Cue Zone is a project to get snooker in to Schools. Steve Davis was at the Sheffield Park Academy to give a helping hand.
Cue Zone is a project to get snooker in to Schools. Steve Davis was at the Sheffield Park Academy to give a helping hand.
Sheffield is set to have its own Chinese Quarter which will host a residential and retail area, a Plaza as well as a business incubator which will encourage Chinese business to come and be based in the City.
A local film critic has been fined after admitting to theft of cameras from Sheffield’s local TV channel, Sheffield Live.
Van Connor, whose real name is Sherief Fekry, aged 31, of Birdwood Road, Grimesthorpe, pleaded guilty at Sheffield Magistrates Court and was fined £83 and ordered to pay £85 costs.
The two cameras, together worth over £5,000, were taken from Sheffield Live TV during Fekry’s weekly film review radio programme, Slam Dunk Cinema. Sheffield Live recovered one of the cameras from eBay and the other was later found when police raided Fekry’s home.
Fekry has been a regular producer and presenter on Sheffield Live community radio since he launched his Slam Dunk Cinema programme in August 2011. He also writes film reviews, under the name Van Connor, for Exposed Magazine.
Steve Buckley, Chair of Sheffield Live TV, said: “We were shocked to find two of our cameras missing from our broadcast studios just ten weeks after launching Sheffield’s local TV channel and we have been determined to get to the bottom of it. Following a police investigation, we now know that Mr Fekry, who we had known as Van Connor, used his trusted access to our facilities to steal valuable broadcast equipment and to attempt to sell it on eBay. We are very grateful to South Yorkshire Police for their support and assistance.”
Sheffield Live confirmed that it has cancelled the Slam Dunk Cinema radio programme and Fekry is no longer involved with the channel.
An exhibition showcasing the work of young Sheffield Artists is on display at the Millennium Galleries in Sheffield.
Local performers got together to put on a Happy January event. The Old Woolies on the Moor is being transformed in to a space where artists create and perform while people have their coffee. Comedians, singers and dancers got together to cheer people up and to support the new venue.
Jade Hewitt is competing in The Voice. She tells us she loves Sheffield and how her Mum is her inspiration.
Over 200 students took part in a question and answer session with Ed Miliband here in Sheffield. He encouraged young people to vote and presented The Labour Party’s Youth Manifesto.
Recycle Bikes is a not for profit, one stop shop for people who are interested in bikes, they recycle old ones, loan bikes out and also donate bikes to projects across Africa. You can learn basic road and maintenance skills and get spare parts for your vintage bike.
Sheffield City Council has announced that there will be 11 more 20 mph zones introduced in the City. The Twenty’s Plenty campaign is saying that though Sheffield was pioneering in this area in the 1990s’ it is now falling behind a lot of the other major Cities and needs to introduce even more such speed restrictions.
The annual Village Traipse has been performed by the Grenoside Sword Dancers for at least a hundred and fifty years.