Digital News Production Unit- Researching our Live Story Idea.

Although we are very happy with our Package story idea for our news report, we have been having some debate over what story we should run for our Live piece. Originally, we had wanted to run a story about a body being found in the river Medway, but since it is an ongoing case, and we wouldn't really have much access to the areas we would need to film in, we have instead decided to run a story that is not only more relevant, but easier to research and collect footage for.

When we were discussing more potential ideas, a story about a group of wild dogs in the nearby area of Strood was brought up. Local news distributions such as KentOnline have been reporting this story a lot recently, with the first known report being in around June of this year after a locals cat; Coco was attacked and killed by the group of dogs.
CCTV footage of the attack:


KentOnline's report of the incident.

After some more investigation of this story however, we found that there have actually been more recent attacks on cats in the strood area. on October 2nd, KentOnline reported this story:
http://www.kentonline.co.uk/medway/news/second-cat-killed-by-wild-24490/
Now, although this particular report contains no new photographs, and instead contains the same video and photographs posted on the previous news articles, it does contain some new information about the dogs, as well as a very sobering eyewitness statement which reads:
"If this had been an attack on a human, a child would be dead, and an adult probably as well."

As part of our live piece, it may be worth us visiting the area where this latest attack took place so we can see exactly what may have happened, with the purpose being to inform viewers about the potential dangers of these wild dogs, and possibly some of the damage they have caused too (if it is still there.)
It may also be worth us "doorstepping" some of the local residents of these areas to see if we can find out whether or not we can get our own eyewitness interview, or possibly some vox pops, which would be extremely useful for our Live report.