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New Sheffield presses set to roll in 2007

Presses are due to start rolling at a new newspaper printing plant in Sheffield in 2007. Johnston Press is investing £60m on a new facility being built on the site of the former Dinnington colliery in South Yorkshire. It will

New editor at the Star

Alan Powell has been named as the new editor of the Sheffield Star. Previously editor of the Star’s weekly sister paper, the Sheffield Telegraph, he was officially installed in the post this week after being acting editor since October. He

Long-serving athletics writer dies at 69

Long-serving Huddersfield Daily Examiner athletics correspondent Granville Beckett has died aged 69. A great ambassador for the sport, he had also provided coverage as a freelance correspondent for the Yorkshire Post, Sheffield Star, Halifax Courier, York Evening Press and Bradford