Cameron Blackshaw

Hey there! I am a fully-qualified senior reporter with a passion for news, journalism and storytelling and expertise in reporting for both print and digital news platforms. I have years of experience reporting regional news, maintaining strong contacts and sourcing breaking and insightful stories, as well as constructing long form features, video pieces and social media content.

Daily Mirror • November 16 2025

UK restaurant sends 'cease and desist' letters to neighbours who complained

A Beckenham eatery has defended its decision to send cease and desist letters to locals who lodged complaints against it at a licensing hearing. Pierluigi's, located on Beckenham High Street, has been caught up in a dispute over its premises licence since Bromley Council ordered the restaurant to lower its music volume following numerous noise complaints.

My London • October 24 2025

'I've got stage 4 cancer - if NHS moves services I might not see my kids'

A cancer patient says his children won't be able to visit him in hospital and his life will be put at risk if an NHS trust moves services to another site 40 minutes away.
Matthew Venner, 42, was diagnosed with stage four Non-Hodgkin Lymphoma in December 2023.

The Standard • October 4 2025

Boost to hopes to save under-threat London equestrian centre

A south London council has agreed to enter talks to facilitate the sale of Greenwich Equestrian Centre to the community. The much-loved venue's future remains uncertain however, as the council acknowledged its intended use might not continue if placed on the open market.

BBC News • October 1 2025

Bromley Council was warned of building fire risk, business owners say

Bromley Council had been warned about fire safety risks at a high street building where a large blaze occurred, local businesses say. Flames ripped through the property based beside the Beckenham Odeon cinema on Tuesday morning with some 70 firefighters taking two-and-a-half hours to bring the blaze under control.

BBC News • September 12 2025

The Clockwork Orange estate in Thamesmead residents staying put

The few residents still living in a brutalist estate in south-east London marked for redevelopment have called developers "pure evil" for trying to displace them. A scheme to demolish the Lesnes Estate in Thamesmead and replace it with 1,950 new homes was approved by Bexley Council in 2022. Since the plan was approved to redevelop the 1960s estate, made famous for featuring in the 1971 film A Clockwork Orange, most of its residents have found accommodation elsewhere.

My London • August 11 2025

Reform UK 'plans to separate outer London boroughs from the GLA'

Reform UK's first directly-elected London councillor has outlined a bold vision for the city he says is backed by Nigel Farage, calling for outer boroughs to split from the Greater London Authority (GLA). Alan Cook won the Bromley Common and Holwood by-election on July 24 in what he believes was a major step in showing the rest of the city the strength of the Reform vote as well as exposing what he deems Conservative weaknesses.

BBC News • June 7 2025

Thamesmead residents concerned cladding remediation not enough

Residents of eight tower blocks in south-east London have said they are frustrated that work to replace the "high fire risk" cladding was "only half finished". People living in Royal Artillery Quays, Thamesmead, say they have campaigned for more than five years to make their homes safe after several investigations identified defects posing a serious fire risk.

Newbury Today • November 14 2024

Post Office to remain open after being incorrectly named on national branch closure list

A Newbury Post Office will not close after a petition to save it gained almost 800 signatures in a single day when it was incorrectly listed by news outlets as being at risk of being shut down. It was announced yesterday (Wednesday) that up to 115 Post Office branches across the country could be shut down, leaving around 1,000 jobs at risk and several communities without access to postal services.

Newbury Weekly News • February 1 2024

Man donates late wife’s collection of 2,000 Puffin story books to museum

A Newbury man has decided to donate his late wife’s remarkable collection of 2,000 Puffin story books to a children’s museum. Paul High, an 81-year-old retired teacher who lives in Porchester Road, will give every single book – ranging from JRR Tolkien’s The Hobbit to Treasure Island by Robert Louis Stevenson – to The Story Museum in Oxford next month.

Newbury Today • July 13 2022

Disabled pensioner hijacks digger in protest

A disabled pensioner hijacked a digger and refused to leave for nearly four hours in protest against the actions of his parish council. Lea Awbery, 66, decided he had to take action on Monday when he saw contractors digging up the roots of nearby cherry trees while re-surfacing the children’s play area on the corner of Burghfield Common’s Recreation Ground.