A blue corridor in the heart of the city

A blue corridor in the heart of the city

Good afternoon readers — and welcome to this week’s Monday briefing.Sheffield is famously a city of five rivers, but its relationship with them hasn’t always been easy. During the industrial revolution, they were used as the city’s waste disposal system and became foul, disease-spreading places as a result. The problem got so bad that, when the rivers were covered up in the late nineteenth century, no one minded very much. But times have changed…