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Ellen Knight
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Reporter, BBC Shropshire | #CardiffTrained
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On your telly tonight with this report on Wolverhampton-licensed taxis in Telford:

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November 20, 2025 at 6:58 PM
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Some recent appearances for Midlands Today! 📺✨
November 11, 2025 at 8:50 PM
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On telly again today, speaking to the wonderful Dave and Alison Birch who have taken up sidecar racing in their 60s!

18:30 on BBC One / BBC Midlands Today

Read here: www.bbc.com/news/article...
May 19, 2025 at 1:08 PM
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If these proposed changes to the benefits system are affecting any of my Shropshire followers I’d be really keen to hear from you - feel free to send an email or DM

At-a-glance: Key changes to benefits in welfare shake-up www.bbc.com/news/article...
At-a-glance: Key changes to benefits in welfare shake-up
How Personal Independence Payments (Pip) and other health-related benefits could change under government plans.
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March 18, 2025 at 4:31 PM
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Proud of my latest piece for BBC Midlands Today - we spoke to Shane Game from Shrewsbury, who lost her two eldest sons, and has channelled her grief into founding a bereavement group.

Article here: www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
March 14, 2025 at 7:17 PM
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"I don't want people to feel how I feel - so this is why I do the group."

Full story tonight on Midlands Today - 18:30 on BBC One

www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Shrewsbury bereaved mum channels grief into helping others
Shane Game says dozens have come to a support group she started after her eldest sons' deaths.
www.bbc.co.uk
March 14, 2025 at 4:22 PM
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Quick thread of my more positive Shropshire stories from the past few weeks ☕️☀️
February 23, 2025 at 8:55 PM
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Here’s a thread of my favourite ‘good news’ stories from Shropshire to cheer up your weekend!
Tyre tracks on a bright green field stretching into the distance. There’s crooked trees either side of the track and just beyond it you can see a glimpse of a valley.
February 8, 2025 at 10:45 AM
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Not work-related, but so happy to be back playing in a brass band🤩
January 29, 2025 at 8:43 PM
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One of my recent stories for BBC Shropshire ⤵️

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Shrewsbury roadworks: 'People will avoid our gridlocked town'
Local businesses are concerned that long queues are putting people off coming into the town.
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January 10, 2025 at 1:15 PM
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Bit late for a New Year round-up, but 2024 has been extraordinary. I can’t pick out a single moment, but making my on-air debuts for BBC radio and TV has fulfilled a dream I’ve had for a very long time! 📺📻
January 7, 2025 at 3:23 PM
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Timely repost - the recent headline that the govt is ‘committed’ to banning trail hunting was first reported in my coverage last month ⤵️
ellenmjknight.bsky.social Ellen Knight @ellenmjknight.bsky.social · Nov 13
Really proud of my second piece for Midlands Today - this time looking at trail hunting as the 20th anniversary of the 2004 Hunting Act approaches.

Read more: www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
December 27, 2024 at 2:29 PM
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Loved filming this story about @shropshirewildlife.bsky.social and their latest project in the Shropshire Hills🌿⛰️

Full story here: www.bbc.com/news/article...
December 24, 2024 at 6:57 PM
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Still snowing heavily here at BBC Shropshire! ❄️⛷️🌨️
The BBC Shropshire building (single story brown brick with dishes on the roof) against a white sky with large snowflakes falling.
November 19, 2024 at 10:18 AM
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Really proud of my second piece for Midlands Today - this time looking at trail hunting as the 20th anniversary of the 2004 Hunting Act approaches.

Read more: www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
November 13, 2024 at 7:18 PM
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I’ve been working on this story for months - speaking to both sides of the debate as the Labour government considers a ban on trail hunting.

You can watch the TV package on Midlands Today at 18:30 tonight on BBC1

www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Shropshire countryside still divided 20 years on from Hunting Act
Hunters claim it is a
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November 13, 2024 at 10:48 AM