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.
The people of Sheffield gathered at Barkers Pool to show solidarity with the people of France and to defend the freedom of expression.
As world leaders arrived for the Unity rally in Paris following the recent terrorist killings, Sheffield Live spoke to french journalist, Alexandre Blot Luca of magazine, 54 Etats. He said: “It will make us stronger. We need to continue to do our work and to preserve freedom of speech. It is a symbol in France and in the world.”
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.
The Blades Squad has had a couple of light training sessions following their 3 – 0 win over Premiership team QPR in the FA cup.
A quarter of the UK’s population does not have access to a car. With the rising costs of travel fares a protest was held outside Sheffield railway station to ask for the nationalisation of the railways.
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.
High Hopes is a horse riding school for people with disabilities and it is currently looking for volunteers.