West Street Shooting

I covered the shooting to death of an innocent bystander on West Street in Sheffield this week.

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Waterton's Wall

I had a really enjoyable trip to the first nature reserve in the world...in Wakefield! Two hundred years ago the environmentalist Charles Waterton created a nature reserve in the grounds of his home at Walton Hall. Waterton was instrumental in protecting wildlife, in particular providing habitats for 123 species of birds. He had a three-mile-long wall erected around the parkland which, 200 years later, volunteers are working hard to preserve.

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Longshaw Birds

I had a lovely day at the Longshaw Estate near Sheffield where the National Trust has installed two new bird box cameras to capture the brilliantly named, pied flycatcher! My story went on BBC Look North and on BBC Breakfast...

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Schools Threat

I covered a story in Huddersfield about a man being arrested after two schools in Kirklees were put into lockdown when they received malicious emails.

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Power & Glory

I had a very enjoyable trip to Wentworth Woodhouse as a biopic about the most famous British scientist of the 19th Century is being filmed in South Yorkshire. The film is called ‘Power & Glory’ and tells the story of chemist and physicist Michael Faraday, who transformed the study of electricity and magnetism.

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Patricia Hall Inquest

The sister of a Leeds woman who went missing 34 years ago has said the opening of an inquest into her presumed death is a "tremendous milestone". Patricia Hall vanished in 1992. Her husband Keith Hall was tried for her murder but found not guilty after an alleged taped confession that he had strangled her was ruled inadmissible at his trial.

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Flooding Mental Health

I've been working on a story to do with the impact of flooding on mental health. Unlike other news providers, local and regional journalists are in our communities year round. Rather than just turning up when a big story breaks, like when there is devastating flooding, we are here long after the flood waters have receded. That is why stories like this are so important. Click here for the online article and my TV report is below.

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