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To: Sheffield City Council

Get John Burkhill a Star Outside Sheffield Town Hall

Honour John Burkhill "Mad Man With A Pram" with a star outside Sheffield Town Hall.

Why is this important?

John is in his 70s. Has lost both his wife and his daughter and has tirelessly walked the streets of Sheffield raising money for Macmillan Cancer. He is out rain or shine and deserves this honour for his hard work and dedication raising money for this worthwhile cause.

South Yorkshire

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Updates

2015-09-07 20:08:27 +0100

10,000 signatures reached

2015-02-22 20:23:46 +0000

Wow thank you sooooo much. Just about at 9000 now. We will be closing the petition at the end of February ready for the Council meeting on 25th March. Thank you to each and every one of you who have supported, shared and continue to highlight our campaign...

Next step is Council discussion for which we only needed 5000 signatures - this will now add far much more weight to our plea to get John his well deserved star. We will post regular updates on social media and hope that Sheffield Star, Sheffield Live and the radio stations may give us coverage.

2015-02-16 18:53:36 +0000

Thank you to Sheffield Star posting the article last week - the signatures have rocketed - we are now pushing 9,000. Thank you from the bottom of my heart. I have now been in touch with MPs for the last push. Thank you to everyone for getting on board with this and thank you to each and every one of you who have supported us this far - you are all amazing.

2015-02-09 12:17:04 +0000

We are nearing the finalising of this campaign...thank you all who have signed and shared over the past few months. If you can continue until the end of February your help would be appreciated.

2014-11-25 21:56:51 +0000

https://www.facebook.com/bbcsheffield

There's a fabulous picture of John with Rony Robinson on this facebook page.

John said when asked what he thought about this campaign in interview that to receive a star from the people of Sheffield would be an absolute honour. John said that just the news that 5000 signatures had been received in two days filled his eyes with tears.

2014-11-25 21:50:18 +0000

https://en-gb.facebook.com/media/set/?set=o.25750519904&type=3

We'd like to thank the Admins of the Facebook page 'Pictures of Sheffield Old and New' which is where the discussion that started this petition took place.

*~Thankyou!~*

2014-11-25 21:47:36 +0000

We'd like to thank The Sheffield Telegraph for retweeting Relish_Hendy's tweet of the link to this petetion which helped to spread awareness of the campaign to "Get John Burkhill a star outside Sheffield Townhall"

*~Thankyou!~*

2014-11-25 21:43:25 +0000

https://www.facebook.com/onlinesheffield

We'd like to thank the Admin of the Facebook page Sheffield Online for pledging their full support to this campaign and posting the link to this petition.

*~Thankyou!~*

2014-11-25 21:23:24 +0000

http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p02bnl7x

4 weeks left to listen to the interview with John along with discussion of HOW this petition came about on the Rony Robinson Show! BBC Radio Sheffield

2014-11-25 20:34:15 +0000

Thank you for your support everyone. Today we have been contacted by Sheffield Star and Radio Sheffield....this is going really well so thank you to you all for your support, your signature and your sharing. Please keep going. You are all brilliant!

2014-11-24 22:44:41 +0000

5,000 signatures reached

2014-11-23 09:48:22 +0000

1,000 signatures reached

2014-11-23 02:27:32 +0000

500 signatures reached

2014-11-22 22:50:11 +0000

100 signatures reached

2014-11-22 22:44:56 +0000

Wow amazing....so many signatures already. Keep them coming. Thank you everyone.