The floating red poppies on the wall of St Nicholas’ Church in High Bradfield have formed part of the Poppy Memorial Trail. This aims to remember hundreds of local people who died in World War One, World war two and up to the present day. The charity event is raising money for the church, Help For Heros and the Royal British Legion. The poppies are visible across Sheffield.
Sparkle Sheffield are raising awareness of autism, and the dangers of sparklers for children with autism around Bonfire night. They are encouraging people to wear something sparkly instead, or take part in a dance, over the bonfire period. Sparkle are asking people around the world to post their photos on social media. Founder of Sparkle, Liesje Dusauzaytold Sheffield Live why she decided to set up the campaign.
Two multi-million pound buildings have opened at Sheffield College this term, which aim to boost young people’s employment prospectives in areas such as engineering and the creative industries. The new building, now fully open to students, includes a theatre, recording studios and a new television studio. Principal of The Sheffield College, Heather Smith told Sheffield Live how she felt to have the buildings open.
This week at Meadowhall the top 12 toys for Christmas 2015 were revealed, with Star Wars, Thunderbirds and Frozen all making the list.The Toy Retailers Association said 2015 would be what they call a “vintage year” for toys as it released its annual ‘Dream Toys’ list of what it predicts the top-sellers to be. Star Wars products related to the new film The Force Awakens, which opens next month, take the top three spots. Sheffield Live spoke to Steven Town from the association about how they decide the list…
It’s over 24 years since Ben Needham went missing on the Greek Island of Kos. On the twenty fourth of July 1991, Ben was playing at his grandparents farmhouse before he disappeared. Tomorrow, Ben would have turned twenty six years old. Back in January the Home Office granted funding for the most in depth investigation so far. Ben’s mother, Kerry Needham was part of a TV appeal in Greece to find new leads and appeal for information. As Greek authorities continue to search for Ben, South Yorkshire Police say they’re ahead of schedule in the investigation.
The Sheffield Blitz Memorial Trail has received eighty one thousand three hundred pounds from the Heritage Lottery Fund. Sheffield author, Neil Anderson, began working on the plans to commemorate the Sheffield Blitz with the publication of his book, ‘Sheffield’s Date with Hitler’ in 2010. Now, the 75th anniversary in December is set to be marked with an exhibition and trail around sixteen sites across the city. The Sheffield Blitz in December 1940 made almost a tenth of the city’s population homeless. Sheffield Live’s Kathryn Smiles went along to speak to Neil Anderson about the trail and the funding.
Around one hundred people are preparing to abseil down Sheffield Hallam Universities’ Owen Building this Halloween, to help raise money for the British Red Cross. The organisers are hoping to raise around eighteen thousand pounds, to support the charity more locally here in Sheffield.
Around six hundred musicians across thirty events have been performing in Sheffield this weekend for the Classical Sheffield Festival of Music. It’s the first year of the festival which has been organised by Music in the Round, Sheffield Philharmonic Chorus, Sheffield Symphony Orchestra and the University of Sheffield. It aims to promote professional and amateur classical music events to get more people involved in this genre of music.
SLTV first hit your screens on 23 September 2015 so we celebrated with a special edition of Talking Sheffield hosted by Simon Thake in front of a live audience. The guests were Steve Buckley, Chair of SLTV, Sara Hill from Opus Magazine and Lia Nici from Estuary TV.
The first elephant which will form a public art trail across the city was launched in the Winter Gardens last night. ‘The Herd of Sheffield 2016’ will include over forty individually designed elephant sculptures. The elephants will be in the city between July and September next year, then they’ll be auctioned to the public. The money will go towards The Children’s Hospital charity. Local illustrator, Geo Law has created the first one.