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Mayor Oliver Coppard is preparing to pump vast amounts of public money into the project – but has refused to say how the supposed benefits were arrived at.

Traditional forms of journalism have let communities across our city down. That's why over the next few years we're looking at ways to use our platform and our skills to help build real community ...

Cloaked in the scent of oil and eclipsed by the shadow of another Trump presidency, negotiations at COP29 in Azerbaijan are in their final week. The global climate talks may seem distant, but might it ...

Crip is bold, rebellious and unapologetic. Crip has sass and attitude. Crip is a movement that has emerged from the disability community actively rebelling against ableist attitudes, prejudice and ...

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 ...

It's for reasons like this that Sheffield is one of a handful of cities in the UK to set up a Fairness Commission, an independent panel of local figures who have been meeting since February to hear ...

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 ...

Hard-right populist party Reform UK came within ten votes of winning their first-ever seat on Sheffield City Council yesterday, after a shock by-election which saw a previously safe Labour seat switch ...

No matter how long you've been in Sheffield, there's something intriguing about old photos of the city. Whether you're trying to spot familiar sites or marvelling at how certain areas look the same, ...

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, ...

Sheffield Palestine Campaign Against Israeli Apartheid. In November 2023, Sheffield made national headlines as the first city council in the UK to vote to call for a ceasefire in Gaza. Others soon ...