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South Yorkshire residents call for more action against fly tipping

by joa19bw | Mar 18, 2021 | Environment, Health, News, Top stories, Top Story 4 - Home Page Picture, Watch

Levels of fly tipping are rising at a worrying rate for South Yorkshire residents, despite Rotherham Council’s ‘Get Rid Reyt’ initiative. Items littered around Thorpe Hesley and Scholes have become an environmental health hazard to wildlife due to the amount of...

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...

Meet the nine-year-old girl from Sheffield who hopes to become a millionaire thanks to slime

by joa19cjh | Mar 11, 2021 | News, Top stories, Top Story 4 - Home Page Picture, Watch

An ambitious nine-year-old girl from Sheffield has started her own slime business in lockdown, becoming the city’s latest young entrepreneur. Sapphire Billing opened Sapphire’s Slime at the start of February with the help of her parents and sister, and has since...

Backlash after BBC Politics Live discuss Jewish minority status

by joa19kv | Mar 4, 2021 | Culture, Politics, Top Story 4 - Home Page Picture

The BBC has come under fire for allowing four non-Jewish panel members to hold a debate titled, “Should Jews count as an ethnic minority”.   Jo Coburn, the presenter of BBC Politics Live, is Jewish herself, but has suggested that because Jewish people have succeeded...

Possible plans to connect Kelham to Sheffield city centre

by admin | Mar 4, 2021 | Environment, News, Top Story 4 - Home Page Picture

Sheffield City Council have held a consultation in their hopes to connect Sheffield. The new route would link Neepsend – Kelham – City Centre The consultation, which ended on 3 March, was a new approach designed to transform travel throughout Sheffield, via...

South Yorkshire organisations ‘concerned’ about protest restrictions

by joa19kv | Mar 4, 2021 | Environment, News, Politics, Top Story 4 - Home Page Picture

Protest groups in South Yorkshire have expressed their worry over the government’s attitude towards protests after lockdown. An article for The Guardian disclosed last week that thanks to a Freedom of Information release, they had obtained proof that Priti Patel...
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