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Force for good: Cathedral Archer Project

Have faith, but on which side?

IT surprised me this week to hear that war had broken out in the UK.

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Why won’t men try on clothes?

So we’re standing there, in the queue, fascinated by the fact that the man in front of us is buying three identical jumpers in different sizes.

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Irresistible: So many gorgeous chocolates, all we need is an excuse to celebrate - yet again

It’s all chew much

CAN someone please explain to me this preoccupation that we - as a country - have with eating?

Whitney Houston

Phones deprive us of dignity in death

THE world was still struggling to come to terms with the sudden loss of Whitney Houston when it was suddenly bombarded with images of her tragic death scene.

Sad, if you get my drift

AM I the only one who was disappointed by the alleged ‘heavy snowfall’ we had last Saturday?

Children need to be out and about

I ALWAYS worry whenever there is a school holiday that I won’t have enough planned for the children - paving the way to the eternal cry of “I’m bored” – possibly one of my most loathed expressions ever.

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Love is more than flowers and a card

Love is... what, exactly?

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We’re all winners in modern Britain

IT was raining. So hard, in fact, that builder Gareth Bull couldn’t start work.

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New outlook for castle

I’m Rotherham born and bred.

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Right to innocence

Responsible parent strides across the living room, snatches the TV remote and clicks the scene on the screen from raunchy sex romp - in the middle of a prime-time soap, can you believe - to Holby City.

Emma Hollingworth: Fitting tribute to Women of Steel

I REALISED with horror last week that I was definitely on the old side – in my children’s eyes at least – when I heard the age-old phrase “what was it like in your day Mummy?”

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Get a grip - and get some grit too

EEH, it wasn’t like this in his day.

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Had the Queen a secret dream?

It was 60 years ago yesterday that a 25-year-old mum of two, her children aged just one and three, was thrust into the Top Job.

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People gamble to become wealthy

it used to be estate agents and car salesmen.

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How not to rock baby

A rock-climbing mother who takes her baby with her says she is not risking her child’s safety.

The Radford family

One big happy family

I’m the mother of one, and that’s been hard enough.

Protest: The Occupy Sheffield camp outside the Cathedral.

What good can they really do?

FOR a while now I’ve been trying to figure out what exactly the Occupy Sheffield movement is all about in the hope of fashioning some kind of informed view.

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Working hard but making howlers

You can be the epitome of scatty, middle-aged, menopausal woman in the sanctuary of your own home.

Comet tale a bit of a wash-out

IT’S hard to imagine life without a washing machine – the impact would be huge.

Action Desk: Dream on if you think bed problems are over

“I HAVE been made aware of the awful experience that you recently had with us and offer my sincere apologies.

Miles Turner eviction specialist

Rent arrears warning

PRIVATE tenants on housing benefit have been urged to contact landlords to negotiate, after cuts in housing benefit which could leave them in arrears.

Landlords may end up in court

Landlords face being taken to court by tenants if they fail to look after deposits properly from April.

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Could you live on £25,000 a year?

DOESN’T Christmas catch you out?

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When a sniffle can turn into a worrying fever

Last week our son, who is only four, suddenly took ill. One day he was bright-eyed and bushy-tailed and the next he was wan, feverish and obviously out of sorts generally.

Play time: What should be in the basket of toys?

Boy, is he confused

It was the revelation that had parents reeling this week.

Holidays drive marriage over a cliff

He wants to go on a city break.

Helen’s pole position

One of our greatest explorers, Sir Ranulph Fiennes, has taken his hat off to her.

Watch dog knows time

A Cambridge scientist believes pets are psychic. They can read your mind and they know when you’re on your way home.

I’ll have the placenta...

New mothers are paying up to £170 to eat their afterbirth.

Deputy Lord Mayor, Coun Doris Askham (68) and her Consort, Scott Barton (22) pictured outside Sheffield Town Hall - 1st June 1990

The odd couple...

IT was a pairing which raised the eyebrows of everyone from Princess Diana to the captain of HMS Sheffield, from city bigwigs to the bloke living in Verdon Street, Pitsmoor, whose hobby appeared to be drinking Special Brew.

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Mum’s the word for our memories

Guilt is the cross a working mother just has to grimace and bear.

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