The snooker championship returns to the Crucible Theatre and celebrates the 40th year of World Snooker in Sheffield. World Snooker promoter Barry Hearn has vowed the tournament will remain in the city for at least a further 10 years. Mark Selby lifted the trophy last year and is favourite again this year. Simon Thake reports for Sheffield Live!
Learn for Life, a community hub based on London Road, has been shortlisted in the Aviva Community Fund competition. The competition offers the chance for local community projects to gain additional funding, with the winner decided by members of the public voting online for their favourite community project. Learn for Life provide training, advice and support for vulnerable members of the community.
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
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.
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
The Brit Rock film tour is the first home grown adventure tour to emerge from the vibrant UK film making industry.
After the success of its inaugural 2014 launch the tour is back with a bang for 2015. Brit Rock comes right from the heart of the UK adventure scene, with liberal splashes of the inimitable British spirit.
And Sheffield Live has 2 tickets available to win, courtesy of Sheffield Students’ Union & Heason Events.
Focused on mountains this year, the tour will feature three stunning films: Wild Atlantic (Craig Hiller), Operation Moffatt (Jen Randall) & Citadel (Alastair Lee), the world’s first mountaineering documentary filmed entirely in 4K.
Leading adventure film maker Alastair Lee is back with a brand new mountain film for 2015, Citadel, featuring UK alpinists Matt Helliker and Jon Bracy embarking on a first ascent in a stunning and remote corner of the Alaskan wilderness. The world’s first 4k mountain film, a truly amazing spectacle.
This feature is supported by the BMC TV production by Jen Randel and Claire Carter, Operation Moffat, an inspiring and charming archive account of Britain’s first female mountain guide, the amazing Gwen Moffat (now 92).
Adding to the program will be the superb short Wild Atlantic, a montage of all things climbing on the west coast of Ireland by climbing photographer Craig Hiller.
To enter the competition just email your name, daytime phone number and your answer to the following question to comp@sheffieldlive.org by NOON on Monday 30th November:
What is the name of Britain’s first female mountain guide?
By entering you accept Sheffield Live’s standard competition terms and conditions. Over 18s only.
More about the Brit Rock film tour.
Since the release of their third album, the much lauded ‘Lost In The Dream’ in 2014, The War On Drugs, driven by the creative force of Adam Granduciel, continue to triumph.
And next week you have the opportunity to hear them live in Sheffield, at O2 Academy Sheffield.
Tickets are available to buy here – but the lovely folks at O2 Academy Sheffield have a pair of tickets available to win in a special Sheffield Live competition.
To enter, just email comp@sheffieldlive.org by midnight on Tuesday 7th July with your name, telephone number, and youranswer to the following question:
Name the support act for The War on Drugs at Sheffield on 9th July.
Entries are in line with our standard competition terms and conditions.
The winner of a pair of tickets will be informed on Wednesday 8th July.
School’s out for summer…and we have a great competition to start the holidays!
We have 2 sets of family tickets (4 tickets per set) to win, to attend a special screening of new film Earth to Echo,
Earth to Echo is out on general release from Friday 25 July.
But you can win tickets to see it at a special screening at Sheffield Cineworld on Tuesday 22nd July, 10:30am.
After receiving a bizarre series of encrypted messages, a group of kids embark on an adventure with an alien who needs their help!
An inspiring science-fiction adventure, Earth to Echo captures all the mystery, excitement and wonder of an extra-terrestrial occurrence in a small Nevada suburb. But at its heart, the movie is about friendship.
Watch the trailer here:
To enter the competition all you have to do is email the answer to the following question (and your name and a contact telephone number) to comp@sheffieldlive.org with the subject Earth to Echo competition – by 6pm on Monday 21 July. Winners will be notified on Monday evening.
Competition question: name one of the three young ‘heroes’ of Earth to Echo.
Entries are in line with our standard competition terms and conditions. Two prizewinners will be selected at random out of all correct entries.
Don’t forget – if you like films, listen to Slam Dunk Cinema on Saturdays, noon to 1pm on Sheffield Live!
Photo – Paulo Ordoveza, used under Creative Commons 2.0 License
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 Harrison Cameras.
All you have to do is send us a photograph. Whether your pet is a beloved moggy, pampered pooch, or perhaps a gerbil, hamster, or something more exotic, as long as the photograph is of your own, legally owned pet, whether it’s cute or simply mugging for the camera, we’d love to see your best picture!
Alongside basking in the fame and glory of your picture of your pet being published, there are great prizes for winners:
It’s really simple to enter. Just send your photograph to comp@sheffieldlive.org – please send files no larger than 1 MB.
The deadline to enter is 31st August 2014.
We’ll publish entries online here at www.sheffieldlive.org (and via our facebook page) and invite our viewers to vote on their favourites.
Viewers’ votes (between 1 and 14 September) will be counted and used to make a shortlist of the top five photographs. Then on 15 September our Sheffield Live team of animal loving judges will decide the 1st, 2nd and 3rd prizes out of the shortlist.
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 or Rotherham or find them online – click and collect is now available: www.cookespetsupplies.co.uk
We’d also like to thank Cookes and Harrison Cameras for supplying prizes.
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, Cookes Pet Stores and Harrison Cameras 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. Photographs will be voted on by Sheffield Live listeners / website viewers between 1 and 14 September; the highest scoring 5 photographs will be shortlisted; on 15 September the judges will decide on the 1st, 2nd and 3rd prizes out of the five shortlisted photographs; 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
Sheffield Chamber of Commerce Staff modelling the exclusive Grand Depart T-shirts
It’s the biggest cycle race in the world – and it’s coming to Sheffield this Sunday! Now Sheffield Live listeners and website viewers have an opportunity to win one of two limited edition Grand Depart t-shirts provided by Sheffield Live advertiser Mercury Taxis.
Only 250 t-shirts have been made, by the Sheffield Chamber of Commerce, to mark the famous race coming to the city. All the t-shirts come with a certificate of authenticity. And we have two (both sized XL) up for grabs.
To enter our competition all you have to do is answer the following 2 questions:
1. What’s the telephone number for Mercury Taxis?
2. Who was the winner of the Yellow Jersey in the 2013 Tour de France?
Email your answers (and your name, address and telephone number) to comp@sheffieldlive.org by 5pm on Monday 7th July. Our standard competition Terms and Conditions apply.
Win a £50 Voucher for Continental Market!
An award-winning Continental Market is set to bring an International flavour to Fargate, Town Hall Square & Peace Gardens in Sheffield this April. From Wednesday 30th April until Monday 5th May, a selection of traders from around the world will be offering a mouth-watering selection of global goodies. Shoppers will be spoilt for choice at this free international event.
A great selection of mouth-watering food will be available at the Continental Market including Bella Paella offering their freshly made Spanish Paella cooked to their traditional family recipe from Cordoba. There shall be delicious Bratwurst Sausages from a traditional German Schwenkgrill alongside The Cheese Board with a tasty selection of cheeses, jams, chutneys and crackers.
Market Place Operations Manager, Chris Hulley said
“Our traders shall be offering Sheffield an exciting selection of flavours from all across the globe offering something for the whole family. It has been great to see all the attention this event has received so far and a number of new traders to our team will make it even more special. It shall definitely be the place to be this April!”
On top of the food on offer the popular Dutch Flowers on Tour will be brightening up the market with an array of plants, shrubs, bulbs and so much more.
Lapponia shall also be visiting Sheffield with Traditional Finnish Artisanry, wool, cotton and linen clothing, and even reindeer hides all ethically sourced. Pure Indulgence Soaps will be offering their unique handmade bath and body products for a luxurious bit of pampering including bath bombs, fizzers and candles.
If you’re not sure about trying something new, ask for a sample from our friendly traders. Visitors are certain to find something unique and tasty from our Continental Market. Come and join us for a fun family day out with a difference.
Opening hours of the market are: Wednesday to Saturday 09:00 to 17:30; Sunday 10:00 to 17.00; Bank holiday Monday 10.00 to 17.00
ENTER THE COMPETITION TO WIN a £50 voucher!
Just email the answer to the following question to comp@sheffieldlive.org
“The Continental market will feature mouth-watering food including Bella Paella’s freshly made Spanish Paella. Where does the recipe for their Paella come from?”
Entry is in line with our standard terms and conditions.
Peter Wright, 2014 World Championship finalist
Betway Premier League Darts has developed into a must-watch sporting event for darts fans.
We have a pair of tickets to the next event which takes place here in Sheffield TONIGHT – on Thursday April 10.
You will see darts legends in action, from the likes of Phil ‘The Power’ Taylor, Simon Whitlock and Raymond van Barneveld, targeting the Premier League Darts crown defended by 2013 debut champ Michael van Gerwen.
Premier League Darts 2014 sees the top ten players in the world battle it out over 16 weeks for a record prize fund of £550,000.
To enter the competition just email your name, phone number and address and the answer to the following question by 3pm TODAY to comp@sheffieldlive.org
Who is the defending Premier League Darts chamipion?
Entry is in line with our standard competition terms and conditions.