🚨 I’m excited to share some news with you: I have left my staff job as a journalist & weather presenter at @BBCNews. From pioneering, presenting + producing the first (and last) #BBCLocalRadio programme which celebrated #LGBTQ+ life, to forecasting & presenting @bbcweather

🗯️ “It’s impossible to find any words which adequately do justice to how utterly amazing the care + support I received from Crew Manager Pickles and Wakefield Green Watch” - Mr Whittaker. Read more, by me, in the #WYFRS #Newsroom. 🔗 https://t.co/tNUbsLcyT5 #WYFRS50.

At @WYFRS we are dedicated to engaging with our community, promoting inclusivity and providing educational opportunities. 🚒 Thank you to everyone who joined us and contributed to the success of this event! The junior podcasters asked some fab questions ⤵️ @Fairfieldstweet ⤵️

🐶 #RSPCA - preparing for a busy winter.. 🐾 As animal abandonment rates rise this year, I’m at the @RSPCA_official #Huddersfield, #Halifax and #Bradford. 🐈‍⬛ Fay Gibbons from @RSPCAhx joined me on @BBCLeeds #BBCLocalRadio. 🐾 #Listen here: https://t.co/JNrHgMGkuC

🔐 This week Weston Woods in #Otley comes into community ownership! 🌿 Back in February local community groups banded together to buy its own much-loved woodland - raising £130,000! ➡️ Francesca from @MenstonNature joined me on @BBCLeeds #BBCLocalRadio

💡💡 Light Up! 2023 arrives in #Pontefract today… Experience the castle in a new light with ‘For Peace’ - a 125 metre long light installation by artist Sedemminut. I got a sneak peek on @BBCLeeds #BBCLocalRadio. 📲📲 #Listen @BBCSounds: https://t.co/AVyVUIolHh 👇🏽

🎄 Christmas is just around the corner… Events are happening across #Yorkshire in anticipation of the big day. ⛑️ Including ‘#Christmas at the @thackraymuseum’ in #Leeds. Hear more on @BBCLeeds #BBCLocalRadio ⤵️

#ChildrenInNeed: Where the money goes.. 🗯️ “Coming here, speaking to the staff, has really helped us (as a family) - I now have a part time job” The Addy, in #Knottingley, has received #CiN funding! ➡️ I’ve been to visit: https://t.co/jMKHkfdCwP 📲 @BBCLeeds #BBCLocalRadio

#NEWS: #Leeds train services were temporally suspended due to a crane 'incident' on Riverside Way near the railway station.   ➡️ #Train services were affected for about 45 minutes but Network Rail said that lines had since reopened.   Latest @BBCLeeds:

🩺 As the #NHS turns 75, the Migration Museum’s new touring exhibition tells the story of migrant healthcare workers in Britain.. The pop-up is now open in @TrinityLeeds #Leeds. 🔗 Aditi Anand, Artistic Director @MigrationUK joined me on @BBCLeeds: https://t.co/cqAdzKvR6L ⤵️

#NEWS: A 14-year-old boy has been charged with murder after 15-year-old Alfie Lewis was stabbed near a school in #Horsforth, #Leeds. He has also been charged with possession of a knife. Latest with me on @BBCLeeds #BBCLocalRadio https://t.co/IlosF346ze ⤵️

@BBCLeeds @BBCLookNorth @BBCBreaking “Yes, the doors are open” St Margaret’s Church in #Horsforth, #Leeds is open to the community who wish to reflect, pray + remember Alfie Lewis, who has been named locally, as the 15-yr-old stabbed in the town. Rev Sinclair spoke to me on @BBCLeeds 📲 https://t.co/75E9heNuUr

NEWS: The 15-year-old boy who died after a stabbing near a school in #Horsforth, #Leeds has been named locally as Alfie Lewis. Latest coming up with me on @BBCLeeds #BBCLocalRadio @BBCLookNorth ⤵️

NEWS: A 15-year-old boy has died after he was stabbed in #Horsforth, #Leeds on Tuesday 7th November. A police cordon remains in place near Horsforth School on Church Rd. Latest update coming up with me on @BBCLeeds w/ @therimaahmed on #BBCLocalRadio @BBCLookNorth ⤵️

💬 ‘We’ve (@htafcfoundation) supplied over 2.5million breakfasts to school children’ ⚽️ Manager of @htafc Darren Moore joined me on @BBCLeeds - chatting the foundation & its legacy. Plus a big #YorkshireDerby coming up! 📲 Listen https://t.co/AiI7E2MCNj #HTAFC #Huddersfield ⤵️

🎹 I’m in #FarnleyTyas, where a 36-hour church organ marathon is taking place! Daniel Bezkorowajnyj’s non-stop organ session is raising money for #CiN and raising awareness for St. Lucius Church in the village. 🔊 Join us on @BBCLeeds @BBCLookNorth: https://t.co/1On2uWUtns

😢 We say farewell to the nicest man in radio today.. Andrew you’re an ultimate professional, a broadcaster and friend at the heart of our community, and a pleasure to work with. When I lost to my Dad to cancer in July, your care, empathy and kindness was hugely appreciated 💙

⚠️ #Weather: Storm Ciarán… #StormCiarán will cross the southern half of the UK during this evening & Thursday. Amber & yellow @metoffice National Severe Weather Warnings are in place. Please take care! ⤵️ #UKWeather #WeatherAware

🧵 (2/2) Residential areas in #Nottinghamshire, #Derbyshire and #Leicestershire were amongst the places submerged in flood water, after heavy rainfall associated with #StormBabet, with severe #FloodWarnings in place for certain areas. Sending strength to those impacted 🙏🏽

🧵 (1/2) #StormBabet: I’ve spent a few days forecasting, reporting + presenting for BBC Weather on Midlands Today, @bbcemt + @BBCNWT. 📲 Plus hourly updates on eight #BBCLocalRadio stations across the regions inc. @BBCNottingham, @bbcwm, @BBCRadioManc, @BBCDerby + @bbchw.