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WATCH: Pints, particles and professors at Sheffield science festival

WATCH: Pints, particles and professors at Sheffield science festival

by Archie Tait | May 21, 2026 | Culture, Education, News

Academics and the public came together this week to celebrate the Pint Of Science festival in Sheffield. The event spans multiple venues across the city and aims to engage the public with lectures about topics from cancer research to microbes. Audience members are...
Residents still homeless after evacuation from dangerous Sheffield flats

Residents still homeless after evacuation from dangerous Sheffield flats

by Archie Tait | Apr 23, 2026 | Community, News, Top stories, Top Story - Home Page Lead

Residents are still without access to their homes after firefighters evacuated a block of flats in Sheffield over safety concerns. Occupants of the Riverside House building on Mowbray Street in Sheffield received prohibition notices from South Yorkshire Fire and...
Mind your language: Sheffield leads UK’s first swear census

Mind your language: Sheffield leads UK’s first swear census

by Archie Tait | Apr 23, 2026 | Culture, News, Research, Top stories, Top Story 2 - Home Page sub 1

The UK’s first swear word census has been launched by linguists at the University of Sheffield, aiming to document the way people express themselves across the UK. The project has invited the public to submit taboo words and phrases they use in everyday life in the...
New arrivals at Yorkshire Wildlife Park Resort as cheetah cubs born

New arrivals at Yorkshire Wildlife Park Resort as cheetah cubs born

by Archie Tait | Mar 5, 2026 | News, Top Story - Home Page Lead

The Yorkshire Wildlife Park Resort has welcomed four new cheetah cubs after cheetah ‘Darcy’ gave birth in the early morning of Valentine’s Day.  As of now the new family are spending their time in Cheetah Territory, a 10,000 square metres enclosure which is a...
Police investigation still ongoing after HSBC office targeted by masked vandals

Police investigation still ongoing after HSBC office targeted by masked vandals

by Archie Tait | Mar 5, 2026 | Crime, News, Top Story 4 - Home Page Picture

Vandals smashed windows and daubed red paint across the façade of HSBC’s multi-million flagship city centre office block. The building, on Wellington Street, had multiple windows smashed, and was sprayed with paint and pro-Palestine graffiti. South Yorkshire...

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