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Fire service issue warning after blaze in Sheffield woods

“Keep doors and windows closed if you live nearby”

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Barnsley's reinvention from coal to code

A generation ago, Barnsley was searching for a future beyond coal. Today, it is betting its future lies in Artificial Intelligence.

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Family of Sheffield's Harvey Willgoose hail positive future after 14,500 knives thrown away in amnesty bins

The Home Office claims knife-related homicides are now at a “35-year-low”

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Major road through Sheffield city centre closed for up to three weeks for removal of kerbs

Low kerbs designed to narrow the carriageway and make drivers slow down are being removed

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Watch as massive £1.7m South Yorkshire cannabis farm raided by police

The huge raid saw hundreds of plants seized

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The Chase legend Bradley Walsh visits popular Sheffield city centre cafe

Bradley Walsh has stopped by a popular cafe in Sheffield city centre.

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Page Hall disorder after latest Sheffield street fight - everything you need to know

Several people have been injured in fights as tensions rise in Page Hall area of Sheffield

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Large police gathering in Sheffield retail park ahead of day of action

Criminals in Sheffield will have some unexpected visitors today

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How Manvers went from well-groomed community to riot-zone in the space of hours

Manvers thugs were overshadowed by the reaction from surrounding communities, reflects reporter Paul Whitehouse

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Next steps to creating city centre park to show off ruins of Sheffield Castle

Works to help protect the remains of Sheffield Castle are being planned so that an access road can be built through the new park that will celebrate the city’s birthplace.

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Police to use 'stop-and-search' powers in Page Hall after two days of disorder in Sheffield neighbourhood

Anyone can currently be stopped and searched by police for weapons in the Page Hall area

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Single-sex spaces code comes in force more than year after Supreme Court ruling

Single-sex toilets, changing rooms, hospital wards and refuges must be used based on a person’s birth sex, not the gender with which they identify

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Disposable BBQs pulled from shelves amid wildfire risk

“We need to adapt quickly to our changing climate and start planning for next summer now”

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Sheffield street likened to a "mountain road" resurfaced after five years

“I was out knocking on doors to tell residents to move their cars since the roadwork crews were coming - they were overjoyed”

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Top Sheffield tourist attraction Forge Dam set for more repairs and summer holiday disruptions

Works are expected to complete by the end of August, weather dependent, the authority says

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Sheffield student with no visa proposed to "13-year-old girl" bearing prosecco, rings and his passport

Mundrathi told the decoy prior to the meet-up he needed a “British girl to marry”

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5-year-old autistic boy asked to leave Sheffield trampoline park over bite

The company has a “zero-tolerance policy” towards attacks on its staff.

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Council accepts grant for road repairs before Tour de France Femmes crosses crumbling Snake Pass to Sheffield

“We know an event of this scale will require road closures and careful planning.”

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Yorkshire dad swaps hospital bed for golf course after cancer battle

Jonathan Thomson has survived leukaemia twice

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Man 'run over and battered with metal bar' as woman injured in connected attack

Special police powers have been introduced in the suburb