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Issue 47
Friday May 4 2012 @ForgePress /ForgePress
Sheffield Against Sexism:
Why we won’t calm down, dear, p.10
Lifestyle find: the cheapest dates in Sheffield, p.20
Avengers Assemble: Screen checks out Joss Whedon’s new hit, in Fuse, p.12
Students to raise ski club from the ashes Rachel Dixon and Jonathan Robinson
Members of the Sheffield ski club have vowed to help in the cleanup of the city’s Ski Village, after it was reduced to ashes in two seperate blazes this week. Student skiers and snowboarders have spoken of their shock just days after the village was engulfed in flames in the early hours of Sunday and Tuesday morning. South Yorkshire police said the second fire is currently under investigation as a suspected arson attack. The ski club told Forge Press that members would be willing to spend days of their summer volunteering to clear up the wreckage. A Facebook page named ‘Reopen Sheffield Ski Village (Project Ashes)’ received over a 1,000 members in just six hours. Photo: Jonathan Robinson
Sheffield UKIP candidate suspended over controversial Breivik comments on blog Lauren Clarke A UKIP candidate was removed from the ballot in Sheffield’s local election, after writing a blog post in which he sympathised with the campaign of Norweigian mass murderer Anders Breivik. Steve Moxon, a former Home Office employee who was sacked in 2004 for blowing the whistle on fast-tracked immigration applications in Sheffield, was running to represent Dore and
Totley in the elections which were held yesterday. Moxon wrote a blog post in August 2011, which said that a lot of “nonsense” had been written about Breivik, and although Moxon “recoiled at his actions” that this “does not belie the accuracy of Breivik’s research and analysis in his ‘manifesto’.” The blog debates ‘political correctness fascism’ and concluded in the article written by Moxon that “though
his actions may be counterproductive, at least for now, he’s succeeded more than anyone else in promoting a very widespread focus on the major problem that is PC. That can hardly be denied.” Sheffield city council said Moxon had to remain on the ballot paper as there was no time to remove his name. A spokesperson for the UK Independence Party said: “We are grateful to the Sheffield press
for highlighting the problem of which we were unaware. “It was an article written before Mr Moxon was a member of the party and we have suspended him as a candidate for the current elections. “We would stress that the article in no way reflects the views and policies of UKIP.” UKIP had been campaigning to have a candidate in each of Sheffield’s 28 wards.
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Alex Horner & Becks Povall of Sheffield snowboarding & ski club