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Hundreds of teachers join the NUT march

Thousands of pupils across the country faced disruption or schools closures as teachers take part in a one day strike over school funding and conditions. Members of the National Union of Teachers walked out over a number of unresolved issues. They are calling for schools to be sufficiently funded to cover the increased staff costs and are protesting against the Government’s plans to turn schools into academies. Hundreds of teachers, students and members of the public gathered for a rally and march from Devonshire Green to Barkers Pool.

Special Olympics Officials visit Sheffield’s venues

Officials from the Special Olympics have been in Sheffield this week, visiting a number of venues across the city where the games will be taking place in August 2017. 2600 athletes with learning disabilities will take place in 19 sports. The tour of the venues began at Bramall Lane, where the opening ceremony will take place. Kathryn Muffett went along to find out more.

Police force on Brexit

South Yorkshire police hope that joint campaigns with Europe on issues such as modern slavery alongside cooperation on International arrest warrants will continue but say that at the moment how that will happen is unclear.

HS2 reported to be coming in to City Centre

President of Sheffield Chamber of Commerce Jillian Thomas, welcomed a report, which favoured the city centre option, for the HS2 train stop. The report also said it would save £768 million pounds on the overall budget of the project to go for Midland station.

Sheffield votes leave

The election results for Sheffield came through at just before 3:30 on Friday morning with 136,018  voting to Leave and 130,725 voting to Remain. Following the trend in the North of England Sheffield voted for Brexit.