It’s been a remarkable few weeks and this morning we’ve just hit 300 pledges 👏🏼

We wanted to share some of the messages we’ve received along the way. They’ve meant a huge amount.

Such kind words from @robynvinter.bsky.social !

We'd love to launch Leeds, and we're well on the way. If you think West Yorkshire needs great local journalism, sign up: leeds.ghost.io

the orange blob is bigger than the white blob!!!

This could actually happen. We still need 240 more absolute legends to get on board...

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We are so close to halfway there!

Could you get behind launching a new newspaper in Leeds?

"In the Industrial Revolution, every big city in the north had a local champion newspaper."

@tomforth.co.uk thinks cities like Leeds deserves one again. 👑

Nearly half way to 500 - wow 🤩

The support so far has been brilliant - and it shows there's real appetite for serious local journalism here 📰

We need 500 members to join us before we can launch in Leeds

To pledge your support, follow this link and share with a friend 💕 leeds.ghost.io/welcome-to-lee…

We're trying to bring the proud tradition of local champion newspapers back...

Pledge your support and help us launch! leeds.ghost.io

🚨 NEW: Andrew Milne has been barred from practicing as a solicitor by the Solicitors Regulation Authority and will need oversight by an SRA-approved solicitor in order to work.

A spokesperson for the SRA had this to say:

Oh goodness, yes please! Leeds is absolutely crying out for a @millmedia.bsky.social type newspaper. Please consider supporting...

for reasons not totally clear to me, in the 60s, the annual chess tournament in Wijk aan Zee (the 2026 edition is going on right now!) was covered by Dutch press photographer who all went insanely hard on it

I’ve been hoping a new Manchester Mill-style journalism outfit would come to Leeds for a while, so I’m very pleased to be pledger number 131. Please consider joining too! leeds.ghost.io

Unbelievably it actually looks like we could get halfway to our target by the end of this WEEK. We just need 95 more people to pledge to back us...

West Yorkshire is HANKERING after quality local journalism

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It's been 24 hours since we launched this - and honestly, we've been blown away 🤯

128 people have already pledged to support a new newspaper for West Yorkshire. Thank you!

To launch, we still need 500 ✏️

And then there were seven 👀

When I first spoke to @joshih.bsky.social in 2020, he'd just launched The Mill and was thinking of setting something up in Liverpool.

Less than six years later, today we're launching our seventh title in Leeds (@leedsnewlocalpaper.bsky.social).

Sign up 👉 leeds.ghost.io

If you've got even the most tenuous connection to Leeds, we need your help.

Click the below and pledge to support quality local journalism in the city!

Last time I was in Leeds, I was checking out of the children's hospital, so tired I'd forgotten how to tie a scarf.

Now I'm back! And building a tiny new team to give Leeds the incredible journalism it needs.

Read more about why we're launching a new newspaper now: leeds.ghost.io/the-case-for...

Drug wars, the wrong man being shot, escapes to Dubai... the crazy thing about this story is it's actually true. As @danhayesjourno.bsky.social filled me in on his chats with police and trips to court my jaw hit the floor.

Don't miss his incredible piece on one of SYP's biggest investigations:

@danhayesjourno.bsky.social has been working on this one for some time.

It's an extraordinary story - how do you track a killer when they shot the wrong man?

Wrong car, wrong time: unravelling the mystery of Kevin Pokuta’s murder Mistaken identity, drugs turf wars, and 20,000 hours of CCTV

When 19 year old Kevin Pokuta was shot and killed in Page Hall in December 2023, it seemed to be a totally random attack.

“It was a genuine whodunnit, which we rarely have,” says Detective Sergeant Lindsay Harding.

This is the story of how detectives from South Yorkshire Police caught his killer.

The case of Andrew Milne, the London solicitor who has been demanding thousands of pounds from Sheffield leaseholders, has just been raised in Parliament.

Phil Brickell MP said Milne had been “bullying, harassing and threatening” homeowners and called on the SRA to crack down on “crooked lawyers” 👀

Despite what you may have heard, homicides in London are at their lowest level since records began. But if you're black, there's less to celebrate.

Really important analysis by Katharine Swindells for The Londoner.

www.the-londoner.co.uk/youve-never-...

Homeowners left 'scared' by 'aggressive' freeholder Residents say they were threatened with High Court action after a solicitor bought their leases.

A big development: the BBC is now running the story about Andrew Milne's "aggressive" letters.

"I'm still losing sleep over it. This man has made my life hell."

Great to see it getting pick up. And keep an eye on Look North - you may see one of our team!

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The FT Alphaville team have included us in their list of articles of the year!

We've broken the counter!!!

With that we have hit our big goal for this year of 3,000 paying subs! 🎈🎈🎈

Thank you to everyone who's helped get us here. And if you want to spread the joy you could even give the gift of the tribune to a loved one at xmas :) www.sheffieldtribune.co.uk/give-the-gif...

A place in the sun: How do a bankrupt charity boss and his councillor partner afford a “luxury” flat abroad? Peter Mitchell and Colette Goulding signed a contract for a £2,700 per month apartment in one of Gibraltar’s “finest buildings”

A place in the sun: How do a bankrupt charity boss and his councillor partner afford a “luxury” flat abroad?

More (yet more) grubby goings-on from Merseyside, revealed by the excellent @liverpoolpost.bsky.social

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How do a bankrupt charity boss and his councillor partner afford a “luxury” flat abroad?

Find out in today’s @liverpoolpost.bsky.social free-to-read investigation 👇

livpost.co.uk/a-place-in-the…

🚨 Just five days left in our campaign! We’re 303 members away from our target 🎯

Please share the link manchestermill.co.uk or join up now for a price you choose to help us get there.

Meet the London lawyer terrorising the leaseholders of Bolton ‘If these allegations are true, this is one of the most egregious cases of bullying I have ever seen’

This story is a complete disgrace - and an explanation of so much that is wrong with our economic system.

Great reporting by @manchestermill.bsky.social as ever.

manchestermill.co.uk/meet-the-lon...

After speaking to homeowners in tears following his "very aggressive" letters - many who have paid over £25k to him - I've been working to track Andrew Milne down and ask some questions. Yesterday, I finally found him.