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News and Online Journalist @FullFact . Former Local Democracy Reporter. She/her 🏳️🌈
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Some news... this is my last week as a Local Democracy Reporter at the Manchester Evening News. It's been a privilege to be part of the LDR scheme & I've loved my five+ years covering councils, but thrilled to announce I'm joining
@FullFact
as a journalist fighting misinformation
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To clarify for the record, no one, and I repeat no one, calls Manchester “Manc-hattan” except hacks working for national London papers - certainly not “locals”
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So I was playing some music on my computer but didn’t realise an old planning meeting had started playing in the background as well because it works too well as an edgy indie northern spoken word intro - enjoy!
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Tameside are absolutely smashing their vaccination programme - 14,000 people have received their first jab already and potentially could do all people in vulnerable groups 1-4 by end of Jan. Full story to come
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Update - the man who sexually harassed me on the Metrolink while high on Spice, Chris Moyo, pleaded guilty at Manchester Magistrates & was sentenced to a 12 month community order, 3 mth curfew, with a 6 mth drug rehab requirement. Glad
@gmpolice
and the courts took it seriously.
Hey
@MCRMetrolink
it would be nice if you’d consider putting conductors on trams so I don’t have to get sexually harassed for 15 minutes by a smackhead who threatens to attack the only guy who offers some support. This shouldn’t be my normal commute home from work
@MENnewsdesk
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Here’s a compilation of footage from the Oldham council meeting last night that captures the tone - one of rancour, anger, derision, and at times, pure venom towards leaders and the authorities
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Writing about local government is just an eternal cycle of council officials and press officers capping up job roles and titles and journalists diligently capping them down again
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Amazing scenes on the Rochdale tram as
@gmpolice
hand out jelly tots to commuters! This is my kind of community policing
@MENnewsdesk
@MCRMetrolink
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A report has exposed the 'catastrophic failings' in how sexual exploitation was handled by police - and
@MaggieOliverUK
, the ex-detective who has repeatedly blown the whistle on child abuse failings, has slammed those in charge for letting children down
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Nothing says ‘I live in Didsbury’ more than overhearing three different couples explaining petrichor to each other
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Hope my attempt at making veggie sausages cheers some people up tonight
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I ordered a waterproof overall for cycling in Manchester in the winter and it’s turned me into a living yellow weather warning ⛈
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Latest in bad planning application design and access images; a man casually breaking a child's arm outside a proposed food hall
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Hey
@MCRMetrolink
it would be nice if you’d consider putting conductors on trams so I don’t have to get sexually harassed for 15 minutes by a smackhead who threatens to attack the only guy who offers some support. This shouldn’t be my normal commute home from work
@MENnewsdesk
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Are you even a press officer working in local government if You're Not going above and beyond to needlessly capitalise Job Titles, Events, Buildings, and even adjectives that you like the Look of
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Why does ‘Sunday service’ still exist on the Metrolink? Can public transport move on from the outdated notion that no one does anything on a Sunday. Currently there are around 30 people waiting for a tram that comes four times an hour in one of the biggest cities in the UK 🙄
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Is this the worst use of open space in central Manchester? No seating, bare minimum of plants, horrible to look at - just pure grey
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This was 15 minutes I spent being made to feel objectified, uncomfortable and unsafe. A number of my female colleagues have similar or even worse experiences on the tram. It’s not a ‘rare occurrence’ - it’s a problem women face everyday on public transport
'He stood in front of the barrier pretending to have sex with me'
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BREAKING: Arooj Shah has been elected as new Labour group leader in Oldham, which will also return her as council leader. She previously led the council in 2021-22, before losing her seat. She takes over the leadership from Amanda Chadderton who was not re-elected in Royton South
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"When we asked another woman what she thought of Brexit, she replied 'what's that?'. When we explained what was happening, she replied that she didn't follow the news and had never heard of it."
Frankly I wish I was this woman
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Let's share our biggest local politics faux pas; mine is going to a borough council meeting and when the Mayor invited everyone (councillors) to join him for drinks in his parlour afterwards, I thought 'yes please!' and went and poured myself a whisky, before being escorted out
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So
@AndyBurnhamGM
didn’t get why skateboarding should be an Olympic sport…
I think this crash course at
@graystoneASA
might have changed his mind! (*Is this a mayor’s first skate edit?)
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And that’s it - after five years, seven months and ten days, I’m no longer an Local Democracy Reporter. Thanks to all my amazing colleagues across the UK who do vital journalism every day. It’s been a blast 💖
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Outrageous that
@MCRMetrolink
@OfficialTfGM
are scrapping day travel cards on the Get Me There app for the tram in a crackdown on 'fare evasion' leaving people with no option but to touch in and out, which they often forget to do and then get charged the maximum ticket price
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Journalism is a job we’re all extremely passionate about, but today I, along with many of my colleagues, will not be working as we fight for a fairer deal for everyone.
#NUJReachStrike
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It's absolutely right that the case of the tragic death of toddler Awaab Ishak is now mainstream news picked up by numerous media outlets, but without the sterling work of
@stetopping
in the Manchester Evening News it would not be making national headlines. Local news does matter
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How journalism works 🤡
〰️Local reporter breaks story in regional press
➰National media picks up on it weeks later without crediting
➿Local media then gets press releases from organisations asking for coverage citing the…national story
♾Repeat
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Amid everything I've been reporting in recent weeks I have also been reflecting about my own life, and that of my friends, and the kind of things women everywhere experience almost as a matter of routine. After thinking long and hard, I've decided to share this story publicly
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The first of several pieces I've written about the horrific findings of the Oldham child sexual exploitation review, revealed today. It makes for incredibly difficult reading
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The statue has now been officially unveiled! Annie Kenney has taken up residency in Parliament Square in Oldham
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"I have come here to chew bubblegum and live tweet this Oldham full council meeting. And I'm all out of bubblegum."
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Something a bit more lighthearted on a Friday to test your local council knowledge - can you recognise the ten town halls of Greater Manchester and put them in order alphabetically using their numbers? (Googling is cheating)
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Lovely man as well as top boxer - Amir Khan adds personal tribute to his "oldest fan" Ada Gibson
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Oldham council has absolutely nailed the 'GCSE mock exam' vibe
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Ah yes Oldham, famously north of (squints) *Bolton*
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Finally clocking off after a week that will certainly be up there as among the most intense of my journalism career. Here’s hoping for a break next week eh Oldham 👀
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Nothing to see in this indicative planning application image, just some silhouettes moving what looks suspiciously like a body from a village green
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Tonight's tram driver has dutifully reminded everyone that we should all be wearing face coverings - and confirms that a snake doesn't count 🐍
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Can we collectively decide, once and for all, a style guide; is it Covid-19, Covid, covid, covid-19, Coronavirus or coronavirus?
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During lockdown I joked I was going to become ‘prison ripped’ but instead turned into a human slug. So in June I naively vowed to run 200km, thinking it would be easy. I’m not a good runner & it was mentally and physically intense. But after 30 days I finally got over the line 🏃♀️
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My dry January review, aka the longest I’ve been sober since I was 18: turns out alcohol is great and really helps break up the monotony of life in lockdown. I can’t wait to murder an IPA. The end
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I’ve heard of people accidentally going to work with their shirt inside out, but this is a first for me 🙈
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This March marks four years since I became a Local Democracy Reporter specialising in holding councils to account & scrutinising the bizarre things councillors shout at each other
So I thought I'd be self indulgent and share my favourite stories since taking on Oldham & Tameside
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This week marks my fifth year as a Local Democracy Reporter! Since 2018 I've filed thousands of stories, hosted live Q&As, appeared on local and national radio, spoken to journo students about how to scrutinise local government - and done a bit of skateboarding. It's been a blast
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Realised that this week is my one year anniversary of becoming a Local Democracy Reporter! Becoming part of this new project was an exciting, and slightly daunting opportunity but now I can't imagine not spending a silly amount of hours of my life at scrutiny meetings
#LDReporter
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Really proud to see my work on Oldham's children services featured on BBC Sunday Politics North West last night. It's a huge issue that needs mainstream discussion and debate because the current situation is completely unsustainable
#LDReporter
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It's my first day at Full Fact today; anything big happened so far? 🫠
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Due to popular demand the Oldham councilcore deluxe edit is out now - an ultimate accidental
@PSB_HQ
tribute.
@marcrileydj
this might be up your street…
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Making local democracy ‘cool’ since 2018
New on HTFP today:
@MENnewsdesk
local democracy reporter
@CharGreenLDR
lands surprise internet hit with musical
@OldhamCouncil
planning meeting mash-up, likened to the work of
@PSB_HQ
Full story here:
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As the march to leave stumbles on, I'd like to point out I got this press release through under embargo which claimed that "hundreds" of Brexit supporters had tipped up in Yorkshire on Monday, almost 24 hours before it took place.
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Trump's bizarre comments have also been criticised by Oldham council leader Sean Fielding who said that the US President would not be able to open a bottle of bleach as they had ‘childproof caps’
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Maxine Peake told the meeting that northern theatres such as the Coliseum inspire working class people like herself to get involved in the arts, and are the ‘lifeblood’ of towns. “There’s a saying, if you can’t see it you can’t be it,” she said
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A small space in Manchester's densely urban China Town could (and should) be transformed with more trees + less cars
Get a proper Chinese garden in this square
@ManCityCouncil
! It's an opportunity to create something beautiful in the city centre, like the Chinese Garden of Friendship in Sydney, Australia
(Can confirm its beauty, my mum kept us there so long we missed our flight back to the UK)
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Happy to update that GMP has today charged a man with a public order offence following my harassment on the tram in May. These incidents are taken seriously
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🚨BREAKING: Tonight Amanda Chadderton has won the selection battle to be Oldham Labour's new group leader (and third female leader) after Arooj Shah lost her seat on May 5. Cllr Chadderton is now set to be formally appointed council leader at a forthcoming full council meeting
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After ten hours the Oldham count is finished, all the results are out and I’m dead.
The makeup of the council now stands at:
🔴 40 Labour
🔵 8 Tory
🟠 8 Lib Dem
⚪️ 3 Failsworth Ind. Party
🔘 1 independent
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I’m covering the second Greater Manchester green summit today in Salford, unveiling plans to make the region carbon neutral by 2038 - mostly just to piss off this guy
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Lockdown cockup, surely
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The Great Post Office Trial by
@nickwallis
is a must listen programme. Even if you know the headlines over the scandal the extent and scale, as well as the human cost, of this horrendous miscarriage of justice is staggering
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TFW you’ve been in and out of council meetings since 10am and it’s now 10.30pm and you still haven’t had your tea
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Thanks very much to
@GLythgoeNews
and
@ChrisGeeLDR
for my v funny (and near to the bone) leaving MEN front page. Although as one put it; “The story requires an evil looking photo - didn’t think there would be multiple options to choose from” 💀
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Your annual reminder that I largely chose to come to Manchester University because I thought it was northern and guaranteed snow every winter, and for the last nine years I’ve just had this
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Start your twenties as you mean to finish them - on the Curry Mile at 4am with a pitta kebab the size of a small child
#MeAt20
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I should be out celebrating
#manchesterpride2020
today, but since we can't mark it properly (damn pandemic) - remember to celebrate the queer and trans people in your life. We're fab
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Well, I think I can safely say I've never reported on a meeting like that before. You can catch up with everything that happened on the live blog here:
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Never has the word 'with' been so important in a headline
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Think it’s frankly insulting for BLM protestors legitimately angry that slave traders are being memorialised to be accused by implication of wanting to vandalise all public monuments - including those to remember the war dead.
I’m at the cenotaph in Manchester where people have gathered. They’re telling me they’re here to protect it from ‘desecration’
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Afraid to say I just heard a man refer to Deansgate as ‘Deansey’ and Manchester is now officially cancelled
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Finally home from hospital and absolutely bawling at this note and gift left by my neighbours (family with three little shy girls) 🥺
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*record scratch*
*freeze frame*
Yup, that's me. You're probably wondering how I ended up in this council meeting
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Also a reminder that Leicester, Oldham then much of Greater Manchester was placed under heightened local restrictions by August 2020
This is the most simple explanation of why everyone is feeling very tired after two years of this. (From
@diamondgzrblog
who is committed to old-school blogging and therefore always great.)
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£50 for a train ticket, delayed so miss connection, standing room only. Happy effing Friday from the Northern Powerhouse!
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What do you call Manchester? For me it’s either town, ‘Mcr’ in abbreviated text or Manny (when talking to scousers)
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It has taken me an hour and 15 minutes to travel a distance of 6.5 miles to Droylsden on the Metrolink. This has meant two tram changes - one where a tram terminated due to an ‘operational issue’. It’s a 20 minute drive…
How can people be convinced to leave their cars for this?
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Seven years after having passed my 100wpm, the ability to write and read back shorthand still blows my mind sometimes 🤯
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Thrilled to announce the return of the super odd hand washing signs in Oldham council’s toilets
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Don’t 👏 get 👏 your 👏 news 👏 from 👏 Facebook 👏 posts
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Had an amazing birthday meal at
@kala_manchester
last night - octopus and morcilla is the one. Also very happy that they agreed to foil wrap some truffle chips for my breakfast
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Manchester council could take a leaf out of Oldham's book - the town centre looking blooming beautiful this afternoon
@OldhamCouncil
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‘Imagine me, just Annie, a girl from a spinning town on her way to have tea with Emmeline Pankhurst. I left a different woman, I left a suffragette’
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True lockdown prep isn’t stockpiling toilet roll, it’s making your own chess set from penne pasta
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Nice Xmas bash snap of 4/6 of the Greater Manchester LDRs showing off our
@angrypiln
team award ✨
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It’s going to be a complete Christmas mystery this year
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FIY in addition to my local democracy reporting, I can also offer dodgy illustrations of Greater Manchester politicians looking somewhat worse for wear. £ on delivery
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Great to see my investigation into Failsworth Group Practice, which was closed after inspectors found serious issues - including around 170 people potential missed kidney disease diagnoses - being featured on BBC North West Tonight yesterday eve
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Tough week doesn’t quite cover it but three stays at 3 different hospitals, multiple trips to A&E and two surgeries later, fingers crossed I’m finally on the mend
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Also my first time cycling to Ashton-under-Lyne, and find it very odd there doesn’t seem to be a single cycle storage space provided around any of Tameside One, which includes the Ashton Library, Tameside council HQ, customer front desk, part of Tameside College and also Wilko’s
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Spent my last weekend under 30 living my best bi life at a rammed, sticky but epic Manchester Pride 🌈💃
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If there's a greater joy in life than spotting and deleting double spaces in copy, I don't know it
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A smoker of 12 years, I attempted to do Stoptober and failed - but buzzing to be able to say as of Friday I’ve gone a month without a fag (and I don’t miss it!)
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And louder for the people at the back: 🔈THIS IS NOT A RARE OCCURRENCE. The system to protect passengers on the tram simply isn’t working. To believe otherwise is pure fantasy
Metrolink nightmare as man goes berserk, smashing windows, throwing rocks and leaving passengers terrified
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