Video - our review of today's top stories in Sheffield

Business editor David Walsh was joined by Jay Bhayani, solicitor and managing director of Bhayani HR and employment law and Darren Chouings, business incubation manager at Sheffield Hallam University’s i-Lab.

Our first story, which is on the front and over two pages inside, is the launch of a campaign to promote Sheffield worldwide as the home of football. Proposals include goalpost-style signage on the M1, sculptures around the city and a football trail marking 40 firsts, including the oldest ground, oldest football cup, first club and first black pro player.

It’s been 160 years in the making, and whether you like football or not, surely this is an open goal for the city?

On page six, Greg Fell, Sheffield’s director of public health, is ‘really worried’ about business continuity if people fall ill due to coronavirus, or need time off to care for someone who has it.

He was outlining the city’s preparedness ahead of what will officially be declared a global pandemic. He says the NHS is moving heaven and earth to get ready - but what can companies, especially small ones, realistically do?

On page seven seasonal pressures place severe strain on hospitals in Sheffield, new data from the NHS shows. But Michael Harper, chief operating officer of the teaching hospitals trust says despite treating nearly 10,000 more patients they had cancelled fewer operations than last year, improved ambulance turnaround times, reduced the number of people waiting more than four hours for a bed by almost 40 per cent and cut the number of reportable patients whose discharge is delayed from on average 100 a week to less than 45.

And on page three is a story on photographer Wesley Chambers who was snapping Winnats Pass when he lost his footing and tumbled 600ft down the steep sided valley. Dizzy and shaken, he said he couldn’t get himself to safey and called mountain rescue. By chance a friend spotted him and got him down to the road just as the crew arrived. Can such accidents be avoided?