Category: Sheffield
The analysis published under this category are as follows.
Sunday, February 02, 2020
Mi Amigo B17 Flying Fortress Crash Site Memorial - February 2020, Endcliffe Park, Sheffield / Local / Sheffield
By: Anika_Walayat
Here is what the US B17 Flying Fortress bomber crash memorial looks like in February 2020 which is the 76th anniversary of the crash of a US B17 Flying Fortress bomber in Endcliffe Park, Sheffield on the 22nd of February 1944 costing the lives of the 10 member crew of the "Mi Amigo". Pensioner Tony Foulds aged 82 regularly tends the memorial site after witnessing the plane crash as a child, and states that he owes his life to the airmen who avoided children in the park.
A fly past to took place on the 22nd of Feb 2019 as arranged by BBC Presenter Dan Walker.
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Thursday, December 05, 2019
Lib Dems Winning Election Leaflets War Against Labour - Sheffield Hallam 2019 / ElectionOracle / Sheffield
By: N_Walayat
The Lib Dems have declared war on Britain's letter boxes by stuffing them full with leaflets, many of which are a bit dodgy!
This is especially the case for those living in the Sheffield Hallam constituency where there is a battle between Labour and the Lib Dems that is likely to see Labour lose their seat to the Lib Dems after the disastrous term of Jared O' Mara. That follows the disaster that is the city council and it's anti climate change policy of felling thousands of Sheffield's street trees.
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Monday, December 02, 2019
Will Lib Dems Win Sheffield Hallam From Labour? General Election 2019 / ElectionOracle / Sheffield
By: N_Walayat
At the 2017 General Election Labour surprised all including themselves by winning Sheffield Hallam, and ejecting the former Lib Dem leader Nick Clegg from Parliament.
Unfortunately for Labour Jared O' Mara turned out to be a total disaster, heralding 2 years of chaos and failure to represent the constituents of Sheffield Hallam that included being suspended from the party, all at a time when the local population was in open revolt to the insane policies emanating out of the city council.
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Tuesday, November 05, 2019
Best Money Saving FREE Bonfire Night Fire Works Show Sheffield 2019 / Personal_Finance / Sheffield
By: Anika_Walayat
It's Bonfire Night! Forget paying to watch After Dark, instead over 3000 people attended Sheffield's best FREE Bonfire Night Fireworks show of 2019 at Chelsea Park.
The fireworks show went on for a good 15 minutes, so well organised by the local scouts association who get a big thumbs up.
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Sunday, July 07, 2019
Sheffield River Don 'Banksy' Sculptures - Must See Art Work! / Local / Sheffield
By: Anika_Walayat
Sheffield has a new hidden gem courtesy of our own river Banksy that most Sheffielders let alone visitors to the city will be totally unaware of. Painstakingly erected Sculptures IN the river Don that first started appearing 3 years ago and currently number more than 20. The sculptures can be found just behind the Wicker, not far from where Castle Market once stood, and can be viewed from the embankment as well as the road bridge and foot bridge.
This video shows the 20+ sculptures as they were in July 2019, that includes footage of the artist at work so you get to see how these magical pieces of art were put together in situ, in the river. So if your in Sheffield then do pop down and see them whilst they last as all it take is a few days of heavy rain fall for the river Don to wash many of the 20+ pieces away.
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Friday, March 15, 2019
UK Weather SHOCK - Trees Dropping Branches onto Cars in Stormy Winds - Sheffield / Local / Sheffield
By: N_Walayat
Its Mid March and Britain is continues to be buffeted by strong winds in the immediate aftermath of Storm Gareth. Here's one example of why trees and strong winds don't mix, as a very large branch that would have completely crushed lesser cars falls onto a Land Rover (Range Rover) in the city of Sheffield. The councils clear up team soon arrives on scene and start work with chainsaws to remove the huge branch whilst trying to avoid further damage to the Land Rovers roof and bonnet.
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Monday, February 25, 2019
Sheffield FlyPast in Unique VR 360 - "Mi Amigo" US B17 Flying Fotress Crash Memorial / Local / Sheffield
By: Anika_Walayat
Unique footage of the 10 plane "Mi Amigo" Sheffield Memorial FlyPast in VR 360 that literally puts you right at the heart of the 10,000 strong crowd, allowing you to follow the planes just as if you were there as they fly overhead.
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Saturday, February 23, 2019
Sheffield "Mi Amigo" Memorial Event - Fly Past, Tony Foulds, Remembrance at Endcliffe Park / Local / Sheffield
By: Anika_Walayat
Here's what it was like to be at the Mi Amigo Memorial Event, at Endcliffe Park, Sheffield on 22nd of Feb. The event was hosted by BBC Breakfast and featured a 10 plane fly past as the culmination of 3 hours of commemorations for the 10 brave air men who died when their B17 Flying Fortress bomber crashed on 22nd Feb 1944, the crew of the "Mi Amigo". In commemoration of which the fly past was arranged by BBC presenter Dan Walker after talking to Tony Foulds who has looked after the memorial site for decades. The fly past which took place at 8.45am includes an 4 F15 Strike Eagle fighter jets from RAF Lakenheath, other aircraft included a KC-135 Stratotanker, a MC-130J Commando II, a CV-22 Osprey from RAF Mildenhall, and a Typhoon and a Dakota from RAF Coningsby.
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Friday, February 22, 2019
Sheffield FlyPast Footage - "Mi Amigo" US Bomber Crash Memorial Endcliffe Park / Local / Sheffield
By: Anika_Walayat
Here is footage of the 10 planes that took part in todays "Mi Amigo" Sheffield Memorial Fly Past.
The fly past was the culmination of 3 hours of commemorations for the 10 brave air men who died when their B17 Flying Fortress bomber crashed on 22nd Feb 1944, the crew of the "Mi Amigo". In commemoration of which the fly past was arranged by BBC presenter Dan Walker after talking to Tony Foulds who has looked after the memorial site for decades. The fly past which took place at 8.45am includes an 4 F15 Strike Eagle fighter jets from RAF Lakenheath, other aircraft included a KC-135 Stratotanker, a MC-130J Commando II, a CV-22 Osprey from RAF Mildenhall, and a Typhoon and a Dakota from RAF Coningsby.
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Thursday, February 21, 2019
Sheffield "Mi Amigo" Memorial Fly Past , BBC Crew Setting Up Stage for Breakfast TV Endcliffe Park / Local / Sheffield
By: Anika_Walayat
Here's what it was like at Endcliffe park and memorial site as the BBC crews were busy setting up their cameras and stage which includes a BBC breakfast sofa for tomorrow live broadcast from 6am to 9.15am to cover the memorial to the US B17 Flying Fortress bomber that crashed in the park 75 years ago costing the lives of the 10 air crew of the "Mi Amigo". In commemoration of which a fly past arranged by BBC presenter Dan Walker after talking to Tony Foulds who has looked after the memorial site for decades, will be taking place at 8.45am that will include an F15 Strike Eagle fighter jet from RAF Lakenheath, other aircraft to include a KC-135 Stratotanker, a MC-130J Commando II, a CV-22 Osprey from RAF Mildenhall, and a Typhoon and a Dakota from RAF Coningsby (weather permitting).
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Wednesday, February 20, 2019
Sheffield "Mi Amigo" Memorial Fly Past at 8.45am on 22nd Feb 2019 / Local / Sheffield
By: Anika_Walayat
February 22nd is the 75th anniversary of the crash of a US B17 Flying Fortress bomber in Endcliffe Park Sheffield costing the lives of the 10 air crew of the "Mi Amigo". In commemoration of which a fly past arranged by BBC presenter Dan Walker after talking to Tony Foulds who has looked after the memorial site, will take place on Friday 22nd Feb at 8.45am at Endcliffe Park that will include an F15 Strike Eagle fighter jet from RAF Lakenheath, other aircraft to include a KC-135 Stratotanker, a MC-130J Commando II, a CV-22 Osprey from RAF Mildenhall, and a Typhoon and a Dakota from RAF Coningsby (weather permitting).
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Saturday, February 16, 2019
"Mi Amigo" Sheffield Bomber Crash Memorial Site Fly-past on 22nd February 2019 VR360 / Local / Sheffield
By: Anika_Walayat
2019 marks the 75th anniversary of the crash of a US B17 Flying Fortress bomber in Endcliffe Park, Sheffield on the 22nd of February 1944 costing the lives of the 10 member crew of the "Mi Amigo". In commemoration of which a fly past will take place on the 22nd of February 2019 at 8.45am at Endcliffe Park that will include an F15 fighter jet from RAF Lakenheath, other aircraft to include Ospreys, Typhoons and a Dakota.
Here's a unique view of the memorial site in VR 360.
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Tuesday, February 12, 2019
Sheffield B17 US Bomber Crash 75th Anniversary Fly-past on 22nd February 2019 Full Details / Local / Sheffield
By: Anika_Walayat
2019 marks the 75th anniversary of the crash of a US B17 Flying Fortress bomber in Endcliffe Park, Sheffield on the 22nd of February 1944 costing the lives of the 10 member crew of the "Mi Amigo". In commemoration of which a fly past will take place on the 22nd of February 2019 at 8.45am at Endcliffe Park that will include an F15 fighter jet from RAF Lakenheath, other aircraft to include Ospreys, Typhoons and a Dakota.
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Sunday, January 27, 2019
Sheffield Best Secondary Schools Unqiue Trend Analysis 2019 / Local / Sheffield
By: N_Walayat
It's that time of the year when Year 9 students will be trundling along with their parents to their schools GCSE Choices evenings, presentations of what subjects students could select for their GCSE studies in Year 10, and 11. Though in reality for most their won't be much of a choice as the choices forms appear to have been carefully crafted to give the illusion of choice when in reality the decisions for who will do what have already been made by the schools aimed at maintaining or improving their schools position in the GCSE results tables and in view of limited spaces for resource intensive subjects such as Computer Science which tend to be over subscribed by many times the number of places available and thus only a fraction of students will actually get places on their chosen subjects.
Saturday, January 26, 2019
TONY FOULDS Get's US Bomber Crash Memorial Fly Over on 22nd Feb (BBC) / Local / Sheffield
By: N_Walayat
2019 will mark the 75th anniversary of the crash of a US B17 Flying Fortress bomber in Endcliffe Park, Sheffield on the 22nd of February 1944 costing the lives of the 10 member crew of the "Mi Amigo". Pensioner Tony Foulds aged 82 regularly tends the memorial site after witnessing the plane crash as a child, and states that he owes his life to the airmen who avoided children in the park.
Tony after bumping into the BBC Presenter Dan Walker managed to arrange a multi-air craft fly over on the 22nd of February 2019 (weather permitting). This is the BBC news report when Dan Walker breaks the news to Tony Foulds live on BBC Breakfast News that he has got his fly by, with tears and smiles.
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Friday, January 25, 2019
Sheffield Best Secondary Schools Trend Analysis 2018, GCSE Choices 2019 / Local / Sheffield
By: N_Walayat
It's that time of the year when Year 9 students will be trundling along with their parents to their schools GCSE Choices evenings, presentations of what subjects students could select for their GCSE studies in Year 10, and 11. Though in reality for most their won't be much of a choice as the choices forms appear to have been carefully designed to give the illusion of choice when in reality only a few will be offered real choice of subjects due to the fact that high demand courses such as Computer Science will tend to be heavily over subscribed and thus only a fraction of those who choose this will get what they want.
Anyway, here is our definitive answer to the question what are currently Sheffield's best secondary schools based on trend analysis which ranks the schools in terms of consistency of results, as results do tend to vary from year to year. The graph represents Sheffield's Top 18 secondary schools out of a total of 51 rated in terms of consistency in attaining high rankings in the school league tables from 2001 to 2018, for 5 A-C GCSE's from 2001 to 2016, since when available data has changed for most schools to measuring Attainment 8 Scores, so data has been normalised as a % of top scoring school so as to continue this trend series.
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Thursday, January 24, 2019
Sheffield B17 Bomber Crash 75th Anniversary Fly-past on 22nd February 2019 / Local / Sheffield
By: Anika_Walayat
2019 marks the 75th anniversary of the crash of a US B17 Flying Fortress bomber in Endcliffe Park, Sheffield on the 22nd of February 1944 costing the lives of the 10 member crew of the "Mi Amigo". In commemoration of which a fly past is planned to take place on the 22nd of February 2019 (weather permitting) that will include an F15 fighter jet from RAF Lakenheath, other aircraft to include Ospreys, Typhoons and a Dakota. Whilst an official time for the fly past has yet to be announced, early indications are that it will take place at around 9am.
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Tuesday, December 25, 2018
Sheffield Christmas Market and Lights 2018 - City Centre from Fargate to Moorfoot / Local / Sheffield
By: Anika_Walayat
Here's a walk through Sheffield city centres Christmas Market 2018, the various sights and sounds, food stalls, light displays and general atmosphere of what it was like, even a santa's grotto, walking from the starting point in Fargate past the big wheel. Town hall christmas tree, onwards to the big santa at City Hall and then back at the peace gardens to visit santa#s grotto. Then off to see the moor displays from the big polar bear outside the Light, down past Atkinson's big christmas tree terminating at moor foot.
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Saturday, December 22, 2018
Meadowhall Sheffield Shopping Mall Christmas Lights 2018 / Local / Sheffield
By: Anika_Walayat
It's Christmas at Meadowhall! One of Britain's largest shopping centres. So off we went to enjoy the mega light displays spread throughout Sheffield's indoor shopping centre.
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Sunday, November 04, 2018
IKEALand - New Theme Park Opens in Sheffield! / Local / Sheffield
By: Anika_Walayat
Sheffield, Britians' fifth largest city now has its very own theme park in the form if IKEA Land - A new magical super store that is good for both adults and children as the wonder from ride to ride, traipsing through whole houses of ideas. Lots of fun! And what's best it's free! and a lot of the items are decently priced, as long as they will fit in your cars boot!
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