Category: portfolio
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Are Gen-Z ditching the England flag?
The logo of the far right, yet beloved by football fans, the St George’s cross is a rare sight on the streets today, but could it fade completely as Generation Z take the reins?
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Inside Sheffield’s underground nightlife
It’s approaching half two in the morning. An orderly queue has formed up the cellar steps of a Sheffield end-of-terrace. The unofficial line snakes into the kitchen and out into the garden. I’m not quite at the stairs yet, but I can see the door. Frustratingly, it opens outwards into the kitchen, severing the line […]
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Constructed reality TV is the new ‘elite erotica’ and The Real Housewives are its biggest stars
With their fast cars, petty troubles and expensive hobbies, we’re fascinated with how the other half live. Harry Browse argues that this desire to gawp at the lives of the rich is not only unhealthy, but downright perverted. It’s impossible to avoid the onslaught of so-called constructed reality television. Launched in 2014 to satisfy a […]
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Confessions of an Internet Meme
“Happy Birthday Miranda!” was the campy social media meme which defined 2019. Harry Browse speaks to Sam Hayes and Jack Remmington, the two people responsible for the viral sensation. You might recognise Jack Remmington for two reasons; as one half of 2017 X-Factor duo ‘Jack and Joel,’ or as the catalyst for a viral sensation […]
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Meet the Manchester artists taking on street harassment
Singer-songwriters, Olivia Browse and Jozef Scott have had enough. Harry Browse talks to them about sticking out, cat-calling and clowning around. Jozef and Olivia, both 20, started writing music when they were teenagers, hungry to escape the small towns where they’re from. Now in their final year at the British Institute of Modern Music in […]
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Community leader turns her office into sensory room for disabled children.
By Harry Browse A chairperson of a Norfolk Park community organisation has transformed her office into a room for children with disabilities and special educational needs. The room, which has been furnished with an LED bubble tube, sensory lighting and a reading area, was opened to the public yesterday. It is one of only five […]
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Sheffield teacher enters marathon for brain charity following son’s diagnosis.
By Harry Browse A Norfolk Park woman has entered the London Marathon to raise £2000 for charity after her 3-year-old child was diagnosed with a rare brain condition. Louise Woffindin, 36, a teacher at Dronfield Henry Fanshawe School, will be running for Brain Research UK on the 26th of April 2020. She will be competing […]
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Hoppy People Save Frog
Despite saving just one frog from the annual frog rescue at Sunnybank Nature Reserve, Sheffield volunteers worked together to conserve this hidden city green space. Over 20 wildlife enthusiasts joined the conservation effort organised by Sheffield & Rotherham Wildlife Trust, expecting to save up to 200 frogs from the meadow cut which happens each winter. […]
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Joe Scarborough: Writing Colour
A fire has broken out at the Broomhall housing estate. In the top floor flat, a woman is pulled to safety by two firemen hanging from an adjacent window; they call it a ‘trapeze rescue’. Panic erupts around the imposing structure. Two men use a red dining chair to scale the roof, only to be […]
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