Jessica Sharkey
@jessicasharkey.bsky.social
Smoggie. Reporter @thetimes.com previously Teesside Live | John Schofield Trust fellow 2025 | Got a story? Jessica.sharkey@thetimes.co.uk
It was a pleasure to speak to Josh Adeyemi, founder of Black Scottish Adventurers, for my final piece with @timesscotland.bsky.social
When he noticed a lack of diversity on Scotland’s hiking trails, he decided to change it.
Read my interview with him below 👇
www.thetimes.com/article/8f50...
When he noticed a lack of diversity on Scotland’s hiking trails, he decided to change it.
Read my interview with him below 👇
www.thetimes.com/article/8f50...
‘Racists tried to keep us off the Munros, but we belong here’
Josh Adeyemi founded Black Scottish Adventurers with his brother after realising on his first walks that ethnic minorities were underrepresented on Scotland’s mountains
www.thetimes.com
May 9, 2025 at 9:44 AM
It was a pleasure to speak to Josh Adeyemi, founder of Black Scottish Adventurers, for my final piece with @timesscotland.bsky.social
When he noticed a lack of diversity on Scotland’s hiking trails, he decided to change it.
Read my interview with him below 👇
www.thetimes.com/article/8f50...
When he noticed a lack of diversity on Scotland’s hiking trails, he decided to change it.
Read my interview with him below 👇
www.thetimes.com/article/8f50...
How was a serial domestic abuser let out to kill Maxine Clark, a mum of four from Glasgow?
In depth 👇
www.thetimes.com/article/e026...
In depth 👇
www.thetimes.com/article/e026...
How Mark Keel, a serial domestic abuser, was let out to kill
Despite his history of violence, Mark Keel was released on bail to return to Maxine Clark’s home in Riddrie, Glasgow, where he murdered her
www.thetimes.com
May 9, 2025 at 9:44 AM
How was a serial domestic abuser let out to kill Maxine Clark, a mum of four from Glasgow?
In depth 👇
www.thetimes.com/article/e026...
In depth 👇
www.thetimes.com/article/e026...
From education to safety on the streets — where is the best and worst place in Scotland to be a girl?
I analysed the data and spoke to residents to find out📈
www.thetimes.com/article/f25b...
I analysed the data and spoke to residents to find out📈
www.thetimes.com/article/f25b...
Revealed: the best place in Scotland to be a girl
East Renfrewshire tops the table on issues such as health, education, crime and rates of teenage pregnancies — but Dundee is not so fortunate
www.thetimes.com
May 9, 2025 at 9:44 AM
From education to safety on the streets — where is the best and worst place in Scotland to be a girl?
I analysed the data and spoke to residents to find out📈
www.thetimes.com/article/f25b...
I analysed the data and spoke to residents to find out📈
www.thetimes.com/article/f25b...
Hundreds of thousands of homeowners in Scotland are collectively paying tens of millions of pounds every year to factors who are almost impossible to hold to account
I investigated Scotland’s property factors in this piece
www.thetimes.com/article/f35c...
I investigated Scotland’s property factors in this piece
www.thetimes.com/article/f35c...
Revealed: the great property factor scandal
Unexpected payments of thousands of pounds are being demanded by the property managers, including for debt owed by somebody else in a shared building
www.thetimes.com
May 9, 2025 at 9:44 AM
Hundreds of thousands of homeowners in Scotland are collectively paying tens of millions of pounds every year to factors who are almost impossible to hold to account
I investigated Scotland’s property factors in this piece
www.thetimes.com/article/f35c...
I investigated Scotland’s property factors in this piece
www.thetimes.com/article/f35c...
4/Residents feel locked in contracts because of this. The MP behind the Property Factors Act calls for a “reset” in the relationship between factors and homeowners after reform efforts fell short.
Full story here:
www.thetimes.com/article/f35c...
Full story here:
www.thetimes.com/article/f35c...
Revealed: the great property factor scandal
Unexpected payments of thousands of pounds are being demanded by the property managers, including for debt owed by somebody else in a shared building
www.thetimes.com
April 5, 2025 at 11:00 AM
4/Residents feel locked in contracts because of this. The MP behind the Property Factors Act calls for a “reset” in the relationship between factors and homeowners after reform efforts fell short.
Full story here:
www.thetimes.com/article/f35c...
Full story here:
www.thetimes.com/article/f35c...
3/ This happened to Kristian — one year after he bought his first flat in Glasgow he was told he owed over £4,000 to cover the building’s debt.
He says this debt was built up before he even bought the property
Kristian is disputing this but the complaints process is arduous
He says this debt was built up before he even bought the property
Kristian is disputing this but the complaints process is arduous
April 5, 2025 at 11:00 AM
3/ This happened to Kristian — one year after he bought his first flat in Glasgow he was told he owed over £4,000 to cover the building’s debt.
He says this debt was built up before he even bought the property
Kristian is disputing this but the complaints process is arduous
He says this debt was built up before he even bought the property
Kristian is disputing this but the complaints process is arduous
2/ Property factors (or property managers) maintain shared spaces on private housing estates — grass cutting, maintaining paths, external repairs etc
But if someone in your building doesn’t pay? The factor can bill everyone else to make up the shortfall.
But if someone in your building doesn’t pay? The factor can bill everyone else to make up the shortfall.
April 5, 2025 at 11:00 AM
2/ Property factors (or property managers) maintain shared spaces on private housing estates — grass cutting, maintaining paths, external repairs etc
But if someone in your building doesn’t pay? The factor can bill everyone else to make up the shortfall.
But if someone in your building doesn’t pay? The factor can bill everyone else to make up the shortfall.