Victoria Derbyshire
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#Newsnight 📺 #Ukrainecast 🎧 #AndThenCameBreastCancer 🎧 BAFTA, RTS x 2, Sony x 8, Brit Podcast Award winner. Story? DM me in confidence
Joined February 2009
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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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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Survivors of Telford abuse crimes & the mums of two women murdered by boyfriends say of the Safeguarding Minister Jess Phillips that ‘no one in public life has done more to support victims and survivors and to advocate for their interests’.
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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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Do reconsider the decision to close our programme then.
Investigations matter. Original journalism matters. @BBCNews.
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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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It's World Cancer Day and 10 years ago this year I was diagnosed with breast cancer. I can't believe it was a decade ago. This is me in hospital waiting to have a mastectomy. I'm smiling but god I was so anxious, so worried I wouldn't wake up from the anaesthetic. If you are
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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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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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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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‘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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Amnesty International report finds Israel is committing genocide in Gaza . It looked at what happened inside Gaza Oct 2023 -July 2024 & concluded Israel had ‘brazenly, continuously & with total impunity … unleashed hell’ on the population. It says the atrocities against.
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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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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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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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In case you’re reading Camilla Tominey in Telegraph abt Kay Burley leaving Sky, there’s at least 1 inaccuracy in the piece . She mentions Newsnight & claims it’s ‘haemorrhaging viewers’. Not true . The audience figures are up 30% since the new format began last May.
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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 absolutely incredible #glastonbury2023 moment
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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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After a stellar 30 years presenting #Newsnight, it’s @KirstyWark ‘s last show tonight . A formidable journalist, a forensic interviewer, a team player and a wonderful colleague - we will miss her so much . Plse tune in from 1030pm @BBCTwo & @BBCiPlayer
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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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Hi Christian. except I didn’t say that. My int with @JeremyClarkson is on X, do watch when you have a sec to see what I asked him :).
Brutal from Clarkson: "[Newsnight] was trotting out 'nobody's going to be affected, Rachel Reeves says so'.". "Since when was the BBC the mouthpiece for this infernal government?".
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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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Does X do happy stuff, like wedding anni’s & stuff (like twitter used to in the early days?). If so, jst wanted to say @MRSandell & I got married 6 yrs ago today at home & it was THE BEST DAY !!!! .❤️
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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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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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Starmer cancels Sunak's £40m helicopter contract
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United Utilities illegally dumped 140 million litres of raw sewage into one of England's most famous lakes - Windermere - over 3 yrs, the BBC can reveal. The firm failed to report most of it
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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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EXCLUSIVE: the ex-BBC junior employee who told me on #Newsnight a year ago they’d received inappropriate messages from Huw Edwards says hearing that the TV presenter had child sexual abuse images on WhatsApp ‘made them feel sick’ . Thread 🧵 👇.
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NEW: I can reveal Labour’s investigation into suspended MP Diane Abbott’s racism comments finished 5 months ago . A source says she was given a ‘formal warning’ in Dec ‘23. Ms Abbott was required to do an online ‘anti semitism course’ - which she did in Feb. Yet source says she.
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Verdicts on the men charged with raping Gisele Pelicot in France:. Mdme Pelicot’s ex-husband Dominique Pelicot is found guilty of drugging his ex-wife & recruiting strangers to rape her for almost 10 years - which he filmed . Charly Arbo is guilty of aggravated rape. At 30, he is.
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Rail workers to strike in the run-up to Christmas. Do you back them or not?.
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The seven members of one of Scotland's biggest child sex abuse rings have been given life-long sentences & warned that they may never be released.
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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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‘Tate raped and strangled us’ - women talk to BBC Panorama .
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NEW: Australia’s Immigration Minister has cancelled Novak DjoKovic’s visa.
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Re: Home Office guidance supposedly issued in 2008 advising police not to intervene in child grooming cases because victims had ‘made an informed choice about their sexual behaviour’?. BBC Verify carried out extensive searches of HO guidance across that period & found no evidence.
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Would YOU back UK troops in Ukraine to enforce any peace deal?.
PM 'ready' to put UK troops on ground in Ukraine to protect peace
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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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The PM says UK faces a ‘new’ terror threat - ‘loners, misfits, young men in their bedroom accessing all manner of material online’. He promises to change terrorism laws to recognise ‘new and dangerous threat’ if that is needed
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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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NEW: I’m told the Gambling Commission’s investigation into suspicious bets placed on the timing of the general election by politicians & police officers is set to review a ‘large amount of material received from Conservative Campaign Headquarters’.
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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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Oh my god I have just watched Sir Gareth Southgate on resilience, determination, role models, social media, toxic influencers, real connections, & how you deal with adversity . It is a MUST WATCH .
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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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So happy for England 🏴 . So happy for Southgate . So happy for Saka . That finish from Watkins . The final …. wow. Wow wow wow.
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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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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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If you haven’t read John Hunt’s .victim impact statement… please do. He delivered it himself to a packed court yesterday . It’s poignant, searing and FULL of love and joy for his wife and daughters ❤️.
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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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“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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‘Those that are spreading lies and misinformation are not interested in victims’. The Prime Minister strongly criticises Elon Musk, and also the last Tory government for its record on child sexual abuse
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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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‘Incompetence, dishonesty, greed’. Absolutely damning final report from Grenfell Tower inquiry lays out how residents were ‘badly failed’ by almost every single organisation . • governments .• TMO.• Kensington & Chelsea Council.• manufacturers of cladding & insulation .•.
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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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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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‘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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