Rotherham Street Market wins ‘Best Large Outdoor Market 2016’

Rotherham’s Tuesday Street Market has been awarded the ‘Best Large Outdoor Market 2016’ in the Great British Market Awards. The street market began with forty stalls to boost trade in the town on what was one of the quietest shopping days. Now there are ninety five stalls from All Saints Square across to Effingham Square. Judges were impressed with the market’s high footfall and good links with the local community. Advisory Cabinet Member for Jobs and the Local Economy, Councillor Denise Lelliott, told Kathryn Smiles how she felt about the award.

Dizzee Rascal announunced as first Tramlines 2016 Headliner

Tramlines have announced the first part of the line up for this year’s festival. Dizzee Rascal has been confirmed as the Headliner at the main stage on the Friday evening. The Tramlines Festival will take place across a number of Sheffield venues from Friday the 22nd to Sunday the 24th of July. Other acts announced for this year include Young Fathers, Dawn Penn, Goldie MBE. Last year’s event saw over one hundred thousand festival goers in the city centre.

Calls to avoid unhealthy food and drink sponsorship in sport

A senior lecturer at Sheffield Hallam University has had a report published arguing for tighter restrictions on the endorsement of unhealthy food and drinks in sport. Dr Stuart Flint from the Centre for Sport and Exercise Science says Sports organisations should avoid sponsorship deals with unhealthy food and drink brands to reduce the risk of obesity and Type 2 diabetes. He told our reporter, Sal Saba more about the issue.

Art work installed at Olympic Legacy Park

The Olympic Legacy Park on the old Don Valley Stadium site has begun to take shape, with the Oasis Academy Don Valley school open, and construction work underway on Sheffield’s second University Technical College. Now art work by Leap Design has been installed around the London 2012 Olympic legacy project. The work aims to highlight what people can get involved in when the park fully opens next year.

Age Better Sheffield support people in Burngreave

A scheme is being launched in the Burngreave area of Sheffield, to help tackle loneliness and social isolation. The Toolkit Project, organised by Age Better encourages volunteers to create a digital toolkit, which can be given to over seven thousand residents. It aims to help people realise if they are socially isolated, and offers them advice. The Age Better Campaign is run by the South Yorkshire Housing Association. They received six million pounds in funding over six years from the Big Lottery Fund.

Pet photo competition – prizes to win!

Do you have a photogenic pet, a cute kitty or handsome hound?

Then enter our competition – you could win vouchers from Cookes Pet Supplies AND your pet can bask in fame and adulation.

Whether your pet is a beloved moggy, pampered pooch, or perhaps a gerbil, hamster, or something more exotic – just send us a picture to enter.

As long as the photograph is of your own, legally owned pet, whether it’s cute, silly or simply posing for the camera, we’d love to see your best picture!

There are great prizes for winners:

• 1st prize: £25 voucher from Cookes Pet Supplies
• 2nd prize: £15 voucher from Cookes Pet Supplies
• 3rd prize: £10 voucher from Cookes Pet Supplies

How to enter

It’s really simple to enter. Just send your photograph to comp@sheffieldlive.org – please send files no larger than 4 MB.

The deadline to enter is 5pm on Monday, 21st March. All entrants will also receive a special voucher for a one-off discount at Cookes Pet Supplies.

We’ll publish your pictures online here at www.sheffieldlive.org and in the daytime viewers’ pictures feed on Sheffield Live Television, and also on our facebook page.

And on 28 March our Sheffield Live team of animal loving judges will decide the 1st, 2nd and 3rd prizes.

We’re grateful to Cookes Pet Supplies for sponsoring this competition. Family run since the 1940s, Cookes’ staff are trained nutritional advisors and are on hand to help with any special requirements your pet may need catering for. Visit their stores in Sheffield, Barnsley and Rotherham or find them online – click and collect is now available: www.cookespetsupplies.co.uk and their facebook page is here.

Cookes Pet Supplies

Terms and Conditions

In addition to our normal standard terms and conditions of competition entry, the following special terms also apply to this competition:

1. Entrants retain copyright of their photographs but grant Sheffield Live and Cookes Pet Supplies unlimited useage rights to publish their photographs online only in articles and marketing material connected to this competition;

2. Only one entry per person – an entry comprises of one photograph;

3. You may only enter the competition if you are the owner of the copyright of the photograph you are submitting;

4. Photographs may not contain illegal or pornographic images;

5. The judges will be Sheffield Live! volunteers / staff; the judges’ decision regarding prizes will be final and no correspondence will be entered into regarding reasons for choices; no-one connected with the judges will be able to enter.

Enter the competition now – send a picture of your pet to comp@sheffieldlive.org

Alien Ant Farm at Corporation reviewed

It’s a brand new year and what better way to start it off than by travelling back over a decade to see an old favourite play a sell out show at Sheffield’s biggest alternative venue, Corporation?

Playing through their platinum (US) selling album ANThology, this was a nostalgia party that everybody was invited to.

Corp immediately became a swarming hive of activity fuelled by the previous performances by the wonderful Dirty Youth and INME. Passionate and eager, we were psyched up and ready for AAF to arrive on stage. 

The performance given by Mitchell, Cosgrove, Corso and Peugh was nothing short of how I would have imagined it when I first heard “Movies” on Kerrang TV. Feeling somewhat sentimental and ecstatic in unison,  I think I can speak for most people who attended that evening when I say that this gig was something pretty special.

The crowd were absolutely insatiable throughout the entire set and the showmanship was simply incredible, from track 1 all the way to 14, and what better way to close the show than by playing their hugely successful cover of Michael Jacksons’ “Smooth Criminal.”

The band were truly on form and performed to an exceptional level, I’m sure this experience will be a memorable one that will stay with people for a long time.

Follow Corporation nightclub on Twitter for event updates! – @Corpsheffield

‘Unrepresentative’ poll samples in the general election

The failure of pollsters to forecast the outcome of the general election last May was largely due to “unrepresentative” poll samples, an inquiry has found. The polling industry came under fire for predicting a virtual dead heat when the Conservatives ultimately went on to outpoll Labour by 36.9% to 30.4%. A panel of experts has concluded this was due to Tory voters being under-represented in phone and online polls. But it said it was impossible to say whether “late swing” was also a factor. The majority of polls taken during last year’s five-week election campaign suggested that David Cameron’s Conservatives and Ed Miliband’s Labour were neck-and-neck.

Petition to save Cobnar Cottage

Over twelve thousand three hundred people have signed a petition to stop the sale of an 18th century cottage in Sheffield. Sheffield City Council expect to receive around eighty thousand pounds from the sale of Cobnar cottage, on Cobnar Road in Graves Park. The money is set to be spent on further investment in the park, including improvements to play facilities and footpaths. Sheffield City Council say ‘The cottage has been vacant for many years, sits outside the park boundary wall, forms a tiny fraction of the park, and has never been part of the public amenity of Graves Park.’ The council have no future use for the cottage, and say they do not plan to sell any other part of Graves Park.

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