BREAKING: Snooker staying in Sheffield After years of threats that it might decamp to Saudi Arabia, Snooker’s World Championship has agreed to stay in Sheffield until 2045. As part of a “landmark long-term agreement”, the Crucible will receive a £45m expansion, increasing its capacity by 50%.

This week's Tribune briefing is now out! Featuring: 🗞️ Sheffield tip one of the worst in country for illegal dumping 📻 South Yorkshire revival gathers pace 🤖 Rise of the robots in Meersbrook 🏭 Government unveils new steel strategy 🏡 Plus, home of the week, and things to do

The MEN’s editor wants to “set the record straight” and address the “persistent myth that local journalism is in decline”. Reach Plc has cut around *2,000 jobs* since I started @manchestermill.bsky.social and yet they persist with this brazen lie. Enough of it. manchestermill.co.uk/whos-peddlin...

Can you really condense over half a century in the life of a family — or the life of this city — into a single evening? Set in Pitsmoor, Leo Butler’s new play “Living” focuses on one couple over sixty years of life in Sheffield, as it changes from the 1960s to now. ✍️ @hollywilliams.bsky.social

When The Tribune was told about a “mad, massive party” at a small terraced house in Highfield, it quickly became apparent that the house in question had been rented out as an Airbnb. Is this a sign that Sheffield is now entering its own Airbnb boom — and what does that mean for those living nearby?

WE ARE HIRING 🚨 We’re looking for two great writers to help us get our new newsroom off the ground.

“I call lichens creatures — because they’re complicated things.” Today’s story is about industrial pollution and climate change, and how a symbiotic creature made of fungi and algae is silently monitoring Sheffield's air quality without any of us knowing about it. ✍️ @bbobillsmothers.bsky.social

This week's Tribune briefing is now out! Featuring: 🗞️ The future’s bright. The future’s… 🏡 A disturbing Rightmove advert for a freehold in Nether Edge 🗑️ Households to get bigger blue bins for recycling 🏗️ Can Sheffield Hallam open its London campus in time? 🗓️ Plus, home of the week, and things to do

The @sheffieldtribune.bsky.social has done fair, even-handed reporting on this issue that created so much froth in Sheffield. Looking forward to getting to Electric Studios sometime.

Depending on how you slice it, it's taken a decade, four years or seven months for Electric Studios (the new venue in the Leadmill building) to open. So what's next?

An incredible achievement! I know first hand how hard it is to get a new title off the ground, and our new Leeds title has got 500 paying members in less than a month. Really looking forward to seeing what my new colleagues in Leeds get up to. Now they just need a name!

To celebrate his book on Sheffield’s immense music history, @danieldylanwray.bsky.social is heading out on tour - with some very special guests joining him along the way… Find all ticket and pre-order links at geni.us/GroovyLaidba...

There's a swanky new campus in London with Hallam's name on it, but over a thousand staff members have lost their jobs here in Sheffield. Worse still? With only five months to go until students arrive, not a single company has submitted a formal bid to run the London campus. 🧵

We see your love for The Tribune all the time - in emails, messages and replies to our stories. We’d love to hear from you on camera. We’re looking for a few long-standing readers to take part in a short filmed interview about why you read The Tribune. Interested? Contact us - [email protected]

🚨 You have less than week left to support our new publication in Leeds and West Yorkshire 🚨 To recap: we need 500 pledges by next Monday if we are going to launch our seventh UK title. We’re currently on 424, meaning we need another 76 in the next five days. Can you help get us over the line?

Young people with learning difficulties are capable of work but have trouble finding jobs, and are often completely excluded from more creative work. The ethos behind Ed’s Workshop is simple but powerful: that creativity and the dignity of work should be open to all. ✍️ @danhayesjourno.bsky.social

BREAKING: Andrew Milne, the solicitor who has been buying up hundreds of freeholds in Sheffield and then demanding money from homeowners, has been sentenced to a 24 month community order and 300 hours of unpaid work for “grossly offensive and menacing” emails to the court reporter Daniel Cloake.

Sheffield Theatres has what one employee describes as a “cultural monopoly,” one that has only grown larger since the organisation absorbed the Montgomery Theatre last year.  Is this a fair arrangement? We’ll tell the story and you can be the judge www.sheffieldtribune.co.uk/it-looks-rea...

Sheffield’s tightknit, secretive gaggle of thespians, playwrights and directors are constantly looking over their shoulders. Everyone is gossiping, it seems, but no one is talking. There’s good reason for those nerves. Have a peek behind the curtain by reading our piece below.

A plaque has been unveiled at the Town Hall commemorating the Sheffield Tree Campaign. “In recognition of the courageous campaigners who saved thousands of street trees from wrongful felling by Sheffeld City Council, and as a reminder to all that such failures in leadership must never happen again”

In Page Hall, the area is once again being swarmed by police. Tensions in the tightly packed terrace streets have been high for several weeks. Read @danhayesjourno.bsky.social story of the recent clash between warring sides of the Mižigár family www.sheffieldtribune.co.uk/how-an-elect...

A major new exhibition at the Graves Gallery aims to unearth hidden queer stories in the city’s art archives. The show covers thousands of years of history, from Hercules to David Hockney, as well as loads of art from Sheffield itself, and some very snazzy wallpaper. ✍️ @alimkheraj.bsky.social

TAPROOM NEWS! Introducing Abbeydale Beerworks - just 200 steps from the brewery roller shutters! We're taking on 298 Abbeydale Road, previously the wonderful Turner's. We can’t wait to play a new part in the neighbourhood that means so much to us and that we’ve called home for the past 30 years.

Our favourite donations to the Leadmill relocation fund so far, featuring a belated confession and £1 each from (allegedly) Richard Hawley and the former Leadmill building's new owner

Over the last 40 years, MHH Contracting have won contracts worth hundreds of thousands of pounds from Sheffield council. However, during a 2009 court case, managing director Martin Hague admitted to tax evasion on a massive scale. Should taxpayers’ money continue to go to this company? Thread 🧵

After our recent piece about the Hague family of Bradfield, we still had lots of questions. What, exactly, caused the initial family rift? When Martin Hague mentioned “lying and deceit”, what was he actually talking about? Now, thanks to court ruling and a family insider, we have some answers.

"In the Industrial Revolution, every big city in the north had a local champion newspaper." @tomforth.co.uk thinks cities like Leeds deserves one again. 👑

This week's Tribune briefing is now out! Featuring: 🗞️ Andrew Milne sanctioned by Solicitors Regulation Authority 🏗️ 'Mothball' threat for city centre skyscraper 🦉 Blades send Owls down in Steel City Derby ✈️ Viability of Doncaster Sheffield Airport questioned 🏡 Plus, home of the week and things to do

Come on Leodensians, I've signed up and I don't even like Leeds. Don't let it stall now and confirm all my prejudices about you being vacuous, parochial and perennially unambitious. leeds.ghost.io/welcome-to-l...

Locals call it the “Loxley alp”: a looming mound in one of the most beautiful valleys in Sheffield. As I walk up Long Lane, the earthwork rises like the foothills of a great mountain. They’re meant to be building a golf driving range here. At the moment, it looks more like the surface of the moon.

🚨 NEW: Andrew Milne has been barred from practicing as a solicitor by the Solicitors Regulation Authority and will need oversight by an SRA-approved solicitor in order to work. A spokesperson for the SRA had this to say:

A few days ago, apparently, a group of activists went door to door in Woodseats, on the hunt for Jews. Local woman Jean Hatchet confronted them and, in retaliation, two of them allegedly assaulted her partner. Worse still, one of the men declared that he is “completely and utterly anti-Semitic”.

Five local pro-Palestine activists have been accused of "Jew hunting" in Woodseats - they told us their side of the story www.sheffieldtribune.co.uk/no-pro-pales...

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

🚨We're hiring!🚨 The Bell is hiring another full-time staff reporter to join our team. We're looking for someone ambitious & tenacious, who is willing to knock lots of doors. Our journalism is in-person & on-the-ground. Click the link below for more details.

looking back at pics from 2021, when we were a tiny newsroom hard to believe we’re now in six cities — and we’re about to launch @leedsnewlocalpaper.bsky.social! if you wanna be part of it, we’d love your input — you can send us story tips and name ideas here leeds.ghost.io/welcome-to-lee…

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

This week's Tribune briefing is now out! Featuring: 🗞️ Carol singing, Hendo's, hills? What are Sheffield’s unique cultural traditions? ☹️ A moan about the Sheffield Star 💻 Barnsley named UK's first 'tech town' 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 Rotherham council gives £500 to flag raisers 🏡 Plus, home of the week, and things to do

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

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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...

The “broken windows” theory posits that when a place looks and feels unloved it can see crime worsen rapidly. Is there a world in which, had a bollard been installed, Upperthorpe precinct became the vibrant hub people want, and the community was safer as a result? ✍️ @molliesimpson.bsky.social

Until he read The Tribune’s article about Mount St Mary’s College, Alan (not his real name) had never told anyone that he was abused at the school. This week he contacted Derbyshire Police to add his name to the growing list of alleged victims, as did a former classmate who sent him the article.

The solicitor Andrew Milne has been found GUILTY of stalking at Stratford Magistrates Court today. He will be sentenced on March 10th 1/2

Sheffield is going to have not one, not two, but three e-bike hire schemes in place this year. The city’s cycling brains trust tell David Bocking what the new schemes will need if they are to succeed where the infamous yellow OFO bikes failed. ✍️ @bbobillsmothers.bsky.social

Well done to top Sheffield restaurant JÖRO on being awarded their first Michelin star! Their star is Sheffield's first since The Old Vicarage in Ridgeway lost its star over 10 years ago. As ever, we were ahead of the curve and covered JÖRO in 2022 when it was still based at Krynkl in Shalesmoor.

ICYMI: For our weekend read, Victoria looked into the murky world of urban exploring. “Lost Places and Forgotten Faces” is one of the most visible explorers on social media — but some of his behaviour has left many of his “urbex” peers with a bad taste in their mouths. Read the full story👇