Month: March 2017

Double trouble at Double Diamond Story by Amy Palmer Double Diamond, in Page Hall, was found to be selling illicit alcohol and tobacco, which had not been correctly labelled or paid the correct taxes. Trading [Read more]

Women`s Chronic Pain Groups • Sorby House, Spital Hill Tuesdays at 12.30-2.30pm,,4th April and 2nd May • St Cuthbert`s Church, Fir Vale Tuesdays 12.30-2.30pm, 11th April £1.50 contribution towards room hire. This is an opportunity [Read more]

  Story by Janet Lawson Staff and students were delighted to receive a visit from the Queen’s Representative Lord Lieutenant Andrew Coombe.  The Lord Lieutenant had shown considerable previous interest inthe challenging circumstances of the [Read more]

Story by Graham Jones Oasis Academy Fir Vale is a primary school for three hundred children, aged 3-11. It opened in September 2014 to meet the high demand for primary places in our area. On [Read more]

  Story and photo by Sam Vines-Stancill “I’ve missed the UK, all these years. It’s the culture I grew up in. It is what I identify myself most with. I guess that’s why I returned.” [Read more]

Story by Ali Alansi, Maryam Ahmed, Adam Dayel, Muneeb Ahmed, Aboubaker Diaby and Orlando Duncan.Year 5 Journalism Club pupils In the first week of term all Owler Brook pupils wrote to all the people they [Read more]

Story by Amy Palmer | Photos by Amy Palmer, Cherifa Zaida and Julie Turnbull On 8th March women from across Burngreave came together at Verdon Recreation Centre to celebrate International Women’s Day. The theme this [Read more]

Story and photo by Osama Magdher Montfort Have you ever wondered about going to a board games club? No? Well, here is your chance. On Wednesdays from 4 to 5.30pm, a board games club is [Read more]

Story by Danae Wellington On Thursday 16th February I was invited to see the screening of ‘I, Daniel Blake’ at Burngreave Library funded by Unite Community and the Labour Party. I had been moved by [Read more]

Story and photos by Amy Palmer | Artwork by Curtis Husband-Galloway Curtis Galloway-Husband from Pitsmoor is no ordinary 22 year old. After years being forced to do extra literacy lessons he still cannot read or [Read more]

Unfortunately, our photo competition theme of ‘topsy-turvy’ didn’t receive any entries so this time we’re going back to a simpler, classical theme of ‘spring’. Please send your high resolution images of spring flowers, sunshine and [Read more]

Story by Carrie Hedderwick | Photo by Sam Vines-Stancill In  February the Messenger put on a much requested social media course. Eight people started the course, but numbers increased as the morning went on. So [Read more]

The Burngreave Messenger isa community newspaper with editorial independence, funded by advertising and the Big Lottery. Registered Charity: 1130836 All content is copyright Burngreave Messenger Ltd or its voluntary contributors. This issue’s team: Shuna Beckett, [Read more]

Story by Amy Palmer | Photos provided by St Catherine’s Congratulations to St Catherine’s Catholic Voluntary Academy in Firs Hill, which has been awardedthe highest grade of‘outstanding’ by Ofsted inspectors in the five key areas: [Read more]