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 ...

Doncaster Council’s own auditors have raised “serious concerns” about the project, after it emerged no private operator was willing to take on the risk. Was a pioneering Citizens' Assembly misled over ...

Sheffield City Council has created one of the UK’s three ‘Dutch style’ roundabouts on the junction of West Bar and Tenter Street. The project cost £18 million and took more than twice as long to be ...

Unless something changes dramatically between now and then, Sheffield is on course to miss its stated target of reaching net-zero by 2030 by a huge margin, according to new figures published by the ...

As both a food writer and poet, I am fascinated by how culinary delights and creative writing intertwine – the way both can tell profound stories and offer us deep insights into other cultures. So ...

Dove Ellis performing at Sidney & Matilda during last year's Float Along Festival. Steve Hunting. There's a certain goosebump moment when you arrive at Sidney & Matilda. You can almost smell the rich ...

A new proposal has been launched in Greater Manchester for a groundbreaking pilot that experts say could eventually end absolute poverty for good across the UK, as well as improve the health and ...

We’ve all probably got some old family photos and a keepsake or two of our childhood homes. Some people might have theirs on display in their current homes. Some might have bits and pieces squirrelled ...

Dam_Fino performing at the Water Rats, London, in 2018. Iamardie. Instead of taking you through my usual introductory catalogue of negative statistics, I'm going to buck the trend and let you have ...

During a cold January, the smell of wood smoke became very familiar in a lot of Sheffield neighbourhoods. That is not just anecdotal – the figures show that some 22% of households in the UK now burn ...

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