Sheffield Headlines 8 August: St Luke’s shop The Moor: Queues in Sheffield city centre as hospice charity unveils sustainable fashion store

The latest news headlines from the Sheffield Star, Tuesday August 8th 2023.

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00:00 Hello this is your Sheffield Daily Bulletin for August 8th 2023. Here are the top stories.

00:05 Dozens of people queued on the Moor yesterday for the opening of the new St Luke's Hospice store.

00:10 The line of customers were first into the new and unique store where pulp drummer Nick Banks

00:16 was also present for a meet and greet. The clothing store has dropped traditional female

00:21 and male sections and sizing sections instead opting for a colour-coded shop floor. £10,000

00:30 worth of bespoke roasted coffee was stolen in a seemingly professional raid on a warehouse

00:36 of local suppliers Cafeology. The heist which has been branded bizarre by co-founder Brian

00:42 Uncles involved the robbers drilling a hole through the warehouse wall before loading a van

00:47 with the 10 grand coffee haul. Mr Uncles told the Star he believed the raid was obviously targeted.

00:55 And finally a former Conservative councillor who quit the party over its national politics

01:00 has endorsed Labour's parliamentary candidate for the Rother Valley. Councillor Tracy Wilson,

01:05 now an independent member of Rotherham Council, told local democracy reporting service she was

01:10 backing Labour's Jake Richards for the 2024 general election. Mr Richards is hoping to

01:16 reclaim the seat for Labour after Alexander Stafford became Rother Valley's first ever Tory

01:21 MP in 2019. As always you can find all the stories mentioned in today's bulletin in full on our

01:27 website.

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01:46 This today is a fantastic occasion for us because we're now open or about to be open in a couple of

01:52 minutes in the heart of the city and what a fantastic shop the team at St Luke's and everybody

01:58 around all the professionals have created and I want to thank them very much for all the work

02:02 they've done and I know that you as customers are going to come and have a great time in here

02:06 and that's so important because every penny that we make in profit from this shop goes back to

02:12 help support the 2,000 patients and all their families that we care for in our facilities

02:18 around Sheffield and in everybody's homes that needs them. So without further ado I'm going to

02:22 hand over to my colleague Catherine Birkett and just to say Catherine has been the driver and the

02:28 passion behind this project. She's done a great job, she's going to do all the efficient intros

02:32 then we'll cut the ribbon and we'll get you inside. Thank you for being here, over to Catherine.

02:36 Thank you Peter, good morning everybody. As Peter says thankfully the sun is shining,

02:48 this is I think this is the first sunshine that we've seen in the last month in Sheffield and I

02:53 just really briefly want to take the opportunity to say how proud we are as a local charity in

02:59 Sheffield to be here in the city centre. So as a charity and a local business this will be our

03:05 14th store and we trade online as well so please do look at our eBay shop. We are really really

03:11 proud to contribute to the local economy and really really proud that every single item in

03:16 this shop has been donated by people like you people of Sheffield. So thank you.