Kris Jepson
@krisjepson
@itvnews reporter for @itvtynetees | fmr C4 News, ITN, Sky News, Al Jazeera | Cumbrian | City fan | e: [email protected] | IG: kris.jepson
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https://www.itv.com/news/meet-the-team/kris-jepson 11-06-2009 15:51:39
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Business Secretary, Kemi Badenoch, tells me the government wants to get the new British Steel electric arc furnace at Lackenby, #Teesside built “very quickly”, but says it has to be “right for the taxpayer”. #steel #britishsteel #steel workers Watch:
Excl: Women’s Rough Sleeping Census estimates there are up to 9 x more #homeless women in England than govt data suggests.
Solace Women's Aid Single Homeless Project Change Grow Live
#womensroughsleeping #roughsleeping #homeless ness #housingcrisis
Watch here 📺
Exc: there may be 9 x more women sleeping rough than govt data suggests, according to first Women’s Rough Sleeping Census by Single Homeless Project Solace Women's Aid Change Grow Live - I speak to 3 homelessness survivors from Durham about their experiences. Watch: itv.com/news/tyne-tees…
📺 Check out a TV piece by Kris Jepson of ITV News Tyne Tees who attended our partnership drowning prevention event on Newcastle Quayside.
Our partners were Royal Life Saving Society UK - RLSS UK RNLI Tynemouth VLB Tyneside and Northumberland Mind
In association with #BeWaterAware - National Fire Chiefs Council
Bereaved father of son, who drowned in the River Wear near Washington, backs Tyne and Wear Fire and Rescue Service #watersafety demonstration at #Newcastle Quayside, as part of the National Fire Chiefs Council “Be Water Aware” campaign. Watch here: itv.com/news/tyne-tees…
As Gill Wheeldon retires from Bubble Foundation Andrew Cant founder of the “Bubble Unit” Great North Children’s Hospital says her fundraising “helped advance bone marrow transplantation”. Watch as she celebrates 32 years of supporting children and their families: itv.com/news/tyne-tees…
Moroccan asylum seeker, Ahmed Alid, found guilty of murdering 70yo Terence Carney in Hartlepool in October, & attempting to murder housemate, Javed Nouri. Also guilty of assaulting two Cleveland Police officers. Watch:
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The murder scene of Sunderland teen Connor Brown, who was stabbed to death in an alley 5yrs ago, has been recreated by Northumbria Police Education Partnership North East North East Regional Organised Crime Unit (NEROCU) Connor Brown Trust in a virtual igloo pod to dissuade young people from a life of #knifecrime Watch: itv.com/news/tyne-tees…
600 saplings to be planted in North Yorkshire in memory of the felled tree at #Sycamoregap Northumberland. Artist Lucy Pittaway planted the first one and says she’ll plant one for every print she sells of her painting “Sycamore Gap”. Watch here: itv.com/news/tyne-tees…
The Jermain Defoe Football Academy is set to open in September East Durham College - students will develop football skills & receive academic tuition. Jermain Defoe OBE told me he wants to “give something back” to the young people of East Durham. Watch: itv.com/news/tyne-tees…
Four North East community projects awarded £1.4m #LevellingUpFund to save them from closure. Includes Foundation For Good / Birtley Community Aquatics Centre / The Samson Inn / Scotswood Garden tune into ITV News Tyne Tees at 5.45pm as I report from a boxing club & food bank in Consett itv.com/news/tyne-tees…
The The Children's Foundation is helping North East absent schoolchildren with their mental health through its Roots to Health horticulture project, with aim of getting them back in school. #northeast has second highest rate of ‘severe’ absenteeism in England. Watch: itv.com/news/tyne-tees…