Tyrone Francis
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And just like that - the statue of Robert Milligan has been removed from West India Quay in East London
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For all those MPs who went on the airwaves and said all guidance was followed..
BREAKING: Boris Johnson and Rishi Sunak to be fined over lockdown-breaking parties in Downing Street.
#partygate
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Prince Harry looks so happy whenever he’s not in the UK.
#NFL
#NFLHonors
.
@CamHeyward
reflects on being named the 2023 Walter Payton Man of the Year 🖤💛
📺:
#NFLHonors
on CBS/NFLN
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Iain Gordon from Lewisham arrives to remove the flowers AGAIN that were put up for the burglar killed by a pensioner in Hither Green.
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“Amazing, amazing day”. Jack Grealish’s dad Kevin tells me it feels amazing when asked about last nights Champions League win.
#UCLfinal
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The Duke & Duchess of Cambridge William & Kate join
#Grenfell
survivors & families at the 5 year vigil at the base of the tower.
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Here's the Leicester City helicopter leaving the stadium after the game moments before it crashed in the club car park. Vid via BT Sport.
#LUFC
#LeicesterCity
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🚨 PERSONAL NEWS🚨
After six incredible years at
@itvnews
@itvlondon
I'm delighted to announce I'm joining
@SkyNews
as Senior News Editor.
Very excited to be joining the
@skynews
team and look forward to the new challenge ahead.
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NEW: Police searching for
#RichardOkorogheye
say they are now searching in Essex after Richard took a taxi from west London to a residential street in Loughton. CCTV shows him walking alone on Smarts Lane, Loughton towards Epping Forest.
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After a day of coverage the whole discussion about racism has me feeling very uncomfortable at the moment.
Any journalist or people working in the media feeling equally as uncomfortable or low feel free to DM me. Support for each other is key right now.
#MeghanAndHarry
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The aftermath of what happened about an hour ago and the notes now discarded on the floor. One reads “I LOVE YOU DADDY”.
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Crowds gather in Trafalgar Sq before marching to the US Embassy calling for justice after the death of George Floyd in Minneapolis.
#BlackLivesMatter
#LDNBLM
#GeorgeFloyd
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Police are appealing to trace a mother and her two children who have been missing since Monday 14 Feb. Rosemary Goncalves (29), her eight-year-old daughter and a six-year-old son were last seen in the NW8 (St John’s Wood) area at around 5.45pm.
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Duke and Duchess of Cambridge, William and Late lay a wreath at the base of the tower for the 72 people who died in the
#Grenfell
tragedy
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@ellatoone99
on Mary Earps conceding, “She’s got high standards. First thing she said to us was I’m sorry but that’s Mary and she managed to put that right in the game and in the shootout and she was amazing and she obviously pulled me out the dirt as well”
#finalissima
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NEW: Harry and Meghan: First picture of couple's daughter Lilibet is released
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“It’s my baby, he’s my treasure, he’s my oxygen.”
Mother of missing Oxford student Richard Okorogheye, Evidence Joel gives an emotional plea for help to find her son.
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Robbed Tony Martial of a hat-trick 😕
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Today marks a year since I started
@SkyNews
and what a year it’s been! Incredibly proud to be part of such a great team.
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NEW: Moving CCTV footage of
#RichardOkorogheye
last known movements in Loughton, Essex.
Timeline:
•Mon 22 March- Richard left his family home
•Tues 23 March- Richard seen on CCTV in Loughton
•Weds 24 March- Richard reported missing
Searching cont. around the Epping area
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Blood donation can save up to three lives and no kidding takes less than an hour!!! Why have I taken so long given the countless times I’ve covered the story? Starting the month right and giving back to my community during Black History Month
@GiveBloodNHS
@acltcharity
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@MarcusRashford
If there’s one player you wished you’d have had the opportunity to play with who would it be?
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.
@sajidjavid
speech on counter terror, [our security service] "In the past two years have foiled 19 major terrorist attacks, 14 of them Islamist and 5 of them motivated by extreme right-wing ideologies"
@itvnews
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The family of murdered primary school teacher Sabina Nessa have said they are “shattered” by her death.
Here her sister remembers Sabina as hundreds of mourners attend a vigil in Kidbrooke.
#SabinaNessa
#SayHerName
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"How many black people are in the current cabinet?"
"Well there's a whole series of people from a black and ethnic minority background" responds
@MattHancock
.
#Ridge
@SophyRidgeSky
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🧵 Yesterday I had my car broken into and my bag stolen in the Isleworth area. Lost many things including my work laptop and passport.
Today, I took a call from the
@metpoliceuk
saying they are investigating the crime. 25mins later I get an email to say the case is closed. /1
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“I can’t believe I got to witness
@WestHam
win the title…I know it hasn’t been a good season but thank you”
Tiktoker Abelvalentine Farey who went viral with “airport that way - Prague is this way” spoke to me before crying with emotion 🫧
@ffarey
#westhamambassador
#WHUFC
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Man Utd owner Avram Glazer remaining tight lipped about a Man Utd sale. Lots of speculation if it’s Sir Jim Ratcliffe or Sheikh Jassim that’ll get the keys to Old Trafford. Still questions about whether he and his brother Joel will stay as part of any deal with Sir Jim Ratcliffe
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This kid. 19 years old remember that.
@BukayoSaka87
keep your chin up kid
#ThreeLions
#EURO2020
#ENG
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Starting to feel sorry for the door (and the poor cameraman) now. Live shot has been up more or less all day.
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Breonna Taylor killing: Four current and ex-Kentucky police officers charged over fatal shooting
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1/ Highlight of my job and doing what I do?? Yes we got the first interview with the new
@DFID_UK
Sec of State
@RoryStewartUK
and got it on our
@ITVEveningNews
prog but it was when two young black boys asked me and my black cameraman who we worked for we said
@itvnews
with pride
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Villa appointing Steven Gerrard as manager mid-season is why I don’t buy the whole “there’s no manager available argument” when it comes to Man Utd.
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NEW:
@Twitter
has apologised for being slow to act as it announced it had permanently suspended rapper Wiley, six days after he posted a series of anti-Semitic tweets.
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@markaustintv
we will miss you!
#ITVNewsLegend
#markaustin
@itvnews
@ITVEveningNews
@nightingaleitv
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Another
@manutd
home cup draw. Waiting for
@AndyMitten
to provide the stats! 😂
@lauriewhitwell
@Ankaman616
@ianirving_
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Never in my dreams did I think I'd see a black president, mixed race Royal and Bishop Michael Curry quoting
#MLK
at a
#Royalwedding
#HarryandMeghan
#bishopmichaelcurry
👏🏾👏🏾🙏🏾🙏🏾
Bishop Michael Curry quotes Martin Luther King: “We must discover the power of love, the power, the redemptive power of love. And when we discover that we will be able to make of this old world a new world."
#royalwedding
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Major websites are down at the moment but as
@adamboultonSKY
says, “If you want news you can always watch the telly”
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The Duchess of Sussex (R) watching the wreath laying from the balcony
#ArmisticeDay100
#RemembranceDay2018
#LestWeForget
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.
@RobinPElias
giving his final debrief before retiring after 38 years at
@itn
@itvnews
@ITVEveningNews
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Britain’s first black policewoman, Sislin Fay Allen has sadly died aged 83 at her home in Jamaica.
In a statement her family said “Sislin not only paved the way for so many other minority and female officers, she set the bar”
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@HussainManawer
putting Illywood Studio on the map w/ Prince Harry & Meghan’s podcast.
As an unprecedented year in 2020 comes to a close, we can all could do with listening to this poem ❤️
@Spotify
@SpotifyUK
#ArchewellAudio
The final poem of what has been a truly difficult year
I hope the piece you hear provides you with some form of comfort through these challenging times
Grateful to have been invited on to Harry & Meghan’s podcast holiday special x
@Spotify
#ArchewellAudio
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@BellinghamJude
tells me that fans should “stick with us” whilst signing autographs for supporters outside the teams hotel in Qatar
#Eng
#fifaworldcup
#Qatar2022
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Last three games where the
@England
team were booed by “fans” for taking the knee…last three goal scorers for England:
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@MarcusRashford
🦁
@BukayoSaka87
🦁
@sterling7
#EURO2020
#eng
#cro
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Regardless of club,
@BukayoSaka87
needs the nation to support him tonight and going forward. This kid is a talent and is only 19 years old.
#EURO2020
#eng
#ita
#threelions
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10yrs ago (London 2012) I met
@stevescott_itv
on a bus in Stratford and that was the start of my journalism career. For the first time yesterday, we worked on a story as (friendly) rivals for different broadcasters. A real How it started..How it’s going moment (minus a 2012 pic)
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Dave a local resident from
#hithergreen
says he’s blocking the road to where Mr Osborn-Brooks lives so the funeral procession doesn’t pass through
@itvnews
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Post
@ITVEveningNews
selfie w/
@nightingaleitv
. Massive shout out to the WHOLE Downing St production team working tirelessly to bring you
@thismorning
,
@itvnews
@ 1330,
@itvnews
special prog 1400-1630,
@itvlondon
,
@ITVEveningNews
,
@Channel4News
and later
@NewsAtTen
w/
@tombradby
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2/ Their response? "It's good to see people like us doing well in the media. Keep it up my brothers". For so many different reasons, this why ALL representation matters both on and off screen across our industry & newsrooms.
#DiversityandInclusion
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What a weekend! First game back at Old Trafford since 2019.
5-1 win against Leeds.
Old Trafford absolutely rocking.
Best of all I watched it with my dad.
#ILoveThisGame
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.
@theresa_may
arrives at the
#PrideofBritain
awards taking selfies and shaking hands with members of the public
@itvnews
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It’s you Juan Juan Juan, it’s you Juan Juan…
📆 OTD in 2014, Juan Mata joined Man Utd for £37m 🔴⚫️
Throwback to him pulling off one of the classiest assists in Champions League history 😍
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Yep - reopened once I called & emailed to request the logs of how a 25min investigation was carried out. It really shouldn’t have taken for me to do that. Agreed that it’s ‘clear more can be done’.
@TJFrancisLive
@metpoliceuk
Hi Tyrone, there's clearly more we can do here.
We re-opened the investigation at 4pm today and an officer has been assigned to carry out further enquiries.
We do not underestimate the impact these offences have on victims.
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Terminology that should be banned: "circuit break" / "backstop". Any more?
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I'm done with football.
Anyone want to explain the rules of American football to me and suggest a team to support??
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The CPS said it cannot name the trio for "operational reasons". It is normal for people to be named when they are charged - even if they are police officers.
BREAKING: Three officers to face charges over sharing racist and misogynistic messages with Sarah Everard killer Wayne Couzens.
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Police 'increasingly concerned' for welfare of Oxford University student Richard Okorogheye
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As
@BorisJohnson
prepares for
#PMQs
, former Met Police Chief Supt. Dal Babu told Sky News “it’s not a difficult case to solve..you’ve got a secure scene, you’ve got CCTV..it’s relatively straightforward”
#byob
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BREAKING: Boris Johnson and Rishi Sunak to be fined over lockdown-breaking parties in Downing Street.
#partygate
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The pub car park where my car was has CCTV. They told me police hadn’t been in touch to review any material even though I told police about the CCTV. I get it’s low level crime and I might never get my possessions back but what investigation takes 25mins? /2
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280 characters is simply not enough to put into words the passion for change on the streets of central London. These peaceful protesters were robbed of their meaningful moment.
#BlackLivesMatter
#ukblm
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General election:
@SkyNews
invites Corbyn, Johnson and Swinson to live TV debate
#GeneralElection2019
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NEW:
@metpoliceuk
confirm they are now investigating eight of the 12 dates related to
@10DowningStreet
parties:
- 20 May 2020;
- 18 June 2020;
- 19 June 2020;
- 13 November 2020;
- 17 December 2020;
- 18 December 2020;
- 14 January 2021;
- 16 April 2021.
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What a week on the home newsdesk. I’m self-isolating for the next two days. Hello weekend, bye Twitter 👋🏾
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Fair play to
@joncraig
who has reported on a different political story each hour this afternoon. Struggling to keep up? Jon will have the latest.
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Beyond proud of all my colleagues on the
@SkyNews
Home desk. Important domestic stories told in challenging times. Every story is a person/family and friend and we must rightly acknowledge them for trusting
@SkyNews
with telling their story.
Another win for
@SkyNews
, well done to team for taking home the award for News Coverage – Home for ‘Covid UK’, which was “a must watch during these difficult times” and offered “insight into the lives of ordinary people”
#RTSAwards
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Police seek refuge inside the Foreign Office after clashing with protesters following the arrest of a man
#BlackLivesMatter
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Whatever you’re doing and wherever you are, from mine to yours Merry Christmas 🎄
#FrancisFamily
#MerryChristmas
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On
#WindrushDay
I want to give thanks to my grandparents who came here for a better life for them & their family. Their determination to make something despite the struggle & constant rejection they endured. Because of them I am the man I am today. Thanking you today and always x
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An absolute honour to meet the man, the legend that is Sir Trevor McDonald. Thank you for for sharing your knowledge and wisdom.
Fantastic hosting by
@CliveMyrieBBC
!
Inspiring night 🙌🏾
@TheMediaSociety
@ITV
@itvnews
@NewsAtTen
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These
#NoFilterUCL
videos are just brilliant!
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Former & title winning
@LCFC
manager Claudio Ranieri lays a wreath for Vichai Srivaddhanaprabha outside the King Power stadium
#Leicester
@itvnews
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Material and replaceable things, I know, but for others they are dependent on such things - not to mention the cost of replacing and repairing - I guess you just want to have confidence that someone is ‘on your side’ with a thorough investigation that takes longer than 25mins /4
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It’s taken nearly a YEAR to make this announcement. Let that just sink in.
#grenfell
Theresa May announces plan to remove dangerous cladding from tower blocks at cost of £400m
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“My heart feels as if it was ripped apart.”
The mother of Richard Okorogheye, Evidence Joel says she feels “devastated and empty” after it was confirmed that a body found in Epping Forest was her son’s.
#RichardOkorogheye
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.
@Jacob_Rees_Mogg
heading into
@10DowningStreet
. What job will he get? Says he doesn't know.
@itvnews
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Hundreds turned to thousands as the community from
#Ilford
and beyond “walked
#ZaraAleena
home”
#silentwalk
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Forever in our hearts
#Grenfell
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How do they prevent this from happening again? An eyewitness who saw this person hanging around my car said the persons face seemed covered but regardless, how do we know this person isn’t already known/committed similar or even more serious crimes if no CCTV was even reviewed?/3
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