by Joseph Gilbert | May 2, 2024 12:28PM | Campaigns - Deaf Awareness TOP STORY
Deafness is stereotypically associated with an older population, but there are more than 50,000 children and three people born each day in the UK with a form of hearing loss. As part of Deaf Awareness Week, Sheffield Wire aims to highlight the barriers young deaf...
by Joseph Gilbert | May 2, 2024 12:26PM | Campaigns - Deaf Awareness
After widespread closures of specialist deaf schools, mainstream schools and councils have had to adapt learning environments to support the needs of more than 50,000 deaf children in the UK. But with budgets being slashed and an increasing scarcity of resources, deaf...
by Joseph Gilbert | Apr 15, 2024 10:12AM | News
Good morning. Today marks 35 years since the Hillsborough Disaster. We’ll be bringing you all the latest updates from the memorial service in honour of the 97 lives that were tragically lost that day. Christopher Brain, a Sheffield priest, is back in court...
by Joseph Gilbert | Mar 18, 2024 4:22PM | Sport
Sheffield Wire will be taking a four-week break for the Easter holidays – but while we’re away, the games go on. With the season nearing its end, the coming weeks will be crucial for all our local teams to sustain themselves in their current leagues. Sheffield...
by Joseph Gilbert | Mar 18, 2024 12:34PM | Charity, Sport
A cancer charity cycle ride in memory of the victims of the Killamarsh murders took place between Sheffield’s football clubs on Saturday. Organised by the chairman of Sheffield City Football Club and friends and family of the victims, the event has so far raised over...
