At least 3% of the workforce work on Christmas Day, with NHS workers and care workers topping the list. Yet many more chose to volunteer. We spoke to Elton Clough who has been volunteering for over 20 years.
At least 3% of the workforce work on Christmas Day, with NHS workers and care workers topping the list. Yet many more chose to volunteer. We spoke to Elton Clough who has been volunteering for over 20 years.
In the early hours of Christmas Day 1914 the German soldiers began to sing Silent Night and lit candles around their trenches. Later on they walked out in to no mans’ land shouting Merry Christmas to the allied soldiers. So began the Christmas Day Truce. German and Allied soldiers exchanged gifts and talked. They took the opportunity to bury their dead. But one of the best know events of the day was the game of football. 100 years on Sheffield Live! Spoke to local organisation Football Unites Racism Divides to talk about football as a uniting force.
The police bought a car that had been driven by a drunk driver in to Bakers Pool to highlight the dangers of drinking and driving.
Brian was seven at the time of the Sheffield Blitz. He tells us what he remembers of the events and about an interesting encounter he had when he was stationed in Germany twelve years later.
New Roots has had letters from customers saying they were going to boycott the shop because it has poster that that criticises UKIP immigration policy and says that they welcome immigrants in to the shop.
An art exhibition which looks at the history of Bethlehem from the birth of Christ to modern day Palestine.
Peddlers Night Market is about bringing International Street Food, craft beer and local music to Sheffield.
A local film producer is asking other tenants in The Workstation to put food under the Christmas tree which will be distributed by the Sheffield Food Collective to foodbanks that have highest demand.
A performance of West African music in Sheffield is raising money to donate to charities working with children in the Ivory Coast.
City Hearts provide support and accommodation to women and children who are survivors of Human Trafficking.