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Watch: Incredible moment
@LondonFire
Brigade fightfighters leaving
#GrenfellTower
brought to tears as they are clapped out by community.
@LBC
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I’ve covered protests of all sides which the Met police for a decade, compared to most forces around the world they are largely decent and fair. But this is bloody shocking and appalling.
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Breaking: After lots of gas and air I can announce that
#TrumpBaby
has been born, weighing in at 20ft tall!
@euronews
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These weren’t just perfectly written words to end a mammoth 11 days of broadcasting from around the country and the world, they were delivered with true feeling by Kirsty Young.
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Breaking: Big armed police response to car which has cashed into Parliament barriers we are now being moved back
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@LBC
Report from concert goer
@ChanelBrina
on what happened inside
#ManchesterArena
#ArianaGrande
concert:
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Or boy who suffered a severe childhood trama, who rebelled as a teen, publicly struggled through his twenties, finally tackled his mental health in his thirties, met a woman he loved who helped him to escape a life he never asked for nor clearly wanted.
People say I'm too critical of Meghan Markle - but she ditched her family, ditched her Dad, ditched most of her old friends, split Harry from William & has now split him from the Royal Family.
I rest my case.
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Ok who had
#BorisJohnson
downfall ending with Theresa May throwing some shapes to actual Craig David! 🤯
She is living her best life tonight!
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.
@realDonaldTrump
repeat a lie enough sometimes it becomes true, except when a picture clearly shows otherwise.
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Incredible detail from the Prince Harry
#PhoneHacking
Court case from
@BBCDomC
illuminating why
#PiersMorgan
really doesn't like Omid Scobie...
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Kirsty Young delivering this beautiful closing script on the verge of tears on the BBC…
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Remarkable blog from worried
#grenfelltower
residents association just a few months ago, note final paragraph with prophetic warning!
@lbc
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The sound of clapping across London tonight, boats on the Thames blowing their horns and the tops of buildings like the Shard in the distance glowing blue for our
#NHS
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@Number10cat
Larry up early, he’s seen this all before and is ready to get this over with 🐈
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Sir
@Mo_Farah
's full statement on being banned from the US and separated from his family.
More on
@LBC
on
#TrumpBan
#MuslimBan
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Don't mess with commuting Londoners at rush hour.
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Wait so the Chancellor has had a hoodie made with his own government program logo? This feels very undergrad freshers society stash, is he going to wear a HS2 one for site visits?
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Well at the end of another dramatic/groundbreaking/calamitous week in British politics Larry
@Number10cat
still sits proudly giving zero fucks.
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Exclusive: “I don’t know why anyone would want the job” - what Johnson says HM the Queen told him during his audience! The PM revealed it during a tour in Number 10 before being told off by staff not to repeat those things so loudly. 📷:PA
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Friend on the ground in Manchester says two loud bangs 20 minutes ago at Arena and lots of emergency services rushing since
@LBC
:
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Announcement of Prince Louis' christening this afternoon. Er the guests will be fed some 7 year old wedding cake... is this normal? 🎂👑
@euronews
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Extraordinary intervention (distraction tactic) from POTUS on the now settled case of
#CharlieGard
, US Doctor has said treatment won't work.
If we can help little
#CharlieGard
, as per our friends in the U.K. and the Pope, we would be delighted to do so.
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Paralympian Jonnie Peacock requesting to be removed from Penny Mordaunt’s video. Paralympic/Olympic footage rights clearance is an absolute minefield so will be surprised if they don’t get it pulled themselves…
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Incredible, one of the Prime Minister's own MPs is now banned from travelling to the US and she hasn't spoken out against the
#MuslimBan
@timothy_stanley
Had confirmation that the order does apply to myself and my wife as we were both born in Iraq. Even if we are not dual Nat.
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Britain 2018 - citizen exercising free speech (happens to be
@OwenJones84
) is being heckled, hurled homophobic abuse, taunted and pursuers by braying trump supporters outside Parliament. What’s happened to this place...
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VIDEO: Rabbi Shneur Cohen delivers coffees and pasteies to officers outside the
#Manchester
arena saying the city will come together:
@LBC
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Growing and noisy protest at the gates of Number 10 Downing Street. Police chatting about alternative routes in and out for new cabinet.
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Did she just “BeBest” shame her husband?
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I asked
#KingCharlesIII
how today’s events were on his walkabout at St James Palace. His response simply “Busy, busy”.
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The BBC really has put on a spectacular show tonight, yet another reason it’s important to have a strong national broadcaster owned by all of us 👏🏼📺🇬🇧
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Lead by two of the actresses from
@Channel4
’s Derry Girls and some cross party MPs,
@AmnestyNI
are marching across Westminster bridge with 28 suitcases. These represent the 28 women who still have to fly from NI to GB to access abortion in the rest of the NHS every week.
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VIDEO: PM appears to sing a little sorrowful tune as he re-enters Number 10 after announcing May handover:
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'End of Freedom' - an irresponsible headline from a paper owner by two brothers who literally own their own Channel Island for tax purposes and are utterly safe from all of this.
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Oxford Street has been incredibly quiet for
#BlackFriday
this morning but there are now some customers queueing outside John Lewis
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It’s frankly undemocratic for writings by the sitting Prime Minister to be locked away from the public behind a paywall. Cc
@Number10press
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VIDEO:
#JeremyCorbyn
arrives back at Labour HQ to cheers and singing from party workers.
@LBC
#GE2016
#BritainDecides
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Breaking: I have it from reliable sources inside Downing Street that Larry
@Number10cat
has been locked in the garden of Number 10 so he doesn’t steal the show 🐈
To be fair he didn’t look that impressed this morning...
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@LondonFire
@LBC
And another round of applause for
@LondonFire
Firefighters coming to
#grenfelltower
to relieve them.
@LBC
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Prominent Brexiteer Lord James Dyson patriotically reinvigorating British manufacturing then... 🤔
Dyson has opted to manufacturer its new electric cars at a new plant in Singapore.
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Icelandic volcanoes delivering some impressive drone content 🌋🇮🇸
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@stephenkb
Deep structural problem in TV newsrooms, guest bookers are often young recruits new to the industry with few contacts and are out under huge pressure to get guests by bosses. Fox et al are low hanging fruit, often v gettable and responsive because they aren’t doing anything else
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Just to clarify given some comments received, aware it was a vigil tonight but was comparing the Mets heavy handed tactics with how I’ve seen them cover large gatherings, usually in London protests. Also this was all avoidable if they had worked with the organisers of
@ReclaimTS
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-“Whers are you from? Are you even British, WHAT PASSPORT DO YOU CARRY?”
(Somewhat taken aback at how he’d turned)
-“What difference would that even make.”
He mutters expletives as he walks away.
Weird to have gotten to the “where are your papers” place for reporters.
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Watch: The moment doves are released at
#NottingHillCarnival
in memory of those who lost their lives in
#GrenfellTower
.
@LBC
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There will be real tension now between UK's MI5, MI6 and GCHQ and US intelligence agencies who we share info with as part of 5 Eyes
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If you haven't seen BNP candidate in the
#SouthShields
byelection yet she is quite something to behold
#ultimateirony
http://t.co/eMHe4bQNnq
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Gavin Barwell literally wrote a book called 'How To Win A Marginal Seat' and then lost the 4th most marginal seat in the country.
@LBC
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Leaks of this kind could jeopardise assets and informants around the world relied upon for our national security, may lead to holding back.
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Update: Larry has just set off north towards the St James Park. Possibly to see Her Maj about forming a new gov.
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9 extra police officers being drafted in to assist ahead of
#JulianAssange
hearing at Westminster Magistrates Court:
@euronews
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This really is quite an extraordinary call to
@mrjamesob
from a current civil servant:
'Stop it now, get up from your desks, walk away, no more.'
In an extraordinary call this serving civil servant urges his colleagues who are facilitating Boris Johnson's 'lies' to quit.
@mrjamesob
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@LBC
BREAKING:
@Number10cat
Larry arrives for
#reshuffle
, just gone in - Deputy Prime Minister is still available!!!
@lbc
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Just remembering how epic Suranne Jones was when she went nuclear with the truth bombs before walk away from the dinner table in Dr Foster
#Vigil
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Some personal news - delighted to be joining the BBC full time from next week at a moment when public service broadcasting is more important than ever.
DMs open for stories and tips!
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Beyonce leads a moment of silence at her concert tonight in Glasgow for
#PhilandoCastile
and
#AltonSterling
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I for one welcome the arrival of our would be future leader
#PritiPatel
!
More with
@ShelaghFogarty
and
@IainDale
on
@LBC
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VIDEO: Crowd now chanting "There's no plan" and anti Boris chants
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Little thread on what it’s like to be a reporter in UK in 2018: Just did a live for
@Euronews
on Whitehall talking about Boris Johnson’s reported comments. As I finished and was packing up a well spoken man confronted me. He hadn’t actually been around when I was broadcasting.
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I once fact-checked a lie told by Schapps on air at sky regarding the bedroom tax and number of bedrooms in his own home. His response was to circulate an attack dossier on me to right wing bloggers. Except he and his spad used his own LinkedIn to do it so I could see it was him.
This fella, who once told people his name was Michael Green, is now in charge of you and me proving our identity with a UK passport.
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“Who is the Prime Minister?” no longer a safe question for the NHS to test dementia/concussion.
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@LBC
Barrister saying the way medical cases are dealt with in court must change when like in
#CharlieGard
's case time is of the essence
@LBC
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@MayorofLondon
@SadiqKhan
hit some Sixes against former Pakistani international
@Mushy_online
bowling and
@SarfarazA_54
at the wicket with some disadvantaged children from the
@BritishCouncil
’s
#Dosti
program in Karachi.
@LBC
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Team
#Israel
being loudly booed as they pass this section of the Seine in the
#Paris2024
#OlympicGames
opening ceremony
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Latest:
@MayorofLondon
@SadiqKhan
has met with Pakistan’s Prime Minister raising women’s equality, trade opportunities post
#Brexit
and they discussed
#Trump
’s
#Jerusalem
move. The PM is a big fan of London’s tube which he uses on visits.
@LBC
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@LondonFire
@LBC
And free ice creams being given out at the end of Latymer Community Church service for
#grenfelltower
, 100s gathered under the westway road
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There will be crisis PR people looking at
#BoycottCocaCola
and
#BoycottMcDonalds
trending highly tonight with images like this wondering the reputational damage is worth the relatively small, in scale of their global profits, vs damage of staying in Putin’s Russia.
#Ukraine
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@megynkelly
Er you’d need 30 minutes to go through Ivanka, Don Jnr and Eric’s benefiting from the presidency...
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WATCH:
@MayorofLondon
@SadiqKhan
becomes the first British politician in a generation to visit both India and Pakistan in the same trip crossing at the Wadah Border checkpoint. The motorcade protection was pretty intense:
@LBC
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Falls to SNP’s leader in Westminster
@IanBlackfordMP
to once again ask the right questions at
#PMQs
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Greta Thunberg again helping the climate by revealing so many old, privileged, white, straight dudes to be the biggest snowflakes around ❄️...
What’s she done for peace, exactly? She’s got just very very angry about climate change, abused loads of adults & terrified millions of children.
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@LBC
VIDEO: Labour's Jeremy Corbyn after visiting
#GrenfallTower
victims leaves saying "we will get answers" describes it as "incredibly sad"
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Voxing in central London and struggling to find anyone under the age of 45 who has a mortgage to discuss impact of
#interestrates
...
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Shocking and brave audio tape from Britney Spears. She says she's forgoing big money offers from the likes of Oprah because it doesn't feel right to cash in on her treatment. She details the extent of the abuse and claims her family tried to kill her during the conservatorship:
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Rory Stewart leaving cabinet for the last time confirms to me he’s ready to send in his resignation letter ahead of Boris’ expected victory:
#borisday
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Wow, niche fact of the day for anyone else who went to
@durham_uni
-local boy Dominic Cummings used to help his uncle run Klute! For those not in the know it’s a converted rowing boathouse once dubbed Europe’s 2nd worst night club, then the worst burnt down making it defacto No1
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Factcheck: I was at the interview location,
@skynews
’ IFB phone dropped the call so he could no longer hear the presenter. He waited for them to fix the problem and then came back up to recommence the interview after a package. Few politicians would have stuck around
Keir Starmer’s face when he’s asked to confirm Labour’s Brexit position.....
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Casually ignoring Andrew Neil being the Chairman of The Spectator...
In only twenty years trust in the BBC has crashed from 80% to 44%. I'd hazard a guess that it is things like this -BBC journalists included in openly partisan takes- that plays a role ...
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@LBC
@Number10cat
BREAKING:
@foreignoffice
cat Palmerston
@DiploMog
has just arrived on Downing Street for the
#reshuffle
!
@LBC
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The Union Jack has been lowered to half mast and the
#NewZealand
flag has been raised above Downing Street following this morning’s horrific terror attack.
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Latest: Kensington Palace issues response to TMZ story that Meghan Markle’s father will now not attend the
#RoyalWedding
following allegations he staged paparazzi photographs:
@euronews
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Corbyn "I ask our media as good journalists to just report what we say".
So no fact-checking, analysis, questions for all sides then?
#GeneralElection19
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#Brexit
Latest: Dominic Raab writes to shadow Brexit Secretary Keir Starmer seeking to clarify/embarrass Labour over its confusing party position:
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Just interview Tim Farron following his appearance on
#Peston
asked him to clarify whether gay sex is a sin 11 times, 11 times he refused to
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New SNP MPs appear to be attaching their parliament passes to Yes Scotland lanyards from the indy ref
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#AbigailsParty
is on BBC4 right now and back on iPlayer, if you’ve never seen it it’s absolutely brilliant, Alison Steadman is a tour de force
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A rare statement from the Royals that really packs a punch - Harry and Meghan to take legal action against the Mail on Sunday:
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The Queen and Paddington Bear starting the percussion off for Queen’s We Will Rock You - what an opener!
#PlatinumPartyatthePalace
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Inaccurate from
@TheSun
, I was on the media platform not only did he bow, he said the Our Father+sang the anthem
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