MAN DIES IN SHEFFIELD CITY CNETRE
A man has died this morning in Sheffield city centre after being found seriously injured.
The man was pronounced dead at the scene.
A commuter on his way to work found the body on fargate at around 7:15 am.
A press conference will be held this afternoon.
Sgt Joe Bloggs will speak to the media.
- Have any arrests been made so far?
- Any early indications as too what’s happened so far?
- Have next of kin been informed
A man has been murdered by metal baseball bat after a gang of eight in suspected drug row.
The man was found at the top of Fargate in a pool of blood at around 7:15am where he was later pronounced dead at 7:20am.
The 21 year old found by commuter John Dawson has yet to be identified.
Sgt Joe Bloggs said “we believe this is a drugs related incident”.
“This is an isolated incident, the victim was known by the attackers”.
A broken rib
Crime Reference number – 105oct21
Children’s Hospital Story
Knife-crime involving children in Sheffield has risen over the last couple of years.
A lead clinician for Sheffield Children’s hospital has said that the amount of children under the age of 16 who are victims of knife crime continues to grow.
There has been eight fatal stabbings just in Sheffield in 2018.
Claire O’conell said “we need to save lives of children and future generations”
Raheem Sterling feature article – https://www.theguardian.com/football/2019/oct/24/raheem-sterling-manchester-city-pep-guardiola-romario-book-lu-martin-pol-ballus
- Has a lot more depth and detail than a news story would.
- Try’s to tell a story of how sterlings career has gone so far where a news story would be short and snappy.
Faf de Klerk: ‘I guess moving to England was a blessing in disguise’ –
https://www.theguardian.com/sport/2019/oct/23/faf-de-klerk-moving-to-england-blessing-sale-south-africa-rugby-world-cup
- dropped intro
- doesn’t follow the 4 par rule
- paragraphs a lot more detailed
Feature Writing
You turn up on a Sunday morning, the nets up, teas and coffees ready to go and the pitch marked out.
All the players have to do is turn up and play the game.
However what people don’t see is the work that goes on behind the scenes hours before kick off.
This is where the Grassroots football awards come in, recognising the generous people who give up their time to make sure these games can go ahead.
There were over 100 nominations where just 14 winners were chosen including Shelley FC who were the grounds team of the year.
The committed ground staff are up at 6:00 am on Sunday mornings getting the pitches ready and putting the nets up.
Uriah Rennie, county FA chairman said “This year in particular we wanted to nominate Ash and his team as the work they did to ensure the finals went ahead this year was excellent.
The weather leading up to finals day, and on the day itself was very poor – rain, wind, hail, you name it we got it.
The Grounds team at Shelley were out at 6.00am getting the pitches ready for us and putting up nets etc.
They worked tirelessly all through the event to ensure all the games went ahead despite the horrendous conditions. We wish to thank them for their efforts.”
Also among the winners was Jim Liversidge who was presented with the volunteer of the year award.
Mr Rennie said “Jim spends all his time at the recreation ground ensuring that the facilities are suitable for the teams.
This has not been easy with the run down of the local Miners Welfare who should have been supporting the ground financially”.
Grassroots club of the year was given to Tinlsey FC.
The club has supported players not just with excellent coaching but also supported them financially too.
Other award winners were Melissa Burgin who received young referee of the year award, and Lawrence Clarke who received the Derek Dooley award.
SEO
The first key words i searched were Sheffield floods. stories came up for places such as Meadowhall as they were the main talking points when the floods were happening.
BREAKING: Police incident on major Sheffield Road.
There is currently a police cordon on west street
Traffic is being diverted elsewhere while the police deal with the incident.
Police are not able to disclose any information at this time.
- got to the scene and ask if anyone witnessed the incident.
- go in to shops ,bars and restaurants to see if anyone had seen what had happened.
- social media – search key words eg west street, Sheffield.
Knife crime in Sheffield has doubled in the past four years.
Figures show that from the year 2015 knife crimes has risen year on year.
How would you follow it up – speak to knife crime charities, police, victims.
Who would you speak to – speak to knife crime charities, police, victims.
List 5 questions –
why is knife crime on the rise
what is being done to prevent knife crime
what ages are mainly involved.
How have people been affected by knife crime
BREAKING:Man found dead in Sheffield city centre
A man has been found dead in Sheffield city centre this morning.
The victim was found slumped in a doorway with stab wounds on The moor at around 8am this morning.
The man is believed to be a 21 year old councillor but police are yet to confirm that information
More to follow.
- Ask permission to use picture
- Right an initial story using picture – credit Joe Bloggs
- Go to Meadowhall for follow up info
- Ask witnesses/people coming out of Meadowhall/emergency services, what’s happened
- Right a longer story with more detail with new info
Intrusion into grief or shock –
Reporting suicide – When reporting suicide, steps must be taken to avoid excessive detail of the method used, while taking into account the media’s right to report legal proceedings.
There is a public interest in the reporting of suicide as it remains a significant public health concern – it is the leading cause of death in people under the age of 35 in the UK. The death of an individual is a matter of public record and a death may affect a community as well as those who knew the individual personally. Journalists have a basic right to report the fact of a person’s death, even if surviving family members would prefer for there to be no reporting and regard the death as private.
Considerations –
Children* –
Children in sex cases*
Police release story
Emergency services were called to penistone road this morning after an 18 year old man was stabbed.
The victim was taken to hospital where he remains in a critical condition
it is belived that he was attacked by a group of three men however no arrests have been made.
Anyone with any information should call police on 101, quoting incident number 764 of November 14.
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