Oh goodness, yes please! Leeds is absolutely crying out for a @millmedia.bsky.social type newspaper. Please consider supporting...

for reasons not totally clear to me, in the 60s, the annual chess tournament in Wijk aan Zee (the 2026 edition is going on right now!) was covered by Dutch press photographer who all went insanely hard on it

I’ve been hoping a new Manchester Mill-style journalism outfit would come to Leeds for a while, so I’m very pleased to be pledger number 131. Please consider joining too! leeds.ghost.io

Unbelievably it actually looks like we could get halfway to our target by the end of this WEEK. We just need 95 more people to pledge to back us... West Yorkshire is HANKERING after quality local journalism leeds.ghost.io

It's been 24 hours since we launched this - and honestly, we've been blown away 🤯 128 people have already pledged to support a new newspaper for West Yorkshire. Thank you! To launch, we still need 500 ✏️

And then there were seven 👀 When I first spoke to @joshih.bsky.social in 2020, he'd just launched The Mill and was thinking of setting something up in Liverpool. Less than six years later, today we're launching our seventh title in Leeds (@leedsnewlocalpaper.bsky.social). Sign up 👉 leeds.ghost.io

If you've got even the most tenuous connection to Leeds, we need your help. Click the below and pledge to support quality local journalism in the city!

Last time I was in Leeds, I was checking out of the children's hospital, so tired I'd forgotten how to tie a scarf. Now I'm back! And building a tiny new team to give Leeds the incredible journalism it needs. Read more about why we're launching a new newspaper now: leeds.ghost.io/the-case-for...

Drug wars, the wrong man being shot, escapes to Dubai... the crazy thing about this story is it's actually true. As @danhayesjourno.bsky.social filled me in on his chats with police and trips to court my jaw hit the floor. Don't miss his incredible piece on one of SYP's biggest investigations:

@danhayesjourno.bsky.social has been working on this one for some time. It's an extraordinary story - how do you track a killer when they shot the wrong man?

When 19 year old Kevin Pokuta was shot and killed in Page Hall in December 2023, it seemed to be a totally random attack. “It was a genuine whodunnit, which we rarely have,” says Detective Sergeant Lindsay Harding. This is the story of how detectives from South Yorkshire Police caught his killer.

The case of Andrew Milne, the London solicitor who has been demanding thousands of pounds from Sheffield leaseholders, has just been raised in Parliament. Phil Brickell MP said Milne had been “bullying, harassing and threatening” homeowners and called on the SRA to crack down on “crooked lawyers” 👀

Despite what you may have heard, homicides in London are at their lowest level since records began. But if you're black, there's less to celebrate. Really important analysis by Katharine Swindells for The Londoner. www.the-londoner.co.uk/youve-never-...

A big development: the BBC is now running the story about Andrew Milne's "aggressive" letters. "I'm still losing sleep over it. This man has made my life hell." Great to see it getting pick up. And keep an eye on Look North - you may see one of our team! www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

The FT Alphaville team have included us in their list of articles of the year!

We've broken the counter!!! With that we have hit our big goal for this year of 3,000 paying subs! 🎈🎈🎈 Thank you to everyone who's helped get us here. And if you want to spread the joy you could even give the gift of the tribune to a loved one at xmas :) www.sheffieldtribune.co.uk/give-the-gif...

A place in the sun: How do a bankrupt charity boss and his councillor partner afford a “luxury” flat abroad? More (yet more) grubby goings-on from Merseyside, revealed by the excellent @liverpoolpost.bsky.social www.livpost.co.uk/a-place-in-t...

How do a bankrupt charity boss and his councillor partner afford a “luxury” flat abroad? Find out in today’s @liverpoolpost.bsky.social free-to-read investigation 👇 livpost.co.uk/a-place-in-the…

🚨 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.

This story is a complete disgrace - and an explanation of so much that is wrong with our economic system. Great reporting by @manchestermill.bsky.social as ever. manchestermill.co.uk/meet-the-lon...

After speaking to homeowners in tears following his "very aggressive" letters - many who have paid over £25k to him - I've been working to track Andrew Milne down and ask some questions. Yesterday, I finally found him.

We've been asking Andrew Milne about his threatening letters for weeks. After he stopped responding to e-mails, we visited several of his properties, but he wouldn't come to the door. But yesterday we finally tracked him down - to a Costa in east London 👇 www.sheffieldtribune.co.uk/in-an-costa-...

A big moment for The Mill here - committing to do six incredible things in Manchester if they can get extra support. Sign up to pay what you want for the first couple of months and get behind what they're doing

We've been beavering away behind the scenes to bring you today's update on Andrew Milne. You won't want to miss it.

UPDATE: Andrew Milne leasehold investigation. Doorbell camera footage has been shared with The Tribune which shows Andrew Milne and an associate taking photos of homes on Rushley Drive in Dore. In the footage, Milne identifies the home he wants to photograph, before being challenged by the owner.

We've been e-mailing Andrew Milne to ask why he has been threatening high court action over minor home alterations, why his letters have been described as "very aggressive" by the local MP and why he tried to take Becky's mum's home. He didn't answer. So we decided to find him 👇

When we started speaking to leaseholders we realised this was a huge story - great to see the BBC picking it up.

“Bowing down to threats isn’t in The Tribune’s DNA, and doing so would mean giving up on our journalistic mission. “We can only take that approach because we have the backing of our paying members, whose subscriptions fund all of our work and give us the confidence that we can take on all comers.”

www.sheffieldtribune.co.uk/a-london-lawyer-bought-hundreds-of-sheffield-freeholds-then-the-very-aggressive-letters-arrived/?ref=the-tribune-newsletter#comment-section Investigative journalism isn't dead yet. From Sheffield, UK

We’ve made this investigation free to read because so many people in Sheffield are affected by this story. Our journalists have been knocking on doors for weeks and we’ve had to employ lawyers because of the legal threats made against us. We can only do this kind of journalism with your support.

“How many hours a month do you work on your ‘newsletter’? What is your real job?” When we asked Andrew Milne why he was sending 'very aggressive' letters to Sheffield leaseholders he threatened to take us to the High Court. But the distress of those we spoke to meant we had to publish. Story 👇

“It broke my heart, that was my savings towards a new car,” one woman who paid Milne tens of thousands of pounds told us. “He has just wiped me out.” Don't miss today's really important story in The Tribune

the places I have lived. Sorry.

You've got two very different books there, Nicolas. Choose wisely

Excellent to see the pope calling out clickbait

How a colony of Tasmanian wallabies made the Peak District their home for 70 years 🦘🦘🦘 www.sheffieldtribune.co.uk/of-marsupial... Credits: Main video/voiceover by Maddi Fearn; wallaby video: James Ledger/Facebook; wallaby photos: Nicholson Museum Collection; The Roaches: Ian Cylkowski/Unsplash.

So excited to have @molliesimpson.bsky.social joining us at @sheffieldtribune.bsky.social ! Read all about our excellent new recruit: www.sheffieldtribune.co.uk/meet-our-new...

This is excellent

Life is lonely when you're the only person who still remembers "anymore" isn't a word

No you read this and then spent the next 5 mins mucking around with a shit bit of Javascript to test the idea out

Editing this piece is one of the heavier jobs I've had to do at @sheffieldtribune.bsky.social, making me angry and upset in equal measure. But it's such an important story that most people know nothing about (I certainly didn't).

Exclusive: Sheffield College is under investigation following claims of exam fraud, with two staff members suspended pending a review.

Turns out London buses really *are* getting slower www.the-londoner.co.uk/bus-speed-to...

You’re not imagining it - London buses are much slower than 10 years ago. Data crunching by @londonermag.bsky.social

The Tribune's @djstimms.bsky.social on Times Radio yesterday, talking about our nuclear warhead exclusive. Listen from 13:49 onwards. www.thetimes.com/radio/show/2...

This is the biggest investigation we've taken on at The Tribune. Following a tip that staff had been overheard joking about "making WMD" we found the trail of documents that proved the university's AMRC is heavily involved in the nuclear warhead programme. Link here, full story coming at lunchtime

Shall I compare thee to a summer's day? Every British person on the internet is complaining about you

Has anyone read anything good on how well the many MRP polls performed in last year's general election? I'm not asking about the overall party shares, but specifically how well the seat-by-seat analysis actually related to the final result in each seat. Let me know.

Only a small thing but I think it does say something about the trajectory of the Tory party that Boris Johnson used to boast about getting his hair "cut" in a Turkish barbershop (Bay Room, Angel) and now the populist politics he enabled sees Jenrick rail against them.

I wrote about the semi-abusive relationship between Sheffield and the snooker for @sheffieldtribune.bsky.social if anyone knows Barry Hearn... www.sheffieldtribune.co.uk/end-the-snoo...