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Dear Messenger, I am sorry to hear of the gradual running down of the bus service provision in the area however I do feel that our local bus service should have been included. I have [Read more]

Dear Messenger, I should not have to wait three quarters of an hour for an 83 bus. Three buses were missing; it is simply not good enough to have to wait ages for a bus. [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, I agree with Mr Vaughan in the last issue of The Messenger that it would be good to have a fully-funded, professionally staffed library in Burngreave. However, I take issue with his implication [Read more]

Some readers will know that Rock Christian Centre saved the little chapel on Handley Street from closure back in 2016 and have transformed it into ‘The Lighthouse.’ This is a drop in centre for the [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 and was supposed to have received his school place in April, like all other 5 year olds starting school [Read more]

Dear Richard. After reading the Michael Glover articles, I have to say that, as an adult, I remember life on Coningsby Road quite differently. It was a friendly and happy place to live where the [Read more]

Dear Burngreave Messenger, Thank you for your excellent publication, it is a truly relevant tool for news and for highlighting all the efforts made by local groups and individuals. May I specifically mention the lovely [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]