Sean Coughlan
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BBC News royal correspondent. Former education correspondent, Guardian personal finance, TES, Times travel. Books on Titanic and history of sleep.
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Joined March 2011
After 130 years, the first rugby league knighthood finally happened, after complaints about unfairness in the honours system.
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Sir Billy becomes the first rugby league player to receive a knighthood in 130 years of the sport's history.
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Rugby league getting its first knighthood in 130 years, after complaints the sport was being unfairly treated by the honours system.
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Sir Billy becomes the first rugby league player to receive a knighthood in 130 years of the sport's history.
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RT @serenatarling: Listen to Olivia’s excellent dispatch on the scam centres in Myanmar. Download From Our Own Correspondent podcast @BBCSo….
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RT @Frankie_Mack: Sadly another family struggling with dangerous living conditions…. Mould and mushrooms force this elderly woman from her….
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An 80-year-old was forced from her flat after continuous leaks made it unsafe to live in.
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Is the honours system going to change? There's a push to make it fairer and give awards to those who deserve it for their efforts for the community.
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Disabled people should be more fairly recognised in the honours system, says an advocate for the rights of autistic women and girls.
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RT @michaelsheen: Tonight at 9pm on @C4Dispatches ‘Michael Sheen’s Secret Million Pound Giveaway’. The secret bit was the setting up the….
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The actor grew up poor, got rich, then lost everything backing the 2019 Homeless World Cup. Now he’s giving away more of his money to help 900 total strangers. Doesn’t he think he’s done enough?
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RT @MPGeorgeFreeman: One race??. A: My Dad winning the 1958 Grand National on Irish gelding Mr What 🐎 ⭕️.
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How fair is the honours system? Few of the top honours go to people in the north or to people from poorer backgrounds, despite being framed as for ‘unsung heroes’.
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An analysis of those awarded the "higher" honours reveals a significant social and regional divide.
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On a train with the windows covered in graffiti. So at least can’t see all the graffiti along the tracks.
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First Humanitarian Medals awarded. Anna Daniell, one of the first recipients, says it's a positive sign to honour humanitarian workers who respond to international disasters.
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The first recipients of the new Humanitarian Medal have been announced, honouring rescue workers.
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Sad to hear of David Lodge’s death. He captured that post war sense of social mobility and how higher education opened up alongside. Remember interviewing him in the early 1990s at his home in Birmingham. Unpretentious and kind.
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Lodge was twice nominated for the Booker Prize in the 1980s for comic novels Small World and Nice Work.
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At dentists and had to pre-pay before getting check-up, because people were doing runners after seeing dentist. Never had that before. What does it say about the times we live in? I suppose they’d make a clean getaway.
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When Harry met Boris. The Spare and the Hair Apparent?
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The ex-PM's memoir describes his meeting to try to keep Prince Harry from leaving royal life.
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The new Prince Andrew Newsnight interview film from Amazon @PrimeVideo has a powerful, bravura performance from @michaelsheen. Alan Partridge meets Richard III. Well worth a watch.
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It is an angry, sweary version of the Duke of York in a new series about his interview with BBC Two's Newsnight programme.
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Saw this label in Waitrose. But why would you want to eat a pet anyway?
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Airports are a great case study of how we normalise things that would once have seemed terrible. Customers being barked at to take off their shoes and belts, elderly people being ordered around like prisoners. I know, I know, security, but still grim what becomes accepted.
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