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In a new series, Wicker Pharmacy Managing Director Ellie Bennett tells Now Then about the employee-owned venture which has served Sheffield every day since 1952.

Conspiracy theories of Hunger Games-style containment zones are pure fiction, but there is no connotation-free language, so bring on the cultural baggage of the suburb, writes Andrew Wood.

Alex Niven’s The North Will Rise Again looks at the North’s cultural history of modernism, progressivism and radicalism. Sean Morley speaks to Niven about Brian Ferry, regional devolution – and how the North invented sci-fi.

With such disparity in car ownership across the city, public transport and active travel need to be central to any serious debate about reducing inequality, argues Charlie Heywood-Heath.

Did I imagine a huge mechanical beast in the city centre? Did it just come out at night – or was it still beavering away in a parallel city I couldn’t normally see?