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Asphalt cutting through granite pavement on Wellington Street.

Newly-laid paving torn up in £470m Sheffield development

Arundel Gate bus gate was issuing an average of 366 penalties a day until October 3 when the authority responded to complaints and put red warnings on the approach.

Bus gate still snaring 200 drivers a day despite huge new signs

These were the hardest secondary schools to get into in Sheffield for the 2023/24 academic year based on how many pupils each school turned away.

These were the hardest secondary schools to get into this year

These are how all of Sheffield's secondary schools performed in 2022-23 according to new Department for Education data known as the Progress 8 scores.

The best-performing Sheffield secondary schools in 2023

New flood defences keep out the River Loxley behind Towsure in Malin Bridge

Firms watch anxiously as river rises behind new flood defences

The Wicker in Sheffield city centre following the floods of 2007.

Flood defences finished after catastrophe in 2007

Readers debate whether new warning signs are clear enough.

Are huge new bus gate warning signs clear enough?

Western Road is lined with memorial trees

Famous tree-lined street to be cleared of dangerous leaves

Four storey Mid City House, a brick two-storey office on Pinstone Street, and the last remaining Victorian building on Union Street will be demolished.

Bid to block demolition of large building fails

Oliver Coppard

'There's light at the end of the tunnel' for Doncaster Sheffield Airport

Mid City House is set to be gone by Christmas

Concerns over lack of plan for demolition site

South Yorkshire Mayor Oliver Coppard has used £2m of his mayoral budget to restore bus services in Sheffield and South Yorkshire and is running a Fair Bus Deal campaign

Authority approves £80million for projects across South Yorkshire

File photo of workmen in West Lothian. Sheffield City Council says it cannot rule out that more RAAC is present in its maintained schools.

Undiscovered 'unsafe' concrete in more city schools 'not ruled out'

Glen Small, Carl Foster, Paul Turner and Harry Codd at The Big Gun

Sadness as Sheffield heritage boozer to close

Northgate House needed ‘emergency works’ in 2016 due to problems with external walls.

New life for former university building propped up for six years

Schools in England made with the concrete material RAAC will be ordered to close immediately over safety fears. At least Sheffield school, Abbey Lane Primary, could be affected.

At least one city school affected by 'immediate closure' over RAAC

Ky Moynihan of Ky’s Executive Travel, is among thousands of motorists fined for entering the Clean Air Zone.

Drivers cough up almost £2m for Clean Air Zone

Sheffield's schools kept their statistics to themselves on GCSE results day 2023. The true outcome of teenagers' grades will not emerge until mid-September.

Hundreds of GCSE resits likely - but cut our teenagers some slack

The price of school dinners at 94 Sheffield schools and nurseries will go up by up to 30p this academic year. File photo by Chris Radburn/PA.

Price rise for dinners at 94 schools and nurseries across city

Gunes 'Gary’ Ata was taken to court by Sheffield City Council for failing to provide vital paperwork at one of his blocks of flats.

Rogue landlord prosecuted again

The price of school dinners at 94 Sheffield schools and nurseries will go up by up to 30p this academic year. File photo by Chris Radburn/PA.

Price rise for dinners at 94 schools and nurseries across city

Sheffield Labour is paying the price for the Container Park failure.

Council announces new Container Park plan

Lesser stag beetle taken by Nell Dixon

Wildlife: Big beetle signals amazing recovery in our ancient woods

TRAMLINES 2024 super early bird tickets on sale from Mon, July 24, 6pm

Ad Feature Tramlines 2024 “extremely limited” super early bird tickets on sale today

Sheffield General Cemetery has fully reopened to the public after over a year of renovations by the City Council.

Park and cafe reopens after £3m renovation project

Exposure to asbestos can lead to mesothelioma, a type of cancer which affects the lining of some organs, including the lungs

Council pays out £450k compensation for personal injury

The Mirador was a plan to build a 24-storey tower block with 500 flats on Sheffield's Hoyle Street - but, after three years, planning permission has expired.

Planning permission expires for £70m Sheffield skyscraper

These are some of the largest housing and building projects changing the face of Sheffield - assuming they get off the ground.

The building projects set to change the face of Sheffield

Sheffield mum Rebecca Bailey says she doesn't know where to turn to now her nine-year-old daughter Alice, who has a brain injury and complex learning needs, has been turned down by leading specialist school Discovery Academy.

Little girl with brain injury, 9, turned down from school

Sheffield General Cemetery, off Cemetery Road, will finally fully reopen in May following over a year of restorations by the City Council.

Historic park park set to reopen after renovation work

Olivia Blake

Northern Lights: Cruel, inhumane bill will put asylum seekers at even greater ri...

Two crushed market stalls in Sheffield today (April 12) prompted the council's City Centre Ambassador team to begin a search on CCTV for what happened.

The strange story behind two crushed market stalls in Sheffield

Greystones wildlflower verge by Barbara Masters

Wildlife: Demand by local communities for nature on the doorstep

Graffiti on Blast Lane, Sheffield. The off-track alleyway is Sheffield's most graffitied, according to incidents reported to the city council.

These are the most graffitied streets in Sheffield

Little Kelham, a sustainable development from Citu

Environment: The vision is that by 2039 Sheffield will be more economically stro...

Councillor Sioned-Mair Richards.

Sheffield lord mayor pays tribute following monarch's death

Sheffield's Utilita Arena is big enough to meet the Eurovision hosting requirements.

Sheffield's Eurovision bid is in

Friends of the Old Town Hall are growingly increasingly concerned about the state of the building under its new owner - including this large broken window.

Concerns grow for Old Town Hall

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"I think I were born to work on the markets. It's in my blood"

Peshawa Ghaffour went on trial accused of Mohammed’s murder last week, after denying the offence, but jurors found him guilty of the lesser offence of manslaughter, following 14 hours and five minutes of deliberation.

Killer wept when told of devastation caused to victim's family

Ellie Taylor found out her miscarried baby's remains had been 'forgotten' in Chesterfield Royal Hospital's mortuary for over 15 months.

Grieving mum's anger as miscarried baby left in morgue for a year