Sheffield Doc/Fest: theme tune of the decade is anger
Sheffield’s Doc/Fest captures the anger of a generation in a new, spontaneous mode of film-making.
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Park Hill was the revolutionary council estate built in Sheffield in the early 60s which promised “streets in the sky” for families instead of slums.
It’s a big night in the music world with the MOBO Awards, which celebrates music of Black origin, taking place in Sheffield. It’s the first time they’ve been held in the Steel City.
It was voted as the UK’s Number One airport, but by the end of this week Doncaster Sheffield Airport could be closed for good, despite a campaign to keep it open. The owners, Peel, rejected an offer of public money which would have allowed it to operate into next year – saying the airport simply…
The future of Doncaster Sheffield Airport has been plunged into doubt after bosses said it “may no longer be commercially viable”.
A five-year-old boy who died after falling from a hotel room window in Sheffield was an Afghan refugee, who had only just arrived with his family in the UK after escaping from the Taliban.
Brexit has divided people up and down the country and the city of Sheffield is no different. There, the leave camp won narrowly – with 51 per cent of the vote. With a year to go until Brexit is due to happen, we’ve been to meet three Sheffield artists whose views capture the complex issues…
Thousand of trees lining one of the country’s greenest cities are being chopped down, because the council says it’s the only affordable way to maintain roads and keep pavements safe. One in six of Sheffield’s 36,000 street trees will disappear, to be replaced by saplings but furious residents have described it as “sheer vandalism”. Protestors…
Pop singer Paul Heaton, who resigned as patron of Sheffield Utd over their handling of convicted rapist Ched Evans, says the club should distance itself from him.
Sheffield’s Doc/Fest captures the anger of a generation in a new, spontaneous mode of film-making.
Five people, including a nine-week-old baby and two other young children, die in a house fire in Sheffield.
The Sheffield Half Marathon organisers prompted outrage when they cancelled the event after a problems with the delivery of water. Thousands of “rebel runners” decided to race anyway.
Channel 4 News speaks to David Blunkett MP and visits Sheffield three months after he said that the community would “explode” due to a influx of Roma migrants.
Capital spending on infrastructure has been halved by George Osborne. On Wednesday, he will announce an increase in this type of spending, but why was this not done three years ago?
It is quite extraordinary that many of the 16-year-olds targeted by David Cameron’s National Citizen Service scheme will have £50 or £100 to spare in order to pay for work experience, blogs Faisal Islam.
They are being prosecuted after violence erupted in places including Sheffield, Sunderland, Hartlepool and Belfast.