Letters to the press

Governments must work together to drive a rapid transition to alternatives to plastic
25th October 2018
One year ago David Attenborough’s Blue Planet 2 started a mass movement to end the single-use plastics that contaminate our oceans and even our drinking water.

How much can change in just 48 hours?
25th October 2018
Sally and Brian Williams were ordered to remove their amazing roadside flower beds, two days later, after a massive viral campaign seeking common sense, the council climbs down

Sheffield needs recycling not incineration
22nd October 2018
Labour’s Cllr Peter Price continues to broadcast irresponsible incineration industry claims that burning waste helps to reduce our impact on the environment and is “sustainable”

Labour councillors are moving money away from deprived areas
11th October 2018
Cllr Douglas Johnson writes in response to I am writing to respone to the letter from Councillor Jim Steinke “Fairest Way to spend cash”

The distressing truth about the “improved recycling service”
12th September 2018
It was ‘pat yourselves on the back’ time for the Labour-run council at the September 5th council meeting with their motion to coincide with the brown bin roll out.

Collection changes won’t help us recycle more
11th September 2018
Residents will know that new recycling bins are currently being rolled out in Sheffield this autumn. We are getting more bins but fewer collections, and no overall change to what can and can’t be recycled

Sheffield has a long history of helping people fleeing persecution
22nd August 2018
Sheffield was the UK’s very first City of Sanctuary and we have many wonderful and dedicated organisations helping people forced to leave their home countries.

We urgently need to get public transport back under public control
21st August 2018
Stagecoach have not responded to public outrage over cuts to the busy 52 bus service running through Broomhill, Crookes and Walkley to Hillsborough.

The moors should be managed for the public not the industry
21st August 2018
Driven grouse shooting involves draining boggy ground and cutting and burning vegetation to create an artificial habitat.

It is now more difficult to get a Blue Badge
8th August 2018
While there are more prosecutions for illegally using Blue Badges for free parking disabled people are now finding it much more difficult, if not impossible, to get one.