A train with a difference will be able to take people around Sheffield City Centre until Christmas Eve. The road train goes from Tudor Square down to Moor Foot and then back up again.
A train with a difference will be able to take people around Sheffield City Centre until Christmas Eve. The road train goes from Tudor Square down to Moor Foot and then back up again.
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.
The Sheffield International Documentary Film Festival is taking ten of its films around to various locations in North Yorkshire and the North East of England.
Sheffield dance crew, Ink Dance, have produced a street dance video featuring iconic Sheffield landmarks in their bid to win the Dance Your City competition. They hope to perform in London with award winning hip hop dance company Boy Blue Entertainment. The competition winners are decided by a public online vote which closes at midnight on Saturday.
To see the video and other competition entries visit Dance Your City
Tony Minichiello, coach to Jessica Ennis-Hills, has expressed dismay with athletics provision at the Olympic Legacy Park after the closure of the Don Valley Stadium, in an interview for Talking Sheffield on Sheffield Live! TV. Minichiello said: “I don’t think the investment is going into the athletics side.”
Gary Verity, Chief Executive of Welcome Yorkshire was awarded an Honorary Doctorate from Hallam University. He also announced that from 2016 the Yorkshire Festival would become a bi-annual event.
The Sheffield Ahmadiyya Muslim Association has been selling poppies to collect money for the British Legion. Under the slogan Love for all, Hatred for none, AMA has collected £60,000 nationally for the poppy appeal.
A funday held at Weston Park looked at how literacy has changed and developed over the last 100 years. People who attended the event, got the chance to use a type writer and type their name by using the morse code.
Nick Clegg, MP for Hallam, launched Tech North in Sheffield this week. Over 200,000 people are working in the creative and technical industries in the North. The scheme aims to see this number doubled.
Thursday saw hundreds of people gathering in Sheffield to celebrate Diwali, the Festival of Lights. Candles are lit and there is singing, dancing and fireworks to mark the occasion.