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Reporter for @BBCSheffield championing #southyorkshire and #northderbyshire. Can sound a bit Brummie after a 🍺. Simon.thake@bbc.co.uk
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'My dad never forgot that one teacher's moment of kindness'

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Kate Davis (right) described her father, John Richardson (left), as a warm and funny man As a young boy John Richardson loved nothing more than looking for rabbits in the fields behind his school in Thurnscoe. But, aged four, it was only possible with the help of a teacher guiding him through the long grass. Now, more than 80 years later, he has repaid that simple act of kindness by leaving £8,000 to the school in his will, following his death aged 86.
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Riders fear for future of biking 'community'

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The owners of Hooton Lodge Trials Bike Park say they will have to close if the council refuses their planning application A group of trial bike riders in Rotherham have said they fear their "special community" will be lost if they cannot secure planning permission. A proposal to change farmland at Hooton Roberts for use as a recreational trial bikes area was originally declined in 2024 over concerns for the impact on local woodland and potential noise pollution.
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Rotherham riders fear for future of biking 'community'

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Now Campaigners claim an energy firm's plans to drill through an ancient chalk aquifer in its search for gas risks polluting clean water supplies relied on by large parts of Yorkshire. Egdon, a UK-based oil and gas firm, said the aquifer, known as the Flamborough Chalk, would be screened off during the …
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