A London lawyer bought hundreds of Sheffield freeholds. Then the ‘very aggressive’ letters arrived
Exclusive: The Tribune can reveal that Andrew Milne has threatened leaseholders with high court action. It ‘broke my heart’ one woman says
Mollie Simpson
Mollie is an investigative reporter. In 2025, she won the local journalism prize at the British Journalism Awards for her reporting on the University of Greater Manchester.
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Trouble in Telford
We hit the road in pursuit of Sheffield’s most notorious landlord
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‘I had never seen two human beings who looked so utterly and completely alone’
A pair of Czech twins relocate to Sheffield in 1939
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Will a Green surge sweep Labour's leadership away?
As both parties insist that they are the best alternative to Reform, Sheffield gears up for its most significant local elections in years
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Forget Leeds. Rotherham is the true Damned United
The Millers and the miracle that wasn’t
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BREAKING: Andrew Milne has been arrested
The solicitor has been arrested on suspicion of blackmail and fraud following his letters to Sheffield homeowners
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The secret council estate cleaner
‘The job has taught me that there are many people struggling’
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Unsnookered: how Sheffield’s leaders pulled off a seemingly impossible trick shot
‘It was a very tight process, the whole thing was covered by NDAs’
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Hallam bet big on London. Now it’s cutting jobs in Sheffield.
With no-one to run it and millions spent on a state-of-the-art building, is the Brent Cross campus at the heart of the current crisis?
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The ballad of the bollard
'It’s become this thing, this angry white middle aged geezer, banging on about a bollard. "Get a life, mate", people say'
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‘From Gaza, with love’
Hundreds of Palestinian women have gone through university — partly thanks to a group of Sheffield activists
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The secret A&E doctor
‘Would any sane person submit themselves to a career that has a life expectancy in the mid 50s?’
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Crisps the cat, tapes in Tenerife and Sheffield’s sauna surge
A writer’s edition from Mollie
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Sheffield is universally loved for its quirky independents. Are they under threat?
Pubs, shops and restaurants all over the city are panicking about business rate changes that will see them shelling out thousands
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