Beccy Barr
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#firefighter👩🏼🚒 @LancashireFRS @BU_DMC MSc student, ex-journo @bbcNWT @CNBC @BloombergTV #Ironman. Tall. Girl Guide Leader. Single mum. @FRSA_uk exec member
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Joined January 2011
It’s been a crazy ride since I presented my last @BBCNWT bulletin in Aug 2019 and joined @LancashireFRS. Today I got the final results from my firefighter training & I’m so proud to say I got DISTINCTIONS in all the end point assessments: practical, theory & interview.🔥👩🏼🚒😊
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I’m sharing the very sad news that Beccy passed away peacefully this morning. She spent her last few days at @SJHospice who provided the most dignified & compassionate care to Beccy & her whole family. Donations to the hospice can be made in Beccy’s memory. ❤️
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I am a middle-aged woman and I’ve just been out to buy a special edition “Taylor Swift - Celebration of a Global Icon” magazine.
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A brilliant read on Taylor Swift, Jane Austen and the female experience.
On this special day, Tay-Tay day, (aka when I’m seeing her at Wembley 😱😍🤘) once more with feeling…. The pen is in her hand: decoding the great female migration to a @taylorswift13 concert near you .
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This stuff is so personal and individual, but I’m doing it while I’m alive (a privilege of knowing you’re dying) and it feels like an important act of service to my loved ones.
How do you even start to clear your parents’ home when both of them have died?.
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As a monarchist and a Swiftie, this is basically the one. ❤️.
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“Now that my secret is known, I’ll forever Rest in Peace,” Ryan said. Goodness this is incredibly moving.
New York military veteran comes out in obituary: ‘I was gay all my life’
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RT @BBCNews: Tributes paid to 'wonderful' breast cancer campaigner
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Tributes are paid to Kate Rackham who helped set up the Fighting to be Heard charity after her diagnosis.
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I was at school with Kate. In recent months we reconnected and she was incredibly empathic and supportive of my terminal diagnosis as she handled her own. What a wonderful woman. ❤️.
If you’re reading this, it means I have died. But do not cry for me. I have lived my life on my own terms, the way I have wanted to. I joined X because I needed an outlet, what I got was so much more. You made me feel validated in my feelings and much less alone. Thank you ❤️.
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At this stage I’d be equally happy with Bartleby, George or Harrison-of-the-Holy-Truncheon getting The Strangles. 🚮 #TheArchers.
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Bloody life. Urgh.
Rugby League great Rob Burrow, who was diagnosed with motor neurone disease in 2019, has died at the age of 41
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There is a very fleeting reference to *Mrs Ruxton* in “One, Two, Buckle My Shoe” which is EXTREMELY EXCITING to the tiny group of people who love both Agatha Christie and Lancaster’s local history.
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I’m fascinated to see what these national service volunteers going to do on their monthly weekends with Fire, Police and the NHS?! I’m trying to translate this to fire station routine and I just can’t fathom it at all.
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One of the most extraordinary and unsettling articles I’ve read for some time.
I have never an a reporting experience quite as unsettling as my day with the Collins family in Pennsylvania
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Pat Archer really took that post-match advice from Harrison-of-the-Holy-Truncheon to heart! Howzat (etc) #TheArchers.
Grandmother becomes oldest international cricketer
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Our first canvassing door-knock was within about an hour of the announcement. 😆.
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Presumably most people under about 45 years old are not too sure why a No. 1 chart hit from 1993 is drowning out the PM (along with the apocalyptic rain).
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Which reminds me… #OnlyMurdersInTheBuilding is really good fun (if you like the entertainingly frothy ensemble cast kind of thing).“OMGod” 😆.
The time when Martin Short sang the Golden Girls theme and wanted no interruptions 😂
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If that bloody doctor had spoken to Fallon privately in the first place, none of this would be happening #TheArchers.
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