Chris Davis Smith

🇬🇧A brilliant experience earlier this week visiting the Houses of Parliament with fellow @IRNAwards winners on behalf of @hallamfmnews 📻

🏆 The winner of News Team of the Year under 1.5M TSA is Hits Radio South Yorkshire - Bauer Media Audio @HitsSYorksNewsX #RadioNewsAwards

🏆 The winner of Best News Story or Coverage is The Murder of Harvey Willgoose – Hits Radio South Yorkshire, Bauer Media Audio @HitsSYorksNews #RadioNewsAwards

The Snooker World Championships will stay in #Sheffield until at least 2045 🎱 As part of the deal, the Crucible Theatre is set to benefit from a £45 million revamp. Our Chief Reporter @ChrisDavisSmith has been discussing the move with @BarryHearn from @matchroomsport:

Over the last year - Padel has become increasingly popular across South Yorkshire & North Derbyshire. The sport combines elements of tennis & squash 🎾 Play Padel in #Sheffield was the first venue to open in the city in 2025. Our Chief Reporter @ChrisDavisSmith has more:

The bomb disposal unit have arrived in the Sharrow area of #Sheffield. Emergency services responded to reports of a suspicious device inside a property on Washington Road earlier today. Members of the public are being advised to avoid the area:

Buses & trams will be ‘joined together’ in a £1.5 billion scheme designed to improve public transport in South Yorkshire. It’s being branded the ‘South Yorkshire People’s Network’. Mayor @olivercoppard has been speaking to our Chief Reporter @ChrisDavisSmith about it:

The lead singer of @Reverend_Makers - Jon McClure - has today been named as the new Chairman of @sheffieldfc Our Chief Reporter @ChrisDavisSmith has been speaking to the 44-year-old about his new role:

An inquest has found the difficulty in diagnosing a grandmother from #Barnsley with rabies ‘didn’t affect’ the ‘fatal outcome’ in her case. Yvonne Ford died last summer - after contracting the virus months before on holiday in Morocco. Adam Ford is Yvonne’s son:

Grosvenor House in #Sheffield city centre has been vandalised overnight. There’s extra security in & around the building this morning. Windows have been smashed - while political messages of graffiti - & red paint - has been left covering it:

Around 1000 people ended up getting help from the South Yorkshire Eating Disorder Association last year. Alana Wilde is the Chief Exec at the charity. She’s been speaking to our Chief Reporter @ChrisDavisSmith about her own anorexia journey & the pros of early intervention:

Following @swfc’s relegation to League 1 yesterday - our Chief Reporter @ChrisDavisSmith has been speaking to a family of Owls on how difficult it’s been to watch their club fall into administration this season. The 🦉’s lost 2-1 away against @SheffieldUnited ⚔️ on Sunday:

A South Yorkshire sexual abuse survivor - who’s waived her anonymity - is calling for stricter restraining orders to be imposed on offenders. Milly Travis - from #Rotherham - bumped into her attacker last November. The 20-year-old is calling for a law change:

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@JosephDraper5 @LBC @MarthaTipper @greatesthitsuk @phoebeajourno @MollyTulett @georgeickelbc @shivanisharmaaa @global @m1cvv @HitsNENewsX @talkSPORT @hitsradiouk @helenhoddinott @MrMickCoyle @northsound1 @Clyde1News @HitsNEnews @GHR_WestYorks @Karenlyl @AlanJZycinski 📻 BEST NEWS STORY OR COVERAGE | #RadioNewsAwards The Murder of Harvey Willgoose - Hits Radio South Yorkshire, Bauer Media Audio @HitsSYorksNews Terror at the Synagogue - Global Newsroom North West and Yorkshire @global

Chancellor of the Exchequer - @RachelReevesMP - has visited the Advanced Manufacturing Research Centre in #Rotherham today. Our Chief Reporter @ChrisDavisSmith managed to grab a word with her about some of the issues affecting South Yorkshire:

There’s just a couple of days to go now until a brand new £5 million youth zone opens its doors in #Barnsley on Saturday. It’ll cost young people in the town just 50p per visit. Our Chief Reporter @ChrisDavisSmith has been given a sneak preview of it:

🥊 ‘Giant’ - which tells the story of #Sheffield boxer Prince Naseem Hamed’s rise to World Championship glory under Brendan Ingle - is out in cinemas today 🎥 🍿 🎤 Our Chief Reporter @ChrisDavisSmith has been speaking to @dominicingle about it at the Ingle gym in Wincobank:

We’re told staff are doing ‘all they can’ to help the rising number of flu patients @royalhospital Our Chief Reporter @ChrisDavisSmith has been speaking exclusively to the Chief Exec there outside the emergency department - about winter pressures in #NorthDerbyshire:

The family of a #Rotherham boy - who died after getting sent home from A & E - met with the Health Secretary earlier. Yusuf Nazir’s family have been to the Department of Health to discuss a report into the 5-year-old’s care. Our Chief Reporter @ChrisDavisSmith is in London:

Rugby league legend Kevin Sinfield has set off from Bramall Lane this morning - as he begins the 4th day of his 7 in 7 ultramarathon challenge in #Sheffield. The 45-year-old is raising funds for motor neurone disease research: