Culture's value

IT is worrying that less than a month after Sheffield was selling itself to the country as a potential City of Culture it now finds its museums in the midst of a cash crisis.

What is more concerning, however, is that these cash-flow problems are being experienced now before the deepest funding cuts have hit the town hall budget which pays for much of their running costs.

Sadly, the Steel City missed out on the UK City of Culture title and the economic benefits that this accolade would have brought Sheffield and the wider region.