A regional daily has launched a front page demand for an end to the sexual harassment of women on its patch.

Sheffield daily The Star has lent its support to the ‘Know The Line’ campaign, which urges business owners to have zero tolerance towards sexual harassment in the workplaces.

The campaign has been spearheaded by Sheffield Central MP Paul Blomfield in collaboration with The Star, which splashed on its launch on Tuesday, pictured below.

In an accompanying column, editor Nancy Fielder said daughters were trained “to smile through it from a completely inappropriate age – yet we do very little to tackle our sons”.

She wrote: “I don’t really care whether men want to defend themselves by saying it isn’t all men because the indisputable fact is it is all women.

“And so action is needed. Sheffield needs to step up and say we’re not having it here. As cafes, bars and restaurants reopen we need every business and every person, regardless of gender, to show the rest of the country that we can make every Sheffielder feel safe no matter what they wear or where they are – simple.

“Today our new campaign is calling for every firm to get in touch and say they want to join. We need to get everyone to see this differently. We need to train bouncers that they will be supported if they kick men out of clubs for things that used to be accepted.

“We need to ensure waitresses can do their job without shrugging off abuse and understand their bosses will back them if they raise a complaint.

“If you think this campaign isn’t necessary, find any boy under the age of ten and try explaining it to them in a way that makes sense.

“I told my nine-year-old that we want men to be nice to women – nothing more and nothing less. That childish innocence which just couldn’t comprehend why we haven’t already got that told me everything I needed to know. The time is now and we can force change together.

“This has passed down the generations for too long and we don’t need to accept it.”