Sheffield transformed itself in to a winter wonderland with Reindeer, Snowmen and Santas taking over the City Centre before the big Christmas light switch on.
Sheffield transformed itself in to a winter wonderland with Reindeer, Snowmen and Santas taking over the City Centre before the big Christmas light switch on.
Sheffield City Council are offering information and advice about how to build your own home. It is hoped that this will go some of the way to solving the housing shortage in the City.
Local MP for Heeley, Meg Munn, is campaigning to get the law changed so that drivers have to get regular eye tests throughout their driving lives.
Hundreds of women walked through Sheffield City Centre yesterday to Reclaim the Night. The event is now a national one but started off in Yorkshire when women were being told to stay at home by the police because the Yorkshire Ripper was still at large.
S2 Foodbank Network has been set up to tackle food poverty in the Arbourthorne area of Sheffield. Foodbanks throughout the City, have seen, numbers of people using them going up over recent months.
Broomhall Nursery has been awarded Outstanding achievement by Ofsted. The local nursery received grade one marking across all four areas it was checked in.
Young people from Barnsley got the chance to make and programme robots from scratch alongside Professor Hiroshi Ishiguro at Sheffield Centre for Robotics. Professor Ishiguro is famous for making cutting edge, human like robots in his own image.
Eight local artists are performing in a contemporary art event at the old Woolies on The Moor in Sheffield. You decide which piece you want to see and how much you want to pay for it. A short theatre piece on the child exploitation taking place in Rotherham called Did you call the Police? is being performed in one area of the former shop. While other performers specialise in other art forms.
The Peace Gardens turned purple today as people celebrated World Prematurity Day. One in ten babies are born early and the day aims to highlight the issues around premature births.
Sheffield students are celebrating cultural diversity and the city’s international connections in a week long series of events commencing with a parade to Barker’s Pool. World Week 2014 is organised by the University of Sheffield International Students’ Committee, One World and Global Campus.