Latest project I’ve been working on with the brilliant Jim Connolly

“If shoplifting were a sport, I’d be a gold medalist”. Top class reporting with real insight on vicious cycle of crime and drug addiction being the catalyst Jim Connolly

So much work from Ruth Clegg and Jo Adnitt has gone into this important story

Shoplifting. I’m not sure many stories I’ve done have had such a reaction. If you missed it here’s 5 minutes on it bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/p0…

“What have we done as children? We wake up and go to sleep terrified" “At least protect the schools; we don’t have schools or homes - where do we go?” bbc.co.uk/news/articles/…

Flies, rats and offers of hush money - the price of living next to a ‘monster’ incinerator bbc.in/4eNHcOS

Inside the £70K ‘mafia-style’ champagne shoplifting gang bbc.in/3U7Ci6Q

“It’s like a mafia-style operation. It’s run like a business” Great working on this story about shoplifting gangs with Jim Connolly and Ali Farahani - a big team effort! It features across various BBC News outlets today and was most read on the website bbc.co.uk/news/articles/…

The mates who have met for a pint every Thursday for 56 years. I can’t tell you how much I love this bbc.com/news/articles/…

Lot of chat about local radio atm. Just want to say my little breakfast show on BBC Leeds is roadtripping across Yorkshire this week and every single day we’ve had listeners arrive in person to say hi. Real every day people, showing up because we show up for them. It matters. 1/3