AGB1

Just a warning. The main road through Broomhill is currently closed due to an earlier serious accident. Traffic is a nightmare. Bus routes also affected.

University Of Sheffield brought me here in 2003 - I graduate in 2008 and I plan to stay here (jobs pending) I love it - am from industrial town in North East orginally and Sheffield couldnt be more different! (in a good way) Alex

Isnt the Middle East in Asia ? Therfore making Naz an Asian. Not that it matters or anything...

Need you ask!? Union of course Alex

Could anyone tell me whether or not this swimming baths has a modern Unisex changing room area or still has separate males and females?? I only ask as am trying to plan trip with school children and need to know how its all set out - you wouldnt believe how difficult it is to plan such a seemingly simple event! Cheers Al

Me and a couple of friends are looking for a local rugby team to hopefully play for. We've become disillusioned with our current team at University (mainly due to the massive emphasis on drinking rather than on playing and training) We're no Jonny Wilkinson but all in all we're no Gavin Henson either i.e.we're average! Any help would be really gratefully received Many thanks Alex

Freedom2surf -excellent connection, fast, no problems, good customer support, cheap, no limit. What more can you ask for! We're thinking of swapping to Bulldog though as it's about 2 pounds cheaper....

mmmmmmm Manzil chicken kebabs..................drool

ooh I was thinking of joining the Medics TA. Is it really that bad ???

Where I work (a well known Accident and Emergency Dept. in Sheffield) we get an awful lot of people (mostly females, but also men) on Thursday, Friday and Saturday nights come in between 11pm-3am who complain of having their drink spiked. It is notoriously difficult to prove this as tests are not very specific/accurate etc but I would say that going by signs/symptoms/knowledge of the staff on duty, that about 90% of these patients have not been spiked at all. Some are either just very drunk but cant understand how they can be that drunk after just 3 drinks (what some of them forget is that it was 3 treble vodkas i.e 9 shots in the space of an hour) some have a bad reaction to alcohol or indeed some of the additives to alcoholic drinks such as alcopops and some have symptoms relating to high blood pressure from drinking too much, being too hot etc etc. However we do find that some people have been 'spiked' ie have ingested drugs without knowing about it -its worth noting that in a study it was found that 75% of basins and the tops of toilets in clubs were found to have cociane residue on them. What I mean is that there are drugs in clubs and it can be possible to ingest these (obviously not insinuating that everyone goes around licking the tops of toilets!) and if you've never taken cocaine before then even a bit will have a dramatic effect on you, the same for Ecstasy. I think that the actual practice of going around clubs, specifically targeting people and then dropping something into their drink is rarer. However it does happen, especially in the summer months, and again it is mostly women who are the targets. I know there are measures in the pipeline to educate Bar Staff/Doormen in what to do in these types of situations, with regards to first aid, care of the victim and police involvement etc. But the only real way to be safe is to do what my dear mum always used to tell me to do when I was 17 and first went out drinking - 'buy a bottled drink and keep your thumb over it when you're not drinking from it'

My girlfriend was one of the first cars on the scene. Apparently the 3 girls were indeed trying a 3 point turn, the bike came over the brow of a hill and hit them. The biker was some 40 metres away from his bike on the ground in a heap, although she thought he was talking to another person who had stopped. As for the girls. Apparently all they couldnt speak and were very shook up. I'm pretty sure it;s illegal to do 3 point turns on A roads isnt it ?? If so then the driver may well be in trouble. My girlfriend left the scene quickly in order to phone an amubulance from the pub as no-one's mobile had any signal. Cant seem to see anything in the news about it though.