THE hugely experienced and much-travelled prop Jack Blagbrough, known to hundreds of local youngsters as a former pastoral worker at Failsworth Academy, just down the road from the Vestacare Stadium, has signed a one-year contract to play for Roughyeds in 2023. At the age of 28 and having worn the shirts of Newsome Panthers, Huddersfield Giants (from Academy upwards), Sheffield Eagles, York City Knights, Leigh Centurions (as they were then) and Batley Bulldogs, Jack is more than qualified to do...

ROUGHYEDS are pleased to announce the signing of the experienced forward Deane Meadows on a one-year deal ahead of the 2023 Betfred League One season. The 28-year-old brings with him Championship and League One experience and versatility after spending three years at Swinton Lions. Meadows, who can play in the back-row and in the ‘middles’, is delighted to be back playing under coach Stuart Littler.

Kirk Kus – who is now 26 but sent the tweet when he was 19 – used a phrase considered offensive in a thread on the social media site. Mr Kus was elected as a UKIP councillor for the Alvaston ward in Derby last May but later defected to the Brexit Party in July along with four other UKIP councillors. On his website, Mr Kus states he is from a ‘working-class and Polish background’, and describes himself as ‘a democrat, patriotic and Eurosceptic’. He also says, on the site, it is time for ‘ordin...

“How anybody in their right mind can disband a performance structure and take away the kids’ dreams, they’re not the people that I’d associate myself with. We had to let a hundred kids down and break their dreams. A lot of those kids walked away from the game.” Mr Aston said: “We’ve had a great year and we want to finish it off with more victories. If we don’t finish in the top five this year, then that has got to be the aim for next year, hasn’t it?

Cory Aston grew up watching his dad play, and Aston Snr knew that Cory was “destined” to play rugby from a very young age. “Bizarrely, he would spend a lot of time playing imaginary rugby on himself, kicking and passing the ball and having a game against an opposition that wasn’t there,” says Aston Snr, who has coached over 500 games for the Eagles and helped lift the 98’ Challenge Cup, as a player for the side. It was at Hillsborough Hawks where Cory Aston got his first taste of team rugby. H

Match report on Sheffield Sharks 65-63 win over Glasgow Rocks.

Mark Aston has said his players “can achieve anything” as they face Leigh Centurions in the Challenge Cup fourth round this weekend. Sheffield Eagles have had a good start to the season after winning six out of their 7 games in the Championship. Head coach Aston is hoping his side can continue their form and progress to the fifth round of the Challenge Cup, something they have not achieved since 2016. “We pride ourselves on being really disciplined and respectful. It was great to get them bac

Report from Sheffield Crown Court on the murder trial of Danny Trotter.

The council’s new clean air proposals will be “one nail in the coffin” for the taxi trade, Sheffield cabbies warn. Sheffield City Council are encouraging taxi drivers to go green by setting up 20 charge points for electric taxis so they avoid the proposed £12.50 daily charge for driving in the city centre. Sheffield taxi driver, Ishaq Rasool, says this is not feasible: “Most of the time I cannot even park outside of my mid-terraced house. Is it viable if I put a cable two streets away?” Mr Ra