I've been filming in Leeds and York on the issue of youth unemployment which is at a ten year high in Yorkshire and the Humber. It was a shock to interview eloquent, enthusiastic and impressive young people like Coburn who had applied for more than 100 jobs and was still without his first job. I co-wrote this story for the BBC News website and put this TV report together...
I've been investigating the crime of shoplifting and finding out how shop-owners and the police are trying to tackle the problem. I wrote this story for the BBC News website and made this TV report...
The Prime Minister has been warned by more than 100 Labour MPs that failing to pass assisted dying legislation would undermine trust in politics. Spen Valley MP Kim Leadbeater introduced the bill to Parliament and says the delay to the bill is ‘undemocratic'. The current bill to legalise assisted dying in England and Wales was passed by the Commons in June last year but has been stalled in the House of Lords for months and is now unlikely to pass.
A family have shared their devastation after having to bury loved ones outside their local area because the cemetery was full. Mahboob Hussain, 84, died in January, with his family told the last remaining space for Muslim burial at Dewsbury Cemetery had been filled the day he died. Sahil Hussain, his grandson, said about 30 of his relatives were buried at the cemetery, but they were forced to bury his grandfather away from his local community in Heckmondwike. I wrote this story for the BBC News website and I filmed and edited this story for TV...
Can you imagine how exciting it’d be to have a sleepover in an aquarium? Well that’s exactly what one hundred and fifty Beavers and Cubs from the 20th Sheffield Scout Group did at The Deep in Hull. It was organised to mark a special year of celebrations for the Scouting Movement of 110 years of Cubs, 40 years of Beavers and 5 years of Squirrels.
Here's the BBC Look North TV report...
I've been filming in Hebden Bridge, Halifax and Doncaster covering a story about food waste recycling. Only four of the fifteen councils in our region will meet the deadline to collect food waste from households from April this year. However, nine of these local authorities, including the whole of South Yorkshire, were granted a transitional agreement by Government, allowing a much later start date for the service. Click here for the BBC News article I wrote and here's the TV report...
An eighty-one million pound flood defence scheme for Hebden Bridge has been approved. The plans were drawn up after the devastating Boxing Day floods of 2015. The scheme aims to bolster flood defences in the area by building new, higher, walls among other measures. But many businesses are worried the four years building the defences will have a negative impact on trade.
The new adaptation of Wuthering Heights is in cinemas across the country. It’s the latest Hollywood film to be shot in North Yorkshire. Although Emily Bronte's classic novel written in 1847 was set in the Yorkshire moors, the new film was filmed in the Dales. I went travelling around the Yorkshire Dales to report on the story.
A Sheffield restaurant has been awarded a Michelin Star – the first to gain the accolade in the city for ten years. Two years ago Joro moved from the Kelham Island area of the city to a former paper mill in Oughtibridge.
I spent a very early morning with the West Yorkshire Police team tackling county lines crime on a drugs raid. Operation Phoenix has been set up to disrupt county lines drug networks in West Yorkshire. The Home Office has given the force more than a million pounds as the county has been identified as one of the largest exporters of county lines drug running in the country.
