Dan Hayes
@danhayesjourno.bsky.social
Reporter @sheffieldtribune.bsky.social — part of @millmedia.bsky.social | Got a story? Email: dan@sheffieldtribune.co.uk 📧
‘The trouble with the straight and the narrow is it's so thin, I keep sliding off to the side’
‘The trouble with the straight and the narrow is it's so thin, I keep sliding off to the side’
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Horrified, Becky read Milne’s words. “I accordingly am entitled to vacant possession of the property”, he asserted. “I am writing to give you 7 days notice that I will have a locksmith and agent attend to recover possession for me and change the locks”.
Latest update in our Andrew Milne story 👇
Latest update in our Andrew Milne story 👇
After Becky’s mum died, it was time to sell her childhood home. Then Andrew Milne got in touch
Plus: As the search for answers continues, The Tribune takes to the road
www.sheffieldtribune.co.uk
November 16, 2025 at 7:51 AM
Horrified, Becky read Milne’s words. “I accordingly am entitled to vacant possession of the property”, he asserted. “I am writing to give you 7 days notice that I will have a locksmith and agent attend to recover possession for me and change the locks”.
Latest update in our Andrew Milne story 👇
Latest update in our Andrew Milne story 👇
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So sorry to hear the sad news about Rachel, who was the most brilliantly versatile, warm, perceptive writer (& lovely colleague). And way too young for this. observer.co.uk/news/nationa...
Remembering Rachel Cooke | The Observer
observer.co.uk
November 14, 2025 at 8:53 PM
So sorry to hear the sad news about Rachel, who was the most brilliantly versatile, warm, perceptive writer (& lovely colleague). And way too young for this. observer.co.uk/news/nationa...
Very sad to hear this. Rachel interviewed us in 2024 about The Tribune and Mill Media.
She was particularly interested in The Tribune as she grew up in Sheffield.
I quoted her stories quite often, including a memorable piece she wrote about the Castle Market.
Condolences to everyone who knew her.
She was particularly interested in The Tribune as she grew up in Sheffield.
I quoted her stories quite often, including a memorable piece she wrote about the Castle Market.
Condolences to everyone who knew her.
Remembering Rachel Cooke | The Observer
observer.co.uk
November 14, 2025 at 8:12 PM
Very sad to hear this. Rachel interviewed us in 2024 about The Tribune and Mill Media.
She was particularly interested in The Tribune as she grew up in Sheffield.
I quoted her stories quite often, including a memorable piece she wrote about the Castle Market.
Condolences to everyone who knew her.
She was particularly interested in The Tribune as she grew up in Sheffield.
I quoted her stories quite often, including a memorable piece she wrote about the Castle Market.
Condolences to everyone who knew her.
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“You can imagine, as a 90-something living on her own, she read that with outright panic.”
Great to see BBC Radio 4 following up our leasehold investigation on You and Yours today. (Link here: www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/..., first story)
Great to see BBC Radio 4 following up our leasehold investigation on You and Yours today. (Link here: www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/..., first story)
You and Yours - Leasehold Homes, Black Friday Sales and the UK Plastics Pact - BBC Sounds
What happens when leasehold homeowners are asked to buy their freehold?
www.bbc.co.uk
November 12, 2025 at 6:53 PM
“You can imagine, as a 90-something living on her own, she read that with outright panic.”
Great to see BBC Radio 4 following up our leasehold investigation on You and Yours today. (Link here: www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/..., first story)
Great to see BBC Radio 4 following up our leasehold investigation on You and Yours today. (Link here: www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/..., first story)
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Sheffielders have been visiting Wyming Brook for a century.
But over the last few years, the beauty spot has been changing, and not everyone is happy about it.
The debate raises thorny questions about what nature is for and in whose interests we should intervene.
✍️ @bbobillsmothers.bsky.social
But over the last few years, the beauty spot has been changing, and not everyone is happy about it.
The debate raises thorny questions about what nature is for and in whose interests we should intervene.
✍️ @bbobillsmothers.bsky.social
Why change Wyming Brook?
After 900 larch trees were felled in 2023, the Lord of the Rings-like landscape changed. Snails, moss and wrens like it. But what about the humans?
www.sheffieldtribune.co.uk
November 12, 2025 at 1:11 PM
Sheffielders have been visiting Wyming Brook for a century.
But over the last few years, the beauty spot has been changing, and not everyone is happy about it.
The debate raises thorny questions about what nature is for and in whose interests we should intervene.
✍️ @bbobillsmothers.bsky.social
But over the last few years, the beauty spot has been changing, and not everyone is happy about it.
The debate raises thorny questions about what nature is for and in whose interests we should intervene.
✍️ @bbobillsmothers.bsky.social
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This week's Tribune briefing is now out! Featuring:
🗞️ Far right claims ‘Muslim-controlled’ Sheffield has ‘cancelled Christmas?’
🏡 Latest on leasehold investigation
🦉 Interested Owls party 'has visited Hillsborough'
🚊 £12.8m Supertram investment 'completed'
🎭 Plus, home of the week, and things to do
🗞️ Far right claims ‘Muslim-controlled’ Sheffield has ‘cancelled Christmas?’
🏡 Latest on leasehold investigation
🦉 Interested Owls party 'has visited Hillsborough'
🚊 £12.8m Supertram investment 'completed'
🎭 Plus, home of the week, and things to do
Why are the far right claiming ‘Muslim-controlled’ Sheffield has ‘cancelled Christmas?’
Plus, the latest update on our major leasehold investigation
www.sheffieldtribune.co.uk
November 10, 2025 at 3:57 PM
This week's Tribune briefing is now out! Featuring:
🗞️ Far right claims ‘Muslim-controlled’ Sheffield has ‘cancelled Christmas?’
🏡 Latest on leasehold investigation
🦉 Interested Owls party 'has visited Hillsborough'
🚊 £12.8m Supertram investment 'completed'
🎭 Plus, home of the week, and things to do
🗞️ Far right claims ‘Muslim-controlled’ Sheffield has ‘cancelled Christmas?’
🏡 Latest on leasehold investigation
🦉 Interested Owls party 'has visited Hillsborough'
🚊 £12.8m Supertram investment 'completed'
🎭 Plus, home of the week, and things to do
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Spectacular work by @sheffieldtribune.bsky.social once again.
Subscribing to this publication is definitely worth the money #sheffield peeps
www.sheffieldtribune.co.uk/sometimes-it...
Subscribing to this publication is definitely worth the money #sheffield peeps
www.sheffieldtribune.co.uk/sometimes-it...
Sometimes it’s worth the risk
“We will definitely bring proceedings for Defamation and Malicious Falsehood if you publish such complete and malicious lies.”
www.sheffieldtribune.co.uk
November 9, 2025 at 1:01 PM
Spectacular work by @sheffieldtribune.bsky.social once again.
Subscribing to this publication is definitely worth the money #sheffield peeps
www.sheffieldtribune.co.uk/sometimes-it...
Subscribing to this publication is definitely worth the money #sheffield peeps
www.sheffieldtribune.co.uk/sometimes-it...
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Thanks for sharing @rorycj.bsky.social - and well done to the @sheffieldtribune.bsky.social team. Read their note today and join as a member to get behind them.
www.sheffieldtribune.co.uk/sometimes-it... I wrote last week about two villains and one hero in the battle between truth and lies. Well here’s another hero - the Sheffield Tribune, one of the Mill stable of independent news sites, had the courage to publish an important story despite legal threats..
Sometimes it’s worth the risk
“We will definitely bring proceedings for Defamation and Malicious Falsehood if you publish such complete and malicious lies.”
www.sheffieldtribune.co.uk
November 9, 2025 at 5:53 PM
Thanks for sharing @rorycj.bsky.social - and well done to the @sheffieldtribune.bsky.social team. Read their note today and join as a member to get behind them.
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www.sheffieldtribune.co.uk/sometimes-it... I wrote last week about two villains and one hero in the battle between truth and lies. Well here’s another hero - the Sheffield Tribune, one of the Mill stable of independent news sites, had the courage to publish an important story despite legal threats..
Sometimes it’s worth the risk
“We will definitely bring proceedings for Defamation and Malicious Falsehood if you publish such complete and malicious lies.”
www.sheffieldtribune.co.uk
November 9, 2025 at 9:22 AM
www.sheffieldtribune.co.uk/sometimes-it... I wrote last week about two villains and one hero in the battle between truth and lies. Well here’s another hero - the Sheffield Tribune, one of the Mill stable of independent news sites, had the courage to publish an important story despite legal threats..
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“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.”
“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.”
Sometimes it’s worth the risk
“We will definitely bring proceedings for Defamation and Malicious Falsehood if you publish such complete and malicious lies.”
www.sheffieldtribune.co.uk
November 9, 2025 at 10:12 AM
“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.”
“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.”
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What can Sheffield leaseholders do in response to the “very aggressive” letters? And the legal industry reacts to our story. Our latest piece, by @djstimms.bsky.social and @molliesimpson.bsky.social www.sheffieldtribune.co.uk/pressure-gro...
Pressure grows on Andrew Milne
Plus: what can leaseholders do in response to the "very aggressive" letters?
www.sheffieldtribune.co.uk
November 7, 2025 at 3:40 PM
What can Sheffield leaseholders do in response to the “very aggressive” letters? And the legal industry reacts to our story. Our latest piece, by @djstimms.bsky.social and @molliesimpson.bsky.social www.sheffieldtribune.co.uk/pressure-gro...
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The inside story of the London lawyer demanding Sheffield residents pay up tens of thousands — or face him in court.
Full story here www.sheffieldtribune.co.uk/a-london-law...
Full story here www.sheffieldtribune.co.uk/a-london-law...
November 7, 2025 at 9:45 AM
The inside story of the London lawyer demanding Sheffield residents pay up tens of thousands — or face him in court.
Full story here www.sheffieldtribune.co.uk/a-london-law...
Full story here www.sheffieldtribune.co.uk/a-london-law...
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.
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.
“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.”
Who is Andrew Milne - the solicitor sending "very aggressive" letters to Sheffield homeowners?
www.sheffieldtribune.co.uk/a-london-law...
Who is Andrew Milne - the solicitor sending "very aggressive" letters to Sheffield homeowners?
www.sheffieldtribune.co.uk/a-london-law...
A London lawyer bought hundreds of Sheffield freeholds. Then the ‘very aggressive’ letters arrived
Exclusive: The Tribune can reveal that Andrew Milne has threatened leaseholders with high court action. It ‘broke my heart’ one woman says
www.sheffieldtribune.co.uk
November 6, 2025 at 7:54 PM
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.
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.
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A story to make your blood boil. But as an aside, I'm a big fan of Mill Media sometimes printing the full aggressive responses they get to their questions (see also: Twamley, Lee)
This summer, Andrew Milne - a City of London solicitor - bought up hundreds of freeholds in west Sheffield.
Then the letters started to arrive. They included threats of high court action and offers to sell the freeholds - for £25,000.
Read today's story: www.sheffieldtribune.co.uk/a-london-law...
Then the letters started to arrive. They included threats of high court action and offers to sell the freeholds - for £25,000.
Read today's story: www.sheffieldtribune.co.uk/a-london-law...
November 6, 2025 at 6:02 PM
A story to make your blood boil. But as an aside, I'm a big fan of Mill Media sometimes printing the full aggressive responses they get to their questions (see also: Twamley, Lee)
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Local investigative reporting that makes a difference. Well done @molliesimpson.bsky.social, Daniel Timms and @danhayesjourno.bsky.social
Extraordinary story from @sheffieldtribune.bsky.social: A London lawyer bought hundreds of Sheffield freeholds. Then the ‘very aggressive’ letters arrived.
One woman: “It broke my heart, that was my savings towards a new car...He has just wiped me out.”
www.sheffieldtribune.co.uk/a-london-law...
One woman: “It broke my heart, that was my savings towards a new car...He has just wiped me out.”
www.sheffieldtribune.co.uk/a-london-law...
A London lawyer bought hundreds of Sheffield freeholds. Then the ‘very aggressive’ letters arrived
Exclusive: The Tribune can reveal that Andrew Milne has threatened leaseholders with high court action. It ‘broke my heart’ one woman says
www.sheffieldtribune.co.uk
November 6, 2025 at 3:56 PM
Local investigative reporting that makes a difference. Well done @molliesimpson.bsky.social, Daniel Timms and @danhayesjourno.bsky.social
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This is such important journalism - Every mainstream paper should pick this up (with full credit) and shout from the rooftops about it. How dare he. Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government says “Exploitative behaviour is completely unacceptable". So what are you going to do about it?.
“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.”
Who is Andrew Milne - the solicitor sending "very aggressive" letters to Sheffield homeowners?
www.sheffieldtribune.co.uk/a-london-law...
Who is Andrew Milne - the solicitor sending "very aggressive" letters to Sheffield homeowners?
www.sheffieldtribune.co.uk/a-london-law...
A London lawyer bought hundreds of Sheffield freeholds. Then the ‘very aggressive’ letters arrived
Exclusive: The Tribune can reveal that Andrew Milne has threatened leaseholders with high court action. It ‘broke my heart’ one woman says
www.sheffieldtribune.co.uk
November 6, 2025 at 3:29 PM
This is such important journalism - Every mainstream paper should pick this up (with full credit) and shout from the rooftops about it. How dare he. Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government says “Exploitative behaviour is completely unacceptable". So what are you going to do about it?.
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This summer, Andrew Milne - a City of London solicitor - bought up hundreds of freeholds in west Sheffield.
Then the letters started to arrive. They included threats of high court action and offers to sell the freeholds - for £25,000.
Read today's story: www.sheffieldtribune.co.uk/a-london-law...
Then the letters started to arrive. They included threats of high court action and offers to sell the freeholds - for £25,000.
Read today's story: www.sheffieldtribune.co.uk/a-london-law...
November 6, 2025 at 2:55 PM
This summer, Andrew Milne - a City of London solicitor - bought up hundreds of freeholds in west Sheffield.
Then the letters started to arrive. They included threats of high court action and offers to sell the freeholds - for £25,000.
Read today's story: www.sheffieldtribune.co.uk/a-london-law...
Then the letters started to arrive. They included threats of high court action and offers to sell the freeholds - for £25,000.
Read today's story: www.sheffieldtribune.co.uk/a-london-law...
Grim, ethno-nationalist graffiti at Balm Green Gardens near Barker’s Pool 😔
@sheffcitycouncil.bsky.social
@sheffcitycouncil.bsky.social
November 6, 2025 at 2:02 PM
Grim, ethno-nationalist graffiti at Balm Green Gardens near Barker’s Pool 😔
@sheffcitycouncil.bsky.social
@sheffcitycouncil.bsky.social
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Nice to see that media literacy and critical thinking is going to be added to the national curriculum – that was one of the recommendations at the end of Post-Truth, published eight years ago…
news.sky.com/story/bigges...
news.sky.com/story/bigges...
November 5, 2025 at 9:32 AM
Nice to see that media literacy and critical thinking is going to be added to the national curriculum – that was one of the recommendations at the end of Post-Truth, published eight years ago…
news.sky.com/story/bigges...
news.sky.com/story/bigges...
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Delighted to do a little thing on Manchester and Sheffield...and thanks to @danhayesjourno.bsky.social and co for knocking into shape...
"Sheffield can’t emulate Manchester. And it shouldn't try.
"It was always smaller, more isolated, more independent and idiosyncratic. These are things the city can sell on a global scale, should it choose to.
"Sheffield can be Portland next to Manchester’s Seattle."
✍️ @cottonmouthmcr.bsky.social
"It was always smaller, more isolated, more independent and idiosyncratic. These are things the city can sell on a global scale, should it choose to.
"Sheffield can be Portland next to Manchester’s Seattle."
✍️ @cottonmouthmcr.bsky.social
A tale of four cities
How Manchester stole a march on Sheffield, and how we can fight back
www.sheffieldtribune.co.uk
November 5, 2025 at 1:36 PM
Delighted to do a little thing on Manchester and Sheffield...and thanks to @danhayesjourno.bsky.social and co for knocking into shape...
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"Sheffield can’t emulate Manchester. And it shouldn't try.
"It was always smaller, more isolated, more independent and idiosyncratic. These are things the city can sell on a global scale, should it choose to.
"Sheffield can be Portland next to Manchester’s Seattle."
✍️ @cottonmouthmcr.bsky.social
"It was always smaller, more isolated, more independent and idiosyncratic. These are things the city can sell on a global scale, should it choose to.
"Sheffield can be Portland next to Manchester’s Seattle."
✍️ @cottonmouthmcr.bsky.social
A tale of four cities
How Manchester stole a march on Sheffield, and how we can fight back
www.sheffieldtribune.co.uk
November 5, 2025 at 1:27 PM
"Sheffield can’t emulate Manchester. And it shouldn't try.
"It was always smaller, more isolated, more independent and idiosyncratic. These are things the city can sell on a global scale, should it choose to.
"Sheffield can be Portland next to Manchester’s Seattle."
✍️ @cottonmouthmcr.bsky.social
"It was always smaller, more isolated, more independent and idiosyncratic. These are things the city can sell on a global scale, should it choose to.
"Sheffield can be Portland next to Manchester’s Seattle."
✍️ @cottonmouthmcr.bsky.social
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Local media doing the job that legacy media is failing to do:
Investigating and publishing real news for an intelligent readership. Adult readers and writers in a condition of mutual respect, imagine that. Love ya @millmedia.bsky.social
Investigating and publishing real news for an intelligent readership. Adult readers and writers in a condition of mutual respect, imagine that. Love ya @millmedia.bsky.social
Nigel Farage says this summer’s movement was led by ‘ordinary people’ expressing their patriotism. That’s not what we found.
www.glasgowbell.co.uk/raise-the-co...
www.glasgowbell.co.uk/raise-the-co...
The men who raised the flags
Nigel Farage says this summer’s movement was led by ‘ordinary people’ expressing their patriotism. That’s not what we found
www.glasgowbell.co.uk
November 2, 2025 at 12:29 PM
Local media doing the job that legacy media is failing to do:
Investigating and publishing real news for an intelligent readership. Adult readers and writers in a condition of mutual respect, imagine that. Love ya @millmedia.bsky.social
Investigating and publishing real news for an intelligent readership. Adult readers and writers in a condition of mutual respect, imagine that. Love ya @millmedia.bsky.social
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“Wherever we looked for the leaders of this movement, we found men with criminal pasts and people willing to put in a good word for Adolf Hitler.
“Farage told us the flaggers were just ordinary folk sticking it to the system. A few months’ of local journalism later, that looks like a shaky claim.”
“Farage told us the flaggers were just ordinary folk sticking it to the system. A few months’ of local journalism later, that looks like a shaky claim.”
The men who raised the flags
Nigel Farage says this summer’s movement was led by ‘ordinary people’ expressing their patriotism. That’s not what we found
www.sheffieldtribune.co.uk
November 1, 2025 at 10:03 AM
“Wherever we looked for the leaders of this movement, we found men with criminal pasts and people willing to put in a good word for Adolf Hitler.
“Farage told us the flaggers were just ordinary folk sticking it to the system. A few months’ of local journalism later, that looks like a shaky claim.”
“Farage told us the flaggers were just ordinary folk sticking it to the system. A few months’ of local journalism later, that looks like a shaky claim.”
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It’s Halloween on Friday, and we love a spooky story at The Tribune.
So, when we found a BBC Archive film about a ghost in a city nightclub, it was too good to resist.
From terrified bouncers to angry Italian chefs, mediums, exorcisms, and a reporter who sounds like Eric Idle, it’s got the lot.
So, when we found a BBC Archive film about a ghost in a city nightclub, it was too good to resist.
From terrified bouncers to angry Italian chefs, mediums, exorcisms, and a reporter who sounds like Eric Idle, it’s got the lot.
The phantom of the nightclub
‘The elderly, unswinging, flat-hatted, disapproving spirit of Sheffield’s past’
www.sheffieldtribune.co.uk
October 29, 2025 at 10:17 PM
It’s Halloween on Friday, and we love a spooky story at The Tribune.
So, when we found a BBC Archive film about a ghost in a city nightclub, it was too good to resist.
From terrified bouncers to angry Italian chefs, mediums, exorcisms, and a reporter who sounds like Eric Idle, it’s got the lot.
So, when we found a BBC Archive film about a ghost in a city nightclub, it was too good to resist.
From terrified bouncers to angry Italian chefs, mediums, exorcisms, and a reporter who sounds like Eric Idle, it’s got the lot.
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This week, The Tribune had some really heartening news.
On Thursday, they announced the shortlist for the British Journalism Awards in December in London.
In the local news category, not one, but two of the journalists nominated are working for our tiny team right here in Sheffield!
On Thursday, they announced the shortlist for the British Journalism Awards in December in London.
In the local news category, not one, but two of the journalists nominated are working for our tiny team right here in Sheffield!
The tide is turning
Five years ago, we set out to change local journalism. It looks like it’s starting to pay off
www.sheffieldtribune.co.uk
October 26, 2025 at 12:52 PM
This week, The Tribune had some really heartening news.
On Thursday, they announced the shortlist for the British Journalism Awards in December in London.
In the local news category, not one, but two of the journalists nominated are working for our tiny team right here in Sheffield!
On Thursday, they announced the shortlist for the British Journalism Awards in December in London.
In the local news category, not one, but two of the journalists nominated are working for our tiny team right here in Sheffield!