Darshna Soni
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Journalist. Communities Editor at #C4News . Lending an ear and giving a voice to communities across the UK. DM me if you’ve got a story to tell.
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“As a nurse, I encounter structural racism every day" Donna Kinnair on
#bbcqt
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Her full title is Professor Dame Donna Kinnair, but this was missed out of her name tag.
Hugh Pennington’s title - Professor - was not missed out.
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“We’ve come to apologise to everyone drinking here, what’s happening doesn’t represent us”
We’re at the Clumsy Swan in Birmingham, a group of young Asians heard the EDL were inside & came to confront them. Older guys in the community calmed things down and sent them home.
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NEW: The 22-year old woman who was arrested after holding up this anti-monarchy placard at St Giles' Cathedral has now been CHARGED “in connection with a breach of the peace",
@PoliceScotland
confirm.
Will appear at Edinburgh Sheriff Court at a later date.
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What an honour, I’ve interviewed one of the oldest surviving Muslim war veteran, 99-year-old Inayet Ali.
It’s often forgotten that 4 million people volunteered for the Indian Army to support Britain in its war effort and fight against fascism.
#RemembranceSunday
.
More on
#C4News
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Yet again tonight, the Education Secretary Gavin Williamson wouldn't come on our programme. During his 22 months and 9 days in the role, Mr Williamson has never spoken to
#c4news
.
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“Many believe that sari-clad women can’t run, I wanted to prove them wrong!”
Love this story 😍 Madhusmita Jena, a teacher from Manchester, ran the city’s marathon in this beautiful sari, in 4h 50. I find it hard enough to walk in a sari, let alone run 26 miles! Amazing 💪🏾
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This evil person is just that, he’s just a person. Please hold no hate that relates to any colour, sex or religion.”
Inspiring, beautiful words from Barnaby’s mum. Heartbreaking to listen to.
#NottinghamTogether
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“We are from one family. We settled here in this city together, we fought the racists together, we built it up together. The recent violence is not who we are as a city.”
Joint statement on Hindu / Muslim tensions in Leicester
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“What first attracted your friend, a pub landlord, to the opportunity to make millions of pounds making PPE for the NHS, something he’d never made before?”
@bbcnickrobinson
asks
@MattHancock
.
“I don’t know.. there was a massive shortage, demand went up. There’s been an inquiry.”
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“I can take you to streets in Oldham where no one speaks English.”
“Or they could speak two languages? Don't your own children speak another language?”
Exchange with Nigel Farage on
#r4today
, Mr Farage asked how he knows people he hears speaking another language have no English👇🏾
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Some students at the University of Leeds have occupied the Parkinson Building. They’re calling on management to meet with them to discuss the concerns of some about the return of Zecharia Deutsch, a university chaplain who recently returned from Israel after supporting the IDF.
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“What's your evidence that integration (of asylum seekers) isn't working?”
“I've seen it recently with the marches through London, where I saw some people who simply did not share British values.”
Robert Jenrick conflates issue of immigration with pro-Palestine marches
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This headteacher put £5,000 on his own credit card because the lockdown free-school meal vouchers aren’t working and he didn’t want his pupils to starve he tells
#c4news
.
“Each voucher had a 16-digit code to enter, we had 170 and none of the codes worked. The website was frozen.”
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3 years cancer-free 🥳
What a journey it’s been. Amazing care from the
#NHS
for which I’ll always be thankful, made some fabulous friends along the way.
If you’re going through it, don’t despair, things will get better - and your hair will grow back!
#cancersurvivor
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BREAKING: Coroner has ruled that
Awaab Ishak, aged just two, died as a result of severe respiratory condition caused due to prolonged exposure to mould in his home.
The coroner said this “should be a defining moment for the housing sector”- will it be?
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Only last weekend, my son was grumbling about poetry homework - so we watched this, my favourite performance of Talking Turkeys, and he was inspired to have a go at writing his own poem. What a fabulous role model Benjamin Zephaniah was in so many ways 💪🏾
RIP 💖
#turkeysunited
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UPDATE: A 74-year-old man was also arrested near Holyroodhouse in connection with a breach of the peace - he has also now been charged and is
due to appear before Edinburgh Sheriff Court.
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In
#Manchester
, we're glue and we stick together; Taxi drivers of all faiths worked through the night to help others
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Had a lot of haters coming at me over
#Leicester
. Most ridiculous (apart from those telling me to “go home”) are men telling me I must be married to a Muslim 🙄 Sorry to break it to you, we women have minds of our own and can see / hear / report what’s going on for ourselves 💪🏾
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“I literally just got an email, so I'm just in a state of shock…I'm out campaigning, my phones blowing up they've briefed the press, before they even had the decency to call me and talk to me.”
@faizashaheen
nearly in tears, says she’s no longer Labour candidate
#newsnight
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“In fact immigration and immigrants are part of the reason you CAN get an appointment with your GP”
@DrAmirKhanGP
uses facts and figures to demolish claims about immigration and the NHS made by Nigel Farage in last night’s episode of
#ImACeleb
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And now this:
🔴An anti-Royal protestor holding a poster with the slogan ‘Not my king’ has been pictured being led away by police 👇
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BREAKING: Five people have been arrested in connection with Sasha Johnson shooting They are aged between 17 and 28. All five have since been arrested on suspicion of attempted murder and remain in custody.
#BLM
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Good luck to 22-year-old Charanpreet Singh Lall from Leicester - he’ll become the first Coldstream Guard to take part in
#TroopingtheColour
wearing a turban.
The Guardsman hopes it will be looked upon as a “new change in history”.
Guardsman hopes to mark "new change in history" at Trooping the Colour
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“Meghan is the wrong type of character for the royal family”
“Harry is woke”
So much vitriol aimed at
#HarryandMeghan
on this
@bbc5live
phone in and in the papers today.
Wonder what they mean by “wrong type” innit 🤔
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His watch is ending.
An emotional day for everyone who works on
#C4News
, as the legend that is
@jonsnowC4
presents his last ever programme.
Tune in at 7pm.
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Context: we were there. Wasn’t indicative of general atmosphere of
#RochdaleByElection
. Meant to be celebration for voters who had democratically voted George Galloway. Then some reporters started asking about extremism after Sunak’s speech, so some people got fed up with media
A snapshot on Sky News this evening of the atmosphere in Rochdale in the wake of a divisive by election. Probably not the most fun
@SamCoatesSky
had ever had on a Friday night…
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Some personal news 🥰
Channel 4 News has continued to increase its presence in Leeds with a raft of new appointments.
Home Affairs correspondent, Darshna Soni, has been appointed to the new role of Communities Editor, based out of the Leeds newsroom.
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Big announcement from
#C4News
:
@krishgm
will be the main anchor from the studio in London, taking over from
@jonsnowC4
.
@cathynewman
becomes
Investigations Editor, but will also still present.
@mattfrei
will take the lead on major international stories.
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“The new counterterrorism commissioner said as a result of
#Palestine
marches there are no go zones for Jews in central London. I'm in central London now. I managed to get here without thinking I need to run away, so that's just an inflammatory thing to say”
@Baddiel
on
#c4news
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“I woke up & Mum told me to pack our bags. I was really scared.”
A schoolgirl in hiding with her family: her Dad is an immigration solicitor whose details were published on a far-right target list. My report with
@jogandshuttle
@sachincroker
@ilaria_cafaro
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A ten-year-old from Bradford has become one of the youngest victims of
#COVID19
. His father Mohammed has spoken to me about his devastating loss. His son, who had underlying health issues, had a lovely smile and was always happy Thoughts & prayers with his family & friends R.I.P
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Who remembers getting their head kicked in by the National Front, who went out P*** bashing? It was the backdrop to our childhoods as British Asians in 70s/80s. Channel 4 has commissioned a three-part doco series about it, Defiance: Fighting the Far Right
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“When your son tells you he's hungry & has no food. When he tells you he's dying every day and no one cares.What can I do as a father?”
Heartbreaking story of 16-yr-old Rafiq & his sister trapped at al-Shifa hospital, Gaza.
#c4news
has spoken to their father; Distressing images
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Happy Diwali to everyone who is celebrating today 🪔
In these troubled times, here’s to hope, positivity, light over darkness - and lots of yummy food shared with friends and family 💖
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“The Asian community up and down the country was under siege. It was about time we did something for ourselves. In the face of racist violence and injustice we fought back.”
This is OUR story. Please watch
#Defiance
Fighting the Far Right 9pm on Channel 4
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“We can’t have any Tom, Dick or Harry saying they want to come to this country because it’s nicer than their country”
Reform candidate in Birmingham, who came to this country from Malaysia, told me immigration is one of the most pressing election issues. Some residents disagreed;
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"We remember her today, as every day, with all our love. Our lives have changed forever and we live with the sadness of our loss. Sarah was wonderful and we miss her all the time”
The family of Sarah Everard pay tribute to her, a year since she was murdered.
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NEW: Entire Leicester City Council Labour group has unanimously called upon party leaders, including Keir Starmer, to call for a ceasefire and the end of collective punishment in Gaza. This after senior members including David Lammy held talks with them to address their concerns
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BREAKING: High Court rules that the government’s decision to scrap key recommendations from Wendy Williams’ independent review into the Windrush scandal was unlawful.
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There’s a huge police incident in Nottingham. I’m told that it involves a hotel which happens to be currently housing asylum seekers. Residents of the hotel told me they were asked by police to evacuate immediately.
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“Our guest told us there are too many Muslims in Birmingham, too many people with different skin colours. They’re just not used to it in Ukraine”
Tonight on
#c4news
, is enough being done to help integrate Ukrainian refugees and prepare them for life in multi-cultural Britain?
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“The PM will not let a foreign court get in the way of Rwanda policy.”
“You know it’s not a foreign court”
“Well, the Strasbourg Court the ECHR”
“It’s an international court. Foreign means it belongs to another country”
G’ment minister Michael Tomlinson corrected on
#r4today
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“Keir Starmer. This is for Gaza.”
George Galloway victory speech. He says his victory is a warning for Keir Starmer that Labour has lost the confidence of their voters.
#RochdaleByElection
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“It's great we've got Black & brown faces in high places, but it's really about policies and addressing systemic racism. This man (Hester) has no place in British politics, neither does his money. An attack on all Black women is an attack on all of us.” Lord Simon Woolley
#c4news
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“All I see is destruction.”
Starting now on Channel 4;
@Hind_Gaza
is a journalist reporting from Gaza. Over 200 days, Hind and other Palestinian journalists filmed Israel’s military assault in Gaza strip for
@C4Dispatches
- made by
@Basement_Films
.
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“Do you think cutting off food, water and electricity is within international law?”
Labour’s shadow attorney general
@EmilyThornberry
is asked on
#newsnight
. Her answer;
“I think that Israel has an absolute right to defend itself against terrorists”
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“I’ve felt at times I didn’t fit into this industry, it’s not just about race but also class. For anyone out there feeling the same, keep your head up, keep going. This award is for you too”
Inspiring words and a brilliant win for
#c4news
@SecKermani
journo of the year
#rtsawards
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This is my cousin,
@HashtagAdLtd
. Both our parents came to the UK as refugees from Uganda. Tonight, we are both nominated for an Asian Woman of Achievement Award
@awaawardsuk
. Rupa’s parents are tickled pink, as would my late Mum and Dad have been 🥰
Good luck everyone 🎉
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BREAKING: police officer Benjamin Monk has been found guilty of the manslaughter of former footballer Dalian Atkinson
#c4news
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Since we filmed with Inayet Ali, he has celebrated his 100th birthday 🥳
He is one of the oldest surviving Muslim war veterans. One of 4m people who volunteered for the Indian Army to support Britain in its war effort and fight against fascism.
#VEDay
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“Did you have curry? I can smell it.” For a TEACHER to point that out to you tears you apart.”
This interview broke my heart, especially when she recalled feeling so proud of herself when she knew some of the questions and put her hand up - but she never got picked
#Defiance
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“The Labour Party were us, they were our people. Not any more, that ship has sailed. We feel hurt..like a member of our family has let us down.”
Lots of debate about data in British Muslims poll. But away from Westminster, many tell me they’ve lost trust in the party.More at 7pm
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This is a hugely significant verdict. The first time a police officer has been convicted of manslaughter for a death in custody in nearly 40 years.
Benjamin Monk tasered Dalian Atkinson and then kicked him in the head while he was down on the ground.
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NEW: Statement from Essex Police:
We are aware of comments made during a Channel 4 News programme and we are urgently assessing them to establish if there are any criminal offences
#c4news
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“I can see people across the street hosting Ukrainian families, rightly so. But I can’t host my own Palestinian brother, that feels beyond upsetting”
Nadia El-Nakla, wife of Humza Yousaf, calls for a scheme like Homes for Ukraine for Palestinian refugees:
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Well done
#C4News
, leading on the daily tragedy of those crossing the Mediterranean in search of safety & a better life. International rescue operations aren’t generally mobilised for them. But tonight it’s still happening for the five missing on the Titanic tourist
#Submersible
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“Dear Mr Coates, thank you for rescuing me when I got trapped in the toilet. Love from Elsa in Y4.”
What a lovely tribute to Ian Coates! The school caretaker was killed in the Nottingham attacks. This was one of the messages left by a pupil on the road where he died. R.I.P
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Ofcom has dismissed complaints made about a Channel 4 News undercover investigation, which captured Reform UK volunteers expressing racist, Islamophobic and homophobic views
#c4news
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EXCLUSIVE: Meghan Markle faced credible threats to her life, says former head of counter terrorism
"There were many serious, credible threats against Meghan Markle emanating from the far-right?"
"Absolutely."
Former head of counter terrorism for the Met Police, Neil Basu, tells
@cathynewman
about the "disgusting and very real" threats Prince Harry and Meghan Markle faced.
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“Black peoples were put in one queue, white people in another.”
In war, some are more unequal than others.
African and Asian students tell
#C4News
of the racism they’ve encountered at the borders as they try to leave Ukraine.
#BlackInUkraine
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“You basically laid bare the Tory Party's problem.. you see ambivalence when it comes to Islamophobia. If the “they have got control” was related to Jewish people that would straightaway be called out as anti-semitism. But there's a double standard here.” Andy Burnham
#BBCLauraK
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The risk posed by right-wing extremists are to be included in the UK’s terror threat level assessment from now on.
The system will cover all forms of terrorism, irrespective of the ideology that inspires them including right-wing, N Ireland and Islamist.
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On April 12th, Dominic Cummings visited Barnard Castle to test his eyesight. He didn’t receive a fine for breaking lockdown rules.
Kasai Rahal did receive a fine on the same day, despite being a key worker for
@4FrontProject
. Coming up on
#C4News
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“If the UK wants to rip up the ECHR, which we helped to draft, we will be no different to China or Russia”
Lord Garnier tells
@cathynewman
Rishi Sunak should resist pressure from the Tory right over ECHR, after judges ruled Rwanda plan is unlawful.
#c4news
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“It’s not just the racist and sexist language, Frank Hester also said Diane Abbott should be shot. We've lost two MPs in recent years to violence. It's inexplicable we wouldn't clearly call out this language that is inciting others to violence”
@GavinBarwell
on
#r4today
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We only went and won it 🎉
Well done to my
#c4news
colleagues, the best in the business - producers
@ilaria_cafaro
@Stanleigh77
and shoot / edit
@jogandshuttle
and our head of home news,
@stuartmcteer
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Can totally see now that
@Misssusannahf
took inspiration from
@susannareid100
's reactions to
@piersmorgan
for her role. Brilliant!
#ThisTime
#AlanPartridge
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“You see Diane Abbott on the TV, and you just want to hate all black women because she’s there, and I don’t hate all black women at all, but I think she should be shot.”
Frank Hester, Tory Party's biggest donor, whose company got over £400m govt contracts
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After 25k complaints and a six month investigation, IPSO found that Jeremy Clarkson’s
#MeghanMarkIe
Sun column was sexist (but not racist) - the only sanction was that the newspaper had to flag the ruling on the front page. This is how the Sun has flagged it:
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As the procession for the Queen was taking place in London today, we filmed with a woman in Sheffield who was having to pawn her engagement ring to pay her bills. “People are still struggling,” she told me, “we are on the breadline here.”
Our report coming up on
#c4news
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“The colour of your skin is not to blame”
Why are young and healthy Black and Brown people dying disproportionately from
#COVID19
? Some people are keen to blame genetics, but that absolves them of the responsibility of addressing social and structural reasons.
#iscovidracist
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Newspapers all leading with the Nicola Bulley story - but not a single front page, apart from the i and the Guardian, mentions her family’s excoriating statement on the press.
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What a great city a Birmingham is. Thousands of people from all backgrounds gathered for
#BlackLivesMatter
demo, not a single arrest. Great policing by
@WMPolice
;
“The protesters were loud and passionate, and made their voices heard, but there were no arrests and no disorder”
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“Penny Mordaunt claimed that Britain would not be able to stop Turkey joining the EU.
As a former EU ambassador to Turkey, I can confirm that Turkey was not and is not in line for EU membership.”
Letter to Guardian from Michael Lake, former EU diplomat.
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“I’m Irish and I can’t stand what’s happening to the Palestinians… I’m outraged… I brought my children here so they can learn”
Just some of the reasons given by people from all backgrounds, of all faiths and none, who attended today’s
#Palestine
march in
#london
.
#c4news
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NEW: South London MPs including
@BellRibeiroAddy
are calling for the Met Police to immediately suspend the officer who shot Chris Kaba.
“It is incomprehensible that the officer who killed Chris is not suspended.”
#JusticeForChrisKaba
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The palace feel that
#MeghanMarkle
has “radicalised”
#Harry
, that she likes to “stir the pot” - says the BBC reporter on
#r4today
.
Radicalised? 🙄
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College confirms
#Manchester
victim Georgina Callander was in her second year of a Health and Social Care course.
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A man who killed his three neighbours by setting their flat on fire in Nottingham has been found guilty of murder. Fatoumatta Hydara, 28, Fatimah aged three and Naeemah aged one, all died.
This was a harrowing story which didn’t receive much publicity:
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A teenager named Ismael Maolanzadeh took his own life in a Home Office hotel while under of removal to Rwanda. The 19-year-old was found by his older brother Mustafa last year, after they fled Iran and crossed the Channel to the UK in a small boat. Sad story from
@LInvestigates
.
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“As Keir Starmer left the chamber he said an audible ‘thank you’ to the speaker... In a private meeting Starmer told the speaker Labour MPs must have the chance to vote for a ceasefire motion, or they could face threats in their constituencies.” Gary Gibbon on
#c4news
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Article in
@TheNewEuropean
-
@gameoldgirl
on the Daily Mail's reporting of migrants. Does this matter if newspapers are dying out? “Yes, their output sets the news agenda for broadcasters, influences politicians and is shared widely on social media.”
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I am absolutely not stockpiling. It’s just that being Asian, I can’t help but buy my rice and in 20kg sacks. Along with enough spices to open up a restaurant...
#panicbuyinguk
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Lovely tributes being made to A&E consultant Manjeet Singh Riyat. He has been described as “the father of the current Emergency Department” by his colleagues at the Royal Derby Hospital.
“Many will reflect on how his inspiration has shaped their own careers.”
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Blair Peach, a teacher, was struck on the head as police charged at him and others in ‘79. A Met Police report, released in 2010, concluded Peach was “almost certainly” killed by one of six Special Patrol Group officers. Nobody has ever been charged with his death
#Defiance
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Sad news, police say a body found in the River Humber is that of the missing Hull student Libby Squire.
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Sorry Chris, that’s nothing to boast about. The government’s big hitters choose to appear on BBC breakfast, but they choose not to face
@Channel4News
,
@GMB
or
@BBCNewsnight
. Wonder why 🤔
WATCH: The big hitters talk to
@BBCBreakfast
and do so every day. This morning it’s
@pritipatel
talking to
@mrdanwalker
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The ethnicity of people stopped in their cars by
@metpoliceuk
will be recorded from today, in a new six month pilot by the force - aim is to better understand proportionality. It follows a number of controversial stops by officers including of MP
@DawnButlerBrent
.
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“The past five years have been an ordeal for Dalian’s family. It has been even hard to sit through this trial and to hear PC Monk try to justify the force he used against our brother.”
Dalian Atkinson’s brothers outside court:
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An important story given current rhetoric around immigration. A lot of people I’ve met protesting about asylum seekers quote the Priti Patel line that most people coming here on small boats are economic migrants; Home Office admits no evidence for this:
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Lots of debate about
#NHS
crisis. Have to say, I’ve received fantastic treatment for recently-diagnosed breast cancer at
@nottmhospitals
over last few weeks, big up all the nurses and staff;
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“What's happening is a very deliberate strategy by this government to lurch to the hard right in order to try to prevent some of their MPs going off to join Reform. What used to just be a dog whistle is now frankly a bloody great foghorn”
@CarolineLucas
on
#bbcqt
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“Look after each other, your friends, the people around you. It’s so important…You need to be friends with everyone. You need to love everyone.”
Such beautiful, heartfelt, inspiring words from the families of Grace O'Malley-Kumar and Barnaby Webber. More on
#c4news
at 7pm.
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Happy
#Diwali
from the
Soni sisters...
...If you don’t hear from me for a while, it will be because I’m lying comatose after this food fest.
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