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Happy Spacemen 3 day to all who observe #wavesofjoy #spacemen3day
November 19, 2025 at 8:24 AM
Happy Spacemen 3 day to all who observe #wavesofjoy #spacemen3day
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I think this is the weirdest story I've ever reported. www.londoncentric.media/p/terry-ball...
The snail farmer of London, his mafia friends, and a £20m vendetta against the taxman
Terry Ball runs elaborate mollusc-based tax avoidance schemes that are costing London councils millions of pounds. Yet when London Centric tracks him down, an even stranger story emerges.
www.londoncentric.media
October 18, 2025 at 6:00 AM
I think this is the weirdest story I've ever reported. www.londoncentric.media/p/terry-ball...
Dead crocodile found in Derbyshire canal
🐊 www.derbytelegraph.co.uk/news/local-n...
🐊 www.derbytelegraph.co.uk/news/local-n...
Police ask for help after crocodile dumped in Derbyshire canal
It was seen near a bridge earlier this week
www.derbytelegraph.co.uk
October 17, 2025 at 7:40 AM
Dead crocodile found in Derbyshire canal
🐊 www.derbytelegraph.co.uk/news/local-n...
🐊 www.derbytelegraph.co.uk/news/local-n...
Incredibly life-affirming to learn of the 80-year longitudinal Harvard Study of Adult Development. It found people who are happy and well when they get old all have one thing in common and that thing is love… ❤️🥹 “Happiness is love, full stop” via Freakonomics open.spotify.com/episode/2Svn...
How Can We Break Our Addiction to Contempt? (Update)
open.spotify.com
October 16, 2025 at 10:22 AM
Incredibly life-affirming to learn of the 80-year longitudinal Harvard Study of Adult Development. It found people who are happy and well when they get old all have one thing in common and that thing is love… ❤️🥹 “Happiness is love, full stop” via Freakonomics open.spotify.com/episode/2Svn...
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Douglas Barrowman and Michelle Mone's company, PPE Medpro, has just been ordered to refund the Government £122m from a PPE contract.
There are two very odd things about PPE Medpro that may affect the odds of the Government ever getting that £122m...
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There are two very odd things about PPE Medpro that may affect the odds of the Government ever getting that £122m...
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October 2, 2025 at 8:00 AM
Douglas Barrowman and Michelle Mone's company, PPE Medpro, has just been ordered to refund the Government £122m from a PPE contract.
There are two very odd things about PPE Medpro that may affect the odds of the Government ever getting that £122m...
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There are two very odd things about PPE Medpro that may affect the odds of the Government ever getting that £122m...
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Nottingham paper takes legal action against Reform council that banned its reporters
Nottingham paper takes legal action against Reform council that banned its reporters
News outfit claims being barred from talking to the council’s leader is breach of right to free expression
A local paper whose journalists have been ostracised by a Reform UK council is taking legal action, arguing the move is a breach of its right to free expression.
The Nottingham Post, and its online site Nottinghamshire Live, has been barred from speaking to the council’s leader and removed from media mailing lists by the Reform-led Nottinghamshire county council. Continue reading...
www.theguardian.com
September 30, 2025 at 6:20 PM
Nottingham paper takes legal action against Reform council that banned its reporters
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All the things that never get said on Question Time.
Nigel Farage looks uncomfortable as Jamie Raskin uses his opening statement to absolutely demolish him
September 4, 2025 at 7:18 AM
All the things that never get said on Question Time.
So long, Oggy…we’ll miss you 😢
August 11, 2025 at 8:09 PM
So long, Oggy…we’ll miss you 😢
People of Bristol run for your lives!!!!!
August 10, 2025 at 11:42 AM
People of Bristol run for your lives!!!!!
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In 2022, Nadhim Zahawi’s solicitor sent me a libel threat - and said I wasn’t even allowed to say he’d written to me.
The Solicitors Disciplinary Tribunal ruled that was improper.
Now he’s appealing.
A 🧵 on why it matters.
The Solicitors Disciplinary Tribunal ruled that was improper.
Now he’s appealing.
A 🧵 on why it matters.
August 5, 2025 at 8:30 AM
In 2022, Nadhim Zahawi’s solicitor sent me a libel threat - and said I wasn’t even allowed to say he’d written to me.
The Solicitors Disciplinary Tribunal ruled that was improper.
Now he’s appealing.
A 🧵 on why it matters.
The Solicitors Disciplinary Tribunal ruled that was improper.
Now he’s appealing.
A 🧵 on why it matters.
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Don’t think we haven’t noticed the picture caption and the brazen attempt to get onto our page. Because we did, and it worked.
'Rotting fish' stench and 'ugly' new windows fury in Devon
A row has erupted
www.devonlive.com
August 4, 2025 at 10:20 AM
Don’t think we haven’t noticed the picture caption and the brazen attempt to get onto our page. Because we did, and it worked.
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I’ve literally had the same problem with a couple of leopards I was sending to Terry Nutkins. Luckily, they followed the trail of dead and mauled posties and managed to deliver them safely!!
Large venomous tarantulas go missing in the post
'For the love of God don't open my parcel!'
www.bristolpost.co.uk
July 10, 2025 at 8:14 AM
I’ve literally had the same problem with a couple of leopards I was sending to Terry Nutkins. Luckily, they followed the trail of dead and mauled posties and managed to deliver them safely!!
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The council dodged a direct question from the Bristol Post & could offer no evidence or confirmation the ‘Barton Hill Disabilities Group’ was real & the council hadn’t simply made it up to tick boxes for the Liveable Neighbourhood consultation.
Full story here👇🏼
www.bristolpost.co.uk/news/bristol...
Full story here👇🏼
www.bristolpost.co.uk/news/bristol...
Council accused of making up fictional disabled group for roads consultation
The council has failed to provide any confirmation or evidence the 'Barton Hill Disabilities Group' is real
www.bristolpost.co.uk
June 26, 2025 at 6:34 AM
The council dodged a direct question from the Bristol Post & could offer no evidence or confirmation the ‘Barton Hill Disabilities Group’ was real & the council hadn’t simply made it up to tick boxes for the Liveable Neighbourhood consultation.
Full story here👇🏼
www.bristolpost.co.uk/news/bristol...
Full story here👇🏼
www.bristolpost.co.uk/news/bristol...
Today’s a great day for making car-windscreen sun-dried tomatoes 🍅 🌞 😋
June 16, 2025 at 11:51 AM
Today’s a great day for making car-windscreen sun-dried tomatoes 🍅 🌞 😋
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a leading campaigner against the recent rise in National Insurance is married to a man convicted of one of Britain’s biggest ever NI frauds - via The Times
June 11, 2025 at 6:36 AM
a leading campaigner against the recent rise in National Insurance is married to a man convicted of one of Britain’s biggest ever NI frauds - via The Times
Huge for Royces
June 10, 2025 at 7:30 AM
Huge for Royces
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BREAKING: Sly Stone, leader of funk revolutionaries Sly and the Family Stone, dies at 82.
Sly Stone, leader of funk revolutionaries Sly and the Family Stone, dies at 82
Sly Stone, an electrifying musician, songwriter and showman whose Sly and the Family Stone transformed popular music in the 1960s and ’70s, has died. He was 82.
bit.ly
June 9, 2025 at 8:18 PM
😢
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You know it's bad when your whole "government efficiency" pitch collapses because you didn’t bother to read the detail. 🙄
The Bear goes into Reform UK’s latest scandal-that-wasn’t, ⤵️
The Bear goes into Reform UK’s latest scandal-that-wasn’t, ⤵️
Exposed: Reform UK doesn’t know how government spending works
Reform UK just confused a procurement framework with a spending scandal – and revealed they don’t understand government
eastangliabylines.co.uk
June 7, 2025 at 3:31 PM
You know it's bad when your whole "government efficiency" pitch collapses because you didn’t bother to read the detail. 🙄
The Bear goes into Reform UK’s latest scandal-that-wasn’t, ⤵️
The Bear goes into Reform UK’s latest scandal-that-wasn’t, ⤵️
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Today’s beautiful cricket ground is the home to Buxton CC in Derbyshire
June 5, 2025 at 2:16 AM
Today’s beautiful cricket ground is the home to Buxton CC in Derbyshire
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You can’t park there mate.
Land Rover ends on its nose after pile-up in supermarket car park
Two people were in one of the vehicles
www.cornwalllive.com
June 3, 2025 at 12:10 PM
You can’t park there mate.
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SPOILER: I have some bad news for you.
May 30, 2025 at 5:40 PM
SPOILER: I have some bad news for you.
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Jury shown footage of Plymouth dad falling after stabbing www.plymouthherald.co.uk/news/plymout...
Jury shown footage of Plymouth dad falling after stabbing
Tahla Redwan is accused of murdering Shane Sweet
www.plymouthherald.co.uk
May 27, 2025 at 5:47 PM
Jury shown footage of Plymouth dad falling after stabbing www.plymouthherald.co.uk/news/plymout...
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CEO pay is up 1,085% since 1978, while typical worker pay is up just 24%.
Why do we always hear "we can't afford to pay our workers more" but never "we can't afford to pay our CEO more"?
Why do we always hear "we can't afford to pay our workers more" but never "we can't afford to pay our CEO more"?
May 24, 2025 at 6:11 PM
CEO pay is up 1,085% since 1978, while typical worker pay is up just 24%.
Why do we always hear "we can't afford to pay our workers more" but never "we can't afford to pay our CEO more"?
Why do we always hear "we can't afford to pay our workers more" but never "we can't afford to pay our CEO more"?
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'Another year, another summer of swimming and surfing in sewage'
Activists take to the sea to protest the 'broken water industry'
'Another year, another summer of swimming and surfing in sewage'
www.devonlive.com
May 17, 2025 at 3:11 PM
'Another year, another summer of swimming and surfing in sewage'