A council who published documents over its tree felling programme in the middle of the night to ‘avoid scrutiny’ has apologised for its ‘lack of… honesty’. Sheffield City Council was forced to issue a public apology after a report found it acted with a ‘lack of transparency, openness and, on occasion, honesty’ in the … Read more
Shocking moment gang of hooded youth launch fireworks at moving cars in Sheffield The video shows the group of youths letting off fireworks on Saturday evening They can also be heard shouting at residents of Ecclesall Road, Sheffield An individual can be seen aiming the pyrotechnics at moving cars By Aliki Kraterou For Mailonline Published: 15:36 BST, … Read more
Students have today been dealt another blow after three of the country’s largest universities shifted to online classes in a desperate move to curb Covid outbreaks. More than 80 universities in the UK have reported at least 5,000 confirmed cases of Covid-19 among students and staff. Manchester University, where there have been more than 1,000 … Read more
Parts of the UK – including a number of university cities – could be plunged into local lockdown within days after ‘missed’ Test and Trace data belatedly revealed soaring infection figures – putting the areas over the threshold for a new three-tier alert system. Cities including Sheffield, Leeds and Oxford are among a dozen areas … Read more
Massive coronavirus outbreak at Sheffield University as 474 students and five staff members test positive By Jack Wright For Mailonline Published: 13:43 BST, 5 October 2020 | Updated: 13:46 BST, 5 October 2020 Nearly 500 people have tested positive for coronavirus at the University of Sheffield. According to an online tracker on the university’s website, … Read more
Arsenal pay tribute to Sgt Matt Ratana – who was tragically shot dead inside a police station last week – by dressing seats with club shirts bearing his name alongside Met Police uniform ahead of Premier League match A touching tribute to the late Sgt Matt Ratana has been unveiled at the Emirates Mr Ratana … Read more
How a church-going horticulturalist from Sheffield defied the Nazis during WWII: Woman’s relentlessly cheerful correspondence with her cousin in America during the Blitz helped derail Hitler’s propaganda campaign Winifred Graville penned letters about the Blitz to her American cousin Jane Horticulturalist wrote that the Nazis would not terrify Britain into submission She also documented Sheffield’s … Read more
Stainless steel may have first been created in ancient Persia in the 11th century — 1,000 years before it was independently forged in Sheffield, the Steel City. Sheffield has a proud history as a northern powerhouse and it is all based on a formidable metal industry, bolstered by its invention of stainless steel in 1913. … Read more
Hundreds of anti-lockdown activists held a huge protest against wearing face masks outside the Scottish Parliament in Edinburgh this afternoon. Around 600 coronavirus sceptics and vaccine conspiracy theorists gathered outside Hollyrood after Scotland saw its highest weekly rise in coronavirus cases since May. Meanwhile, Piers Corbyn attended an anti-lockdown protest in Sheffield today, less than … Read more
The former bare-knuckle boxer’s funeral cortege brought the city’s traffic to a standstill as hundreds of people gathered to say goodbye to him. Willy Collins, dubbed ‘the King of Sheffield’ was carried from outside the Old Ball pub in Darnall, past Pitsmoor, where he grew up, and through Sheffield’s streets in a gold coffin before a … Read more