Sheffield City Council has announced that there will be 11 more 20 mph zones introduced in the City. The Twenty’s Plenty campaign is saying that though Sheffield was pioneering in this area in the 1990s’ it is now falling behind a lot of the other major Cities and needs to introduce even more such speed restrictions.
The annual Village Traipse has been performed by the Grenoside Sword Dancers for at least a hundred and fifty years.
The people of Sheffield gathered at Barkers Pool to show solidarity with the people of France and to defend the freedom of expression.
Sheffield based illustrator, James Walmesley, has drawn a cartoon about the Charlie Hebdo attack which has been re-tweeted over 6,000 times.
The Blades Squad has had a couple of light training sessions following their 3 – 0 win over Premiership team QPR in the FA cup.
A quarter of the UK’s population does not have access to a car. With the rising costs of travel fares a protest was held outside Sheffield railway station to ask for the nationalisation of the railways.
Ben Needham went missing 23 years ago in Kos, Greece. His mother Kerry has been looking for him every since. The family have been following up leads and doing their own investigation with very little support from official sources. The Home Office has now given a grant to South Yorkshire police to do a more in depth investigation over the coming year.
High Hopes is a horse riding school for people with disabilities and it is currently looking for volunteers.
Sheffield Ahmadiyya Muslim Association took to the streets of Sheffield on New Years Day to help clean up the aftermath of the New Years Eve Party.
The Palestine Solidarity Campaign held a protest outside Sainsbury’s, as part of a national campaign, to ask customers to boycott goods which are grown in illegal Israeli settlements in Palestine. The supermarket was contacted but gave no comment.