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Protestors urge UK to accept more child refugees from Calais

Protestors gathered outside Sheffield train station on Friday to call for the UK to provide more support in accepting child refugees from the Jungle camp in Calais. The peaceful demonstration was designed to raise awareness of the plight of refugee children. Children’s shoes were lined up outside the station to symbolise the young refugees in need and protestors lit candles and waved banners. A similar protest was also organised in Barnsley. Sheffield Live! reporter Baillor Jalloh spoke to Val Huzzard from Sheffield Donations for Refugees.

Anti-fracking protesters campaign for a ‘Frack Free University’

Sheffield University students have launched a ‘frack free university’campaign with a series of awareness raising events. Campaigners are concerned that fracking could come to Sheffield following the recent approval of fracking licences in North Yorkshire. Speaking at the launch panel organised by Sheffield University Students Union were Simon Bowens a member of Friends of the Earth and Tina Rothery of Frack Free Nana, a group of women who have led campaigns against fracking in Lancashire. Simon Thake reports for Sheffield Live!

‘Refugees welcome’ protest held in Sheffield

Hundreds of migrants have resumed their journey through Austria to Germany after Hungary’s decision on Friday to let them through. Several trains arrived at Munich station in the early hours of Sunday morning, many migrants travelling on to other German cities for processing. Trains are taking hundreds more to Vienna from Austria’s border with Hungary. The Pope said every Catholic parish in Europe should host a migrant family. He added humanity must give help to those “fleeing death” and who are “victims of war and hunger and setting out on the path to a better life”. Well here in Sheffield today there was protest at town hall to raise awareness for the need to help, I spoke Cheryl Robertson who is a campaigner and she talked about the situation….