From Sheffield Star  16.6.11 -  A SEVEN-year-old Sheffield girl is fighting for life after she was hit by a car as she crossed a road on her scooter.

The youngster was attempting to cross Shirland Road, Darnall when she stepped out in front of a parked car into the path of a Vauxhall Astra travelling towards Wilfrid Road.

Police said the injured girl was taken to Sheffield Children’s Hospital with life threatening injuries.

She suffered a serious head injury, broken leg and fractured pelvis.

The Astra driver - a 61-year-old Handsworth man - was unharmed.

Witnesses to the collision at 5.10pm on Wednesday or anyone who saw the girl or the car beforehand should call South Yorkshire Police on 0114 2202020 and quote incident 809 of June 15.

Residents of the Tinsley community are invited to speak with representatives from the Darnall and Tinsley Safer Neighbourhood Team in relation to crime and anti-social behaviour.

COMMUNITY groups warned today that planned council cuts will ‘devastate’ an isolated Sheffield suburb.

Frontline services in Tinsley are delivered mainly by the voluntary sector and the main three groups involved have warned of the consequences of funding cuts.

Tinsley Community Forum, Tinsley Advice Service, and Tinsley Green Children’s Centre Nursery say they now face an uncertain future.

They argue families in the area will suffer disproportionately because equivalent services are miles away.

Nursery chairwoman Elaine Bennett said her centre was losing 15 per cent of council funds as well as a loss of funding from other areas.

She said: “The nursery will lose a third of its staff and there will be no full-year childcare for working parents in the area.

“Families will be cut adrift with no access to work or training. The cuts will devastate Tinsley.”

Tinsley Forum, which has been running since 1984, campaigns on local issues and supports local people into employment and training.

Spokesman Graham Whitfield said cuts could threaten the future of the Tinsley One Stop Shop, which the forum had created, converting a disused church into a community building, paying for staff wages and running costs.

“The forum currently has funding to keep the One Stop Shop open and staffed until July this year, after which unless further funding is found the services it offers to the community will cease and the shop will close,” he said.

A Sheffield Council spokesman said: “We are not withdrawing all funding from these groups. In fact the advice service has actually been awarded the same amount of funding as last year.”

Services at Tinsley Children’s Centre would continue but would be restricted to term-time only, he added.

From Sheffield Star Published 15 March 2011

Local business and employer Robson who build conveyor systems stole the show at the Sheffield business Awards by winning not one but three of the top business awards.

Visit http://www.robson.co.uk/ for the story

One man has died and another has been seriously injured in an explosion at a recycling plant in Rotherham.

South Yorkshire Police said the men were injured when a waste incinerator exploded at Sterecycle at 2.40pm on Tuesday.

A 42-year-old Rotherham man was airlifted to Leeds General Hospital but died later, police said.

A 50-year-old Barnsley man was taken to Sheffield's Northern General Hospital with serious, "potentially life-changing", head and body injuries. He is said to be in a stable condition.

TINSLEY, says Stephen Johnson picturesquely, snuggles up between Sheffield and Rotherham. At times neither wanted it, at others both did.

It is 1,400 years since Anglo Saxon settlers established Tings Leah - it meant field of council - on the banks of the Don and Sheffield didn't swallow it up until 1933.

Now, it has its own history in Stephen's The Tinsley Chronicle, "the amazingly startling story of one of Sheffield's oldest suburbs."

For Stephen, known for off-the-wall books like Deadications - Things They Say And Do About You When You're Dead, a miscellany of local epitaphs - this is a pretty straight forward history.

Nevertheless it is one of the first Tinsley has had.

Stephen, who works at Sheffield local studies library, had little material on his shelves so he took the 69 bus and interviewed old residents in Tinsley Library.

As he shows, there is more to Tinsley than the Towers.

Tinsley may have been picturesque once but today it is not. Many of the factories which were part of Britain's powerhouse in the last war have long gone. They weren't razed by Hitler - Tinsley and Carbrook got off lightly in the Blitz with three dead - but by economics.

Hadfield's and Edgar Allen's steelworks have been replaced by Meadowhall - "technically not in Tinsley but right next door and you can't ignore it," says Stephen reasonably - and the pace of change has been fast.

In the Sixties, what with the factories, power station and the motorway, Tinsley was one of the dirtiest places in Sheffield. Those cooling towers and nearby factories belched 29 tons of sulphur into the skies each day.

"Keeping windows and doorsteps clean was a constant battle for housewives. 'Go outside and get some fresh air' would not have been a commonly heard phrase in Tinsley," he says.

Today it's cleaner but the birthplace of England 'keeper Gordon Banks, is still waiting for something to happen.

"It's going to need a kick-start into life," says Stephen.

The Tinsley Chronicle, price 7, will be launched at Tinsley Library on Friday, September 17, by Lord Mayor Alan Law.

From Sheffield Star published 10 September 2010

What is that smell?, I get asked by my neighbour. I have to tell them it is the new Rotherham recycling plant called Sterecycle. Not one Tinsley resident was informed of the controversial recycling plant and even though there were a series of community meetings not once was a representative available to tell the people about the looming debacle.

According the Sterecycle website, the plant is the world's first commercial autoclave waste treatment facility. The firm said autoclaving is a process which involves the steam processing of "black bag waste" to recover recyclable material and organic residue which can used to make a biofuel.

Sterecycle CEO Tom Shields said : "The Rotherham community has been very supportive of our facility and understand the advantages of using our technology to treat their waste. It's safe, increases recycling performance and reduces the amount of waste going to landfill by up to 70%."

No one in Tinsley Agrees.

A recycling plant in Tinsley is set to double capacity after getting plannig permission from Rotherham. The smell from the premises of Sterecycle is acrid when the wind blows in the direction of the town and can be smelt a mile away.

Local plans to build a school on Ferrars Road could be in jeopardy.

On the 5th of December at the Methodist Church on Ingfield Avenue the routine area panel met to discuss local issues.

The major point of the evening was to discuss concerns over the Waverley development.

Other contributers were Roger White from DAT SNT (Darnall, Attercliffe & Tinsley Safer Neighbourhood Team) who told the panel and residents about the quietest November for a number of years concerning fireworks. He did however state that Burglaries had increased over the last reporting period.

Residents are all entitled to a FREE Pear or Apple tree for their back gardens with regular planting events scheduled around Tinsley.