Daniel May's blog

 The documentary that I worked on for the majority of my time at Sky News this summer is airing tonight. 'A Town Like Merthyr' is on Sky News (and Sky News HD so you can see the Chernobyl-like bleakness of Merthyr Tydfil in glorious High Definition)  at 7.30 tonight. It's a half hour documentary looking at the population of the town of Merthyr Tydfil and how its dependence on incapacity benefits may come under threat due to the proposed budget cuts.

Two stories stood out this morning on the Daily Mail's website. So much so, I had to check the business news that Bill Gates hadn't initiated a takeover of the newspaper. Both stories we're fairly high up on the website, and both seemed to be following the current trend set by news outlets of rubbishing technology giant Apple.

 I start my 4-week work placement at Sky on Monday as part of the Bob Friend Memorial Scholarship.

For those of you who want to follow my progress or just want be generally nosey, I'll try and update this new blog every evening, recounting the day's activities.

Hope everyone is enjoying their summer break so far!

No other topic seems to get first year politics students riled like devolution. After a week of epic revision on the subject, I feel like a proper devolution expert, William Wallace style. And with all this talk of budget cuts and lack of economic growth, hero of the masses Jeremy Clarkson proposes a (radical, if not a bit tongue-in-cheek) solution to this problem and the devolution question. It's an entertaining read in the middle of humdrum revision, one that I think Tim, you might just oppose to the hills.

Labour yesterday revealed their new election campaign poster, depicting David Cameron as the admittedly cool TV cop character Gene Hunt. In an election that seems like it's going to be decided by who has the most unique and original campaign poster, I personally think Labour have scored a massive own goal with this one. Why?

It's not often a news story or report makes me go 'wow', but this feature on an island called St. Helena, a remote British island that is "stuck in time" was quite startling. It's a surreal read check it out:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/magazine/8465785.stm

 This is copied off my usual blog, but seeing as I haven't posted anything meaningful on here yet, I feel as though I should. Enjoy.

So the final year of the first decade of the new millennium has passed us by, and whilst many industries have been crippled by the economic downturn, the movie industry has been the beacon of light for many people wanting a couple hours of escapism from financial woe. How do you sum up such a varied and wonderful year of cinema? With a cliched and standard chronological report of course...

Editor: Dan May (all hail mighty Dan)

Studio Producer: Jon Stone

Presenters: Angela Davey & Dean Kilpatrick

Reporters: Danielle Cheney, Ella Copeland, Alex Dack, Ali Houghton & Beth O'Leary.

 ...in first year convergent journalism, I thought I'd go one step further by highlighting my own problems with Liberty Quays. Enjoy!

http://youmaybeentertained.blogspot.com/2009/10/look-what-100-week-gets-...

There's bound to be a staggering amount of grammatical and spelling errors so be nice =D