OOV and SOT.

This is a radio package (not my assessed one) about a small army of volunteers clearing up years worth of cannabis waste/fly-tipping from a Sheffield river, Redcar Brook.

I spoke to Sheffield Litter Pickers, the Sheaf and Porter Rivers Trust, and Cllr Joe Otten (Chair of the Waste and Street Scene Policy Committee).

The clean up was able to happen now because the council finally put up a 2 meter tall fence at the Brook to deter fly-tippers. But volunteers told me that fly-tipping has been an ongoing issue for years.

Visually this is a very powerful story and works well for TV, but because ITV Calendar were there too I wanted to do a different treatment.

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Campaigners are cruising down from Doncaster to London to get Parliament to review funding cuts to the Canal and River Trust.

They will be joined by other groups, totalling 30.

Our reporter Josh Herman went down to the village of Thorne in Doncaster to speak to them before they departed the South Yorkshire border.

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[PRESENTER]: South Yorkshire has been named the 4th worst place in the UK for knife crime.

The report comes as part of South Yorkshire Police’s ‘Knives Take Lives’ initiative.

Our reporter Josh Herman spoke to anti-knife crime campaigners about the rise and keeping weapons off the streets.

The mayor of South Yorkshire is meeting to discuss bus franchising amid concerns over declining bus network. I visited High Green, where residents feel isolated because of diminished access to the city centre.