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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.

Women of Steel celebrated

The Women of Steel statue has been unveiled in Sheffield City centre. The statue honors and commemorates the work that women did during both world wars to keep the steel industry going.