Category Archives: Feature Articles

With 11 novels, a book of short stories, two cookbooks, an Oscar-nominated film adaptation and worldwide book sales of over 15 million copies in 50 countries, it’s fair to say Joanne Harris has earned the right to be known as an author, and a very accomplished one at that.

Sheffield artist Pete McKee has been a cartoonist and illustrator for more than 16 years, but despite his obvious talents, which were apparent from an early age, the work he did for clients such as Sheffield Telegraph and various other local magazines and fanzines was more of a paid hobby than a career.  His earnings [...]

The Wilkinson family of Doncaster have been synonymous with quality meat since 1954, when Bernard Wilkinson opened his first butcher’s shop in Doncaster town centre.  Since then, the business has been passed down through three generations of fathers and sons and expanded threefold, with the original shop in Doncaster being joined by one in Bawtry [...]

With the pub industry in drastic decline and breweries shutting up shop on a monthly basis (according to specialist website quaffale.co.uk, 304 breweries have closed in the last decade, an average of between two and three a month), investing into a micro-brewery may seem like commercial suicide.

When a Rotherham mum rebelled against Jamie Oliver’s healthy school meals campaign by feeding chips, burgers and pizzas through the Rawmarsh school gates at lunchtime, she incurred the wrath of the TV chef.  He and his production team descended on the town and declared it the headquarters of Jamie’s Pass It On campaign.  Rotherham, he [...]