The Sheffield Tribune

18/10/2025

Sheffield is James O’Hara’s city, we’re all just living in it.

Hospitality, events, culture, regeneration — it’s hard to keep tabs on just how many pies he has fingers in.

But behind the brash, confident exterior, how does Sheffield’s most prominent entrepreneur see himself?

James O'Hara has a hand in venues, bars and events across Sheffield. Is he using that power for good?

16/10/2025

Do you ever wonder exactly what your beloved pooch gets up to when they are out with their dog walker?

As rumours swirl of cut corners, walkers with over ten hounds at a time, and the debate about who is hanging poo bags on bushes threatening to get nasty, we went up to Redmires to try to find out.

“If you hang around in this car park for a bit, you’ll see it all”

15/10/2025

“It’s an extremely low gate that acts as a very effective di****ad repellent!”

Over the last six years, the q***r-led nightclub Gut Level has been moved from pillar to post.

Now, with a new venue and members’ scheme, they hope they have secured their long-term future.

The members’ club keeping q***r hedonism alive in the north

11/10/2025

Did you know that we have two world-leading environmental investigative journalists living in Sheffield?

Dan Ashby and Lucy Taylor, a married couple, made their names reporting on wildlife crime in Africa and now front hit podcasts such as Buried and Boy Wasted.

The intrepid Sheffield couple taking on global environment crime

10/10/2025

The 14th of July, 2025, had been circled on calendars across Sheffield hospitals for months. It was the moment that many were dreading, but couldn’t be put off any longer. For the previous two years, the entire hospital trust had been gearing up for the day when their new “EPR” (electronic patient record) system would finally go live.

The choreography had been planned out to a tee. The old system was to be turned off on the previous Wednesday night, at which point the hospital would switch to paper records until the new system went online.

Then, a few days later, the new system would be turned on, with all the data seamlessly migrated over and the hospital ready to pick up where it left off.

It didn’t quite work out like that. One senior clinician switched on his computer that day, and tried to access his patients’ records, only to be hit with a powerful sense of sinking dread. None of them were there. “It was total chaos,” he told us.

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10/10/2025

Sheffield Teaching Hospitals launched their new electronic patient record system in July.

The new system was meant to seamlessly pick up where the old one left off, but it didn't work out like that. "It was total chaos," one senior clinician told us.

What went wrong, and are patients still at risk?

‘More and more requests are coming through marked as urgent, so that’s all we’re doing. Everything else is just getting left’

07/10/2025

“You need to listen to the people, have a vision and stick with it.”

David Bocking on Broomhall — how the inner-city Sheffield neighbourhood transformed itself from a rat run-filed red light district into a calm and liveable community 🚶‍♀️🛴🚴‍♂️🦽

Broomhall is a model for redesigning Sheffield

04/10/2025

“Everyone is conflicted between what we want to do and what we should do — and whether anything will make any difference.”

Sheffield Wednesday is currently the poster child for badly-run football clubs.

But how is all the turmoil affecting the mental health of the Owls’ long-suffering supporters?

‘You can’t just say, “well I’ll go to Bramall Lane instead”, can you?’

28/09/2025

Alpha Tenant Management Co-op had an aim that was, in many ways, as revolutionary as the housing project it served: to give the community a stronger voice.

But in November, Alpha will fold, marking the end of one of the North’s last tenant management co-ops.

How did everything go so badly wrong?

https://www.sheffieldtribune.co.uk/its-all-falling-to-bits-inside-the-collapse-of-sheffields-last-remaining-tenant-co-operative/

26/09/2025

Walkley has been thrust onto the frontline of the flag culture war.

The sleepy neighbourhood is normally better known for pottery exhibitions and horticultural shows, but on Sunday descended into bitterness and acrimony, with police being called out twice.

We find out who raised the flags and why.

‘The FLAGS our members paid for have been taken down in Walkley. WHO CAN ATTEND TONIGHT: 7:00pm? WE WILL PUT THEM UP HIGHER’

24/09/2025

“I think everyone deserves access to beauty.”

In the 1950s and 60s, Sheffield was at its industrial height. It was a wealthy and vibrant place and was looking to the future with confidence and optimism.

The beautiful, innovative buildings constructed during that time are a legacy of that optimism.

‘If you don’t like brutalism you dwell on its decline. But it was designed to make people’s lives better’

13/09/2025

Many in the Sheffield Labour Party are worried about losing voters to Reform, but it’s possible that they may lose just as many to parties of the left.

These include the Green Party, who already have 14 councillors in the city. Now, with the launch of Your Party, a new player has entered the game.

‘This is the first thing I have been enthused by in a long time’