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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.

MEMORY LANE: Bus bridge blunder...- Advertiser, June 2, 1995

By Gareth Dennison on Thu 28 May 2020

THE roof of a 15-foot high doubledecker bus was ripped off when the driver tried to get the vehicle under a 10ft 3ins high railways bridge at Kilnhurst.
MEMORY LANE: ‘Love where you live’ lads of 1970 - Advertiser, May 29, 1970

By Gareth Dennison on Thu 28 May 2020

WHILE most young people were competing for prizes at the Silverwood Sports and Gala, held at the Silverwood Welfare Sports Ground, on Monday, a group of boys were performing a public service.
MEMORY LANE: Surprise win for Bridget to take queen of the gala title - Advertiser, May 29, 1970

By Gareth Dennison on Thu 28 May 2020

NO WONDER these seven children are looking proud at being pictured with the new gala beauty “queen” — it’s their mum.
MEMORY LANE: The rise of the laundry store - Advertiser May 29, 1920

By Gareth Dennison on Thu 28 May 2020

THAT pet aversion of the family man, the domestic washing day, is gradually becoming one of those archaic customs the remembrance alone of which provides gladness inasmuch as it is a thing of the past.
Hopes for online song and dance spectacular rise Higher and Higher

By Michael Upton on Wed 27 May 2020

A PERFORMING arts academy are back in rehearsal ahead of their next online song-and-dance spectacular.
The tornado of 1895 that whipped through Rotherham in five minutes

By Admin on Fri 22 May 2020

LARGE trees were lifted from the ground, roofs ripped, children blown across roads and canal water raised in huge sheets as “wholesale destruction” arrived in minutes.
Dog rescue centre faces crisis time

By Admin on Fri 22 May 2020

Coronavirus is so much more than a health-related problem. It’s altering the way we live our lives and even, as ANDREW MOSLEY discovers, putting the work of animal charities such as Rotherham Dog Rescue at risk
A song fit for NHS heroes

By Michael Upton on Thu 21 May 2020

MUSIC students in Rotherham have put their talents to good use with a song dedicated to NHS heroes.

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