Friday 28 April 2017

Cycling in Yorkshire

With the Tour de Yorkshire starting today, I've been looking at whether there's a growth in the number of people cycling. According to Sport England, since the Tour de France came here in 2014, Yorkshire has the second highest number of cyclists in England.  But campaigners say there's still a long way to go.



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Friday 14 April 2017

40 Years of Snooker in Sheffield

The World Snooker Championships has been taking place at the Crucible Theatre in Sheffield for forty years! Apparently it's brought £100 million pounds to the city over the last four decades. I've been to the Crucible to interview the Chairman of World Snooker, Barry Hearn and former World Snooker Champion Cliff Thorburn. As a snooker fan this was a real joy to put together and my report was used on Look North...



...and a shorter version on the BBC News Channel...



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Monday 3 April 2017

Bradford Markets

I've been to Bradford to find out about £15 million plans to redevelop the markets in the city.



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