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Vanessa Pearce

@nesky999.bsky.social

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BBC Midlands Today producer by day, Online features writer by night... MoC of WM News Online NUJ chapel. Coffee, cats and Coventry mainly, with a few gigs thrown in. https://muckrack.com/vanessa-pearce

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Vanessa Pearce @nesky999.bsky.social · 22h

Cuppa with a mate resulted in him foisting these beauties on me… Young Horace, Pauline & Napalm Death… Hopefully can raise some cash for a dementia charity… Previously written about him here: www.bbc.com/news/uk-engl...

Black and white prints of Horace Panter of The Specials, Pauline Black of The Selecter and Band Napalm Death

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Vanessa Pearce @nesky999.bsky.social · 3d

Nick Owen - In the Time of Nick

Vanessa Pearce @nesky999.bsky.social · 5d

Totally this.. keeping me sane on latest delayed rail journey..

John Mulvey @johnmulvey.bsky.social · 5d

Sorry to be a music journalist, but I really cannot stop playing this incredible record. www.youtube.com/watch?v=T5nf...

Geese - Getting Killed (Official Audio)

YouTube video by Geese

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Vanessa Pearce @nesky999.bsky.social · 5d

Can’t remember a rail journey to or from Cornwall this year where I haven’t been able to claim 100% of my fare back due to delays… I’m never in a rush but blimey - not sustainable

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Laura Phillips @lauraphillips.bsky.social · 7d

BBC announces the return of Peaky Blinders with two new series

Writer and creator Steven Knight is bringing a new generation of Shelbys to the screen

www.bbc.co.uk

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Stuart Ian Burns @feelinglistless.bsky.social · 7d

It's like an Earth Embassy for some advanced alien species.

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Vanessa Pearce @nesky999.bsky.social · 7d

But his dad was an answer in the GM pop quiz this year: en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cofiwch...

Cofiwch Dryweryn - Wikipedia

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Vanessa Pearce @nesky999.bsky.social · 7d

I also heard he used to do a magic act under the name of Huwdini - but equally could have misremembered/ made it up!

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Vanessa Pearce @nesky999.bsky.social · 8d

Happy retirement:)

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Helen Day @lbflyawayhome.bsky.social · 8d

“An example of the town of the future is Coventry.... Traffic and pedestrians are kept apart and the roads are planned to let traffic flow smoothly”

(Our Land in the Making, 1966)
Artist: Ronald Lampitt

Illustration of the precinct shopping centre in Coventry, with its shiny 1960s architecture, walkways and colourful flower planters

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Vanessa Pearce @nesky999.bsky.social · 10d

Swedish font love

1950s style sign for Gordon’s, a clothes shop in Skelleftea, Sweden

Vanessa Pearce @nesky999.bsky.social · 11d

Oh hello #Sweden

The Northern lights over northern Sweden

Vanessa Pearce @nesky999.bsky.social · 12d

Consoling myself with the current view

Vanessa Pearce @nesky999.bsky.social · 12d

Wah… didn’t get tickets for the first time ever :( May be stewarding next year

Green Man Festival @greenmanfest.bsky.social · 12d

Green Man 2026 has now sold out!

Diolch yn fawr to all you Green Man-ers, you mean the world to us! This year demand for tickets was the highest it's ever been.

This year our official ticket reseller is Tixel - you'll be able to join a waitlist & set-up an alert for ticket resale.

Vanessa Pearce @nesky999.bsky.social · 12d

Skellefteå culture night - local band Save The Daggers and an exhibition by Klara Kristalova

Local band Save The Daggers playing at Skelleftea’s cultural festival

Ceramic piece by Swedish artist Klara Krisalova

Vanessa Pearce @nesky999.bsky.social · 13d

Great thing about Sweden so far:
• Civil defence room in the basement
• Sauna in the basement
• The light

Door to a civil defence room, to be used if the country is invaded or comes under nuclear attack

Most apartment blocks have saunas in the basement

Sunset over the river that runs through the centre of Skelleftea

Vanessa Pearce @nesky999.bsky.social · 15d

Packing for Skellefteå… famous only for its busted battery factory and the Wannadies … so this on repeat: m.youtube.com/watch?v=sO0o...

Hit

YouTube video by The Wannadies - Topic

m.youtube.com

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Joe Tidy BBC News @joetidy.bsky.social · 16d

BBC West Midlands Radio is devoting its entire breakfast show to reporting on the Jaguar Land rover cyber attack today. Incredible to hear about the enormous impact it's having on local people who rely on the plant for direct and indirect employment. www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...

Radio WM - Listen Live - BBC Sounds

Listen live to BBC Radio WM on BBC Sounds

www.bbc.co.uk

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Aaron Law @aaronjlaw.bsky.social · 16d

These two are currently in Slovenia at the 13B gallery in Kamnik.

Always keen to represent Coventry in other places and this is a fab opportunity!

🐘🐘🐘

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Vanessa Pearce @nesky999.bsky.social · 16d

Lovely :)

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Vanessa Pearce @nesky999.bsky.social · 16d

Message from my mate Soph earlier… made me laugh… how you “accidentally” become a friend to the stars (he takes his kids to eat where she works) #shoegaze

Message reads”I’ve accidentally become someone who can nod and say hi to Neil Halstead from Slowdive and Mojave 3”

Message reads “Feel a bit shy to say me and you almost levitated when we saw them a few years back. Dreamy music, trippy visuals, a couple of ciders deep. It happens”

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Angry People in Local Newspapers @apiln.bsky.social · 18d

Criminals: Don’t be like this guy, he’s giving crime a bad name.
Local dentists: Stand down, you won’t know him.

BBC NEWS: Image shared in appeal over security camera theft.

Say cheese... Police are investigating the theft of security cameras from a football club which has shared an image of a man who, it says, was recorded on CCTV.
AFC Telford United said eight devices were stolen during break-ins on Tuesday and Wednesday night.

Image shows a very clear view of the suspect reaching up to grab the camera. He his missing many teeth.

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Vanessa Pearce @nesky999.bsky.social · 18d

Same with gochujang - there are no limits :)

Vanessa Pearce @nesky999.bsky.social · 19d

Pears grown just down the road

Pear tarte tatin made with butter and sugar on a white plate… still warm and about a gazillion calories a serving

Vanessa Pearce @nesky999.bsky.social · 19d

Nearly there :)