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Students team up with environmental group to help transform allotment site
Discovery Outdoors and the University of Sheffield’s landscape and architecture department are collaborating to help connect young people with the environment. John Bray, co-founder of Discovery Outdoors said: "I really wanted to start this organisation that could...
Long-running record fair set to return to Sheffield this weekend
The event aims to bring together ‘like-minded’ people
Steamworks hosts Night Market Social to support local creatives
The Night Market Social, run by Craft&Flea, took place last night, celebrating more than 40 makers, artisans, street food vendors and more.
Mum describes ‘pain and emptiness’ of losing daughter in hit and run
The family of 30- year-old Keita Mullen have spoken out to bring more awareness to road traffic collisions.
Watch: New campaign against cuts to disability benefits holds first Sheffield protest
Hundreds of people attended in the city centre
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Sheffield’s inclusive cycling project celebrates National Lottery Week
Sheffield Cycling 4 is cycling for improving disabilities' long term health status. The project is offering the trikes, quad-bikes, tandems and some two-wheelers, to...
Hundreds gather in support of pro-Palestine petition
The Sheffield pro-Palestine Campaign rallied outside Sheffield Town Hall before presenting the council with a petition with over 7,500 signatures calling them to...
Hillsborough schools roll out new road safety placards
New "THINK BEFORE YOU PARK" placards can be spotted on the roads outside every Hillsborough primary school to encourage safer parking. All of the Hillsborough primary...
Sheffield female brewers speak out about gender imbalance for International Women’s Day.
It is the International Women's Collaboration Brew Day, Sheffield bars and brewhouses celebrating the day for gender minorities. The day consisted of net working, free...
Questions raised over new plans for Sheffield City Centre
Sheffield City Council aims to link the key areas to create open space for events and the public. Proposal plans to provide seating near bars and restaurants, and...
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Doncaster Council receive £138M in funds to reopen airport
Doncaster Sheffield Airport has received £138 million fund to reopen and the owners consider a lease agreement. The South Yorkshire Mayoral Combined Authority (SYMCA) approved the fund on 13 February allowing Doncaster council to negotiate and hopefully reopen the...
Palestinian protesters at Town hall call for bank boycott
Pro-Palestine protesters have been campaigning this week, for action to be taken by Sheffield City Council in opposing the actions of Israel. The campaign lead to the Barclays bank being closed temporarily over the weekend with protestors calling for boycotts of any...
Sheffield to introduce beavers in £100,000 approved project
The project would see Eurasian beavers reintroduced as a natural flood defence.
Sheffield clinic affected by faulty egg-freezing
The Jessop Fertility clinic alongside a London based fertility clinic, received a batch of faulty freezing solution causing many eggs and embryos to be potentially destroyed. The Human Fertilisation and Embryology Authority (HFEA) confirmed the issue was limited to...
Investment into electric buses to support the Clean Air Zone approved
Ben Miskell, Chair of the Transport, Regeneration and Climate Policy Committee
Sheffield Montgomery theatre’s accessibility redevelopment project nears completion
The Sheffield theatre has received £1.5 million in funding to make it more accessible. Before the reopening in Spring, the theatre partnered with Sheffield museums and libraries to put on workshops, performances and events - ensuring the budding theatre goers don't go...