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Local Slimming World group welcomes dieters for the new year

Are some of your new year’s resolutions to lose weight, eat more healthily and keep fit? If so, there are six sessions at the local Slimming World group to choose from at Wesley Hall, Crookes, where the group moved in November:

  • Mondays at 5:30pm and 7:30pm
  • Tuesdays at 9:30am and 7:30pm
  • Wednesdays at 5:30pm and 7:30pm

There is parking, disabled and pushchair access and children are always welcome to attend with their parents too. There’s no need to book, but if you’d like more information, please contact Emma on 0114 233 5205, 07941 062353 or em2656@yahoo.co.uk.

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Recycle your Christmas tree in Crosspool on Sunday 10 January 2016

Christmas tree recycling
Christmas tree recycling in Crosspool on Sunday 10 January 2016

Happy new year to everyone in Crosspool!

You can bring your Christmas tree along to the area outside Direct Travel on Sunday 10 January between 10am and 12 noon for recycling/disposal by Andrew Fisher from Complete Tree Solutions.

Crosspool Forum will be collecting contributions to support the work of the forum in our community and also reimburse Andrew for any expenses. If you would like to give then the suggested donation is £2.

Please don’t leave your tree there after 12pm.

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New Crosspool coffee shop Nest to open this week

Photo: @davethwaites
Photo: @davethwaites

A new coffee shop opens in Crosspool at 8am on Monday morning.

Nest is located in the old Lounge @ Crosspool shop, next door to the Crosspool Pets and near the Sheffield-bound bus stop.

The owners are promising a new format, including fresh coffee and homemade cakes. The premises has been refurbished over the last few weeks.

To begin with, Nest opening times are Monday-Friday 8am-4pm; Saturday 9am-2pm.

Lounge @ Crosspool closed in June.

https://twitter.com/nestCrosspool/status/681126532174209024

https://twitter.com/nestCrosspool/status/681181213541953538

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Crime incidents reported in Tapton Hill area – plus precinct postbox and bus stop vandalised

A series of incidents have recently been reported in the Tapton Hill district of Crosspool:

  • a Mercedes car was been deliberately scratched on Tapton Hill Road
  • a BMW car was broken into on Tapton Bank to steal the airbag
  • prowlers have been spotted in back gardens in the early hours of the morning on Tapton Hill Road

If you see anything suspicious please call 999 for emergencies immediately or 101 for non-emergencies.

The incidents follow reports of van thieves operating in the neighbournood in the last few weeks.

Meanwhile, the postbox and bus stop outside Spar have been vandalised over the last couple of days:

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Tickets on sale for The Little Mermaid, the 2016 Stephen Hill panto

The 48th youth pantomime will take place at The Beacon Stephen Hill church during half term in February 2016.

Performances of The Little Mermaid take place Wednesday 10 to Saturday 13 at 7.30pm each evening and there will be a matinee performance on the Saturday afternoon.

Tickets remain at last years prices: £5 adults and £4 for children of primary school or below. They can be purchased from:

  • Bob Hodges on 0114 230 3207
  • at the church on Monday mornings from 10am
  • from members of the cast
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Your donations wanted for local food bank

Lydgate Junior School is inviting Crosspool residents to donate chocolates and selection boxes to Crookes food bank in the run-up to Christmas.

You can leave contributions at Cocker & Carr estate agent on Sandygate Road from Monday 14 to Thursday 17 December.

A previous food bank collection by parents and friends of the school collected 662kg of food on one week, enough to make 1,576 meals and feed 137 people.