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Mohammed reunited with his family after six years

Mohammed selling Big Issue in the North outside Crosspool Spar
Mohammed selling Big Issue in the North outside Crosspool Spar

Crosspool’s friendly Big Issue in the North seller Mohammed Iqbal is to be reunited with his family this week after six years away.

He’s making the long-awaited trip back to Pakistan for eight weeks where he’ll see his wife and 11-year-old son for the first time since he arrived in the UK.

He hopes his family will be able to join him in the UK at some point in the future.

Mohammed is a regular in Crosspool, selling Big Issue in the North from his pitch outside Spar. In 2013 he won a special award for being the magazine’s most dedicated vendor.

 

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Fire at former Hallam Towers hotel started deliberately

Hallam Towers hotel this morning
Hallam Towers hotel this morning

Four fire engines put out a fire on the seventh floor of the derelict Hallam Towers hotel at around 6pm last night.

South Yorkshire Fire & Rescue says the fire was started deliberately.

In October it was reported that the building would be knocked down to make way for  apartments and serviced building plots.

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Your ideas wanted for Crosspool Festival

This year’s Crosspool Festival is scheduled to run Friday 24 June-3 July – and the organisers are looking for your ideas to help make it the best ever.

You’ll find suggestion boxes and comment slips in locals shops and churches. Or you can check out this poster and then use the form below to send in your ideas. You have until Tuesday 12 January to submit them.
Crosspool Festival ideas week

Submit your ideas online for Crosspool Festival 2016:

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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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Crosspool Calendars sell out

2016 Crosspool Calendar
The 2016 Crosspool Calendar has now sold out

Thanks to the high standard of the photographs submitted by local residents, all 300 of the 2016 Crosspool Calendars have now been snapped up.

Crosspool Forum would like to give a big thank you to all the photographers and advertisers who entered into the community spirit to make the Crosspool calendar a must-have Christmas acquisition.

Money raised will go towards Crosspool Forum funds for local events and improvements to our neighbourhood.

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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.

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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: