Sheffield news: Live as city gears up for Sheffield Wednesday parade while body prompts murder investigation

Good morning Sheffield and welcome to today’s live blog.

It’s set to be an eventful day for the Steel City. Ahead of the massive Sheffield Wednesday’s promotion parade this afternoon at 5pm, a body was found in a house in Hillsborough on Tuesday prompting a murder investigation. Then, last night, a huge wildfire broke out at Lady Cannings wooldland plantation, with SYFR due to release a statement.

We’ll be bringing you live updates on all these stories and more as they happen.

Many residents have asked what time the city centre road closures will be in place for the Sheffield Wednesday’s promotion parade this afternoon after the info was left off a city council statement.

The Star understands road closures will be in place from 4.30pm, but traffic in the city centre will be considerably busier before this and disruptions will be likely as the council moves to close the roads one by one.

It is not yet known what time the closures will end, but will likely extend well into the evening, so plan accordingly.

The road closures are as follow:

For more information, see our coverage here.

South Yorkshire Fire & Rescue are due to release a statement on the cause of the wildlife that broke out at Lady Cannings woodland plantation last night, which was seen for miles around in Sheffield.

One resident compared the hillside blaze at around 10pm - 11pm to “a setting sun”.

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A body found in a house in Crofton Avenue in Hillsborough at around midday yesterday has prompted a murder investigation.

We are approaching 24 hours after officers first arrived but police are yet to release further information about the deceased or if anyone has been arrested.

The Star was on scene this morning, where neighbours said the house on Crofton Avenue had been recently sold and they were not aware anyone was living there at all.

Updates to follow, see our coverage below:

To help get you in the mood to celebrate at the Wednesday’s parade this afternoon, here’s our gallery of 52 photos from Owls fans losing their minds at Monday’s stunning performance.

The incredible scenes at Wembley say Josh Windass spare the crowd from the pain of a penalty shootout by scoring a beautiful header with just six seconds to go in extra time and rocketing the team into the Championship.

The festivities in the city centre kick off at 5.30pm today on Devonshire Green.

Sheffield Wednesday fans did their part to set a new attendance record for English Football League play-offs this season, with nearly half a million people taking a seat across 15 matches.

Stagecoach says a number of its bus services will not be stopping at their usual spot because of the Sheffield Wednesday parade this afternoon.

All buses heading into the city centre will likely see delays and take longer today because of the road closures between 4.45pm - 6.45pm.

Stagecoach has published an extensive list of where buses will be stopping instead to get around tonight’s Fan Zone. You can read more on the Stagecoach website here.

Neighbours have told The Star how they were not awareof anyone living at the house in Crofton Avenue at the centre of a murder investigation today.

Residents say the house was listed and sold sometime in the past three months but, as far as they were aware, no one was living in it at all.

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Travel South Yorkshire has also published a list of disruptions expected by this afternoon’s Sheffield Wednesday’s parade.

Read more at their website here.

Sheffield City Council has released this image confirming the route of tonight’s celebration parade for Sheffield Wednesday’s promotion to the Championship.

The open topped bus will start at Fitzilliam Street by Devonshire Green, then proceed to Fitzwilliam Gate, Cumberland Street, Eyre Street, Arundel Gate, turn into Norfolk Street and end at Town Hall.

The council is again reminding fans not to walk too close to the bus for risk of injury, or at the very least slowing down proceedings.

See more from The Star’s coverage here for a complete list of road closures.