CQC Sheffield Maternity Services

Maternity services in Sheffield have had their rating of "inadequate" lifted but from a low base - Sheffield Teaching Hospitals maternity unit has now been assessed as "requires improvement".

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Shipping Containers

A shipping container complex in Sheffield is to be reviewed by the council after a series of failures led to delays and unexpected costs. The eight containers on Fargate which provide space for pop-up shops opened five months late and cost council tax payers more than four hundred and twenty thousand pounds.

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Quality Street Food Bank

I filmed a story with residents in a Sheffield street who have decorated their terraced houses in giant chocolate replicas to raise money and encourage donations to S6 Foodbank. Boyce Street in Walkley is now 'Quality Street'! You can give here: https://www.justgiving.com/crowdfunding/qualitystreetsheffield6 

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Drunk Driver Jailed

A drunk driver from Barnsley who killed one passenger and seriously injured another has been jailed for eight and a half years. Daniel Crawshaw had been on a 7 hour drinking binge before crashing into a wall near Huddersfield.

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Barrow Hill Roundhouse live

I was lucky enough to be sent to Barrow Hill Roundhouse in Chesterfield to report live on a spectacular new video projection art work with live brass band showing 150 years of railway heritage! As you can see I thoroughly enjoyed it.

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Stannington No Gas BBC Breakfast Lives

I reported live for BBC Breakfast for the first time about the hundreds of homes in Sheffield that are still without gas supply a week after a burst water main flooded the gas network.

My first live was at 6:50am. 

Then we moved to outside the pub for my 8:05am live:

I was also on the Jeremy Vine show on BBC Radio 2:

markansell · Stannington No Gas Radio 2 Jeremy Vine Live

It was freezing cold and I really feel for the residents living there having to put up with no gas for a whole week.

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Dan Bradbury golf

I filmed an on the day story with the parents of Wakefield golfer Dan Bradbury who completed a fairy-tale victory with success in the Joburg Open. He was only playing thanks to a sponsor invitation in only his third professional start. The 23-year-old made the most of his opportunity, winning by three shots.

I wanted to film as much of the story as possible outside as the natural light this gives you better quality pictures than indoor footage. I had to work quickly as started filming at 12:45pm and needed to edit the story for that evening's Look North.

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