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John Mullin
2 years
Anyone else find Miriam margolyes slightly tedious?
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Piece of piss
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John Mullin
4 years
After five really enjoyable years, am saying cheerio to brilliant colleagues @Telegraph and @TelegraphSport - thank you for all your help and bailing me out on a daily basis. Great journalists and fab people. Going to miss you all!
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4 months
Very very VERY proud dad moment. Ruby and her brilliant team-mates go in the Oxford lightweights vs Cambridge at 1414 today. To say I am a jangle of emotions would be an understatement. MON OXFORD!
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4 years
This incredible piece by Sue Martin is as moving as her astonishingly moving and brave piece on the Today programme. I so hope Mal somehow comes through it.
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3 years
Year 9! Incredible
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Ballyclare High SEN (L. Smith)
3 years
My wee one in year 9 has given me permission to share her first oil painting - I mean I'm speechless... 13 years old... she just amazes me - art is a type of therapy for her ❤ I think her art teacher Mrs Conlon will be happy too... well done Zara 9E 👏
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Clive Myrie pitch perfect at the Royal London Hospital. There have been lots of great broadcast pieces. None better than that. #bbcnews
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2 years
Jeremy Bowen. What a reporter. BBC has been magnificent
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John Mullin
8 years
In all of this Corbyn bashing, please remember who exactly was responsible for calling a completely unnecessary referendum.
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John Mullin
5 years
Good luck me
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John Mullin
4 years
Don't give up!
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Amanda Lees
4 years
So my brilliant kid, who spent 5 years in and out of hospital and is disabled, had her teachers’ grades marked down and has lost her place at university. She got straight As at GCSE, mostly teaching herself in hospital. She called the uni. They said they’re full. I give up.
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John Mullin
3 months
730 km in six days? 10000m climbed? No problem…
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John Mullin
5 years
It's done
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John Mullin
3 years
This morning’s view
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John Mullin
4 years
35 years ago today, I started my first job in journalism....
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5 years
I am quite jealous of folk tweeting pix of their dad today. Just realised I don't have a single photo of him. Forty years dead in August. Wish he had met my kids...
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1 year
One down, two hundred and eighty-one to go!
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John Mullin
5 years
Quite a Scottish result at nyc marathon, in it's own way. 4 hours 53 - credible. But owing to a little case of passing out at the end, not a single photo!
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John Mullin
10 years
Hats off to @BBCJamesCook - chaired Referendum Debates with integrity, impartiality & great ability. Brilliant at #bigbigdebate #bbcindyref
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John Mullin
4 years
What has happened to personal responsibility in public life?
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John Mullin
3 years
Found this going through my mum’s stuff. Fantastic.
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John Mullin
5 years
It wasn't a piece of piss of course. Really hard and slow time. But it is 21 years since my first and I am substantially heavier. And i was v v unfit in january. Pleased, in circs
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John Mullin
3 years
Wondered when Jimmy nesbitt was going to show up
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John Mullin
5 years
On Father's Day, as others posted pix with their dad, I self-pitingly bemoaned a dearth of any of me and him. For my Christmas - and what would have been his 92nd birthday! - my lovely niece tracked down two. This one captures me perfectly. Thanks, Lucy! Happy birthday, dad!
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John Mullin
9 years
Delighted to say back in the game as Head of Sports News at The Telegraph. Looking forward to working with the best sports team in Britain!
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4 months
Michael Sheen is SO sweet on The Assembly. Lovely
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John Mullin
7 years
I remember when we were proud of social housing, and so were the council. Not perfect, but safe. What a disgrace this is, in so many ways
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John Mullin
5 years
Getting a bit scared now...
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John Mullin
3 years
Great piece. Top reporter
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Camilla Tominey
3 years
I was asked to write about my experience of covering this story, being trolled over bridesmaids dress tears and why freedom of the press is more important than ever. Today’s @Telegraph Magazine cover: #Harry , #Meghan and me: my “truth” as a #royal reporter
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1 year
What an utterly incredible achievement the Good Friday agreement was, and what an extraordinary privilege to have covered it.
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John Mullin
2 years
Look what I got ⁦ @AndyRit54644344 ⁩ !!!
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John Mullin
1 year
I appear inadvertently to have ‘retired’. It’s been 12 hours. Bored already
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John Mullin
3 months
Off to cycle from the top to the bottom of Portugal tomorrow. Wish me luck!!!!
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John Mullin
4 years
The most magical pic ever!
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John Mullin
7 years
Best pol journalist I worked with and best appointment I ever made @janemerrick23
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John Mullin
6 years
I like his line _ 'you don't climb into a spitfire. You strap it on' _ at 18, he was flying them. 18!!
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Trevor Beattie
6 years
“You can’t fly a Spitfire and forget about it. Stays with you forever. Stays with you forever.” RIP Geoffrey Wellum. Hero. Forever.
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John Mullin
3 years
So sad to learn of the death of David Randall. He was a brilliant journalist and a fabulous colleague. There isn’t a newspaper in the world which wouldn’t be better if he were working for it. A true one off. Deepest sympathies and love to Pam and his boys. @UniversalJourno
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John Mullin
5 years
So I am about to cycle the length of Ireland, 560 miles over seven days for Brain Tumour Research, inspired by my good friend Lennox, a lovely boy and my hero. Torrential rain is predicted. Don't laugh. I am a bit nervoud Please sponsor an old bloke. Thanks!!
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John Mullin
5 years
I'm fundraising for @braintumourrsch using @JustGiving . Check out my page #JustGiving
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John Mullin
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Well, that’s it. 22 years after the first one first went to school, the last one’s finished up.
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John Mullin
6 years
11 - that's E*L*E*V*E*N - MILES. And me an old bloke!
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6 years
The shame of it! Ran out of puff on long run. Bus home!
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John Mullin
5 years
We truly are shafted. What a shower
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John Mullin
5 years
Two years without a drink today. How odd
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John Mullin
7 years
He was one when we last qualified...
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John Mullin
2 years
This is sensational
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John Mullin
6 years
The wonderful Simon Ricketts. Clever, funny, big-hearted, top top lovely bloke (and, as if it mattered very much, very, very good at his job - grandad would be VERY proud). Thinking of you. Lots of love xxx
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Goodnight Simon. Will make the loudest noise ever for you. Banging out - When I was about 11 years old, I was excited to go on trip to London with my family. In...
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John Mullin
4 years
Was amazing, that. But I dare say NHS staff would rather have PPE. A week after we were told there was enough in the system and it was just a matter of distribution, we are still putting front line staff's lives in danger - and hindering the fight
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John Mullin
7 years
A Scottish football legend, and Andy Ritchie @Morton_FC @GMFC_Fans
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John Mullin
8 years
You can keep your Olympics, Paralympics, Premier League, champions league etc etc. Morton are in the semis of the Scottish league cup
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John Mullin
4 years
Still breathing
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My boy was one the last time we played at a tournament. He’s 23 now
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John Mullin
5 years
@jonronson The last episode is one of the most affecting pieces of TV I can remember
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John Mullin
5 years
To be fair, proper achievement
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John Mullin
3 years
Forty years ago today at 20 past three
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Leon
5 years
Andy Ritchie with THAT goal. @Morton_FC @AberdeenFC
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John Mullin
4 years
This is the whole point about the 'we follow thd science' mantra. It effectively legitimises all sorts of bad decision making
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Alex Wickham
4 years
Interesting line from senior Whitehall source They say "there is no single science" and PM has been guided by Whitty and Vallance, who are just two experts. Other experts took different views at different points Source says questions will rightly be asked of our experts later
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MON E TON!!!
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Greenock Morton
6 years
📄 | MATCH PREVIEW | Morton are back at Cappielow tomorrow after three weeks away and host title favourites Ross County as the first- and second-placed sides in the @Ladbrokes Championship clash in the third round of fixtures: #Together #WeAreMorton
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Britain has been lucky to have the Independent on Sunday for 26 years
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John Mullin
4 years
Looking forward to Boris. Its like having two big games live on a bank holiday....
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John Mullin
5 years
So sad to hear this. Those words don't do it justice. She was such a one-off. So brilliant and so funny. Went so see her in hospital in obviously grim circumstances and she told me three of the funniest most Deborah stories ever. Proud to have known her. A life force. X
Award-winning columnist Deborah Orr dies aged 57
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@meropemills @BillNeelyReport Jesus. Unreadable and unputdownable. Beautifully, beautifully written. Devastation and white hot anger and helplessness in every word. How you somehow find the bridge back from your island one day X
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@martynziegler Only reason he ‘handled’ it is because Slovakian player is pushing him all over the shop
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John Mullin
10 years
@andy_murray Got nothing to apologise for, so please don't.You're a v good bloke. You gave millions the best day of our lives. Thank you.
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John Mullin
5 years
The road to London 2020 starts here
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John Mullin
5 years
All of us from Glasgow of a certain age are deeply deeply saddened by Billy McNeil"s death. He - and the Lisbon Lions - were about much more than mere sport. It's about culture, history, better times, and, no matter your allegiance, who we are.
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John Mullin
10 years
@UpTheStakes : Wow! An article in 2002 predicting future Belgium stars! http://t.co/HYiPHuVNAV” >>>This has got to be fake, right?
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IT’S BRILLIANT BEING SCOTTISH!!!!
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John Mullin
6 years
Day 2 16 week marathon programme. Two stone overweight. Knee needs an op. How long before the usual Achilles. hamstring, calf pull? #toooldtoofattooslow
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John Mullin
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. @BBCJamesCook For those taking aim at this bloke, grow up FFS. A brilliant reporter. Scotland shd be proud to call him one of ours
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Beginning to think Morton can actually win this league. Massive game Saturday. @Morton_FC
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8 years
Channel 4 News miles ahead of anything on TV. Miles. Clever, interesting, just really bloody good
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John Mullin
6 months
It’s brilliant being Scottish. It’s brilliant being a Morton fan
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John Mullin
8 years
My fearless friend Jo Cox, a five-foot bundle of Yorkshire grit | via @telegraphnews
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John Mullin
8 years
First 10km after knee surgery. Might have been last but so relieved. Thank you, Simon Jennings
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John Mullin
6 years
few of us were still in the bar at the stormont hotel around this time
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Tides of History
6 years
#OTD Good Friday. Signed in 1998, the Good Friday Agreement brought an end to 'The Troubles' that had affected NI for thirty years. It set up a power-sharing assembly, governing by cross-community consent. Agreement in Belfast, London and Dublin ensured no hard border.
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John Mullin
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Well done, England, for giving us such a good game. I suppose we just had that bit more class, experience and history in the end #SCOvENG
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John Mullin
10 years
@CathLevett : Possible the most satisfying graphic I've ever produced: #MegaPenguin http://t.co/WkF1e9ospO” Colin! Colin! @ColinWilson68
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John Mullin
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One man's obsession brings joy to Morton faithful  via @telefootball
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John Mullin
3 years
Is this true @Jgs_x !!!???
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Neil Drysdale
3 years
Happy birthday to John Gordon Sinclair who is 60 today. For many of us of a similar vintage, he will always be the teenager who appeared in "Gregory's Girl" in 1981! He was also memorable on Scotland's 1982 World Cup song "We Have a Dream"!
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John Mullin
5 years
Glorious day at Richmond for a half marathon. Yikes!!!
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John Mullin
4 years
Here's an idea. Why not give them the ppe the need? And if you can't, you dont send them out
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The Independent
4 years
London to trial new way of using buses after 14 transport workers die from Covid-19
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John Mullin
8 years
Strange to think John Major was PM longer than DC
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John Mullin
8 years
Some of us knew - without hindsight - there were no WMD and that we were being played. Proud of what we did at The Indy back in 2003
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John Mullin
3 years
The Idle Idol, The King of Cappielow Park!
@ScotsFootyCards
Scottish Footy Cards
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@saramo : Dublin priest tells congregation he is gay –wins standing ovation http://t.co/wvIAV7BO6g. # Irish #gay ” terrific story this
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John Mullin
3 years
Morton score in 97th minute - first goal in six games! I was there!!!
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John Mullin
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Bloody hell - cricket is incredible. Why did no one tell me?
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6 years
Got something right...
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6 years
Exceptional
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John Mullin
1 year
Amazes me when you see some of these Tweets about Glasgow’s architecture - the pride and craftmanship that went into everything, even ordinary homes. Feels as if no one much cares anymore
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David Pratt
1 year
Spent today walking around my home city centre here in Glasgow. Can’t remember a time when it looked so beleaguered, filthy and neglected. Something seriously wrong here in comparison to so many European cities. Photo by the way is stock and far from representative.
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Still a lamentably poor time but eight mins better over 10k than last time and back under the hour. Got to take the positives!
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John Mullin
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@iainpope73 @neilwallis1 Ha! He would't have gone down well with Neville Stack at the Leicester Mercury. If you failed to date your letter of application according to house style, it went straight in the bin, unread!
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John Mullin
5 years
30 years ago: covering the fall of the Berlin Wall Today: wondering how many words we need on the Rugby League
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John Mullin
4 years
@alastairjam Oh Alastair. I am so so sorry to hear this. He was a Titan your dad. Brilliantly talented. What I admired most was his irrepressible enthusiasm for journalism. Deepest sympathies to you and your mum. X
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John Mullin
4 years
Utterly brilliant.
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Eamonn Mallie
4 years
#lostlives .. we are indebted to the industry of journalists – David McKittrick, Seamus Kelters, Chris Thornton, authors Brian Feeney and David McVea – this is a unique record of the circumstances surrounding the deaths of every person who died in The NI Troubles. You humble us.
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A joy to drive 650 miles round trip for two hours to see the son and heir and to spend virtually all of that time cleaning his clatty flat....
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John Mullin
1 year
Win on Tuesday and momentum will be unstoppable!
@gmfanspage
Greenock Morton Fans Page
1 year
TEAM. 💙
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John Mullin
2 years
21 years after the first, I am just about to go to my last parents’ evening…
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John Mullin
8 years
Astonishing doc on Dunblane. So upsetting and in a way so uplifting. What amazing, wonderful patents, sisters, teachers.
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John Mullin
9 years
To be fair, you'd like a friend to speak up for you the remarkable way @campbellclaret has spent the entire day doing for Charlie. Well done
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