Today marks the penultimate Newsday for our Crisis project. It’s also the second to last day of term before everyone disappears and becomes all Christmassy, and so as you would imagine, attention spans are stretching. We want to open presents and eat chocolate. Nevertheless, we’re soldiering on and determined to finish what we started. Last […]
Month: December 2019
January fallout: Loneliness spikes among the elderly after the Christmas period.
Christmas is a time of celebration and a time to be spent with friends and family. But for some they are less fortunate and have no one, or nowhere, to go to over the festive period. Loneliness in the elderly is as prominent as ever, with over 3 million over 65’s saying they aren’t looking […]
Politics Podcast
Here’s our Cheltenham 2020 politics breakdown, covering the election and local developments.
Tales from the polling station: what working for the elections office has taught me about our voting system
At yesterday’s Parliamentary General Election, I was a presiding officer at one of the hundreds of polling stations across the UK, and here’s a round-up of my observations.
Gloucestershire voters paint the county blue
It was a great moment for the local Conservative Party last night with the party winning all six seats across the county. This is the first time it’s happened since the 2010 general election, when Neil Carmichael won the Stroud seat from Labour MP David Drew. History has appeared to repeat itself, with Conservative candidate […]
Voting underway for 2019 General Election
People across the UK are heading to their local polling stations today to cast their vote in the 2019 General Election. The polls have been open since 7am and will close at 10pm, when votes will be counted and announced tomorrow. Around 46 million people are eligible to vote today, where democracy will decide the […]
Editor’s Letter: Crisis (Dec 6)
As Rebecca Black reminded us all those years ago, you gotta get down on Friday. The second of our six Crisis-themed newsdays was at least as busy as the first, and about as enjoyable. Most of us by now are well into our projects, which involve us each producing a 1200-word web story and some […]
Editor’s Letter: Crisis Project
Today was the start of another set of newsdays! We’ve moved on from the Cheltenham 2020 project and are now on the Crisis project, where we’re all producing content on different crises in society. We’re tackling a whole range of issues, ranging from euthanasia to car pollution. We’ve been split into four different teams, based […]