
Matt Roper
Editor, Mobile and Online at BBC
Own views here. Old and new media enthusiast. Serial optimist.
Articles
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2 weeks ago |
dailyrecord.co.uk | Matt Roper |Billy Gaddi
The mutilated body of 17-year-old Melanie Road was found by a milkman and his ten-year-old son during his early morning delivery and sparked a nationwide manhunt, but her killer was only caught three decades later by his own daughter. The daughter of a dangerous monster unmasked her dad as a brutal killer - solving one of Britain’s most baffling cold cases 31 years on.
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2 weeks ago |
dailyrecord.co.uk | Matt Roper |Jennifer Newton |Nicola Croal
Prince Harry has had a particularly bad few days, as he saw one of his proudest achievements end in acrimony, and his name and motivations smeared in an ugly row. In the end, Prince Harry couldn't remain silent any longer. After a week of watching one of his proudest achievements descend into bitter dispute, and his name and motivations dragged through the mud in an unseemly row, the Duke of Sussex unleashed his frustration.
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2 months ago |
manchestereveningnews.co.uk | Matt Roper |Paige Oldfield
As findings of a new study reveal vaping causes the same harm as smoking, a mum remembers how e-cigarettes nearly took her teenage son's lifeRebecca Chesworth remembers with a mother's pain watching helplessly as her son Nathan fought for breath after his lung collapsed just as he was walking up the stairs to kiss his younger sister goodnight. And how the 15-year-old "sobbed his heart out" when doctors showed him the x-ray of his chest and told him how close he had come to death.
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Sep 5, 2024 |
walesonline.co.uk | Paige Ingram |Matt Roper
The family of Alfred Swinscoe have spent the last 56 years trying to find out how and why he vanished when he went to a pub toilet on a cold night in January 1967. The disappearance 54 -year -old miner and pigeon racer from Derbyshire, was a mystery that his family found too painful to discuss, but now the family finally have some answers after a major police breakthrough.
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Mar 4, 2022 |
hulldailymail.co.uk | Matt Roper |Daniel Smith
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