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The Prime Minister
@BorisJohnson
arriving with wife Carrie at St Paul’s Cathedral for the Platinum Thanksgiving Service is booed by some in the crowd
@BBCNews
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From today, those experiencing domestic abuse will be able to go into a Boots or indie chemist & seek help. If they say the codeword ‘ANI’ they’ll be taken to a private room & asked if they want to call 999 or domestic abuse helpline. ANI stands for Action Needed Immediately
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6 yrs ago, I’d jst had a 3rd cycle of chemo for breast cancer. My hair was falling out, I was knackered & I’d missed my son’s Xmas assembly at primary school. This nurse, Outra Rooplal, was there for me every step of the way. I went to see her today & yeah,basically…. I love her
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Just arrived at work. This is the front entrance to BBC this morning
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5 years ago today I was diagnosed with breast cancer.
I’m only here now squeezing the life out of every moment because of skilled, compassionate NHS staff.
The sons & daughters of Scarborough, Port of Spain, Manila, Athens, Mumbai, Sydney & St Helen’s saved my life. I ❤️them
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‘I have been repeatedly assured that there were no parties, and that no covid rules were broken. That was what I have been repeatedly assured’
The PM to the House of Commons on December 8, 2021.
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Absolutely devastated at the plan to end our programme (which I first learned about in yesterday’s Times). I’m unbelievably proud of what our team and our show have achieved in under 5 years.. 1/3
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Number Ten has defended Dominic Cummings
Foreign Secretary has defended him
Health Secretary has defended him
Attorney General has defended him
Minister for Cabinet Office has defended him
Transport Secretary has defended him
Why?
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Dominic Raab on
#marr
dismissed the No 10 party story of last December, because he said it was based on ‘anonymous, unsubstantiated sources’.
If anyone who was at the do wld like to go *on the record* - & I appreciate there are many careful considerations for you - plse DM me
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Around this time 7 yrs ago I was halfway through chemo for breast cancer, had very little hair left & I wrote in my diary ‘I want this to be behind me now, I’ve had enough’. Nurse Outra Rooplal was a total rock & helped get me through. I just went to see her and..I love her ❤️
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Those people who tried to disarm the suspect on London Bridge, and the guy who was literally on top of him (while the suspect was wearing what turned out to be a hoax explosive belt but he didn’t know that then) are INCREDIBLE and COURAGEOUS and AMAZING
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This text was sent to us from a viewer when we were on air today:
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Day 20 of Richard Ratcliffe’s hunger strike at Foreign Office. He tells me he’s ‘outraged’at the way the government ‘is letting his wife’s detention in Iran drag on’.
Mr Ratcliffe is with us all morning live on
@BBCNews
9am
What’s your message to him & Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe?
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I can see Mr Sunak’s and Mr Gove’s ‘taking care of your wife and child’ tweets in defence of
#dominicummings
but not Mr Raab’s
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Do reconsider the decision to close our programme then.
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Examples of yesterday’s linear TV audience -
our prog 288,000
Newsnight 297,000
Sky News 70,000.
Yet our *digital* figures are 12.5 million a month. Across 2019 we had 150 million views for our original stories & interviews which people bring to us BECAUSE of the tv show.
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‘Richard Sharp’s undergoing 2 investigations, but he’s not suspended….whereas Gary Lineker’s suspended while work goes on to decide what guidelines shld cover his tweets. That doesn’t seem fair does it?’
Ex-Ed of Sun Telegraph, crossbench peer Baroness Wheatcroft on
@BBCr4today
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I repeated verbatim what Mr Raab said about people who use food banks..
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Personal:
SO HAPPY I’ll be joining fab
@KirstyWark
& the talented
@BBCNewsnight
team under new & ambitious leadership. It’s one of the best jobs in British journalism & I can’t wait to champion more stories about people’s lives while holding those who represent them to account
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My sister has one small tree in her back garden in North London. It’s an apple tree.
Every day she leaves apples on her front wall for anyone passing to take one.
Today she received this:
❤️🍎❤️🍎❤️🍎❤️🍎❤️🍎❤️
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Sir Geoff Boycott ‘doesn’t give a toss’ what Women’s Aid says about his knighthood while having an assault conviction. In 1998 a French court heard he punched then girlfriend Margaret Moore 20 times, which he denied. He was given a 3 mth suspended sentence. Do YOU ‘give a toss?’
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Sir Roger Gale told us if the PM has misled Parliament, then the Tory backbench 1922 committee will have to go to the PM and say ‘his time is up’
@BBCNews
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A 90-year-old woman from Northern Ireland has become the first person in the world to receive the Pfizer/BioNTech Covid vaccine outside trial conditions - marking the start of the UK's mass vaccination programme
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‘Boris Johnson sent out 8 tweets on Fri on Winston Churchill & statues; he’s never tweeted 8 times in a day on coronavirus..or on the Windrush review
‘Let’s get to the action...do something abt these historic injustices...act now..’
@DavidLammy
|
@BBCOne
#marr
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Did you know there was a ‘safeguarding clause’ (Dr Jenny Harries’ words) in guidance around young children re: the advice to stay at home for 7 days if you had symptoms/your household had to self-isolate for 14 symptoms? I’m reasonably sure it’s the first I’ve ever heard it
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Forget the politics for a moment and just wonder how intellectual snobbery can really still be a thing in Britain in 2019?
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Boris Johnson becomes the first PM to be investigated by the Commons Privileges Committee into whether he misled MPs over partygate or not
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This is why the story about Boris Johnson’s aide
#dominiccummings
is so personal for some families 👇
@vicderbyshire
My husband and I had covid in March. We have 3 young children, 2 are disabled. We had no support at all. Our relatives are 65miles away, but we followed the guidance to the letter. To hear a couple with one child excused of travelling 250+ miles to see family is utterly enraging
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I was pleased about this. I rang my dentist today to make an appointment for a check up for our family of 4. They said they only knew about this yesterday and won’t be able to open on June 8 because they haven’t had guidance or training for how they will treat patients.
I’m very pleased we can start to reopen dentists from 8 June.
Thank you to
@TheBDA
& all those who have worked so hard to achieve this.
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Do you support teachers going on strike?
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This is beautiful..just beautiful
@LewisCapaldi
❤️
Losing his voice, ticks taking over, he battled through and the crowd lifted him up. What a set
#LewisCapaldi
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#glastonbury2023
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Boris Johnson and Rishi Sunak will both receive fines from the police for breaching lockdown rules over parties held across government during lockdown
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Society of Editors Executive Director Ian Murray has stepped down. This is what he said yesterday 👇
Quite the exchange between Victoria Derbyshire and the head of the Society of Editors this morning
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Harry Lay, 36, is a cleaner, his wife a hairdresser. They’re in receipt of UC, hve 3 kids & use a food bank. He’s just told us they use candles at night to save money on fuel bills. They were paying £130 for 500 litres of oil which lasts 3 mths. Now it’s £400
@BBCNews
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Housing Secretary Michael Gove is stuck in a BBC Broadcasting House lift*
*not a joke
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Judging from
@BBCNews
viewers today, it’s not quite true *no one* cares about the refurbishment of the Downing St flat & what that says about standards/integrity/transparency when it come to the PM...
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‘Are we seriously having a discussion that a tweet from
@GaryLineker
has done more damage to the BBC’s impartiality than your Chairman?’
@campbellclaret
on the Linekar tweets
#Newsnight
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Hassan did it - the government extends its bereavement scheme to NHS support staff & carers from abroad. Their families will be given indefinite leave to remain in the UK now if they die
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...breaking tonnes of original stories (which we were asked to do); attracting a working class, young, diverse audience that BBC radio & TV news progs just don’t reach (which we were asked to do); & smashing the digital figures (which we were asked to do) ... 2/3
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Got this message from a care home worker expressing ‘utter disgust’ & ‘supreme anger’ about the Xmas do in No 10 during lockdown last December.
‘Wives lost their husbands in our home during Christmas 2020 & I have to live with the fact that I had to be gatekeeper’
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One woman’s life, Britain, 2020:
a rape survivor is having her housing benefit cut by £16 per week because she has a spare bedroom in her council house, which also happens to be a ‘safe house’.
[thread 👇]
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I’m gutted particularly for our brilliant, young, ambitious, talented team - love ‘em. And for all those people we gave a voice to. Love them too. 3/3
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As reported in today’s
@DailyMailUK
this is what Ukrainians need to do to apply for a visa to come to the UK
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Balvinder Gill was wrongly accused by the Post office of theft of £108,000
He was made bankrupt & sectioned 3 times
His mum took over his post office branch
Then SHE was accused of a shortfall of £57,000 and convicted
#Newsnight
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For the avoidance of doubt, here is the original guidance - with no caveats about young children and safeguarding and who could help look after you child if your other half had symptoms & you were worried you might also become unwell
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4 yrs ago last wk I finished breast cancer treatment. Jst remembering the euphoria & relief. And immense NHS staff.
I know I’m one of the lucky ones & for that I feel exceptionally grateful.
If u r going thro treatment right now, the time *will* pass
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Rail workers to strike in the run-up to Christmas
Do you back them or not?
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There was pretty much zero ‘chaos’ 👇
Moment eco-protester unfurls 'protect our rivers' banner on BBC's Newsnight before Victoria Derbyshire cuts her off - as show descends into chaos
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NEW: Australia’s Immigration Minister has cancelled Novak DjoKovic’s visa
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Meet Sophie Weaver. She’s 53, lives in Mersea Island nr Colchester, Essex & uses a wheelchair all the time (she has Stills disease which is a kind of arthritis - diagnosed aged 6). She tells me she lives a full life: she’s a town councillor & a member of the local drama group 🧵
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Here are the texts between Boris Johnson and businessman Sir James Dyson from March 2020. Mr Johnson says he will ‘fix’ the tax system for Dyson’s employees...
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If you’d told me that 40 yrs after seeing Wham! live at the Manchester Apollo, I wld be sitting down to interview Andrew Ridgeley, there's NO WAY I wld have believed you. Obviously.
In my 1983 diary, I described every detail of that gig :)
This wk he spoke to
#Newsnight
…. 1/2
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Why wld the UK order 17 million antibody tests without knowing if they work? I feel like I’m missing something (and no doubt am). How much are they going to cost?
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Nurse Outra - still helping women get thro breast cancer & still being wonderful. It was 2015-16 she cared for me & I couldn't have done it without her - & the registrars, radiographers, anaesthetists, chemo nurses, consultants. I'm forever grateful. Happy Christmas. Love ya! ❤️
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🎙 Why are you betraying the North?
🗣We’re not… people are being fed a narrative
Miriam Cates, Conservative MP for Penistone & Stocksbridge (between Leeds & Sheffield) denies the Prime minister has broken his promises on rail
@BBCNews
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I had THE best time - thankyou so much for all your support ❤️
Normal service will soon be resumed, altho maybe Ollie shld run my twitter forever. Hve loved reading his tweets while I’ve been in the castle (& feel v proud). You have all been SO kind to him - THANK YOU
#IACGMOOH
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🎙️Are you a hypocrite?
🗣️Of course not
Sir Jacob Rees Mogg explains why he voted for the unamended Safety of Rwanda Bill 6 days after saying if it wasn’t amended, it wouldn’t work
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By axing Victoria Derbyshire, the BBC is losing a true champion of the powerless | Victoria Derbyshire | The Guardian
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Last year Dominic Raab said on our programme that the ‘typical user of food banks is not someone languishing in poverty, it’s someone who has a cash flow problem”.
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April 15, 2020 👇
NEWS: Everybody going from hospital into social care will be tested for
#coronavirus
& isolated whilst the result comes through to protect those most in need.
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How does this happen in Britain in 2022?
A 2 year old boy died as a result of a severe respiratory condition caused by prolonged exposure to mould in his home, a coroner has concluded. The little boy is called Awaab Ishak
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Interviewed an England supporter who booed the
@England
players taking of the knee, on BBC News this morning.
Got this email from a viewer - warning - there’s swearing in it.
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What a joyous, uplifting photo.
Happy birthday COLONEL Tom Moore.
Promoted by the Queen, he celebrates turning 100 today and raises his arm aloft as he watches a Hurricane & Spitfire flypast ❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️
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Oh my god this is DIVINE!!!! ❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️
Beautiful moment two teachers address the rumours going around school about them. Love is a wonderful thing
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NEW: The husband of Tory peer Michelle Mone is connected to a company that tax experts say should be investigated for fraud, BBC Newsnight has found
Read
@BenChu_
‘s story 👇
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Dominic Raab says you can meet your mum in the morning and a different relative in the afternoon, if it’s outside and in England.
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‘What has your boss done today to try and avert the strike?’
‘His door is always open’
‘So nothing then?’
Health Minister Helen Whately talks to
@BBCNewsnight
about the nurses strike which starts at 8am tomorrow
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Morning …am last min sub for
#BBCLauraK
On the prog: Defence Secretary Grant Shapps
Shadow Treasury minister Darren Jones
Lib Dem leader Ed Davey
Economist Yanis Varoufakis
Journalist Rachel Johnson
Conservative MP Craig Mackinlay
Sunday 9am
@BBCOne
(my alarm jst in case👇)
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Raw sewage was dumped into English rivers 375,000 times last year acc to BBC News
Campaigner
@Feargal_Sharkey
is disgusted & says the water firms have taken billions in dividends and in return have given us ‘rivers full of sewage’
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This is what Health Secretary Matt Hancock said to
@SkyNews
about Professor Neil Ferguson when the professor (& government advisor) broke the rules to visit his girlfriend last year
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Junior doc doing extra shifts as a contact tracer gets in touch.
‘I’m paid more to sit at home phoning people to talk from a set script than to wear hot, sweaty PPE for upto 6 hrs at a time looking after covid patients’
Contact tracer £17.35 p/h
Jun doc £13.50 p/h for 40 hr wk
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“In the case of Mr Johnson, the word that comes out is ‘liar’ “
Polling expert Prof Sir John Curtice explains what people say when pollsters ask for one word they associate with Boris Johnson
For that reason, Sir John says he believes the ex-PM’s political career is over
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Turns out most people do ‘give a toss’
Sir Geoff Boycott ‘doesn’t give a toss’ what Women’s Aid says about his knighthood while having an assault conviction. In 1998 a French court heard he punched then girlfriend Margaret Moore 20 times, which he denied. He was given a 3 mth suspended sentence. Do YOU ‘give a toss?’
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Ahead of tonight’s Channel 4 Dispatches investigation, Russell Brand says his relationships were ‘always consensual’
Watch the womens’ accounts 9pm
@Channel4
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Could former Post Office boss Paula Vennells simply hand back her CBE?
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Exclusive: a shooting range in Wallasey defends using images of Shamima Begum as target practice because of a ‘record number of requests’ from its customers. It allows people ‘to have some light-hearted fun bringing out the inner child in all” they tell us. More at 10am
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This message from one Tory MP: ‘We have blown a hard won consensus..that you can't spend money you don't have. And we may be forced back unnecessarily into austerity’
I ask another if they’re going to the Conservative Party conference - ‘Would rather spend time in the Gulag’
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Am half way through reading the Withdrawal Agreement Bill. It’s complex, opaque, often incomprehensible and definitely not written in plain English. Genuine question - how many MPs will have had time to read and digest all of it before today’s debate starts?
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PS shld say it doesn’t bother me in the slightest
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‘The idea the Tory Party can advance their cause by saying ‘We’re terribly sorry, we gave u 3 PMs (none of whom..we decided were any good) but we want u to give us another 5 yrs with a 4th leader’ will be an impossible sell’
Elections guru Sir John Curtice
#Newsnight
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🎙️ What do you say to rape victims, who’ve been waiting 4 yrs for their case to come to court , & they see Mr Sunak click his fingers to find 150 new judges?
🗣️I’m afraid that criticism is a fair one
Tory MP Danny Kruger on the judges the PM has promised for Rwanda appeals
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🎙️ Why shld any voter listen to Liz Truss when she frightened the markets to such an extent the £ fell against the $, mortgage rates soared & the Bank of England had to step in to save our pensions?
Hugh Bennet, ex-advisor to Liz Truss talks to
#Newsnight
abt her PopCon group
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Want to say a HUGE THANK YOU to Jenni Hicks, who lost her daughters at Hillsboro; Karim Mussilhy who lost his uncle in Grenfell, Glenda Caesar who was told she was an illegal immigrant - she was part of Windrush, & Tracey Merritt who was wrongly accused of theft by Post Office
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Worth remembering that in the Tory leadership campaign Penny Mordaunt was offering unfunded tax cuts to voters
Penny Mordaunt performing well in defence of an absent Liz Truss - and the PM may fear she is performing too well, if Tory MPs see Mordaunt as reinforcing her credibility as replacement for Truss
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Noooooooooo! Why did they cut away from Deborah? It looked like she was cool with saying yes to the biscuits AND carry on broadcasting
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Petition set up by licence-fee payer Katie Kendrick in protest at the plan to close our programme now has 70,000 signatures; the BBC has received over 700 official complaints. THANK YOU FOR YOUR SUPPORT
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Exactly 2 years ago today I finished treatment for
#breastcancer
- I felt elated, liberated & also,
in total awe of the magnificent NHS & its staff. I know I’m one of the lucky ones - and for that I feel exceptionally grateful 🙏
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The *reality* of domestic abuse during lockdown: exclusive research for tonight’s
@BBCPanorama
shows someone called police for help about domestic abuse every THIRTY SECONDS
[thread 👇]
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When he was Chancellor, Rishi Sunak cut by 50% the schools repairs budget in England - so says a former top civil servant who was in the Dept for Education
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Just bumped into Transport Sec Mark Harper
I asked him *when* everyone was going to get the decision
He said, ‘what decision?’
I said on
#HS2
He said, ‘We’re getting on with it, we hve spades in the ground’
I said the Birmingham to Manchester bit
He repeated the above
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This is one fed up boss of 8 schools who told us she’s barely slept in last wk
Sarah Skinner’s been forced to order 26 temp classrooms costing 500k because she says she cldnt get any info abt the ones the Educ Sec said were ready to go on Mon
#Newsnight
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Bosses of the top 100 firms listed on the London Stock Exchange will on average have received more pay & rewards by 1pm today - after just 2 & a half days of work this year - than the average earner in UK makes in the WHOLE of 2024
(New analysis by High Pay Centre think tank)
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