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Political reporter @CityAM | prev @LondonWorldCom , @PA , @EDP24 | views (still) mine | DMs open for tips, gossip & ☕ | email: jessica.frank-keyes @cityam .com
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🚨📰 Some personal news.. I'm thrilled to be joining the fantastic team at
@CityAM
as political reporter, based in Westminster and City Hall, from next month.
DMs very much open for tips/stories/coffees!
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Protestors are demanding police give them a questionnaire “like Boris Johnson who they have actual evidence of committing crimes”.
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To the councillor who called me a “freelancer” and a “crass waste of licence fee payers’ money”, I think people living in Norfolk see the value of stories about planning applications, local businesses, rural deprivation, Ofsted results, the spending of public money...
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Tons of police at the Belgrave Square occupation of Russian oligarch Oleg Deripaska's London property.
Officers shooing away anyone without an accredited press card..
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Statement from the protest group here ⬇️
Russian oligarchs: You occupy Ukraine, We Occupy You!
Statement from the occupied mansion:
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Protesters now shouting: "ACAB. All of you are Wayne Couzens."
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A JCB has pulled up to the building. Protestors calling police scum and Nazis.
"This is why everyone hates the Met."
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Anarchists occupying the house are from revolutionary group London Mahknovists - and say they won't leave until Putin stops the war.
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Protestors are still shouting at police from the edge of the balconies, asking why the British state is protecting this property.
"How us it legal? F***ing disgusting fascists. Everyone f***ing hates you."
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Huge international media interest in this eviction - I'm stood next to a Polish TV crew.
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The occupiers are telling a man leaving out of the next door window "don't worry we'll be back tomorrow - we're your new neighbours"
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Protestors moving plants and singing on the balcony. Unclear how negotiations with police are going?
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This is what they say they plan to do..
The squatters are using a version of the Section 6 notice known as the "protest defense", in which they do not intend to live and sleep at the property, but are instead occupying it as a protest, on rotation. This is because of the 2012 law change on residential property.
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Just spoke to a protestor on the balcony - one of five - who says riot police are inside the building asking them to leave.
Tells me the group have no leader - “we are anarchists” - and he is from Eastern Europe living in London while other members are from other countries.
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Protestors are asking the crowd to order them a pizza as police descend in the cherry picker to cheers.
Shouts of “pizza or death” and “tout le monde deteste la police”
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So many police here lining the cordon and keeping journalists and the public back from the building. Can count at least 30 from where I'm stood, excluding riot cops now inside the house..
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Why does "liberal" society treat female nudity as "empowering" but refuses to respect those who'd rather cover up?
#BurkiniBan
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The JCB has moved in front of the protestors..
Shouts of “this is how our govt treats anti war protestors.. Moscow or London. fascism is everywhere”
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Supporters have gathered at the cordon to back the protestors - including this colourful bloke blowing bubbles
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Thought he’d left the house but he just popped out to collect a Gousto delivery!
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Should add, the vast majority of councillors have been nothing but polite, professional and welcoming, even when I’m writing stories they may find critical.
Also, nothing wrong with being a freelancer (although they clearly didn’t think so).
BUY YOUR LOCAL PAPER
#LDReporter
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It’s all a bit of a standstill at the moment. Police and protestors don’t appear to be doing much?
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The activists are now telling police they will only come down if they are not arrested and can walk away.
“If the cops want to accept our proposal we will come down right away.. no reason to be arrested for burglary. We are here to protest.”
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Video from inside the property via
@ImStanley
- looks pretty lavish
Just sent this from people inside the house, empty rooms complete with a grand piano
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Chants of “Free Ukraine” from protestors and supporters
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They say they will come down if they can walk away with their support group.
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Astonishing, infuriating viewing - and incredible composure from
@maitlis
- but I think this was the most telling bit for me.
What an insight into the level of self-interest and lack of consequences this man has had to face in his life.
#PrinceAndew
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Also you clearly don’t know many journalists if you think threatening my editor with violence is the way to get me not to report a story.
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NEW Protestors say police have told them they will be arrested for burglary - and to come down the stairs or in the cherry picker
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It’s starting to rain here but that doesn’t seem to be affecting the protestors’ moods - they are singing and asking police if they care about their “health and safety”
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🎙️
#PMQs
Starmer opens with tributes to Alistair Darling, Glenys Kinnock and Hillsborough families - before launching into jibe over Rwanda.
“Other than members of his own cabinet, how many people has the PM sent there?”
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Keep up to date with our thread on the protest
@LondonWorldCom
All our tweets and videos from 5 Belgrave Square, where activists have occupied a building linked to sanctioned oligarch Oleg Deripaska. They say they want to give it to Ukrainian refugees. Riot police have now stormed the building to try and remove them.
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A Norfolk contractor affected by the loan charge scandal is urging the chancellor to “see sense” and back plans for a settlement to the issue, which he says is “still costing lives”.
#LDReporter
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Police are now speaking to the protestors on the balcony.
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Our reporter
@JessicaFKeyes
is at oligarch Oleg Deripaska's £5m Belgravia mansion, which has been occupied by protestors. Around 20 riot police have cut a hole in the door and stormed in. They are now - slightly bizarrely - standing inside the window asking the activists to leave
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NEW: The Met Police DENIED permission to appeal against
#SarahEverard
vigil ruling by High Court.
Spoke to
@jamieklingler
from
@ReclaimTS
who says she feels "absolutely vindicated and overjoyed" at the judgement - my story here for
@LondonWorldCom
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Signing off from
@LondonWorldCom
for the night - will be back with updates on
@resist_london
tomorrow. Protestors are still on the ledge and some police and media have now left the area.
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Update from protestors here:
Occupation still going strong on the balcony of the building despite many many attempts to get close to them with a "cherry picker". More people welcome to come down to support despite the closing of the road. Be prepared with warm clothes and hot drinks etc if possible.
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Feels a bit weird to have good news to share at the moment but very excited to be joining the
@PA_Real_Life
team in two weeks (!!) after an amazing three years at
@EDP24
🎉
Oh, and if you've got a council story in
#Norfolk
it's your last week and a bit to send it my way...
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Probably time to make this official.. I'm thrilled to be taking over as Norfolk's BBC Local Democracy Reporter next week. From Monday I'll be based at
@EDP24
and covering councils all over the county. Bring on alllllll the agendas!
#LDReporter
🗒📈📊
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Darkness has fallen and the protestors are still on the balcony ledge -
@metpoliceuk
will have “contingencies” and a continued police presence here. Could be a long night.
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Lorde on stage at Ally Pally tells the crowd: “I’m not going to lie to you, I’m feeling a little fragile and fucked up right now, after the reversal of Roe vs. Wade.”
#AbortionRightsAreHumanRights
#RoeVWade
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NEW: Protestors are no longer on the balcony - more police going into the building.
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A viral petition calling to revoke Article 50 is approaching one million signatures - I spoke to campaigner
@mikegalsworthy
for
@TheNewEuropean
who said the PM's speech last night was an "accelerant" for public frustration over Brexit
#RevokeArticle50
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🚨 Starmer urges Sunak to see if he “can find anyone to vote for him” and call a general election now.
#PMQs
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Rapturous applause for Penny Mordaunt - who is stood barefoot on a chair - at the
@NextGenTories
reception at
#CPC23
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Bit stunned by all the responses to this - thanks to everyone who’s been so kind. I’ve now had an apology from the councillor in question.
To the councillor who called me a “freelancer” and a “crass waste of licence fee payers’ money”, I think people living in Norfolk see the value of stories about planning applications, local businesses, rural deprivation, Ofsted results, the spending of public money...
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UPDATE: Several arrests have been made - after it sounds like a scuffle broke out to the right of the police cordon on Belgravia Square - but told officers have “got” the individuals involved..
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Shadow home secretary
@YvetteCooperMP
gives the speeding question another bash..
Braverman again insists “at no time did I seek to avoid the sanction”.
Which, as has been repeatedly said, not the question being asked.
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Carol Vorderman tells
@BestForBritain
polling event she is “fangirling” to be hearing from Sir John Curtice and is a “totally independent woman” and an undecided voter.
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@IOPC_Help
@LondonWorldCom
Notably the officers have NOT been named - yet - as would usually happen in the case of criminal charges.
The Crown Prosecution Service say this is due to "operational reasons".
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just spoke on zoom to a bunch of sixth formers about getting into journalism and honestly, nothing but admiration for the girl who yawned throughout and then said she wanted to be an air hostess
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A Norwich MP has called on the government to look into the idea of a four-day working week to help the country recover from the coronavirus lockdown.
#LDReporter
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Took lots of stress and hard work but so, so thrilled to have officially passed my
@NCTJ_news
exams and be a fully qualified senior reporter at
@EDP24
✨🥂
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Speaking at Lord Mayor’s banquet tonight Sunak quoted Yeats: “The blood-dimmed tide is loosed, and everywhere, the ceremony of innocence is drowned…”
Poets on here will know this is The Second Coming, which also includes the line: “Things fall apart, the centre cannot hold.” 👀
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So excited to be shortlisted for apprentice of the year - thanks to everyone at
@EDP24
and
@PA_Training
for all the support over the past year, and for making me a better journalist
The NCTJ Awards for Excellence 2018 shortlist has been published! After receiving a record number of entries, some 52 students, trainees, apprentices, journalists and course providers have been shortlisted for awards >>
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Norwich North Labour candidate
@LabKarenDavis
says: "If this exit poll is correct this is devastating for the NHS, people who need mental health services in Norfolk and anyone suffering from cuts made by the Conservatives."
#GE2019
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Just under the wire... I’ll be putting today’s regional press questions to the PM at the final daily No 10 briefing
#LDReporter
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Rishi Sunak tells BBC Radio Manc he will “probably be driving” to Tory party conference on Sunday due to “disappointing” rail strikes.
Anna Jameson asks if he’d drive if there was a HS2 line 🚆
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At the
@LondonLabour
#LocalElections2022
launch event in Barnet with
@Keir_Starmer
@SadiqKhan
@Georgia_Gould
@londoncouncils
@BarnetLabour
for
@LondonWorldCom
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Incredible to speak to the inspirational
@ElectionMargie
, founder of
@widows4peace
, about her hunger strike to support Richard Ratcliffe and
@FreeNazanin
for
@LondonWorldCom
.
She said: "Nobody should praise me for doing five days, it was nothing."
#FreeNazanin
89-year-old
@ElectionMargie
went without food for almost six days to support Richard Ratcliffe’s three-week hunger strike at the
@FCDOGovUK
She said: “We’ve got to keep the pressure on. Boris is responsible - he’s torn that family apart.”
#FreeNazanin
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My piece for
@LondonWorldCom
after a day spent sitting in two different magistrates' courts..
Two women accused of breaking Covid-19 laws by attending the Clapham Common vigil for murdered Sarah Everard are to face trial after
@metpoliceuk
prosecutions.
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At the
@WEP_UK
#MarchOnTheMet
in Trafalgar Square for
@LondonWorldCom
- activists are marching to
@metpoliceuk
HQ to mark the second anniversary of the murders of Bibaa Henry and Nicole Smallman
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🥂✨
Congratulations to
@RhodaFMorrison
@JamesCarr_93
and
@JessicaFKeyes
who have won awards for their outstanding performance in the July
#NQJ
exams! 🌟
Many thanks to our award sponsors
@PaperLawyerx
@Esso_GB
and
@Newsquestmedia
Read the full story:
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Been working on this story for
@EDP24
and
@nthnorfolknews
for a while..
“Grieving parents and a retired GP say “remote, awful and inhumane” mental health support is leaving young men in north Norfolk at a heightened risk of taking their own lives.”
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Confident outing from Starmer this week at
#PMQs
- explicitly digs at Sunak on when he’ll call a general election, and goes for Tory record on national security, China, and, interestingly, small boat crossings.
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Activist
@PatsyeStevenson
is now addressing protestors and says: “I used to say in interviews that I’m not anti-police, but I take that back - f*** the police.”
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just been reminded it’s my three year anniversary at
@EDP24
and working in journalism 🎊
started out with a general election three days into the job, and could never have imagined the three years that followed...
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@LondonU
@TfL
Khan repeats his call for the govt to give City Hall the power to freeze private rents.
He also wants benefits to be increased in line with inflation, and free school meals for all children.
"We can't level up the country by levelling down London."
#DoesLondonWork
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In a packed Trafalgar Square reporting for
@LondonWorldCom
on the
#EuroWomen2022
win and absolutely loving all the mums and daughters celebrating
#Lionesses
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You know you work in local news when you're clearing out your inbox and find a folder full of photos of an escaped goat
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Really awful news from east London this evening.
A teenage girl has been killed after an e-scooter and a van were involved in a collision in east London.
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“I think we place such a premium on romantic love culturally that it means we often don’t see our own most enduring love stories reflected in art" - thank you so much
@dollyalderton
for talking to me about Everything I Know About Love, for
@ThePanopticUK
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Team
@LondonWorldCom
bringing you the news from the pub - after our office fire alarm went off for the second time today
#unstoppable
🍻 🗒 💻
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this time last year I was on my third [fourth? fifth?? idek] driving instructor and today I drove 100 miles by myself and did a ✨perfect✨ bay park and I’m pretty proud of myself
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Such a fab night at the
@NCTJ_news
awards - so thrilled to be shortlisted for apprentice of the year and for everything I’ve learned from everyone
@EDP24
and
@PA_Training
#NCTJAwards
📰🎄✨
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Hi
@All4
please make part 1 and 2 of
@Sathnam
Sanghera’s amazing documentary
#empireland
available on All4. Many people would like to watch both parts!
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Thank you so much to all the tutors at
@PA_Training
for your support over the past four months !! So happy to have passed my law exams and my 100wpm shorthand - good luck everyone getting results today 🎊
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(paid) student union officers who demonise the work of (unpaid) student journalists are, infuriatingly, great practice for the "real world"
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Catching up on
@BBCNorfolk
@CGoreham
interview with
@trussliz
who says she "hopes" health sec Therese Coffey will visit King's Lynn's Queen Elizabeth Hospital, where the roof is held up by 1,500 props (three times as many as beds..)
She does realise she is the prime minister?!
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somehow, it's already my last week on the
@PA_Real_Life
team
beyond excited to be joining
@JPIMediaplc
as a senior reporter at
@LondonWorldCom
please send news, tips and memes to my DMs
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