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Eleanor Hughes and Hannah Goulding, Regional Fundraisers from Bluebell Wood

Get your Christmas tree recycled with Bluebell Wood

Apollo has been waiting a year to find a new home

UK's loneliest dog: Big dog with big heart waiting a year for new home

Pam Brooks in action for Worksop Harriers at Round Rotherham.

Round Rotherham success for Worksop Harriers

Harron Homes' Sales Manager Paul Walters unveiling the Laughton Gate noticeboard with MP Alexander Stafford

Rother Valley MP visits new Dinnington housing development

Michelle Hanney pictured riding a horse. (DWP/SWNS)

‘Disabled’ woman on benefits caught after horse riding photo found

Alexander Stafford MP with Julia Hall, the Conservative candidate for Dinnington

Conservatives win by-election in Dinnington, keeping the town all blue

Dave Smith, Dinnington Town Council chair

Town Council chair has a plan, not an empty promise for ‘neglected Dinnington’

Clint the cat

Cat hospitalised after being found covered in urine

Conservatives ‘welcome the challenge’ as by-election scheduled in Dinnington

Student who lost a leg after ‘sports injury’ dies of cancer aged 19

Missy was neglected by her owners to the point she suffered fur loss and bleeding skin

Neglected dog suffered fur loss and bleeding skin

Missy’s previous owners have been banned from keeping animals for five years following sentencing at Sheffield Magistrates’ Court last month

Bev Beevers, trainee assistant site manager at The Brambles

Housebuilder paves for the way for construction site equity

Nicola Hopewell after her latest victory.

Hopewell beats Bulgarian on points before sell-out crowd

The mayor at the school opening.

Mayor opens new £3m school at former Dinnington College

This magnificent, four-bedroom barn conversion, set in idyllic grounds at Lindrick Dale, Worksop, is on the market with estate agents Blundells, of Rotherham, for a guide price of £825,000 to £850,000.

Heaven comes to Worksop -- thanks to this magnificent £825,000 barn conversion

Coun Dominic Beck, Rotherham Council Labour member for Wales and cabinet member for transport and environment.

Councillor stands down as parliamentary candidate following backlash

Coun Dominic Beck with supporters after he was chosen as Labour's prospective parliamentary candidate for Rother Valley.

Councillor chosen to stand for Labour in Rother Valley at next general election

Wales High School.

New 3G Pitch opens in Kiveton Park to boost grassroots sport

Carol Briddon, from Carlton in Lindrick, collapsed and died on a street in Rotherham on Saturday, September 3.

Grieving Worksop dad thanks members of public who tried to save dying daughter

RNN Group North Notts College

New employer academies aim to boost opportunities for Worksop college students

Dean Andrews attends the British Soap Awards 2022. (Pic credit: Jeff Spicer / Getty Images)

First celebrity judge announced for Worksop’s Got Talent as tickets go on sale

More than £10m has been earmarked to repair Rotherham's roads and footpaths over the coming financial year.

More than £10m allocated to improve Rotherham’s highways

Those in band A-D properties will receive an automatic rebate of £150 to help them with rising energy costs from the government, via their local council.

Rotherham Council gives update on £150 energy rebate

Harron Homes' Laughton Gate development in Throapham, near Dinnington.

New collection of almost 300 homes launched in hamlet

Jump Inc have pledged to double every 50p donation to Bluebell Wood up to £1,000.

Blow off some steam at Jump Inc and help support Bluebell Wood

The information leaflet will be delivered to all homes within Alexander Stafford's Rother Valley constituency during the next two weeks

MP and CSE survivor to deliver awareness leaflets to Rother Valley households

The Department of Health and Social Care will close all Covid-19 test centres nationally on March 30

All Rotherham’s Covid test centres to close in pandemic response stand-down

Rotherham Council has announced how residents who do not have a Direct Debit will receive a one-off payment of £150 to help with soaring energy bills

How Rother Valley households without direct debit will get council tax rebate
Rotherham Council has announced how residents who do not have a direct debit will receive a one-off payment of £150 to help with soaring energy bills.

Parents will find out which secondary school their child has a place today.

Worksop pupils discover which secondary school they will be attending

Rotherham is one of 55 areas in line for the funding, which the DofE says are "cold spots of the country where school outcomes are the weakest".

Rother Valley schools in line for Government cash boost

Bluebell Wood will be co-hosting their first Bluebell Wood Business Expo in June to celebrate local products and sesrvices.

Children's hospice to host business expo to showcase local products and services

A strike by Stagecoach bus drivers will be paused in Rotherham and Barnsley will be put on hold while members vote on a new pay offer.

Bus strike on pause in Rother Valley over new pay offer

Bluebell Wood Children's Hospice are running a collection-based Christmas tree recycling service. Pictured: Samantha Wood

Last chance to arrange for your Christmas tree to be collected and recycled

Barnardo's have around 620 stores in the UK, including one in Bridge Street, Worksop.

Children's charity shop reveals weird donation in Worksop

As well as the rent increase, 1,270 residents who are part of community heating schemes also face a rising bill.

Rotherham Council tenants set for rent increase

North Farm, North Farm Close, Harthill, could have 43 new homes built on it if plans are approved.

Plans for 43 homes in Harthill farmland

Liberal Democrats Drew Simon Tarmey has won the seat for Anston and Woodsetts.

These are the full results of Rotherham's by-election

Worksop bus station.

Worksop will not be affected by South Yorkshire bus driver strikes

Rotherham Council leader Chris Read.

Funding cut for survivors of CSE will be a “challenge” for council

Rotherham Council has to make £18m of savings

Social care strain on council’s budget as it has to make £18m of savings

A Rotherham MP says he is “shocked and disgusted” by reports of Child Sexual Exploitation in the borough, and has launched a petition in support of a motion calling for more action to be taken.

MP “shocked and disgusted” by report into Rotherham Child Sexual Exploitation

The Dinnington plans were part of Rotherham Council's bid for £60million from the Government's Levelling Up Fund.

Dinnington misses out on first levelling up fund round

Councillor Jack Austin

Two Rother Valley councillors resign from council

Tesco ‘trialling security barriers on alcohol aisles’ to cut down number of thef...

The Worksop team in Rotherham.

Worksop Harriers out in force at Rotherham
The Worksop Harriers were out in force at the Round Rotherham Run and Relay.

A consultation looks set to be launched into plans to expand special school at the former Dinnington College site.

Consultation into plans to expand special school at former college site

Kathryn Singh, chief executive of Rotherham Doncaster and South Humber NHS Foundation Trust, was speaking at a meeting of Rotherham Council’s health select commission

NHS staffing crisis: “People can work for Amazon for more money than NHS”

Constable Lane Car Park

New Covid-19 test site to open in Dinnington

Changes have been made to some Stagecoach services to and from Worksop from Monday October 4.

Timetable changes made to Worksop bus services

Bluebell Wood will be closing all four of their charity shops for good, including the store in Dinnington.

Bluebell Wood Children's Hospice closes four charity shops

Iconic red phone boxes have been put to many uses, including housing life-saving defibrillators.

Phone boxes to be removed due to low use

It’s okay to Talk, Listen and Care is the message from Rotherham Women TLC Campaign

Suicide prevention campaign urges women to help reduce stigma

L-R: Jason Mercer and Alexandru Murgeanu died on the M1 smart motorway in June 2019.

No hard shoulder for stretch of M1 smart motorway near Worksop

The nursery at North Anston that has been saved from closure.

Parents urged to take up childcare places after nursery saved from closure

Dozens of memorials in Maltby Cemetery have been found to be unsafe.

Dozens of memorials in Rother Valley cemetery fail safety tests