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A couple of years old now but certainly worth a re-listen in light of recent events!

Fantastic work by Lauren Woodhead charting the rise in electricity thefts over the past decade - and the reasons behind it. "People living, working or playing in properties where there might be a theft of electricity are at a much higher risk." Full story: bbc.co.uk/news/uk-englan…

Today we reveal the extraordinary difficulties faced by people who cannot leave hospital despite being classed as eligible. At some hospitals - only one-in-ten people a day manage to leave. "She was a shadow of her former self." bbc.co.uk/news/uk-englan…

Paul Lynch The website was generated in R using a process called parameterisation — we've used it to create data-driven websites for stories on police misconduct, dentist shortages and speech and language needs. You can find the notebooks for that in the GitHub repo github.com/BBC-Data-Unit/…

Thanks for having me! You can read the story in full here as well: bbc.co.uk/news/uk-677071…

Nearly 2 million people read this story online yesterday and 2,000 people commented... most of the readers were aged between 16 and 24. It's fair to say we are, as a nation, interested in the current plight of our town halls. bbc.co.uk/news/uk-677071…

Nice surprise to be shortlisted for the international Sigma Awards portfolio for 2024 alongside some incredible teams from around the world. Hat tip to my SDU colleagues last year Pilar Tomás Lauren Woodhead Alex Homer and Paul Bradshaw sigmaawards.org/shortlist-2024/

I haven't chaired a panel in a while so this was great to dust off my hosting (husting?) shoes. Thanks for having me #cijsummer

If you missed this from yesterday - a hat tip to Pilar Tomás , Alex Homer, Lauren Woodhead and Alix Hattenstone for making it happen - we try to get people talking about important local stuff. bbc.co.uk/news/articles/…

Earlier in the week the Shared Data Unit released more details about the current financial woe being experienced by local councils...but how did we get here? I did a little explainer for BBC Sounds bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/cu…

Pretty extraordinary reaction to the Shared Data Unit's collaborative piece with the BBC climate and science team this week - it's important and it's getting people talking, which is what we are all about! bbc.co.uk/news/articles/…

Deadly synthetic opioid drugs found in fake medicines across the UK - my report with Navtej Johal bbc.co.uk/news/articles/… #nitazenes #ddj

The synthetic opioid drugs have been connected to 278 deaths across the country in a year. Read more from SDU colleague Alex Homer here bbc.co.uk/news/articles/…

I’ve put together a crib sheet of 7 techniques for journalists to get better results from genAI tools onlinejournalismblog.com/2025/02/19/7-p…

'Criminal' lack of cash leaves 9 in 10 high-risk toxic sites unchecked - thousands of sites potentially contaminated with toxic chemicals have never been checked by councils, a BBC investigation from Paul Lynch and Tomos Morgan found. #toxictown bbc.co.uk/news/articles/…

The Shared Data Unit worked on this brilliant documentary with BBC Wales 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 and the accompanying online piece. We gathered data about the toxic legacy left behind by heavy industry across the UK: bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episod…