The fuller Monty
LIKE Rome, Sheffield is built on seven hills. There the similarity ends. Jobs in the Yorkshire city's mainstay, steel, have disappeared and Sheffield is littered not with ancient ruins but rusting factories. Hence the faith in cultural production as a substitute for heavy industry.
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