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Cambridge Street Collective in Sheffield has been a huge boost to Sheffield's foodie reputation.

Travel website urges Londoners to visit Sheffield

Rother Valley Country Park, near Beighton, is well known for its water-based activities such as boat hire and water skiiing. It also has a large playground, walks around the lake, and a cafe. It is a fantastic place for a long summers day

15 great things everyone in Sheffield should do this June

Here are five fun-filled things to do in Sheffield this weekend (June 7 & 8) including three nerdy events, a sausage & cider festival, an indoor car boot sale and a neighbourhood spanning yard sale.

Five fun-filled things to do in Sheffield this weekend

Disney On Ice presents Find Your Hero

Ad Feature Disney On Ice: Find Your Hero in Sheffield – how to get tickets!

An artist's impression of the redeveloped Dome.

£14m revamp of popular swimming pool complex in leisure centre begins

Sheffield couple John and Liz Kirkwood wrote to The Star about an everyday adventure they took by hopping on bus they regularly see after realising they had no idea where it went.

'We explored Sheffield on a bus we had never been on before'

Somebody's Child.

The Gathering Sounds Festival announces 2025 return

Here are five things to do in and around Sheffield this weekend (May 31 -June 1) including Meadowhall Motorfest, the Sheffield Coffee Festival, a Sheffield Craft Brew Festival and the Clifton Park Car Show (in Rotherham).

Five brilliant things to do in Sheffield this weekend

A ten-day celebration of cocktails will be taking over venues across Sheffield at the end of May, with cocktails on offer for only £5.

City-wide event begins with specialty drinks on offer for only £5

An empty industrial unit in Newhall Road, Attercliffe, Sheffield, could soon be converted into the city's first dedicated pickleball court.

Plans approved to convert Attercliffe unit into pickleball courts

It's half term in Sheffield and the forecast says it could be a drizzly one - here are nine fun-filled ideas for days out in and around South Yorkshire even if it tips it down with rain.

Nine fun-filled ideas for family days out even if it rains all week

You don’t have to spend a fortune to make the half term holidays memorable - here are over a dozen things you can do in Sheffield for a fiver or less.

Explore Sheffield on a budget: Half term days out for less than £5

Bryan Adams to headline Rock ‘n’ Roll Circus Sheffield this summer. Picture: Steven Stanley

Bryan Adams to headline Rock ‘n’ Roll Circus Sheffield this summer

Ben Jackson Walker as Romeo in & Juliet

REVIEW: & Juliet at The Lyceum, Sheffield

Join me on an evening walk to Chelsea Park through Sheffield's beautiful Nether Edge and Brincliffe districts. My favourite thing to do on an evening at this time of year is long walks to Sheffield's many gorgeous green spaces. Chelsea Park is my new favourite obsession and one of the city's truest hidden gems.

Join me on a springtime walk through to beautiful Chelsea Park

Dancing Coalfields at National Coal Mining Museum for England from Saturday, May 24, to Sunday, June 22.

Ad Feature Dancing Coalfields: Honouring mining through dance, art and music

The Sherlocks are celebrating at number four in the official UK albums chart with Everything Must Make Sense!

South Yorkshire band The Sherlocks celebrate top 4 albums chart hit

It’s been a sunny spring in Sheffield for 2025, which makes it high time to explore the picturesque market towns and villages near you.

The top 12 market towns in and around Sheffield to visit in 2025

Relax and unwind with three minutes of birdsong at sunset at Chelsea Park, a secluded green space in Brincliffe and one of Sheffield's truest hidden gems.

Watch: Relax and unwind with three minutes of birdsong in Chelsea Park

Join me on a trip to Sharrow Vale Road, Sheffield's secret high street of independent businesses and hidden gems that is just waiting to be explored.

I visited Sheffield secret high street of hidden gems

Kylie Minogue - pictured here performing in New York for her Tension Tour 2025 - is coming to the Sheffield Utilita Arena on Friday, May 23. Here’s what to expect.

Here's what fans can expect at Kylie's Utilita Arena show

Meersbrook Park by Andy Kershaw

Reader Picture Competition: From Meersbrook Park to a bright Spanish Iris

The Sherlocks are in a chart battle for number one album this week

Yorkshire stars The Sherlocks in chart battle for number one album

These are 16 reasons why Sheffield should be included among the great places for culture

16 reasons Sheffield should be on World's Best Cities for Culture list

Chatsworth offers a magnificent day out, at a price.

I took a trip to one of the finest tourist attractions in England

Love to be… curates the finest in house music talent for a bank holiday all-dayer, set over four stages

Legendary house music party all-day festival returns - Plus: Win x4 VIP tickets

Jackson Fisch as The Swan and Stephen Murray as The Prince. Photos: Johan Persson

REVIEW: Matthew Bourne’s Swan Lake at the Lyceum, Sheffield

Annie Lloyd-Hyde

Ad Feature Free event: Meet artists who share the effect of Parkinson’s on work

Worsbrough Mill, Barnsley's 17th century working water mill museum, celebrating its 400th anniversary.

Ad Feature Worsbrough Mill's 400th birthday celebrated on National Mills Weekend

BattleKart Sheffield is opening soon inside an old warehouse near Meadowhall. Photo: BattleKart

'Closest thing to real Mario Kart' gets green light to open this June

The Sherlocks wowed Leeds fans ahead of Everything Must Make Sense! album release this month

REVIEW: The Sherlocks wow with electrifying Yorkshire homecoming

Scouting for Girls

Ad Feature PODCAST: Scouting for Girls reveal 2026 tour and album details

Jason Bennett with his two children - Lacey and John Paul. A charity match in support of the Youth Cancer Trust will be held tonight (May 2) in their memory.

Wednesday legends to take part in charity match

Spring is here, the sun is shining this week, and the time to get out is now

Eight beautiful South Yorkshire towns and villages you should visit

Report to your nearest Sheffield green space - you’re never more than 10 minutes from one - and make the most of this balmy springtime week.

17 marvellous parks and playgrounds for a sunny walk around Sheffield

The Sherlocks to release album Everything Must Make Sense ahead of UK tour

Everything Must Make Sense! The Sherlocks on UK tour and new album

Brian Elliott with his book Miners And The Great War

Ad Feature Miners And The Great War: Brian Elliott book reveals untold heroism

Geology Rocks event returns to National Coal Mining Museum on Saturday, April 26.

Ad Feature Geology Rocks - unearth the fun at National Coal Mining Museum

Scouting for Girls

Ad Feature Scouting For Girls celebrate iconic disc with albums and 2026 tour

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Shock and sadness at death of Sheffield trailblazing referee

A date has been announced for the opening of the former Gypsy Queen pub as a Hickory's Smokehouse restaurant (inset) by Greene King

Planned opening date revealed for restaurant at former pub

A teenager who died following a serious incident in Sheffield on Wednesday (4 June) has been named as Abdullah Yaser Abdullah Al Yazidi.

Two charged with murder over death of boy, 16, in collision