June 2019 Issue 143

Story by Bethany Morris, content writer for the Immigration Advice Service Photos by Christina Tegola and Deborah Blencowe For generations, the Roma community has faced an intense stream of adversity and persecution from all over [Read more]

Story by Mary Carnforth | Photos by Mustafa Ahmed New play equipment has been installed in the Wensley Park playground as part of the renewal of the area. Consultations were held last year with local [Read more]

Jackie Drayton 0114 243 5388 (Home) jackie.drayton@sheffield.gov.uk 0114 273 5380 (Town Hall) Surgery dates Burngreave Library, Sorby House, 42 Spital Hill. • Saturday 13th July 11am – 12.15pm Mark Jones 07500 764 202 (Mobile) mark.jonescllr@sheffield.gov.uk [Read more]

Story and photos by Gillian Andrews The 186th St Catherine’s Brownies joined their older guiding friends from St Catherine’s, Wisewood and Stocksbridge guides to have a lovely wee kend away at the Sheffield Girlguiding outdoor [Read more]

Story and photo by Deborah Blencowe On Tuesday 28th May, a ‘pond dipping’ session took place at Crabtree Ponds, held by Sheffield Wildlife Trust. Pond dipping involves dipping a net into the pond and drawing [Read more]

Story and photos by Penny Philcox. June is a really good month to be looking out for wildlife in the Burngreave area – either in your garden or yard, if you have one, or in [Read more]

Review by Alison Higgins | Photos by Lynette Hodges Inside the Vestry Hall, fifteen of us are sitting on cushions inside a tent made of colourful draped Indian fabric. On the far wall of the [Read more]

Story and photos by Deborah Blencowe St Catherine’s Nursing Home commemorated Victory in Europe, with a fine selection of songs and food. Event co-ordinator, Julie, welcomed me into the day room, which was lovely, busy [Read more]

As we approach summer (despite the torrential rain coming down as we put this issue together) we bring back our popular photography competition. The competition is named after local photographer Richard Hanson, who was a [Read more]

Dear Messenger Sheffield City Council appear to have completed the Rock Street bus stop improvements which serve the new Astrea Academy Sheffield on the old Pye Bank School site. These improvements are accompanied by new [Read more]

Brought to you by quiz master Graham Jones. Each of the ten questions has three clues of varying difficulty to the same part of a local place name. All you have to do is work [Read more]

These are the answers to last issue’s language quiz. If you haven’t had a go at it you, be sure to give it a try before reading these answers. No cheating! Arabic Slovak Punjabi Portuguese [Read more]

In our ongoing series, we continue to show you how to say ‘hello’ and ‘thank you’ in just some of the many languages spoken in Burngreave (pronunciations are in brackets). Farsi (Iran and Afghanistan) Hello  [Read more]