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!
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!
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.
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 👏
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.
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...
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!
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
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!
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
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
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!!
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
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...
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
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
📄 | 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
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
@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
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.
Day 2 16 week marathon programme. Two stone overweight. Knee needs an op. How long before the usual Achilles. hamstring, calf pull?
#toooldtoofattooslow
#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.
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"!
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
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.
@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!
@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
#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.