city centre, and had been on hold since 2009, was further delayed and the company developing it was dropped. The city council is looking for partners to take a new version of the plan forwards. In April 2014 the council, together with Sheffield University, proposed a plan to reduce the blight of empty shops in the city centre by offering them free of charge to small businesses on a month-by-month basis. In December 2022, thousands of homes in Hillsborough and Stannington were left without a gas supply for more than a week following a serious failure of the local network. Sheffield City Council declared a major incident as temperatures dropped below freezing in unheated homes, and aid was distributed to local residents. See also Timeline of Sheffield history History of Yorkshire History of Derbyshire History of England Sheffield Gang Wars References Notes References Further reading Armytage, W. H. G. "Sheffield and the Crimean War: Politics and Industry 1852-1857." History Today'' (July 1955), 5#7 pp 473–482. (wikisource) Sheffield