by Eve Jones | Apr 28, 2025 12:38PM | News, Top Story
Jeremy Corbyn, Andy Burnham and Shon Faye are headlining the 10th anniversary of the Festival of Debate, running in Sheffield throughout May. Sam Gregory, one of the organisers of the festival, the largest of its kind in the UK, said non-partisan debate is necessary...
by Joel Cheshire | Apr 28, 2025 10:15AM | News
Good morning and welcome to today’s Sheffield Wire news coverage on Monday 28 April 2025. Our top stories today include: The Bite Back 4 Trans protest took place on Saturday after recent news of the UK Supreme Court ruling on gender identity. Reporter Olivia...
by Yassin El-Moudden | Mar 31, 2025 5:03PM | News, Top Story
Strikes are likely at the University of Sheffield after Easter, after ballot results showed that UCU members voted in favour of industrial action. Sources confirmed that 74% of members voted to withdraw their labour, with 82% voting to take action short of a strike....
by Eve Jones | Mar 31, 2025 4:58PM | Long Reads, News
A Sheffield GP surgery has announced it will no longer prescribe hormone treatment for adult transgender patients which could result in some being driven to the black market. Far Lane Medical Centre sent a letter to all its transgender patients stating that they...
by Caitlin James | Mar 31, 2025 4:27PM | News
A Denim Day is set to take place tomorrow as students from the University of Sheffield pledge to wear their jeans as part of a worldwide sexual assault awareness campaign. The annual event came about after a 1990s Italian Supreme Court overturned a rape conviction on...
by Madeleine Rousell | Mar 31, 2025 3:41PM | News
An increasing number of Sheffield parents are signing Smartphone free childhood’s pact to choose to “wait to give their children a smartphone until at least the end of Year 9″. According to their parent pact statistics, parents from over 149 schools across South...
