Summary

  • Updates on Thursday 7 July 2016

  • HS2 route changes revealed

Live Reporting

Kate Linderholm

  1. Watch: The elephants are coming!

    James Vincent
    Reporter BBC Look North

    Jane Norburn won BBC Radio Sheffield's competition to design an elephant for Herd of Sheffield. Here she is seeing the final product for the first time. See Jane's elephant and the rest of the herd around Sheffield from Monday.

  2. HS2: Your Views

    Kate Linderholm
    BBC Local Live, Sheffield

    HS2 bosses have revealed a new route through South Yorkshire and confirmed plans to scrap Meadowhall station in favour of Sheffield city centre.

    The newly proposed route will run east towards the M18 before rejoining the original route south of the M62.

    Map of proposed new routeHS2

    Surely if it does mean a £1bn saving it should be utilised? HS2 is costing the taxpayer too much already when there are existing routes that with improvements could provide a similar service."

    John JJ Davis

    So basically run it through countryside and near none of the major towns/cities that would benefit massively from it. And people wonder why the northern English wants to kick the political class right in the choppers!"

    Matthew Garnt

    So Sheffield council shoot themselves in the foot again. Instead of every train coming into Sheffield at Meadowhall, we now have a split route that means Sheffield will miss out on a certain number of services!"

    Andrew Stringer

  3. There's a stampede coming and it's something to trumpet about

    Kate Linderholm
    BBC Local Live, Sheffield

    These beauties will be hitting Sheffield's streets over the next few days.  

    Herd of elephants

    They're going up in Sheffield so of course there's a Henderson's relish design  - a hendophant.

    Hendophant

    The first one was installed at Park Hill last night.

    Elephant in front of Park Hill flats

    There's an elephant with an identity crisis. It thinks it's a giraffe.

    Elehant with giraffe markings

  4. Doncaster Mayor shocked at new HS2 route

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  5. Watch: Proposed HS2 station at Meadowhall scrapped in new route

    Tom Ingall
    Journalist, BBC Look North

    The proposed High Speed Rail line to the north could take a radically different route through South Yorkshire. In a new report, the company building the railway want the line to head between Doncaster and Rotherham - rather than around Meadowhall.

    A new route has been proposed for the HS2 line, but where is it likely to go?

  6. Weather: Cloudy with possible showers

    Abbie Dewhurst
    Weather Presenter, BBC Look North

    A rather cloudy day with some spells of rain, these mainly across the Pennines whilst remaining drier across eastern areas. Chance of some brighter spells here too. Rather warm with light southwesterly winds.  

  7. Headlines for South Yorkshire this morning

    Everard Davy
    BBC Radio Sheffield News

    The top stories in Sheffield and South Yorkshire include: 

  8. Good Morning: Join us for today's live coverage

    Kate Linderholm
    BBC Local Live, Sheffield

    Hello, it's sunny, it's breezy and the amazing design by a listener to BBC Radio Sheffield for the city's herd of elephants has been revealed in all its glory:

    Painted elephant

    It will be up outside the train station from Monday.

    If you've got a photo, video or story to share get in touch.