This was an In Focus news feature for Metro into a serious subject – a review into the police’s use of stop and search powers. The original copy was about twice the length needed so required a heavy rewrite. However, the reporter had a lot of good first-hand interviews and set the scene well, especially with the case study ‘Barry’. Careful line-by-line tweaking was needed to reduce the story to length.
One of six Greenpeace protesters arrested after scaling The Shard received an email thanking her for an earlier visit and asking her to come again.
David Miliband said his relationship with his brother Ed is ‘healing’ after their bitter leadership battle and has urged the Labour party to try and win an overall majority at the next general election.
A colourful Page 3 story subbed for Metro about a high-speed lawnmower built by Honda. It required a lightness of touch and as many lawn mower puns as possible (hence ‘start your rotors’).
Asiana Airlines is considering legal action over a TV news report that broadcast four spoof names that it said were the pilot’s involved in the San Francisco plane crash.
This was a revealing look at the growth in online grocery shopping and the giant Ocado warehouse by Etan Smallman that I subbed for Metro. As with all these pieces, care had to be cut the copy to length without losing interesting details (such as the XBox-like controllers used in the warehouse). I also used a play on words in the headline that I feel suits the story extremely well.
It’s a relaxing drive in a safari park that turns into a terror ride. A five-tonne male elephant smashes its way through the window of a car full of German tourists moments after fighting with another member of the herd.