By Adele Forrest on Fri 26 Feb 2021
IT’S been a busy year for funeral directors amid the pandemic as weekly deaths more than doubled, practices overhauled and staff feared for their lives.
ADELE FORREST caught up with the man behind Rotherham’s long-standing independent undertakers to find out why they were the forgotten minority.
By Andrew Mosley on Thu 25 Feb 2021
AS a child I didn’t really like cities. Back then they were dirty, scruffy, dangerous places of mystery.
By Andrew Mosley on Mon 22 Feb 2021
“I’M off to see a man about a dog,” my dad replied, having been asked where he was going one summer Sunday afternoon.
By Andrew Mosley on Fri 19 Feb 2021
I HAD been moved off Ladybird books and on to Wide Range, but the true extent of my reading prowess had yet to be witnessed that day.
By Andrew Mosley on Wed 17 Feb 2021
I RECKON I have been to well over 1,500 gigs and can probably remember about a tenth of them.
By Andrew Mosley on Thu 11 Feb 2021
FROM the days of walking to primary school I hated the snow, but it never prevented me from doing anything.
By Admin on Wed 10 Feb 2021
FOLLOWING my letter in the Advertiser I had a phone call off a good friend in the Labour Party. We had a good discussion about how, not just in Rotherham, council services often go to those who shout loudest rather than where there is need and how more deprived neighbourhoods tend to under-report their problems.
By Admin on Wed 10 Feb 2021
I WAS saddened to read of the passing of Mel Jones (Remembering a popular historian — Rotherham Advertiser, January 21) and my sincere condolences go to his wife Joan and family.
By Admin on Wed 10 Feb 2021
AS your readers and my constituents in Rother Valley know, I have been calling for an increased police presence in our towns and villages, including the reopening of a police station in Dinnington.
By Andrew Mosley on Mon 08 Feb 2021
THE postal order for 35p, my prize for coming third in a colouring competition in a local newspaper, had arrived.
By Andrew Mosley on Mon 01 Feb 2021
THERE was a certain breathlessness among a number of people at school that day — not enough as far as I was concerned, but that’s another issue.
By Andrew Mosley on Fri 29 Jan 2021
IT was an intense start to an often chaotic fixture.
By Admin on Fri 29 Jan 2021
NORMALLY, at this time of year, I would be out and about in Rotherham meeting many individuals and groups.
By Andrew Mosley on Thu 21 Jan 2021
SHE was a strange woman. They were a strange family. Still are, in fact.
By Andrew Mosley on Thu 21 Jan 2021
POLITICAL commentators have failed to pick up on this, but Joe Biden’s American presidential election victory has blocked the inevitable return to our screens of cowboy and western movies.
By Andrew Mosley on Mon 11 Jan 2021
“WHEN the dying’s finally done and the suffering subsides/All the suffering gets done by the ones we leave behind.”