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PROBE AFTER OAP TRAGEDY
by PHIL TURNER

AN ELDERLY disabled council tenant died after living like a "squatter" while waiting for his home to be modernised, according to his family.
Pensioner Peter Fisher (69), spent the last weeks of his life in squalor with his belongings piled up in a shed, no flushing
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GOLDEN BOY GOODISON By PAUL RICKETT and DAVID BEDDOWS THE call went out today for Rotherham's own golden Olympian Paul Goodison to be honoured after his sailing heroics on the eastern seas. Thirty-year-old former Brinsworth Co
KAISER CHIEFS PLAY ANTI-RACISM GIG by PHIL TURNER KAISER Chiefs will headline the Love Music Hate Racism indoor carnival in Rotherham next month, it was announced this week. Rotherham and "The Reverend" Jon McClure
QUAD BIKE HERO by CHERRY WILSON A GRATEFUL husband has praised a quad biker who rescued his wife from a rocky hilltop after she smashed her leg, saying: "It's made me proud to come from Rotherham." Ri
DRUGGED DEATH DRIVER JAILED by PHIL TURNER A DRIVER on heroin who killed a father-of-two in a head-on smash has been jailed for six-and-a-half years. Raja Khan (46), was driving an overloaded Transit under the influen
OUR LITTLE MIRACLE by MICHAEL UPTON WALKING miracle Keeley Hague is another step closer to leading a normal life after her latest milestone operation was hailed as a great success. The plucky youngster—who ha
2010 FUTURE STILL MURKY by MICHAEL UPTON THE BOSS of council housing company 2010 Rotherham attempted to quell the speculation surrounding the arms' length firm's future this week—but left several key questions unanswered.
COUNTDOWN TO TINSLEY BLAST by MICHAEL UPTON SIXTY years of history will be reduced to rubble this weekend as the iconic Tinsley cooling towers go out with a bang. Love them or loathe them, the twin towers on the border
CAMPAIGNERS STEP UP GREEN FIGHT by MICHAEL UPTON CAMPAIGNERS are stepping up their battle to save a treasured patch of green land from the diggers—even though their opponents are rolling out the big guns. Defiant resident
WOMAN WAKES TO KNIFEMAN By STEVE HEWITT A TERRIFIED woman woke-up to find a knifeman at the bottom of her bed in her Rotherham home. The blade-wielding thug threatened her and asked questions about her possessions befo

GOLDEN BOY GOODISON

By PAUL RICKETT and DAVID BEDDOWS

THE call went out today for Rotherham's own golden Olympian Paul Goodison to be honoured after his sailing heroics on the eastern seas.

Thirty-year-old former Brinsworth Co

KAISER CHIEFS PLAY ANTI-RACISM GIG

by PHIL TURNER

KAISER Chiefs will headline the Love Music Hate Racism indoor carnival in Rotherham next month, it was announced this week.
Rotherham and "The Reverend" Jon McClure

QUAD BIKE HERO

by CHERRY WILSON A GRATEFUL husband has praised a quad biker who rescued his wife from a rocky hilltop after she smashed her leg, saying: "It's made me proud to come from Rotherham."
Ri

DRUGGED DEATH DRIVER JAILED

by PHIL TURNER

A DRIVER on heroin who killed a father-of-two in a head-on smash has been jailed for six-and-a-half years.
Raja Khan (46), was driving an overloaded Transit under the influen

OUR LITTLE MIRACLE

by MICHAEL UPTON WALKING miracle Keeley Hague is another step closer to leading a normal life after her latest milestone operation was hailed as a great success.
The plucky youngster—who ha

2010 FUTURE STILL MURKY

by MICHAEL UPTON

THE BOSS of council housing company 2010 Rotherham attempted to quell the speculation surrounding the arms' length firm's future this week—but left several key questions unanswered.

COUNTDOWN TO TINSLEY BLAST

by MICHAEL UPTON

SIXTY years of history will be reduced to rubble this weekend as the iconic Tinsley cooling towers go out with a bang.
Love them or loathe them, the twin towers on the border

CAMPAIGNERS STEP UP GREEN FIGHT

by MICHAEL UPTON

CAMPAIGNERS are stepping up their battle to save a treasured patch of green land from the diggers—even though their opponents are rolling out the big guns.
Defiant resident

WOMAN WAKES TO KNIFEMAN

By STEVE HEWITT

A TERRIFIED woman woke-up to find a knifeman at the bottom of her bed in her Rotherham home.
The blade-wielding thug threatened her and asked questions about her possessions befo