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Q&A: Rising star Isabel Canning on landing her 'dream role' in Paris

Fri 26 Jun 2020

RISING stage star Isabel Canning (23) had just finished performing in Paris in her dream role when Covid-19 struck.

The former Dinnington Comprehensive pupil landed her first professional role shortly after graduating from a prestigious theatre school last year. We caught up with her in lockdown.

“No-one has ever done as much for the town as Rev William Newton”

By Gareth Dennison on Fri 12 Jun 2020

Wealthy benefactor and popular vicar who died after freak ice-skating accident
Meet Yorkie — Gulliver’s T-Rex terror!

By Gareth Dennison on Fri 05 Jun 2020

A TOWERING T-Rex at hotly-anticipated Gulliver’s Valley has a new name thanks to a competition run by the Advertiser.
My First Car ... with Coronation Street and Shameless star Sally Carman

By Tom Sharpe on Fri 05 Jun 2020

After passing my test I drove my dad’s van. I was in a band at the time and we could get all our stuff in the van and I used to drive all my mates around in it.
Rotherham landmarks receive Historic England funding boost

By Gareth Dennison on Tue 02 Jun 2020

ENGAGEMENT with three Rotherham heritage sites will be boosted thanks to a £38,174 Historic England grant.
The final resting place of those who shaped Rotherham — the story of the borough’s oldest cemetery

By Gareth Dennison on Fri 29 May 2020

LOFTY Moorgate Cemetery looks down over Rotherham’s industrial landscape — and is the final resting place of many prominent figures who helped shape the town.
Watch opera from your sofa

By Admin on Fri 29 May 2020

FANCY a night at the opera?
Actor Dean Andrews on Emmerdale, Lockdown and more

By Admin on Fri 29 May 2020

SINCE his big break playing rough-and-ready DS Ray Carling in Life on Mars and follow-up Ashes to Ashes, former club singer Dean Andrews has carved out a TV career on the likes of Last Tango in Halifax and, more recently, playing soap bad boy Will Taylor in Emmerdale.
MEMORY LANE: Wembley away - Advertiser, June 2, 1995

By Gareth Dennison on Thu 28 May 2020

ROTHERHAM United were given the perfect sendoff on their journey down to Wembley yesterday as hundreds of fans turned out to wish them well.

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