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Sheffield smokers urged to quit for their mental health this No Smoking Day

by joa19zz | Mar 11, 2021 | Health, News

A Sheffield medical clinic is encouraging people across the city to set a date to quit smoking for No Smoking Day which took place yesterday. This year’s campaign from Smokefree Sheffield is focusing on the importance of quitting for mental health benefits as COVID-19...

Community to restore broken grave of a Sheffield sporting legend

by joa18har | Mar 11, 2021 | News, Sport, Top Story 3 - Home Page sub 2

The grave of “Sheffield’s greatest sportsman” is to be restored thanks to a local community fundraiser. George Littlewood, known as the ‘Sheffield Flyer’, was an endurance walker and runner in the late 1800s and holds the world’s longest-standing athletics world...

Police & Council condemn planning of ‘Freedom Fun Day’ in Barnsley

by joa19hh | Mar 11, 2021 | News, Top Story - Home Page Lead

South Yorkshire Police and Barnsley Council are investigating the organisation of an illegal gathering planned for this weekend. Barnsley Freedom Fun Day is planned to take place in Locke Park, a 47-acre public park just south of the town centre. In a statement,...

Watch: Professor sparks Sheffield campaign for International Women’s Day

by joa19mlr | Mar 11, 2021 | News, Top Story 3 - Home Page sub 2, Watch

Professor Pamela E. Harris has started #IAmSheffield to showcase the diversity of the University of Sheffield in her talk for International Women’s Day 2021. The women’s network at the university hosted a talk yesterday from Professor Harris, a mathematician at...

The University of Sheffield first to adopt scheme in conjunction with K-Pop group

by joa19ym | Mar 11, 2021 | Culture, Education, News

The University of Sheffield (TUoS) has become the first British university to adopt the ‘Learn! Korean with BTS’ curriculum. After discussions with the Hankuk University of Foreign Studies and Korea Foundation, the one-year project was implemented by TUoS’s...

Retail staff in Sheffield raise concerns over increased hostility from customers during Covid-19

by joc19md | Mar 11, 2021 | News, Top stories, Top Story 4 - Home Page Picture

Retail staff in Sheffield have voiced their concerns over increased aggression and verbal abuse from customers during the pandemic. Olivia Redfern, 20, a retail worker in the city, said: “Customers don’t see retail workers as people. They see us as objects just there...
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