The Headlines Podcast

Thanks for listening to The Headlines Podcast, February 14 2021, with a guest interview with Nick Pollard, former head of Sky News and a trustee of The John Schofield Trust

Thanks for listening to The Headlines Podcast, January 31 2021, with a guest interview with Jim Waterson - media editor at The Guardian

THE HEADLINES PODCAST - Series 2 Episode 4 - Peter Barron, former Northern Echo editor interview - November 8 2020

THE HEADLINES PODCAST - Series 2 Episode 4 - November 8 2020

A podcast about interesting, quirky and important stories from local  newspapers in the UK this week - celebrating local journalism.

This week’s episode features a chat with Peter Barron, longest serving editor of the Northern Echo, about local newspaper campaigns, what happens when they go wrong and tips for young journalists

Find Peter Barron on Twitter @PeteBarronMedia

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THE HEADLINES PODCAST - Series 2 Episode 2 - September 20 2020 - with Greg Dyke

A podcast about interesting, quirky and important stories from local  newspapers in the UK this week - celebrating local journalism.

This week’s episode features a chat with Greg Dyke, who spoke about starting out on local newspapers, his connections with York and his thoughts on journalism

Follow the podcast on Twitter @theheadlinespod

Links to stories featured in this week's episode:

THE HEADLINES PODCAST - Series 2 Episode 1 - September 13 2020

A podcast about interesting, quirky and important stories from local  newspapers in the UK this week - celebrating local journalism.

Welcome back to the second series!

This week’s episode is all stories, but tune in again next week for a guest appearance.

Follow the podcast on Twitter @theheadlinespod

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A podcast about interesting, quirky and important stories from local  newspapers in the UK this week - celebrating local journalism.

This week's episode features an interview with Aran Dhillon, journalist and creator of blog Home Away From Homeland @arandhillonWG

Links to stories featured in this week's episode:

THE HEADLINES PODCAST - Episode 18 - with Alistair Coleman, journalist and creator of Angry People in Local Newspapers - June 28 2020

A podcast about interesting, quirky and important stories from local  newspapers in the UK this week - celebrating local journalism.

This week's episode features an interview with Alistair Coleman, journalist and creator of Angry People in Local Newspapers @alistaircoleman

Links to stories featured in this week's episode:

THE HEADLINES PODCAST - Episode 17 - with Adam Payne, Senior Political Reporter at Business Insider - June 14 2020

A podcast about interesting, quirky and important stories from local  newspapers in the UK this week - celebrating local journalism.

THE HEADLINES PODCAST - Episode 16 - with Lachlan Leeming, Local Democracy Reporter - June 7 2020

A podcast about interesting, quirky and important stories from local  newspapers in the UK this week - celebrating local journalism.

This week's episode features an interview with Lachlan Leeming, local democracy reporter at News Shopper in London

Links to stories featured in this week's episode:

THE HEADLINES PODCAST - Episode 15 - with Lucy Ashton, Local Democracy Reporter - May 31 2020 

A podcast about interesting, quirky and important stories from local newspapers in the UK this week - celebrating local journalism.

This week's episode features an interview with Lucy Ashton, local democracy report at The Star in Sheffield

Links to stories featured in this week's episode:

THE HEADLINES PODCAST - Episode 13 - May 10 2020

This week's episode features an interview with Simon Walton about 

• the first coronavirus cases confirmed in the UK in York
• reporting on the disappearance of 'canoe man' John Darwin
• covering the election of a football mascot as the first directly elected mayor of Hartlepool
• comments on news websites

A podcast about interesting, quirky and important stories from local newspapers in the UK this week - celebrating local journalism.

In this week’s episode

- A ferret running a marathon for charity

- An online competition to eat as many Dorset knob biscuits as possible in a minute

- A dog that has learned to do the washing and gardening for its owner

*I'm afraid there is some swearing in this episode - but it was apparently a 'direct quote'*

THE HEADLINES PODCAST - Episode 11  - April 26 2020

Interesting, quirky and important stories from local newspapers in the UK this week - celebrating local journalism.

In this week’s episode

• 300 'severely ill' patients refused to go to hospital over coronavirus fears
  
• A police force saw a 30 per cent rise in reports of domestic abuse - in just 24 hours
  
• Angry mourners have spat at and assaulted funeral staff - after being told the number of people allowed to attend a service has been limited
  
• Frontline NHS worker completes 'miracle' recovery from illness
  
• Batman has been spotted patrolling the streets urging children to stay safe
  
• A dad got to witness the birth of his son - thanks to the kindness of a complete stranger
  
• Peacocks set themselves up in a car garage
  
• A cat that went missing - was spotted in the window of a charity shop by its owners
  
• A 70 year old car was found buried in a garden
• A nurse spotted an elderly man trying to climb over the fence of a closed cemetery - to lay flowers at his dead wife’s grave
  

And an interview with local democracy reporter Gurdip Thandi, who shares some of his favourite recent stories

THE HEADLINES PODCAST - Episode 10  - April 19 2020

Interesting, quirky and important stories from local newspapers in the UK this week - celebrating local journalism.

In this week’s episode

• Less than half of equipment ordered to protect care workers in Birmingham is delivered, claims councillor
• Flamingo filmed strolling down road after escaping Dudley Zoo
• ‘Stop panting viruses through our village; stay away’ the sign that provoked an outcry in part of Cambridgeshire
• 'Swastika' hot cross bun row sees Portsmouth Conservative councillor suspended from Tory party
• Rows of wine and beer bottles lined up at recycling site during lockdown
• 'Petty' council calls police over chalk drawing 'vandalism'
• Thieves are stealing life-saving kit from ambulances while paramedics treat patients
• Singing parrot joins in weekly NHS clap
• Winsford teenager fed up with lockdown turns bedroom wall into climbing wall

And an interview with former journalist Dan Bean, who shares three stories and tells me about his story about a man in a pothole.

THE HEADLINES PODCAST - Episode 9  - April 12 2020

Interesting, quirky and important stories from local newspapers in the UK this week - celebrating local journalism.

In this week’s episode

• The Cornish shop that will only serve local customers
• The online council meeting in Somerset trolled with adult content
• The nurses fined £75 a day for parking in an empty car park
• Jokers in Edinburgh posting a ransom not for a missing roll of toilet paper
• An angry dad who blockaded his street after a row with the bin men over a pot noodle
• A nurse who finished a 14-hour shift - and got home to find a bin set on fire next to her house
• A heroic teacher from Grimsby walking five miles a day to deliver food to vulnerable pupils
• A priest delivering a drive-by Easter blessing in a pope-mobile 
• The owners of a pub who painted half of it yellow - and are now being threatened with prison
• The 99-year-old man walking 100 lengths of his garden to raise money for the NHS

The Headlines Podcast on March 29 2020

Interesting, quirky and important stories from local newspapers in the UK this week - celebrating local journalism.

In this week’s episode

Inevitably - coronavirus - but also stories about a Dalek, dinosaur and a homemade false leg.

EPISODE 6 - MARCH 22 2020 

Interesting, quirky and important stories from local newspapers in the UK this week - celebrating local journalism.

In this week’s episode 

Coronavirus, the nursing home playing a life-sized game of Hungry Hippoes, and the man who has been collecting the stickers from fruit for 20 years

THE HEADLINES PODCAST - A newspaper review celebrating some of the best local and regional journalism this week

Episode 5 March 15

Interesting, quirky and important stories from local newspapers in the UK this week - celebrating local journalism.

In this week’s episode:

 - coronavirus, a pirate set to have his ashes fired from a cannon, and a man who loves service stations so much he had his honeymoon in one

LINKS TO ALL OF THE STORIES IN THIS EPISODE:

EPISODE 3 - MARCH 1 2020

Interesting, quirky and important stories from local newspapers in the UK this week - celebrating local journalism.

In this week’s episode we talk about