The Sun was forced to retract an article claiming a Sheffield estate was the ‘worst in Britain’ but the estate’s history holds valuable lessonsThe Manor estate in Sheffield is one of England’s most deprived areas,that much an article in The Sun newspaper on the 10 January was correct in implying. What the article was incorrect approximately was, parroting an article from the Daily Mirror on the 27 April 2007, or the claim that the Manor is one of Britain’s “worst no-go estates”. It is far from the most problematic even in Sheffield.
As a consequence of that spurious reiterated claim The Sun has removed its provocative article after an outcry from local MP Paul Blomfield and the mocking disdain of many residents. Yet there is another memoir the Manor estate can teach us approximately David Cameron’s assertion that Britain’s 100 worst housing estates are going to be regenerated with £140m of government pump-priming and a lot of private sector investment.
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Source: theguardian.com