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Paul Sandars🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 @paulsandars.bsky.social · 6h

My home town! The paternal side of my family come from Greets Green and my history there goes back 110 years. So shocked to read this- it sounded a tragic suicide when I first read the news this morning.

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Mark Wilson @nomuskplease.bsky.social · 6h

This is a favoured spot for leaving deceased people behind.

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Hayloft Publishing @hayloftbooks.bsky.social · 6h

I wanted to be a teacher & did some practice in class but I could never have stood the stress. Teachers, I firmly believe, shouled be paid MORE than MPs.

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Jimmycumiskey @jimmycumiskey2.bsky.social · 8h

Had a go on the karaoke few yrs ago at a party we were at
Got hit on the head with a chicken leg
Think they’ll take me!

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Paul Sandars🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 @paulsandars.bsky.social · 6h

BBC News - Three held in West Bromwich murder probe over body in canal - BBC News
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Three held in West Bromwich murder probe over body in canal

Arrests are made after a woman's body is found in a stretch of water in West Bromwich, police say.

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Paul Sandars🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 @paulsandars.bsky.social · 6h

BBC News - Watchdog has 'significant' concerns about care home in BBC probe - BBC News
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Watchdog has 'significant' concerns about care home in BBC probe

A watchdog has ordered improvements at the home in Inverness where a BBC reporter worked undercover.

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Paul Sandars🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 @paulsandars.bsky.social · 6h

BBC News - Boyfriend accused of hot tub murder was 'like a zombie'
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Claire Leveque: Boyfriend accused of murder was 'like a zombie'

Aren Pearson denies killing Claire Leveque - who was originally from Canada - in Shetland last year.

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Paul Sandars🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 @paulsandars.bsky.social · 6h

BBC News - TikTok creator guilty of killing woman by dangerous driving
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TikTok creator guilty of killing woman by dangerous driving

Leigh Sutherland was speeding in a car with defective brakes when he smashed into a Peugeot 108 in Cumbernauld.

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Paul Sandars🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 @paulsandars.bsky.social · 6h

BBC News - Jim Gavin to pay back €3.3k to former tenant after dispute
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Jim Gavin: Former presidential candidate to pay €3,300 back to former tenant

It comes as Gavin's former tenant, Niall Donald from the Sunday World, spoke about the issue which happened 16 years ago.

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Paul Sandars🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 @paulsandars.bsky.social · 6h

BBC News - No plans to reopen weekend Ramsey minor injuries unit - BBC News
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No plans to reopen weekend Ramsey minor injuries unit

Temporary measures were introduced last summer amid staff shortages at Ramsey District Hospital.

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Paul Sandars🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 @paulsandars.bsky.social · 6h

BBC News - Residents 'feel let down' by Manx police communication - BBC News
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Residents 'feel let down' by Manx police communication

Residents express concerns over information released prior to a

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Paul Sandars🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 @paulsandars.bsky.social · 6h

BBC News - Teachers to vote on strike action over workload
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Teachers to vote on strike action over workload

The EIS said it had been years since the SNP pledged to reduce teachers' class contact time.

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Paul Sandars🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 @paulsandars.bsky.social · 6h

BBC News - Island with more sheep than humans looks for new tenant family
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Once in a lifetime chance to live on remote Welsh island

Island trust seeks adventurous family or couple to join three other permanent residents on Ynys Enlli.

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Paul Sandars🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 @paulsandars.bsky.social · 6h

BBC News - Lenny Henry calls for reparations for black British people
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Sir Lenny Henry calls for slavery reparations for all black Brits

The comedian's new book supports the case for the UK to give £18 trillion in compensatory payments.

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darren32359.bsky.social @darren32359.bsky.social · 12h

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John Swinney @johnswinney.bsky.social · 10h

Scotland has enormous resources and huge potential, but we are being held back by Westminster governments that treat us like an afterthought.

It’s time for a fresh start. An independent Scotland.

Today I have published our latest paper on what it could look like: www.gov.scot/publications...

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BladeoftheSun @bladeofthes.bsky.social · 10h

Heseltine thinks we should throw Brexit in the bin.

I agree, do you?

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Bylines Cymru @bylines.cymru · 12h

I recently had the extraordinary privilege of joining friends from the Caerphilly
Woodland Trust at Nant-y-Calch Farm — one of the last, most ecologically precious
jewels in our valley
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Concrete or Countryside?

I recently had the extraordinary privilege of joining friends from the Caerphilly Woodland Trust at Nant-y-Calch Farm — one of the last, most ecologically precious jewels in our valley

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Paul Sandars🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 @paulsandars.bsky.social · 10h

BBC News - Man accused of rioting 'embarrassed' by his actions
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Cardiff man accused of Ely rioting 'embarrassed' by his actions

Mckenzie Danks is on trial after violence broke out following the deaths of two teenage boys.

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Matthias Eberl @eberlmat.bsky.social · 6d

Somehow we don't talk about this enough.

Matthias Eberl @eberlmat.bsky.social · 9d

"Nigel meets tens of thousands of people on an annual basis."

Just amazing then how many of them are called Nathan Gill.

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Rosamundi @rosamundi.bsky.social · 11h

Norman Tebbit's ghost blinks and murmurs "steady on, Jenrick old chap, you're a bit um, err..."

Ben Ansell @benansell.bsky.social · 12h

Spot on from @stephenkb.bsky.social. And the other aspect of this nasty turn is the eliding of British ‘culture’ with ‘white British’, which will shock anyone who has watched TV or football, or listened to music, or read a book, or indeed breathed since 1980.

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The City of Edinburgh Council @edinburghcouncil.bsky.social · 10h

You can find out more about the consultation and our plans on our website: www.edinburgh.gov.uk/news/article...

Consultation on new active travel infrastructure in Fountainbridge begins

www.edinburgh.gov.uk

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The City of Edinburgh Council @edinburghcouncil.bsky.social · 10h

We’re looking for your views on our plans to improve provision for walking, wheeling and cycling along Dundee Street and in the wider Fountainbridge area.

The consultation is open until 12 January 2026.

Digital visualisation of Dundee Street and Angle Park Terrace at the junction with Henderson Terrace.

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Jim Russell 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿. @jazzyrussell.bsky.social · 1d

Sooooo, we've now had TWO radiation leaks reported in the last month in Scotland! Both happened over a year ago! What chance our UKGOV would tell us when they actually happen?

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Josiah Mortimer @josiah.writes.news · 10h

Liberal Democrat Leader Ed Davey has written an open letter to One Nation Conservatives who feel abandoned by their party urging them to join the Liberal Democrats, following Kemi Badenoch’s conference speech today

Full text of the letter:

Dear friends,

Our country is at a crossroads.

The Conservative Party under Kemi Badenoch is becoming more extreme and out of touch, chasing Nigel Farage instead of focusing on the issues that really matter to people. Meanwhile, Reform UK is growing in strength - threatening the tolerant, decent values that hold our communities together.

I know many One Nation Conservatives are deeply concerned about the lurch to the hard right in our country and under Kemi Badenoch’s leadership. Her plans to tear up the Climate Change Act and withdraw from the ECHR show she is abandoning traditional British values of tolerance, decency and the rule of law.

So my message to the millions of One Nation Conservatives who feel let down by their party and reject the divisive politics of Badenoch and Farage is to come and join us. Help us save our country and defend the values we all hold dear.

We will stand strong where others back down. We will not pander to Reform. We will fight to protect our environment, stand up for decency and the rule of law, and stop Trump’s America from becoming Farage’s Britain.

So if you share those values, now is the time to join the Liberal Democrats.

With best wishes,

Ed Davey

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