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This week’s topics include a Sheffield model artist, the return of the Tour de France to Yorkshire, a Sheffield runner who rebuilt his life after a stroke, a food innovation competition, a campaign to limit social media access for children, and a café dedicated to Tiramisu.
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This week’s topics include plans to transform the Gleadless Valley estate, a record-breaking year for the Sheffield Children’s Hospital snowflake appeal, a weapons amnesty bin, a Christmas makers market, and Kevin Sinfield’s Sheffield leg of his ultramarathon challenge to raise funds for MND.
This week's edition of the weekly news is now available at www.sheffieldtalkingnews.org.uk/listen/lates..., the Talking Newspaper app, on Alexa, and on Google devices. To download a podcast, go to sheffieldtalkingnews.podbean.com, Audible or Apple Podcasts.
This week’s topics include Christmas lights and bears, Leadmill’s Christmas plans, Arthur Scargill drama on remote road, a Scottish polar bear’s visit to his brother in Yorkshire, plans for a new road to the Ski Village, and two young boys’ legacies to help others with bleed kits and hidden books.
This week's edition of the weekly news is now available at www.sheffieldtalkingnews.org.uk/listen/lates..., the Talking Newspaper app, on Alexa, and on Google devices. To download a podcast, go to sheffieldtalkingnews.podbean.com, Audible or Apple Podcasts.
This week’s topics include the sale of a historic hall, the closure of a well-known pub, the development of a mobile sensory centre for children with special needs, community kitchens, recordings of bedtime stories for blind and partially sighted children, and a tribute to Dickie Bird.
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This week’s topics include a successful police dog, a hero lorry driver, an appeal to restore a fire engine used in the Sheffield Blitz, a teacher winning a life-changing prize, a foodbank having to turn people away, and an update on Doncaster Sheffield airport.
This week's edition of the weekly news is now available at www.sheffieldtalkingnews.org.uk/listen/lates..., the Talking Newspaper app, on Alexa, and on Google devices. To download a podcast, go to sheffieldtalkingnews.podbean.com, Audible or Apple Podcasts.
This week’s topics include the views of Sheffield Wednesday fans, the city’s first net-zero housing scheme, a war hero’s letters, a ‘ten marathons for charity’ fundraiser, and the story of a fast-growing sport to help blind and partially-sighted people to track sound.
This week's edition of the weekly news is now available at www.sheffieldtalkingnews.org.uk/listen/lates..., the Talking Newspaper app, on Alexa, and on Google devices. To download a podcast, go to sheffieldtalkingnews.podbean.com, Audible or Apple Podcasts.
This week’s topics include supertram disruptions, the water sector review, Sheffield’s visitor economy, a knife workshop at Kelham Island Museum, a suicide prevention marathon fundraiser, and a pensioner fighting off a mugger with a pair of jeans.
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This week’s topics include several items relating to the recent extreme weather, plans for free transport for cataract patients, the Botanical Gardens’ fascinating history, a funding boost for Sheffield support dogs, contemporary collectible pottery, and a local mum slamming the schools shorts ban
This week's edition of the weekly news is now available at www.sheffieldtalkingnews.org.uk/listen/lates..., the Talking Newspaper app, on Alexa, and on Google devices. To download a podcast, go to sheffieldtalkingnews.podbean.com, Audible, iTunes or Google Podcasts.
This week’s topics include updates on two long-running stories: the fate of the Leadmill and the Fargate revamp, two local teenage prize winners at gaming awards, a comedy night fundraiser for Sheffield Children’s Hospital, a visit to the Lord Mayor’s parlour, and a cake shed.
There’s also a new edition of ‘Out and About in Sheffield’ this week, made by a journalism student at the University of Sheffield, about a visit to the Pete McKee exhibition which is currently running at the Weston Park Museum.
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This week's edition of the weekly news is now available at www.sheffieldtalkingnews.org.uk/listen/lates..., the Talking Newspaper app, on Alexa, and on Google devices. To download a podcast, go to sheffieldtalkingnews.podbean.com, Audible, iTunes or Google Podcasts.
This week’s topics include a warning about low reservoir levels, the walking challenge ‘Sightless on Snowdon’, a local performance by ‘The Choir with No Name’, a new mental health support, the nomination of a Sheffield teenager’s filmmaking debut for Best Film, and Springwatch in the Peak District.
This week's edition of the weekly news is now available at www.sheffieldtalkingnews.org.uk/listen/lates..., the Talking Newspaper app, on Alexa, and on Google devices. To download a podcast, go to sheffieldtalkingnews.podbean.com, Audible, iTunes or Google Podcasts.
This week’s topics include a local project boosting eye screening attendance, the launch of water drought plans, the new Snooker World Champion’s love for our city, several items relating to VE Day and we hear about a new app to make visually impaired people’s access to the food industry much easier
This week's edition of the weekly news is now available at www.sheffieldtalkingnews.org.uk/listen/lates..., the Talking Newspaper app, on Alexa, and on Google devices. To download a podcast, go to sheffieldtalkingnews.podbean.com, Audible, iTunes or Google Podcasts.
This week’s topics include the effect of tariffs on a local company, the results of the Big Garden Birdwatch 2025, people’s views on the regeneration of Fargate, location spotting in new BBC series, a casting call for men for a musical, and the future of the World Snooker Championship in Sheffield.
This week's edition of the weekly news is now available at www.sheffieldtalkingnews.org.uk/listen/lates..., the Talking Newspaper app, on Alexa, and on Google devices. To download a podcast, go to sheffieldtalkingnews.podbean.com, Audible, iTunes or Google Podcasts.
This week’s items include changes made to the national planning policy framework, pupils calling for a hit drama to be shown in schools, a women refugees craft group, the recent Sheffield Half Marathon, changes to Sheffield to Peak District bus routes, and public loos turned into trendy spaces.
It is now available at www.sheffieldtalkingnews.org.uk/listen/lates..., the Talking Newspaper app, on Alexa, and on Google devices. To download a podcast, go to sheffieldtalkingnews.podbean.com, Audible, iTunes or Apple Podcasts.
This week’s topics include the impact of Vice President JD Vance’s comments on a Sheffield man, the children’s hospital lighting up for Ramadan, comments by Guide Dogs UK about language used around visual impairment, and the discovery of wooden defences dating from the Civil War at the former castle
There’s also a new edition of ‘Out and About in Sheffield’ this week, a follow-on from an episode released back in 2019 in which Adele Jagger spoke to one of our listeners, Robin Storey, about his passion for bell ringing.
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