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The Star telling it like it is for 125 years... but is there a threat to our freedom?

Fri, 17 May 2013 06:11:53 GMT

Champion of local causes, campaigner for the weak and teller of tales about 12ft sunflowers, 10lb babies and the council’s latest money-saving scheme.

Sez Les: Root is the next name to follow

Thu, 16 May 2013 13:17:45 GMT

Local success at international level should never be taken for granted. Nor should simply being there and representing your country.

Fair Point: Thank heavens Saint Delia is shutting the oven door

Thu, 16 May 2013 07:14:22 GMT

I have more cookery books than you could, rather foolishly, shake a batter-coated spatula at.

Fair Point: No nightie for classy Keira

Thu, 16 May 2013 07:10:49 GMT

Young English actress brides – so classy, so down to earth. So very un-WAGy in every way.

Fair Point: Why are we surprised that Jolie put life and family over her looks?

Thu, 16 May 2013 07:08:02 GMT

It was the only logical decision.

Colin Drury: EU cannot be serious on in-or-out question

Thu, 16 May 2013 06:48:23 GMT

Let me be honest here from the outset: I don’t know much about that there Europe. Which is probably about the same amount as you. Or considerably more if your name is Nigel Farage. I don’t know much at all.

Fancy a mooch round Markses?

Tue, 14 May 2013 06:18:44 GMT

Olivia, hi there. Hello. Apologies for contacting you in such a public way.

Pre-school is ‘outstanding’

Thu, 09 May 2013 21:01:45 GMT

An elated team of teachers is celebrating after their Sheffield pre-school was rated ‘outstanding.’

Fair Point: Don’t put your daughter on the skinny path to fame and anorexia

Thu, 09 May 2013 07:40:37 GMT

In our day it was Cindy Crawford and Naomi Campbell.

Fair Point: Message of hope from Ohio rescue

Thu, 09 May 2013 07:37:53 GMT

After 10 years in captivity, three young women escape to freedom in Ohio.

Fair Point: Never mind the ads, can’t we ban the loan sharks?

Thu, 09 May 2013 07:36:11 GMT

Why would any company pick Kerry Katastrophe to promote their products?

Colin Drury: It’s human instinct to like what looks good

Thu, 09 May 2013 06:50:56 GMT

When it comes to women - or chicks, as I like to call them - I definitely think it’s right to judge, first and foremost, on looks. That’s reasonable, isn’t it?

Why specs appeal of Bill Nighy glasses is totally lost on me

Tue, 07 May 2013 06:21:13 GMT

Have you seen my reading glasses – the ones you don’t like?

Not-so-common snipe and curlews spotted

Fri, 03 May 2013 16:49:06 GMT

A little while back, during the bad weather, Jeff Hardy of Charnock, Sheffield sent in a photograph and some comments.

Sez Les: Blades and the Play-offs

Thu, 02 May 2013 14:25:55 GMT

Now for the Play-offs and so out comes a saying especially reserved for them and one never heard, I don’t think, during the previous nine months of football.

Fair Point: New boob job risk revealed - but will women listen?

Thu, 02 May 2013 07:46:45 GMT

It’s just over a year since we discovered 47,000 UK women had been having potentially leaky bags of unauthorised, mattress-grade silicon shoved into their breasts in the name of beauty.

Fair Point: Tough rules on adoption are so vital

Thu, 02 May 2013 07:38:10 GMT

You hear all the time about people desperate to adopt being denied a child.

Fair Point: Why do women think it’s better to look strange rather than old?

Thu, 02 May 2013 07:36:44 GMT

Who IS this woman? She looks vaguely familiar. Could it be some cable TV newsreader, or an actress from a fading American TV series, perhaps?

Colin Drury: Nothing to see here, says Visit England

Thu, 02 May 2013 06:52:16 GMT

Me, personally, I’m all for staycations. Holidaying abroad is over-rated.

Question time: Keith Warren chats with Dom Howson

Wed, 01 May 2013 10:07:54 GMT

Keith Warren is the Academy Director for the Star Snooker Academy based at Firshill Crescent, Sheffield.