Sheffield City Trust which runs some of the city’s biggest leisure and entertainment venues is to hand them back to Sheffield Council after receiving a £7 million bailout. Opposition leader Shaffaq Mohammed has called it an end game for the organisation with tax payers to be hit one more time to fill the budget gap. Azz Mohammed reports for Sheffield Live!
Tramlines Festival has announced an open invitation to new acts who want to perform at the festival this year. Festival organisers are looking to bring in more new talent from the local community. Sheffield Live! reporter Azz Mohammed spoke to Alex Deadman, regional media officer for Tramlines.
A Ukrainian journalist and IT worker in the frontline city of Konotop in Sumy Oblast, Ukraine has spoken to Sheffield Live! about how the war has affected her and her family. Olha Peredera talks about how life is at the moment as well as her reaction to when the Russian invasion started. Sangita Basudev interviewed Olha Peredera for Sheffield Live!
Volunteers from aid charity Go Dharmic travelled to the Polish border crossing to deliver aid to those crossing over to safety from the war in Ukraine. Hanumann Dass, founder of Go Dharmic told Sheffield Live! that even the smaller border towns are seeing thousands of arrivals a day. Azz Mohammed reports.
Covering Ukraine is a special production for the Local Television Network covering the war in Ukraine, produced by Latest TV (Brighton) and Sheffield Live! TV, with reports from Ukrainian journalists, solidarity action in the UK and Ukrainian culture. In this latest edition we feature the Ukrainian National Munical Opera Kyiv who are touring Madam Butterfly in the UK, we hear from former councillor Jim Steinke on Sheffield’s twin city Donetsk, and Olena Mandrik, a Ukranian researcher at Sheffield University, talks about the impact of the war and the Stand With Ukraine Sheffield campaign.
Sheffield Mencap & Gateway is celebrating its 70th anniversary with the launch of a book of 70 stories of people with learning disabilities. The charity offers a range of support services to help people with earning disabilities to lead better lives. Sheffield Live1 reporter Azz Mohammed spoke to Jonathan Raimondi, manager at Sheffield Mencap.
Covering Ukraine is a special production for the Local Television Network covering the war in Ukraine, produced by Latest TV (Brighton) and Sheffield Live! TV, with reports from Ukrainian journalists, solidarity action in the UK and Ukrainian culture.
Sheffield Council have launched a new stop smoking campaign together with Smokefree Sheffield to show the impacts of cheap and illicit tobacco in the city as well as highlighting the importance of quitting. Sheffield Live! reporter Azz Mohammed spoke to Councillor Alison Teal, executive member for sustainable neighbourhoods, wellbeing, parks and leisure, and Greg Fell, director of public health in Sheffield.
The global day of celebration of the social, economic, cultural, and political achievements of women was marked in Sheffeld by events and activities including a drop-in organised by Together Women. International Women’s Day has been celebrated since 1975. Together Women is a local charity supporting women and girls. Sheffield Live! reporter Azz Mohammed spoke to Lauren O’Donoghue, of Together Women.
Kyiv-based graphics designer Denis Dekhtiarenko is working with aid charity Go Dharmic to help move aid from the UK to Ukraine. He spoke to Sheffield Live! reporter Azz Mohammed together with Hanuman Dass from Go Dharmic.