Raise three pointsJanuary 28, 2012 (23:00) [ Indexed from The Star ] I DIDN’T complete the questionnaire sent out by city council leader Julie Dore but would like to raise three points. More...
Park visitors to be charged for parkingJanuary 28, 2012 (23:00) [ Indexed from The Star ] VISITORS to Sheffield’s green spaces will be charged for car-parking, sports teams’ fees will rise, and bowling greens could close under a swathe of cuts to the city’s parks. More...
WIN: Tickets to Circus Of Horrors at Sheffield City HallJanuary 28, 2012 (22:40) [ Indexed from The Star ] ROLL up, roll up... for your chance to win tickets to the Circus Of Horrors at Sheffield City Hall on Monday, February 6.The show that rocked TV talent show Britain’s Got Talent is back with new jaw dropping routines.It features bizarre acts set to rock and roll music - including a daredevil who swallows a lit neon tube, a trapeze artist suspended from her partner’s hair, and the chilling tale of a ventriloquist’s sinister doll and more.Tickets are priced from £12, and may be subject to a booking fee. Buy in person, call 0114 278 9789 or log on to {http://www.sheffieldcityhall.co.uk/events/circus-of-horrors|www.sheffieldcityhall.co.uk|visit sheffieldcityhall.co.uk}.For the chance to win one of five pairs of tickets enter our free draw. Email your name and details, with Circus Of Horrors Competition in the subject bar, to {mailto:staronline@sheffieldnewspapers.co.uk|staronline@sheffieldnewspapers.co.uk|email staronline@sheffieldnewspapers.co.uk} by Thursday, February 2, 2012, at 10am. Usual SNL rules apply.Terms and conditions: These apply to all competitions in SNL titles and online, unless otherwise stated or as amended in association with specific promotions. Usual SNL rules apply - copies or requests, to SNL Promotions Manager, The Star, York Street, Sheffield. The Editor’s decision is final. No cash alternatives available. No correspondence will be entered into. Transport not included, unless specified. The winner(s), who must agree to publicity, will be the first correct entry drawn at random after deadline, or as indicated. A parent or guardian must enter or endorse entries on behalf of children aged under 18. A responsible adult must accompany any child winner or guest. SNL is not liable for failure to attend or for cancellations of any event. No photocopied entry forms or tokens allowed. Where applicable, unless otherwise stated, one web entry form, token or other web entry per person only. Individual entry forms and tokens by detailed request, with a stamped self addressed envelope, to the competition address. No purchase necessary. Failure to agree to terms and conditions makes winning entries void. Winners will usually be notified within seven working days after deadline, or as specified. Data Protection: By Supplying your contact details, including email address and mobile number, you agree that Johnston Press plc, publishers of The Star and Sheffield Telegraph, plus it’s business partners may contact you about new promotions, products and service by mail, email, phone, fax, SMS/MMS. Add the word EXIT at the end of your communication if you do not wish to recieve these. For quality and training purposes we may monitor communications. SMS service is provided by Velti DR Ltd SE1 8ND - 020 7633 5000. By submitting any contribution, you expressly grant Johnston Press Group plc a royalty-free licence to use such content in accordance with our terms and conditions at {http://ww1.investorrelations.co.uk/jpplc/termsofaccess|http://ww1.investorrelations.co.uk/jpplc/termsofaccess|visit http://ww1.investorrelations.co.uk/jpplc/termsofaccess} If you do not consent to this, you should not submit your contribution. More...
WIN: Tickets to romp The Way Of The World at Sheffields CrucibleJanuary 28, 2012 (22:40) [ Indexed from The Star ] RESTORATION comedy The Way Of The World is in the frame for a revival at Sheffield’s Crucible next week and we have two pairs of tickets to be won.William Congreve’s rarely performed masterpiece features eccentric characters whose lives and loves all interlink in this colourful and brilliantly funny romp, full of deceit, slander and seduction set in 1700.The play - from Thursday, February 2, to Saturday, February 25 - stars Ben Lloyd-Hughes, who was Rob McAloon in BBC 1’s Young James Herriot, Deborah Findlay, who played Miss Tomkinson in BBC’s Cranford, Mike Leigh’s protégée Sinéad Matthews of Vera Drake and Happy-Go-Lucky fame, plus Samuel Barnett, one of the original History Boys.Tickets, which may be subject to a booking fee, are priced £10 to £21, with discounts available. Buy in person from Sheffield Theatres’ Box Office, call 0114 249 6000 or visit {http://www.sheffieldtheatres.co.uk/event/the-way-of-the-world-12|sheffieldtheatres.co.uk|visit sheffieldtheatres.co.uk}* For a chance to win one of two pairs of tickets enter our free draw. Email your name and details, with Way of the World Competition in the subject bar, to {mailto:staronline@sheffieldnewspapers.co.uk|staronline@sheffieldnewspapers.co.uk|email staronline@sheffieldnewspapers.co.uk} by Monday, January 30, 2012, 10am. Usual SNL rules apply.Terms and conditions: These apply to all competitions in SNL titles and online, unless otherwise stated or as amended in association with specific promotions. Usual SNL rules apply - copies or requests, to SNL Promotions Manager, The Star, York Street, Sheffield. The Editor’s decision is final. No cash alternatives available. No correspondence will be entered into. Transport not included, unless specified. The winner(s), who must agree to publicity, will be the first correct entry drawn at random after deadline, or as indicated. A parent or guardian must enter or endorse entries on behalf of children aged under 18. A responsible adult must accompany any child winner or guest. SNL is not liable for failure to attend or for cancellations of any event. No photocopied entry forms or tokens allowed. Where applicable, unless otherwise stated, one web entry form, token or other web entry per person only. Individual entry forms and tokens by detailed request, with a stamped self addressed envelope, to the competition address. No purchase necessary. Failure to agree to terms and conditions makes winning entries void. Winners will usually be notified within seven working days after deadline, or as specified. Data Protection: By Supplying your contact details, including email address and mobile number, you agree that Johnston Press plc, publishers of The Star and Sheffield Telegraph, plus it’s business partners may contact you about new promotions, products and service by mail, email, phone, fax, SMS/MMS. Add the word EXIT at the end of your communication if you do not wish to recieve these. For quality and training purposes we may monitor communications. SMS service is provided by Velti DR Ltd SE1 8ND - 020 7633 5000. By submitting any contribution, you expressly grant Johnston Press Group plc a royalty-free licence to use such content in accordance with our terms and conditions at {http://ww1.investorrelations.co.uk/jpplc/termsofaccess|http://ww1.investorrelations.co.uk/jpplc/termsofaccess|visit http://ww1.investorrelations.co.uk/jpplc/termsofaccess} If you do not consent to this, you should not submit your contribution. More...
Comet tale a bit of a wash-outJanuary 28, 2012 (22:40) [ Indexed from The Star ] IT’S hard to imagine life without a washing machine – the impact would be huge.It would mean trips to the launderette or a neighbour, messing around transporting clothes back and forth.And if something urgent was forgotten there’d be no bunging it in the machine for a quick wash.Sadly, Christine Carrack, of Hartington Road, Dronfield, has been in this position for nearly a month – despite having a warranty from Comet.She said: “An engineer came three days after it broke but couldn’t do anything because it needed some parts.“He told me not to use it or I would make the problem worse.“I made arrangements for him to return – a week later.“I had a telephone call at lunchtime the day before, informing me that one of the parts had come to them damaged and they would have to reorder it.“Both my husband and myself kept telephoning to see if the part had come in and eventually an appointment was made for the engineer on January 24.“At half past four today I had a call cancelling this appointment – the engineer is now off sick. “I was told it would be next week at the earliest.”Comet didn’t comment. More...
Action Desk: Dream on if you think bed problems are overJanuary 28, 2012 (22:40) [ Indexed from The Star ] “I HAVE been made aware of the awful experience that you recently had with us and offer my sincere apologies.“I really am embarrassed by the catalogue of failures that you reported in your email to the Sheffield Star and can understand fully why you cancelled your order.”So begins an email to Amanda Henwood from the head of customer services at bed company Dreams.She ordered a bed, got rid of her old one, her husband waited in two days – and it never arrived.The couple, of Town Moor Avenue, Doncaster, were sleeping on an airbed over Christmas and New Year – although it popped on New Year’s Eve leaving them on floorboards, she says.That’s the story in a nutshell...the detail includes multiple phone calls, visits to the store at Drakehouse, cancellation but no refund, the finance company chasing her for money she didn’t owe – and eventually an email to Action Desk.Amanda said: “At one point I was looking for hidden cameras because I thought it was a joke!” In an email, Jonathan Street, head of customer services, says a partnership with a new delivery company last year has had a ‘dreadful’ impact on some customers.He adds: “If that wasn’t bad enough, I am very frustrated we failed to respond to your request to cancel in a timely manner. “We let you down dreadfully.”But it doesn’t end there. Adam Day of Hillsborough waited four weeks and took two days off work for a Dreams bed that never showed up. And he was left waiting for a refund after cancelling.And Laura Robinson of North Anston waited eight weeks for a bed and stayed in twice for a no show. She eventually managed to cancel but was still waiting for the money when she contacted The Star.ACTIONAMANDA has received £400 compensation, Adam has received £150 and everyone has received refunds and profuse apologies. More...
Rent arrears warningJanuary 28, 2012 (22:40) [ Indexed from The Star ] PRIVATE tenants on housing benefit have been urged to contact landlords to negotiate, after cuts in housing benefit which could leave them in arrears.Housing benefit caps have now been imposed on all private tenancies in the UK and could lead to payments falling short. Miles Turner, director of eviction specialists, Turner & Howard, is urging tenants to contact their landlords if the benefit caps will result in arrears.He said: “If tenants have not already done so, they need to contact their landlords immediately if they cannot afford the rent due to housing benefit caps. “While the average rent loss will approximately amount to £600 per property on an annual basis in most of the UK, landlords need to note that if they instigate repossession procedures, it could cost them considerably more due to eviction costs and rental voids.”The caps were introduced by the Department for Work and Pensions to reduce the housing benefit bill from £21.6 billion in 2011.Under the changes the £207.69-a-week Local Housing Allowance rate for a five-bed house has been axed. The maximum is now the four-bed allowance of £144.23, a reduction of £63 a week.The weekly rate for a two-bed house has dropped by £11 a week, the three-bed rate is down by £7 a week and the four-bed rate is down by £17 a week.There are 9,000 tenants in the private rented sector in Sheffield who receive housing benefit.A City Council spokeswoman said: “We have been proactively contacting these customers to make them aware of the changes and offer advice and support where we can to help them manage the effect on their income.” More...
Landlords may end up in courtJanuary 28, 2012 (22:40) [ Indexed from The Star ] Landlords face being taken to court by tenants if they fail to look after deposits properly from April.They could end up paying out up to four times the deposit if they haven’t looked after the money properly within strict deadlines, warns one of South Yorkshire’s largest independent legal firms.The money must be placed in an approved scheme within 30 days and tenants should be told, according to James Murray of Atteys Solicitors.He said: “In April, the Localism Act is set to come into effect. “This includes the requirement for all tenants’ deposits to be protected and information about the Tenancy Deposit Scheme (TDS) given to the tenant within 30 days. “The time limit is strict and tenants will be able to make a claim after 31 days if the deposit hasn’t been protected.” More...
Appeal over missing historic Peak District stoneJanuary 28, 2012 (22:40) [ Indexed from The Star ] CONSERVATIONISTS are appealing for help to track down a historic stone which has disappeared from the top of a listed monument at a Peak District beauty spot.Hope Cross, on the ridge north of Hope village, is Grade II listed and believed to date back to 1737.National Trust volunteer Chris Morgan said: “Sadly, the capstone has disappeared. The National Trust know the capstone was in place just before Christmas. It was missing by the first week in January. A search nearby has found no trace.”n Email peakdistrict@nationaltrust.org.uk or call 01433 670368 and leave a message for Myles Brazil. More...
From low points to High SheriffJanuary 28, 2012 (22:40) [ Indexed from The Star ] For the first time, five of South Yorkshire’s most significant posts are held by women. Julie Kenny, the next High Sheriff, tells her rags-to-riches story...Debt collectors are battering at the door again and a little girl burns with shame. Why can’t her mother pay the bills on time? They’ve been threatened with eviction twice; where will they go if the threat becomes a reality?In the midst of such chaos and uncertainty, a little girl vows to herself that her life will be so different when she grows up.She becomes a self-made success story, a woman at the helm of a multi-million pound, global business.Julie Kenny CBE, so respected a member of the British business community she is currently chair of Yorkshire Forward, Recovery Board intervention commissioner for beleaguered Doncaster, a UK commissioner for employment and skills and come April, soon-to-be the High Sheriff of South Yorkshire.Few people to have held the highly respected title will ever have come from a background such as Julie’s.Down to earth, modest as they come, Julie will, I feel, view her appointment as a massive victory for the working class. An indicator that, wherever you have come from, you can become whatever you want to be through sheer hard work and self-belief.She learned that when she was still in ankle socks. Hillsborough-born Julie was one of five children; dad, a stock manager for a car parts company, left when she was five. Mum, suddenly solo, took every part-time job she could; usherette, barmaid, fryer at a fish and chip shop. But life never got any better for her.“She was a very poor manager of finances and home,” says Julie.“She didn’t pay bills; the house we lived in was eventually condemned. I remember the legs of one of the cots falling through the rotten floorboards.”She moved when she was ten because her mother met a new partner and they moved home.The council house had central heating. Julie got a new brother.Life should have got better, but her step-father was an alcoholic. The house was always filled with booze and violent rows.As the oldest girl, she had to take charge of the little ones. She remembers: “I did the washing, cooking, housework and ironing. I virtually brought up my youngest brother, who was born when I was 10.”She was always, she says, the opposite of her mum. “I was mortally ashamed of some of the things that happened. “I had really strong values about what was right and wrong. I loved my mum, but I distanced myself from her for a long time.”Unsurprisingly, the teenage Julie with the weight of the world on her shoulders, snapped under the strain. The years of abuse had begun to haunt her. She got a job as a typist in Sheffield at 16 but had a breakdown a few months later. She got through it and resolved to be a survivor, not a victim.She landed a junior secretarial job in a Cornish law practice. “I sat on the train with £45 in my purse and vowed to change my life,” she says. Soon she landed a better-paid job with North Cornwall District Council. “My boss suggested I train as a lawyer. I was amazed, but decided to go for it. I worked my socks off to hold down a full-time job and study part-time.”Life finally seemed to be dealing her a better hand when she got promotion. She moved to Aylesbury, met a tall, good-looking Sheffielder called Paul Kenny and fell in love.After qualifying as a lawyer, she moved back to South Yorkshire to be with him. He was director of a lighting company, she got a job with a law firm in Sheffield and they married at Rotherham Register Office. There didn’t seem to be any chance of bailiffs ever knocking at Julie’s door again.Just five weeks later, though, Paul was made redundant. But instead of sinking, Julie sold the house she still owned in Aylesbury for £28,500 and the couple launched their own business, intruder alarm specialists Pyronix, with Paul at the helm, designing passive infra-red security systems.As the fledgling company fought for orders, Julie worked full-time at her solicitors’ office, then all evening for Pyronix, doing what she had done as a child; keeping everything on track and the business’s house in order.It paid off and business boomed. The couple set up a factory at Hellaby, near Rotherham and employed over 200 staff. Home became a converted farmhouse in North Anston. They had three children. Everything seemed golden.Then they decided to buy a new kitchen for a tumbledown manor house they had bought to transform into their dream home. The dream soured.“Paul fell in love with the kitchen designer and within four weeks had left me and the kids for her,” she says matter-of-factly, though only because 15 years have diminished the pain.Julie found herself in her mother’s shoes, facing the rejection caused by a husband walking out and the stress of becoming a lone parent.Her children were aged just three, five and eight.“It was devastating. He just went and I had to keep everything going, even though I was heartbroken,” she reflects.Julie did what she’d always done, though; she buried her hurt, took control of the situation and threw herself into work. Two nannies on round-the-clock shifts took charge of the kids and the house so that Julie could work up to 80 hours a week, running the business and travel the globe on vital sales missions.It wasn’t just her own kids she had to protect, either. Her employees had families: “So many people were depending on me; I couldn’t let them down. For the second time in my life, I vowed to pull everything back on track and change my life for the better.” Now 54, she sees her husband’s leaving as “the best thing,” explaining that in their years together, they had become increasingly unhappy. “I accepted it, I think, because I’d suffered as a child and this made me devalue myself.”Despite the reeling blow of the recession in 2009, when $800,000 of orders disappeared in three months, her business has become a world-leading provider of quality security equipment.After the order losses, she sat down with the kids and told them she had no option but to dedicate the next three months to visiting every customer in every corner of the world.In a seven-day period, she spent 50 hours in the air and 20 hours travelling to airports. But the business grew by four per cent in the UK that year and in 2011, turnover hit just under £15 million.She is so highly thought of, she was awarded a CBE in 2002 in recognition of her contribution to the Yorkshire and Humber’s business and industry and is now chairman of the British Security Industry Association, the first time a woman has been appointed, and a UK Commissioner for Employment and Skills.But her biggest achievement is that her children are now well-adjusted, happy adults. Charlotte, now 18, is studying for A levels and determined to become an opera singer. Oliver, her eldest, qualified as a sound recording engineer in the USA and is now a staff trainer at internet provider Plusnet. Laurence, 20, is still deciding his future.Home is still the converted farmhouse in North Anston she bought with husband Paul back in 1987. She’s still single, but dating, and will be taking on the High Sheriff’s role with her kids by her side.“We are extremely close. Being their mother has been my most important role and the only opinion that counts to me is theirs, though I think there were many times when they didn’t think that,” she says.They do know they are loved, without a doubt, though; I tell them every day,” she says. “I had to wait too many years for my mother to tell me that.”Important officeThe office of High Sheriff dates back to Saxon times, when the Shire Reeve was responsible to the king for the maintenance of law and order within the shire.Duties nowadays include attendance at royal visits, support for high court judges working in the county and assisting local charities. More...
Utility bills top consumer caresJanuary 28, 2012 (22:40) [ Indexed from The Star ] Consumers are 10 times more concerned about the rising cost of utility bills than they are about meeting their monthly mortgage or rent payments.According to a survey by comparison site MoneySupermarket, a quarter of UK households would be unable to survive for more than a week if their income dried up suddenly.Three out of five households could relieve their financial worries with an extra £1,000.MoneySupermarket says the worry over the impact everyday bills have on consumers is more than double that of other concerns such as unemployment, paying a mortgage or not having enough money to save. More...
Race on for Olympic profitsJanuary 28, 2012 (22:40) [ Indexed from The Star ] Double Olympic gold winner Kelly Holmes says few people have twigged quite how massive the Olympics are going to be - even in South Yorkshire.Find out how to get in the race to make money from the greatest show on earth in Business Monthly in The Star on Wednesday. More...
Could you live on 25,000 a year?January 28, 2012 (22:40) [ Indexed from The Star ] DOESN’T Christmas catch you out?It’s weeks since I was tucking into my turkey and stuffing and the indigestion is long gone and even the ounces have started to recede, if not the pounds.But the financial legacy is still taking its toll.You see, like many others, we are paid a few days earlier at Christmas. It allows us to make those last minute purchases with a fresh, much-needed injection of cash.However, that means you have to wait a few days longer for the next pay day...and cope with the extra expenditure of Christmas.Oh, the trials of modern day life!But I should think myself lucky. I have a job.There are plenty of people – a growing number by the week if you believe the press – who are in a much worse situation than I am.They are the ones thrown on the scrapheap.Mind you, it is not such an uncomfortable for some...at least for the time being.They are the ones who have learned how to milk the system, how to squeeze every last penny out of the welfare account that it is possible to grasp.And the amounts some have received can be staggering, at least to people like me.Now there is a row in parliament whether this amount should be capped.Damn right it should, I say.But the Bishops in the Lords, supported by other liberal-thinking individuals say otherwise.Hang about. My sympathy for this way of thinking disappears when I discover that they are arguing over the level of the cap.The Government reckons it should be £25,000 a year. Not enough to live on, say their Lordships.What?They should read The Star’s letters page where two items caught my attention this week. Both were from chaps who had struggled but managed to raise families.And both of them spoke in one voice when they said they had achieved this by never earning anything near £25,000 a year.I know there may be a few exceptional circumstances where individuals have such special and demanding needs that they have to receive extra support. And it is only right that in these cases the state – you and me – should foot the bill.But there are too many instances where this is the norm rather than the exception. Where people are too willing to sit back and let the state do its bit for them.You can’t blame them, really.It is not worth their while to get a job. If they did, they would lose money.But isn’t that where we have made the biggest mistake of the welfare state’s life? We have replaced self respect and achievement with dependence and indolence.By filling people’s pockets beyond their wildest dreams – and certainly beyond their earning capacity – we are removing any incentive whatsoever to shake off their dependence on welfare handouts.And with that comes so many other problems. Such as the Devil finding work for idle hands and the torpor that comes with a lifestyle whose only guides and boundaries are set by daytime television choices.Capping benefits could well be the first step to encouraging people to help themselves. More...
Breakthrough for hydrogen fuelJanuary 28, 2012 (22:40) [ Indexed from The Star ] Green energy specialist ITM Power is predicting it will start earning “serious income” in the current year as demand increases for its ground-breaking fuel technology.The firm, based on Sheffield’s Brightside Lane, develops equipment that passes an electric current through water to generate hydrogen, which can then be used to fuel cars, generators and other equipment.Alternative Investment Market quoted ITM recorded a £3.5 million pre-tax loss for the six months to the end of October.However, the firm says the outlook for the coming months is positive with early revenue streams developing and the use of hydrogen as a fuel for many applications accelerating.Recent breakthroughs have included proving that its mobile hydrogen generator can produce green fuel for cars and vans that costs no more than petrol.ITM also secured the first commercial customer for its Hydrogen On Site Trials when blue chip support services company Carillion signed up to test the system.During the same period, ITM joined forces with blue chip multinationals IBM, Toshiba and Cable & Wireless Worldwide, Scottish and Southern Energy and Southern Water, to create the EcoIsland consortium, which is undertaking the largest single sustainable energy project in the UK.EcoIsland will use ‘smart technology’ to create a renewable energy system on the Isle of Wight.After winning a contract to install its HFuel hydrogen generation, storage and dispensing equipment at Nottingham University, ITM has gone on to secure the CE mark for its equipment, allowing the system to be used anywhere in the European Union. The company has also become part of UKH2Mobility, a joint Government and industry initiative to make hydrogen powered travel in the UK a reality.UKH2Mobility brings together the Departments for Business, Innovation and Skills, Transport and Energy and Climate Change with the utilities, gas, infrastructure and global car manufacturing sectors to evaluate hydrogen’s potential as a fuel for ultra low carbon vehicles.If the results are positive the plan is to promote hydrogen as a fuel to consumers in two to three years time.Meanwhile, ITM is benefiting from a series of grant-funded projects, including the EU SafeFlame project to find alternatives to highly flammable bottled gases like acetylene and propane for use in brazing in industries as diverse as refrigeration, ship building, car repairs, jewellery manufacturing and polishing. More...
A wee dram marks Burns NightJanuary 28, 2012 (22:40) [ Indexed from The Star ] NEEPS, tatties and haggis were all on the menu at a Sheffield retirement village when residents celebrated Burns Night.The annual celebration which marks the life and work of Scottish poet Robert Burns, took place at Brunswick Gardens Retirement Village in Woodhouse on Wednesday evening.Music was provided by the City of Sheffield Pipe Band and ceilidh band Big Stuffed Fish.Residents joined piper Sam Johnson, Kevin Marshall of Big Stuffed Fish and resident chef Ricky Stephenson and saluted the haggis with a wee dram of whisky before tucking into their meal.The first suppers were held in Ayrshire, Scotland, at the end of the 18th century by Robert Burns’ friends on the anniversary of his death.They have been a regular occurrence all over the world since. More...
Princes visit spotlights safety lamp firmJanuary 28, 2012 (22:40) [ Indexed from The Star ] A LONG-established Sheffield firm that has been at the forefront of safety technology since it was founded has celebrated its centenary with a visit by The Earl of Wessex.Prince Edward toured the headquarters in Heeley of the Wolf Safety Lamp Company, before unveiling a plaque commemorating the company’s 100 years in the city and its invention of the most successful miners’ safety lamp.Wolf can trace its history back to the 1880s, when German toolmaker and inventor Karl Wolf and entrepreneur Heinrich Freeman set up a business in Leeds to sell their revolutionary development of the Davy Lamp, which could be relit if it blew out undergroundThe company was brought to Sheffield in 1912 by William Maurice, who acquired the firm after it hit financial troubles.As demand from the coal industry diminished, Wolf diversified into manufacturing industrial safety lamps that were safe to use in offshore oil and gas production and processing, fire-fighting, power generation and public utilities. Wolf is now a world leader in this niche market, developing, manufacturing and selling highly specialised and technologically advanced lighting equipment for diverse and critical applications, where explosive gas, vapour and dust atmospheres are present. More...
Teenager reveals nut allergy ordeal to warn othersJanuary 28, 2012 (22:40) [ Indexed from The Star ] A TEENAGER was rushed to hospital on his 15th birthday when he suffered his first allergic nut reaction.Robert Cockings, aged 15, spoke of his ordeal to raise awareness of life-threatening allergies as part of National Food Allergy and Intolerance Week.Robert, of Grenoside, said he wanted people to realise allergies can suddenly develop even in the mid-teens.His face swelled up and he could not breathe after eating a celebratory chocolate and was rushed to A&E at Sheffield Children’s Hospital.Robert said: “At first I thought I was short of breath due to my asthma, but as the swelling got worse and the blisters appeared I knew there was something wrong.”Mum Julie said: “I never thought someone could develop an allergic reaction at this age.”Robert is being treated at the hospital’s Allergy Clinic. More...
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