Five uplifting Sheffield stories to boost your mood this weekend

A year living in each other’s pockets has been quite enough for most of us, but one well-known Sheffield couple are due to celebrate 60 years of wedded bliss.

Margaret and Daniel Firth, aged 80 and 83 respectively, owned a paper shop, and transport cafe Mag’s Cafe on Upwell Street in Grimesthorpe, and where they worked together until they sold up.

Read our piece here to see what they say is the secret to a happy union all these years on.

We’d all love a proper night out these days, and you can take a happy trip down memory lane with our piece on the 40th birthday of legendary Sheffield club, The Leadmill.

Read about the special record released to mark the big milestone here.

The Star has some fantastic columnists writing about all areas of life each week. Well-loved writer Monica Dyson is covering the art of the little white lie in her column for our Retro supplement, which you can read here.

And Shaun Doane, who Sheffielders will know from band the Everly Pregnant Brothers, has written his second column for us this Saturday.

In it he looks at how keeping busy can stop you from feeling down in lockdown, whether it be through making music or baking yet more loaves of banana bread. Check out his column here.

Finally, one of the few good things to come out of this Covid-19 pandemic has been communities pulling together when needed.

If you would like to help a Sheffield organisation put a smile on people’s faces, put pen to paper and become a pen pal! Here are the details of how to get involved with the scheme as it goes national.

Share your happy news, photographs, letters and memories with The Star. In these dark times we are trying to showcase as much positive news as possible, as well as keeping you informed.

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