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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.

Entertainments world gets creative in lockdown

By Admin on Thu 21 May 2020

BEING in lockdown hasn’t stopped the creative juices flowing for Rotherham’s musicians, actors and artists.
Amarillo cheer for care home residents

By Michael Upton on Wed 20 May 2020

CARE HOME workers teamed up to recreate Peter Kay’s classic Amarillo video.
In the hot seat with actress Aimee Louise Good

By Michael Upton on Wed 20 May 2020

ACTRESS Aimee Louise Good dreamed a dream of landing a West End role and realised it when she was cast in iconic musical Les Miserables last summer.
MEMORY LANE: Woodland first - Advertiser, May 19, 1995

By Gareth Dennison on Tue 19 May 2020

AN HISTORIC Rotherham woodland — containing an Iron Age fortification — has become the first in South Yorkshire to win a prestigious award.
MEMORY LANE: Puzzle of kiln at Morrison’s - Advertiser, May 19, 1995

By Gareth Dennison on Tue 19 May 2020

PROPOSALS for a housing development near Morrison’s supermarket at Bramley resulted in the discovery of ancient lime kilns thought to have been operating on the site 500 years ago.
MEMORY LANE: Solicitor steps in pigeon row - Advertiser, May 15, 1970

By Gareth Dennison on Tue 19 May 2020

THE fate of Rotherham’s pigeons still hangs in the balance of a legal wrangle in which the town’s Borough Solicitor has now become involved.
MEMORY LANE: Windmill club’s new boss denies discotheque rumour - Advertiser, May 15, 1970

By Gareth Dennison on Tue 19 May 2020

THE new manager of the Windmill Club, former airline pilot Guy Greenwood, this week denied rumours that the club was to be turned into a discotheque, a bingo club or an ante-natal clinic.
MEMORY LANE: Time to remember - Advertiser, May 15, 1920

By Gareth Dennison on Tue 19 May 2020

THESE pictures, reproduced from photographs sent to us by Private T. C. White, of the Labour Corps, who has just returned to his home at Rotherham after being engaged in the gruesome task of exhuming the bodies of our soldiers in France, should be of melancholy interest to Rotherham people.

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