Doncaster Free Press daily bulletin with Stephanie Bateman - Wednesday September 24, 2025 - video Dailymotion

Doncaster Free Press daily bulletin with Stephanie Bateman - Wednesday September 24, 2025.

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00:00Good morning everyone it's Steph at the Doncaster Free Press and it's Wednesday

00:03September the 24th. You've not heard from myself or Darren for a few days we've

00:07actually been on annual leave so apologies for not many updates on the

00:14website but that's all going to change today. I'm back on duty and Darren will

00:18be returning in a couple of days so hopefully you've managed to keep on

00:23track of what's going on we have had some colleagues helping us out so that's

00:27been great so thank you for that but back to business first of all for those

00:32of you who struggled to get to work on time this morning we have details now of

00:37an incident excuse me that happened this morning let's just have a look there were

00:45delays of over an hour as a following a lane closure there was a collision which

00:51brought rush hour traffic to a standstill on the M18 northbound between junctions

00:5630 sorry junctions 3 and 4 this morning let's have a look at the national

01:05highways warned of the severe delays with the traffic expected to get back to

01:11normal about quarter past 10 hopefully looking at the time now that should all

01:15have been sorted we're just waiting to find out exactly what happened hopefully

01:20it wasn't too severe but obviously any incident on that motorway at that time

01:23does cause quite a lot of tailback so I hope you do did manage to get on your

01:29way as quickly as you could then we have an incident in Doncaster where a police

01:34officer was left with a glass shard in her back after a police car was attacked

01:40police said in a statement that a car was attacked and it's back window broken

01:45while the officer was inside with a suspect it was attacked from the outside by a

01:50third person however the report says officers have been carrying out proactive

01:56patrols in the Kirkhouse green area last Tuesday when the incident happened full

02:01report about that is on the website this morning and then finally one from

02:06politics a reform UK councillor who co-founded a new flight Doncaster branded

02:13company create it as create a creating conflict of interest concerns I set to

02:18lose his committee positions on the council the party as said councillor David

02:24Knight was as a director for fly Doncaster Auxiliary Services Limited alongside his

02:30party colleague and reform UK deputy leader councillor Rachel Reed the

02:36business established on companies house on September the 18th this year shares the

02:40first part of its name with the arms length company created by the council to manage

02:45Doncaster Sheffield Airport councillor Jason Charity the reform UK group spokesman confirmed

02:53it was not something that reform UK would have approved and it was councillor Knight's idea

02:59the full story again is on the website this morning which is www.doncasterfreepress.co.uk

03:07and we'll keep you updated on Facebook and X bear with me I'm going to try and get as much

03:13information on various stories out this morning just to catch up but hopefully by the end of the

03:18day we'll be back up to full speed so have a great Wednesday and I'll speak to you tomorrow

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