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5 days ago | thestar.co.uk | David Walsh

Watch more of our videos on ShotsTV.com and on Freeview 262 or Freely 565Visit Shots! nowHundreds of Star readers have responded to Yorkshire Water launching drought plans as fears of a hosepipe ban grow after the driest February, March and April in Yorkshire for almost 90 years. The firm says it has taken steps to ensure supplies in dry periods including using its grid network to move water around. But as much as 100 million litres of extra water were used as temperatures spiked recently.

6 days ago | thestar.co.uk | David Walsh

Watch more of our videos on ShotsTV.com and on Freeview 262 or Freely 565Visit Shots! nowIce hockey fans in Sheffield are furious at a hike in parking charges of up to £163 this season. Sheffield Steelers’ supporters got a shock when they logged on to the Utilita Arena website to secure coveted parking spaces this week. The early bird price for 32 matches had soared by £100 to £256.

6 days ago | thestar.co.uk | David Walsh

Watch more of our videos on ShotsTV.com and on Freeview 262 or Freely 565Visit Shots! nowThe number of people visiting a newly-revamped Sheffield street has increased after the completion of regeneration works, the city council says. Footfall on Fargate was up 14 per cent in March, compared to March last year, coinciding with the end of a two-year and £14m revamp. Across the city centre more widely there were 434,196 visitors in the last week in March, up 6.6 per cent on the same week in 2024.

6 days ago | thestar.co.uk | David Walsh

Watch more of our videos on ShotsTV.com and on Freeview 262 or Freely 565Visit Shots! nowImages have been released to show how a giant new pub with space for 250 people outside could look. The Fargate pub will ‘boast a large licensed outdoor area, capable of hosting up to 250 guests’, Sheffield City Council says. The new boozer is set to be in the old Yorkshire Bank building, on the corner of Fargate and Surrey Street, opposite Sheffield Town Hall.

6 days ago | thestar.co.uk | David Walsh

Watch more of our videos on ShotsTV.com and on Freeview 262 or Freely 565Visit Shots! nowContractors have completed 41 emergency refuges to improve safety on the M1 ‘smart’ motorway through South Yorkshire. Costain says the 100m long laybys, which are ‘clearly marked’ in orange asphalt and blue signs with an orange SOS telephone symbol, are on a 30-mile stretch where there is no hard shoulder - the equivalent of about one every one-and-a-half miles.