claims cannabis is linked to street crime and that those who smoke it are responsible for anti-social behaviour. The ...
Jamie Oliver's out to find cooks to help serve up a treat.
May 01, 2008 ... TV CHEF Jamie Oliver is looking for South Yorkshire sidekicks to run the Rotherham town centre base of his Ministry of Food operation. Jamie, who wants to teach the people of Rotherham to cook as part of his new TV series, is looking for a full-time manager, part-time staff, and ...
Youth centre targeted by computer thieves.
May 01, 2008 ... POLICE have condemned thieves as "disgusting" after they broke into a Sheffield youth centre and stole computers - depriving local youngsters of a place to do their school and college work. The John Barnett Centre in Westfield was raided by burglars who snatched five computers ...
Reward for blind support.
May 01, 2008 ... HOPE Valley Rotarians have been nominated for this year's Rotary International public relations trophy for their campaign to help partially-sighted and blind people. The Valley Rotarians are working with Sheffield Royal Society for the Blind to raise awareness of Charles Bonnet ...
All adds up to fun for pupils.
May 01, 2008 ... PUPILS found figures could be fun during a maths activity day held for Year 7s at Sheffield High School The girls worked in small groups throughout the day and produced posters displaying their findings and solutions to various problems. They were rewarded with prizes ...
Author helps celebrate library reopening.
May 01, 2008 ... CHILDREN'S author Chris D'Lacey was on hand to celebrate the reopening of the library at Byron Wood Primary School in Sheffield. The novelist read to Year Five pupils at the Earldom Road school to celebrate the libary's reopening following a huge fire that swept through the ...
Volunteer call over gay health issues.
May 01, 2008 ... LESBIAN, gay and bisexual people in Sheffield are being asked to volunteer for workshops to give health and social care staff a better understanding of the health issues they face. Shout! - the advice, support and social service for gay and bisexual men in Sheffield - has linked ...
Go green for kids in need.
May 01, 2008 ... A CHILDREN'S charity is urging Sheffield shoppers to go green and raise money to help kids in need. Barnado's charity shops in Crookes and Hillsborough are stocking up on items in all shades of green and encouraging locals to go green by donating unwanted goods for recycling in ...
Royal Ballet's town romance.
May 01, 2008 ... ROMANCE will be in the air in Rotherham this summer when the Royal Ballet brings a live screening of its production of Romeo and Juliet to the town centre. All Saint's Square will host the event on Sunday June 1, when residents will be able to watch the world class performance ...
Less cash for city workers.
May 01, 2008 ... WORKERS in Sheffield are earning less than employees in the rest of the country, according to latest figures from an online business. Sheffield's average advertised salary is now [pounds sterling]961 below the national average of [pounds sterling]29,505, according to Internet ...
Controversy hit grades at school.
May 01, 2008 ... GCSE grades at a South Yorkshire school slipped last year because of the controversy surrounding the appointment of a headteaching consultant, an Ofsted report has found. Inspectors visited Royston High in Barnsley last month for the first time since Kay Jenkins quit as ...
County lets it all hang out.
May 01, 2008 ... EMBROIDERY enthusiasts spent 7,000 hours creating three eye-catching wall hangings depicting Derbyshire life. Some 26 stitchers - the Bakewell Area U3A Embroiderers group - spent the equivalent of 292 days painstakingly documenting life in Bakewell with their needles. ...
Waterside development sitting pretty for Olympic canoeing training centre.
May 01, 2008 ... THE Waterfront development at Manvers, Rotherham, is to be home to the British Canoeing Union's new Olympic Training Club. Developers TCN UK are to provide a 3,600 sq ft boathouse for the club as part of a [pounds sterling]4 million commitment it has made to develop the ...
Labour faces votes threat.
May 01, 2008 ... LABOUR'S historical dominance of South Yorkshire's political scene is also under threat in former strongholds of Barnsley and Doncaster, although the party is in no danger in Rotherham. A third of councillors on each of the three authorities are up for election today. ...
Anger over NHS survey.
May 01, 2008 ... LIBERAL Democrats say two Sheffield men who feared the party accessed hospital records to send them questionnaires about the NHS are Labour supporters. Attercliffe MP Clive Betts called for an inquiry in Parliament into "possible misuse" of medical records by the Lib Dems to ...
Parkland post.
May 01, 2008 ... WENTWORTH Castle Trust, which manages and looks after the castle and its gardens and parkland, is looking for a new [pounds sterling]39,000-a-year director. Richard Evans, who had been director for the past five years and led the [pounds sterling]16million restoration project on ...
Lambs get knitted out.
May 01, 2008 ... HIGH visibility jackets are everywhere these days - and now even Spring lambs are getting in on the act. But these woolly jumpers, in fields at the top of Winnats Pass above Castleton in the Derbyshire Peak District, weren't making a fashion statement. Given the ...
School shake-up means new year starts in June.
May 01, 2008 ... SCHOOL'S in for summer! Groundbreaking reforms to be introduced by a Sheffield secondary from next year will see the academic school year start in June, instead of the traditional September. It's hoped the changes at Firth Park Community Arts College will make it ...
Grieving son must move after 47 years.
May 01, 2008 ... A GRIEVING son is being forced to leave his home of 47 years after the death of his parents. Wilfred Chilton, aged 55, has lived at the three-bedroom council-owned property, in Shireoaks Road, Dronfield, since he was eight. Now housing management company Rykneld ...
College life in the spotlight.
May 01, 2008 ... HOPEFULS eyeing higher education attended an all-action event illustrating the advantages of university and college life in South Yorkshire. Talented students already studying for foundation degrees put on an all-singing, all-dancing display at the Go Higher - Stay Local ...
Crew all fired up for David's Magaluf trip.
May 01, 2008 ... WATCH out Magaluf! Firefighters from Sheffield are taking advantage of their next four-day shift break when a group of 25 fly to the party capital of Majorca to mark the retirement of colleague David Colley. The 56-year-old has left the county's fire service after 30 ...
Crucible goes out on tour.
May 01, 2008 ... A NEWLY-formed Derbyshire drama group is gearing up for a chilling tour of Arthur Miller's The Crucible which begins next week. The Chatsworth Players in collaboration with other Sheffield and Derbyshire theatre groups will host the powerful play about witchcraft ain venues ...
Play is out of this world.
May 01, 2008 ... CHILDREN are to star in an inter-planetary play at the Penistone Paramount theatre in June. The junior section of the Penistone Theatre Group is rehearsing Alien 2 Us - a comedy about two aliens who visit Penistone on holiday - written by local playwright Christine Goodwin. ...
Shock lesson on crashes.
May 01, 2008 ... THE horrific consequences of reckless driving will be brought to life for Sheffield students in a hard-hitting presentation by emergency services. Crash victims, including a teenage girl left severely disabled after she was hit by a motorbike, will give first hand accounts of ...
Dive bombers explode in water - SLIDESHOW.
May 01, 2008 ... COMPETITORS made a real splash at the fourth annual World Water Bombing championships in Sheffield. Nine teams last night competed to be crowned top bomber at the unique event held to raise money for Macmillan Cancer Support. Teams, made up of four members, donned ...
Murder suspect faces retrial over shooting.
May 01, 2008 ... A JURY in the case of a 19-year-old man accused of murdering Sheffield teenager Jonathan Matondo in Sheffield has been dismissed after it failed to reach a verdict. Sheffield Crown Court heard how Negus Nelson will face a retrial over the murder of 16-year-old Jonathan, who was ...
Millionaire ditches airport closure legal bid.
May 01, 2008 ... STEEL millionaire Andrew Cook has abandoned his legal bid to stop the closure of Sheffield City Airport after lawyers told him he has "no basis" for a court challenge. But the Tinsley facility's joint owner Peel has confirmed it is still considering an offer from the businessman ...
'Bouncers hired for honour killing'.
May 01, 2008 ... TWO pub bouncers and a middle-aged man were hired as henchmen to murder a Pakistani husband in a cold-blooded honour killing, a court heard. Doormen Sam Lee, aged 30, and Naveed Mahmood, 23, were recruited along with 54-year-old John Reeves by two brothers to kill the man who ...
Arctic Monkey Matt looks good in the school hall.
May 01, 2008 ... WHO'S this monkeying around at Stocksbridge High School? Year 8 pupils were thrilled to welcome back one of the school's most famous "old boys" to their annual awards ceremony. Matt Helders, drummer with the Arctic Monkeys was the surprise special guest at the event ...
Fuel prices to hit taxi and bus fares.
May 01, 2008 ... TAXI drivers in Sheffield are today meeting with council chiefs to ask for an emergency fare increase as the price of fuel reached a 20-year high. And one major South Yorkshire bus company said a price rise was "inevitable" as the cost of petrol soared to unprecedented levels. ...
M1 protest plot case is dropped.
May 01, 2008 ... CAMPAIGNERS accused of conspiring to disrupt M1 traffic in South Yorkshire in protest at a motorway widening scheme have walked free from court after their case was thrown out. Some of the seven Climate Camp activists punched the air and shouted "Get in" as the case against them ...
Queen honours flood heroes.
May 01, 2008 ... FOUR heroes from last summer's Sheffield floods disaster were being honoured by the Queen today. Gas man Andy Wilson, aged 39, of Stannington, Sheffield, who saved an bed-ridden elderly man's life during the floods by managing to restore power to his life support equipment ...
Funeral off as police probe death of OAP.
May 01, 2008 ... THE funeral of a pensioner who died two months after an explosion rocked her home on the outskirts of Barnsley has had to be cancelled. The funeral of 69-year-old Margaret Wilson was scheduled to be held tomorrow in Thurgoland and notices had been put in the local press ...
Sheffield author nominated for book award.
May 01, 2008 ... A SHEFFIELD author has been nominated for an award honouring the best in crime fiction. Simon Beckett, aged 47, who lives in Ranmoor but works in Nether Edge, is on a 'longlist' of 20 authors for his novel The Chemistry Of Death, first published in 2006. The public ...
DREAM TEAM: Kealey favourite to end season on top.
May 01, 2008 ... IT is the final countdown (cue horrible song by 80s Euro-rockers) .... With the last round of the Dream Team season approaching, two managers are still locked together on equal points but separated by significant goal difference. So leader Daniel Kealey from Sothall ...
Picture of biker who died in crash.
May 01, 2008 ... THIS is the motorcyclist who died in a tragic crash in Woodlands in the early hours of Monday. Stuart Richardson, aged 26, of Harold Avenue, died when he came off his machine and hit a wall and lamppost. An inquest in Doncaster has been adjourned to await a police ...
Mum's tears in cold case rape trial.
May 01, 2008 ... A MOTHER broke down in tears as she told a jury of the night nearly 20 years ago when she was raped in a field - and believed she would be killed. The woman, aged 19 at the time of the attack in September 1989, wept as she told Sheffield Crown Court how the man grabbed her from ...
Prison staff threaten walkout.
May 01, 2008 ... PRISON officers at Doncaster's HMP Lindholme were today threatening a walkout over staff suspensions. Talks are currently ongoing between the Prison Officers Association and Prison Service bosses. Local representatives of the ...
Teen shooting retrial ordered.
May 01, 2008 ... JURORS in the trial of a man accused of shooting dead a Sheffield teenager have been discharged after failing to reach a verdict. The jury spent 22 hours and 41 minutes deliberating following the three-and-a-half week trial. But yesterday afternoon they were ...
Volunteer call over gay health issues.
May 01, 2008 ... LESBIAN, gay and bisexual people in Sheffield are being asked to volunteer for workshops to give health and social care staff a better understanding of the health issues they face. Shout! - the advice, support and social service for gay and bisexual men in Sheffield - has linked ...
Anger over NHS survey.
May 01, 2008 ... LIBERAL Democrats say two Sheffield men who feared the party accessed hospital records to send them questionnaires about the NHS are Labour supporters. Attercliffe MP Clive Betts called for an inquiry in Parliament into "possible misuse" of medical records by the Lib Dems to ...
Millionaire ditches airport closure legal bid.
May 01, 2008 ... STEEL millionaire Andrew Cook has abandoned his legal bid to stop the closure of Sheffield City Airport after lawyers told him he has "no basis" for a court challenge. But the Tinsley facility's joint owner Peel has confirmed it is still considering an offer from the businessman ...
Best church management practices in new booklet.
May 01, 2008 ... On May 21st Yorkshire Wildlife Trust launches its first Churchyard Management booklet. The booklet brings together the leaflets produced by the Yorkshire Living Churchyard Project team over the years and takes into account current issues such as ...
Parenting guide to survive teenage years.
May 01, 2008 ... Teenage parents will be given advice on how to get through those difficult days at a Care for the Family run event this month. The event, at the Octagon Centre on Wednesday May 21, will have family expert Rob Parsons presenting Teenagers! What Every Parent Has to ...
Cardiff play-off glory is Bullen's Owls highlight.
May 01, 2008 ... LEE Bullen desperately hopes he and the rest of the blue and white army flocking into Hillsborough on Sunday finish on a high - but he admits his disappointment at how things have gone for him this season. The Owls club captain has played 25 times this season, making a total of ...
Lucketti could face Blades.
May 01, 2008 ... SHEFFIELD United's preparations for Sunday's do-or-die fixture with Southampton have been dealt a blow after it was confirmed that James Beattie, Kevin Blackwell's most prolific marksman, will definitely miss the match ...and Chris Lucketti could play against them. The United ...
Wednesday legends and fans unite for charity.
May 01, 2008 ... Sheffield Wednesday legends, including John Pearson and Lawrie Madden, will step back onto the football pitch on Tuesday 6th May to play in this year's Football Aid. Twenty-eight Sheffield Wednesday supporters have secured their opportunity to play on the hallowed turf at ...
Blades announce new manager.
May 01, 2008 ... KEVIN Blackwell is expected to be confirmed as Sheffield United's permanent manager before Sunday's Championship fixture at Southampton. Officials at Bramall Lane have announced they will hold a press conference to announce the appointment on Saturday; just hours before the ...
Hillside gives village hall the green light.
May 01, 2008 ... CONSTRUCTION and development company Hillside Ltd has handed over the keys to what it believes is the greenest and most eco-friendly new village hall in the UK. Kiveton Park and Wales Village Hall took just eight months to complete from demolition of the old hall to handing over ...
Cellists reach the high notes on mountain tops.
May 02, 2008 ... A PAIR of Sheffield cellists will be taking music to the edge - when they play a series of concerts on top of the four highest mountains in Britain and Ireland. 'Extreme Cellists' Jeremy Dawson and Clare Wallace, along with their friend James Rees, from Staffordshire, will carry ...
Thugs' victim returns home.
May 02, 2008 ... A MAN beaten up in Sheffield as he made his way home from hospital is back at home recovering from his ordeal. Michael Archer, aged 48, was mobbed as he walked through Norfolk Park shortly after discharging himself from hospital. He was close to home when he was ...
Cross country dash by fund-raising pals.
May 02, 2008 ... TWO dedicated Sheffield fundraisers and friends may find their paths cross as they set off on two completely separate adventures for charity. Phil Haywood and John Hopkins are members of Abbeydale Rotary Club and are going the extra mile to celebrate its 50th year. ...
Women shun celebrity diet.
May 02, 2008 ... SHEFFIELD women are shunning celebrity diets in favour of real life weight loss solutions, according to a poll. In a national survey of 1,000 dieters, not one Sheffield woman nominated celebrity endorsement as the most attractive factor when it comes to considering a new diet. ...
School axe delayed.
May 02, 2008 ... PLANS to close a Dronfield junior school could be delayed following a formal complaint lodged with the Government over the consultation process carried out by the county council. A public meeting organised earlier this week at Northfield Junior School had to be cancelled as a ...
Snooker entertainers top of the pots - SLIDESHOW.
May 02, 2008 ... NOT even Ronnie 'the Rocket' O'Sullivan has tried this tricky shot! Dan Collins and Jeanine Ebnother from spectacular new acrobatics show Trick Shots - specially created as the highlight of the Sheffield Snooker City celebrations - showed off their skills in the Winter Garden. ...
Protests over Co-op closure.
May 02, 2008 ... SHEFFIELD Central MP Richard Caborn has asked Co-op chief executive Peter Marks to review the closure of Castle House department store. Mr Caborn passed on a 12-page petition from constituents objecting to the decision. He said people are particularly upset about the loss of the ...
Bullying at work studied.
May 02, 2008 ... THE CAUSES and effects of work-related violence and bullying are to be examined by Sheffield psychologists in a ground-breaking new study. Thanks to a grant of [pounds sterling]97,000, from the Institution of Occupational Safety and Health, researchers from The University of ...
Secrets revealed.
May 02, 2008 ... A SECRET world of spiral staircases and unseen rooms is to be unlocked for visitors to Hardwick Hall this month. The attractions are normally out of bounds at the historic house in Chesterfield. But to mark the 400th anniversary of the death of Bess of Hardwick, the National ...
Oh! What a fight.(Concert review)
May 02, 2008 ... ANGRY musicians will stage a demonstration in Sheffield tomorrow night in protest at a live stage show - with pre-recorded music. The Musicians' Union is furious that the current touring production of 1970s musical show Oh! What a Night - featuring Dinnington-based entertainer ...
Stark lesson on crash peril.
May 02, 2008 ... STUDENTS learned about the consequences of reckless driving in a roadshow showing how crashes can devastate the lives of victims. The event, attended by around 100 students from Hillsborough College, was organised by South Yorkshire Fire and Rescue Service to drive home the ...