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.
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.
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.
The four Police and Crime Commissioner candidates were invited to speak at a hustings event held at the Central United Reform Church on Norfolk Street, and jointly organised by Sheffield for Democracy and South Yorkshire Neighbourhood Watch.
Conservative candidate Ian Walker, English Democrat candidate David Allen, Labour candidate Alan Billings, and UKIP candidate Jack Clarkson all had the chance to speak for five minutes, followed by questions from the audience.
Vicky Seddon, co-ordinator of Sheffield For Democracy said: ‘Rotherham has shown how supposedly democratic structures can fail. This is certainly true of the Police and Crime Commissioner post, and if we have to have this official in this way then we need to be careful who we choose.’
The election takes place on Thursday 30 October, with the count on Friday 31 October.
Kathryn Smiles was at the PCC hustings event, reporting here for Sheffield Live.
Radiographers went on strike for the first time in over 30 years. The half day strike is the latest in a number of stoppages by NHS workers to get a one percent pay rise this year. NHS workers have only had one increase in the last 5 years.
For the first time ever in their history, midwives went out on strike. The nationwide action included nurses, ambulance crews, paramedics and hospital porters all walking out for better pay. The workers have been offered a 1% consolidated pay rise.
In the biggest demonstration yet in Sheffield against Islamic State, hundreds of people gathered outside City Hall to condemn the assault on Kobani in Northern Syria. The action, organised by Kurdish community activists, called on the international community to defend communities under threat in Syria and Iraq.
Members of the Kurdish community took to the streets of Sheffield to condemn the assault by Islamic State forces on the City of Kobani in Northern Syria and to call for international action.
Barry Hines’ Threads has heavily influenced the creation of a new piece of art which is being shown at The Site Gallery in Sheffield. In the Absence of a Smoky God, which was created by Matt Stokes, tells the story of survivors of the nuclear war.