FOI Friday: Nightstalker, OAP abuse, crime in villages and shredded letters

The nightstalker case The conviction of Delroy Grant, the Nightstalker sex attacker who police failed to catch despite being given a golden opportunity to do so, has been headline news this week. The News Shopper in London took the opportunity to republish an invesitgation it conducted into the hunt for the Nightstalker prior to Grant’s

Why accuracy is more important than ever

When I was 18, and just starting out in my first full time job as a trainee reporter, a very wise man who worked in the newsroom said to me: “What’s the most important thing for a journalist to remember?” “The ‘Who, What, Where, When, Why and How’ rule,” I replied, rather smugly if I

FOI Friday: 10 things we’ve learnt thanks to Freedom of Information this week

The council which was paid to grit – but then didn’t do its own roads We start this week in the North East, with The Journal in Newcastle. It reported this week that council chiefs have provoked anger after it emerged they gritted a Porsche garage car park while leaving areas outside pensioners’ homes untreated.