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Gravediggers in Rotherham have accepted a pay deal

Dispute buried as gravediggers in Rotherham secure pay rise, says UNISON

School support workers, cleaning staff and janitors are currently on strike in Scotland as the Unison union remains locked in a pay dispute with education chiefs. (Credit: Jane Barlow/PA Wire)

Scottish school support staff stage strike in pay dispute

East Herringthorpe Cemetery

Rotherham gravediggers to strike for nine days

Sheffield Council leaders taking key decisions in the Town Hall chamber. Cash-strapped Sheffield Council is planning to make £47.7 million of savings this year – more than most core cities – as it battles to balance the books.

Council’s plan to save £47.7m bigger than most core cities

Strikers at Sheffield's Middlewood Road Ambulance Station in February. Frontline ambulance drivers and 999 call handlers are taking industrial action on Monday, June 26, over pay disputes.

Residents asked to only call 999 in life-threatening emergencies on Monday

Nurses to vote on England-wide strikes after rejecting 5% pay rise

International Day of the Midwife falls on Friday, 5 May in 202

Happy International Day of the Midwife 2023: How to get involved

Members of the Royal College of Nursing union could strike until Christmas if no deal is reached with the government over pay. (Photo by Hesther Ng/SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty Images)

Royal College of Nursing warns of more strikes

Royal College of Nurses members, campaigning for fair pay and conditions, pictured previously taking part in industrial action at Altnagelvin Hospital. Photo: George Sweeney. DER2250GS - 38

RCN rejects Government’s pay offer - new 48 hour strike to go ahead

MP Julie Elliott alongside paramedics on the picket line outside Sunderland Ambulance station.

NHS Unison members accept pay deal offer in England

Nursing strikes 2023: Royal College of Nursing, the GMB & Unison back new pay offer - but it’s not over yet

Nursing strikes 2023: Unions back pay offer - but it’s not over yet

National ambulance and NHS trade unions have announced a day of strike action to take place tomorrow.

NHS advise when to use 999 as ambulance driver strikes begin today

Christina McAnea, general secretary of UNISON, poses with ambulance workers at a picket line outside the Waterloo ambulance station in London on December 21, 2022. - Striking UK ambulance workers took to the picket lines, escalating a dispute with the government over its refusal to increase pay above inflation after recent walkouts by nurses. (Photo by Niklas HALLE’N / AFP) (Photo by NIKLAS HALLE’N/AFP via Getty Images)

Ambulance workers in England announce two new strike dates

List of all the strikes taking place in the lead up to Christmas 2022

Army staff helped operate ambulance services during the COVID-19 pandemic.

1,200 troops to cover for striking ambulance & Border Force staff

A group of fraudsters have been posing as ambulance staff and knocking on doors asking for financial support ahead of upcoming industrial action.

Fraudsters posing as ambulance staff seen asking for donations

Staff at the National Coal Mining Museum in Wakefield are on strike (Photo credit OLI SCARFF/AFP via Getty Images)

Wakefield’s National Coal Mining Museum staff to strike over pay

Unions representing staff at Sheffield’s hospitals want bosses to bring in television screens so they can watch The Queen’s funeral while they work.

Hospital workers want TVs to watch Queen’s funeral at work

Jane McPhillips has had long-covid since April 2020.

Sheffield businesswoman shares experience of long-Covid

Public sector union Unison say members at Churchfield Primary School in Cudworth were left "shocked" by plans to change their employment contracts, which the union say would have left them more than £350 per year worse off.

Proposals to amend contracts for Barnsley school meal workers reconsidered

Sheffield Stand Up to Racism volunteers on their most recent trip to Calais to help refugees who are living in appalling conditions as they try to reach Britain

'Why I'm joining big anti-racism day protest'

Health secretary Sajid Javid donfirmed the move yesterday

Editor: Common sense or unfair to force caring workers?

Rishi Sunak to end public sector pay freeze in Autumn Budget: what that means fo...

Unison has urged ministers to abandon the “draconian” no jab, no job policy (Photo: Getty Images)

Mandatory jab deadline for carers risks ‘catastrophic’ staff shortages

Staff at The Sheffield College have voted in favour of strike action over pay (pic: Google)

The Sheffield College staff vote to strike over pay

The Sheffield College staff vote to strike over pay

A Covid 19 max vaccination centre has opened at the Sheffield Arena. Picture Scott Merrylees

CCG blames ‘vaccine misinformation’ after third of Sheffield care home workers u...

Sheffield nurse Joan Pons Laplana is concerned about his mental health and that of his colleagues amid the Covid pandemic

Sheffield nurse warns of Covid mental health 'tsunami'

The demand for places and the numbers of children attending schools in this lockdown has increased.

Growing concerns over large numbers of children in Sheffield schools compared to...

The trade union, Unison, has said that staff cuts at Sheffield Hallam Students' Union will affect the wellbeing of students

Staff cuts at Hallam Students’ Union threaten wellbeing

Jobs are under threat at Sheffield Hallam Students' Union. 40 per cent of jobs are 'at risk' although management say that it is likely that some may move to different roles

Jobs under threat at Sheffield Hallam Students' Union

Joan Pons Laplana is a nurse and Unison representative at Sheffield Teaching Hospitals

Sheffield nurse opposes Christmas lockdown easing

Unions representing staff at the University of Sheffield are calling on the institution to suspend all non-essential campus work

Unions issue grievance over safety at Sheffield University

The Joint Campus Trade Unions are urging the University of Sheffield to abandon all face-to-face teaching

Concerns over face-to-face teaching at Sheffield University

Young people queuing outside Sheffield's Corporation at around 6pm on September 24, the first night of the new curfew (Picture: submitted)

Concern over coronavirus rule breaches during freshers week

Around 30,000 students attend Sheffield Hallam University.

Union warns of ‘huge spike’ in coronavirus cases

Councillor Julie Dore, Leader of Sheffield City Council

Bemusement as Julie Dore rejects calls to extend Sheffield Futures contract

Changes to youth services in Sheffield mustn't be rushed warns trade union

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A South Yorkshire Police spokesperson told The Star this evening (Monday, December 11, 2023): "We were called to Meadowsweet Close in Darnall, Sheffield, at 1pm on Sunday 10 December to reports that a man had attacked another man and threatened him with a large knife

Armed cops sent to suburb after report of attack & threats with knife

Cladding covers half of the front of the six-storey Marriott hotel and there is scaffolding at one end.

Construction of huge Marriott hotel halted and staff laid off

Sentencing 22-year-old defendant, Abdullah Ishaq (pictured), the Recorder of Sheffield, Judge Jeremy Richardson KC, said of the incident: “The backdrop to this offending is plainly drug dealing. Your basis of plea is that you had a long-standing drug problem. You were under pressure from a drug dealer to participate in what you thought was a robbery.

Man, 22, involved himself in shooting after accruing large drug debt