Andrew Edwards
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Embarrassing dad, partner, reader, photographer, ex-wireless wordsmith @BBCLeeds / now freelance event host, teacher, trainer, broadcaster
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Happy Sunday and farewell! 👋
Looking forward with mixed emotions to Sunday breakfast 6-10am 📻
My 1st
@BBCLeeds
breakfast show was 12/10/93 🎙️
30 years later, 5/11/23, this guy is going out with a bang …💥
Thank YOU for listening 🙏
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Honoured (and really chuffed) to be invited to
#BuckinghamPalace
for
#Coronation
Garden Party a week today!
A complete surprise and a wonderful treat for me and our daughter
Not every day you get mail with this postmark …
@BBCLeeds
@LordLtWY
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🌊 A trip to
#Hornsea
in honour of my lovely Mum
🔑 I’m handing over the keys to her house tomorrow, almost a year since she died
☕️ This was one of our favourite trips, so tea for her, ice cream for me! 🍦
@BBCLeeds
@alzheimerssoc
@DementiaUK
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Not the usual embarrassing selfie to start our weekend
Instead memories of our much loved friend and colleague
#HarryGration
Your tributes 6-10am
@BBCLeeds
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A wonderful, fun afternoon at
#coronationgardenparty
#BuckinghamPalace
Daughter and I went for the matching pink look for spotting
@KensingtonRoyal
and balancing delicious finger food and tea
An honour and a treat
@RoyalFamily
@LordLtWY
@BBCLeeds
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Happy weekend! 👋
Arriving
@BBCLeeds
for my final Saturday breakfast show 6-10am ⏰
Chilly, clear, calm morning: 5C 🥶
Thank you for all the kind messages: it’s heartwarming and humbling 🙏
I’d love to say hello to you - near or far, home or away, work or play 🎙️
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Our lovely Mum Carolyn died a year ago today 🌼
I’m having a cup of tea (her favourite tipple!) in her honour☕️
We came here to Wales just after she died, and we’re back 🏴
#dementia
#caravan
@BBCLeeds
@DementiaUK
@alzheimerssoc
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30 years ago (12/10/1993) I got a call at 5.10am asking me to present
@BBCLeeds
breakfast for 1st time ☎️
@DaveWoodsSport
’s wife had gone into labour 👶
Today (after 15 years on the show, 1995-2010), I’m back - in for the fab
@therimaahmed
6-10am this very wet morning 📻
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Proud to have worked for 34 years in and on
#BBCLocalRadio
📻
@BBCRadioStoke
@BBCCambs
@bbchw
and three decades
@BBCLeeds
Not at work today today though …
#KeepBBCLocalRadioLocal
#NUJOfficialstrike
@NUJofficial
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So sad to hear of Steve Wright’s death
A huge part of the soundtrack of my life - great communicator 📻
I’ve listened to him every week since I was a teenager (and did so last weekend)
Always energetic, seemingly unchanging, a brilliant broadcaster
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Fab forecaster
@katerinabbc
came in specially today 🌦️
She presented me with a very posh box of chocolate biscuits for our final Saturday breakfast together
@BBCLeeds
She’s spent years coaching me on WWS (Weekend Weather Selfie) 🤳 🌈 ☔️
Thank you, Kat 🙏
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Excited to be waking up West Yorkshire on Saturdays and Sundays from now on
@BBCLeeds
The alarm worked, the coffee’s beginning to work. Happy weekend! Let it begin. 6-9am
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The five ages of radio man 2)
My lovely Mum kept my
@BBCLeeds
presenter photos in an envelope I found clearing her house 📸
This is 2003/4 (on the weekday breakfast show since ’95) 📻
By then I’d presented solo and with Clive Settle, Jon Hill,
@lizgreenlive
and Liz Rhodes🎙️
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Delighted to be back with you 6-10am
@BBCLeeds
📻
I’ve been touched, humbled and comforted by the response to the death of my lovely Mum and the final
#DementiaDiary
Thank you! 🙏
We’ve had a break in the caravan in 🏴
It’s a clear, warm, full moon morning 13c 🌕
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Final walk to work: Otley Road, Leeds 6
8.17am, 10th November 2023
#autumn
#autumnvibes
#headingley
#otleyroad
#leeds
#morning
#morninglight
#walktowork
#iphone13mini
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Not an embarrassing
#selfie
today but a very proud one!
@BBCLeeds
was named local station of the year
#UKArias18
. It’s a fabulous team here, and I’ve been part of it for 25 of the station’s 50 years.
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Look who’s turned up - released from his potting shed!
@BBCLeeds
📻
The fabulous Aaron Hickman is here in person for our final Sunday Gardening together 🪴 🌷
We’ve not seen each other since before the pandemic. He’s the most stylish of style gurus
☎️ 0800 389 3333
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Back at one of my all-time happy places - the fab
#AlhambraTheatre
@BradfordTheatre
Oh yes it is! Time for the annual
@1BillyPearce
panto
I’ve lost track of the number of times we’ve been here 🎄🎅🏻🎭 as a family
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Now you see it, now you don’t! Guess who’s had his hair cut? ✂️ Here’s the before and after evidence ...
Happy weekend. It’s a glorious dawn 🌅
Looking forward to your company 6-10am
@BBCLeeds
📻
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The five ages of radio man 5)
My Mum kept all my
@BBCLeeds
postcards in an envelope I found clearing her house 📻
We’ve reached 2016, big beard for start of the Big Yorkshire Phone-in ☎️
I was handed the weekend alarm clock 2018: final shows 6-10am, 4th and 5th November🔥
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Back on the dawn patrol after a long holiday 🌅
Very much looking forward to your company 6-10am
@BBCLeeds
📻
Please get in touch for a Saturday early morning hello 👋
Near or far, tell me who you are, where you are and what you’re up to ⏰ 🌎
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Today no embarrassing selfie but a chance to meet fabulous producer Durba
@BBCLeeds
She’s the evil genius behind Jukebox Jumble
Producers are the unsung heroes of radio 📻
Over the last five+ years I’ve been blessed with 3 of the best: Sue,
@newschickjules
and Durba 🙏
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What a star you are
@chris_kammy
A gentleman, a pleasure to walk with in the rain and the best on the hoof fundraiser I’ve ever seen
You did
@BBCLeeds
and
@BBCCiN
proud!
Happy memories of 25 years ago with
@tannerman774
The baton is now in the safe hands of the one and only
@RadioAndrewE
…
Kammy is still doing his bit to help! 👏
#BigBatonChallenge
|
@BBCCiN
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What happens when you're setting the caravan up on a farm in Wales - and there's malt loaf around ..,
http://t.co/bUykzXaogR
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Happy 50th birthday from all of us
@BBCLeeds
- we began broadcasting 5 decades ago today. Don’t you love the long days? Today’s embarrassing
#selfie
was taken before 5am on the stairs with
@northernballet
in the background - sun and blue sky! 🍰 🎂 🎁
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Autumn showers: Otley Road, Headingley
11.36am, 7th November 2023
#headingley
#leeds
#autumn
#shower
#rain
#urbanphotography
#streetphotography
#bayfieldsopticians
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Happy New Year from
@Hudsonweather
and me 🎉🥂🎈
What a treat to chat to my old, youngish friend Paul
@BBCLeeds
Guess what he got for Christmas? 🎅🏻🎄
His own weather station, I kid you not ⛅️ ☔️
Record breakingly warm! 🌡
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Astonishing scenes in
#Haworth
for the conquering
#sofa50
heroes
@BBCLookNorth
Such a warm welcome, such generosity for
#SportRelief2018
A huge well done to
@harrylooknorth
@AmyGarciauk
@Hudsonweather
@BBCSofa
@BBCLookNorth
@sportrelief
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Chuffed to be back with you 6-10am
@BBCLeeds
for Saturday breakfast 📻
We’ve been away and I now look like a well known reindeer!
#rednose
🦌
It’s a blowy, damp morning: 7C as I left home
#Headingley
#Leeds
Do get in touch, near or far, for an early morning hello 👋 🌎
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What do you mean I look different?🎅🏻
Happy weekend part 1). The beard baubles and I are looking forward to your company
@BBCLeeds
6-10am
And yes, this is the Christmas jumper I promised to wear 🎅🏻
Just the right side of freezing: 2C at 4.30am ❄️
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Really looking forward to my first
#SundayBreakfast
@BBCLeeds
6-9am Don’t tell my daughter, but Dad’s attempted a selfie! Happy Sunday
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Today I give you radio presenter 🎙 channelling polar explorer ⛄️
Even in the city the temperature is minus 3C - nithering (not ‘nit hero’ which predictive texting insists I mean!) 🧊
Looking forward to your company 6-10am
@BBCLeeds
I’d love to say hello to you 📻
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Spot the difference! 💈
Thank you to the excellent
@MatthewsBarbers
who’s been cutting my hair for well over 20 years - but never this much!
Didn’t have the courage to go the whole hog a month ago ✂️
Now offering pillow stuffing services …
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Chuffed to be
@HuddsTownHall
to kick off Christmas with
@ColneValleyMVC
and fabulous guests
@briggusbb
Very exciting to be back in this great, historic venue for
#AFestiveCelebration
7.15pm
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Very much looking forward to warming up the
@BBCAnyQuestions
audience
#skipton
#plazacinema
Lovely to meet host
@AlexForsythBBC
However keep expecting local lad
@ChrisMasonBBC
to burst onto the stage!
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Congratulations
@LUFC
The dawn of a new era! Join us to celebrate
#LUFC
back in the
@premierleague
after 16 years
#MOT
Saturday breakfast 🍳 6-10am
@BBCLeeds
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Glorious sunset: Leeds Inner Ring Road (5.09pm, 1st February 2024)
#sunset
#sunsets
#sunsetpictures
#leeds
#leedsinnerringroad
#urbanphotography
#streetphotography
#igersleeds
#iphone13mini
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Channelling my inner Atkinson Grimshaw: Parkside Road, Meanwood, Leeds
4.37pm, 31st December 2023
#meanwood
#leeds
#nightphotography
#urbanlandscape
#landscape
#landscapes
#landscape_captures
#landscape_lovers
#igersleeds
#iphone13
#iphone13mini
#stonewall
#streetlamps
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The Act of
#Remembrance
#Headingley
#Leeds
In memory of my Great-Uncle ‘Wee’
Willie who died at Arras on the Western Front
#WWI
29508 Private W Binnie, The Black Watch, 23rd April 1917
His niece, my Mum, was born that day 19 years later
#LestWeForget2023
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🐣 Happy Easter! 🐣
It’s great to be with you
@BBCLeeds
7-10am for Easter Sunday breakfast 📻
A slightly chilly start with the promise of more glorious spring weather: 7C as I left home (with my purple ears!!)🌞
I’d love to say hello to you and yours, near or far 🌎 🐣
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Happy
#InternationalWomensDay2020
No embarrassing selfie 🤳 today: instead meet the other side of this radio coin.
This is fabulous producer Sue, who’s in charge of breakfast 🍳 Saturday and Sundays 6-9am
@BBCLeeds
📻
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Happy Saturday! 👋
Welcome to the weekend part 1) 🙏
Here I am setting off for
@BBCLeeds
at 4.30am ⏰
It’s a grey, dry morning: 13C ☁️
Tell me where you are, near or far, and I’ll give you an early morning hello: 6-10am 🎙
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A treat to share the
@BBCLeeds
studio with the fab
@KeeleyDonovan
…
… the weather itself, however, leaves a little to be desired 🍂 🌫️
This is our WWS (Weekend Weather Selfie) 🤳 🌈 ⛅️ 🌞
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👑 Happy Coronation Day! 👑
There’s now plenty of light in the dawn sky at 4.30am 🌄
Very much looking forward to your company 6-10am 📻
It’s not cold (9C) and - again - it’s part 1) of a three day weekend 👋
Near or far, do get in touch for an early morning hello 🌎 🎙️
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Very chuffed this week that Sunday breakfast 🍳 was highly commended at the
#FrankGillard
radio awards.
What was the last thing you won? Back
@BBCLeeds
6-9am this blowy 💨 ☔️ morning 📻
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It’s the return of the WWS (weekend weather selfie 🤳 🌈 ⛅️ ☔️)
@BBCLeeds
Fabulous to have
@LisaWeather
back with the forecast this Saturday and next 😊
A treat for us - a bit of bonus forecasting alongside the teaching! 👩🏫
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Hello, I’m a bit (well a lot) earlier than usual with Sunday’s embarrassing
#selfie
(11pm, not 5am).
I’m with you for
@BBCLeeds
#Floodwatch
special from midnight to 9am, keeping you company as
#StormDennis
💨 really kicks in 📻
Note: emergency bananas and biscuits!
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The five ages of radio man 3)
It’s 2006, 11 years into my 15 on weekday breakfast
@BBCLeeds
⏰
I co-hosted with
@newschickjules
and then
@spanswicktweets
📻
We first presented a show together the morning after 7/7 bombings: I was in Leeds’ twin city
#Durban
@ecr9495
🇿🇦
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🥶 Happy Sunday! Dry, clear and perishing … 3C as I arrived here
@BBCLeeds
🥶
📻 Here I am outside the studios 4.45am ready and raring to go 6-10am for the weekend part 2) 📻
☎️ I’d love to give you an early morning hello - near or far, home or away, at work or play ☎️
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Walking from Bramhope to Arthington, Wharfedale, West Yorkshire
3.07pm, 25th November 2023
#landscape
#landscape_captures
#landscape_lovers
#wharfedale
#yorkshire
#trees
#silhouette
#clouds
#autumn
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Meet wonderful faith catch up guest
@BBCLeeds
@pastorwazza
Warren Evans
@sportschaplain
He’s the young man with the jaunty cap! He’s passionate about his Christianity and his rugby league 🏉
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It’s a chilly old morning: 3C 🥶
Yes it’s March, but the cap, scarf and gloves are back out 🧤
Here I am arriving
@BBCLeeds
HQ 4.45am ready to be with you 6-10am 📻
I’d love to give you an early morning hello, near or far 🌎
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The Big Baton Challenge
@BBCLeeds
@BBCCiN
Leg No.1 from Wakefield to Tingley. 😃 Loving the community commitment to cheer us on. So many donations, we’re humbled. Thank you! Keep the support coming on Leg No.2 with
@RichardStead
👍🏼
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Help! Lost: one hour!!! ⏰
Yes, the clocks have changed - spring forward ➡️ (fall back 🍂)
It’s a chilly, dry morning: 5C 🌡️
Very much looking forward to your company 6-10am
@BBCLeeds
📻
Do get in touch for an early morning hello, near or far 🌎👋
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2 for 1 today: that beardy bloke
@BBCLeeds
weekend breakfast 🍳 6-10am and his fab producer Sue.
This is Sue’s last weekend with the BBC: I’d like you to see the skipper 👩✈️ before she leaves the bridge 🚢
Sue’s final
#JukeboxJumble
clues 8.25am
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Here’s our temporary studio in
#Mytholmroyd
at the Blue Teapot Cafe, flooded by
#StormCiara
It’s raining ☔️ steadily this morning but the River Calder is (phew) behaving itself. Join us
@BBCLeeds
or in person 6-9am for 🍳 📻
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🎄🎅🏻🎄🎅🏻 Happy, Happy Christmas! 🎄🎅🏻🎄🎅🏻
✨Hope you have a wonderful day ✨
Looking forward to your company 7-10am
@BBCLeeds
📻
There’s a chill in the air 3C but dry and clear 🌡️
Get in touch for an early morning hello 👋
And, yes I am wearing beard baubles Christmas!🎄
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Glorious January dawn!
Walking to work
@BBCLeeds
via
#HydeParkLeeds
#
#woodhousemoor
#dawn
#sunrise
#walkingtowork
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🌅 A glorious midsummer morning!
☀️ Fully light at 4.45am, not far off the longest day
⏰ Here I am outside the
@BBCLeeds
studios ready for Saturday breakfast 6-10am
🎙️Much looking forward to your company
👋 Do get in touch for an early morning hello
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🌈 I give you, my friends, the WWS (Weekend Weather Selfie)
🤳 Some beardy fellow
@BBCLeeds
and fab forecaster
@LisaWeather
🍂 Feels distinctly backend-ish today but tomorrow much warmer!
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Leaving Meanwood Park, Leeds
5.02pm, 15th November 2023
#meanwoodpark
#meanwood
#meanwoodmatters
#leeds
#blackandwhite
#monochromatic
#monochrome
#monochromephotography
#streetlamp
#lightandshadow
#shadows
#igersleeds
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Happy Saturday, my friends! 🌅
It’s a grey, dry, cool dawn: 9c on my journey from
#Headingley
to
@BBCLeeds
📻
Looking forward to your company 6-10am: near or far, home or away, I’d love to give you an early morning hello 👋
This is the view near
#Leeds
city centre 4.45am ⏰
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🥶 Nithering! 🥶
Minus 3 en route from home
#Headingley
#Leeds
to
@BBCLeeds
Now I’ve defrosted I’m looking forward to your company 6-10am for Saturday breakfast 🍳 📻
Do get in touch for a weekend part 1), early morning hello 👋 ⏰
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Great to be back with you
@BBCLeeds
after 3 weeks getting rusty / bronzed in Wales 🏴
I just wish the weather hadn’t come back to
#westyorkshire
with us! ☔️
It’s very wet but not cold (12c) and (whisper it) getting lighter later 🌄
I’d love to hear from you 6-10am 📻
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A tad parky! Freezing weather: Boston, Lincolnshire
Midday, 2nd December 2023
#ice
#freezing
#hoarfrost
#winter
#bostonlincolnshire
#lincolnshire
#urbanphotography
#iphonephotography
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Happy chilly Sunday! 👋
It’s a cold, clear morning: 6C 🥶
Here I am outside
@BBCLeeds
just before 5am 📻
It’s great to be back with you after our holiday 🧳
Really looking forward to your company 6-10am ⏰
Get in touch for an early morning hello, near or far 🌍 👋
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Misty morning: 8C as I leave home 4.30am
#Headingley
🌅
Good luck if you’re running, volunteering, supporting or organising
#RobBurrowLeedsMarathon
#LeedsHalfMarathon
@runforall
🏃♀️
Looking forward to your company 6-10am
@BBCLeeds
📻
I’d love to give you an hello 👋 🌎
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3
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Autumn glories: beautiful light on the walk to work; Otley Road, Leeds 6
8.00am, 19th October 2023
#autumn
#autumnvibes
#autumncolours
#leeds
#streetphotography
#urbanphotography
#walktowork
#hydeparkleeds
#otleyroad
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It’s a damp, misty morning. Here’s your 4.30am call - leaving
#Headingley
for
@BBCLeeds
HQ. I don’t know about you, but I’m finding it hard to adjust to ☔️ after the glorious ☀️!
I’d love to give you an early morning hello: 6-9am 🍳 📻
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My temperature’s OK 🌡 (phew) Here I am entering
@BBCLeeds
HQ ready for Saturday breakfast 🍳- past our new scanner.
It’s a damp old morning ☔️ Welcome to the weekend 6-10am I’d love to say hello to you! 📻
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🎅🏻🎄 A very Happy Christmas from me and fabulous producer Durba!
@BBCLeeds
#HappyChristmas
🎄🎅🏻✨
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I love this time of year 🗓
4.30am
#headingley
#Leeds
close to the longest day ⏰
It feels as though I’ve got the world to myself! 🌎
Looking forward to your company 6-10am
@BBCLeeds
for the weekend part 1)
Do get in touch for an early morning hello 👋
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4
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If you missed the tribute programme
@BBCLeeds
to our friend and colleague, the wonderful and hugely missed
@GrationHarry
it's here
Friend and co-presenter Judith Stamper (2 hrs 10 mins) and
@peter_levy
(3'10")
#RIPHarryGration
#RIPHarry
#HarryGration
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🌴 Another tropical morning 🌴
🥶 Sunday trumps Saturday with minus 4 (a mere -3 yesterday!) 🥶
📻 Much looking forward to nithering weekend part 2): 6-10am
@BBCLeeds
📻
⏰ I’d love to give you an early morning hello: who you are, where you are, what you’re up to ⏰
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3
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The first light of dawn: 4.30am! 🌅
Here I am leaving home
#headingley
#leeds
for
@BBCLeeds
6-10am 📻
It’s a dry, calm morning: 8C ⏰
Near or far, do get in touch for an early morning hello 👋 🌎
On a scale of 1-10, how hot is your
#EUROVISION2023
fever?
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Beckett Park sunset, Leeds
4.17pm, 29th November 2023
#beckettpark
#beckettparkleeds
#leeds
#urbanphotography
#urbanlandscape
#landscape
#landscape_lovers
#landscape_captures
#sunset
#sunsetlovers
#sunrise_and_sunsets
#iphone13
#iphone13mini
#igersleeds
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The Royal Exchange and City of London
4.04pm, 29th October 2023
#royalexchange
#cityoflondon
#financial
#london
#urbanphotography
#architecturephotography
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🎄Happy Sunday - from me and my little friend!🎄
I think it must be the beard but
#ChristmasElf
seems to be confusing me with someone else 🎅🏻
Another chilly morning with minor scraping ❄️
Looking forward to your company 6-10am
@BBCLeeds
incl hour with
@GrahamPorter4
from 9 🌸
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Happy nithering, foggy Sunday! 🥶
It was just 2c as I left home
#Headingley
#Leeds
at 4.30am ⏰
This is some of the thickest fog I’ve seen in years 🌫️
As you can see the cap and scarf are out …🧣
Really looking forward to your company 6-10am
@BBCLeeds
📻
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Much more light 🌄
Much less hair ✂️
Welcome to Spot the Difference - what a difference a week makes! 4.45am last weekend and today ⏰
The street lights were off as I arrived
@BBCLeeds
. Looking forward to your company 6-10am 📻
I’d love to say hello to you 🙏
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Good luck
@GrationHarry
MBE
You are a broadcasting legend
@BBCLookNorth
📺 and
@BBCLeeds
📻
You are a lovely man and the finest of Yorkshiremen - a friend to millions 🙏
Have a fabulous final show today 🥂
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An unexpected treat for me (if not you!)
@BBCLeeds
today
In for the fab
@therimaahmed
2-6pm
I’d love to say hello to you 🙏
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Welcome to the weekend! A beautiful morning has broken over West Yorkshire. Here I am arriving
@BBCLeeds
for Saturday breakfast 🍳 6-10am.
4.40am and properly light outside
@BBCYorkshire
HQ
#Leeds
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I love this time of year! 4.30am, light already and 10 degrees. Welcome to the weekend 🌅
Looking forward to your company 6-10am for breakfast 🍳
@BBCLeeds
📻
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