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.
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.
Thirty years ago South Yorkshire was in the middle of the Miners Strike. The award winning documentary, Still the Enemy Within, is being shown again to mark this historic working class struggle.
Karen Sherwood, is a local artist, who abseiled by the side of Andrew Motion’s poem to raise money for the Red Cross. The poem by the former poet laureate is on the Owen Building in the Centre of Town.
The GMB held a picket today at the Beighton Road recycling site. They are asking for better facilities, fairer pay and against alleged bullying. Veolia and Sheffield City Council said they are continuing to support the Green Company and are encouraging discussions so that issues can be resolved quickly.
Parents and children, from Anns Grove School in Heeley, who have to cross a busy main road to get to school held a protest to support their lollipop lady who is being moved to another school and not being replaced. The parents stopped traffic for 3 minutes at a time and things got tense when drivers found the road blocked.
Stuart Gray admits Wednesday are looking at bringing new players in to the squad and how his team is going to play against Norwich.
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.
Some of you may have read my less than favourable review on the new album from The Horrors (Luminous) and how I had concluded that I was sincerely hopeful that the gig would make at least some kind of impression.
Well… although I still am yet to be even slightly moved by their latest effort, the new tracks gave a relatively enjoyable “hold music” while I waited for their better tracks.
The Leadmill was absolutely busting at the seams and even when I found myself at times less than enamoured there were a considerable amount of people that clearly were. Despite a slightly awkward amount of interference, there is no denying that the group as a whole delivered a fairly wonderful performance.
My appreciation was given mostly to the Primary Colours tracks (Scarlet Fields, A Sea within a Sea etc.) which just had much more energy and substance to them than the new songs which, as I say, felt more as if they acted as interlude music until the next “proper” track was played.
As the Horrors have gradually appeared to have toned things down since Strange House (the album that nobody talks about) it may very well be possible that I was expecting just something a little more exciting and perhaps shouldn’t have been. I understand that there comes a time for a band to mature or perhaps even explore a new path, it is just unfortunate that for me, The Horrors have lost a lot of their uniqueness and magic along the way.