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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