- 'Sharp drop' in degree courses
- Travellers 'hit by rip-off charges'
- Probe into sex-selection abortions
- UK urged to support tar sands ban
- GPs 'over-paid for ghost patients'
- Action urged on hip fracture costs
- Clegg reveals £1bn jobs fund boost
- Tributes paid to funnyman Carson
- Fast-track asylum delays criticised
- Korean firm wins MoD tankers deal
- Mother and daughter given Asbos
- 'Exceptionally' mild weather on way
- Teenager 'repeatedly raped by gang'
- Man quizzed over women's murders
- Cherie Blair makes phone hack claim
- Man accused of murdering vicar
- Peacocks saved, but 3,000 jobs go
- Sex attacker was under surveillance
- RBS set to unveil £400m bonus pot
- 'Anxious' teacher 'set self alight'
Features
Where dreams are made a reality
Drifting off, gazing into space and achieving very little? Daydreaming has had some bad press over the years. But Star reporter Rachael Clegg discovers that, in Sheffield at least, it’s proving key to the city’s innovation
Weird world of Ross Gilbertson
Fish with screws for tails, men who turn into frogs, dragonfly aircraft with seats for people passengers - and all opposite The Rutland Arms in Sheffield. Rachael Clegg is welcomed into the weird world of city artist Ross Gilbertson.
Why sex should not be a taboo subject
SEX is all Lynette Smith talks about. All day, every day, the Doncaster mum talks about that three-letter subject which, to many of us, is still a taboo.
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Help to say what’s on your mind
THE ABILITY to communicate is one of the most important skills available to the human race.
Ladies and gents are real loo-kers
IT was a project which plenty of people said was, well, perhaps a little potty.
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Love that’s stood the test of time
Margaret and Joseph Littlewood, Knutton Road, Parson Cross.
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In good heart for Valentine’s Day
VALENTINE’S Day – a time for romance, expressing love and showing emotion.
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Right place, right time for love
Cupid’s arrows can strike at any moment and from any angle. Three women who found love when they least expected it tell the heart-warming stories of their romance...
Smith of The Star: Kid Galahad will be all right on fight night
HIS brothers are in prison and one of his friends is dead.
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Get a net result in the dating game
Both the ink on the divorce certificate and your tears of regret have long dried.
Dickens: A tale of two centuries
Today marks the 200th anniversary of Charles Dickens’ birth - and in Sheffield the bicentenary is being celebrated by a band of Dickens devotees. The Star reporter Rachael Clegg dropped in on the latest meeting of the Sheffield Dickens Fellowship to find out what makes the great man and his works so special
Chill out and hold your nerve
You stand at the top of the piste, frozen not by sub-zero temperatures, but by your own terror.
Alan’s road to recovery after his brush with death
Two years ago Alan Powell, then editor of The Star, had a massive heart attack. He was unconscious for six days, his family were told to expect the worst and colleagues at The Star prepared an obituary for their boss. Today, aged 66, having retired and recovered from his heart attack, Alan tells his story for the first time, to Health Reporter Ben Spencer
City divided by quality of life
Green and pleasant - or struggling and deprived? Sheffield is a city of two halves, according to a new study on the State of Sheffield 2012, writes political reporter Richard Marsden
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Fighting the war against cancer
MORE people in South Yorkshire are surviving cancer than ever before.
Take Two
THEY say you can’t trust politicians - and certainly it seems Denis MacShane’s Twitter doesn’t always stand up to scrutiny.
Under canvas for a holiday of a lifetime
For more than 90 years the Rotary Club in Sheffield has been running camps for disadvantaged children, and this year – its 93rd – the club has been officially recognised by South Yorkshire’s High Sheriff, The Star’s Rachael Clegg reports.
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.
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.
From low points to High Sheriff
For the first time, five of South Yorkshire’s most significant posts are held by women. Julie Kenny, the next High Sheriff, tells her rags-to-riches story...
‘We abide by the rules every day’
In the light of evidence given to the ongoing Leveson inquiry into press and media ethics, Martin Smith puts the case for the integrity and reliability of The Star and its essential role in the democracy of the city
Frontline support vital to patients
Sheffield’s hospitals employ more than 1,200 domestic workers. In the first in a series featuring the unsung heroes of the NHS, Ben Spencer talks to two domestic workers at the frontline of hospital care.
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Thursday 23 February 2012
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Temperature: 8 C to 13 C
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