Support group for pre-teen girls holds first of 12 sessions in Sheffield
Girls Journeying Together coaches girls to be confident in their body, manage big feelings and accept differences, before they enter adolescence. The first Girls Journeying Together event took place last Sunday, in Nether Edge, with 12 girls making up the group. Sarah...
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£30,000 Worth of Paracetamol Stolen from Sleeping Lorry Driver
Police are appealing for information after thieves targeted the vehicle containing large amounts of the painkiller in Dodworth, Barnsley. They believe the attack happened sometime between midnight and 5:30am on 9 March. A large quantity of Galpharm Paracetamol was...
Sheffield Church launch Toilet Twinning scheme during Lent
A Sheffield Church has started raising money during Lent to promote better sanitation in underdeveloped countries. Christ Church Stannington are raising money to support the Toilet Twinning organisation throughout April. The organisation hope to use the money to...
Dirty Cops: Scammers posing as SYP sergeants chasing locals’ personal data
South Yorkshire Police have released a warning to residents after receiving reports of a mobile scam, in which a scammer claims to be a police sergeant. On Tuesday, the SYP Twitter account revealed the fake sergeants had been contacting members of the public,...
Sheffield Diving chief wins city’s top sporting award
A Sheffield woman has been honoured for her tireless work at the City of Sheffield Diving Club for 25 years. Nikki Smith, 37, was awarded the 2021 Women of Sheffield Jessica Ennis-Hill Award for Sport by The Star last Thursday. Ms Smith, who has been involved with the...
Sheffield politicians unite behind bid for £500m railway restoration fund
Sheffield MPs, Olivia Blake, Louise Haigh and Paul Blomfield have submitted a bid to the Department of Transport to secure the Government’s ‘Restore Your Railway Fund’. The fund, which is worth £500m, would be used to restore stations at Millhouses, Heeley and...
First £10k Covid-19 Fine in Sheffield Issued to a Car Washing Company
Sheffield City Council has issued the first £10,000 Fixed Penalty Notice (FPN) to a business after a hand car wash repeatedly breached Covid-19 regulations. Speedy Car Wash on Sheffield Road, Tinsley, are the first business in the region to suffer a fine of this size...
Calls grow from residents for safer crossing between Ecclessal Woods
Over 3,700 people have signed a petition for a pedestrian crossing to be installed on Abbey Lane near Ecclessal Woods after the government said they didn't see it as a priority. Local residents have found the crossing to have been treacherous with drivers sometimes...
Leaders call for £50m Weston Park Cancer Centre upgrade
The Weston Park Cancer Centre is the subject of a £50million plan to improve care for over a million people in South Yorkshire and Bassetlaw. Numerous MPs and leaders have written to the government Health Secretary, Matt Hancock, asking him to invest in and transform...
