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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
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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.
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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
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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.”
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November 9, 2025 at 5:53 PM
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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..
“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.”
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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.”
At the UKIP demonstration at Tudor Square in Sheffield.
Maybe around 100 here at the most, although lots of those seem to be YouTubers.
Maybe around 100 here at the most, although lots of those seem to be YouTubers.
November 8, 2025 at 1:12 PM
At the UKIP demonstration at Tudor Square in Sheffield.
Maybe around 100 here at the most, although lots of those seem to be YouTubers.
Maybe around 100 here at the most, although lots of those seem to be YouTubers.
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?
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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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Top investigation this, and great local journalism
“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 7, 2025 at 2:28 PM
Top investigation this, and great local journalism
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...
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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.
“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 👇
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 👇
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 7:44 PM
“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 👇
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 👇
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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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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?.
“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 3:20 PM
“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...
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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 2:55 PM
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...
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...
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Grim, ethno-nationalist graffiti at Balm Green Gardens near Barker’s Pool 😔
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@sheffcitycouncil.bsky.social
November 6, 2025 at 2:02 PM
Grim, ethno-nationalist graffiti at Balm Green Gardens near Barker’s Pool 😔
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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
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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...
"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.
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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
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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
“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.”
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’
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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.
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!
“There is a reason repair shops have disappeared from the high street, it’s not an economically viable activity any more.”
“But we’re not Amazon or Boohoo. We want the volunteers to have an enjoyable time.”
The Tribune spends a day with Reyt Repair, Sheffield’s only full-time social repair shop.
“But we’re not Amazon or Boohoo. We want the volunteers to have an enjoyable time.”
The Tribune spends a day with Reyt Repair, Sheffield’s only full-time social repair shop.
In a world where stuff is designed to break, a Pitsmoor crew are fighting back
The Sheffield repair shop bringing back ‘make do and mend’
www.sheffieldtribune.co.uk
October 25, 2025 at 8:53 AM
“There is a reason repair shops have disappeared from the high street, it’s not an economically viable activity any more.”
“But we’re not Amazon or Boohoo. We want the volunteers to have an enjoyable time.”
The Tribune spends a day with Reyt Repair, Sheffield’s only full-time social repair shop.
“But we’re not Amazon or Boohoo. We want the volunteers to have an enjoyable time.”
The Tribune spends a day with Reyt Repair, Sheffield’s only full-time social repair shop.
Meet James Holmes: Sheffield property developer and one of South Yorkshire's most prominent flag raisers.
Having already hung a 30ft wide flag, he was told by the council to stop or face a fine. Now he’s planning to hoist one ten times the size.
www.sheffieldtribune.co.uk/james-holmes...
Having already hung a 30ft wide flag, he was told by the council to stop or face a fine. Now he’s planning to hoist one ten times the size.
www.sheffieldtribune.co.uk/james-holmes...
October 24, 2025 at 10:00 AM
Meet James Holmes: Sheffield property developer and one of South Yorkshire's most prominent flag raisers.
Having already hung a 30ft wide flag, he was told by the council to stop or face a fine. Now he’s planning to hoist one ten times the size.
www.sheffieldtribune.co.uk/james-holmes...
Having already hung a 30ft wide flag, he was told by the council to stop or face a fine. Now he’s planning to hoist one ten times the size.
www.sheffieldtribune.co.uk/james-holmes...