First Dan

Enough sages have decided the BBC and South Yorkshire Police have questions to answer about the search of Sir Cliff Richard's Sunningdale flat to require a fairly detailed response from both parties.

This may or may not be testing for Dan Johnson, the BBC reporter who discovered the Cliff investigation was underway.

Dan started out in journalism whilst studying for his geography degree at Leeds University; he was runner up in the 2006 Guardian Student Media Awards, in the very Guardian category of Student Diversity Writer of The Year.  He followed up with a post-graduate diploma in journalism at City University, and then straight to Radio Sheffield. In 2011 he moved to Look North in Leeds, and more glittering prizes followed - Most Promising Newcomer in 2012 Royal Television Society Awards (Yorkshire);  then a share in the 2013 RTS Yorkshire awards for Regional Factual Programme, News Coverage, and runner-up as Journalist of the Year. Last year there were more, this time from the O2-sponsored Media Awards (Yorkshire), for which he picked up Scoop of the Year, and joint runner up as Best News Reporter and Best TV Journalist. The scoop was on police collusion over witness statements about the Orgreave riots in the miner's strike.

Now, on Twitter, he describes himself as "reporter for BBC News and 5Live, covering the North East and Cumbria but chasing news across the north. Made in Yorkshire. Nobody else tells me what to think.   Mostly found on the A1/M62". If he did his own thinking over the deal with South Yorkshire Police, he may wish to reconsider. At least, it wasn't him who called the helicopters in.