SHEFFIELD NEWS: Latest updates as 11 drug dealers are jailed for more than 40 years
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The top stories so far include the ongoing probe after a Covid lab returned just four positive results from Sheffield out of 2,400 tests, and 11 drug dealers being jailed for a total of more than 40 years.
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SHEFFIELD NEWS: Latest updates as drug dealers are jailed for more than 40 years
Key Events
- Drug dealers jailed for more than 40 years
- Sheffield health chief responds after Covid lab returns just four positive results out of 2,400 tests
- Funeral held for mum-of-two killed while waiting for her children
- Sheffield ticket holder claims £10,000 a month National Lottery Set for Life prize
Mum killed waiting for children had a ‘gorgeous heart and a beautiful smile’
Tributes have been paid to a mum-of-two who was killed while waiting for her children near a Sheffield school, after her funeral took place.
Rita Magni was resting at a bus stop at the junction of Phillimore Road and Eleanor Street, in Darnall, when an out-of-control car knocked her down on October 4.
Following her funeral this week, her family told how she had a ‘gorgeous heart and a beautiful smile’.
Read more here.
Sheffield health chief responds over Covid testing lab probe
A Sheffield health chief has responded after it emerged a Covid lab had only returned four positive results out of 2,400 tests from Sheffield - many fewer than would be expected.
Dr Eleanor Rutter, consultant in public health for Sheffield Council said: “This is a national issue that has been well publicised but has only affected a very small proportion of Sheffield’s tests.
“The number of people identified as potentially having been given a false negative result in Sheffield is incredibly small. There is nothing to suggest this has had a significant impact on infection rates in the city.”
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