Rotherham secures £10m to repair roads in 2026
Rotherham has secured £10m for road repairs and maintenance programmes this year. The programme will ensure that an additional 100-plus roads will be repaved and 90-plus stretches of pavements will be either repaved or be given a surface dressing treatment to extent...
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Life saving resource to stop people bleeding out has being rolled out across the city centre
Four user-friendly emergency bleed control kits have been installed to prevent or put a temporary stop to a bleed, which could potentially be fatal, while emergency services work their way to the person in need. They were set up yesterday to be used in the...
Launchpad: Sheffield theatre group for disabled people set to stage first show
A Sheffield group which encourages adults with learning disabilities and/or autism to break into theatre is set to take to the stage. The production, which starts tomorrow, has been written, directed and performed solely by members of Launchpad who have been working...
New data shows reduction of people injured on South Yorkshire roads
New data has been released by South Yorkshire Safer Roads Partnership which shows numbers of both cyclists and pedestrians injured in road traffic collisions in the region are decreasing. Road casualties in South Yorkshire The data shows there is a steady decrease...
‘Rat alley’ raises public health and safety concerns by residents in the Hanover estates
People living on a Sheffield estate have told how they have been experiencing issues with rodent infestations as well as damp and mould in their homes. The complaints have come from those living in the blocks of flats off Hanover Street in the Broomhall area. Local...
Sheffield Wednesday in promotion panic
Four games ago, Sheffield Wednesday broke a club record, going 23 games unbeaten and soaring to the top of league one. Promotion seemed a certainty and the title was within their grasp. They haven't won since. It has been four games since the Owls last recorded a...
Sheffield fire: Former city church destroyed
In the early hours of March 29, a fire broke out in an abandoned building on Copper street, the city centre of Sheffield . The building was built in 1858 and was named St Jude's Moorfields Church School. It was finally closed in 1999 due to operational problems, and...
Sheffield football clubs: the pioneers in the fight against gambling sponsors
Football clubs in Sheffield are amongst some of the only teams in the top divisions to not brandish a gambling sponsor on the front of their shirts. Sheffield United have taken steps since being in the Premier League to not advertise the harmful practice of gambling...
Clean Air Zone protestors say ‘We’re being called far right’
An anti-Clean Air Zone group is planning a march in Sheffield in response to the council's scheme, which imposes charges on commercial vehicles driving through the city. Tim Wells, 58, a member from the campaign against Clean Air Zone said: “It's going to desolate...
