British Summer Time begins at 1am on March 30, and with the start of spring, remember that your clocks need to "spring forward" one hour. The lighter nights and warmer weather give you the perfect excuse to get out and enjoy Doncaster’s parks and woodlands.
Police Appeal For Witnesses To An Assault Police investigating an assault that left a 38-year-old man with a fractured skull are appealing for witnesses to come forward. The incident happened at around 02.20am on Saturday 14th June 2008, on Holly Street, that runs down the side of the Sheffield City Hall.
The man and a female friend were stood together on Holly Street, when a group of men approached them, one of the men then punched the 38 year old in the face. The force of the blow knocked him backwards causing him to strike his head against a brick wall and fall to the ground unconscious.
A Lancaster bomber from the Battle of Britain Memorial Flight turned heads and had cameras clicking by the hundred as it flew three times over Manchester Town Hall today.
The flypast was a fitting tribute to veterans of the armed forces and support services at the end of their parade through the city from a special Veterans Day service at Manchester Cathedral to the Town Hall in Albert Square.
Taking the salute were the Lord Mayor of Manchester, Councillor Mavis Smitheman, the Lord-Lieutenant for Greater Manchester, Warren Smith, and Baroness Taylor of Bolton, Minister for Defence Equipment & Support.
Officers from Barnsley Council’s Regulatory Services and the police are warning the borough’s pensioners to ignore a bogus letter trying to con them out of money.
The letter has been sent to a number of households in Barnsley and claims to be from Zhao Jin of the China Trust Commercial Bank.
It says that the recipient is entitled to some inheritance of around £4 million and asks them to correspond strictly via a telephone number. The person will then be asked for their bank details, leaving them open to fraud.
Illegal loan sharks cruising Rotherherham for easy targets during the current credit crunch are being warned that a crackdown is being launched against their operations.
At 11 am on Friday, June 27, Wentworth MP John Healey and the Mayor of Rotherham, Coun. Ann Russell, will officially launch the new initiative against illegal money lenders across the Borough at Rotherham Town Hall.
It is hoped that the crackdown, which is being led by Trading Standards Officers from the Council in partnership with a specialist team from Birmingham City Council, will make significant improvements in the lives of local families and communities by offering alternative arrangements to those who are most vulnerable.
Pupils and parents were given a crash course on hidden nasties found in some popular lunchbox foods by nutritionist Paula Godfrey, who visited St Aidan’s School, Northern Moor to share her expertise.
Paula, who works as a nutritionist for Manchester Fayre, Manchester City Council's school meals provider, was invited to visit the school by catering managers Janet McKinney and Maureen Jackson.
They worked with the school to arrange this special coffee morning for parents and their children as part of Manchester Fayre's wider commitment to educating people about the importance of a good diet and to help clear-up some of the confusion about what really goes into our food.
Abbey School is breaking new ground today as it becomes the first special school in Rotherham to achieve specialist status.
Abbey has lived up to its motto of "Yes, We Can" by becoming a specialist school for PE and Sport with ICT as a supporting subject after the announcement today by the Department for Children, Schools and Families (DCSF).
The award is another success for Abbey which already has Healthy Schools status, Active Mark and Sports Mark awards, a Leading Aspect Award and the Football Association's Charter Mark.
Police in Sheffield are appealing for help from the public following an attempt robbery in the Manor area of the city.
The incident occurred on Saturday 21st June 2008 at around 12.50pm on Prince Of Wales Road. A local man in his 20's was walking towards Fairleigh Shops when he was stopped by two men, one of the men produced a knife, threatened him and demanded his possessions.
The man explained that he did not have anything to hand over, at this point he was punched in the face and body, the complainant managed to push the offenders away and ran off.
News has been released of the Doncaster Police Drugs Unit and road crime unit who stopped a car on Sandford Road in Balby, at 3.30pm on Thursday 29 May. In the car were a man and woman and a search of the boot revealed heroin with a street value of £120,000 and £8,000 in cash.
The man and woman aged in their 30s were arrested. The couple's house was later searched in Balby and a further £28,000 in cash was recovered along with small amounts of cocaine and cannabis.
The South Yorkshire Local Policing Plan 2008-11 outlines how we are going to police South Yorkshire. This plan takes into account the national priorities set by the Government and the local issues that you have told us about.
Our key priorities are:
To improve confidence and satisfaction with the police service, even though crime has continued to fall significantly the fear of crime is still high To enhance community safety, the focus here is on anti-social behaviour, low-level disorder as well as other environmental and ‘quality of life' issues such as vandalism where the police and partners have a responsibility to work with communities to address them To tackle crime at all levels, this covers more serious crime than anti-social behaviour and criminal damage
Barnsley will receive a torch of remembrance which commemorates the seven million people who died during an enforced famine in Ukraine in the early 1930s on Monday, 30 June, at 1pm in the Town Hall.
The torch of remembrance is travelling through 33 countries throughout the world. It is part of the commemorative activities which are being carried out this year to mark the 75th anniversary of what has become known as the Holodomor - the barbaric and systematic starvation of more than seven million Ukrainians over a period of 18 months.
The torch will be received by the Mayor of Barnsley, Cllr Ken Sanderson and will be presented by Mr Vladislav Rohovij, Second Secretary in the Ukrainian Embassy and Mr Askold Lozynskyj, President of the World Congress of Ukrainians.
Police are appealing for witnesses to a serious road traffic incident, in particular those passengers on the First Mainline number 14 bus when a male passenger received serious arm injuries.
At around 11.20pm on Thursday 26 June a First Main Line Bus stopped on Maltravers Road near to the junction with Maltravers Crescent, Sheffield for passengers to alight.
A 49 year old local man, who had been a passenger, got off the bus then apparently fell back into the vehicle as it pulled away from the bus stop. The man fell to the ground resulting in him receiving serious arm injuries.
Mayor and Mayoress of Barnsley, Cllr Ken Sanderson and Mrs Beryl Sanderson will officially open the Dearne Carnival on Saturday, 5 July at 11am. The carnival will be held at the Miners Welfare Hall, in front of the Dearne Playhouse, Washington Road, Goldthorpe, from 10.30am to 4pm. There will be plenty of entertainment on the day including a wild west show, The Hill Primary School band, a football tournament, children’s attractions and a balloon race.
The event has been organised by the Dearne Carnival Committee and the Dearne Community Partnership.
To mark 2008 as the National Year of Reading and at a time when 80 percent of people say that they have an interest in their family history, Barnsley Libraries and Archives are delighted to announce that from this month customers can access the Ancestry website free of charge from public terminals in the Central Library, Shambles Street, and in branch libraries across the borough.
As an illustration that reading isn’t always limited to the printed word, ancestry is the most widely used family history website in the world with some 15 million users and a staggering seven billion searchable names.
Fancy taking a journey back in time to Victorian Rotherham for an insight into the life of an ordinary hard working family? Then look no further than Rotherham Archives & Local Studies. Their latest exhibit to be featured in the ever popular ‘Document of the Month’ is a leather-bound cash book full of information about the very ordinary but historically fascinating life of Andrew Merryweather and his family.
On 27th November 1876 and starting with cash in hand of 21 pounds, 9 shillings and 6 pence Andrew’s first payment is £5 to ‘Pollie for Housekeeping’ shortly followed by furniture, carpet making, a family bible and ‘the Bride’s Cake’.
All this suggests a wedding, and setting up house and in the Rotherham Advertiser on November 18th we find Andrew was married to Mary Styring at Whiston Parish Church. Pollie we find is Andrew’s pet name for his wife as her mother is also called Mary.
Work gets started in earnest this week on another extra care scheme to benefit older people in Sheffield. South Yorkshire Housing Association in partnership with Sheffield City Council are building 60 new flats at Jordanthorpe. These properties will be available through a mix of affordable rent, shared ownership and sale.
Local resident Ken Lyness has been involved with the consultation group as Secretary of Jordanthorpe Tenants’ and Residents’ Association. He said: "We’ve been meeting regularly with the architects and developers and as lay people, it’s interesting what ideas we’ve come up with. The idea is to make this the best extra care scheme that’s ever been built."
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