• A Sheffield-based project has helped nearly 3,000 people with essential furniture in one year alone

    Based on Queens Road, the project collects furniture and household donations from across the city where they then redistribute these to those in need. Items can range from anything to a table, chairs, mattresses, beds, and even furnishing entire homes. Since the start of the Cost-of-Living Crisis, the furniture project has seen a dramatic increase in people turning to them for help, alongside agencies referring people too. Back in 2021, the project helped equip nearly 1,800 with basic...

  • A Sheffield-based project has helped nearly 3,000 people with essential furniture in one year alone

    Based on Queens Road, the project collects furniture and household donations from across the city where they then redistribute these to those in need. Items can range from anything to a table, chairs, mattresses, beds, and even furnishing entire homes. Since the start of the Cost-of-Living Crisis, the furniture project has seen a dramatic increase in people turning to them for help, alongside agencies referring people too. Back in 2021, the project helped equip nearly 1,800 with basic...

  • CODE Sheffield: Developer knocks six floors off £100m giant tower block plan in Sheffield to save money

    Developers have cut the height of a massive block of flats planned for Sheffield city centre due to rising costs - but the number of ‘rental units’ is virtually unchanged. CODE Sheffield, on a plot bounded by Wellington, Rockingham and Trafalgar streets, will be 32 floors, if approved. It was originally proposed at 38 floors - when it would have been Yorkshire’s tallest building. The total number of flats has fallen from 1,235 to 1,015. But the number of ‘rental units’ is down by just 10, to...

  • Two-dimensional nanomaterial sets expansion record

    It is a common hack to stretch a balloon out to make it easier to inflate. When the balloon stretches, the width crosswise shrinks to the size of a string. Noah Stocek, a Ph.D. student collaborating with Western physicist Giovanni Fanchini, has developed a new nanomaterial that demonstrates the opposite of this phenomenon.

  • Two new appointments for Sheffield-based Altitude

    B2B specialist Amy Lloyd joins the Sheffield-based consultancy as a senior account manager and motorsport specialist Ellie Fish joins as Marketing Manager, focusing solely on Altitude’s F4 racing driver client, Rowan Campbell-Pilling. In just over two years, Altitude has grown from two to six permanent team members and offers PR, media relations, strategic communications, marketing services, crisis management, training, and social media support. The agency, which was named Best New UK PR...

  • Apple opens fourth Developer Academy in Indonesia

    Apple has announced a new Apple Developer Academy for Bali, which will have a nine-month program teaching coding, marketing and all the skills to create apps. Members of the Apple Developer Academies in Indonesia In 2018, Apple opened its first Apple Developer Academy in Indonesia, and since expanded it from Jakarta to Surabaya and Batam. Over 2,000 students have attended and Apple says that 90% of its graduates have gone on to what it calls meaningful employment. "We've seen many...

  • National development should be based on resource returns – Cheddar

    The leader of the New Force, Nana Kwame Bediako, also known as Cheddar, says that the country's development and national needs should be based on the returns from its natural resources.

  • A Sheffield Wednesday recap following QPR victory

    Gassama wasn’t meant to feature as heavily as he did at Loftus Road after being named on the bench for the clash with QPR, however an unfortunate early injury to Ian Poveda meant that he was on the pitch within half an hour of the game kicking off. The young former Paris Saint-Germain attacker scored the first and set up the second in the capital, but Wednesday probably should have had more than just a couple of goals given the game played out - though they could well have conceded, too. You can...

  • Danny List Foundation Sets Golf Academy Roadmap

    List with some of the young golfers at the clinic Danny List Foundation, a golf talent development foundation, held a Junior Golf Clinic for young golfers in Accra over the weekend. Spearheaded by Danny List, a Ghanaian professional golfer based in the United States, the clinic formed part of activities earmarked for scouting and […]

  • Speedway: Sheffield Tigers historic memorabilia set for auction

    A piece of Sheffield speedway history is up for sale, bosses at a sports memorabilia auction say. Midlands Sports Auctions, a business based in the West Midlands, are selling what they have described as an original Sheffield Tigers race jacket. It is thought the jacket dates back to the 1960s or 70s. Sign up for our free newsletters now The catalogue shows a picture of the item, which features the tiger design which was featured on the Tigers’ race jackets for much of the 70s, including their...

  • ‘The Office’ Sets First Cast Members for Potential Follow-Up Series

    Sabrina Impacciatore of ‘The White Lotus’ and Domhnall Gleeson from ‘Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker’ are joining the comedy from Greg Daniels and Michael Korman.

  • Siblings live in pigpen following family tragedy in northern Vietnam

    Three children live alone without parents