Sheffield’s Ahmadiyya Muslim Group say local community must stand together against terrorism in the wake of the Charlie Hebdo shootings.
Sheffield’s Ahmadiyya Muslim Group say local community must stand together against terrorism in the wake of the Charlie Hebdo shootings.
Sheffield based illustrator, James Walmesley, has drawn a cartoon about the Charlie Hebdo attack which has been re-tweeted over 6,000 times.
Ben Needham went missing 23 years ago in Kos, Greece. His mother Kerry has been looking for him every since. The family have been following up leads and doing their own investigation with very little support from official sources. The Home Office has now given a grant to South Yorkshire police to do a more in depth investigation over the coming year.
The Palestine Solidarity Campaign held a protest outside Sainsbury’s, as part of a national campaign, to ask customers to boycott goods which are grown in illegal Israeli settlements in Palestine. The supermarket was contacted but gave no comment.
People from forty countries have come to Sheffield to compete in the Junior Open Squash Championships.
In the early hours of Christmas Day 1914 the German soldiers began to sing Silent Night and lit candles around their trenches. Later on they walked out in to no mans’ land shouting Merry Christmas to the allied soldiers. So began the Christmas Day Truce. German and Allied soldiers exchanged gifts and talked. They took the opportunity to bury their dead. But one of the best know events of the day was the game of football. 100 years on Sheffield Live! Spoke to local organisation Football Unites Racism Divides to talk about football as a uniting force.
New legislation is being introduced that will allowing fracking under peoples homes without their permission. The Sheffield Climate Alliance is fighting these change.
Brian was seven at the time of the Sheffield Blitz. He tells us what he remembers of the events and about an interesting encounter he had when he was stationed in Germany twelve years later.
New Roots has had letters from customers saying they were going to boycott the shop because it has poster that that criticises UKIP immigration policy and says that they welcome immigrants in to the shop.
Joan Lee 91, was a nurse during the second world war but during the Sheffield Blitz she was working in a sweet shop. 668 civilians and 25 servicemen were killed during two nights of bombing. A total of 1,586 people were injured and over 40,000 more were made homeless.