At long last, we’re launching in Leeds! Ever since I started The Mill, people have asked us to create a publication across the Pennines. If 500 people pledge to become members, we’re going to hire two journalists and do it. Please share with Leeds friends. leeds.ghost.io

We’re launching a new independent newspaper for Leeds - funded by readers. If you want better local journalism in Leeds, this is how it starts. 👉 Pledge your support: leeds.ghost.io

Manchester Mill find the small group of Reform activists includes several with v overt prejudices. They fairly note that Goodwin can't be expected to vet them all in advance. To date, the site report he is not willing to criticise ant of it once revealed either manchestermill.co.uk/goodwins-gan...

EXCLUSIVE: Reform UK just broke electoral law in Gorton and Denton. The party confirmed they sent out campaign materials without proper party imprint, something it insists was a mistake.

Wow - @manchestermill.bsky.social catches Reform UK sending fake letters to residents without saying they’re from Matt Goodwin’s campaign, a glaring breach of electoral law.

Looks like the effectiveness of electoral law may be facing a test: manchestermill.co.uk/exclusive-re... @manchestermill.bsky.social really does some extraordinary work.

Here's the thing about @millmedia.bsky.social: our fearless editors allow us to publish incredibly important work - like @liverpoolpost.bsky.social stories on Laurence Westgaph. Now @londonermag.bsky.social is up against a property scammer. Support us below 👇 www.the-londoner.co.uk/the-londoner...

Proud to work for @millmedia.bsky.social, a media organisation that stands up to bullies who try to silence our reporting through legal action. @sheffieldtribune.bsky.social stood up to Andrew Milne, now our sister title @londonermag.bsky.social is up against a property scammer. Support us below 👇

I'm being sued for libel by a man who ran a rental arbitrage scheme involving some of London's priciest properties. The Londoner have been brilliant in standing behind me & refusing to give into this naked attempt at silencing the truth. Read below - www.the-londoner.co.uk/the-londoner...

"So, in an act of petty protest, to prove that this is not exclusive content, and that the MEN are effectively trying to make you pay for something you’ve already paid for, we are publishing the full piece for free today..." manchestermill.co.uk/why-the-mill... Great work from The Mill! #R4Today

This is incredibly petty by @manchestermill.bsky.social - it was obviously done without my knowledge manchestermill.co.uk/why-the-mill...

🏊‍♀️You've got your Mugdocks, you've got your Loch Lomonds, but what about swimming in the city? It seems like a recipe for hypothermia and cholera, and maybe it is. But it was once all the rage in Glasgow.

“Let’s hope their investigation is shit then you can come home,” wrote Paris Askew to her boyfriend Ethan Hallows on 17 December 2023, four days after Kevin Pokuta had died. “They picked the wrong team," says DS Lindsay Harding. This is the story of how South Yorkshire Police cracked a conspiracy.

A keystone of future prosperity? Or a drain on London's efforts to build new homes? We go inside the data centre boom rewiring the capital. Link below.

🏆 Huge congrats to @molliesimpson.bsky.social , named the Rising Star by Women in Journalism. “A major @manchestermill.bsky.social investigation into the University of GM which resulted in a police investigation into alleged financial irregularities regarding suspected fraud and bribery.”

The decline of local newspapers has created a big gap - with areas struggling to build new models of coverage. But some have been bucking the trend - in particular @millmedia.bsky.social founded as @manchestermill.bsky.social in Manchester. Find out more: futurenorth.substack.com/p/is-this-th...

William Morris, chair of @uni-greatermcr.bsky.social’s board – the most influential person at the university - has resigned It comes after we reported a curious arrangement in which his wife Baroness Morris runs a company that has charged the university millions manchestermill.co.uk/first-the-vi...

Manchester’s Central Library was once considered the British Library of the North. Did a miscalculation in shelving lead to it having to chop a huge fraction of its non-fiction collection, and at speed? I spent a year obsessing about a long-lost rumour from the early 2010s tinyurl.com/ynsyvy2t

“Murder demands justice. Englishmen! Blush for your country.” 186 years ago, Samuel Holberry led the “Sheffield rising”, an armed insurrection aimed at bringing democracy to Britain. The rising failed, but his story remains relevant today. How far would you be prepared to go for a just cause?

The @manchestermill.bsky.social is such a gem of a local paper. This article on the Central Library demonstrates so well how the local can be a microcosm of wider trends. “It seems possible that what was being fought over here was not only the books, but two competing visions of this city. “

Overall a key lesson from this story is the power of new organisations to make positive change – Mill Media is to be commended for pushing the boundaries of new media and local democracy. Thanks to @djstimms.bsky.social for the chat. Read more here: futurenorth.substack.com/p/is-this-th... 6/6

Good piece by @jpspencer.bsky.social on the way the supply of local news is being changed, for the better, by the growing number of linked independent platforms in the @millmedia.bsky.social "stable". cc @sheffieldtribune.bsky.social open.substack.com/pub/futureno...

@sheffieldtribune.bsky.social first started reporting on Andrew Milne, the solicitor demanding thousands of pounds from leaseholders, back in November. A month later, we uncovered how Milne was also terrorising leaseholders in Bolton. Today, MP Phil Brickell raises the issue in Parliament.

The renaissance in local news is an exciting trend driven by online platforms. And one of the largest of these, @millmedia.bsky.social, was founded by @joshih.bsky.social in Manchester in 2020. It has now expanded to over 200,000 people subscribed across its 6 cities; over 13,000 of these pay. 1/6

The Best of 2025 at @sheffieldtribune.bsky.social. “The Tribune’s story of the year is undoubtedly Andrew Milne. When it first came to our attention I don’t think any of us knew that it would take off the way it did.” www.sheffieldtribune.co.uk/the-tribunes...

Breaking news! 🚨🚨🚨🚨 The Post has hit 2,000 paying members 🎊 Thanks so much to all our subscribers - free and paid - for supporting us.

Exciting times 🫶

After their excellent piece on Penda's Fen a few weeks ago, @birminghamdispatch.bsky.social turns its attention to the Midlands' other great slice of celluloid history. Time for another showing, @talkingpicturestv.bsky.social?

Honourable mention of @manchestermill.bsky.social Regulator ‘asleep at the wheel’ over University of Greater Manchester investigation, MP says www.theguardian.com/education/20...

🚨BIG HIRING NEWS🚨 We're hiring for a marketing and events assistant! Applications close Sunday 4 January, and the successful candidate will be: - Creative, organised and highly efficient - Committed to working in a fast-paced startup - A talented social media operator More below:

I spent months secretly contacting the country's most powerful politicians to find out their favourite pubs in the capital. Then I went on a @londonermag.bsky.social pub crawl to find out who has the best taste. It really wasn't who I was expecting. www.the-londoner.co.uk/we-found-out...

Once a Liverpool institution, Sayers has been driven out of its own city centre by Greggs. What went wrong? The great Scouse pasty war 🥐 www.livpost.co.uk/the-great-sc...

Congrats to all the various @millmedia.bsky.social publications and writers who continue to show that it is still possible to do quality local journalism. Subscribe to your local version! (such as @liverpoolpost.bsky.social) www.livpost.co.uk/and-the-winn...

Less than 10 HOURS LEFT in what has become an incredibly successful @manchestermill.bsky.social membership campaign. Join up now if - for some reason - you haven’t done so yet. Award winning journalism and you choose the price. Ends at midnight. manchestermill.co.uk/less-than-10...

Our campaign ends tomorrow night! More than 1,000 new members have joined, and you can join them - and pay what you choose for your first two months. manchestermill.co.uk/lp-1/

Another belter from @manchestermill.bsky.social @joshih.bsky.social and crew. Time the Uni of Manchester was taken over by a more transparent operator ? manchestermill.co.uk/the-baroness...

Need a thoughtful gift for a family member or friend this Christmas? Why not treat them to a Post subscription using our festive offer? 🎄🎁 ⬇️ @liverpoolpost.bsky.social livpost.co.uk/give-the-gif...

Congratulations to the Local Journalism award winners @molliesimpson.bsky.social @joshih.bsky.social @manchestermill.bsky.social for an investigation into the University of Greater Manchester #BJA2025

We’re closing in! 97 more members to get. Three days to go. Amazing effort by the Millers to make this campaign such a success. manchestermill.co.uk

You can choose how much to pay for the first few months. If you value local journalism - wherever you live - sign up! @manchestermill.bsky.social and its fellow papers in Liverpool, Sheffield and London are essential for democracy.

🚨 Just five days left in our campaign! We’re 303 members away from our target 🎯 Please share the link manchestermill.co.uk or join up now for a price you choose to help us get there.

📸Photographer Martin Parr has died aged 73. While his vivid images of seasides and crumbling monuments were taken worldwide, it was in New Brighton where he first developed his fascination with the colourful and crude. Read about his legacy below 👇 www.livpost.co.uk/gritty-cheek...

Two Mill investigations have been followed up by the national press this week. Thanks to @theguardian.com for crediting our reporting on both without needing to be prompted. It’s because of our paying members that we can do impactful journalism like this, which holds local authorities to account.

Our campaign ends ON SUNDAY! We’re on 664 new members, on our way to our 1000 target 🎯. Please join up now and spread the word 🙏 manchestermill.co.uk/lp-1/

“You were anxious all the time,” Pauline tells me as our chat comes to an end. “You weren’t sleeping, you weren’t eating". Meet Andrew Milne, the London lawyer terrorising homeowners in Horwich manchestermill.co.uk/meet-the-lon...

An amazing opportunity to subscribe to the Mill, a local Manchester newspaper that does the proper reporting and investigating, for basically ‘give what you can’ prices! manchestermill.co.uk/r/3359d2b6?m...

Labour suspends Colette Goulding, a councillor heavily implicated in the Big Help scandal. @abi-whist.bsky.social has been reporting on this story for two years now for @liverpoolpost.bsky.social www.livpost.co.uk/breaking-cou...

As Sacha Lord previously learned, @jackdulhanty.bsky.social doesn’t mess around.

In February 2013, a British man died while visiting a friend in the US state of Arizona. For the next 12 years he was unidentified — known only as ‘Maricopa County John Doe 2013’. This year, thanks to a team of staff and students at Sheffield Hallam University, his family finally have closure.