Chronicle chief reporter Jack Tolson delves into the Chronicle Archives of January 2005.
SINGER SAMMY WOULDN’T CHANGE A THING
SINGER Sammy Lycett should be so lucky.
She looks and sounds so similar to Australian popstar Kylie Minogue that she travels the world impersonating her.
Her tribute act schedule for 2005 is already filling up.
She said: “Everything is going from strength to strength.
“I’ve been to Oslo and I performed with Lisa Stansfield on Bonfire Night for Sheffield Wednesday.
“There was a booking for me to go to Dubai and India over Christmas but unfortunately I couldn’t do it.
“Hopefully, I’ll get to Australia this year as well.
“Now I’m signed up with A-List Lookalikes and have my own website, I think the coming 12 months should be good.
“I didn’t expect it to take off like this when I started.”
FASHION BOSS FEARS VERMIN IN PIZZA BINS
RITA Britton is kicking up a stink about overflowing vats of old fat and stale kebab meat left outside her premises.
She is demanding that environmental health takes action before there is a rat epidemic.
Rita, owner of Pollyanna designer clothes shop, said: “I have been asking the owners to clear up for months and months and they just ignore me.
“I keep the back bit clean.
“I have a contract with Rentokill to make sure that everything is kept in rat-proof containers and fenced off to stop an epidemic but we don’t stand a chance with all the food waste overflowing.”
Pollyanna staff scrub George Yard each morning to rid it of the grease from the overflowing bins.
A few months ago a dead rat was found behind of the industrial bins.
Rita says it is putting customers off ho have to walk that route to her cafe.
She said: “It’s a health hazard and it’s absolutely disgusting.
“Nobody wants to see vats of stale fat outside a food place.”
BY GEORGI! SOCCER ACE ON CHARM INITIATIVE
A SOCCER star who was once at the centre of a row over ‘ugly beer-swilling women’ in Barnsley made a return to the town this week.
Macedonian ace Georgi Hristov toured some of the pubs and later joked: ‘The girls have obviously taken notice of me, they’re much better looking now’.
National newspapers claimed Hristov had called Barnsley women ‘ugly beer swillers’ when he arrived in England in 1997.
His accusations were supposed to have been made in a magazine interview, although he claims the interpreted misrepresented what he said.
He said: “It’s good to be back and I am pleased to see how the town is improving.
“If Barnsley offered me the right contract, it would be a dream to play here again.”
