Team Virgin Money Sheffield is preparing to run the ‘world’s toughest obstacle course’ to raise money for Weston Park Cancer Charity. The team of six are running in the ‘Midlands Weekend 2’ event, which is taking place on the 19th and 20th of May. The course is...
BTEC students find the stigma around eventual poor performance in University to be highly discouraging and demoralising. The Sheffield College offers a Media, Journalism and Photography BTEC course at their Hillsborough campus where they aim to create a good base to...
Sheffield NHS workers are taking part in a nationwide scheme to promote equality and diversity in the workplace this week. This is the seventh year in which the scheme has taken place, and initiatives and activities for the whole week have been announced through...
The Woodland Heritage Festival will be returning to Sheffield on bank holiday Monday, providing people with historical activities such as poem writing workshops and cave painting. The student-led event aims to highlight parts of the Sheffield heritage, as well as...
Sheffield PDSA Pet Hospital are hosting a community open day on May 26 to help raise awareness. The day will include guided tours of the hospital, dog shows, a pet stall, a bouncy castle and more activities for all the family. Rob Haselgrove, senior vet at Sheffield...
Tomorrow is the International Day Against Homophobia, Transphobia and Biphobia; or IDAHOBIT, which is a day to recognise and celebrate gender and sexual diversities around the world. Sheffield has marked IDAHOBIT with a public rally culminating in a ‘one-minute noise’...
Sheffield City has elected Magid Magid, 28 as Lord Mayor today, breaking the record for the most 'firsts' for a Mayor and marking the end of Councillor Anne Murphy's mayoral year. Magid, who first moved to Sheffield to flee a war-torn Somalia aged five as a...
A Sheffield artist is hoping to expand his message through Sheffield and beyond, by working with Samaritans and Sheffield Mind to send his work and leaflets around the country by mail. Jarrad Leary, 30 from Deepcar, aims to get people talking about suicide and mental...
Despite reports that they would have to cough up £2.6m, Sheffield Wednesday have been told it would only cost £800,000 to make Frederico Venancio's loan move permanent. In a recent press conference Manager Jos Luhukay said: "From the first day I came here, Venancio...
Media and Journalism students from three of Sheffield's leading academic institutions have backed the city's bid to become Channel 4's new home. At an event last Friday afternoon, students from The Sheffield College, UTC Sheffield, and Sheffield Hallam University...
Sheffield City Council has increased the funding for the education for deaf children, despite 45 councils in England making cuts. A Freedom of Information request by the National Deaf Children's Society revealed that deaf children are set to lose £4 million of support...
Gareth Southgate has named three Sheffield-grown boys in is Russia 2018 World Cup squad. Leicester city striker, Jamie Vardy, and defender Harry Maguire and Manchester City defender, Kyle Walker, are all included in the squad. Kyle Walker: Walker grew up on an estate...
The controversial two billion ‘Streets Ahead’ PFI contract says it aims to replace all the trees that have been felled within the recent weeks. Around 17,500 trees have been included in the in the contract but this is not the target. In the next five years a maximum...
A Manor boxing club that brought the community together is to fight the council’s decisions to replace them with commercial shops. De Hood was founded by Reagan Denton, 40, six years ago. Struggling with dyslexia, Mr Denton was a delinquent who changed his ways by...
Sheffield band Arctic Monkeys have announced that they will be performing at the Royal Albert Hall in support of War Child UK. The band, who have just released their new album 'Tranquility Base Hotel and Casino', will be playing live in London for the first time in...
