Friday, 20 January 2012

Something's Sprouting Up In Glossop

Bilberrys thanks to Incredible Edible Glossop
Through the wind, rain, ice and fog a voice is calling out to everyone with green thumbs.

Even though were quite a way off summer; an organic idea has sprouted up in Glossop. Incredible Edible Glossop, a rag tag group of gardening buffs, are looking for two new patches of land to convert into a feast of vegetation in the coming months. Not only this they are trying to get the council to agree to allow the I.E.G the right to cultivate roadside verges with fruit trees. Giving the community they’re five a day, free.

Unadopted and Unloved In Glossop

Entrance to Sunningdale Drive
Across the country hundreds of patches of unclaimed land and un-adopted roads are causing havock. Legally no one knows what to do with them, the councils can't sort out the problem and the residents are having to live with unsightly and dangerous roads and throughfares. Within Glossop there are two battles raging between residents, with the council unable to help
 

Should We Reinstate The Death Penalty?

Paul Staines aka Guido Fawkes
During the assessed Newsweek all I had to create a relevant news package. As the 16th of December was the 42nd anniversary of members of parliament voting in favor of abolition of hanging, I decided to look into why the death penalty was abolished in the first place and if the subject had been laid to rest.

Newsweek Highlights


Liverpool Hope Radio
Here are the highlights of the Newsweek starting 12th of December, during this time I took part in illustrated two ways, interviews, news bulletins and phone correspondence audio work as well as running the desk and general production duties when my colleague Mark Pike was hosting.

My first phone correspondence piece featured on the highlights followed the recent exam board scandal where Edexcel had been at the center of a number of complaints over its Geography exam. One of the examiners Steph Warren, was filmed saying ‘’There’s so little [in the geography qualification] we on’t know how we got it through[ Ofqual, the examination board regulator]