Collette Howe
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Whaaaaat a night reporting on
#NUFC
qualifying for Champions League… along with my bright pink microphone 😅🎤
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Celebrating a week of good news 🎉 I’ve now been made Senior Reporter for
@bauermedia
@hitsradiouk
in the North East wooohoooooo
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After 3 years of freelancing around… I’ve now taken a full time role with
@metroradiouk
and
@TFMradio
starting in a few weeks 🥳 so gassed to get to learn from the amazing news team there. Looks like I’ll be sticking around in the North East after all 🌞
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A great night for the North East at the
#arias
🤩
Over the moon to be part of the BEST breakfast speech show!!
It’s been 6 months this week since I joined the BBC and I’m just so grateful to be part of the team… and to be trusted on live radio 😅
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Starting my 30s full of pizza and wine in Milan 🇮🇹 not forgetting the sunburn… happy birthday to meeeee 👵🏻
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Some exciting personal news 🥁 …
I’ll be moving up to Newcastle very soon to fill in as the reporter for
@CapitalNENews
@HeartNENews
@SmoothRadioNews
and
@LBCNews
!!🎊 Gassed to be joining this incredibly talented news team for the next few months 🥳
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The best welcome to the breakfast show!! My first full week of joining the 5am gang, reading your news at BBC Newcastle 🎈🥳
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BREAKFAST SHOW TEEEEAAAAAM ! 🥇
🎉And the award for Best Speech Breakfast Show…
GOLD - Matt Bailey at Breakfast -
@bbcnewcastle
@mattbaileymedia
SILVER -
@talkSPORT
Breakfast
BRONZE - 5 Live Breakfast -
@bbc5live
#UKARIAS
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Last day reporting with my pink microphone!! Aaand what a way to end it with Sir Keir Starmer in Sunderland.
So excited for my next chapter but sad to be leaving such a great team and office at
@metroradiouk
✨
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It’s my last two weeks working for
@metroradiouk
! I’ve been so lucky to report on an incredible patch and be trusted in telling so many stories in the North East…
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Happy anniversary to me and my Metro Radio mic 🎤
What a year it’s been ✨
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13 early mornings in a row reading the news DONE… Now I’m on the ferry to Amsterdam 🇳🇱
happy bank holiday 🍻🎉
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IT’S LEAGUE CUP FINAL DAY!!!!
Gassed to be reading the news for
@metroradiouk
today- the morning after the Trafalgar Takeover and
@nufc
’s first cup final in 24 years!!
⚫️⚪️ I’M HAPPY I’M HAPPY⚫️⚪️
#NUFC
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Reporting in Hyde Park today for
@bauermedia
@greatesthitsuk
,
where thousands of people have come to watch the Queen’s funeral. What a moment to be part of…
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My first half marathon done 🙌🏻 along with some painful voicers along the way for
@MetroRadioNews
#GreatNorthRun
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2 years since we said our goodbyes and my Dad passed away. I’ve been trying to find the words but I’m all out. My biggest inspiration to do well in life… Miss you everyday 💙
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Eddie Howe at the start and I'll be reporting at the end. A Howe Sandwich.
📣 Your 2023 AJ Bell
#GreatNorthRun
Official Starter
We are pleased to announce that
@NUFC
manager, Eddie Howe, will be this year's official starter of the AJ Bell Great North Run! 🎉
Read more about our announcement ahead of Sunday's event 👉
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Career highlight… reporting on a water fight with care home residents in Gosforth, on the hottest day of the year
#heatwave
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The last show in my 20s 😭 celebrating my work-birthday before my actual birthday on Tuesday (when I’m away).
Feeling old but what a lovely team I work with 🥺
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My big sister graduated today 🎉 After starting uni during Covid, then losing our dad, having a child, running a business and a bunch of other stuff in the past 3 years… I’m super proud 🤓
But I’m the youngest so obvs the photo I’m using of us cuts part of her face out 💅🏼
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Survivors of the
#WindrushScandal
are being denied legal aid to help their compensation claim.. the application itself is a long and complicated process and the only support most are offered is through the ‘We Are Digital’ scheme, which is funded by those who caused the scandal…
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It’s been a while… me and my eye bags are back reading the news for the North East 📻 (ft.
@ClaireHawthorn
‘s labelled earphones)
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I’m baaaack 🙋🏼♀️ reading the news for
@CapitalOfficial
@thisisheart
and
@SmoothRadio
for the North East every hour. Happy Friday ☀️🌞
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Reading the hourly news on
@metroradiouk
and
@TFMradio
whilst being absolutely battered by hayfever 🤧 tune in if you wanna hear me talk about the rail strikes while holding in a sneeze
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Incredible day reporting for the Great North Run and
@Mo_Farah
’s last night ever competitive race
… and a nice finish by being stuck in the thunderstorms, cancelled metros and 4 hour journey back to Newcastle 🫠
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Matching with my Sainsbury’s bag for life 🍊 Lovely rainy day reporting on the Mall 👑
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The
@NEUnion
@NEUnorthern
rally has taken over monument in
#Newcastle
!!
Thousands are here on the day that teachers are striking across the north east in a row over pay and conditions.
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To be clear, that is a vitamin drink I’m holding, and not a pint at 6am…
✨💖 Welcome to the breakfast show, Collette! 💖✨
Matt Bailey gave our new BBC Radio Newcastle breakfast newsreader a VERY pink welcome!
@ColletteJHowe
@MattBaileyMedia
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Aaand I’ve joined
@mattbaileymedia
’s Breakfast show on BBC Radio Newcastle!! Officially!! 📻🗞️
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Friday morning starting with an ice cream van at work!!
A short story:
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Good luck to everyone saying “Jeremy Hunt’s cuts…” live on radio today
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Another -here’s me in a studio- pic. Reading the news on
@thisisheart
@CapitalOfficial
and
@SmoothRadio
for the North East today. Happy Sunday. (I’ve not brushed my hair)😴🌞
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A very….very close call…
Now to survive the next 5 weeks of talking about the general election. Election.
…Happy Friday 🎉
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A statue of
@JillScottJS8
has been unveiled today ⚽️
So here’s The Queen of the Jungle, the Angel of the North… and me 🤓
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AND IN OTHER NEWS… that’s my last day complete at
@GlobalsNewsroom
! I’ve learnt SO much since moving up here in October…very grateful for all the people I’ve met, interviewed and worked with 🥰
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It’s been raining pretty much none stop since I arrived but ✨having a lovely time in India ✨
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I zip lined off the Tyne Bridge yesterday taking my microphone down with me, managed to record a voicer for work whilst flying down…all for the mic to barely pick anything up 🙃🙃🙃🙃
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It’s been a year since my Dad went into hospital for what was supposed to be one night. The next time I was allowed to see him was 3 weeks later when he was on end of life care after catching covid in the hospital. I had to wear a mask, visor, plastic gloves to say my goodbyes..
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I’m so excited (and nervous…) to be joining the incredible BBC Newcastle journalist team 🥳
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My sister is due on May the 4th, and if you think I’m going to use that as an op for a funny photo you’re absolutely right
#MayThe4thBeWithYou
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What a week it’s been 🫠 here I am with a rare espresso martini HAPPY FRIDAY
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Dusted off my camera for the first time in a while for some very generic Newcastle / Gateshead snaps 🌧️
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Teachers have been telling me about having to buy stationary from their own money, having to use food banks, and not having the resources or facilties to give kids the education they deserve.
@NEUnion
@NEUnorthern
#TeacherStrike
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One year ago today we got the call to go say goodbye to my Dad after not being allowed to visit him for over 3 weeks. We had to wait another 3 weeks for his funeral, which was shortened and no wake allowed. Friday 15th January. When the Gov that gave us these rules, were partying
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👊🏻
BEST NEWS STORY OR COVERAGE NOMINEE: The Death of HM Queen Elizabeth II – Hits Radio Brand Network UK
@HitsNetworkUK
@bauermedia
#RadioNewsAwards
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Rishi Sunak is the new leader of the Conservative Party and the Prime Minister…. Here he is calling my questions unhelpful when I interviewed him last year x
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Had a well needed break from social media, now back after a week to tell everyone I’m reading the news this morning for
@metroradiouk
@TFMRadioNews
and
@cfmradio
🙌🏻 📻 (p.s I’ve been awake since 4 🧟♀️ )
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Tributes have been left for 15-year-old Holly Newton who was stabbed in Hexham on Friday.
One note left is from the mum of Gordon Gault, another North East teenager who was killed by knife crime in November.
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In todays reporting adventures- I went to one of the most remote areas in the country, got a flat tire, ran out of petrol miles from a station- closed ‘cos of powercuts, got a nose bleed, nearly ran over a sheep. Did my 2nd live report for LBC News tho so swings and roundabouts🤷🏼♀️
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Here’s to turning twentyhate 🎂🍹 what a year it has been 😅
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I asked someone for an interview and he took a screenshot of the message, posted it on a Facebook group and now I work for the government
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How lovely to have our coverage of the Queen’s funeral included on this list.
Thanks to
@_AbiSimpson
&
@GeorgieProRadio
for the planning and leading us on that historic day 🙌🏻
NOMINEES FOR THE 2022 SPECIAL AWARD FOR HM QUEEN:
All The Queen's Horses
BBC Network Radio
BBC Newsbeat
The Final Journey of Queen Elizabeth II
FT Weekend
Jonny Dymond & James Bryant
The Second Elizabethan Age
Sitrep: King Charles III
The Skewer: The Queen
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After just over a week at my new job… now I’m going on my hols ☀️ Manchester Airport ➡️ Valencia (…then Barcelona… then Marseille.. then Monte Carlo…) 👋🏻
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Some people told me I was ‘lucky’ to get this rather than nothing or through a phone call or iPad screen…. I’m not sure what the situation is like a year on but I really hope there’s a bit more humanity in the situation for those going through it now
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It’s been a while since an early weekend shift 😴 …. covering the news on Capital and Heart for Yorkshire this morning oioiiii
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Just want her back ☹️
#TheApprentice
Revealed: The Apprentice candidates! 🤗 Which of these brave amateur business minds will become
@Lord_Sugar
's shiny new business partner?
Brand new
#TheApprentice
on
#iPlayer
from 5 Jan at 9pm
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The Great North ✨power walk✨ here’s one of my (less serious) voicers from yesterday👇🏼
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Back reading the news for the North East today… and Cumbria
@metroradiouk
@TFMradio
@cfmradio
oiooiiiiii
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Can’t believe I have a student debt of over £50,000 to become a journalist when all I had to do was wait and pay £7.99 a month
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100 years old and still singing songs and cracking jokes. One of my favourite, most heartwarming interviews I’ve ever done… I genuinely hope to be as happy and witty as John is when I’m in my golden years 🤩
John Hancock from
#Newcastle
received his letter from the Queen for turning 100 years old in February. He told us what his secret is to a long, happy life…
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The most wholesome interview today 🥰 Marian sat in the corner of the garden, away from everyone else and told me she doesn’t really like to socialise (relatable) but was so proud of herself for getting out and involved. Lovely stuff
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Round 2
Good luck to everyone saying “Jeremy Hunt’s cuts…” live on radio today
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And so happy to see Metro get bronze for best coverage of an event for the Great North Run!
I was lucky enough to work on this while at Metro and interview Sir Mo Farah on his last competitive race. So much work goes in from the team… lovely to see it get this recognition 🙌🏻
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Roses are red
This letter is long
Why is a newsreader
Pronouncing AITCH wrong
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Started the day by my car sliding on ice and hitting a brick wall at 4.30am! Happy Friday! I’m not leaving the house til summer!
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A month a go today my Dad lost his fight against covid. This week I’ll be getting my first vaccine which he was waiting for. A very strange feeling...
#GetVaccinated
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I’ve seen Colin the Caterpillar is trending so thought I’d take this time to share a story. My friend got one of them ‘make your own’ kits to make me a birthday cake for my 26th. The first pic is what it was supposed to look like… the last two is what it actually looked like…
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What a great way to mark
#InternationalWomansDay
… today I spoke with
@stephhoughton2
who’s just been awarded Freedom of the City of Sunderland ⚽️🔴
Steph has broken barriers in women’s football and paved the way for the next generation of female footballers ✊🏻
#IWD
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A second arrest in connection to the Sycamore Cap Tree felling….
A man in his 60s…
A 16 year old boy has already been bailed after being arrested yesterday.
#UPDATE
Officers investigating the vandalism of an iconic
#Northumberland
tree have made a second arrest.🚨
A full investigation was launched after the Sycamore Gap Tree was felled overnight between Wednesday & Thursday in what we believe was a deliberate act of vandalism. (1/4)
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A workers rally has taken over Monument
#Newcastle
- hundreds and hundreds have turned up here on the UKs biggest strike day day in a decade. Teachers, firefighters, nurses, lecturers are just some that have turned up demanding change 🪧✊🏻
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Trying not to sound ✨completely sarcastic✨reading the news yesterday
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Today is the biggest nursing strike in the history of the NHS ✊🏻
I’ve been at the picket line at the Queen Elizabeth Hospital in Gateshead. Nurses tell me it’s all about patient safety, fairness and protecting the future of the hospitals.
@RehanaAzam
@theRCN
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Reporting at the
@NXNewcastle
for Newcastle’s first match back in the Champions League in over 20 years 🤩
#NUFC
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Short voicer on
@KissFMUK
today on the inquest into the death of a
#Newcastle
student. Jeni Larmour was found dead in her uni accommodation after being given ketamine for the first time… her very first night in the city. Just 18 years old…
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The welcome to Newcastle I've been waiting for
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The UK's response to the pandemic is being investigated. It'll look at whether any of the thousands of deaths could have been prevented. The group that campaigned for this to happen
@CovidJusticeUK
want to make sure the voices of the bereaved are heard.
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Family hubs and better skills…
@MichaelGove
’s answer to dealing with children getting involved with crime and improving prospects.
I spoke with him about levelling up the
#NorthEast
on a visit to Blyth today. 🔊
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