Rosie Taylor
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Award-winning freelance journalist covering health and consumer issues. Podcast host: @motherbodies .
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It’s taken four years and a not-insignificant amount of therapy for me to be ready to do this, but as I’ve been writing so much about the crisis in maternity care, I thought it was important I shared my own story. So here goes... 🧵
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Feel so sorry for the couple valiantly trying to keep their over-tired toddler quiet on a packed commuter train.
Mother: Let’s be quiet, like a mouse
Toddler: *at top of his voice* SQUEAK, SQUEAK, I’M A MOUSE
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Anyone who thinks “the media” plots Machiavellian global schemes should spend a week in a newsroom. Once you’ve witnessed news and features forgetting to talk to each other and Xmas taking us by surprise Every. Single. Year., you’ll realise we're incapable of what you imagine.
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Sneak preview of the results of my "how much jam is in your doughnut?" investigation for
@TheSun
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Hearing
@rosaltmann
describe on Today how she was told as Pensions Minister to ignore
#WaspiWomen
so they would go away is horrifying (although not surprising). Government massively underestimated the strength and anger of these women who have campaigned fearlessly for justice.
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Only bloody won it didn’t I?! Freelance Journalist of the Year 🙌🏻 🥳
Thanks to the brilliant editors who commission me (especially
@BarneyCalman
) and thanks to
@mjauk
for recognising the public service value of health and medical journalism.
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Any other journos encountered a fully AI PR before?! I put out a
#journorequest
this week for comment on a specific financial topic. Got an email back very quickly from a PR who sent over comments from three spokespeople they “represented”... (1/)
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Me, 2 out of the 6 correct letters of my surname and
@motherbodies
making our BBC News debut this evening, talking about why mums need better care in the year after birth - specifically a health MOT months later, not just the 6-week check.
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New aim in life is to end up with one like this: RT
@lucindahawksley
How's this for an epitaph?
#Lexington
http://t.co/WTygqJ4DCg
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@TheSun
Other journalists spent their week fearlessly covering politics, crime and scandals. My contribution to public interest journalism involved getting unpleasantly sticky to answer the question everyone REALLY wants to ask: which doughnuts are the jammiest?
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@orphiel
The parents were doing a brilliant job, toddlers will just be little bastards sometimes
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Exclusive: Some formula milk companies used social media to target new mums who were unable to access breastfeeding support during lockdown.
(Thanks to
@Prof_AmyBrown
for her expertise on this one.)
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But this goes much deeper. As a society, we are collectively guilty of thinking a new mum who complains about pain is probably just being a bit pathetic. And we simply don’t believe women (especially after birth), when they say they are sure something is wrong with their body.
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When the pandemic began, f2f health checks and support services for mums and newborn babies stopped - and, in many places, never came back. I wrote about the impact of these closures and how Omicron threatens to keep vital services shut even longer. In the Observer &
@guardian
Mothers and babies at risk as vital health services in England stay shut
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A major supermarket's PR team have contacted my editor requesting their brand is edited out from a negative article I wrote. They claimed my figures on their product’s ingredients were incorrect. Happily, we have photos of said product which prove my figures are right...
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The childcare system is a total shambles that's leaving both parents and childcare providers in dire financial straits.
@TheSun
is calling for change - here's my piece showing the impact on families:
(with huge thanks to
@PregnantScrewed
)
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Facebook targeting data reveals how sponsored posts - like this one from Aptaclub UK - were deliberately boosted to people interested in "breastfeeding", in an apparent breach of WHO's international code
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It seems like these (potential scam) sites are using AI to pick up journo requests, generate punchy comments and get quoted in mainstream media, making the sites appear legitimate. Judging by the "featured in" sections, others have fallen for it. V. worrying. (5/5)
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When
@Telegraph
is printing features about pelvic floors and bladder weakness, we're making great strides forward in breaking down taboos around postnatal health. Thanks to the wonderful
@GussieGrips
for being so candid in this article and on
@motherbodies
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In 2020 I suffered a “car crash” pelvic injury. I couldn’t move my legs and was in agonising pain. In any other circumstances, I’d have been urgently diagnosed and treated. But I’d just given birth, so I was told it was “normal to be a bit sore” and sent home with my baby.
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(Slightly belated) work news: For the next few months, I'll mainly be wearing my health hat at
@thetimes
, sharing the load with the wonderful
@byFionaMacRae
. Please send us your quality and quirky health news stories!
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Parents are being "guilted" into buying expensive baby formula milk which offers no proven health benefits over the cheapest versions - my exclusive, ft. research by
@Prof_AmyBrown
in today's
@TheSun
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Poor postnatal care was a “almost universal theme” of 1,300 submissions to the birth trauma inquiry. The system is broken and mothers’ health is the collateral damage.
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(To give you a sense of the severity of the injury, it took me three months to be able to turn over in bed and three years to regain full movement of my legs.)
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All this meant it was possible for multiple healthcare professionals to let an otherwise-healthy, 32-year-old woman literally drag her broken body around for a week - and not only do nothing to help, but expect me to take care of a baby.
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Postnatal care is in crisis. Policy makers don’t fund it (postnatal care receives a 10th of the funding of antenatal/labour care), which means maternity units can’t dedicate staff to it, which means staff don’t have time to give the care they want to give to new mothers…
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Btw I wanted to uncover what’s going on in postnatal care, so I launched the
@motherbodies
podcast about it - you can listen to it here:
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Personal update: I'm now off on maternity leave so any tweets from this account will be non-work-related (and probably incoherent) for the next few months 👶
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To all the millenials who think they invented brunch: THIS is how you brunch.
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In person at last: “Cheers” to some of Fleet Street’s finest health & science journalists. These guys have worked their butts off for the last 18mths, deciphering contradictory government messages, ever-changing rules and the fastest developments in science in our lifetimes.
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OCD can have devastating consequences but misconceptions about what it actually is - and a broken system that lets patients fall through the cracks - are preventing people from getting the help they need. My report in this week’s
@MoS_Health
.
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@whippletom
Also once got one at local paper complaining children these days spent too much time "drinking coca cola and playing with their calculators"
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Sad for
@WASPI_Campaign
but glad to see
@rosaltmann
finally able to speak freely about this awful issue affecting thousands of women
disappointed but not surprised new Pensions Minister rules out ANY help for WASPI I found Gov determined to refuse
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I have been pitching articles on the dire state of postnatal care for the last three years, to largely lukewarm responses from editors. I can't tell you how delighted I am to see this important topic *finally* getting column inches.
Many thanks to
@NicolaMoyne
for this very insightful and shocking piece on the state of postnatal care.
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🚨PERSONAL NEWS KLAXON🚨
I’m thrilled/terrified to announce my podcast on postnatal health and inequalities in women’s healthcare,
@motherbodies
, is launching NEXT WEEK.
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Starting the day with a shiny new blue tick, which is nice. Thanks
@verified
. I am now officially “reputable”, apparently. Unfortunately I can’t guarantee my tweets will be any more interesting.
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My cutting-edge, hardcore, frontline journalism this week: counting how many baked beans you get in a tin for
@TheSun
- the results are surprisingly interesting...
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It's five years today since I went freelance. FIVE YEARS. I suddenly feel old. I'm incredibly grateful to everyone who has shared their stories with me or commissioned me to write for them over the years. You are all awesome (and the reason I'm still paying my mortgage 👍)
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Checked my emails today for the first time in weeks after having a baby and saw this news drop - what a bloody lovely way to cheer me up from my sleep deprivation! Thanks
@Headlinemoney_
Proud to make the list in this group of amazing journalists
Next up, we have the award for Freelance Journalist of the Year.
Here is the list of fantastic nominees:
@DonnaLFerguson
,
@leahmilner
,
@angelraws
,
@taylor_rosie
,
@tobywalne
and
@LWhateley
Keep up the good work!
#HMAwards20
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Totally chuffed to be nominated for two
@freelancingfor
awards: Best Specialist Journalist, for my work reporting on women's and reproductive health, and Best Feature, for my
@thetimes
article exploring the issues around freezing IVF embryos. Thank you!
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Got on fairly empty train and sat down. Woman sitting opposite looked at me, sighed heavily, muttered “for fuck’s sake” loudly to herself, dramatically put her coat on, got up and moved to another carriage. Look out London, I’m clearly very unpalatable today.
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Former midwife Robyn Davis repeatedly raised concerns about her health during labour but was dismissed. Her son Orlando would not have died if she had been taken seriously. This is the devastating consequence when we don’t listen to women.
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From the team that brought you "How much jam is in your doughnut?", a Christmas special...
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All three comments were suspiciously well-written and similar in style and format, so I emailed the PR (twice) to check if they’d been written using AI (we can’t use ChatGPT etc in editorial). Radio silence. (2/)
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I'm back from maternity leave and writing about NHS prescriptions... and mortgages... and supermarkets... and anything else in the world of health and finance you think needs investing. DMs are open 🙂
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Quick update: The time has come for me to hang up my hat as acting Health Corr at
@thetimes
. Thanks to everyone who helped and contributed over the past few months, you've all been ace.
Now back to freelancing across health, consumer and PF issues - stories welcome!
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Even more weird - I’ve researched the “PR” who sent the email and they don’t seem to exist. Their email pulls up zero Google results and there is no signature on their email or any suggestion of who they are or who they work for. Just a first name: “Chris”. (3/)
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And on closer inspection, all the “clients” who they “quoted” apparently are the CEOs of what seem to be weird, bot-written money websites selling crypto and other dodgy-looking investment schemes. (4/)
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If Hunt's free childcare for children aged 9 months to 2 years doesn't fully come in for 2.5 years then surely it only benefits parents whose children haven't been born yet? So much for getting parents back into the workforce... Am I missing something here?
@PregnantScrewed
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Proud to have written and contributed to some serious journalism this year, including front page stories and investigations for
@thetimes
and
@Telegraph
- but if I'm honest about the piece which really seemed to touch people the most? The bloody jam doughnuts
#storyoftheyear
This was my favourite commission of the year! Expertly written and scientifically investigated by
@taylor_rosie
. The idea was sparked by a poll about what annoys shoppers the most. Sometimes those all-round press releases do help create engaging content!
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Chuffed to have been nominated as Freelance Journalist of the Year by
@headlinemoney
- and to be shortlisted in the Fintech category for my work highlighting how companies are exploiting our data. (Huge thanks to
@VBischoff
for commissioning so many of my “off piste” ideas!)
Here’s the shortlist for Freelance Journalist of the Year
#HMAwards22
, sponsored by
@Quilter
Congratulations to
@kt_binns
,
@rebeccahgoodman
,
@LShannon03
,
@marcshoffman
&
@taylor_rosie
👏
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@TheSun
And if you enjoyed finding out the truth about doughnuts, you might be shocked to find out what we discovered about tins of baked beans last month... (both stories feature me squinting awkwardly at food🤦♀️)
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Despite being reformulated, many children's yogurts still contain 10%+ of sugar (My excl in
@Telegraph
)
TL;DR: Yogurts marketed specifically *at* children are the worst type to give *to* children. (
@KawtherH
&
@actiononsugar
recommends plain yogurt w/ chopped fruit instead).
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A few weeks ago I had the pleasure of visiting
@UHSFT
to see how the hospital is using technology to improve patient care at a time of immense pressures on the NHS - here's what I found
We're delighted to see this cracking write up by
@taylor_rosie
of our platform and all of the great transformational work being done by
@UHSDigital
at
@UHSFT
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Cool work from DWP who printed this poster saying a single parent would be better off working 15 hours at minimum wage than being on UC, but completely forgot about childcare costs - and rather optimistically decided a family of 3 could rent for £450 per month 🤨
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Chuffed to find a GOOD news story about women's health in the pandemic:
NHS trust
@MKHospital
is pioneering using a robot surgeon to perform gynaecology ops. It means shorter hospital stays and recovery times - and no lockdown cancellations 🙌
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The latest in my occasional series on "companies implying food they sell is healthy when it is actually full of rubbish": The "fruit" Weetabix that doesn't contain fruit - but does contain lots of extra sugar
@actiononsugar
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So chuffed to have been named a finalist for Freelance of the Year among a group of brilliant journalists - thanks
@mjauk
!
The
#MJAAwards
trophy for Freelance of the Year is always hotly contested.
Our five finalists are:
@SimarSBajaj
,
@DrDavidACox
,
@rachellismedia
,
@RachaelPells
and
@taylor_rosie
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Seriously, if you’ve been called out for ripping off consumers, at least have the grace not to try to “fake news” your way out of it. Absolute cheek!
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I think I’ve just found the holy grail of offices for working parents. Went to look around a co-working space that not only has a nursery on site but also has a dedicated space where you can pop in and feed your baby, so you don’t have to choose between weaning and working. 🙌🏻
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Women hit by pension age rises could retire earlier... on a smaller state pension
@WASPI_Campaign
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Tomorrow’s
@Telegraph
: Revlon health firm knew it was infecting people with Hep C
#bloodscandal
The Sunday TELEGRAPH: “Give staff free fruit, minister tells bosses”
#bbcpapers
#tomorrowspaperstoday
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When you want to give your murder mystery novel a shocking title but you’re just too British
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Lovely night catching up with wonderful people in real life (😘
@VBischoff
@taraevans
@KatieMorley_
@leahmilner
) and losing all the awards I was nominated for at
@Headlinemoney_
. Thanks so much to the
@avivaplc
team for hosting me.
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Bereaved families are calling for an inquiry into maternity services at the Royal Sussex County Hospital in Brighton and Worthing Hospital, where 9 babies died and 4 women nearly lost their lives in 2021-23. My report:
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It’s been an emotional week… Just wanted to say a huge, heartfelt thanks to everyone who has contacted me, on here or privately, since I shared my postnatal story - it means a lot. The maternity crisis isn’t going away and any government coming in needs to get a grip on it.
It’s taken four years and a not-insignificant amount of therapy for me to be ready to do this, but as I’ve been writing so much about the crisis in maternity care, I thought it was important I shared my own story. So here goes... 🧵
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Why has making absolutely no grammatical sense suddenly become cool in advertising?
Whatever your happy this January, give it a little boost with our Wellbeing Range.
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“Why should I pay for someone to have had a child in 1948 who is now in a dementia nursing home?” - brilliant piece on the utter shambles that is childcare in the UK by
@rhiannonlucyc
I wrote about the shitshow that is the childcare system in this country and how it is failing parents and most importantly, children
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The fact that it took 18 months for doctors to find this says everything you need to know about how seriously we take women's pain - especially if they've recently had a baby.
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@WASPI_Campaign
@AcesWalling
It's still very much in the tentative suggestion stage. No details of what will happen or even if it will.
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Absolutely chuffed to be shortlisted for Freelance Journalist of the Year and for Feature of the Year at the
@mjauk
awards among some brilliant journalists.
Who out of these finalists will be our Freelance of the Year?
@chrisbaraniuk
@FayeKirklandGP
@warrenmanger
@gilberthels
@taylor_rosie
.
This category is sponsored by
@LeighDay_Law
#mjaawards
@BBCOne
@bmj_latest
@DailyMirror
@AcuityMag
@DailyMailUK
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BTW if anyone wants advice how you *should* be pitching to journalists then I'm running a series of low-cost webinars on this and the next one is next week! 🙂
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Valerie's story is utterly heartbreaking. She should never have lost her son in this way. Thanks to the work of campaigners like
@Factor8Campaign
she hopes she will finally see justice 41 years after little Ian was infected with HIV.
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@ifanmj
@GrantTucker
@TheSun
If you check out the full report you'll see we tested a pack of doughnuts from each shop. Scientifically robust testing :)
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Quite happily eating these biscuits kindly left on my desk today, then suddenly realised... Oh god.
#piggate
http://t.co/KUx89ql7Ls
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Can’t emphasise enough how amazing this scheme is if you’re an aspiring journalist with no cash/connections. The Scott Trust Bursary is what turned this comp school Westcountry girl into national newspaper journalist. Apply now!
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Beautiful, moving performance by 400 freelance musicians who played 20% of Holst's Mars to represent the maximum 20% of their incomes they have to live off without more help from
@RishiSunak
. We face a future without these incredible moments if musicians aren't given more support
This is what musicians can achieve in just a week of organising on our own. Safe, structured, socially distanced performance of 400 people. What else can we achieve if given the chance. Dear
@RishiSunak
@OliverDowden
we are viable!
#letmusiclive
#wemakeevents
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Overly excited to have found this! Will there be a realistic level of swearing? Will the editor assume you can cover a story in France and Spain at the same time because “they’re both Europe”? Will the Telex machine (yes, I know) have stood the test of time? Watch this space…
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Today, I'm mostly baffled by this graph The Telegraph are using to show illustrate how
#wfh
and
#hybridworking
has caused productivity to drop... Am I hallucinating, or is this clearly showing an upward trend in output per hour worked?!
(And let's not mention the typo)
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I don't know about you but, compared with before the pandemic began, I have less hair and youthful optimism, and more wrinkles and resigned cynicism. So here's a new profile pic to go with my new post-pandemic face. Happy new year everyone!
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Fab to be listed among the company of these (coincidentally all-female) freelance health journalist superstars
Freelance journalists are often the unsung stars of health and medical journalism.
So we celebrate these versatile all-rounders at the
#MJAAwards
.
Past winners of our freelance award include
@FayeKirklandGP
@Emmajourno
@taylor_rosie
and
@RachaelPells
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For the last year I've been hearing the stories of victims of the tainted
#bloodscandal
. More than 1,600 people will be represented at the hearings of the official public
@bloodinquiry
which starts next week and every single one of their stories is harrowing and astonishing.
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The One Where I got to expose how consumers are being ripped-off AND eat lots of chocolate at the same time. Win.
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May 19th 2020, 4pm, we watched my step-grandmother's funeral over webcast. My mum, who was shielding, was unable to attend to say goodbye. It was heartbreaking seeing my uncles sat 2m apart unable to comfort each other. 24 hours later, No10 was partying. What did we suffer for?
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Standing ovation for Steven Snowden QC of
@Collins_Law
on the 3rd day of the infected
@bloodinquiry
. He said the inquiry must seek "truth and justice" for victims
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Yes so much to this. Felt churlish to mention it, but bank holidays are absolutely terrible for self-employed parents.
Many self-employed parents cannot afford to take the day off work on Monday 19th September, yet schools and childcare settings will close forcing them to lose a day’s pay. Bank holidays are only positive for a select group of people.
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