In what is believed to be a world first, a Rotherham man has downloaded and installed an iPhone software update at the first time of asking. Dave Douglas, 27, from Fraser Road  downloaded the file last Monday night, just 20 minutes after receiving an alert to his phone that the update was required. “I know

   A Ravenfield pensioner has fulfilled a lifetime ambition by correctly choosing the fastest moving queue at his local supermarket. Retired maths teacher, Arthur Potts was shopping at the Morrisons store in Parkgate last Thursday when the seemingly impossible happened. “Just like every week,” he said “I tried to estimate the speed of every queue

Previously withheld documents released by the Donald Trump administration have revealed that John F Kennedy was almost certainly killed by Gay Mexican Muslims. Conspiracy theorists have long held the view that Lee Harvey Oswald was not a lone wolf killer, responsible for the assassination, with the finger variously being pointed at the Russian Government, the

A man from Wombwell has stunned friends and family by making plans to marry a woman who isn’t a  relative, and doesn’t even live on the same street. Brandon Pickersgill, 22 is set to tie the knot with mum of three Britney Hardcastle 18 , who was brought up nearly three quarters of a  mile from

A Brinsworth man says he plans to sue Scandanavian homewares giant IKEA after becoming disorientated and getting lost for over seven hours in the stores one way system last Monday. Eric Bellend (57) claims he feared for his life in the new store near Meadowhall, after losing his bearings somewhere around  the multi-coloured shite beanbag

The Rotherham Advertiser gave the clearest signal yet that it intends to go head to head with The Rotherham Bugle this week, when it published an article about a dispute over the price of an ice cream outside Poundland on Parkgate. The article carried all the hallmark of a Bugle piece with the added advantage

A Brinsworth man who bought a car online,  after seeing it advertised as having ‘one lady owner’, has told of his anger after discovering it has knackered alloys, multiple parking dents and a whole bunch of furry gonk type shit hanging from the rear view mirror. Terry Liversedge  says  he bought the 2014 Ford Focus

  A Wickersley man was bracing himself for two weeks of hell last night, after opening a faulty toilet roll. Richard Swipe, 33, from Morthern Road had made a particularly satisfactory deposit on Sunday evening when he ripped open a new roll and made the shocking discovery. “I blame myself,” he told us as we

A plan to execute all applicants for a new TV series hit the buffers last night,  after vigorous protests from environmentalists. Over 80,000 people have applied to take part in the next series of  hit  ITV2 show,  Love Island, which features 32 narcissist, exhibitionist, steroid-bolstered, cosmetically enhanced imbeciles shagging in a villa. A government spokesman

A lifelong Conservative party supporter has pledged to change his allegiance to Labour after being put right in no uncertain terms on an Internet football forum. Tony Lewis, 62 from Wickersley was fully intending to vote Conservative as usual on June 8th, before he got involved in a political spat on the Rotherham United Millers