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Mayor of the Sheffield City Region


29 Jan 2025
Rachel Reeves is smartly dressed with tidy dark-brown shoulder-length hair and a fringe across her forehead. She wears a dark blue-black blazer with a V-neck. She seems to be mid-sentence, and is gesticulating slightly, holding her left hand up at her side. She is stood behind a podium which says "kickstart economic growth" in capital white lettering on a red background.

Government backs plans to reopen airport

Ministers will work with local authorities to reopen Doncaster Sheffield Airport, chancellor says.

29 Jan 2025
South Yorkshire
23 Jan 2025
In sunset, a photo of the sign 'Doncaster Sheffield' sign on the side of the glass-paned airport building.

Council to use public funds to reopen airport

Council has set up its own company to run airport in partnership with unnamed private operator.

23 Jan 2025
South Yorkshire
22 Nov 2024
A tram running in Sheffield city centre. The supertram is painted blue and red and the front sign reads "Middlewood".

Supertram won't send drivers to Euro championships

Petition calls for city's top tram drivers to enter European Championships in Vienna.

22 Nov 2024
South Yorkshire
20 Nov 2024
Prof Sally Pearse of Sheffield Hallam University (left, wearing a black jumper and holding a basket of coloured blankets), Lina Mohsen, a mum who has benefited from the scheme (middle, wearing a black hijab), and Cat Ross, Baby Basics chief executive (right, wearing a white top and holding a moses basket).

Baby beds project helps more than 1,000 children

Bed poverty project provides families with cots, mattresses and bedding for babies and toddlers.

20 Nov 2024
South Yorkshire
16 Nov 2024
A blue and white double decker bus.

Thousands respond to bus franchising survey

The consultation is asking whether buses should be brought back under public control.

16 Nov 2024
South Yorkshire
12 Nov 2024
A sign on the front of the airport building reads Doncaster Sheffield Robin Hood. The white sign is on a glass wall. The building has a grey wavy roof.

Airport reopening cost set to rise - meeting hears

A "credible international operator" has been found for the site, South Yorkshire leaders are told.

12 Nov 2024
South Yorkshire
23 Oct 2024
Bus in Sheffield

Bus franchising: What you need to know as consultation under way

People in South Yorkshire are asked for their views on how their bus services should be run.

23 Oct 2024
South Yorkshire
27 Sep 2024
A general view of the headquarters in Carbrook Hall Road. A sign with the police logo is positioned next to the entrance gate and in front of the glass front of the building.

Accounting error creates £65m hole in police funds

Money borrowed for essential services has not been repaid for several years, the mayor says.

27 Sep 2024
South Yorkshire
20 Sep 2024
An artist's rendering of a small modular reactor on site

US firm to open Yorkshire nuclear reactor factory

South Yorkshire mayor Oliver Coppard says the plant could support hundreds of “high-paying jobs”.

20 Sep 2024
South Yorkshire

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