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Dan Hayes @danhayesjourno.bsky.social · 10h

Chesterfield has fallen

Thieves target famous crooked spire church dubbed 'Pisa of the north'

Police are hunting thieves who stripped lead from the roof of the church bearing Chesterfield’s famous crooked spire.

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Sheffield Tribune @sheffieldtribune.bsky.social · 15h

Do you have any experience of Sheffield Teaching Hospitals’ new patient data system, either as a patient or a staff member?

If so, and you would like to contribute to a piece in The Tribune, anonymously if you prefer, please email [email protected].

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Sheffield Tribune @sheffieldtribune.bsky.social · 1d

“You need to listen to the people, have a vision and stick with it.”

@bbobillsmothers.bsky.social on Broomhall — how the inner-city Sheffield neighbourhood transformed itself from a rat run-filed red light district into a calm and liveable community 🚶‍♀️🛴🚴‍♂️🦽

From red light district and rat runs to calm streets

Broomhall is a model for redesigning Sheffield

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Sheffield Tribune @sheffieldtribune.bsky.social · 2d

This week's Tribune briefing is now out! Featuring:

🗞️ Gun crime down despite spate of shootings
⚽ Pitch invasion at Sheffield Wednesday
🇰🇷 New Korean supermarket opens on The Moor
📽️ Tales from a Hard City returns to Sheffield
❌ Council in fresh flag blunder
🏡 Plus, home of the week and things to do

Shootings, supporter protests and Korean supermarkets

Plus, Tales from a Hard City returns to Sheffield

www.sheffieldtribune.co.uk

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Sheffield Tribune @sheffieldtribune.bsky.social · 3d

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.

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Dan Hayes @danhayesjourno.bsky.social · 3d

If you read one thing today, please make it this by @ophiraophira.bsky.social at @manchestermill.bsky.social.

A moving, honest story about the Crumpsall terrorist attack and the long history of Jews and Muslims in North Manchester.

Jews and Muslims in North Manchester: A personal story

‘We thought we were the luckiest people in the world to be born in Manchester’

manchestermill.co.uk

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Dan Hayes @danhayesjourno.bsky.social · 4d

Tudor Square and the Crucible theatre looking gorgeous in the Friday night rain ☔️

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Sheffield Tribune @sheffieldtribune.bsky.social · 4d

“Everyone is conflicted between what we want to do and what we should do — and whether anything will make any difference.”

Sheffield Wednesday is currently the poster child for badly-run football clubs.

But how is all the turmoil affecting the mental health of the Owls’ long-suffering supporters?

Blue Wednesday: How Owls fans are coping with a club in crisis

‘You can’t just say, “well I’ll go to Bramall Lane instead”, can you?’

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Reel Steel @reelsteelcinema.bsky.social · 4d

Sensoria Festival (@sensoriafestival.bsky.social) x Warp Records (@warprecords.bsky.social).
WarpVision: Aphex Twin - Come To Daddy.

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Dan Hayes @danhayesjourno.bsky.social · 4d

Oh man, I wish I’d have gone to that now 😭

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Joshi Herrmann @joshiherrmann.bsky.social · 6d

On their holiest day, Manchester’s Jews face their ‘darkest of moments’.

This is a superb and moving piece of reporting by my @manchestermill.bsky.social colleagues.

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On their holiest day, Manchester’s Jews face their ‘darkest of moments’

Amid fasting and prayer, terror comes to Crumpsall

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Dan Hayes @danhayesjourno.bsky.social · 8d

Really important interview with @mineshparekh.bsky.social by local democracy reporter Julia Armstrong in The Star.

The Facebook comments on @thestar.co.uk and Sheffield Online are an absolute cesspit of racism and hatred.

They either need to police them much better or else shut them down for good.

Sheffield councillor speaks out about racism directed at him and colleagues on social media

A Sheffield councillor says that there has been a recent “sharp rise” in online racist comments directed to himself and colleagues.

www.thestar.co.uk

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Sheffield Tribune @sheffieldtribune.bsky.social · 9d

This week's Tribune briefing is now out! Featuring:

🗞️ Mayor Coppard goes for growth
🌳 "Pocket park" plan proposed for anti-social behaviour plagued neighbourhood
🏡 Public Local Plan hearings begin
🧹 World's oldest witch dies aged 97
🔥 Sauna wars come to city
🏡 Plus home of the week and things to do

Coppard goes for growth

Plus, plans unveiled for new “pocket park”

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Emma Wilkinson @emmajourno.bsky.social · 10d

Independent local news start ups are reviving my hope about the future of journalism. There’s quite a few around now such as @manchestermill.bsky.social @londoncentric.media - I’ve been subscribing to @sheffieldtribune.bsky.social for ages now and it is money well spent!!!

‘It’s all falling to bits’: Inside the collapse of Sheffield’s last remaining tenant co-operative

'It were a good community then. It isn't now'

www.sheffieldtribune.co.uk

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Sheffield Tribune @sheffieldtribune.bsky.social · 10d

Alpha Tenant Management Co-op had an aim that was, in many ways, as revolutionary as the housing project it served: to give the community a stronger voice.

But in November, Alpha will fold, marking the end of one of the North’s last tenant management co-ops.

How did everything go so badly wrong?

‘It’s all falling to bits’: Inside the collapse of Sheffield’s last remaining tenant co-operative

'It were a good community then. It isn't now'

www.sheffieldtribune.co.uk

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Sheffield Tribune @sheffieldtribune.bsky.social · 12d

Walkley has been thrust onto the frontline of the flag culture war.

The sleepy neighbourhood is normally better known for pottery exhibitions and horticultural shows, but on Sunday descended into bitterness and acrimony, with police being called out twice.

We find out who raised the flags and why.

A flag war comes to Walkley

‘The FLAGS our members paid for have been taken down in Walkley. WHO CAN ATTEND TONIGHT: 7:00pm? WE WILL PUT THEM UP HIGHER’

www.sheffieldtribune.co.uk

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Sheffield Tribune @sheffieldtribune.bsky.social · 14d

“I think everyone deserves access to beauty.”

In the 1950s and 60s, Sheffield was at its industrial height. It was a wealthy and vibrant place and was looking to the future with confidence and optimism.

The beautiful, innovative buildings constructed during that time are a legacy of that optimism.

This is the modern world: How Sheffield embraced the future

‘If you don’t like brutalism you dwell on its decline. But it was designed to make people’s lives better’

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Sheffield Tribune @sheffieldtribune.bsky.social · 15d

BREAKING: The former Bethel Chapel on Cambridge Street is to become a sauna, ice bath and cafe named Güs.

The building is currently being refitted with a finishing date of end of October.

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Sheffield Tribune @sheffieldtribune.bsky.social · 16d

This week's Tribune briefing is now out! Featuring:

🗞️ ‘A Sheffield icon reborn’: what's next for Cole Brothers
🗳️ Local Your Party issues statement
🏡 192-home block planned for city centre
🚲 Station bike hub 'nightmare'
🌦️ The final Steel City Skies weather forecast, home of the week and things to do

‘A Sheffield icon reborn’

Plus, Hollywood comes to Weston Park

www.sheffieldtribune.co.uk

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Liam Thorp @liamthorp.bsky.social · 18d

I have rarely seen such unadulterated bollocks. I loved Twitter, it was so important for my job. Then a mad megalomaniac took it over and made it so no one would see my posts unless I paid him money - and even if I did that I would be submerged in nazi hate. But yeah this is our fault.

Shadi Hamid @shadihamid.bsky.social · 20d

One of the biggest mistakes left-of-center pundits and influencers made was decamping to Bluesky. They made themselves irrelevant, shrunk their audiences, and dramatically lessened the positive impact they could have on our public debate at the precise time we needed it most.

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Sheffield Tribune @sheffieldtribune.bsky.social · 18d

The Tribune team has just grown by one!

@molliesimpson.bsky.social has now joined us full time, and our dream of filling our fourth and final desk this year has been fulfilled 🙌

Meet our newest recruit

'Moving to Sheffield had been a little dream of mine'

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Sheffield Tribune @sheffieldtribune.bsky.social · 18d

Chuffed to get a mention alongside a handful of other pioneering local news outlets by @georgemonbiot.bsky.social in @theguardian.com today 🙏

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Sheffield Tribune @sheffieldtribune.bsky.social · 20d

Sheffield double rainbow 🌈

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Sheffield Tribune @sheffieldtribune.bsky.social · 23d

This week’s Tribune briefing is now out! Featuring:

🗞️ Hallam’s new city centre campus looks fantastic, but can they afford it?
📺 Adolescence wins big at the Emmy’s
⚽️ Wilder returns to Blades
🕹️ Does Sheffield have an indie games scene?
🌦️ Plus, this week’s weather, home of the week, and things to do

Hallam's new city centre campus looks fantastic, but can they afford it?

Plus, Adolescence wins big at the Emmy’s

www.sheffieldtribune.co.uk

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Sheffield Tribune @sheffieldtribune.bsky.social · 25d

Many in the Sheffield Labour Party are worried about losing voters to Reform, but it’s possible that they may lose just as many to parties of the left.

These include the Green Party, who already have 14 councillors in the city. Now, with the launch of Your Party, a new player has entered the game.

Getting the party started

‘This is the first thing I have been enthused by in a long time’

www.sheffieldtribune.co.uk

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