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A new campaign group has launched a bid to take a Sheffield grouse moor linked with dangerous moorland burning and toxic air pollution into community ownership for the first time. Members of the newly ...
Ed Miliband, MP for Doncaster and Secretary of State for Energy Security and Net Zero, came out with a social media video on the second day of the conference, asking, “What’s the link between a wind ...
Charities supporting survivors of sexual violence speak out about Now Then data showing disabled women are half as likely to see their attackers charged with a crime. Now Then speaks to Natalie Shaw, ...
Throughout these processes, the city has been the site of a class struggle in which working people have time and again attempted to improve our pay, reduce our hours of work and establish more control ...
New data has revealed a huge increase in the amount of sewage discharged into Sheffield’s rivers and streams by privatised, for-profit water companies in 2023. The information, released this week by ...
Professor Aimee Ambrose, an expert in energy policy at Sheffield Hallam University, explained how tightly the demographics of flying in the UK run along class and wealth lines, despite adverts for ...
Back in 2019 Sheffield City Council declared a climate emergency, and the city has ambitious plans to meet net-zero targets by 2030. In trying to meet this target, community energy projects, ...
Roots of independent cinema-going In mid-1970s Sheffield, one of the few places for alternative film was at the Sheffield City Polytechnic on Psalter Lane, which became a home for students and ...
“Ella Roberta, my daughter, became ill in 2010. Ella had one of the worst cases of asthma in this country.” Rosamund Adoo-Kissi-Debrah is telling the story of how her daughter became the first person ...
“We can’t afford it” Thatcher told us the economics of government were much like running a household. This was probably the most dangerous of all her myths, as it encouraged the Treasury to “balance ...
Rivers are powerful beings. They can make or break our towns and cities – many ancient settlements are only where they are because they were founded on the banks of a river, which centuries later may ...
South Yorkshire will take back control of its bus network in 2027, bringing routes, timetables and fares under democratic control for the first time in decades. That’s the decision announced by South ...