Local Politics - Burngreave Messenger

A new direction at 25

30th October 2017

Story by Amy Palmer | Photo by Sharmarke Ismail It was a double celebration at the Maan AGM this September as they not only marked their 25th anniversary but launched their newly commissioned service direction. [Read more]

Splitting Burngreave

30th October 2017

Story by Graham Jones On 17th October the Boundary Commission issued proposals for new constituency boundaries for the whole country. This will affect which MP will represent our local interests. The Boundary Commission has a [Read more]

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Burngreave works miracles

16th June 2017

Story and photo by Amy Palmer On 26th May MP Gill Furniss met Burngreave Works staff and their clients, who are being supported to look for work. Burngreave Works was originally set up as ‘Burngreave Opportunities’, a New [Read more]

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Gill Furniss remains as your MP

15th June 2017

On 8th June people across the country went to the polling stations to vote. Our constituency of Brightside and Hillsborough continues to be represented by Labour MP Gill Furniss increasing her share of the vote by over 10%, which [Read more]

Small business vs. Tesco

28th April 2017

Story by Sam Stancill-Vines It has now been five years since Tesco Extra opened so we visited local businesses to see how they are managing with such big competition. Del, the manager of Corner Stop, [Read more]

Action for Abbeyfield House

2nd December 2016

Story by Lyn Brandon Over the last few years there have been meetings and discussions with Sheffield City Council and local community members about the future of Abbeyfield House. A new roof and setting up a charitable organisation were some of [Read more]

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Festival of Debate comes to Page Hall

2nd December 2016

Roma Voice Story by David Kandrac and Sabrina Ahmed. Photo by Shuna Beckett On 25th October more than one hundred Roma people gathered for a Festival of Debate event to discuss the importance of voice [Read more]

Councillors and vicar and cadets with a Union Flag gathered around the war memorial

Burngreave area news from Sheffield City Council

2nd December 2016

Winning entries The winning entries for the children’s anti-litter campaign poster were chosen by Councillors Talib Hussain, Mark Jones and Locality Officer Naomi Hinch. The project was supported by Pitsmoor Adventure Playground and funded by [Read more]

Burngreave ward meeting

31st October 2016

Story by Graham Jones About 80 local residents attended the ward meeting at the Vestry Hall on 14th September. Cllr Mark Jones, Cllr Jackie Drayton and the Chair, Cllr Talib Hussain, were on the platform [Read more]

Know your boundaries

11th October 2016

Story by Richard Belbin Burngreave residents may well have a new MP after the next election, following a reorganisation of all of Britain’s parliamentary constituencies. Having been moved from Central constituency in 2010, it is [Read more]