Christian Oliver
@choliver.bsky.social
Freelance journalist for The Times, The i Paper and other bits 🖋️
🐀 I went up to Birmingham yesterday to meet Martin, one of the pest controllers inundated with work after nine weeks of bin strikes.
For this weekend’s @theipaper.com: t.co/QahMGUmxbO
For this weekend’s @theipaper.com: t.co/QahMGUmxbO
March 22, 2025 at 10:27 AM
🐀 I went up to Birmingham yesterday to meet Martin, one of the pest controllers inundated with work after nine weeks of bin strikes.
For this weekend’s @theipaper.com: t.co/QahMGUmxbO
For this weekend’s @theipaper.com: t.co/QahMGUmxbO
@thomsampson.bsky.social Hi Thomas. I hope you're well. I'm a reporter for The i Paper. Would you be willing to follow me back so I can send a DM?
February 1, 2025 at 10:16 AM
@thomsampson.bsky.social Hi Thomas. I hope you're well. I'm a reporter for The i Paper. Would you be willing to follow me back so I can send a DM?
Doing my bit here for public service journalism. You're welcome.
One landlord says he couldn't stockpile as he is struggling to get supplies of the drink in the first place: 'It's like toilet roll during Covid - I can't get hold of it'
Read more: https://buff.ly/49NOYXn
Read more: https://buff.ly/49NOYXn
December 11, 2024 at 9:45 PM
Doing my bit here for public service journalism. You're welcome.
More in the ongoing spray foam insulation saga and the impact of the former Government’s Green Homes Grant scheme…
🔴 ‘We had spray foam installed for free – now we face £7k bill to remove it’
🔴 ‘We had spray foam installed for free – now we face £7k bill to remove it’
‘We had spray foam installed for free – now we face £7k bill to remove it’
Alan Atkins told The i Paper that he 'can’t sleep at night' due to concern about whether spray foam was damaging his roof
inews.co.uk
December 9, 2024 at 9:43 AM
More in the ongoing spray foam insulation saga and the impact of the former Government’s Green Homes Grant scheme…
🔴 ‘We had spray foam installed for free – now we face £7k bill to remove it’
🔴 ‘We had spray foam installed for free – now we face £7k bill to remove it’
Reposted by Christian Oliver
As rebel forces enter Damascus, Syrian President Bashar al-Assad has reportedly boarded a plane and left to an unknown destination
🔴Follow live updates as they unfold
🔴Follow live updates as they unfold
Rebels say Bashar al-Assad has fled Damascus, Syrian PM commits to transfer of power
As rebel fighters flow into the Syrian capital the world prepares for regime change
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December 8, 2024 at 8:16 AM
As rebel forces enter Damascus, Syrian President Bashar al-Assad has reportedly boarded a plane and left to an unknown destination
🔴Follow live updates as they unfold
🔴Follow live updates as they unfold
Who is watching Mrs Brown’s Boys? Someone out there must be watching it or the BBC wouldn’t keep funding it and canning other things. But where are these people?
BBC Christmas Day schedule:
3:55pm Strictly Come Dancing Christmas Special
5:10pm Doctor Who Christmas Special
6:10pm Wallace & Gromit
7:25pm EastEnders
7:55pm Call The Midwife Christmas Special
9:00pm Gavin & Stacey: The Finale
10:30pm EastEnders
11:00pm Mrs Brown's Boys Christmas Special
3:55pm Strictly Come Dancing Christmas Special
5:10pm Doctor Who Christmas Special
6:10pm Wallace & Gromit
7:25pm EastEnders
7:55pm Call The Midwife Christmas Special
9:00pm Gavin & Stacey: The Finale
10:30pm EastEnders
11:00pm Mrs Brown's Boys Christmas Special
December 3, 2024 at 5:43 PM
Who is watching Mrs Brown’s Boys? Someone out there must be watching it or the BBC wouldn’t keep funding it and canning other things. But where are these people?
NEW: Dame Esther Rantzen tells @inews.co.uk that any intervention by opposition MPs to "block" or introduce "wreaking amendments" to the assisted dying bill would be "sad and undemocratic".
Esther Rantzen: Religious MPs opposing assisted dying have no right to impose beliefs
MPs voted 330 to 275, majority 55, to approve Labour MP Ms Leadbeater's Terminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill at the second reading
inews.co.uk
November 30, 2024 at 12:22 PM
NEW: Dame Esther Rantzen tells @inews.co.uk that any intervention by opposition MPs to "block" or introduce "wreaking amendments" to the assisted dying bill would be "sad and undemocratic".
‘Spray foam insulation is a ticking time bomb – homeowners must be protected’
A quarter of the UK's biggest mortgage providers refuse to lend to homes fitted with spray foam insulation, a new report reveals
For @theipaper.bsky.social
A quarter of the UK's biggest mortgage providers refuse to lend to homes fitted with spray foam insulation, a new report reveals
For @theipaper.bsky.social
‘Spray foam insulation is a ticking time bomb - homeowners must be protected’
A quarter of the UK's biggest mortgage providers refuse to lend to homes fitted with spray foam insulation, a new report reveals
inews.co.uk
November 18, 2024 at 10:14 PM
‘Spray foam insulation is a ticking time bomb – homeowners must be protected’
A quarter of the UK's biggest mortgage providers refuse to lend to homes fitted with spray foam insulation, a new report reveals
For @theipaper.bsky.social
A quarter of the UK's biggest mortgage providers refuse to lend to homes fitted with spray foam insulation, a new report reveals
For @theipaper.bsky.social
Got to see Bob Dylan live last night (at his phoneless gig, hence the exterior pic). Incredible stuff.
November 14, 2024 at 3:27 PM
Got to see Bob Dylan live last night (at his phoneless gig, hence the exterior pic). Incredible stuff.