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Latest news at 1pm weekdays on @BBCRadio4 . Presented by @Sarah_Montague and @JonnyDymond #bbcwato Also The World This Weekend Sundays at 1pm #tw2
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The Crown Prince of Iran is asked by
@Sarah_Montague
if he would go to Israel now, following Iran's missile attack on the country.
@PahlaviReza
tells
#BBCWato
he would to go all the countries 'in line with the demand and aspiration of the Iranian people'.
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“They started beating me, I was bleeding all over – I was really bleeding”
Melania Geymonat tells
@BBCMarkMardell
on
#BBCwato
about how she and her girlfriend were attacked after a group of men demanded they kiss.
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It could be Dominic Cummings advising the PM to be aggressive...it could also be from people who have invested billions in shorting the £… in the expectation of a
#NoDealBrexit
."
@RachelSJohnson
tells
@Sarah_Montague
what possibly prompted the PM's behaviour yesterday
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On the programme at 13.00,
@PaulMcCartney
tells
@Sarah_Montague
about his support for
@MeatFreeMonday
, young climate activists, and his unreleased record of Christmas carols, made just for his family
#bbcwato
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"There’s an incredibly important conversation that needs to be had. But it's not about boats... and it certainly isn't about people attacking shops and looting Greggs."
Historian David Olusoga talks to
@JonnyDymond
about the need for a conversation about immigration.
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“We have a Prime Minister who has faced precisely one day of Parliamentary scrutiny so far…and at the centre of our democracy is that the government is accountable to Parliament."
Meg Russell, Director of the
@ConUnit_UCL
tells
@BBCWorldatOne
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"All those that say we should delay [Brexit], risk doing terminal damage to trust in politics – we’ve got to be out by October 31st"
The Conservative Leadership candidate
@BorisJohnson
breaks his silence and talks to
@BBCWorldatone
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"If you're a victim of domestic abuse, work is your safe place and being at home is not"
Former Prime Minister
@theresa_may
tells
#bbcwato
and says "employers need to think about that"
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@Sarah_Montague
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"You can be a historical re-enactment society or you can be the government of the UK - you don't get to be both...there should be shame coursing through the veins of the Labour leadership today"
Ex-Labour Minister
@D_G_Alexander
tells
@bbcmarkmardell
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"One thing is quite clear. If he was to become leader of the party, I for one wouldn’t be in it” says former attorney general Dominic Grieve about
@BorisJohnson
#bbcwato
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"People have to be radically invited into a space to know that they belong there."
Playwright
@JeremyOHarris
explains 'Black Out' nights of the West End run of 'Slave Play' - inviting only people who identify as Black or Brown to buy tickets for select performances.
#BBCWato
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"I think that the politicians are beginning to forget the Constitution"
Former Cabinet Secretary Lord Butler, reacting to the dismissal of Treasury Permanent Secretary Sir Tom Scholar, says the Civil Service is being compromised, warning it will "corrupt our system"
#TW2
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“I see no alternative but the government saying we will not cut taxes now”
Mohamed El-Erian, Chief Economic Adviser at Allianz, tells
@Sarah_Montague
that spending cuts would cause ‘significant damage’ to the markets.
#BBCWATO
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"Sometimes it's little racist jokes, and you're supposed to laugh along but, you know, too much laughing along with racist jokes is very corrosive to your self esteem"
Former Shadow Home Secretary
@HackneyAbbott
on racism at work.
#bbcwato
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“We lost the referendum… (Labour Remainers) seem to have forgotten that”
Len McCluskey tells
@bbcmarkmardell
Labour should back a deal to leave the EU.
#bbcwato
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When
@Cambridge_Uni
put Prof Stephen Hawking's 1966 thesis online, demand was so high it crashed the website. He reads an extract.
#wato
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“The National Investigation Agency in India put out on television in India a hit list of 20 Sikh’s living abroad, of which 6 live in the UK”
Dabinderjit Singh, Principal Advisor of the UK Sikh Federation, spoke to
@sarah_monatgue
as tensions between India and Canada increase
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Sir John Major tells
#wato
that he is "concerned about the deal" with the DUP "for peace process reason and other reasons as well"
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"I swam as fast as I could and I was fixated to make her breath"
Coach Andrea Fuentes describes to
@Sarah_Montague
how she rescued artistic swimmer Anita Alvarez from the bottom of the pool after fainting at the World Aquatics Championships
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#BBCWATO
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"We have to deal with the crisis which is on our doorstep" -
@nicolablackwood
#wato
http://t.co/eSEy8AeoJ8
http://t.co/Yqqfm5JYsB
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“There were so many aspects to Terry but enthusiasm and passion were the two words that describe him best”.
Michael Palin, a fellow Python and best friend, remembers Terry Jones who has died aged 77
#bbcwato
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“I don’t think her report is worthy of the paper it’s written on because obviously it’s written by someone who's patently broken the civil service code and had deep political motivations”
@NadineDorries
on Labour job for Partygate probe chief Sue Gray
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A friend of the MP Jo Cox, who was murdered by a far right extremist, has condemned Donald Trump's decision to retweet three inflammatory videos from the deputy leader of Britain First. The Labour MP for Batley & Spen
@TracyBrabin
said it "beggars belief".
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"She put the Brexiteers…in charge for 2 years. They completely screwed it all up to so she had to put a civil servant in to do the job.” Lord Heseltine on why he thinks
@theresa_may
can survive the latest Tory revolt.
#bbcwato
#Brexit
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"Lessons have not been learned"
.
@sammywoodhouse1
who helped expose Rotherham child sexual abuse scandal, tells
@sarah_montague
.
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“That backstop is an insurance policy. And we need it.”
Irish Finance Minister
@Paschald
tells
@BBCMarkMardell
there is “clear value” to the backstop
#bbcwato
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Justice Fancourt concludes phone hacking by the Mirror Group continued "even to some extent" during the Leveson Inquiry.
Baroness Chakrabarti advised the Leveson Inquiry and told
#BBCWATO
"it's stomach churning."
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"It's an insult to tell black British people that this is an American experience and they shouldn't draw comparisons."
Broadcaster and Public History Professor at Manchester Uni
@DavidOlusoga
as riots continue over George Floyd's death in the US.
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"The reintroduction of anything that resembles a hard border will be catastrophic for the peace process" - Sir John Major
#wato
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Former Cabinet minister Andrew Mitchell says he'll vote against Johnson tonight and, "I very much fear if [Johnson] does win tonight it will be a Pyrrhic victory... the PM has not only lost the dressing room - he has also lost quite a lot of people in the stands."
#bbcwato
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Sir Michael Lyons: Understands why people worried if senior BBC editorial voices have lost their impartiality
#wato
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Aleppo's night sky is the "only beautiful thing left", says teacher Abdul Kafi. Hear his lyrical description and see it for yourself.
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“I think I was in Asda at the time, and I thought “wow, this is insane.”
A Birmingham public sector worker, known as
@Coldwar_Steve
, tells
@BBCMarkMardell
how he got his art on the cover of
@TIME
Magazine.
#bbcwato
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You may not know the word, Apricity, but we think you'll like its meaning. Writer and word collector
@RobGMacfarlane
explains
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The
@ECB_cricket
should make a film of England‘s World Cup win and send it out to schools to inspire children
@GeoffreyBoycott
tells
@BBCWorldatOne
#CWC19
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Karen Bradley "is not fit to be the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland” says former police ombudsman Baroness Nuala O'Loan, after comments about the Troubles
#bbcwato
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"To leave the whole weight of this on Italy and Greece is utterly unjust" -
@justinwelby
condemns the closure of child migrant scheme.
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"I fundamentally believe that you should not be stopped on the streets of our country simply because of the colour of your skin"
Former Prime Minister
@Theresa_May
tells
@Sarah_Montague
. "Sadly, we're seeing some of the figures go back up again"
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“We are not going to give the Prime Minister the General Election he is so desperate for until an extension has been secured and the risk of crashing out of the EU without a deal has been completely eliminated”
Lib Dem Brexit spokesperson
@thomasbrake
MP tells
#bbcwato
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Alba leader Alex Salmond tells
#BBCWATO
that the outgoing Scottish First Minister Humza Yousaf was still trying to do a deal with his party at 0730 this morning - well after rumours of his resignation were circulating.
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“If it wasn’t deliberate then it shows how casually [China] treats us... I don’t think they really give two hoots about us”
Lord Patten, the last governor of Hong Kong, gives his reaction on
#BBCWATO
to China’s decision to send Vice President Han Zheng to the King’s coronation
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Former leader of the Conservative Party Michael Howard tells
@Jonnydymond
that Boris Johnson should resign.
“The party and more importantly the country would be better off under new leadership”
“Members of the Cabinet should very carefully consider their positions”
@bbcwato
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"I swam as fast as I could and I was fixated to make her breathe"
Coach Andrea Fuentes describes to
@Sarah_Montague
how she rescued artistic swimmer Anita Alvarez from the bottom of the pool after fainting at the World Aquatics Championships
… |
#BBCWATO
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When
@Cambridge_Uni
put Prof Stephen Hawking's 1966 thesis online, demand was so high it crashed the website. He reads an extract.
#wato
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“If that is meant to be an olive branch - Nigel cocked it up. You cannot say I want to work with you - but you're all liars”
Eurosceptic Conservative MP Mark Francois on
@Nigel_Farage
’s suggestion to Boris Johnson to make a Leave pact
#bbcwato
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"I don't think you can give your life marks out of ten."
Miriam Margolyes and
@RevRichardColes
reflect on what counts as a life fully lived.
It follows Gyles Brandreth saying he'd 'barely lived at all' after interviewing Rupert Everett about his wild younger days.
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"Unfortunately he nearly cut his finger off, so blood was spurting out...he had to keep it above his head...as we walked through casualty everybody laughed they just couldn’t believe that the Pythons had visited them".
Michael Palin on funny times with Terry Jones
#bbcwato
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"We will have catastrophic shortages of food supplies over the next two months"
Nidal Ali, who is country director of Islamic relief for Lebanon tells
#bbcwato
, as he explains how the Beirut port is out of action after the explosion
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"She’s doomed to carry on leading us through this mess because there isn’t anybody else.” Tory veteran MP Ken Clarke predicts
@theresa_may
will not be removed from office
#bbcwato
#Brexit
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A mother who met Health Secretary
@Jeremy_Hunt
earlier this year to tell him about the poor state of children's mental health services - returns to
@BBCWorldatOne
to explain that things haven't improved.
Listen to her original interview here:
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"He had this brilliant instinct for absurdity and the sharpest of minds"
Rory Bremner pays tribute to John Bird, who's died aged 86 -- and recalls the unique insights of his creation George Parr
Full interview coming up on
#BBCWATO
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Tony Blair hints at a possible political comeback.
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"We have got restrictions in Manchester, but they have not made a difference because the gov't has an inadequate track and trace system ...and are not providing financial support for businesses"
Labour's
@AngelaRayner
on the new
#Covid_19
rules
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#bbcwato
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"To say that Keir Starmer's not supportive of workers is not true..."
USDAW's Paddy Lillis says fellow union bosses like Unite's Sharon Graham - who urged the party to "get a spine" - need to put the blame for strikes "squarely where it belongs - with the Tories"
#BBCWATO
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"Some people resented us [the band] terribly, and I can quite understand that. And others were able to dream themselves out of this hell for a few minutes."
Surviving member of the Auschwitz band Anita Lasker-Wallfisch talks to
@Sarah_Montague
#bbcwato
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"This isn't hard Brexit or soft Brexit," says
@Jacob_Rees_Mogg
"it's being honest with the voters."
#bbcwato
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"My memory of him was as the ultimate multi-tasker”. Former Editor of British
#Vogue
@AShulman2
, tells
@bbcworldatone
about fashion designer Karl Lagerfeld, who has died aged 85.
#bbcwato
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Conservative MP
@DominicRaab
tells
@BBCWorldatone
#bbcwato
that
@BorisJohnson
is 100 % committed to leaving the EU on 31st October “and he has confirmed that to me “.
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"This is one of the most remote places on the planet... It's beautiful, but everywhere we look, we are seeing melt water…This place is the front-line of climate change and the rising sea levels"
@LewisPugh
tells
#bbcwato
about his experience of swimming in
#Antarctica2020
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Following in the footsteps of Quentin Blake and Jacqueline Wilson, among others, Frank Cottrell-Boyce has been announced as the new Children's Laureate 📚
@frankcottrell_b
tells
#BBCWato
he wants to use the role to highlight the importance of reading in a child's early years.
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#Calais
is now "frankly lawless.. I'm amazed that the French authorities have not done more"
@Nigel_Farage
#wato
http://t.co/NeDgVbWGEq
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In the first of our "Exit to Brexit" series,
@Anna_Soubry
of
@ForChange_Now
and Brexit party MEP
@Fox_Claire
tell
#bbcwato
what they make of the idea of a government of national unity.
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Chair of the Right to Vote campaign
@DrPhillipLeeMP
tells
@Sarah_Montague
that a second referendum “isn’t as far away as people think”
#bbcwato
#Brexit
.
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"Unless I try and attempt suicide, they can do nothing for me." Andrea Wade says she has struggled to get specialist mental health support. Listen to the full interview here:
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"The legislative route is the one where there is real agreement that that is the strongest and best way for us to persue avoiding a no deal exit"
Lib Dems
@joswinson
tells Edward Stourton as opposition parties plan how a no-deal
#Brexit
can be stopped
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"The Bank of England should push rates to 6 per cent... but that would break like a toy the housing market"
Yanis Varoufakis, economist and former Greek finance minister, says the government’s “rookie mistake” on spending will hurt Britons addicted to low interest rates
#BBCWATO
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Today on
#BBCWATO
Did Greece's PM promise not to mention the Parthenon Sculptures - also known as the Elgin Marbles - on his UK visit?
No 10 says that's why Rishi Sunak cancelled their meeting.
Greek Minister Adonis Georgiadis tells us this is "a bad day for our relationship".
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📻 Wogan 'complete, ready-made radio broadcaster' says Ken Bruce about his former colleague.
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Neonatal experts and professors of statistics have called for the terms of the Lucy Letby inquiry to be changed.
Professor Jane Hutton was one of the signatories calling for the change and explains to
#BBCWato
her concerns over the inquiry and its handling.
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My constituent wrote to me: “I was advised not to get counselling, as my therapy notes would be disclosable in court”
@HarrietHarman
shares a constituent’s story, as forms asking for police access to social media of rape victims, have been launched.
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"Her arrogance is absolutely astounding, as is her discourtesy”... former Labour leader Dame Margaret Beckett on
@theresa_may
's behaviour over
#Brexit
talks.
#bbcwato
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‘Would I put my weapon down today? Yes’
Some Metropolitan Police firearm officers have handed back their weapons after a force marksman was charged with the murder of Chris Kaba
Former armed response officer Harry Tangye told The World this Weekend he would have done the same
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John McDonnell has a "simple message" for Sir Keir Starmer on strikes: "People want to know where we stand. When there's such a justifiable demand from the union, you get behind the union. They're not asking for the Earth. You have to support the workers."
#BBCWATO
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"I saw those comments yesterday... I thought they were absolutely despicable."
Tees Valley mayor Lord Houchen reacts to Suella Braverman's claim that she was 'physically repulsed' by her government's approach to trans rights.
#BBCWato
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“It’s impossible to overestimate what [Gillian Lynne] achieved.”
@OfficialALW
remembering working on Cats with choreographer Dame Gillian Lynne, who has died aged 92.
#bbcwato
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"The only people really cheering John McDonnell’s comments yesterday here in Scotland were Nicola Sturgeon and Ruth Davidson.... incredibly dumb politics."
@D_G_Alexander
, former Scottish Secretary tells
#bbcwato
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"She's already a champion at the tender age of two and a half"
Northumberland shepherdess
@egray86
, who sold her dog Megan at auction, tells
@sarah_montague
what the Oklahoma farmer will be getting for his record-breaking bid of nearly £19K
#bbcwato
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Oxford now hosts the first fully endowed professor of LGBTQ+ history, Matt Cook.
He told
#BBCWATO
the treatment of trans people now is similar to the hate gay men experienced in the 1950s:
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"It's not the hill to die on"
Former First Minister Alex Salmond tells
#BBCWATO
Nicola Sturgeon has been “reduced to incoherence” over the Scottish government’s self-ID laws and that she shouldn’t make it a constitutional battle with Westminster.
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Labour's
@peterkyle
, who is dyslexic, says social media is an "unforgiving place for people with unseen challenges”
He and fellow dyslexic
@marcusbrig
speaks to
#bbcwato
about being dyslexic in the digital age
#DyslexiaAwarenessMonth
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Referendum Call begins today with
@Nigel_Farage
Ask your questions using
#WATO
or call from 11am on 03700 100 44.
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During WWII, MI5 secretary Hester Leggatt wrote fake love letters to plant on a fake airman’s corpse in a bid to fool the Germans.
Little was known of her story, until Operation Mincemeat: A New Musical inspired fans known as
#mincefluencers
to
#FindHester
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“No grandma of 90 should have to do a eulogy for a girl of 22.” Liz De Oliveira, whose daughter Lucy killed herself last year, discusses a new report into student suicides on
#bbcwato
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"We've climbed up on here because Shell have announced huge profit today and have gained those profits by funding climate destruction"
Greenpeace activist Imogen Michel spoke to
#BBCWATO
from the top of a Shell oil rig.
👇👇👇
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“I think a lot of this is for the fairies."
“For them to say we want to no longer rely on taxpayers' money…is a heroic position from an American perspective.”
Ex-royal corr
@_PeterHunt
and PR boss
@FarzanaBaduel
discuss
#HarryandMeghan
’s future.
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Ex-CIA chief says Trump comments "were simplistic, prejudiced and frankly wrong.”
#Orlando
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"I don’t think we need people shooting from the hip, we need people to recognise the danger, recognise the seriousness and ask the very hard questions"
@jeremycorbyn
explains his stance on the UK's diplomatic response to Russia for the Skripal poisoning to
@marthakearney
#wato
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"Our broadcasting code is very clear - no politician can act as a presenter in news content."
Adam Baxter, Director of Broadcasting Standards at Ofcom, tells
#BBCWato
why the regulator found GB News had broken its rules.
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Barroso: "the first call (a US President) makes is to the Chancellor of Germany, no longer to the British PM"
#wato
http://t.co/L1ieF8Bcrs
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"Never in the history of the committee has there been this delay.The PM must take personal responsibility...it is pure indolence"
Sir Malcolm Rifkind, ex-chair of Parliament’s Intelligence and Security Committee, asks why it has not sat for 6 months
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.
@ProfBrianCox
tells
@marthakearney
Sir Tim Hunt shouldn't have had to resign over "trouble with girls" comment
#wato
http://t.co/qazXoxGvUE
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AUDIO:
@MrJonnyBenjamin
talks about
#findmike
and
#mentalhealth
in
#GE2015
.
http://t.co/TxF5yPMuTb
…
#wato
http://t.co/sdhEr886Jt
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📻
@ProfBrianCox
on sexism in science and why Sir Tim Hunt shouldn't have had to resign
#wato
http://t.co/7XBtTu1GG0
http://t.co/HqPzF4mWM1
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Here's one of the paintings by Eric Ravilious that
@JonnyDymond
has been hearing about: 'HMS Glorious in the Arctic' is in the Imperial War Museum collection.
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