by Joe Green | Nov 24, 2023 1:25PM | News
A South Yorkshire council has taken action after food bank use in the area tripled in the last three years. Rotherham Metropolitan Borough Council pledged to provide over £100,000 annually up to 2027 to local foodbanks in their three-year crisis support plan on...
by Huzaifah Khan | Nov 24, 2023 1:13PM | News
The new minimum wage increase announced in Wednesday’s autumn statement will see a sharp rise in young people’s wages in Sheffield, but has been criticised for not falling in line with inflation. Mason Oxley-Mark, a full-time worker at Sheffield Arena KFC,...
by Ciara Healy | Nov 24, 2023 1:06PM | Campaign - Disabilities, News
Jyneen Haughie, 37, from Barnsley, is coordinating a charity skydive of 19 people, to raise money for the epilepsy society and to commemorate her sister who died suddenly aged 22. Clareese Haughie had suffered from epilepsy from a young age – among other...
by Richard McLaughlin | Nov 24, 2023 11:58AM | News
South Yorkshire Police are appealing for witnesses after a man was assaulted last month outside of a shop on Abbey Lane. The suspect, described as being a white male in his early-20s, is 5ft 10in with dark brown hair and brown stubble. He spat in the face of a woman...
by Aleksandra Zolczynska | Nov 24, 2023 11:31AM | News
Five people die in road accidents every day in the UK, and 35 people have lost their lives in South Yorkshire in 2022, South Yorkshire Police have said. Brake, a charity supporting people affected by road accidents and working to eliminate road deaths, is running the...
by Ruby Watson | Nov 24, 2023 11:26AM | News
Councillors have described an ambitious plan to overhaul a key South Yorkshire train line as a “no brainer”. A £48m investment will be used to double sections of the track, allowing two trains to travel in both directions on the Northern section of the...
