SHEFFIELD CITY COUNCIL
MUSLIM BURIAL SERVICES Muslim burial areas are provided at Abbey Lane, City Road, Shiregreen and Tinsley Park Cemeteries Earthen and concrete lined graves are available (with the exception of Abbey Lane Cemetery) Additional costs are incurred for a concrete lined grave.
Funeral arrangements Burial services will be allowed seven days a week including all Bank Holidays within daylight hours at the above cemeteries (April – September until 8.00 pm, October – March until 4.00 pm) Please note the following: • •
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A burial certificate must be obtained before the burial can take place (see information below) Last ‘booking time’ at Bereavement Services for ‘same day’ burial Apr-Sept - 5pm Oct- March - 1pm (This is to enable adequate time for preparation of the grave) (Due to adverse ground conditions, it will not be possible to perform late or weekend/bank holiday burials at Abbey Lane Cemetery) The mechanical digger not available at late, weekend/bank holiday funerals
Monday to Friday Funeral arrangements can be made by the Funeral Director or representative by contacting us on the following numbers: Bereavement Services: 0114 239 6068 Sheffield Register Office: 0114 203 9427 -
9.00 am - 5.00 pm 9.00 am - 4.00 pm
£24.6M Transport Boost For South Yorkshire South Yorkshire has been awarded £24.6 million of Government funding for new sustainable transport projects. The Department for Transport has granted the money from its 'Local Sustainable Trans-
port Fund' (LSTF). The investment stands to benefit around 10,200 businesses which affects 226,000 jobs, with more jobs likely to be created.
Council Earmarks £1 Million to Tackle City’s Inequalities Councillor Julie Dore, Leader of Sheffield City Council, has announced that £1 million of funding from Sheffield City Council will be earmarked to tackling inequalities through supporting the recommendations of the Fairness Commission. The Fairness Commission was established by the council to consider the nature, extent, causes and impact of inequalities in the City and
started its work in February this year. A wide range of issues impacting on inequalities and life chances have been discussed as part of the Commission, including health, poverty and welfare, employment and unemployment, aspiration and attainment and housing. Over 50,000 households are now believed to be living in poverty in the city – just over a fifth of households in Sheffield.
Weekend/Bank Holiday Funeral arrangements can be made by the Funeral Director or representative by contacting the Medico Legal Centre on the following number: Medico Legal Centre:
0114 273 8721 - 9.00 am - 5.00 pm
Death Registration must be completed and burial certificate obtained before the burial can proceed. Please contact: Sheffield Registration Service: 07854 183921 - 10.00 am - 5.00 pm
10 Tiny Mistakes That Have Caused Huge Problems The worker whose error caused RBS' computer crisis is not the first to make a small mistake that turned out to have enormous consequences. It could be one of the dearest little mistakes in history. The £1.7billion RBS computer crisis is believed to have been caused by a junior technician in India hitting the delete key by accident during a routine software upgrade. The “inexperienced operative” is said to have wiped out a whole day’s worth of transactions, sending the bank’s systems into complete and utter meltdown. But the unfortunate worker can take some comfort from the fact that he is not the first to make a small mistake that turned out to have enormous consequences.
first images came back blurred. It was eventually found a microscopic speck of paint had caused the telescope’s mirror to be four microns out. The error – 25 times smaller than a human hair – had to be fixed by a £300million space mission.
NASA sees red NASA lost an £80million ¬spacecraft after two ¬engineering teams used completely different units of measurement. Lockheed Martin workers went for the imperial scale – inches, feet and pounds – and NASA staff for metric – centimetres, metres and newtons. The mistake caused the state-of-the-art Mars Orbiter to pass too close to Mars during its Just look at what can go wrong... mission in September, 1999. The vessel is thought to have blown into bits when it entered the red Hubble trouble The £1.3billion Hubble Space planet’s atmosphere at the wrong Telescope was almost rendered angle. useless by a fleck of paint. The machine was launched in 1990 to Payday moan let ¬scientists view the furthest An investment bank offered a reaches of Space. But despite job seeker a £2million-a-year five years of careful planning, the salary – when they put a deci-
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mal point in the wrong place. The Swiss currency trader immediately resigned from his old job after JP Morgan Chase gave him the lucrative contract. His salary should have been closer to £200,000 – but the mistake meant the figure offered was ten times larger. The investment bank quickly realised its mistake and withdrew the contract in December 2010. The worker sued for £580,000 damages but his case was thrown out earlier this year by the High Court in London.
Bridge of sighs An American entrepreneur bought London Bridge for £1million – by mistake. Oil baron Robert McCulloch apparently thought he was purchasing the more impressive Tower Bridge in April 1968. McCulloch ordered the bridge to be taken apart before ¬reassembling it in Arizona. The re-made London Bridge is now a major tourist attraction in Lake Havasu City. Ship of fools
February 2008. The pilots survived by ejecting from the cockpit but the next-generation plane was completely destroyed. An unfair share A Japanese stock broker cost An American insurance com- his firm £145million by selling pany made perhaps the most ex- 610,000 shares for one yen inpensive typo of all time in 1978. stead of one share for 610,000 Prudential loaned £100million to shipping firm United States Lines – which guaranteed the loan with its fleet of cargo boats. Insurers expected to collect £58million when the company went bust in 1986. But because a legal secretary had left out three zeros on the contract, they were entitled to yen. The unnamed member of just £58,000. staff made the huge blunder Just plane silly while working for stock comCondensation on a tiny sensor pany Mizuho Securities in Japan. on a B-2 Stealth Bomber caused He was trying to sell one share a £896million crash. Mechanics in recruitment firm J-Com for working on the American plane 610,000 yen, around £3,200. Instead he flooded the Tokyo Stock Exchange with 610,000 shares costing one yen – less than 1p – each. Mizuho bosses tried to halt the sale in December 2005 but were unsuccessful. had discovered that moisture Flared up distorted air pressure readings. They fixed the problem by recalibrating the sensors. But they forgot to factor in what would happen if the moisture evaporated. This led to a devastating crash on the Pacific Island of Guam in
A lost hunter sparked a £510 million fire after he set off a distress flare to signal for help. Sergio Martinez panicked when he became separated from a friend during a deer hunt in California. His signal flare triggered a massive blaze which destroyed 2,300 homes and killed 15 people. The fires raged for 11 days and spread over 280,000 acres. Martinez later appeared in court. Blackest day A loose nut sparked a power cut which led to riots that cost New York £650million in 1977. When lightning struck ¬generators owned by the ¬ConEdison
power company, circuit breakers should have contained the surge. But workers forgot to tighten just one nut, leading to a 24-hour blackout that caused riots, arson, vandalism and looting across the city. More than 1,616 stores were damaged in the ensuing violence. There were also around 1,037 fires started, with police officers forced into making 3,776 arrests.
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