Trainees at Doncaster Sheffield Airport are learning how to become air traffic controllers using a simulator computer programme as passenger planes are not set to return until April 2028. New recruits are learning how to coordinate the safe movement of aircraft in the sky and on the ground using the simulator which accurately reflects the airport. I wrote and took the photos for this article for the BBC News website and filmed and edited this report for BBC Look North...
Following weeks of very dry, hot weather, a big moorland fire has devastated Tintwistle Moor near Glossop. It lead to the closure of the Woodhead Pass, the major road between South Yorkshire and Greater Manchester.
I've been reporting on the new Meningitis B vaccination programme aimed at protecting young people. It comes after concerns over the UK's largest and fastest growing outbreak that happened in Kent earlier this year where two young adults died.
Ahead of the England v Argentina World Cup semi-final, I had a go at the Argentinian dance Tango with Lucas who teaches it around Yorkshire.
I've been reporting from Sheffield Crown Court where a "weapons fanatic" from Barnsley who’s accused of shooting his lodger and dismembering his body claims he did not fall out with him. Richard Dyson disappeared in November 2019. His remains were discovered in a concrete-filled barrel on a trailer at a farm in Barnsley in July last year.
I've been reporting on the memorial service for Shanice Brookes, an innocent bystander who was shot dead while on a night out in Sheffield. I helped write this article for the BBC News website as well as this TV report...
I've been reporting live from St Geroge's Park Graves in Sheffield at an EVO football session for reaction to England's remarkable win versus Mexico at the World Cup.
I've been reporting from Sheffield Crown Court as a man who threatened to blow up an apartment block during a 33 and a half hour police siege in Sheffield city centre has been sentenced to 7 years in prison. In February last year, Yaqub Younis triggered an evacuation of The Gateway apartment block, falsely telling residents and armed officers he had guns and explosives. I recorded a report for radio bulletins, helped write this article for the BBC News website and then put together this TV report...
I've been reporting at the biggest secondary school in Sheffield, Ecclesfield School as a ban on smartphones in schools in England comes into force making individual schools and trusts legally responsible for being phone-free throughout the day.
I reported from South Yorkshire this week as temperatures reached more than 30 degrees celsius. We filmed at Wales High School and Byron Lodge care home to see how they're coping in the heat.
I've been filming with people who give up their time to volunteer in South Yorkshire as data shows there's been a drop in the number of people volunteering in our region. In 2020, 1.7 million adults volunteered at least once a month in Yorkshire and the Humber but that's now fallen to 1.4 million last year. I’ve been filming at Wentworth Woodhouse, the Sheffield and Tinsley Canal and Gleadless Scout Group to find out how volunteers make such a difference.
This week I reported from Sheffield Crown Court on the sentencing of a driver who killed a 16-year-old boy in Sheffield when he mounted the pavement and hit him with his car. Abdullah Yaser Abdullah Taleb died when he was struck by an Audi driven by Zulkernain Ahmed in Sheffield a year ago.
The month after his death, I interviewed Abduallah's heart-broken and dignified family.
I covered the shooting to death of an innocent bystander on West Street in Sheffield this week.
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.
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...
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.
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.
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.
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.
