Charles Thomson
@CEThomson
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Journalist, Newsquest Investigations — 4x Weekly Reporter of the Year — Paul Foot Award shortlistee
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Joined June 2010
'Amazing' 'Disturbing' 'Astonishing' 'Shocking' 'Like a real life Line of Duty' The reviews are in. All episodes are out. A true crime podcast tells how a local newspaper unearthed a shocking paedophile ring cover-up. Unfinished: Shoebury's Lost Boys -
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East London's senior coroner will investigate 'potential neglect' of an Ilford pensioner by Redbridge Council. Michael Horn was found in a substandard home with no heating, with pneumonia and sepsis. He was known to social services, the court heard.
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@CaseyRain @DamienShields The filmmaker has no reputation at all for making sensationalistic or dishonest documentaries. He is the universally acclaimed and respected Oscar-winning director of OJ: Made In America.
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A Southend mum, whose campaigning helped secure the Lampard Inquiry into Essex mental health deaths, says a whistleblowing former NHS manager must be made a core participant. She said his evidence of staff’s fight to block service cuts was ‘powerful’.
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RT @ZoeTillman: New: A group representing thousands of US doctors is suing the Trump administration over the sudden removal of public healt…
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Is this part of a reciprocal agreement I didn’t know of, where Newsquest can just copy and paste all the Standard’s exclusive stories verbatim onto our websites?
Joan Kathleen Turnell kept her daughter Tracey’s dead body in their shared flat in Leyton for over a year before she was discovered, inquest told
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The Bishop of Gloucester found Jason Moore's murder conviction - and his experience with the CCRC - so 'distressing and perturbing' that she questioned Labour in the House of Lords. Rachel Treweek is now calling for reform of the UK appeal process.
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RT @CEThomson: After 15 years in newspapers, you think you're unshockable. Then you cover a case like this. Police found an OAP pushing…
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East London's senior coroner ordered Waltham Forest Council to consider disciplining social workers who failed to act on repeated concerns over Joan and Tracey Turnell. Nothing changes, he said, until those responsible 'feel the flames at their feet'.
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RT @Care2much18: This wildly misleading tweet, and the mostly hateful replies, is like entering an alternate version of reality. If anybod…
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The row was so big it provoked a string of headlines in the Essex Echo at the time. Robin Jamieson warned the cuts would cause issues in ‘the next millennium’. The death spike Lampard is investigating began in 2000.
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RT @CEThomson: *EXCLUSIVE* Lennie Smith, a prime suspect in Jason Swift’s death, got jobs in a council swimming pool and a seafront amusem…
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RT @CEThomson: *EXCLUSIVE* Newsquest has reported the IOPC to the Information Commissioner over its refusal to publish the appendices to a…
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