UK Indymedia - Sheffield Newswire Archive

Another Roy Meadows?

Down but not out! | 21-07-2005 12:29 | Health | Sheffield

An excellent and inspiring article by members of the M.E community which identifies the similarities between that of the case of Sir Roy Meadows (and the professions attitude to him) and that of a another controversial 'world expert' who makes massive 'unprovable claims about the condition and which have had major consequences for PWME.

Killer-cola linked to London Bomber [update]

In interviews widely reported in the mainstream media last week, links between the men thought to behind the London bomb attacks and the Coca-cola company were exposed....

Zine Reading at Matilda

Matilda | 20-07-2005 18:51 | Sheffield

A NIGHT OF READINGS
Live at the Matilda
7pm - 9 pm Saturday 23 July

Newstead 'Treefest' Free Festival, Nottinghamshire :: Part 2

Tash [alan lodge] | 19-07-2005 15:01 | Sheffield

A weekend festival focusing on music, arts, crafts, health and the environment held on a reclaimed Greenfield site formerly the location of Newstead Colliery in Newstead Village, Nottinghamshire.

Newstead 'Treefest' Free Festival, Nottinghamshire :: Part 1

Tash [alan lodge | 19-07-2005 14:56 | Sheffield

A weekend festival focusing on music, arts, crafts, health and the environment held on a reclaimed Greenfield site formerly the location of Newstead Colliery in Newstead Village, Nottinghamshire.

Derby West Indian Carnival [Display and Show]

Tash [alan lodge | 19-07-2005 13:43 | Sheffield

The streets were awash with colour and alive with music as hundreds of participants in the 19th Derby Carnival danced to the Market Place on Saturday. More than 20 groups of dancers and costumed bands, some numbering more than 100, wound their way from Pear Tree Infant School, in Pear Tree Street, through the streets of Normanton and into the city centre.

Derby West Indian Carnival [The Parade]

Tash [alan lodge] | 19-07-2005 13:04 | Sheffield

The streets were awash with colour and alive with music as hundreds of participants in the 19th Derby Carnival danced to the Market Place on Saturday. More than 20 groups of dancers and costumed bands, some numbering more than 100, wound their way from Pear Tree Infant School, in Pear Tree Street, through the streets of Normanton and into the city centre.

Sheffielder Against the G8

Someone from Sheffield | 19-07-2005 10:22 | G8 2005 | Sheffield

I'm from Sheffield I went to the G8 protests.

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G8 Bike ride reaches Gleneagles: Photos

Some how, amongst much police confusion, where road blocks were not about stopping traffic, but 'discouraging it', we managed to get our vehicles up a narrow lane to what looked like the media entrance of Gleneagles hotel. Hidden behind a police pen and crowd of media was the G8 bike ride people.

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Hack Sheffield!

Chris | 13-07-2005 12:56 | Free Spaces | Technology | Sheffield

A Proposal for a Sheffield Hacklab.

Lost Film Fest, DJs and Infernal Noise Brigade in Sheffield

Alex | 13-07-2005 12:38 | Culture | Social Struggles | Sheffield

The space used as a convergence centre during June's G8 ministerial meeting in Sheffield came alive again on Monday night to the sights and sounds of the radical Lost Film Fest, the Infernal Noise Brigade, and DJs Filastine and MC Subzero Permafrost. Hot on the heels of people's return from Gleneagles, the night felt like the perfect finale to weeks of anti-G8 action.

7/7 Thursday: 7/7 Thursday: A failure of the emotions

Brian | 13-07-2005 04:19 | Terror War | Sheffield

Written in couplets but as a poem in prose, an elegy without sentimentality

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ACAB released

Welsh Andy | 12-07-2005 15:10 | G8 2005 | Sheffield

ACAB released after 5 nights in solitary.

Despatch from Sheffield

Sheffield has a long, proud history of welcoming newcomers from overseas. It is a friendly, multi-cultural city - but are sinister forces operating in the wake of the London bombings ?

Nottingham Bomb Scare, Mansfield Road [another false alarm]

Tash [alan lodge] | 11-07-2005 12:55 | Sheffield

Luckily, it was another false alarm. But, this is now a feature of life in Britain, with everyone on such a 'short fuse' after the London Attacks. To see the military on our streets is still quite a shock to many of us that are more used to a civil society.