Separation vs Divorce: Why Waiting Could Cost You More in the Long Run
With Sharon Lockwood, family lawyer at Howells Solicitors’ Rotherham branch When a relationship breaks down, many couples choose to separate rather than formally divorce. At first glance, this can seem like the cheaper and easier option. After all, if you’re living apart and have made informal arrangements about finances or...
Call-Out for Lost Stories of Wentworth’s Servants
A new exhibition opening this summer at Wentworth Woodhouse is calling for the stories that history left out – those of the servants and staff who lived and worked behind the scenes of one of Britain’s grandest homes.
Rotherham Hospital Charity celebrates 30 years of impact
For three decades, Rotherham Hospital and Community Charity has been proving that healthcare is about far more than medicine. As it celebrates its 30th anniversary this year, the charity is shining a light on the vital role it plays alongside The Rotherham NHS Foundation Trust, funding the extras the NHS...
Barnsley Hospice launches Dragonfly Appeal
This summer, the tranquil walled gardens at Cannon Hall Museum will become the setting for a striking new installation of steel dragonflies. Organised by Barnsley Hospice, Wings of Memory is part of the charity’s Dragonfly Appeal and will see hundreds of handcrafted steel dragonflies hover throughout the gardens between Friday...
Mexborough Grammar School pupils reunite six decades on
Over sixty years since they last walked its corridors, former pupils of Mexborough Grammar School returned to the College Road building in March to learn that, while the building has changed, the bonds forged there remain as strong as ever. For many of the attendees, now in their 70s, it...
Hooked! Sheffield short film highlights narcotic addiction epidemic
A new film based on the true story of a Sheffield man who died following long-term addiction to prescription painkillers is scheduled to begin filming in the city this March. Hooked, written by Rotherham filmmaker Jade Strain, explores the stigma of narcotic addiction and mental health, as well as systemic...
The importance of Lasting Powers of Attorney
With South Yorkshire law firm, Howells Solicitors Most of us plan for the big moments in life – buying a home, starting a family, retiring – but far fewer people plan for the possibility that we might one day be unable to make our own decisions. Illness, accidents or the...
Homeless veterans’ charity makes a house their home
Veterans facing homelessness in South Yorkshire will benefit from safe and comfortable accommodation thanks to a new halfway house owned by Help 4 Homeless Veterans. In February, the charity was officially given the keys to a five-bedroom house in Masbrough, Rotherham that they had purchased thanks to the public’s support...
Humphrey’s new hospice home
Humphrey, the beloved bear from Craft Corner and the Bear’s Den, has found a new home at Rotherham Hospice. His owners, Dawn and Keith Topliss, who have been his guardians for almost 30 years, decided to donate Humphrey to the Hospice’s Sunbeams children’s bereavement service so that he can bring...
Charity gives cancer patients a confidence boost
For anyone who has lived through cancer treatment, either as a patient or a carer, the journey can be as emotionally exhausting as it is physically demanding. While hospitals focus on chemotherapy schedules, surgeries and scans, there’s another side to recovery that often goes unnoticed: the need to feel human,...
