Bus operator First has confirmed that current discount fares will ‘continue indefinitely’ on the 51 bus running from Lodge Moor to Charnock via town.
The promotional fares, which were launched last June, mean that a single journey from Crosspool to town costs £1.60, compared to the previous price of £1.95. The original announcement indicated that the discount fares might only run until March 2011.
Sheffield City Council’s Returning Office is communicating with the Crosspool electorate to advise of changes to polling stations for the 2011 local elections and referendum.
Some residents will be moving polling station from Stephen Hill church on Benty Lane to Hallam FC’s ground on Sandygate Road.
The communication reads:
Following the general election in 2010 the Returning Officer held a review which recommended increasing the number of poling stations. In addition some established polling stations are unavailable for this May’s elections.
Full details of where you should vote will be printed on your polling card. The deadline for registering to vote is Thursday 14 April.
Tapton secondary school in Crosspool is to break away from the council to become an academy.
Governors feel such a move would be in the school’s best interest, earning it a bonus of more than £740,000 a year and allowing them to balance the books by negotiating better value services.
Teachers at Tapton are against the move, fearing that becoming an academy will not raise educational standards.
Two negative responses were received from parents when 2,000 letters were sent out.
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Hallam suffered a 5-0 defeat to league leaders Farsley AFC last weekend.
The match was goalless at half time, but after the break the Countrymen conceded five, including a brace from Andy Cooper.
Hallam remain rooted to the bottom of the Northern Counties Premier Division, however they do have five games in hand on the team above them, Dinnington Town.
Their next match is against Armthorpe Welfare at Sandygate on Saturday 26 February, kick off 3pm.
This year’s Stephen Hill Youth pantomime is Sleeping Beauty. It runs from Wednesday 23 February to Saturday 26 February. Tickets, at £4 or £3 for under-12s are available from Bob Hodges on 0114 230 3207.
As children left the local schools at home time on Wednesday 19 January, a boy was hit by a bus travelling down Darwin Lane.
After receiving emergency treatment from paramedics for a head injury, the boy was taken to hospital as a matter of caution. We wish him a speedy recovery.
The photos below were taken sometime after the accident at approximately 4.40pm on Wednesday.
Darwin Lane cordoned off following Wednesday's accidentPolice attend the scene of the accident on Darwin Lane
A planning application (10/03887/FUL) has been submitted for the Hallamshire Hotel building on Lydgate Lane. It proposes that the former pub is demolished to make way for four dwelling houses, two apartments and detached garage block.
There has been a succession of short term tenants, all of whom have failed to successfully operate a sustainable and profitable business. Clearly licensed use for this site is no longer the most viable form of operation.
The pub has been closed for several months now, with the windows boarded up.
Residents have until 25 January 2011 to comment on the application.
We’ve been finding out a bit more information about Thursday’s explosion and fire in the flat above the chemist in the Crosspool shopping precinct.
The exact cause of how the fire started just after 9:05am is not known. The tenant suspects that it was probably sparked by an electrical fault.
Nicky, Pharmacist at the Crosspool (Greencross) Chemist said, “We realised there was a problem when we heard two loud bangs from the apartment above. the tenant and myself battled the fire with extinguishers in an attempt to quell the flames, but soon realised that the fire was too fierce.”
Passer-by Patrick Scott, caretaker at Lydgate School, encouraged Nicky and the tenant to leave the premises and call the fire brigade. Thankfully no-one sustained serious injuries.
The first indication for shoppers in the precinct that there was something wrong, was when black smoke was seen billowing from the rear of the apartment at around 9:15am, and the swift arrival of two fire engines.
Fire fighters soon had the fire under control, and the building was declared safe, with the chemist shop reopening later that morning.
Other than smoke damage to the flat and the chemist below sustaining minor water damage, the majority of damage, largely as a result of the tenant’s presence of mind to close interior doors, was confined to the apartment’s lounge and its contents.
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This morning an explosion triggered a fire in the flat above the chemist in Crosspool shops on Sandygate Road.
The fire brigade were called and successfully extinguished the fire. No-one was hurt in the incident, but the chemist was closed this morning while damage to the building was being assessed.
More information to follow.
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