On Friday, March 15, hundreds of school children clamoured for change outside Sheffield City Hall as part of a demonstration that included roughly 1,769 similar strikes in 112 countries worldwide.
A duck who RSPCA officers and a local animal lover tried to rescue for nearly a week because he had a dart through his neck has been captured, treated and released back into the wild.
Sheffield Council has blamed being under “exceptional pressure” from protests against its controversial tree-felling programme as it apologised for misleading information being provided to residents about the findings of an expert report linked to the issue.
Yorkshire Water is carrying out a £112,000 scheme in Sheffield to renew 34 water pipes feeding people’s homes, as the firm aims to slash the amount of water lost through leaks.
A movement that started as a low-key protest in Sweden will sweep into Sheffield schools tomorrow, as environmental activists call on students to go on strike.
Sheffield Council is to apologise for misleading residents over the city’s street tree-felling saga in a case a local government investigator said had “undermined trust in the effectiveness of its complaint procedures”.
We like our trees in this neck of the woods, as last year’s national and local media noticed. Unfortunately, so do an increasing variety of beetles, pathogens and fungi arriving in the UK from all over the world.
