Volunteers from the Ahmadiyya Muslim Youth Association joined council workers at a public event to plant trees for the future, off East Bank Road in Gleadless. Sheffield Live! reporter spoke to youth leader, Dr Faran Rizvi.
Volunteers from the Ahmadiyya Muslim Youth Association joined council workers at a public event to plant trees for the future, off East Bank Road in Gleadless. Sheffield Live! reporter spoke to youth leader, Dr Faran Rizvi.
Lord Mayor of Sheffield, Denise Fox, was present at the awards ceremony to recognise residents from Parsons Cross and Loxley involved in Activity Sheffield. The programme supports people and communities in the most deprived neighbourhoods to keep active and to access work. Sheffield Live! reporter Azz Mohammed spoke to Lee Smith, team leader for Activity Sheffield.
Car booster seat regulations are set to change in March with the aim of improving child safety and some seating models will no longer be legal to sell. Many parents remain confused about the new child car seat regulations. Sheffield Live! reporter Simon Thake spoke to safer roads education manager Joanne Werhle.
Diabetes poses one of the major health risks in the region according to Stephen Ryan, Head of North England for Diabetes UK. Diabetes can lead to very serious health situations including leg amputations and blindness yet many people are unaware of dangers or the distinction between Type 1 and Type 2 diabetes. Simon Thake reports for Sheffield Live!
Children from Arbourthorne Community Primary School left the classroom to learn on the job and help plant new trees in community parks across south east Sheffield. The tree planting session is part of a project to add new ‘urban woodlands’ with a total of 7,500 trees to be planted at Kenninghall Bank, Fox Lane Recreation Ground and Pipworth Recreation Ground. The Lord Mayor, Councillor Denise Fox, put on her wellies to help volunteers from Sheffield City Council’s Community Forestry Team. Trees being planted are a mix of native woodland species including English Oak, Hazel, Field Maple, Spindle, Hawthorn and Blackthorn. The trees will be young “bare root whips”, two to three years in age, so they can grow with the community around them. Simon Thake reports for Sheffield Live!
Women, children and men gathered to dance in Sheffield Peace Gardens as part of the One Billion Rising global campaign to stop violence against women and girls. Since the campaign first launched in 2012, activists and supporters have performed the ‘Break the Chain’ dance to bring colour, movement and choreography to the One Billion Rising campaign. Participants, wearing black, red, pink and orange, joined thousands around the world participating in public dance events, interpreting words and music, by writers and musicians Tena Clerk and Tim Heintz, with the choreography of Debbie Allen. Simon Thake reports for Sheffield Live!
A colourful mural to celebrate the Special Olympics National Games, to be held in Sheffield in August 2017, has been unveiled in Sheffield City Centre. The ground-breaking artwork is a collaboration between local digital artist Greg Harris, Sheffield art students and athletes from Special Olympics GB. It celebrates famous Sheffield landmarks together with images of local icons and Special Olympics athletes from the Sheffield area. Sheffield boxer Kell Brook is a patron of the Special Olympics and took part in the mural unveiling. The finished work will be erected in a prominent position opposite Sheffield train station until the end of the Games in August 2017. Baillor Jalloh reports for Sheffield Live!
Britain’s leading athletes are competing this weekend for a place on the British Athletics team as Sheffield hosts the Indoor Team Trials at the English Institute of Sport. Winners at the trials will be crowned British Champion and will be in the running for a place on the British team for the European Indoor Championships, to be held in Belgrade in March.The English Institute for Sport in Sheffield has become the home of the national Indoor Team Trials and the best of Sheffield and Rotherham athletes will be among those competing at the event. Simon Thake reports for Sheffield Live!
A new mixed-media art exhibition at the Cupola Gallery in Hillsborough is inspired by images from bio-engineering research and cutting edge technology. Artist Kate Sully’s work explores reproduction through the world of microscopy and satellite imagery to investigate the dichotomy between cause and effect. The exhibition, part funded by Arts Council England, uses digitally printed textiles to create 2D and 3D pieces allowing the audience to engage new realities not visible to the naked eye. Simon Thake reports for Sheffield Live!
Sheffield University have signed a £50 million deal to bring luxury sports car manufacturer McLaren to a production site near the University’s Advanced Manufacturing Research Centre in Rotherham. The company will build a new chassis factory in South Yorkshire creating more than 200 jobs. Construction will begin this year, with full production of the advanced carbon fibre chassis expected by 2020. Baillor Jalloh reports for Sheffield Live!