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For many residents and councillors, the ceasefire vote was the fulfilment of a moral duty. It reflected Sheffield’s long tradition of internationalism and peace activism, from standing against ...
As a team and as a magazine, we’ve moved further and further away from conventional definitions of journalism over the past 18 months. The quickest way of summarising this is to say that we see the ...
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, ...
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 ...
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 ...
New data seen exclusively by Now Then shows that the University of Sheffield (UoS) received even more money from companies that manufacture deadly weapons than had previously been thought, with ...
“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 ...
At 22:55 on 29 October 2022, the last outbound flight took off from Doncaster Sheffield Airport (DSA), bound for Katowice, Poland. The airport, which opened in 2005 on the site of a former RAF base, ...
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 ...
Sam’s Barbers was the first Black barbershop in Sheffield, established in 1976. Nestled on Spital Hill in Pitsmoor, his barbershop was the pioneer for not only barbers, but also Black businesses at ...
Sheffield City Council have taken a major step towards safeguarding the future of one of Sheffield’s most at-risk heritage buildings, after reaching a deal to buy it from an out-of-town landlord who ...
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 ...