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Sheffield and Manchester are the two biggest neighbouring cities in Europe that aren't connected by a motorway.
At the moment, the only direct route between the two is Snake Pass.
According to Google Maps, the 38-mile drive takes 1h 53m. At an average speed of just 20mph.
BREAKING: Alison Teal, the Green Party’s candidate for Sheffield Central, has been suspended from the party. The former councillor, who was selected to run for parliament in the next election, was given a no-fault suspension over social media posts opponents say were transphobic.
Grouse moor burning has been a hot topic in Sheffield for years. But could the events of last Monday be a watershed moment?
So much burning took place that a cloud of smoke descended into the city, causing people to have breathing problems and in some cases leave their homes.
BREAKING: The Tribune has been told Sheffield's iconic Moorfoot building is today being "emptied out" of its remaining staff.
If you know what's happening (to either the staff or the building), get in touch with us in confidence on editor
@sheffieldtribune
.co.uk.
📸 Guy Atkinson
BREAKING: Sheffield Hallam University is offering *all* academic staff voluntary severance, The Tribune can reveal.
The email — which was sent to around 4,000 academic staff by deputy vice chancellor Professor David Shepherd yesterday morning — said the scheme was intended to
Teal, speaking to The Tribune, hopes to reconcile with her critics. “I have got reason for optimism,” she says. “I know we have got more in common than we have differences.” For the background to a row that is tearing the local party apart, click below👇
The Leadmill says it’s fighting for the ‘soul of Sheffield’. Its original founders disagree.
For months, we've been trying to understand the true story behind one of Sheffield's biggest controversies. The result is this long read, by
@vicky_afm
.
The Tribune understands the complaint involves tweets that go back to 2017, including one last month about Eddie Izzard using the women’s loo at a Labour campaign event. Teal is banned from attending party meetings before her complaint is heard, although a date has not been set.
Sheffield City Council commissioned a major report into an active travel neighbourhood in Nether Edge.
The report runs to over 1,500 pages and includes a seemingly endless stream of statistics, diagrams of junctions and data visualisations.
Why did they ignore its findings?
It is the latest twist in an ongoing row over Teal’s place in the Sheffield Green Party, who are bitterly divided over her gender-critical views. In October, five councillors announced they would not campaign for her in the next election in an attempt to sabotage her candidacy.
🚨Big news! The Tribune is officially looking for a new staff reporter to join our team in Sheffield🚨
The new reporter will be our very first hire and we’re incredibly excited!
Take a look at the advert below and if you fit the bill, please apply 🙏
🚨🥳Huge, happy news from us 🚨🥳Over the weekend, we scored enough new paying members that we're now breaking even! Which means doing thoughtful, longform local journalism is now viable in Sheffield — and this is just the beginning.
The most frustrating part of all this?
Up until the early 1980s, there was an excellent rail connection across the Southern Pennines. Created in 1954, the fully electrified Woodhead line was one of the best rail connections in the country but was a victim of the Beeching cuts.
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Arbourthorne and Ecclesall are just three miles away from one another, but economically, they’re worlds apart 🌍
Using the latest
#census2021
data,
@a_dowdeswell
examines Sheffield’s stark inequalities — and what our city needs to do to address them 🗺
The Tribune was born on a gloomy evening in January 2021 at the very beginning of the second Covid lockdown
Now, two and a half years later, we’re financially sustainable, and in the last week we got our 1,500th paying member. Thank you to everyone who has helped us get there 🙏
Northern Powerhouse Rail would have resulted in at least four very fast trains per hour between Sheffield and Manchester.
However, one official from the Office of the Rail Regulator said there was “no business case for investing in the north”.
EXCLUSIVE: Video has tonight been shared with
@sheffieldtrib
showing a man scaling Sheffield Town Hall to remove the Israeli flag.
He then unsuccessfully tries to raise the flag of Palestine before the Israeli flag is destroyed by people on the ground.
Great to see more separated cycling infrastructure going in on Pond Hill.
This section will link up the existing paths on Paternoster Row and Sheaf Street, and complete another section of the Sheaf Valley Cycle Route 🚲
If a new road is a non-starter, our only hope is rail. But the chances of dramatically improving our rail links to Manchester appear slim.
A rail consultant said the poor connections between Sheffield and Manchester were "the single biggest transport connectivity gap in Europe."
Opened on August 23, 1821, Snake Pass celebrated its 200th birthday two years ago.
As well as being closed a lot due to bad weather, it's also dangerous.
In April it appeared on a list of the top ten most dangerous roads in the world alongside the North Yungas Road in Bolivia.
🚨Today
@sheffieldtrib
has reached another major milestone on the way to creating a sustainable model of local news in Sheffield 🚨
To get to 1,000 paying members less than 18 months after launching subscriptions is amazing 🚀
Thank you to everyone who has helped us so far 🙌
20 years ago, an important part of Sheffield’s heritage disappeared from view. The Crimean Monument was first erected in 1857 and stood at Moorhead for more than 100 years. But since it was removed from the Botanical Gardens in 2004, the monument has languished in storage 🧵
BREAKING: Walkley councillor Tom hunt has been elected leader of the Labour group on Sheffield council.
He received 17 votes, beating Jayne Dunn who got 11. There were 11 spoiled ballots.
The 11 spoiled ballots all came from councillors loyal to previous Labour leader Terry Fox
Tom Forth says all his research into cities shows that connectivity is the main problem holding the north back.
“If I was having to go three days a week from Sheffield to Manchester I would have given up,” he says. “And that’s happening to thousands of businesses all the time.”
If you’re a Beatles fan and don’t mind getting a big wet, please come down to Devonshire Green NOW!
The amazing
@beatles_project
are about to perform and the weather has thinned the crowd out a bit!
I have a feeling it will be a gig for the ages ☔️
When Alison Teal was selected as the Green Party’s candidate for Sheffield Central, it’s didn’t come as a great surprise.
A hero of the Sheffield tree protests, she was arrested in 2017 and spent 8 hours in a cell.
BREAKING: Citu has announced it has bought the former John Banners department store in Attercliffe.
The project will be the Leeds-based developer’s second in the area, with the firm about to start work on the nearby Attercliffe Waterside site soon.
The terrifying power of The Tribune.
Two weeks ago, we polled readers about what colour Sheffield's buses should be. Green was the clear favourite.
Yesterday, one of these turns up...
“This is the perverse nature of being a football fan.”
“There's always that 2% in your head going ‘what if?’ — even if as a Sheffield Wednesday fan you have zero evidence to back that up.”
My piece on the greatest game of football I’ve ever seen 🦉⚽️
BREAKING: The owner of the Abbeydale Picture House has evicted his tenant
@CADS_Sheff
. The arts charity was recently awarded £300K by
@luhc
so they could buy the building off him. Looks like he's not so keen on the idea...
“It was later called ‘The Night When Nobody Slept’ — especially not in Sheffield.
“At 9.30pm one Sunday in September 1984, the BBC showed one of the most shocking dramas it had ever made.”
The night Sheffield was blown up on television by
@Thievesbook
💥
Sheffield’s Park Hill flats are 60 years old today!
Here’s a piece we did a few weeks ago about what it was like grow up there in the 60s and 70s and, thanks to
@MunicipalDreams
, the building’s significance to post-war Sheffield.
Happy birthday 🥳 🎉🎂
“It’s 1984 and you're sitting in a darkened room, watching Jarvis Cocker about to do the unthinkable.”
This weekend's read is the extraordinary story of the Hallamshire Hotel - and those who are trying to restore it to greatness
If you want to read the full story and help support the survival of high quality journalism in Sheffield, please subscribe today.
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A Google tool which measures how far you can drive in an hour from any location shows that it's much easier to travel north, east and south than west.
It is unsurprising therefore over three times as many people commute from South Yorkshire to Humberside than Greater Manchester.
“For most people, he will have come out of nowhere.”
Who is Tom Hunt, the new leader of Sheffield City Council?
Well, he's 36, making him the youngest council leader since David Blunkett in 1980.
He came to Sheffield to study politics back in 2005 and has stayed ever since...
Three years ago today
@sheffieldtrib
sent out our very first newsletter 📧
At the time we only had 200 readers. Now we have almost 23,000 — 2,125 of whom are paying members 📈
A heartfelt thanks to everyone who has helped us over the last three years 🙏
Up at the Moscar Estate the day after the burns, I meet campaigner
@berzinsbob
.
As we walk onto one of them, our boots start to kick up soot and ash from the charred earth. The acrid smell of burning lingers and the ground resembles a bonfire the morning after Guy Fawkes Night.
🔥 Sixteen-year-old Vera Mary Stone blowing glass at Prestons on West Street, Sheffield during World War Two, June 1942.
Photo by Daily Mirror/Mirrorpix/Mirrorpix via Getty Images
Sheffield has lots of iconic modernist architecture — but what have we got to offer away from Park Hill and the Arts Tower?
From flat-roofed pubs to listed churches, we take a tour of the city’s lesser-known 20th century buildings with
@modernistsocSHF
🏢
What has gone wrong at Forge Dam?
A major restoration project was meant to “rejuvenate” the 18th century mill pond — but no one is happy with the way the work has turned out.
“I wanted people to see it right. And it’s not right.” —
@FoPVSheffield
chair
The photograph that had eluded him for 26 years was finally in his hands.
“It was,” he says, “almost like finding the Holy Grail of this subject.”
Another cracker from the brilliant
@HShukman
looks at the mysterious “Calvine incident” with
@shuclarke
🛸
“I don’t think anyone in their right mind chooses to be a chef.”
@RutlandArmsChef
tells us why he’s leaving after 13 years, how he got his start in cooking — and why the most exciting food in Sheffield is being eaten by Chinese students 🍜
A year ago today the
@sheffieldtrib
sent out our very first newsletter…to just 200 people!
12 months on and we now have 7,500 on our mailing list and 622 paying members 🎉
We’re here to stay and it can’t be stressed enough: that’s all thanks to you 🙏
“I want what for Sheffield what it had in the 1970s: a full newsroom of reporters, conducting big investigations, writing cultural reviews and exposing corruption.
“I don’t think this is greedy — I think this is the bare minimum that Sheffield deserves.”
🚨Today we’ve reached a major milestone on the way to creating a sustainable model of local news in Sheffield🚨
To get to 500 paying members less than six months after launching our subscription service is amazing 🙌
A huge thank you to everyone who has helped us so far 🚀
“It’ll be better than Kelham,” he tells me. “We’ve got the one thing they don’t — open space. Attercliffe Waterside is going to light the blue touch paper.”
@dhayes_news
delved into the ways Attercliffe is poised to transform in today's compelling read.
“The economic case for a new road actually stacks up pretty well,” says
@thomasforth
. “But it’s never going to happen.”
A tunnel along the line of the Woodhead Pass was considered too expensive at a cost of £12bn. It could also have caused damage to parts of the Peak District.
The report found the trial had been a success.
The number of people walking and cycling in the area had increased by 16% and traffic on other routes hadn't increased by the amount that feedback had suggested.
Journey times hadn’t been significantly lengthened either.
BREAKING: An eighth councillor has just resigned from Sheffield's Labour party. Cllr Paul Wood, who represents Woodhouse, will now join the Sheffield Community Councillors group, consisting of seven other ex-Labour members
Great news that Park Hill’s famous “I love you, will u marry me” graffiti is back in pride of place 🎉
At the moment it’s just painted on but it is understood the neon lights will be added soon💡
Thanks to Park Hill resident Sophie Jo-Anna Walker for the photo 📸
“Give it a couple of weeks — it’ll be full of spice heads, beer cans and needles.”
There will always be grumpy people on social media 🤬
But is Sheffield’s new £500m Heart of the City development finally going to make the cyberwarriors eat their words?
The secret’s out: we’ve recently signed the incredible
@vicky_afm
to be our second full-time writer on the Trib. This is incredibly exciting, not least bc
@dhayes_news
has been shouldering most of the load entirely solo for the last years. So what should you know about her?
Features editor Sophie here, taking the reins because Dan is too modest to tweet about himself! Very proud to see the Trib's guiding light
@dhayes_news
discussing the challenges of local journalism in the UK in the Guardian today. Definitely worth a read.
According to
@JamesOHaraAgain
Cambridge Street is set to become "one of the best streets in any city centre in the country" - today our subscribers received a close look at one of the reasons he's so excited
The currently underway upgrades to the Hope Valley Line were "necessary but by no means sufficient” one industry insider told us.
Costing £130 million, the improvements amount to just 1.3% of the Department for Transport’s overall capital budget of £10 billion.
The Tribune is looking to speak to someone in Sheffield whose health was affected by the smoke from the grouse moor fires on Monday.
If that’s you, or someone you know, please email editor
@sheffieldtribune
.co.uk.
1 in every 19 people in Sheffield have settled here within the last year 👀
Where are they coming from? How old are they? What jobs do they do? And is it really true that Londoners are flocking here en masse?
Our data guru
@djstimms
has the answers 📊
"I get the feeling that this will be the closest I will ever get to experiencing what the East End pubs would have felt like when the steel industry was in full swing."
@danithecole
listens to memories of lost pubs and old Sheffield steelworks.
“When I set it up two and a half years ago, there was absolutely no guarantee we would make it into our second or even third year. Tomorrow, we’ll be going into our fourth.”
— A New Year’s message from The Tribune
Student Maria Radova’s parents are currently hiding in the countryside outside Kyiv.
“My mother refused to leave because my dad cannot leave. No men aged 18-60 can leave and my mother says she will follow him to the war. It’s nice to have this support from people in Sheffield.”
“The Tribune was set up on the hunch that people wanted something better.
“They didn’t want to be constantly bombarded on Facebook with churned out pieces which didn’t get to the heart of the story.
“They wanted to find out what was actually going on.”
“Staff feel like they busted a gut during the pandemic to keep the show on the road. There’s a lot of anger and people are really dispirited.”
As the University of Sheffield cuts some pay by 100%, staff speak about a “serious escalation” in their dispute.
“Kinder Scout is the best place see where the climate and nature emergencies came from — and more importantly, what to do about them.”
@WalkRunRideShf
visits our local mountain to find out how
@moorsforfuture
are helping bring spring back to the Peak 🌱
“‘I tried to kick the bomb out but I could not reach it.’ After the blast, it took superhuman resolve for the wounded columnist to heave an even worse-off little girl away from the wreckage.”
@jckchd
on Len Doherty, Sheffield's greatest forgotten novelist.
Penistone and Stocksbridge MP Miriam Cates served on the board of a Sheffield church accused of practicing gay conversion therapy.
Former church member Matthew Drapper says St Thomas Philadelphia subjected him to an absurd “gay exorcism” eight years ago.
This is fabulous. A London Underground style map of all the parks in Sheffield, and the walking and cycling routes which link them.
Great idea from
@SheffCouncil
and
@theoutdoorcity
👏
#loveparks
Did you know a huge 61% of
#Sheffield
is green space?
To mark the start of
#LoveParks
Week, we’re launching the Sheffield Greenground Map today to help show how accessible our network of greenspaces are in
#TheOutdoorCity
.🌿🏙🙌
A few days ago
@sheffieldtrib
passed 20,000 subscribers 🚀
Thanks to your support, we’re creating a sustainable form of journalism that can serve this city for decades to come 🙌