Good morning and welcome to today’s Sheffield Wire news coverage of Friday 12 December 2025.
Our top stories today include:
- Collapsing flood defences on the River Sheaf has forced businesses off the land, pictured above. As residents desperately ask for help to protect the land, Reporter, Eve Hutchinson, speaks to campaigners.
- Eight firefighters who lost their lives during the Sheffield Blitz will be commemorated with a plaque in Pound’s Park, 85 years on. Reporter, Olivia Hiskett, will be at the unveiling ceremony.
- Soaring flu rates in England threaten hospitals, as a doctors strike threatens to make things worse. Reporters, Rosie Peters-McDonald and Lulu Johnston-Knight, investigate how Sheffield’s hospitals are coping.
