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Here you'll find local news and interviews for South Yorkshire and North Derbyshire.
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Meet 17 year old Andrew Davies from Chesterfield.
When he was 13 he was diagnosed with an extremely rare form of cancer.
During treatment Andrew asked a nurse how much it was costing the NHS. Her answer? £150k. He promised he'd raise that amount and give it back.
He's half way to his target.
Here he is talking to BBC Radio Sheffield's Toby Foster.
Louis Tomlinson's Grandad was one of the thousands of fans at One Direction's gig in Sheffield last night. He spoke to Bob Walmsley this morning.
Rotherham MP Sarah Champion responds to Council statement regarding Muslim Community Forum boycott of South Yorkshire Police.
Barnsley town centre gets its share of buskers and they're often very good. However, this week a battle broke out between a trumpet....and some bagpipes.
Our Reporter Mick Lunney was caught in the middle.
BBC Radio Sheffield's Toby Foster speaking to Leah Washington and Joe Pugh from Barnsley who were both injured in the Alton Towers Rollercoaster crash earlier this year.
Toby Foster was talking about your pet hates on the phone in this morning. Joe from Dronfield called us with a Strictly Come Dancing related gripe...
Figures revealed to BBC Radio Sheffield have shown that the waiting list for South Yorkshire's only Gender Identity Clinic can be as long as 18 months.
The NHS target is 18 weeks.
NHS England have told us they're putting more cash into these services and admit that things are unsatisfactory.
Lewis Allen runs the Rainbow Project in Rotherham. He was born female, but is now a man.
He's been talking to our Reporter Andy Kershaw.
A year on from the Jay Report which revealed child sexual exploitation on a horrendous scale in Rotherham, we've spent time with a survivors group in the town. Here is Lizzy's story. It makes difficult listening.
A Barnsley family claim they've had no support from the Government after being caught up in the Tunisia beach massacre earlier this summer. Maxine Midgely and Richard Slater had to run for their lives, along with their 14 year old daughter Bronwyn.
Farming industry leaders are due to meet bosses of the supermarket chain Morrisons to discuss the price of milk.
They say dairy farmers are struggling to stay in business because of a sharp drop in the amount they are paid.
Dronfield dairy farmer Steve Walker tells Toby Foster about the uncertain future he and many other local farmers face.
Remember Winnie Blagden? The 100 year old lady from Sheffield who received 16,000 cards for her birthday after a Radio Sheffield appeal? Well we've put up an exhibition of the cards. This is what happened when Winnie went to see them!
Nightclub owner and businessman Peter Stringfellow remembers Cilla Black and an infamous night in one of his clubs...
70s comedian Bobby Knutt talks to BBC Radio Sheffield's Paul Walker about his memories of Cilla Black, who has died at the age of 72.
Big Brother Winner Chloe Wilburn talks to Paul Walker about her time on the show, what it's like being back at work and why she's turning down celebrity invites #bigbrother2015 #doncaster
Tim Stansbury is Transport Manager at Stardes Halfway, a haulage firm based in Sheffield. He's been talking to Toby Foster about the problems drivers are facing at Calais.
It's the last day of school for lots of children in South Yorkshire. We sent our reporter Kat Cowan to Hunters Bar Primary in Sheffield where she spoke to Holden about his last day.
Meet Ebi, the dentist with a difference from Barnsley. He puts patients at ease by singing Elvis classics. BBC Radio Sheffield's Mick Lunney has been to meet him for a sing-a-long...
The T'arn (town) has more quirky words and phrases than anywhere else in South Yorkshire. In fact so many that it might make other areas gip (feel sick) with envy. For our Love Where You Live series, Mick Lunney put together this pocket guide.
So the Ashes are underway with the 1st day of the 1st Test between England and Australia. England were humiliated 5-0 the last time the sides met in Australia. One man who is tipped to be a star of the Summer is Joe Root from Sheffield. His dad Matt Root spoke to Toby this morning.
On the 10th anniversary of the 7/7 bombings, North Derbyshire GP Peter Holden tells BBC Radio Sheffield about his memories of the day. He was at a medical conference on Tavistock Square near to the bus blast and was one of the first on the scene to help victims.
Thousands of tourists have flown out of Tunisia after Friday's attack on a resort that killed thirty-eight people, including at least 15 Britons.
Some British people are still trying to find out whether relatives who are unaccounted for are dead or alive. One person who's received good news is Carol Mulhall from Sprotbrough near Doncaster.
Her mother and stepfather, Margaret and Dougie Lamb, are out in Sousse.
Andy Crane spoke to Carol on BBC Radio Sheffield's Sunday Breakfast Show.
Her story begins when news broke about the shootings.
(Carol's pictured in the middle. Her mother is on the far right of the picture. The other person in the picture is her grandmother.)
In December 1940 Sheffield was bombed by the German air force for the first time during the WW2. 97 year old Doug Lightening is the last surviving fireman who was on duty.
He's been speaking to BBC Radio Sheffield about his memories of that night. In this clip he also tells Rony Robinson how he joined the RAF, seeing life from the other side of the bomber.
You might have heard about the Leeds school planning a £1650 school trip to Barbados. Pricey? Well, what about £4000? That's the cost of a trip to Ecuador being planned by Notre Dame High School in Sheffield. Niall called Toby to tell him why he IS willing to pay...
It's #BBCMusicDay. So BBC Radio Sheffield decided to try and break music forever. We asked Kat Cowan to write an original song in just one hour...using lyrics sent in by our listeners.
Toby Foster speaks to 100 year old Winnie Blagden about her birthday and asks whether she's looking forward to finally opening all those cards!
Here's a reminder of the story: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-south-yorkshire-32928515
When BBC Radio Sheffield appealed for birthday cards for 99 year old Winnie, they never expected the furore that followed. Thousands of cards (and still counting) arrived in the post. Here's the moment Breakfast Presenter Toby Foster let Winnie into the secret...
The great and good of the BBC have been in Sheffield over the last few days celebrating the snooker. As part of that, a local musician wrote something of an ode to Sheffield.... This is "Sheffield through the eyes of relish" by Jon McClure from Reverend and The Makers. First broadcast on BBC Radio 6 music.
BBC Radio Sheffield Reporter Mick Lunney speaks to Eleanor Mulvey, the wife of Kes author, Barry Hines about his battle with Alzheimers.
New figures show there's been an increase in the number of victims of stalking in South Yorkshire. One woman told us how she was stalked by her ex-husband.
Toby was busting Urban myths, superstitions and old wives tales this morning. Terry rang up to tell us a bizarre cure for cramp...
There are road closures & changes to public transport in #sheffield today due to the Royal Maundy service. Here's @NickRobins with details
BBC Radio Sheffield reporter Mick Lunney has been talking to people in Barnsley after complaints about a head shop in the town. Outside the shop he found 60 year old legal highs user 'Alec'.
A St Patrick's Day blessing all the way from Louisiana for BBC Radio Sheffield listeners. It's on behalf of one of our listeners in the USA - Kevin Sherry, who coaches the Ruston women's soccer team!
BBC Radio Sheffield has broadcast a documentary entitled We Came from Coal, speaking to people whose childhoods and teenage years were were shaped by the closing of the pits.
All next week BBC Radio Sheffield are looking at life in the wake of the Miners' Strike. On Tuesday the Breakfast Show will be live in Goldthorpe.
There’s a big series called Life After Coal on BBC Radio Sheffield next week. It'll see Kate Linderholm reporting on what it was like to grow up in the wake of the miners’ strike.
Last September, Sheffield boxer Jerome Wilson suffered life-threatening injuries in the ring. Doctors told his family he was unlikely to pull through. Thankfully, he did. BBC Radio Sheffield's Toby Foster spoke to Jerome in his first radio interview since the accident.
Amy and Phoebe from Ridgeway, Lovday from Barnsley, Evie from Norton Lees, and Esther from Nether Edge celebrate being off school with a rousing sing-song!
A Doncaster model has branded Apprentice Star Lord Sugar as 'cruel' after he called her a 'fatty' on Twitter. The businessman was responding to a cheeky message from 23 year old Elena Raouna.
What do the kids of South Yorkshire & North Derbyshire want for Christmas? The man himself comes to the BBC Radio Sheffield studio and joins Toby for a phone-in with a difference!
Toby revealed this morning he's never had bread sauce! Listener Audrey took matters into her own hands and rang up with a recipe for him. So if you're stuck, you can cookalong with Audrey too.
Sheffield City Region is to get more power from Whitehall in a 'historic' devolution deal. The combined authority will get more power over transport, housing and business. The Deputy Prime Minister gives his first interview on BBC Radio Sheffield's Breakfast Show.
Paul Walker was asking for your 'claims to fame' this morning. Our favourite was Edwin from Royston, who rang up to tell us about the time he met Winston Churchill.
Toby's conversation about whether you should have yorkshire puddings with chicken descended into a thoroughly strange phone in about unusual food habits.
Rotherham duo, The Chuckle Brothers, have teamed up with Tinchy Stryder for a moment of musical madness. Toby Foster asks Paul Chuckle how the collaboration came about.
Katie Hopkins tells BBC Radio Sheffield's Toby Foster that most online abuse is written by people "eating their own earwax and flossing their teeth with their toenails."
As part of BBC Radio Sheffield's Living With Dementia series, Toby Foster is joined in the studio by Mike and Julie from Deepcar. Julie was diagnosed with Alzheimers in November 2012, when she was 57.
As part of BBC Radio Sheffield's "Living With Dementia" series, we hear Ray and Maureen from Elsecar in Barnsley's story. Maureen was diagnosed with dementia just over two years ago. They're speaking to reporter Mick Lunney at the organisation Barnsley Independent Alzheimer's and Dementia Support.
Assistant Chief Constable Ingrid Lee responds to a report which finds "shortcomings" in the force's handling of child sexual exploitation. The HMIC investigation was carried out in May - just months before a report found 1,400 children had been sexually exploited in Rotherham.
Toby Foster interviews South Yorkshire's Police and Crime Commissioner Shaun Wright. He's stayed in post despite repeated calls to stand down in the wake of a report about the extent of child sexual exploitation in Rotherham. Wright was previously the Councillor with responsibility for Childrens' Services in the town.
Listen to Andrew from Sheffield describe how his 21 year-old-son ended up on life support after running the unofficial Sheffield half-marathon.
Barnsley author Milly Johnson reads her version of "The Night Before Christmas" with a South Yorkshire twist - as heard on BBC Radio Sheffield.
The latest @bbcsheffield travel bulletin with an update on the M1 complete closure, the M18 S/B closure & the knock-on effect #travel
Additional update on the M1 closure and the knock-on effect for surronding routes including the M18 #sheffield #travel
Our latest travel update on the M1 closure in South Yorkshire. It's currently closed both ways between J32 & J33. With delays on both carriageways. #travel
Part three of @syptweet Chief Constable David Crompton talking to @tobyatbrek on @bbcsheffield #Hillsborough
Part two of @syptweet Chief Constable David Crompton talking to @tobyatbrek on @bbcsheffield #Hillsborough
Part one of @syptweet Chief Constable David Crompton taking to @tobyatbrek on @bbcsheffield #Hillsborough
Part three of @syptweet Chief Constable David Crompton talking to @toby@brek on @bbcsheffield #Hillsborough
Part two of @syptweet Chief Constable David Crompton talking to @tobyatbrek on @bbcsheffield #Hillsborough
Part one of @syptweet Chief Constable David Crompton talking to @tobyatbrek on @bbcsheffield #Hillsborough
BBC Radio Sheffield reporter Kat Cowan commentates on injured solider Ben Parkinson as he walks in public for the first time whilst carrying the Olympic Flame.