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Adam Care

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Cambridge-based data journalist - local newspaper survivor, now news editor at @radar-ai.bsky.social app.radarai.com

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Adam Care @adamcare.bsky.social · Nov 15

With that in mind, an introduction - I'm news editor at RADAR AI - we're a small team of data journalists based across the country, using national-level datasets to produce original reporting at scale for local publications across the UK
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Anna Williams @thespokeswoman.bsky.social · 4d

Cambridge-style traffic jam this morning … and they weren’t inclined to moove 🐄 🚲

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Adam Care @adamcare.bsky.social · Sep 10

12. Something new! Unfolding, at the ADC.
Really enjoyed this one, hope it gets seen much more widely

Programme for 'Unfolding', a new musical at Cambridge's ADC Theatre

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RADAR AI @radar-ai.bsky.social · Aug 21

NEW: Wheelchair Provision

Over 7,000 patients did not receive their required NHS wheelchair within four months this year, a 21% increase on last year. Muscular Dystrophy UK said people in dire need are being denied "life-changing equipment"

🔗: app.radarai.com

RADAR table showing how each ICB in England fared for its wheelchair provision targets

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Adam Care @adamcare.bsky.social · Aug 9

11. Disney's Hercules, Theatre Royal, Drury Lane. Sadly lacking in Danny DeVito

The stage set before Hercules, at the Theatre Royal

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RADAR AI @radar-ai.bsky.social · Jul 31

Ever wondered how things work here at RADAR?

Editor @l-a-kelly.bsky.social and data journalist @claramargotin.bsky.social recently hosted a group of media executives from Germany to talk about it.

You can read all about it here:
newsmachines.substack.com/p/radar-ai-n...

How Radar AI Transforms One Dataset into 300 Local Stories

Radar AI, a UK-wide data-driven news agency, makes local news sustainable at scale

newsmachines.substack.com

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Adam Care @adamcare.bsky.social · Jul 26

10. The Curious Case of Benjamin Button, Ambassadors Theatre, London, in a box for my mum's birthday. Which earned me some brownie points, at least

The cast of the Curious Case of Benjamin Button, on stage during the curtain call

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RADAR AI @radar-ai.bsky.social · Jul 22

NEW: Football-Related Arrests

Home Office figures reveal there were over 1,900 football-related arrests in the 2024-25 season

Meanwhile, there were 2,400 active banning orders in force last month – preventing fans from attending matches

🔗: app.radarai.com

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Adam Care @adamcare.bsky.social · Jul 19

Manchester. Very good.

Photo shows Oasis playing live at Heaton Park, Manchester. Noel Gallagher is singing on the big screen behind the stage, as fans raise their hands in the foreground

Adam Care @adamcare.bsky.social · Jul 15

absolutely! Made for a pleasant surprise this morning

Adam Care @adamcare.bsky.social · Jul 15

What it's replaced...

The same bridge over the Cam, painted gray with a grafittied Palestinian flag, and the words 'FREE PALESTINE' painted on it

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Adam Care @adamcare.bsky.social · Jul 15

A cardboard sign containing photos and handwritten text, reading:

River Protectors
A River Cam Can Street Art Project
With Red Balloon graffiti artists, taggers & artists
Hilary Cox Condon & Tim Shuker-Yates
Exploring the rights of the River Cam & engaging young adults

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Adam Care @adamcare.bsky.social · Jul 15

Enjoyed the new artwork on the Chisholm Trail bridge this morning

A vibrant, colourful graffiti mural painted on the side of a pedestrian bridge over the river Cam in north Cambridge

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Adam Care @adamcare.bsky.social · Jul 12

Cricket!

Adam Care @adamcare.bsky.social · Jul 1

Interrupting a fortnight's holiday for 9, The Pirate Queen, at the Minack Theatre, at the very edge of Cornwall. The ADC has some way to go to match this view...

Photo from the top of the Minack Theatre, an open-air auditorium carved into the cliffs of western Cornwall. The stage overlooks directly onto the sea, with the faintest hint of sun poking through the clouds above

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Adam Care @adamcare.bsky.social · Jun 21

8. The Frogs, @swkplay.bsky.social.
If not the best of the year so far, certainly the best Sondheim show I've seen in some time

Poster for The Frogs, at Southwark Playhouse, featuring a cast of the Greek playwright Aristophanes covered in frog-shaped footprints

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Lucy Woolhouse (she/her) @lucywoolhouse.bsky.social · Jun 12

Research data management at its finest outside a building in Cambridge!

#RDM #research #librarians

A filing cabinet outside a building. The drawers say: 'Aladdin's Cave (no idea what this stuff is', 'old data, disks, notebooks', 'probably belongs to someone' and 'old equipment that might be useful'.

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Adam Care @adamcare.bsky.social · Jun 12

Duck Gang

Adam Care @adamcare.bsky.social · Jun 11

7. Jesus Christ Superstar, Cambridge ADC. A lot of Andrew Lloyd Webber Andrew Lloyd Webbering

Poster for Jesus Christ Superstar in the window of the ADC Theatre

Adam Care @adamcare.bsky.social · May 23

6 [title of show], Cambridge ADC.
Because after four hours at the beer festival, why wouldn't you go see an impromptu musical about writing a musical?

Poster for [title of show], a musical at the ADC Theatre in Cambridge

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Adam Care @adamcare.bsky.social · May 17

5. More Sondheim, Here We Are at the National Theatre.
Definitely benefits from knowing nothing about it on the way in...

Photo shows the exterior of the National Theatre, on London's Southbank

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Adam Care @adamcare.bsky.social · Apr 5

4. Tonight, back at the ADC for Amélie. Performances were great, but it turns out it definitely helps to have seen the film first to have any idea what's going on...

The stage at the ADC theatre in Cambridge, set for Amélie

Adam Care @adamcare.bsky.social · Apr 5

3. (I've messed this thread up already, but last Friday should have had something about Everybody's Talking About Jamie, at the ADC, Cambridge, which I've seen before, but is always good fun)

Adam Care @adamcare.bsky.social · Mar 26

Today in 'Adam belatedly catches up with things everyone else knew years ago', Dear England is really good

Photo shows a promotional poster outside the National Theatre, London for 'Dear England' featuring a small image of Gareth Southgate standing on an enlarged flag of St George.
The Thames can just be seen in the background

Photo shows the exterior of the National Theatre, on the southbank, London

Photo shows the stage ahead of a performance of Dear England inside the Olivier Theatre. A circular ring of light is hung above a circular stage, vaguely evoking the Wembley arch

Adam Care @adamcare.bsky.social · Mar 24

"The beginning of the process is much the same as the end, which is just like the middle" - as is Shredded Wheat, so is life, as I always say