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One of the last things I did at ITV Calendar was to start a Facebook and Twitter Feed for the programme - something I had wanted to do s...

My friend Millie is doing research on how great tits change their songs according to where they live. She's found out that urban birds ...

Before I left ITV Calendar I interviewed Mohammed Bhaiyat and his dad Ziauddin. Mohammed was on one of the boats heading to Gaza when it ...

One of the last reports I did for ITV Calendar was on the missing Royal Marine Alan Addis . We got hold of the footage from British Forces ...

Here's a story I did recently on a Coronation Street actor visiting Yorkshire.

We weren't allowed to go and film with the Lottery winner because of his poor health so relied on the Lottery's press department to...

I recently reported on the arrival of lions in Yorkshire. My package was broadcast on the late news which goes out after the ITV News At Te...

As a TV journalist you are told to use the most dramatic pictures at the start of any report and I almost always do. But for this package on...

ELECTION BLOG 3 In the two months before polling day, I worked full time on the general election. I interviewed a few 'big hitters' ...

ELECTION BLOG 2 On polling day I put together a report on the elections. Broadcasters are very limited on what we can cover on the day of th...

As broadcast journalists we have to stick to the OFCOM Broadcasting Code to show 'due impartiality' . In this report on the strike...

I recently set up an interview with Chris Morris , a comedian who's renowned for never doing interviews. He was on ITV Calendar to pro...

To tell this story I used a graphic showing where the dairy is being planned for. The graphic also helped me because I didn't have many ...

I had the luxury of around 4 hours to put this report together. It allowed me to tell the story just as I wanted, using the natural sound of...

Before Christmas I put together this package on footballers in the Calendar region visiting children's wards. I used a 'dip to white...

This was my one and only Christmassy package over the festive period and my first ever 'and finally'. We decided to leave out the fa...

This has to be the most unusual story I've covered: a motivational expert attempting to break a record for the amount of time spent walk...

I put together this package on RAF bomb disposal experts searching for unexploded devises in a North Yorkshire village. It was on the day Ha...

When it was announced that women's boxing would be included at the London 2012 Olympics, we localised the story by filming with a boxer ...

Liane Llewellyn has to be one of the most incredible athletes I've come across. The Yorkshire physiotherapist swam non-stop across the ...