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Armed police are conducting a major operation in Sheffield following reports of a man with weapons in an apartment building. Officers were called to the Gateway building on Broad Street at about ...
BBC Wales Education and Family correspondent Bethan Lewis said though the Ammanford stabbing verdict came on the same day a boy in Sheffield was stabbed at school, these incidents are "very rare".
Sheffield was selected as a candidate host city by the Football Association (FA) as part of the English 2018 and 2022 FIFA World Cup bid on 16 December 2009. [206] Hillsborough Stadium was chosen as the proposed venue for matches in Sheffield. [207] The bid failed. Sheffield hosted the finish of Stage 2 of the 2014 Tour de France. Within the ...
This timeline of Sheffield history summarises key events in the history of Sheffield, a city in England. The origins of the city can be traced back to the founding of a settlement in a clearing beside the River Sheaf in the second half of the 1st millennium AD. The area had seen human occupation since at least the last ice age, but significant growth in the settlements that are now ...
The Sheffield Outrages were a series of explosions and murders by a group of trade unionists carried out in Sheffield, England in the 1860s. Sheffield Trades Union Outrages, The Illustrated Police News, 1867. Sheffield's early success in steel production had involved long working hours, in conditions which offered little or no safety protection.
The Sheffield tree felling protests were a series of protests and unrest happening between 2014 and 2018 in Sheffield, South Yorkshire, England.The protests began as a response to the mass felling of healthy street trees across Sheffield since 2012 as part of the controversial ‘Streets Ahead’ Private Finance Initiative (PFI) contract signed by Sheffield City Council (SCC), Amey plc and the ...
It soon took over its only local rival, the Sheffield Evening Star, and from June 1888 to December 1897 it was known as the Evening Telegraph and Star and Sheffield Daily Times, then from 1898 to October 1937 as the Yorkshire Telegraph and Star. In 1931, it took over the Sheffield Mail, which had been its
High Street was the site of the original Sheffield Town Hall, which was situated by the church gates; it was a modest building which was replaced by a more impressive structure in 1808 on Waingate. For many years High Street remained no wider than it had been in the Middle Ages; it was too narrow for horse trams to pass through.