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Prize winning steel making returns to Sheffield

4BR talks to David Holling after the City of Sheffield Band takes the First Section title at Butlins on the weekend.

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4BR talks to City of Sheffield MD, David Holling after the band took the First Section Butlins Mineworkers title at Skegness.

Dave tells 4BR Editor Iwan Fox about what it means to the band to start back on the road to the glory days when the band from the steel making city was one of the best in Britain.

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