Julia Atherley
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This is how I'm preparing for my 2nd year university exams
This, given to my daughter and her y6 classmates ahead of Sats on Monday, is a delight. Wish all teachers prepared for exams like he
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The royal corgis Muick and Sandy await the procession carrying the Queen's coffin to St George's Chapel.
Picture from REUTERS/Peter Nicholls/Pool
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The Princess of Wales has arrived at
#Wimbledon
for the ladies final on a very windy Saturday
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I’m at HAIM at the O2 and Taylor Swift just came on stage
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🚨some personal news (get it)
I’m excited to be joining the Sun at the start of Feb on their trainee journalist scheme!
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Beyond delighted that my first Sun splash is a story of recovery and hope ... full story on p 4-5 in today’s paper
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I was in court today for Wayne Couzens’ sentencing. The courage it took for Sarah Everard’s mum, dad, and sister to stand there and talk to her killer directly was breathtaking. No one knows what that family has been through, and we will never fully understand their pain.
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I'm excited to be starting as Home Affairs Correspondent at
@TheSun
- please get in touch if you fancy going for a coffee / pint / both
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I’m excited to say I’m no longer a trainee and today is my first day as a staff reporter! Tips, stories, baking recipes to Julia.atherley
@the
-sun.co.uk
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EXCL: THIS is the dramatic moment fugitive terror suspect Daniel Khalife was captured by undercover police. Video footage obtained by The Sun showed former soldier Khalife being held by cops this morning in west London, with a bike and sleeping bag nearby.
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🚨 After the best three years studying English literature at Durham, I'm over the moon to be able to say I'll be graduating next week with First Class Honours - thank you for everything
@READEnglish
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🚨 BIG news
I moved to London yesterday and today I started my fast-track NCTJ course with
@NewsAssociates
.
Lots of changes all at once, but it’s been great so far (see picture)
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Delighted to be shortlisted in the News Journalism and Top Scoop categories!! Pub anyone? Oh wait...
We're delighted to unveil the shortlist for this year's Awards for Excellence, following a record-breaking number of entries 🌟
Congratulations to the 54 students, trainees, apprentices, journalists and training providers on the shortlist!
Read more:
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🚨Personal news🚨I’m really excited to announce that our neighbour has bought a drumkit.
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£7,894 for a 34-week let. That's £232 a week (!) - for accommodation, food, bills, college life. It's more than I pay to live in London. Wonder why Durham is full of posh people?
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I’ve just been informed that a poem of mine has won the Terry Kelly poetry prize 2019 in the 16-25 category! Lovely Thursday evening news
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Honoured to be Highly Commended as Best Human Rights Journalist at the
@SPAJournalism
awards!
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It’s been an exciting week news editing the Sun on Sunday … 👑
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Margaret Atwood just made the smallest, blurriest cameo ever and I'm so happy
#TheHandmaidsTale
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Lovely morning volunteering at St George’s Pharmacy vaccine centre in Elephant and Castle just before Christmas 💉🦠🎄
#JabsArmy
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Just did a door knock where the man told me he’s writing an erotic novel about a young, blonde journalist. I am never one to decline a cup of tea but this time I had to say no.
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Such a privilege to get to write this yesterday 💫🎞 RIP Robbie Coltrane, who will always be our Hagrid
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Today I found a working Nespresso machine on the street so it’s been a pretty good day
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National anthem playing as it’s announced the lettuce has won (with 3 days to spare)
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I’m really angry that the Durham SU have decided to cut funding for Pal. As a former editor, I can’t put into words how it shaped me as a journo. If you need any help
@PalatinateUK
please let me know
Editorial: Palatinate deserves SU funding for print newspapers
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Nicole Jacobs (
@CommissionerDA
) , The Domestic Abuse Commissioner for England and Wales, tells
@TheSun
that whoever takes office on 5th July needs to make domestic abuse a priority not just in theory, but in practice.
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The fact that we’re getting told how to avoid being targeted by rogue police officers rather than any plans at all to reform the police and the vetting process is pretty horrific.
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🚨Lovely news 🚨
In an unexpected turn of events, a poem of mine has been shortlisted for the Terry Kelly Poetry Prize 2019 in the 18-25 age category.
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where is my tiny violin
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Great to be editing the Sun City page for a few days 🤓
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I was one of
@PressPadUK
’s first interns in 2018. It was my first time in a national newsroom and the support I received during that internship was *literally* life changing.
#DiversifyTheMedia
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Tomorrow an investigation I've been working on - 'Five deaths in six days - army's tragic legacy' - is on the front-page of The Sunday Times
Tomorrow's Sunday Times front page: PM enters ‘killing zone’
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Student Miles Routledge - who had to be rescued from Afghanistan last year after “going on holiday” there - claims he’s on his way to Ukraine via Poland.
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How’s week 7 of lockdown going you ask? My cats have had a wee on the sourdough loaf which took 2 weeks to make
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I've just seen this oh my goodness how done do I look
Westminster: Lib Dem
@ChukaUmunna
didn’t win the seat.
@BBCTimDonovan
@BBCLondonNews
#BBCElection
#GE2019
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Just 13 years after former BA pilot Robert Brown was put behind bars, his victim's family are once again living in fear as he is set to be released halfway through his sentence. Joanna Simpson's mum Diana Parkes is appealing for Dominic Raab to block his early release.
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This Is Going To Hurt is a bit of an understatement isn’t it. I’m in bits
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This week I spoke to a woman who was abused by police officer David Carrick over four years. The abuse only stopped when another woman came forward and he was arrested.
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Christmas in the newsroom done 😴 don’t talk to me about the news until 4th Jan - thank you 🎄
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Yesterday was the first and last time I will ever be on the same page as Natalie Portman
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I’m delighted to be able to say that I’ve been offered a job at
@euronews
for the summer! This is possibly the most spontaneous thing I’ve ever done - I start work in Lyon on Monday! 🇫🇷 📺
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EXCLUSIVE: THE sickening luxury enjoyed by Vladimir Putin on board his £500million superyacht is today revealed by The Sun. The dictator, whose forces are bombing women and children in Ukraine, spared no expense on the six-deck Scheherazade.
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My two terms as Ed-in-Chief are up and it feels really weird to be leaving
@PalatinateUK
. I'll be forever grateful for all it has given me and I look forward to seeing what's next 🗞️💜
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It’s 12:02 which means I’m officially 22 and beginning my birthday celebrations on shift at the Standard 🥳
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Yes the news in London is terrifying, but my parents built a snowman today in their back garden in front of the garden cam so I could see it 🥺
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EXCL: A MASKED man with a crossbow poses in a chilling video in which he threatened to “assassinate the Queen”.
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Robert Brown has lost his Judicial Review, with Mr Justice Ritchie dismissing all four grounds.
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I'm excited to be working as Editor of the Destination Durham guide for The Northern Echo for the next few weeks... got any tips on what I should include? Best pubs in Durham? Worst pubs in Durham? 🍻
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Last month I had the honour of talking to a group from
@TheGirlsNet
about what it’s like to be a journalist as part of The Sun’s
#IWD2022
event. We need more female voices in the media now more than ever
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Another good week news editing the Sun on Sunday … tomorrow’s splash and the view from the office this evening 🗞️🚨
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Having a down day so here’s one of those lists of all the good things I did in journalism in 2019
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Amazing to hear this story make
#r4today
headlines - my story from Monday evening for the Standard
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The Dig is a lovely film but do women just disappear after they turn 50? Edith Pretty was 56 in 1939 - she’s played by Carey Mulligan, 35. She was older than Basil Brown, but Brown is played by Ralph Fiennes, 58.
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Having a lovely time and barely looked at my phone - not entirely sure who is PM atm
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Would love to chat to Harry and Meghan for my NCTJ portfolio if that’s ok
Under Meghan and Harry’s new website, under media, they’ve just torched the UK tabloids and royal media.
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I don't know who the Hinge algorithm thinks I am but I'd hate to meet her
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The Palatinate office in the Guardian Saturday magazine! I’m glad to see they still haven’t tidied it
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My story on the abuse of Asian elephants on p4 of The Sunday Times today 🐘
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My front-page story for
@SW_Londoner
- Kensington council have spent £7,500 on wine since Grenfell - and almost £40,000 in the past five years
A shocking revelation about spending from the council that covers
#Grenfell
, the hunt for a lottery millionaire and pillow talk with former LibDem leader
@vincecable
.
If you haven't read our
@SW_Londoner
September edition, it's the perfect weekend read.
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It was such an honour to be reporting from inside Windsor Castle today and covering the committal service at St George’s Chapel 🖤
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Me: My student loan doesn't cover my accommodation and I can't change anything about it
The Times comment makers: She needs to stop whining they live in LUXURY- wifi, hot water, a BED- who does she think she IS?
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The Southbank Book Market is tentatively open again this morning
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Lovely to be with the Prince and Princess of Wales as they met crowds of fans in Windsor this afternoon
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My interview with Rhys Ifans aka Spike from Notting Hill is on p17 of the Standard today ⬇️
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The
#SarahEverard
case appears to be every woman’s worst nightmare come true. My heart goes out to her family and friends - I can only imagine what they’re going through.
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A teenager from Bromley could win the US Open tonight. Fairytale stuff
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Ok google, define “sense of entitlement”
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Happy new year! Can’t believe this little heated pool is tucked away in the West End
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People did this to me ALL THE TIME when I was Editor of Palatinate... it’s a student paper we don’t care about when you cheated on your boyfriend
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anyone else who has just found themselves alone at this time of year - it’s quite shit and the little things (like a little mouse in a bunch of flowers, candy cane earrings, and hanging up cards) help a lot
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It’s my day off and … I’m watching planes take off on the telly 🤡
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Would anyone like to commission a Northerner to write a feature about how no one says “bless you” when someone sneezes on the tube because honestly I’m offended
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lol
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My parents have discovered the middle aisle in Aldi and please someone stop them
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Last night I met Maya Jama and we had a chat whilst sat in her white and silver horse drawn carriage
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Like London buses...
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EXCL - JOANNA Simpson's killer has been blocked from moving prisons for the second time - so ministers can keep a closer eye on him.
@NatashaC
@hoffman_noa
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Unbelievably happy to announce that Palatinate has been nominated for Best Student Publication by the
@BBCr4today
awards!
@BartosovaNikola
@Ollie__Harrison
@laylawright_
@HackettLaura
@hhgsparkles
@peterflude
@venetiamenzies
@Louis_Ashworth
Student Publication of the Year – shortlist selected by Mishal Husain and Charlie Cuff of gal-dem:
@WarwickBoar
,
@Concrete_UEA
and
@PalatinateUK
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The flowers down at Clapham Common bandstand for Sarah Everard have become a sea. It’s very moving
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Sorting through old papers and this Standard article from 21 Jan is now a very, very weird read
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EXCL - THE Queen had to order childish Prince Andrew to back down in a bizarre squabble with Charles — over a royal loo.
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New York bound after a busy few days for the Coronation - with a pretty good view of Windsor on the way 🇺🇸🗽
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