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Smokefree Sheffield

Two new campaigns announced from Smokefree Sheffield to mark World No Tobacco Day

With a focus on cheap and illicit tobacco, and smokefree homes, Smokefree Sheffield and its partners are taking new approaches to change the norms around smoking in Sheffield.On average around 1 in 5 adults in Sheffield smoke and around 5 children start smoking in Sheffield every day. Smoking remain...Read more »

Peace Gardens

That’s a wrap! More than 50,000 people hail “best-ever” food festival

More than 50,000 people headed for Sheffield city centre to enjoy the city’s food festival – with organisers hailing it as the best yet.   Footfall was at an all-time high as Sheffield Food Festival celebrated its ninth birthday in style – with an ever-more diverse range of stalls including eight ...Read more »

Diamond Building

University of Sheffield number one in UK for engineering research income and investment

The University of Sheffield has overtaken Imperial College London to be the top university in the UK for income and investment in engineering research, according to new data published by the Higher Education Statistics Agency (HESA).  In 2017-18, the University attracted £124 million for engineering...Read more »

Town Hall and Mercure

New Council cabinet announced

There are four new faces in this year’s Cabinet. The Education and Skills portfolio will be taken over by Councillor Abtisam Mohamed, Abtisam is a Councillor for Firth Park Ward and has a background as a solicitor and works for local charity Aspiring Communities Together.Also coming into the Cabinet...Read more »

Watch Towards The Megatron

Watch Towards The Megatron

They've been featured in a wakeboarding film, referenced by Jarvis Cocker in Pulp's Wickerman and even popped up in the last series of Doctor Who.Now Sheffield's underground network of Victorian storm drains, which stretch for many miles under the city's railway station, are going overground. The fi...Read more »

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Sheffield embraces LGBT adopters

From 4 -11 March it is LGBT Adoption and Fostering week and to help highlight the importance of this service in Sheffield, we have been speaking with two same-sex couples about their experiences and their exciting new lives as parents.Jenny and Becki are 4 years into their adoption journey after ado...Read more »

green vehicle

Council updates parking prices with good news for green vehicles and carers

People who drive a low-polluting “green” vehicle or are a residential carer in Sheffield will no longer have to pay for a permit to do so.   So-called green permits, which also include free parking for Sheffield City Council controlled city centre car parks and on-street pay and display bays, will...Read more »

Sheffield Legend plaque for Gordon Banks

Football legend Gordon Banks to be honoured in Sheffield

Goalkeeping star Banks was awarded Sheffield Legend status with the first ever star installed on the city’s hall of fame after a career that included his appearance in the immortal 1966 World Cup Final victory over Germany in 1966.Born in Abbeydale in 1937 and raised in Tinsley, Banks made 628 appea...Read more »

Moving interviews recall Mi Amigo crash

Moving interviews recall Mi Amigo crash

Sheffield City Council has released moving interviews with two fresh eye witnesses to the Mi Amigo crash of 1944 as preparations continue for a public celebration to mark 75 years since the disaster. The long-lost interviews, found in the Sheffield Archives, were conducted with two eye witnesses to ...Read more »

Sheffield to host the Team UK Invictus Games Trials

The first ever national games for wounded, injured and sick veterans and personnel was launched yesterday in Sheffield by the UK partnership consisting of the Ministry of Defence, Help for Heroes and The Royal British Legion.The plans were announced today with a visit to Sheffield’s Winter Garden by...Read more »