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🚨Thrilled to be appointed to the new role of
@DailyMirror
Exec Editor (Weekends). Still editing my beloved Sunday Mirror on Saturdays, my remit will now extend to all weekend content across Mirror print & digital platforms as we build our brand into the future. Exciting times 🗞️
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EXC: Tory MP & former minister Jonathan Djanogly had 2 live-in servants win legal battles over unpaid wages while working at his £7m home. Court heard they worked 13h days under onerous demands & had their min wage salaries unlawfully withheld in case against his wife. Shocking.
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Delighted to be named editor of the Sunday Mirror & The People. It’s a huge honour to take up the proud traditions they’ve held for many decades: agenda-setting news, fighting for social justice & lots of fun. Thrilled to join such a strong line-up of female editors on Fleet St.
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EXCL: 26 of Couzens’ Met colleagues convicted of sex crimes in last 5 years. 5 offended while on duty. 2 quietly jailed weeks after
#SarahEverard
murder.
#CressidaDick
ignored written warning of sexist culture from top female cop the week Sarah died. *How* can this happen?
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So this is it… even the Sun is coming out for
@Keir_Starmer
’s
@UKLabour
tomorrow. But never forget the
@DailyMirror
was on the right side of history from the start. As the party conference guide last year said: we liked you before it was trendy ❤️🌹.
#timeforchange
@labourpress
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Really honoured sporting legend Dame Kelly Holmes came to the Sunday Mirror to speak openly about being gay for the first time.What an inspiration for all members of the LGBTQ+ community &those in sport who may feel they have no voice. Happy Pride Month 🌈
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The complainant who spoke to the Sunday Mirror described how she was frequently brought to tears by her bosses and was shocked such treatment could occur under the roof of an elected MP
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The two women were both given an extraordinary manual of tasks to be completed including over 100 words just on the rotation of avocados between the fruit bowl and the fridge 🥑
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Incoming from
@LizzyBuchan
- Tory minister Tom Pursglove seen canvassing with suspended sex-claim MP Peter Bone 48 hours after he was suspended. The arrogance and stupidity is staggering.
EXCL We caught brazen Tory minister door-knocking with flasher MP Peter Bone
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The manual demanded they answer the phone within four rings, keep bosses updated on expiration dates of items in the fridge via WhatsApp and fill in pages of task sheets to avoid anger from their boss.
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Aspiring journos: don't be put off. I'm dep ed of a national paper. Neither myself/the editor/news ed/pic ed/most reporters were privately educated. This is total myth and is putting people off/stifling diversity in our industry. Work hard, seek experience it's all here for you.
Would I be in the position I'm in (journalist/editor, living in London, masters graduate) without going to private school? Absolutely not, and that's the exact problem
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Home Secretary James Cleverly joked about sedating his wife with illegal date-rape drug rohypnol behind closed doors in Downing St hours after launching plans to toughen up drink spiking laws. He said it was to stop her from realising there were better men out there. No shit.
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The Sunday Mirror was proud to give
@gareththomas14
a safe platform to reveal his HIV status on his own terms, in his own time & was categorically no part of a “witch hunt” by another newspaper who threatened to out him against his will before he came to us for help
#fortherecord
After being blackmailed for £250,000 and a media witch hunt to expose my HIV status, three years ago I was forced to tell the world that I was living with HIV. Now for those very same reasons I am forced to come forward again today.
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Sunday Mirror EXCL: Boris Johnson had intimate affair with US entrepreneur Jennifer Arcuri behind wife's back while he was Mayor. It lasted 4 years, she was in love &says he SHOULD have declared relationship as GLA investigation continues:
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EXCL: Harry’s army instructor says tale of cockpit heroics in
#Spare
is “total fantasy” & “dramatised” for his book ✈️. Brave victim of rapist cop Carrick will sue the Met over missed chances to snare him ⚖️. Plus Beyoncé plans tour to rival Madge 💃🏽 AND every game, every goal ⚽️
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One of those days where I feel humbled to do my job. Two papers and two 32-page souvenir pullouts from the best team in Sunday journalism.
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Overwhelmed by DMs tonight re: my new role as editor of the Sunday Mirror & The People. Thanks so much - I will reply - & thanks to my bosses
@Mirror_Editor
&
@MirrorAlison
for making it happen & to exiting editor Paul “Hendo” Henderson who I think we can all agree is a legend!
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@TheSun
Why is the fact that he is Muslim in this headline? I mean, seriously. It's embarrassing.
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If you read one thing today, make it
@NigelNelson
's Sunday Mirror report on LGBTQ+ troops stripped of medals, pensions &pride just because of their sexuality. I didn't realise being gay was a crime right up until 2000 by the armed forces
@fightingwpride
🌈
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I get the bitching about the “roadmap” but even after a crap day off (working all day) I’m SO much more positive than I have been for ages. I have a date in the diary to see my parents &sister, booked a hair cut, booked in for my vaccine & a table at my fave restaurant. COME ON!!
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Congrats on your amazing achievement
@gareththomas14
!Honoured that you came to us and trusted
@TheSundayMirror
&
@DailyMirror
with your most closely kept secret. Glad that your hope in newspapers has been restored & look forward to seeing what we can do next to help this cause x
Thank you Tenby. Yesterday was not about me, it was about you, and you delivered, and some!!!i can’t write this without thanking Peter Willis and
@MirrorGemma
of the
@DailyMirror
for all their support and giving me hope in a system that took me to the edge.xx
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Day two of Jennifer Arcuri’s bombshell interview about her affair with Boris. He invited her to marital home where he recited Shakespeare and had sex while his wife was away. Our PM, ladies and gentlemen.
#buyapaper
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Never been more proud to work with the best team on Fleet Street than today, making history by getting the Sunday papers out from our homes for the first time, in order to shield the vulnerable from
#coronavirus
What a day!
#buyapaper
@DailyMirror
@MirrorAlison
@Mirror_Editor
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A joy & an honour again yesterday to work on this great paper. What a moment to cover. Proud to be the only paper on the newsstand with both Biden AND Harris on our front page this morning. This is massive for the left, for women and for women of colour
#timetoheal
@DailyMirror
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The best of the best. Amazing journalist, amazing colleague, best deputy anyone could hope for & an incredible friend. Everything that is right about the media industry. I couldn’t have done the last three years without you
@DailyMirror
won’t be the same again
@Angela_Wormald
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Proof in today’s Sunday People that old-fashioned campaigning journalism still moves people and makes a difference as a reader touched by our
#SaveOurSoldiers
coverage has donated £100k to fund counselling and mental health services for veterans.
#buyapaper
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EXCL: Boris jets off to Marbs on luxury getaway as UK suffers fuel, energy and supply chain chaos. What Costa living crisis?
#buyapaper
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Three years today since I edited my first two Sunday papers solo. I’ve literally no idea where that time has gone but what a blast. Then and now:
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Regardless of your positioning on the political spectrum,
@BorisJohnson
is an absolute embarrassment and an unmitigated failure of a PM. And he doesn’t even care.
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Delighted
@wesstreeting
has come back fighting after a cancer diagnosis at 38. Looking forward to seeing him take on his Shadow Cabinet role. I can think of no one better to tackle child poverty. Exclusive interview in the Sunday Mirror tomorrow
This week I sat down with Sunday Mirror editor
@MirrorGemma
to talk about my journey with cancer, what it’s taught me, and why I’m even more determined to fight for our NHS and to end child poverty.
Read it online here and in tomorrow’s paper:
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Can’t believe Accessorize is closing. It’s the end of an era. One where every female felt compelled to buy an extra pair of flip flops, earrings and plastic sunglasses before every long distance train/plane journey, “just in case”. Sad times.
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For clarity: the officers who committed offences *on duty* did so since 2010. The 27- including Couzens - were convicted since 2016. Dick took up her job in 2017. The senior female officer who wrote to her of sexism did so a day after Sarah’s body was found. She never heard back
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Cummings broke lockdown TWICE, once AFTER return to work in London. A Police & Crime Commissioner now calls for Boris to sack him but PM stands by his man & No10 wilfully ignore this shocking behaviour. Smacks of fear to fire man who knows where bodies are buried via
@PippaCrerar
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Our unstoppable
@pippacrerar
reveals another reckless, rule-breaking festive party held by former Tory cabinet minister Gavin Williamson &staff last December. Comes in wake of her revelation about No10 Christmas bash last week. How can anyone still trust this government?
#scoop
EXCLUSIVE: Former Education Secretary Gavin Williamson broke Covid rules by holding a festive party at work in the run up to last Christmas.
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Well, it’s been a blast
@alisonp_journo
! No one I would rather have worked for these past 12 years, highs and lows included. A true legend, and what a legacy. Onwards 👊🏻 ❤️
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After a pandemic at home then months of part-time, socially-distant office days, today was my first return to a full-capacity newsroom & it was everything. The shouting, the catch-ups, the “have you read X?”/“we should do Y!”.The impromptu “have you got a min to chat re: Z?” 🌇❤️
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Never been a believer in God, heaven etc but at the end of 2 long days in a newsroom covering the Queen’s death (& before an even longer one tmw) I’m feeling a bit wobbly-bottom-lipped thinking of her reunited with the DofE somewhere. Maybe because I hope my grandparents are ❤️
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I still can’t quite believe it. A man whose warmth and gentle nature were a rarity. Many memories. Rest in peace, Peter.
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@danwootton
I can't stop watching it. It's when he clarifies that he's actually from Wolverhampton (ie not Boston via Dublin and Liverpool). Also, he needs to stop calling actors "emoters".
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YESSS LADS!!!!!! Totally buzzed after that. What a day to edit two national newspapers. What a team we have - and the Lions aren’t bad either!
#ItsComingHome
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If you believe in luck enough to buy a lottery ticket but not enough to realise it's the only thing separating your fate from that of a refugee fleeing everything they know for a chance at safety, you need to rethink. We need safe passage for those fleeing
#Ukraine
urgently.
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Can we take a minute to appreciate the genius of this timeless, seminal album pls? Beautiful AND important. Love, politics, religion - it’s all there. Belter.
#MarvinGaye
#vinyloftheday
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Happy New Year! Ending 2020 definitely not having achieved a lot of the stuff I planned but we have to look at the positives. On balance I feel so extremely lucky. Bought my first place - in London! - started my second year deputy editing two papers I love, and SURVIVED! ❤️
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Watched
#Scoop
at last. A great reminder of the power of journalism and the reason most of us came into this game: to do things that matter, hold power to account, get to the truth and ultimately tell proper stories. Also a great watch.
Bravo
@SamMcAlister1
👏🏻
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So proud of our team on the Sunday Mirror this week. Incredible despatch from one of the UK’s most overstretched ICUs by
@amylsharpe
and
@adam_gerrard
plus emotive first exclusive with Babs Windsor’s brave widower via
@HalinaWatts86
on how Boris has betrayed her
@DailyMirror
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So shocked NZ is only the 2nd country to make paid bereavement leave for parents of miscarriages & stillbirths LAW. No matter the age or term of a child you lose, you have a right & a physical need to grieve & this needs to be recognised just like maternity leave. It starts here.
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Last Sunday Mirror before a life-changing, nation-changing, fortune-changing election. Before you cast your vote, never forget what has happened in the last 14 years. It’s time for change and you will only get it if you vote for it. Be on the right side of history. VOTE LABOUR 🌹
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Okay, the heating is on. No one tell my mum. I have broken the sacred October Half Term Rule.
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EXCL: 🗞Boris flew 1200 miles in 2 weeks on a Tory donor’s private jet including 2 flights a day after his speech at climate summit.
🗞Katie Price says sorry for her drink-drive crash 🗞 Keir Starmer backs our Stop The Care Crisis campaign. ⚽️ Every game, every goal
#buyapaper
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And we made it. A day I’ll remember for the rest of my life. What an absolute privilege to edit a newspaper on a day like to day! And even more so, what a privilege to work with the most incredible team of journalists I could wish for. King Charles III Coronation: DONE.
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In honour of Mirror man, my former boss, first Editor I deputised to, Peter Willis: Purple Rain is
#vinyloftheday
. Tales of Pete’s legendary trip to stay with Prince at Paisley Park were folkloric in the office. He told them so well they’ll live on for years. This one’s for him.
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It’s an honour to edit papers like these when so many are giving up their safety to fight for their freedom. Extraordinary journalism on the ground from Mirror men
@andylines
@SnapperStenning
@Patrick_Hill_
@Qjava
& in London from the rest of the team. We stand with Ukraine.
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First ever footage of Tories breaking lockdown rules in
#partygate
and laughing about covering it up, live on
@DailyMirror
now. Full story in tomorrow's Sunday Mirror via political editor
@johnestevens
and Whitehall Correspondent
@mikeysmith
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It’s a damning picture of endemic sexism and criminal activity in the largest force in the country, stretching back over a decade, with a bleak chapter since its current chief took over. Reform is desperately needed.
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Great to see the Sunday Mirror shortlisted for the Excellence in Diversity award in the
@PressAwardsuk
for our breadth of content representing all communities & our commitment to a diverse & inclusive newsroom culture.
#diversity
#inclusion
#journalism
@ReachPress
@ji_hump
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Ah, the comforting creaking of an 800ft building swaying in gale-force winds
#officelife
#CanaryWharf
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If someone gave me 30 grand to spend at John Lewis I would die of happiness.
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A pleasure to guest lecture for the
@sheffjournalism
masterclass series this morning. Some insightful questions & a nice trip down memory lane for me! Thanks for having me
@Mrawlins1974
🖊 📝 🗞
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Djanogly didn’t engage when we asked for comment on the 2 women who won legal battles for pay after working at his home. A judge upheld complaints over the women’s withheld cash. Contracts were with his wife but the treatment happened under his roof. How is not also accountable?
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Merry Christmas from me to all of you. Thanks for all your support in my first year in my dream job of editing the Sunday Mirror & The People. On edition for the last issues of the year today, then time to breathe for a few days before doing it all again on NY Day. Love to all x
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Show me a more dystopian sight than Turbine Hall at the Tate Modern turned into a mass vaccination centre in a fight to save the world from a deadly virus. Feels like Atwood or Orwell. Crazy.
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Lazy Sunday after a looong week. And very much looking forward to my first day off since I started as Editor of the Sunday Mirror & The People, this week. It’s been quite a four months!
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The deluge of skyline and sunset pics following the return to Canary Wharf for Mirror staff this week make me smile. I wonder how long the novelty will last...
#backtowork
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Mirror excl: Met police to review decision to charge Caroline Flack with assault ahead of her suicide as IOPC says “new witness evidence may be available”. Mum Christine tells us: “We won’t stop until we get the truth.” via
@Laura_onSunday
and
@MirrorTom
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Surround yourself with kind people. That’s the most important thing. And try not to listen to false kindness. I am so lucky to have some very very kind people in my world right now. Long week, long day, but feeling very happy 😊❤️
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Important and deeply troubling investigation by
@geraldine_mck
@ljconnorjourno
and
@adelajourno
in the Sunday Mirror tomorrow.
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Goodbye to 2022, year of light& shade. My 10th year at the Sunday Mirror, 2nd as editor: done. Extraordinary 12 months of highs& lows in the newsroom& in life. Grateful for the love& success it brought& ready to leave behind the rest. Entering 2023 with hope& determination.
#HNY
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What 94 teenagers taught me about the future of journalism this week 👇🏻
#socialmobility
#ReachPotential
@ReachPress
Sunday Mirror editor
@MirrorGemma
writes: As the industry faces a talent shortage, it’s on us to show young people why journalism can still be the best job in the world
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Finally sitting down to the papers with a glass of wine before
#HappyValley
finale. All of life is in these pages
#buyapaper
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I’m out. See you on the other side - older and wiser as 40-year old! 🥂☀️
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Well this is rather misleading given the London office being closed by Daily Mirror publisher Reach does not house, er, the Daily Mirror newsroom. Or the Express. Or The Star. Canary Wharf office will be reopening. We will be in the newsroom in that office.
Exclusive: Daily Mirror publisher Reach to close London office and make most staff permanent home workers
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Very proud to hear the Sunday Mirror is nominated for Sunday Newspaper of the Year at the
@PressAwardsuk
. Congratulations also to my
@DailyMirror
colleagues for their well-deserved nominations.
@johnestevens
@MirrorTom
@NadaFarhoud
@SnapperStenning
@MirrorAlison
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Three rare reporting/writing roles going on the Sunday Mirror/People team at the moment. Senior and entry level candidates needed. Based in Canary Wharf newsroom 2/3 days a week and on the road/from home the rest of the week. Get in touch for more info.
#journojobs
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I’ve worked on many emotional stories & am now pretty hardened to them but occasionally one hits me unexpectedly. Reading
@HalinaWatts86
@DailyMirror
interview with
@VinnieJones65
on losing the love of his life yesterday, I welled up at my desk for the first time in years 💔
#love
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Great writing in the Sunday Mirror today from
@brixtonbard
Alex Wheatle as we remember the Brixton riots 40 years on and examine why there is still so much to be done to stamp out institutional racism and improve race relations in UK.
#buyapaper
👉🏻
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The Partygate tapes - watch online and read all about it in tomorrow’s Sunday Mirror. Great teamwork by our wonderful newsroom today.
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Me: I’ve got to be back in the office at 7am tomorrow.
Her: Cool cool. I’ll just make us a little mojito.
Little. 🍹
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Along with our amazing staff, trusted & talented freelancers like
@SheronBoyle1
are absolutely vital to our papers &to making sure we’re covering important stories nationwide, which reflect all our readers’ communities. Two heartbreaking stories here today.
#buyapaper
#journalism
Two stories I am privileged to write to give a voice to voiceless women. One in
@TheSundayMirror
paper, other in its mag, Notebook.
#journalism
#crime
#Covid
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Yes to places that serve Sunday brunch til 5pm. And to the friends that want scrambled eggs and bubbly in the afternoon.
#latenightworking
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Incoming coffee much-needed but what a night. Every year it makes me proud - not just of the incredible award winners but of The Mirror &all the people who work so hard to make it happen. Now, I’ll see you in a few hours (PS can the clocks go back every Sat pls?)
#prideofbritain
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At odds with the national mood here but woke with the lark today after an amazing night’s sleep, full of positivity. Sounds smug but feel I’ve *finally* broken the back of about a month feeling constantly stressed &full of inexplicable dread. Pls don’t kill my vibe at 11, Whitty
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Work 11 hours on Christmas Day, finally have a day off tomorrow to spend with loved ones and can I sleep? 3.30am and counting...
#twitterinsomniacs
#MerryChristmas
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2021 brought unexpected joy, unanticipated sadness, successes, challenges & opportunities beyond what I ever hoped. Most of all it left me in awe of the incredible team at the Sunday Mirror & The People who work so hard to achieve the unachievable every week THANK YOU
#buyapaper
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Cummings’ analysis of men in Whitehall being promoted way beyond their ability reminds me of a kind of bloke I met a lot at Cambridge -averagely intelligent but went to the right schools, knew the subjects to apply for, coached for interview&had enough entitlement to fill the gap
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Extraordinarily moving and important journalism by
@storyforgrace
in tomorrow’s Sunday edition of
@DailyMirror
. Five years on, other publications may have forgotten but we have not.
Five years ago we were shocked when a little boy’s body washed up on a beach. Where is our humanity now ? Thanks to
#AlanKurdi
dad Abdullah and aunt
@TimaKurdi
for talking to us
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