By Andrew Mosley on Thu 16 Sep 2021
IN 1984 I read George Orwell’s 1984 and the world seemed all the more sinister.
By Andrew Mosley on Mon 13 Sep 2021
MRS Stead had decreed I was the most likely to remember all the words, so I was awarded the main role in a school assembly production.
By Amy Hebdon, Macmillan fundraising manager on Mon 13 Sep 2021
IT has been a difficult 18months and across the board we all feel that we’ve lost valuable time with our loved ones, not visited places we planned to, not shared experiences we had hoped. Many of us have been disconnected from the people, places and activities we enjoy the most.
By Andrew Mosley on Thu 09 Sep 2021
HE came from one of the roughest families in the north. “World in Action actually featured us in a documentary. My mum had 13 kids to 12 different fathers and there’s only me and one other brother who have done good. The rest have just had kids, increased the population and sponged off the state,” he would say.
By Andrew Mosley on Mon 06 Sep 2021
MY first game, October 23 1976, Elland Road, Leeds v Liverpool, the north on edge, living in fear of the Yorkshire Ripper, people wondering if he may be in the ground; he might even be standing next to us. He could be our father, brother, uncle, cousin, son.
By Admin on Mon 23 Aug 2021
TWO community-minded groups have been given vital fund injections through the Rotherham Advertiser’s Cash For The Community scheme.
By Andrew Mosley on Wed 18 Aug 2021
IT was probably the first time in my life I had been given any responsibility aside from helping out a friend on his paper round for a week before quitting as it involved getting out of bed really early.
By Andrew Mosley on Thu 12 Aug 2021
MOST people like to laugh, but these days too many are worried at being seen to find something funny that they shouldn’t.
By Andrew Mosley on Thu 12 Aug 2021
A LARGE part of life is about navigation.
By Andrew Mosley on Mon 09 Aug 2021
I PREFER a funeral to a wedding.
By Andrew Mosley on Mon 09 Aug 2021
BODY shaming was on-trend when I was a kid. It’s fair to say it’s not now.
By Andrew Mosley on Tue 27 Jul 2021
THERE were six of us leaning against a wall, doing nothing else, thinking of something to occupy our time one long school summer holiday.
By Andrew Mosley on Mon 26 Jul 2021
AS a youngster my reading choices could have been better than they were.
By Amy Hebdon, Macmillan fundraising manager on Tue 20 Jul 2021
AS we slowly and safely return to the new normal after the restrictions of the pandemic, many people are looking forward to seeing each other face-to-face and reconnecting over a cuppa.
By Andrew Mosley on Thu 15 Jul 2021
MY brother had spotted them in a drain beneath a grate.
By Andrew Mosley on Thu 24 Jun 2021
HOW do you know when anything is finished? A work of art, a book, a song, an album, a relationship, your love of life. Finished or abandoned? As complete as you can get it, as good as you can get it so you let go before you ruin it and it all goes wrong. Cowardice, bravery or just judgement?