Sheffielders have given their opinion on how they feel about allowing tourists back into the UK, after the new Traffic Light System was revealed. People have been stuck at home for over a year now and they are relishing in the fact they may be able to get their old...
A myriad of factors have led to India experiencing a devastating second wave of the coronavirus pandemic. With a shortage of healthcare supplies, many Indians have taken to Twitter to ask for available hospital beds, medicine, blood plasma and vaccines. It’s a...
Barnsley has been named as having the best job recovery in the UK post-Covid, with the number of postings actually increasing from February last year. There are 20 per cent more job vacancies than pre-pandemic and Doncaster is seventh on the list, with a 6 per cent...
The beloved Tramlines Festival has announced their official 2021 line-up will be released on 26 April at 6pm. The fate of the festival unfortunately depends on the scale of Covid-19 cases and whether lockdown restrictions will be lifted as planned. Tramlines'...
Sheffield’s Director of Public Health, Greg Fell, has encouraged people to take lateral flow tests to maintain the steady decrease of COVID-19. The latest seven-day average of cases in Sheffield dropped below 50 for the first time since September last year. One month...
A memorial in Rotherham is to open next week with the aim of rebuilding the communities which have been badly impacted by the Coronavirus pandemic. On March 27, Hope Fields in Thrybergh Country Park will mark the anniversary of lockdown by offering a space for locals...
An ambitious nine-year-old girl from Sheffield has started her own slime business in lockdown, becoming the city’s latest young entrepreneur. Sapphire Billing opened Sapphire’s Slime at the start of February with the help of her parents and sister, and has since...
The UK’s vaccination programme is leading the world effort in the fight against Coronavirus, with the Government already vaccinating over 20 million people in the top four priority groups. Currently anyone over 50 can be vaccinated, but many key-workers around...
Prime Minister Boris Johnson recently announced that students could resume with face-to-face classes from 8 March. As of 15 February, the United Kingdom announced tighter travel restrictions to prevent the spread of the Covid-19 transmissions and its new variants....
Sheffield City Council have announced their plan to launch a second round of funding to support the Voluntary and Community sector. £230,000 is available in the Community Covid-19 Response Fund. Councillor Paul Wood, Cabinet member for Neighbourhoods and Community...
On Monday 17th December Prime Minister Boris Johnson announced plans to exit the national lockdown. He described the plan as “cautious but irreversible” implying that this could be the last lockdown during the Coronavirus pandemic. Cities like Sheffield currently have...
Daunting; unprecedented; impossible? Whilst adapting to lockdown life, the world’s oldest broadcaster was tasked to keep its young audience informed and pull-off the biggest venture in modern educational history. For the BBC, time was ticking: children’s futures were...
The Football Association are expected to order clubs to play with no fans after several leagues across Europe have been suspended, as the Government attempts to slow the spread of the coronavirus. Boris Johnson has been in a government emergency COBRA committee...
A Sheffield food bank has urged people to bulk buy responsibly as they struggle to buy enough food for their visitors. Volunteers at the S2 Foodbank, in Woodthorpe, have said the mass buying triggered by the Coronavirus has restricted the amount of essentials they can...
Co-written by Amal Abdallah The Department of Health and Social Care will today update the UK risk level regarding the novel coronavirus. The Department of Health have said: “It is likely there will be individual cases and we are confident in the ability of the NHS...
