The Star (Sheffield) (Sheffield, England) back issues from July 2008:
60-mile row for social club funds.
Jul 01, 2008 ... MUSCLE man Paul Marsden is training hard for a gruelling rowing challenge - of a staggering 60 miles. The 55-year-old raised [pounds sterling]1,830 last year for Bluebell Wood Children's Hospice in Dinnington, by rowing 26 miles in the gym at Bannatyne's Health Club. ...
Screwdriver thug terrorised grandma.
Jul 01, 2008 ... A GRANDMA has spoken of the terrifying moment she thought she was going to die when a man burst into her Sheffield home and threatened her and her husband with a screwdriver. The couple spoke out to warn others about the importance of locking doors and windows in the summer ...
Hi-tech aid for swimmers.
Jul 01, 2008 ... CHAPELTOWN Amateur Swimming Club is going from strength to strength, thanks to good old fashioned hard work and a spot of new technology. The club regained the LJ Timber trophy by beating squads representing Sheffield City, Matlock, and Dearne Valley swimming clubs. ...
Helping hand for patients.
Jul 01, 2008 ... VOLUNTEERS are needed to help run headscarf workshops for cancer patients in Chesterfield. The HeadStrong cancer hair loss service, based in Chesterfield Royal Hospital, offers patients who have lost their hair through treatment the chance to learn how headscarves, hats and hair ...
Sports club up and running after major building works.
Jul 01, 2008 ... LOOKING good and dressed up to the nines. The official opening of Beighton Sports and Leisure Club was very much an occasion when you'd want to wear your best clobber. That's because the place, formerly know as Beighton Miners' Welfare, has never looked better. ...
Trevor's full steam ahead for railway's happy anniversary.
Jul 01, 2008 ... IT is one of the most famous railways in the world - thanks to a smash hit movie. The Keighley and Worth Valley Railway became a household name after it was chosen as a location for The Railway Children, the Bafta-nominated 1970s film. And the railway, which carries ...
Trip down memory lane at Boots' birthday bash.
Jul 01, 2008 ... IT'S the first port of call for summer sunscreen, a new Friday night lippy, and cold and flu remedies when winter sniffles strike. Now Boots on Fargate has celebrated 110 years of trading at the same Sheffield site and in the same building - despite numerous refits and ...
Dance away at city event.
Jul 01, 2008 ... FROM salsa to street, Scottish country to Polish folk - there's a style to suit anyone, whether you fancy a gentle shuffle or an all out boogie, during the Big Dance in Sheffield. During July 5-13, events will be taking place across the city, where people can try out a huge ...
Tour recounts grave events.
Jul 01, 2008 ... THRILLING tales of gruesome deaths will be recounted at Sheffield's General Cemetery this Sunday. The Victorian graveyard, on Cemetery Avenue off Ecclesall Road, contains nine listed buildings and monuments and, in 1999, was added to the national register of historic parks and ...
Pumping up the volume.
Jul 01, 2008 ... CARING Sheffield University students gave up their free time to go out fundraising for charity in the city centre. The volunteers donned t-shirts in support of the British Heart Foundation, as they collected donations for the charity's Help A Heart Campaign - which aims to raise ...
Gloves on as activity programme goes down a bomb.
Jul 01, 2008 ... THESE Sheffield sports stars certainly know the benefits of keeping fit and active ... And swimmers James Kirton, competing at the Beijing Olympics, and James Crisp, taking part in this year's Paralympics, plus retired boxer Herol 'Bomber' Graham, wanted to pass on the message to ...
Jet set woe for Danielle.
Jul 01, 2008 ... A SHEFFIELD girl's dreams of becoming a jet pilot in the RAF could be shot down after a college course for teenagers was suddenly scrapped. Danielle Watson, aged 14, a pupil at Firth Park Community Arts College, was encouraged to take the BTEC Diploma course in public sector ...
Council gives young top priority place.
Jul 01, 2008 ... SOUTH Yorkshire's local councils are to make young people their top priority following agreements reached with central government. Sheffield, Rotherham, Barnsley and Doncaster have all opted to encourage more young people back into education, employment or training, and to ...
Bosses under fire for flood warning failure.
Jul 01, 2008 ... ENVIRONMENT Agency bosses have come under fire after revealing their Floodline warning service does not cover all the areas of Sheffield deluged last year. One worried resident, who lives next to a watercourse which burst its banks when last June's heavy rain turned it into a ...
Blunkett pays tribute to estate's residents and their community spirit.
Jul 01, 2008 ... SHEFFIELD MP David Blunkett paid tribute to Winn Gardens estate residents who helped fellow neighbours affected by last summer's floods. He attended an event at the Middlewood Winners Pavilion, organised to celebrate the way the community pulled together in adversity. ...
Post office protest goes to Town Hall.
Jul 01, 2008 ... CAMPAIGNERS hoping to stop the closure of Sheffield post offices are to take their protest to the Town Hall tomorrow. Socialist Party campaigner Alan Munro will present councillors with a petition containing nearly 2,000 names demanding Sheffield Council publicly opposes and ...
Injured dog dumped in woodland - PICTURE.
Jul 01, 2008 ... AN INJURED dog was abandoned and left tied to a tree in woodland in Sheffield before being discovered by a late-night walker. The elderly male Akita dog was found by a member of the public near White Thorns Close, Batemoor, at around 11pm on Tuesday. The woman noticed ...
Cyclists face 100-mile ride.
Jul 01, 2008 ... CYCLISTS in Yorkshire are being urged to use pedal power to take in one of the British Heart Foundation's toughest ride - The Ride of the Roses. The 100 mile bike ride between two of the UK's most historic and vibrant cities Lancaster and York and covers stunning countryside ...
Attacked student may take 18 months to recover.
Jul 01, 2008 ... A SHEFFIELD student beaten up on a night out on West Street has been transferred to a hospital closer to home. Adrian Shield, aged 21, suffered serious head injuries after being attacked outside Aslan's kebab shop at the junction of West Street and Regent Street in May. ...
Open day as school gets ready to shut.
Jul 01, 2008 ... AN OPEN day is to be held at a Sheffield school which is to close this summer after 70 years of service to its local community. The special day aimed at former pupils will be held at Shirecliffe Juniors on July 8 from 9am until 3.30pm. Watercliffe Meadow opens in ...
Shakespeare marathon for city centre.
Jul 01, 2008 ... A SHEFFIELD theatre group is looking for young volunteers interested in bringing Shakespeare to life under the stars. A Shakespeare marathon will run for 24 hours from noon on July 15 in the centre of Sheffield as part of the city's involvement in the National Year of Reading. ...
Holiday islands crash tragedy of 'good life' dad.
Jul 01, 2008 ... A FATHER of two who left South Yorkshire for a new life in the Canary Isles died in a car crash after a night of drink and drug-taking, an inquest heard. Bartender Simon Bywater, aged 35, was speeding in his boss's Range Rover on the GC1 motorway to Las Palmas when he failed to ...
Firm praised for drug development.
Jul 01, 2008 ... A COMPANY linked with the University of Sheffield has been recognised for its ach-ievements in drug development. Simcyp was praised at the Yorkshire Biosci-ence Awards by Sheff-ield Hallam University vice-chancellor, Prof-essor Lord Robert Winston. The company ...
Beavers help hospital fund.
Jul 01, 2008 ... A GROUP of busy beavers from Sheffield have raised [pounds sterling]147 for Sheffield Children's Hospital Charity. The boys from Dore Beaver group collected the cash by helping family and friends with small jobs in return for cash, which they collected in Smarties tubes. ...
Launchpad of new business.
Jul 01, 2008 ... A PARTY is being held at Castle Market to launch a new trading area for some of Sheffield's newest entrepreneurs. There will be DJs and family entertainment at the event, in the market complex on Saturday July 5. The development is taking place as part of the BiG - ...
Special party thrown for full house of Junes at bingo hall.
Jul 01, 2008 ... JUNE was bustin' out all over at a Sheffield bingo hall. Mecca Bingo club threw a special birthday party for all its members called June. And after discovering they also had members called April and May they too were invited to join in the celebrations. ...
Public pay phone battle.
Jul 01, 2008 ... PENISTONE Town Council is fighting to retain the public payphone at Millhouse Green next to the busy A628 trans Pennine trunk road after BT told them they were considering closing it. Coun Steve Webber said the A628 was an extremely busy road with a high accident rate and a ...
Rise in people seriously injured on roads.
Jul 01, 2008 ... NUMBERS of people seriously injured on South Yorkshire's roads increased by more than six per cent last year - bucking the national trend. Casualties rose from 555 in 2006 to 591 in 2007, statistics released by the Government showed. During the same period, cases of ...
CPS: 'Tiffany murder charge could not be proved'.
Jul 01, 2008 ... THE Crown Prosecution Service has defended its decision to drop murder charges against Tiffany Wright's mother and stepfather. Sabrina Hirst and her husband Robert were initially both arrested on suspicion of murder, and charged. But the charge against Sabrina, 22, ...
Girl lay dead as mum shopped for dog food.
Jul 01, 2008 ... A DISGUSTED ex friend of Sabrina Hirst - the Sheffield mum who killed her three-year-old daughter - says Hirst went shopping for dog food the day her child was found starved to death. Janine Buxton, aged 36, from Firth Park, spent the day with Hirst on the day Tiffany's body was ...
Dying baby 'taken to park' instead of hospital.
Jul 01, 2008 ... A YOUNG Sheffield mum whose 11-week-old baby was allegedly shaken to death by his father took the gravely ill youngster to the park rather than to hospital, a court was told. Ginna Gobran, 21, told Sheffield Crown Court she left her baby Amaraye with his father Courtney Bryan ...
Worker suffered 80 per cent burns in furnace blast.
Jul 01, 2008 ... A YOUNG Polish man died after suffering 80 per cent burns when he was caught in a furnace blast at a Sheffield metals factory, an inquest heard. Patrycjusz Handzel, aged 24, was described as "burned black from the knees up" following the explosion at Transition International ...
Icon Rita Britton praises Hallam students' creativity.
Jul 01, 2008 ... INTERNATIONALLY-renowned fashionista Rita Britton was in town to open Sheffield Hallam University's annual creative showcase for students at City Campus. The Barnsley designer is founder of the famous store, Pollyanna, which opened over 40 years ago and has been hailed by the ...
999 crash teen in court as 'perfect mum' mourned.
Jul 01, 2008 ... A TEENAGER suspected of making the hoax 999 call that led to the death of a Sheffield mum and left her daughter fighting for life was due in court today. Mum-of-two Nicola Jane Stacey, aged 36, from Valentine Crescent, Shiregreen, died when her car was involved in a collision ...
Train 'locked down' amid suicide bomber fears.
Jul 01, 2008 ... ARMED police surrounded a train in South Yorkshire and a railway station was evacuated after a passenger on board claimed he was a suicide bomber. The drama broke out on the Leeds to Sheffield train just before it arrived in Barnsley at around 4.40pm yesterday. A ...
One in three kids too fat.
Jul 01, 2008 ... BARNSLEY was today named and shamed as an obesity hotspot with one in three children aged 10 to 11 overweight and one in every 20 adults morbidly obese. The high number of overweight children and adults has earned Barnsley a ranking in the shaming top 10 of fat towns. ...
'Convert' in bus bomb scare.
Jul 01, 2008 ... A MAN who claimed to be a Muslim convert caused panic when he left a hoax bomb on a South Yorkshire bus. Leeds Crown Court heard Nicolas Roddis, aged 22, had developed a close interest in "radical and extremist Islamic violence", a court heard. He left the device in ...
Inquest questions over prisoner's care.
Jul 01, 2008 ... A SOUTH Yorkshire prison inmate who died of blood poisoning had not been given a detailed physical examination when he first arrived, an inquest heard. Steven Brown, aged 23, from Moorland View, Aston, Rotherham, died at Doncaster Royal Infirmary after being taken there from the ...
Pedestrian killed near Parkway.
Jul 01, 2008 ... A PEDESTRIAN was killed today after a collision with a car near Sheffield Parkway. The victim, whose identity has not yet been released by police, was struck on the entry slip road to the Parkway, near Handsworth, at around 7.30am today. A car involved in the ...
Office space out to let.
Jul 01, 2008 ... Kilmartin Property Group has let the remaining two floors of office space in the ICON development, on Doncaster's First Point Business Park. Gladedale, the residential property developer that acquired Mexborough-based Ben Bailey last year, has taken 10,164 sq ft on the first ...
Firm revels in the pressure.
Jul 01, 2008 ... Pressure Technologies has almost trebled its profits to [pounds sterling]2.3 million on sales up 60 per cent to 11.7 million. The Sheffield-based group, which includes hi-tech cylinder manufacturer Chesterfield Special Cylinders, says it has an [pounds sterling]18 million order ...
Focus group for companies.
Jul 01, 2008 ... Doncaster Chamber of Commerce has launched a Manufacturing Focus Group, to improve communications between manufacturers, enable them to work together, share best practice, lobby more effectively on behalf of industry and maximise the sector's contribution to the local economy. ...
Cracked blade leads to turbine shutdown.
Jul 01, 2008 ... The Advanced Manufacturing Park's Factory of the Future, on the border of Sheffield and Rotherham, has taken its two wind turbines out of service after a crack was found in one of the blades. The two 30-metre high, 250kW wind turbines are designed to power the factory's ...
Teenager charged with hoax call over fatal 999 crash.
Jul 01, 2008 ... A Rotherham teenager has been charged with making a hoax call to the fire service following an incident in which a woman died and her 10-year-old daughter was left critically ill when their car was in collision with a fire engine in Sheffield. The crash happened in Sheffield on ...
Bosses under fire for flood warning failure.
Jul 01, 2008 ... ENVIRONMENT Agency bosses have come under fire after revealing their Floodline warning service does not cover all the areas of Sheffield deluged last year. One worried resident, who lives next to a watercourse which burst its banks when last June's heavy rain turned it into a ...
Blades back in training PICTURES.
Jul 01, 2008 ... See the pictures from Sheffield United's pre-season training. Click on the green play icon to see the slideshow. When the ...
Owls back in training PICTURES.
Jul 01, 2008 ... See the pictures from Sheffield Wednesday's pre-season training. Click on the green play icon to see the slideshow. When ...
Launchpad of new business.
Jul 01, 2008 ... A PARTY is being held at Castle Market to launch a new trading area for some of Sheffield's newest entrepreneurs. There will be DJs and family entertainment at the event, in the market complex on Saturday July 5. The development is taking place as part of the BiG - ...
Attack turned me into zombie.
Jul 02, 2008 ... A DAD-of-two beaten up in a Sheffield pub in 2006 is finally returning to work full time - two-and-a-half years on. Former mechanic Vaughn Greasby, aged 47, from Longley, suffered memory loss, balance problems, fatigue and confusion, and was left virtually housebound after the ...
Youngsters can stay safe if they've done their homework.
Jul 02, 2008 ... THESE schoolkids are being told how to stay safe at a homework club being run by South Yorkshire firefighters. The club is based at Rotherham Fire Station and is open to children of both primary and secondary school age. It provides a range of education activities for ...
Which is Yorkshire's most dangerous road?
Jul 02, 2008 ... A SECTION of road from Barnsley to Wakefield has been named as one of the most dangerous in Britain. A 10-kilometre stretch of the A61 has been the scene of 164 fatal or serious accidents for every billion kilometres, according to new figures. The A61 has now been ...
Archbishop at Synod.
Jul 02, 2008 ... SENIOR officials from Sheffield will attend the Church of England's national assembly, the General Synod this weekend. Elected representatives from the Diocese of ...
Artist joins NHS 60th birthday celebrations.
Jul 02, 2008 ... ARTIST Ashley Jackson will join hospital governors in Barnsley on Saturday to launch an open day and mark the 60th anniversary of the NHS. The Barnsley Hospital Open Day, from 11am to 4pm, will include behind-the-scenes tours of an operating theatre and A&E, mini health checks, ...
[pounds sterling]10,000 treasure for school pirates.
Jul 02, 2008 ... AHOY there, me hearties!Swashbuckling schoolchildren were saved from scrubbing the decks - and enjoyed a pirate-themed fun day instead. Pupils and teachers at Hallam Primary School got dressed up as smuggling sea-farers to tell pirate stories, sing old sea shanties, and shiver ...
Residents hit out at Tesco in noise row.
Jul 02, 2008 ... RESIDENTS in a Sheffield suburb have condemned supermarket giant Tesco for ruining their quality of life with disruptive delivery lorries. People living near the Tesco Express store on Abbeydale Road South at Totley Rise say the store has blighted their life with huge, noisy ...
Relentless operation to stop abuse.
Jul 02, 2008 ... A HARD hitting poster campaign has been launched by police in Derbyshire to raise awareness about the effects of domestic abuse. Operation Relentless, a two month initiative run by the force, kicks off a week of activity and publicity surrounding the issue - with the aim of ...
Man stabbed on city street.
Jul 02, 2008 ... A MAN was stabbed in his thigh during a disturbance on a Sheffield Street, it has emerged today. The victim was attacked on Hawkshead Road at the junction with Rothay Road, Grimesthorpe, and left with serious injuries. He was rushed to hospital for treatment and ...
Worship by hi-tech link.
Jul 02, 2008 ... LIVE event specialist Tdc used microwaves to cook up a hi-tech solution for guests attending a celebration to mark the retirement of Sheffield's Anglican Bishop and the 40th anniversary of his ordination. More than 1,000 worshippers took part in the service after Whiting ...
Pensioner killed crossing road near supermarket.
Jul 02, 2008 ... A PEDESTRIAN aged 84 has been killed near a Sheffield supermarket following a collision with a car as she pushed a shopping trolley. A 63-year-old Rotherham man has been arrested on suspicion of causing death by careless driving, while under the influence of drugs. He ...
England call for rising rugby star James.
Jul 02, 2008 ... A SHEFFIELD sixth former has been confirmed as a rising star of rugby after being selected to attend an elite training camp next month. James Twomey, aged 17, from Birkdale School in Broomhill has been chosen for the Rugby Football Union's England Under 18 summer selection camp ....
Listed archway is restored.
Jul 02, 2008 ... DEVELOPERS have restored a historic arch over one of Sheffield's original tram depots which was damaged in high winds last year. Colton Developments finished putting the arch back in place last week on the Grade II listed tramsheds on Albert Road, Heeley, as work on a scheme to ...
Nature call for photographers.
Jul 02, 2008 ... BUDDING photographers are being encouraged to get snap happy on the subject of dragonflies and damselflies near the Erewash and Chesterfield canals. British Waterways is launching the photography competition as part of their annual wildlife survey which records biodiversity on ...
Double date at Hardwick Hall.
Jul 02, 2008 ... HISTORIC gardens at north Derbyshire stately home Hardwick Hall are hosting two events in July. The head and assistant gardener will give a guided tour around the 400-year-old grounds, between 6pm and 8pm on Tuesday July 15. Hardwick's restaurant will be open ...
Tibetan VIP visit to Freeman College.
Jul 02, 2008 ... STUDENTS at a new Sheffield college welcomed a VIP from a distant land, who was keen to see their work at close quarters. Yeshy Wangmo, health secretary for the Tibetan Government in Exile, visited Freeman College to see how it teaches and trains young people with special needs ....
How jailed Bronson taunted Sheffield murderer.
Jul 02, 2008 ... CAGED criminal Charles Bronson, who has spent 30 years in solitary confinement, has revealed how he taunted triple Sheffield murderer Arthur Hutchinson. Bronson, a Wakefield jail inmate who revels in being known as Britain's most violent prisoner, whistled a sick song to wind up ...