Children and parents are celebrating as they found out that their lollipop lady, Janice Clarke, was going to be returning to Anns Grove School. Parents held protest on Gleedless Road when they found that their lollipop lady was going to be removed and no replacement was planned.
This week is adoption week and here in Sheffield there are stalls at the Town Hall and at Fargate where you can find out more. This year the emphasis is on adopting siblings, these are amongst the children who have to wait the longest to be adopted in the UK.
Images of older Sheffield women were projected on to icon buildings like the Town Hall and City Hall as part of a project looking at how older women are portrayed in the media. The project is run by Dr Lorna Warren aims to highlight that 25% of Sheffields’ population are women over the age of 50 yet they are hardly ever seen in the media.
A new report from the World Economic Forum has shown that the gap between womens’ and mens’ earnings has widen. The UK has fallen eight places in the table to twenty sixth.
Conservative MP John Redwood claimed that northerners are jealous of life in the “Mighty Capital”. John Redwood, made the comments at a closed door event when he was asked what he would do to redress the balance between London and the rest of England. We asked people in Sheffield what they thought.
Firefighters from across South Yorkshire joined the picket line at Dearne Community Fire Station on the third day of a four day national strike over pensions and the retirement age. Firefighters want to retain the right to retire at 55 years of age claiming that to do the job effectively up to the age of sixty is putting lives at risk.
Nigel Clough says that Barnsley is a good all round side as United get ready for the South Yorkshire Derby.
Fire fighters in Sheffield joined a national four day strike over pensions. They are now being expected to work until the age of sixty instead of fifty five. Fire Minister Penny Mordaunt described the strike action as “unnecessary and the aim of which is unclear”
Labour’s Alan Billings has been voted Police and Crime Commissioner for South Yorkshire winning just over 50 per cent of the vote, with UKIP coming second out of four candidates. Turnout in the election was less than 15 per cent.
Local Councillors have voiced concerns about the Governments continued support of HS2 going to Meadowhall instead of into of a Sheffield City centre location. The journey would be around 6 minutes longer if the train came in to town but would create about six thousand more jobs.