Beccy Barr
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#firefighter 👩🏼🚒 @LancashireFRS @BU_DMC MSc student, ex-journo @bbcNWT @CNBC @BloombergTV #Ironman . Tall. Girl Guide Leader. Single mum. @FRSA_uk exec member
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It’s been a crazy ride since I presented my last
@BBCNWT
bulletin in Aug 2019 and joined
@LancashireFRS
. Today I got the final results from my firefighter training & I’m so proud to say I got DISTINCTIONS in all the end point assessments: practical, theory & interview.🔥👩🏼🚒😊
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I reckon I’ve vaccinated about 100 people today. This is as close as I’ll ever get to feeling like a superhero! What a brilliant, uplifting day 😊
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I’m sharing the very sad news that Beccy passed away peacefully this morning. She spent her last few days at
@SJHospice
who provided the most dignified & compassionate care to Beccy & her whole family. Donations to the hospice can be made in Beccy’s memory. ❤️
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Today I failed a big assessment at work. I’m sharing this fact because we humans are always wanging on about our glittering successes. But it’s not always a straight road. And failing makes us better in the end. (Also I need a hug) 🤨
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I’m officially a competent firefighter! ❤️🔥👩🏼🚒 2 and a bit years of graft, some tears, a lot of laughter, loads of blue lights and sirens, assessments, drills and lots of experiences. Thanks to all the wonderful people who have supported me and goodbye black triangles!
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So it's my last day at
@BBCNWT
before I head off to
@LancashireFRS
. First stop,
@LfrsStc
to learn the ropes (and ladders, hoses etc)👩🚒Wish me luck!!
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👩🏼🚒Personal news👩🏼🚒 In September I’ll be joining
@LancashireFRS
as a wholetime
#firefighter
. It’s been a really tough selection process & I’m so excited/terrified about this new challenge! (Please check your smoke alarms asap) 😃 🔥
#notjustfires
#firefamily
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Such devastating news about the death of Dianne Oxberry.
This is how I’ll remember her. Quick-witted, always smiling, and the consummate professional. She was a beautiful woman and we shall miss her so very much. ❣️
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It’s a year since I left behind the 📺presenting lark to join
@LancashireFRS
and I’ve passed my BA team leader assessment. It’s flipping brilliant being a firefighter. Plus the hair and make-up is on fleek. 👩🏼🚒
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From another woman in her 40s with abdominal cancer… I hope you’re all very bloody pleased with yourselves for all the horrible, horrible speculation. Bloody ghouls.
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Trained 💉
Vaccinated 💉
Have the sticker 💉
Can’t wait to start at the mass vax centres 😊
I 💖 science
mRNA rules ok 👌🏻
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Earlier this year I was diagnosed with incurable cancer.
Two lessons I’ve learned from this distinctly sub-optimal experience:
1) Life is wild.
2) People have an utterly astounding and boundless capacity for love, care and friendship.
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Tonight’s viewer feedback on my appearance... 🙄
repulsive, tarty, lady of the night, very bad taste, shocking, skirt up her backside, almost see her knickers, legs and busts flashing in our faces, give her a cardi.
Always👏🏻from👏🏻women👏🏻
#Thisisme
😎
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At the end of the week we lost this beautiful creature.... here’s Dianne Oxberry on the day she marked 20yrs
@BBCNW
. She thought it was hilarious that anyone was in the slightest bit interested in this landmark & laughed her head off at the Di cake.
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Today’s all-female BBC North West team - journo ladies, gallery gals, techy women, digi types, presenter bird. We’ve got it covered.
@BBCNWT
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And now we’re all firefighters! 🤗 👩🏼🚒
Say and big hi and hello there to our shiny new wholetime firefighters who passed out today
@LfrsStc
congratulations gang and welcome to the team! Some may be coming to a station near you soon
#firefamily
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Today I’ve vaccinated people in my hometown and it’s THE BEST feeling 💉🥳
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Big lads at the back
Say a big hi and hello there to our new shiny apprentice firefighter recruits. 🥳 enjoy your recruits course gang!
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Next month I’ll be joining Red Watch at
@Blackburn_Fire
as their newbie
#firefighter
. 👩🏼🚒 Can’t wait to get stuck in!
#firefamily
#notjustfires
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I’m in so-called “Yorkshire.”
It’s very nice.
They appear to use our alphabet, but I can’t understand what they’re saying.
🌹🌹🌹🌹🌹🌹🌹
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@ProfCaryCooper
The very calmly delivered “You guys are the dumbest MFs I ever met” really got me.
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I just saw an elderly man struggling to dry off a whole park bench with a tissue. So I went and found him a load of kitchen roll to help him do a better job... and now his girlfriend has arrived and they’re having a picnic on the bench and I swear I’m going to cry 😩🥰🤗
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Happy birthday to us! All the women in our intake have September birthdays & two of us today!👩🏼🚒👩🏼🚒👩🏼🚒
#firefamily
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A news presenter becoming a firefighter? Ludicrous idea. 😆👩🏼🚒
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@jennykleeman
Good grief. Not a single mention of love or affection. And so much sadness from their own early childhoods. This is all just terribly hollow.
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Thursday 12th December.
Two weeks today.
The countdown is on.
It’s a big, life-changing day...
Yes, it’s our passing-out parade when 18 of us officially become firefighters!
👩🏼🚒👩🏼🚒👩🏻🚒👨🏻🚒👨🏻🚒👨🏽🚒👨🏼🚒👨🏼🚒👨🏼🚒👨🏻🚒👨🏻🚒👨🏼🚒👨🏼🚒👨🏼🚒👨🏻🚒👨🏻🚒👨🏻🚒👨🏼🚒
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I’m about to see my nana in real life for the first time since Dec 2019 🥺😭
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Within 1 hour today my hometown was locked down, my birthday celebrations were cancelled and I bumped into the man who ghosted me after one date. How’s your day going?
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So the good news is that I’ve just come off a night shift having survived my first tour as a fully operational firefighter. 👩🏼🚒👍🏻
The bad news is that I’ve not got to take my Christmas decs down 😓
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The chippy up our end is PACKED. Bloody romantic lot, the Lancaster folk.
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It’s my 2nd fire birthday! 🥳👩🏼🚒
A lot has happened in the 2 years since I became FF Barr. Here’s a photo of me up a ladder to mark the occasion.
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Having just driven home from a night shift, I’d just like to say to all those winkers using the newly empty roads as your own personal race track... I hope you stub a toe and stand on Lego. Simultaneously.
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If you’re happy and you know it... 👏🏻
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I’m the one in the blue 🤗
Squad drills for our whole-time apprentices. Getting to grips with marching and squadding up. Looking smart👍
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I interviewed Dave at his home a few years back about his love for Barrow. He was just ace and spoke beautifully about his wife and how they met. Terrible news. I hate cancer.
Hi everyone, I’m afraid I bear some sad news. Most of you will know Dave has been fighting cancer for the past couple of years. Last night, on 28th February 2024, with Lili, Dave’s wife, his family, close friend David and myself by his side, he passed away peacefully at home. All
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Without a shadow of a doubt
@mrdaveguest
is best, most passionate and the most comprehensively multi-skilled journalist I’ve ever worked with.
It's a sad night on
@BBCNWT
as we say goodbye to
@mrdaveguest
(affectionately known here as The Chief). He's been on the region's TVs for 38 years. Join us if you can eat on
@BBCOne
NW at 1830 to wish him well.
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I guess Psychic Stephen didn’t see this lock-down coming then?
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Heartbreaking news. I last saw Tony last year clambering out of Salford Quays in a wetsuit as I was getting in for a swim. Smiling, laughing and with a kind word as he always was.
Tributes to ITV Granada Reports presenter Tony Morris, who has died aged 57
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2 years today since I got the email from
@LancashireFRS
to say my application had been successful.
🤯👩🏼🚒🚒💉
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Yorkshire. ⛺️🥾 Really very lovely. Just not as lovely as Lancashire. 🌹
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Cameraman-on-a-step... 🤣
The pragmatic solution if your presenter is a giantess.
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I was at school with Kate. In recent months we reconnected and she was incredibly empathic and supportive of my terminal diagnosis as she handled her own. What a wonderful woman. ❤️
If you’re reading this, it means I have died. But do not cry for me. I have lived my life on my own terms, the way I have wanted to. I joined X because I needed an outlet, what I got was so much more. You made me feel validated in my feelings and much less alone. Thank you ❤️
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Back in my other navy blue uniform for the first time in almost a year and a half!
#Rainbows
#Guiding
#GuideLeader
@Girlguiding_NWE
@Girlguiding
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My
#BestOf2018
perfectly reflects the distorted reality of social media. I don’t actually look like this & my life isn’t this glamorous. (But my 🌲 was ace)
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@ElenaBjxrn
I had a BF who thought you just used one tampon at the start of your period and removed it at the end and therefore couldn’t see what all the fuss was about. And also thought a large pack would literally last several years.
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So I went out in Kendal last night and some lad asked me if I was Mary Berry.
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You’re at the gym... a lad whips his top of & conducts a full flex-n-snap photo shoot in the mirror, complete with sexy pouting. Is it ok to laugh out loud?
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Eating my lunch sitting next to a couple complaining to each other that they’ve come all the way to MediaCity and not seen a single person off the telly. 🤣
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#Firefighter
exams and assessments all ✅
Passing out parade next week.
On station the week after!!
👩🏼🚒
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This stuff is so personal and individual, but I’m doing it while I’m alive (a privilege of knowing you’re dying) and it feels like an important act of service to my loved ones.
How do you even start to clear your parents’ home when both of them have died?
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So glad I stayed up after my bedtime for this. She’s just bloody brilliant. 💖
🥇 It’s GOLD for KJT! 🥇
@JohnsonThompson
produces an excellent 800m run to round off a brilliant two days and WIN the heptathlon 😍
#WorldAthleticsChamps
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So 2019 has been a big year for me. I’ve made some very big decisions & had even bigger adventures. Also I cried quite a lot. And laughed a VERY great deal.
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Having cancer is utterly shit. Yes, there is a great deal of love and care and people are amazing. But, if we’re going to be authentic about it… it is totally and entirely shit to have cancer. So don’t judge the actions of others. End of rant. Merci.
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I just heard my 10yr old phone her great-grandma and spend half an hour having a right laugh and now everything just seems a bit better with the world. 🥰
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Happy
#YorkshireDay
! Our white rose cousins are exceptionally lucky to live within such close proximity to God's own county. 🌹
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I was so sad to hear of the passing of
@tonyhusband1
. Some years ago, when I was presenting BBC North West Tonight, I was being targeted by a lot of trolls. Tony sent me this and I still have it on my wall. ❤️
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Pizza shop with my dad tonight.👨👦 He ordered... AN HAWAIIAN PIZZA. I called him a pervert & questioned my parentage, but I’d already offered to pay. I HAVE FUNDED A PINEAPPLE PIZZA. I feel dirty. 🤮
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Big day for us at firefighter school tomorrow 👩🏼🚒
Good luck tomorrow for the whole time recruits who ll find out their first postings 😬😬😬😬😬😬
@LfrsStc
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“Now stop making a tit of yourself and piss off” merch anywhere yet? I’d take a t-shirt or a mug. Or preferably both.
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Tea is after 5pm.
Dinner is at noon.
The end.
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Last assignment of 2021/22 submitted. 😊 And a week early. 🥳Halfway to an MSc and time for some distance from this bloody laptop. 💻
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Water Relay Day ✅
Filthy ✅
Drenched ✅
Shattered ✅
Still smiling ✅
#recruitlife
#firefamily
#firefighters
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So I ate the Brie because I thought it was stinking the kitchen out. Now I’ve discovered it was the mop all along. So now I’ll have to eat that too.
(This is getting out of hand)
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Everything is grim. So here’s a photo that illustrates my greatest skill. And yes, they have lovely crispy little bottoms. You’re welcome.
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A hero for our times. This is Christopher Laidler, the owner of
@covinochester
, who received an unsolicited request from the Real Housewives of Cheshire for a free a night out.
He responded thus... 🤮
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Led by the NHS... we firefighters have been working alongside Army, Navy, RAF as well as volunteers. Teamwork is the lifeblood of
@LancashireFRS
, but this project is next level collaboration. And it’s phenomenal.
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I don’t think I’ve ever mentioned it before, but
#MorecambeBay
is dead good.
#LoveLancashire
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A lovely day at the “sunshine garden”
#RHSTatton
in memory of Dianne Oxberry. (PS Selfie picture frames aren’t designed for those of us over 6ft)
@TrustDianne
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Dianne’s memorial service was amazing.
@tonylivesey
had us all in stitches &
@BBCPhilharmonic
had us in tears with a rendition of Elbow’s “One Day Like This.” Also...
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It really irks me that these platforms give the impression people are so angry and mean. But in the real world the *overwhelming* majority of people are quietly kind, caring and full of love and fellowship. It’s such a shame the daft loud voices tend to dominate.
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@danbarker
As the member of an actual fire crew, I feel it important to point out we aren’t available for the extinguishment of any mixed metaphor train derailment/in-head-narrative fires, though “brain octane oil” sounds like it could be flammable so would urge caution. 👩🏼🚒
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The Small Blonde has been telling me about a girl at school who’s quite exotic & exciting & has an unusual accent.
Just found out she’s from Wigan. 😂
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@marklewismd
The first consultant I saw didn’t want to give me an endoscopy because I “looked perfectly healthy.” I insisted and had stage 4 stomach cancer. I guess if I demurred I’d just have dropped dead one day. 🤷🏼♀️
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Family “boggle” night
My 84-yr old nana just won a round with the word “shat” 🥳
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I’m going to bed. And if, when I wake up tomorrow, I see one more bloody
#10yearchallange
... I’m going back to sleep until 2021. 🤮
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This weekend we’ve had an extremely serious family medical emergency (ironically not me) and the NHS has been *absolutely* incredible. Staff of all ages, from all over the world and of all levels of experience just providing such kindness and professionalism in care.
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