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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]

Dear Editor, Today I have been refused a job interview around an hour away from my home on the grounds that public transport is not reliable enough to get me to work. Politicians from all [Read more]

Dear Messenger, Here’s a story that tells of community spirit and kindness and hope, which I want to share. We were burgled on bonfire night whilst out of the house. This was not the first [Read more]

I was saddened to see the state of the former Burngreave Library building (now the Rock Christian Centre offices) on Spital Hill recently. Burngreave has high numbers of adults and children who speak English as [Read more]

The council are scratching their heads asking why the ofo bike scheme hasn’t worked in Sheffield and I would have thought it was obvious. People desperately need bikes and can’t afford them. Everyone in my [Read more]

Dear Messenger, I went to our son’s sports day recently, at Whiteways school. I know it was only Year 4’s sports day but that’s a lot of children. I was horrified and felt so badly [Read more]

Dear Messenger, I would like to thank John Grayson and Violet Dickinson for their article “Housing plight of the vulnerable” (Messenger 134) which brings out the actual situation and environment of B&B’s. We ourselves are [Read more]

Hi, I am contacting you out of complete frustration, I have a child who has ASD (Autism Spectrum Disorder) and was supposed to have received his school place in April, like all other 5 year [Read more]

Dear Sir/Madam, Burngreave Cemetery is unique in having a designated cemetery warden who is responsible for locking and unlocking the gates, and reporting issues back to Bereavement Services. This post was created 25 years ago, [Read more]

Dear Messenger, As a dog walker who has often let his dog off her lead in the cemetery, I read Amirah Hussain’s letter with concern. I try to be a responsible dog walker. I clean [Read more]

Dear Messenger, I read with interest the letter from Amirah Hussain regarding dog walking in the cemetery. I have lived in Burngreave for over 30 years, have always had a dog and have always walked [Read more]

Dear Messenger I totally support Amirah Hussain’s concerns regarding dogs in Burngreave cemetery (letters issue 133). My husband and I take a regular walk around this lovely place only to have it ruined by dogs [Read more]

Hello to Burngreave A year ago I was living and working on the Isle of Iona, a little peaceful jewel in the Atlantic, far from the hustle and bustle of inner city life. It was [Read more]

Dear Messenger, 20 years ago, my three children went to Firs Hill School where I was a parent helper. I went on to work at Pye Bank School and Byron Wood. We used to take [Read more]