Barking Riverside: East London’s new mega housing development
The housing crisis in London is a hot topic. And there’s then always the question of where to build them. Well the Barking Riverside development hopes to go at least some way to answering these questions. One of the largest newbuild developments in the country with plans for a total of 20,000 dwellings, the ‘new […]
Banksy: Street artist drops three London installations in three days
Banksy has been making moves in London recently, with the third installation in three days added to a railway bridge above Brick Lane – depicting three monkeys. It follows a mural of a goat, or mountain gazelle, perched on a ledge – located near Kew Bridge on Monday (August 5). Two elephants poking their heads […]
Grenfell Tower inquiry reveals ‘all deaths were avoidable’
The 72 people who lost their lives in the Grenfell Tower fire died as a result of systemic dishonesty. The damning final report from the inquiry into the 2017 disaster displays a chain of failures by governments, companies, and the fire service starting back as early as the early 1990s with how fire safety in […]
56% of working families in London using food banks
More than half of working families in London have used a food bank in the past year. It’s a finding revealed by Censuswide who have recently surveyed 2,000 working adults in London, who have at least one child under the age of 16. Self-planned, self-produced, self-edited package for London Live News at 6.
Guy’s and St Thomas’ day surgery theatre nurses launch three days of strike action
Guy’s and St Thomas’s day surgery theatre nurses are holding a series of protests this week over issues of ‘safe staffing’. Nurses say that their workloads have steadily increased over the years – to a point where it has become ‘unsustainable’.
10 applicants competing for each property on the London rental market
In-studio hit for London Live News at 6 programme on September 13th. SOTs used in the piece from interviews conducted by myself.
Tony Cottee & MND warrior Steve Redgwell fighting for awareness
Sit-down interview with Tony Cottee (honorary patron of Challenging MND charity) and Steve Redgwell (diagnosed with MND in 2018). Booked by myself, self-filmed, self-produced, self-edited.
London hospital hackers publish 400GB of stolen patient data on dark web
NHS England has said that data from a ransomware attack on NHS provider Synnovis has allegedly been published online by a cyber criminal group. Synnovis, which provides pathology services on blood tests for two NHS trusts in London, was the victim of a cyber attack on June 3. In-studio hit for London Live News at […]
Battersea charity celebrates 100th anniversary with a royal visit
Her Royal Highness, The Duchess of Edinburgh, paid a visit to a charity here in the capital. Sophie visited the ‘Katherine Low Settlement’ in Battersea to find out about the work they do to reduce poverty and isolation by bringing the community together. I secured this filming opportunity exclusively for London Live, having previously interviewed […]
Selection of social media content
Banksy (88k views) https://www.tiktok.com/@london.live.news/video/7400710169551818016 Air pollution exceeds legal limit (80k views) https://www.tiktok.com/@london.live.news/video/7397861538025049376 Notting Hill Carnival crime statistics (110k views) https://www.tiktok.com/@london.live.news/video/7273842318531235104 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=II1qgYx0lns Theresa May on Grenfell victims (45k views) https://www.tiktok.com/@london.live.news/video/7374096695119924513 ‘Dog lover’ forced to throttle XL Bully (50k views) https://www.tiktok.com/@london.live.news/video/7377088272012528929 Bedbugs https://www.instagram.com/reel/CyBoukbR68n/ Liz Truss launches PopCons https://www.instagram.com/reel/C3BF80pr-vr/ MSG withdraws plans for ‘Vegas-style’ sphere in London https://www.instagram.com/reel/C14_1oCMT6z/ […]
London’s Weekend (Sunday 5th November)
Presenting London’s Weekend on London Live – cut down to only include my links, plus one pre-record interview of mine too. At present, I present this programme every other week on average.
‘Reusing our stuff’: How Londoners fare at recycling and repurposing waste materials
In this special report, London Live’s Paul Harrison has been investigating the capital’s relationship with the stuff we use and dispose of – and he met a couple of Londoners turning ‘one man’s trash’ into ‘another man’s treasure’. Michael Connell, from Catford, has built a garden shed made entirely from waste materials. Meanwhile Robi Walters […]
Guardian Football Weekly podcast releases first book – presenter-led interview
It’s one of the most popular football podcasts about – and the team behind the Guardian’s ‘Football Weekly’ are now putting pen to paper with their very own book. They’re looking to create a modern day version of the classic football annuals they read growing up – and it’s full of the podcast’s trademark humour. […]
Capturing the true spirit of the London Marathon
With 45,000 runners participating in the 2023 London Marathon, it’s an event that draws huge crowds to the capital’s streets – and millions more on TV. I will be taking part this year, raising funds for Blood Cancer UK – and have been digging to discover the true spirit of the race and what the […]
Locked Up in Lockdown: COVID-19 and the Mental Health Act
Paul Harrison · Locked Up in Lockdown: COVID-19 and the Mental Health Act Lockdown saw all of us losing freedoms we’d previously taken for granted. But patients detained under the Mental Health Act had experience of this already. From March, patients were limited to almost zero contact with the outside world, as care providers attempted […]