Meirion Jones
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What do you need investigating? Previously Editor @TBIJ. Panorama, Newsnight, Today/WATO/PM, New Scientist, Your Computer. Cymru! AmazingDOTMeirionATgmailDOTcom
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Joined August 2013
Another scoop from @FerretScot's veteran nuclear journalist @robedwards53 & @severincarrell. Shows that if you want to stop stuff leaking it's better to hire a plumber than a lawyer
theguardian.com
Exclusive: Polluted water was released into loch near Glasgow because Royal Navy failed to maintain 1,500 water pipes, says watchdog
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Given that Putin's justification for invading Ukraine is that it used to be part of Russia errr. .
The US-Russia summit is taking place next week in Alaska. Also Russia: "We will teach you to love the Motherland"
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"Houston we've had a problem" Fred Haise is now the last surviving astronaut who went to the Moon without landing. Apart from Apollo 13 Lovell was part of the Apollo 8 crew whose Earthrise photo helped launch the environmental movement.
Grieving the loss of one of my best friends, Jim Lovell. His extraordinary legacy is cemented by many space missions: Gemini VII, Gemini XII, Apollo 8 and Apollo 13. Our mutual respect had no limits. The Gemini XII mission we flew together paved the way for the Apollo
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How thick would you have to be to think that illegal migrants would row 100+ miles across the North Sea to Great Yarmouth rather than hopping across the Channel? Here's a link to the rowers who are actually raising funds for MND
myname5doddie.co.uk
Dinghies coming into Great Yarmouth, RIGHT NOW. Authorities alerted, and I am urgently chasing. If these are illegal migrants, I will be using every tool at my disposal to ensure these individuals are deported. Enough is enough. Britain needs mass deportations. NOW.
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Democracy for Sale rightly angry BBC ripped off their FOI request revealing Cabinet Office spent £32K to try to stop release of a blank form - rather than crediting them. Lucas Amin, @PeterKGeoghegan @JennaCorderoy
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It's worse than you think. Fair! Loved the 1953 War of the Worlds film - complete with YB49 flying Wings, Spielberg version is really good, the 2019 Beeb Edwardian version tried but was too rushed & too low budget but this version of one of the great tales really stinks.
‘WAR OF THE WORLDS’, starring Ice Cube, debuts at 0% on Rotten Tomatoes . “The film’s tagline ‘It’s worse than you think’ sums up the entire movie”
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I knew about Hexham Massacre, Peterloo, Merthyr, Tonypandy, Vauxhall Rd in Liverpool and the Llanelli Railway Strike "murdered by the Government in the interests of the capitalist system" as Keir Hardie said but I'd never heard of the North Sands Massacre - well remembered.
The NUJ Sunderland, Shields and Hartlepool branch joined the 200th anniversary commemoration of the North Sands Massacre, a pivotal event in the development of trade unionism. Read more:
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Shocking thing about this is not that vindictive police officer got 3 of his @metpoliceuk sidekicks to needlessly arrest his ex at her home in early hours for nothing but that Met's PSD excused that - again - as "necessary, proportionate & compliant".
theguardian.com
London force sent three officers at 4.45am, who put her in the back of a van and seized her phone and computer
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Saw Wilko tonight great night out. Tomorrow’s your last chance.
I’ll be a Special Guest at this Sunday’s 3pm show of Wilko: Love and Death and Rock'n'Roll, a fantastic tribute to Wilko Johnson with drama, comedy, and music at the Leicester Square Theatre. The last few tickets are available from
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The @guardian have just put out audio version of Poppy Sebag Montefiore's excellent long read from 2021 about the exposure of Jimmy Savile & the BBC's cover-up and in particular how Liz MacKean - who sadly died in 2017 - fought for the truth to come out.
theguardian.com
This week, from 2021: listening to the women who alleged abuse, and fighting to get their stories heard, helped change the treatment of victims by the media and the justice systemBy Poppy Sebag-Mon...
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That moment of panic when you see the ad at Euston & you think @ramblers will descend in coachloads on your favourite Surrey Heath - full of Hobbies, Woodlarks, Dartfords & Stonechats - after it's voted Top Walk before you realise it's not even on the shortlist - just random pic
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This stinks. Worth going to @unitetheunion report (linked to by @joepike) detailing how Len McCluskey gave sweetheart contracts to his mates who overcharged union by at least £30M. If all they gave him was football tickets & private jet flights in return that was a good deal.
'Private jet flights and football tickets' - @joepike reports from inside the hotel at the heart of Unite corruption allegations
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Good piece by @williamrt on MI5 surveillance of reporters in Northern Ireland.
New - Fresh allegations of ‘sustained’ police and MI5 surveillance against BBC reporters via @computerweekly #communicationsdata #PSNI #surveillance @BarryBelfast70.
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In 1807 245 years of history drew to a close - when Britain banned the Slave Trade. Quentin Letts would have been crying. The idea that people have the right to rule us because of who their great-great-grandparents were (whether Royals or Peers) is ludicrous.
QUENTIN LETTS: At 4.25pm, 800 years of history drew to a close
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Seems somehow appropriate there won't be an @edfringe funniest joke this year. Not much to laugh at - IDF slaughtering Gazans, ICE kidnapping migrants, Putin murdering Ukrainians, 30% of Brits liking Farage, Starmer abusing terror laws & - well - Trump.
theguardian.com
TV channel U&Dave has announced its award for best joke at the fringe, launched in 2008, won’t be given this year
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Kruger called for "a re-founding of this nation on the teachings that Alfred made the basis of the common law of England". So we re-institute slavery here. Under Alfred's laws there was a penalty for raping a slave - you had to pay compensation to the owner.
I gave a speech today in an empty chamber. It’s about the need for a Christian restoration.
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Just the usual clog-dancing festival going on in Greenwich today at Wolfe’s feet although these are the Tower Ravens “London’s premier rapper sword dance team” apparently. Montcalm and carry on
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RT @Eyeswideopen69: Let’s take a look at who the type of men storming migrant hotels to “protect our children” really are…. English Defence….
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Glad to see @peltonarms (great music pub) in Pelton Rd Greenwich & @thedogandbell (Fowler's Troop & Jack in the Green) in Prince St Deptford both make it into @Telegraph's best 500 pubs in England although the Dacre Arms in Lee seems a bit of a random choice
Looking for great craft beers or bags of charm? Find the best pub near you with our expert guide.
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