Following the 2018 local elections in Sheffield, councillor’s reflect on their campaigns. Mickey Conn speaks to some of the winners live from the English Institute of Sport for Sheffield Live!
Following the 2018 local elections in Sheffield, councillor’s reflect on their campaigns. Mickey Conn speaks to some of the winners live from the English Institute of Sport for Sheffield Live!
Sheffield’s Blowfish Theatre company will bring their latest production, Trump the Musical, to Theatre Deli in May, after touring in London, Birmingham and Manchester. The satirical show takes on US politics follows last year’s success with the company’s first production, Boris the Musicals. Sheffield Live! reporter Azz Mohammed spoke to co-artistic director Laurence Peacock and actor David Bercot.
The Green Party in Sheffield have announced that Cllr Robert Murphy will be their candidate in the upcoming election for the Sheffield City Region mayor. The news follows a recent ballot of party members. Azz Mohammed reports for Sheffield Live!
Baillor Jalloh and Dr Nkululeko Sibanda are joined by Tonderai Samanyanga, the chairman for the MDCT in the UK and Ireland to discuss the death of their former leader, Morgan Tsvangirai, who passed away on 14th February 2018 in South Africa after a long battle with cancer.
The death of former Zimbabwean opposition leader Morgan Tsvangirai has saddened many from Sheffield’s Zimbabwean community. The former leader of Zimbabwe’s Movement for Democratic Change died of cancer whilst receiving treatment in Pretoria. Sheffield-based Dr Nkululeko Sibanda, a former MDC member who has also been an advisor to Morgan Tsvangirai, spoke to Sheffield Live! reporter Baillor Jalloh.
Baillor Jalloh and Dr Nkululeko Sibanda are joined by former Liberian chairman in the United Kingdom, Prince Taylor, and Pastor Akoi Massayan Bazzie to discuss the country’s newly elected president, George Opon Weah Maneh.
Caroline Lucas, MP for Brighton Pavilion and Green Party Co-leader, was in Sheffield to help launch Sheffield Green Party’s campaign for the upcoming local elections on 3 May. Baillor Jalloh reports for Sheffield Live!
Liberal Democrats leader, Sir Vince Cable, has told Sheffield Live! his party’s promise not to increase tuition fees during the campaign in the 2010 general election “was a bad mistake”. The former Business Secretary was in Sheffield to meet with Lib Dem activists to discuss party policies and to support the campaign to save from closure the NHS Walk-in Centre on Broad Lane and the Minor Injuries Unit at Hallamshire Hospital. Baillor Jalloh reports.
Green Party councillor and Deputy Lord Mayor Magid Magid, due to take over in May the largely ceremonial role of Lord Mayor of Sheffield, spoke to Sheffield Live! on what he hopes to achieve. Magid chaired his first full Council meeting at the Town Hall this week, in which tree campaigners staged a sit-in protest against Amey’s tree felling programme. He has also been in the media spotlight as an undercover fugitive evading secret agents in the Channel 4 reality TV show Hunted. Azz Mohammed reports for Sheffield Live!
A new plaque to honour Sheffield women’s suffrage movement activists who campaigned for the right vote is to be installed at their former shop on Chapel Walk. Following a campaign to honour the women by Sheffield Young People’s Equality Group, and a successful crowd-funding appeal, approval has now been granted and the plaque will be installed on International Women’s Day on March 8. The plaque forms part of the celebrations to mark 100 years since the passing of the Representation of the Peoples Act 2018 which gave women over 30 and ‘of property’ the right to vote. Baillor Jalloh reports for Sheffield Live!