Crowds gather outside City Hall after the death of Iran’s supreme leader

A large gathering of people paraded outside of Sheffield's City Hall on Sunday after the death of Iranian's supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei.

Crowds gather outside City Hall after the death of Iran’s supreme leader

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Sheffield fly-tipping: the “most fly-tipped streets in Sheffield”, or the least protected by the Council?

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Coming back swinging: Sheffield Bladerunners’ “one big family” reunion

On a cold spring evening, as the sun began to fall behind the bank at the end of a large playing field, people began to gather around a freshly-laid baseball diamond. They dropped off kit bags and picked up metal bats, battered leather gloves and worn-out baseballs. They smiled at each other, resisted the natural urge to hug one another and opted for fist-bumps and elbow bashes, happy to be reunited with the second family they hadn’t seen for months.

Football for Foodbanks: The social enterprise using football as a force for good

Football for Foodbanks: The social enterprise using football as a force for good

ā€œSeriously, you have got to stamp on this. It’s a criminal act against football fans in this country. Punish them. They will probably hide in a few weeks, and say it was nothing to do with them, they were only talking about it. Seriously, in the midst of a pandemic, an economic crisis and these lot are having Zoom calls about breaking away and basically creating more greed? Joke.ā€