Two iconic 1980s acts are heading to Sheffield as part of a tour next year. Kim Wilde is set to play Sheffield City Hall next March, it has been announced, one of a string of dates up and down the country. The singer was famous for songs including Kids in America and Cambodia - as as well as a novelty Christmas record record with Mel Smith, Rocking Around the Christmas Tree. Get a bespoke headline round-up, as well as all of the latest breaking news updates, when you sign up to The Star’s free...
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Go Local, on Green Lane, Yeadon, has applied to extend its premises licence, which currently allows alcohol sales until 11pm Monday-Saturday and 10.30pm on Sundays. The application also seeks permission for late night refreshment until 5am. A report to Leeds City Council’s licensing sub-committee said four letters of objection had been received on the grounds of potential public nuisance. Some 39 template letters were also received, signed by customers supporting the application. Among the...
The All Saints alum, 49, is reportedly launching her own solo career as she seems to have been inspired by her former band member Shaznay Lewis, in a bid to 'push herself'.
The number of houses with solar panels is going through the roof – quite literally – in the UK. I installed them six years ago and haven’t looked back since. The great news is though that while the National Grid has welcomed solar energy, more consumers are looking at getting the panels for their homes. Over 1.3 million homes in the UK have solar panels and while that’s only around four percent of homes, the number of installations is increasing and the UK is now proudly among the top 12...
A collective of Sheffield taxi drivers have launched a new wheelchair-friendly cab service following horror stories of disabled customers waiting hours for rides. A. Hammed, the manager of the new, accessible taxi company, told The Star: “This is important to me. One time I picked this elderly lady up and she had been waiting for three hours in the hospital and she was basically crying. “People were putting them behind. It is not fair that they waited two, three hours for a taxi because they are...
Imagine trying to start your life over on an empty stomach. There’s a training centre in Sheffield that shows a simple kindness to its learners. It’s not everyone, but some of the people who pass through the doors of Momentum Recruitment on Scotland Street will be in a bad way. They could have been out of employment for months, lost for structure or routine, desperately short on funds, and hoping a new qualification will get their lives back on track. It turns out the remedy to all that starts...
Age UK Sheffield is opening up a new flagship charity shop in Banner Cross, Sheffield, this week. From Thursday, May 2, this new site, at 882 Ecclesall Road, adds to the charity’s existing three sites on Abbeydale Road, in Bradway and in Broomhill. Age UK Sheffield is an independent, local charity that works hard to address poverty, social isolation and loneliness experienced by older people in the city. Any retail proceeds help it to deliver its services. It provides benefit entitlement...
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Just as there are Christmas carols and songs of the summer, there’s “Oh, it’s finally nice out today” music. These are the albums you listen to on the days you first notice the trees budding, when you decide to take those ten extra minutes to walk around at lunch, when the jacket you bring with you in the morning is too hot for 1 PM. We all have them, and here, 10 A.V. Club staffers pick ten of ours. Isolation by Kali Uchis Isolation, to me, conjures the feeling of the summer between high...