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Andy Brook @northlancing.bsky.social · 20h

#Muker Comet Lemmon captured above Muker in Yorkshire Dales - BBC News
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Firms ordered to reduce forever chemicals in drinking water for 6m people
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Andy Brook @northlancing.bsky.social · 20h

#Liverpool Well done Alfie and Mum! The phrase "67", which first gained popularity with Generation Alpha, has gone on to become a viral internet sensation

Now an entrepreneurial youngster from Liverpool has capitalised on the craze to turn it into a thriving business

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Andy Brook @northlancing.bsky.social · 20h

#Muker Comet Lemmon captured above Muker in Yorkshire Dales - BBC News
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Peter Watkins obituary

Pioneer of the docudrama whose 1965 film The War Game was considered ‘too horrifying’ for broadcast by the BBC

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Tchéky Karyo, star of Nikita and The Missing, dies aged 72

French-Turkish actor appeared in a string of high-profile films, as well as hit BBC series The Missing

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Andy Brook @northlancing.bsky.social · 1d

‘The world said I was dead - in so many ways I was’: Paul McCartney on the lost years after the Beatles

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Andy Brook @northlancing.bsky.social · 1d

Message in a bottle from first world war soldier found on remote Australian beach

Light-hearted note, penned on 15 August 1916, was found on Wharton beach, after severe winter storms washed away sand dunes

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Andy Brook @northlancing.bsky.social · 1d

'Welcome to Europe's next desert': Sicily faces a barrage of climate disasters
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Andy Brook @northlancing.bsky.social · 1d

The Orient Express pulls up in Paris: An opulent journey into the 1920s By Valentin Pérez

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Andy Brook @northlancing.bsky.social · 2d

#Battle A display made up of 10,000 handmade poppies is being unveiled at an East Sussex church to mark 80 years since the end of World War Two

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Andy Brook @northlancing.bsky.social · 2d

Knucks – ‘A Fine African Man’ review: a diaspora griot watering his roots

The Kilburn storyteller crafts a soul-stirring cultural epic that bridges boroughs and bloodlines, letting Igbo pride and UK rap brilliance flow as one

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Andy Brook @northlancing.bsky.social · 2d

Britain is one of the least “nature connected” nations in the world, according to the first ever global study of how people relate to the natural world

Britain ranks 55th out of 61 countries in the study of 57,000 people, which looks at how attitudes
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Andy Brook @northlancing.bsky.social · 2d

A photographer says he feels "very lucky" to have captured Comet C/2025 A6 as it appeared over the Lancaster bomber sculpture in Norton Disney

Steve Fearn, 52, from Lincolnshire, said it was "quite a buzz, capturing something so unique"

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#Cambridge A mother and her twin daughters have celebrated graduating together on the same day from the same university

Sarah Chappell and her twin daughters Megan and Abbey Douglas-Chappell, 23, all graduated from the Open University (OU), in Milton Keynes

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Andy Brook @northlancing.bsky.social · 2d

Egypt's Grand Museum opens, displaying Tutankhamun tomb in full for first time
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Andy Brook @northlancing.bsky.social · 2d

Houses without lounges are a reality for renters - BBC News
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Houses without lounges are a reality for renters

Nearly a third of homes advertised on a property sharing website had no living room.

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Andy Brook @northlancing.bsky.social · 3d

#Peacehaven A couple whose dog died after being left in a hot car by a professional dog walker are calling for stricter regulations to prevent another tragedy

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Dutch centrist Rob Jetten claims victory over Wilders in neck-and-neck election race

Jetten's D66 party currently has a narrow lead of 15,000 votes over Wilders' Freedom Party, though the vote count is not complete, Wilders can no longer win

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A box of letters unearthed in renovation works at a London social club has revealed the moral support the club gave to its members who were called up to serve in World War One.
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WW1 letters show how Hackney social club lifted soldiers' morale

About 500 men from Hackney's Mildmay Club served in WW1 and often wrote to the club secretary.

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Ofcom slams O2 over unexpected mobile phone contract price rise - BBC News
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Vienna's 2026 New Year's Concert will include five premieres and works by two female composers

The program, conducted by Canadian Yannick Nézet-Séguin, combines the Strauss legacy with new pieces never before heard at the Musikverein

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Andy Brook @northlancing.bsky.social · 4d

“It’s like pretending and playing”: Jeff Bridges, the actor who started unintentionally and ended up a seven-time Oscar nominee

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Anna von Hausswolff: Iconoclasts review – exhilarating, euphoric goth songcraft

(Year0001)The Swedish experimental musician pivots from drones to spectacular pop melodies, with guest spots from Iggy Pop and Ethel Cain by Alexis Petridis

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England's horror film settings that 'make the flesh creep' - BBC News
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#Worthing A care home for elderly people with dementia is to close after a review found it was not "financially viable" to continue operating

It was revealed in Sept. WSCC was considering shutting the New Tyne care home in Worthing amid viability concerns

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Council confirms Worthing dementia home will close after review

West Sussex County Council says it will now support the 12 residents in moving to alternative care.