Personal news ⚡️ I’ve been promoted to Senior News Editor
@SkyNews
. Really proud to lead our daily UK & Ireland newsgathering efforts with the best team in breaking news. And we’ll try to help you make sense of it all. Start next week. Let’s go.
⚡️ Five incredible years at Sky News end today. I’m very happy to be joining
@BBCNews
as a 𝙎𝙚𝙣𝙞𝙤𝙧 𝙀𝙙𝙞𝙩𝙤𝙧, 𝘽𝘽𝘾 𝙉𝙚𝙬𝙨 𝘾𝙝𝙖𝙣𝙣𝙚𝙡. Non-stop, live and breaking news is what I do and I can’t wait to get started ◻️◻️◻️
We’ve been refreshing with the BBC’s news channel 🧵 A complex project over many months that
@paulroyall
asked me to lead editorially. A lot of great people doing great things across the business - a challenge. But we’ve got loads done …
The
#RhodesMustFall
protest in Oxford has begun. Organisers want the Cecil Rhodes statue on
@OrielOxford
taken down. Those gathered are shouting “d-d-d-decolonise”
As the funeral of
#GeorgeFloyd
takes place in Houston, Texas, the
#RhodesMustFall
protest here in Oxford erupts into applause after an 8 minute and 46 second silence
Hugely thankful for amazing teams at London Ambulance, Met Police and West Middlesex ED after a Land Rover crashed into my Uber early this morning and drove off. I am fine. VERY sore head, neck and back but fine 🤕
Very excited to be joining the best team in breaking news from Monday as a Deputy News Editor
@SkyNews
(👇 me guest-booking on work exp six years ago!)
#LifeAtSky
Studio E is now the (old) new home of the BBC’s non stop news channel - at the heart of the largest newsroom in Europe.
🆕 Touchscreen, tower screen and floor paint touch up plus new camera software. We’re getting settled back in.
Big work in Gallery E - turbocharging a new vision mixer, driven by all-new automation. That means: future proofing, smart boxes, swooshy split screens, sharper pushbacks. And screen control makes studio and newsroom branding bolder
@chrisckmedia
@OpsBBC
@TvMorag
+ team
Been in the Sky newsroom 90 minutes and already so far...
⭕️ jury trials suspended
⭕️ railways effectively nationalised for six months
⭕️ UK’s largest coffee chain, Costa, to close all stores tonight
Non-stop
#Covid19
coverage all day on
@SkyNews
Amy Winehouse’s music is heard across Camden, north London this lunchtime as the late singer is honored with a stone on Music Walk of Fame
@MusicWalkofFame
@SkyNews
BREAKING Met Police says it won't investigate allegations of a party at Downing Street due to an "absence of evidence" and a force policy not to investigate retrospective breaches of coronavirus regulations
Christmas Day, Boxing Day and today running the home desk
@SkyNews
... now Christmas break begins. Starring with an
@EspensenSpirit
negroni 😋 Happy Christmas 🎄
In Glasgow (not working) and bump into the Duke and Duchess of Rothesay as they officially reopen
@atthewillow
following a £10m restoration project
@ClarenceHouse
“Live from Singapore, this is BBC News” We’ve refreshed Newsday, our Asia-market brand and aligned the look with the rest of the output.
@stevelai
@BBCNewsAsia
+ team
#TheQuiz
has been just brilliant. 3 nights of watching a TV programme as it aired - unheard of! So nice to talk to friends about it, rather than the virus. Thank you,
@mrJamesGraham
@ITV
Having a few days away from the Sky newsroom to join the team in delivering the Bristol International Balloon Fiesta... so my tweets will be less newsy but more beautiful
NEWS ALERT 🚨 Irish Prime Minister Taoiseach
@MichealMartinTD
is expected to announce further Covid restrictions at 6pm. New measures likely include an 8pm curfew for pubs and restaurants
2225 and a colleague has just come over to me. “Are you OK? It’s just that every time I’ve seen you in the last 24 hours you’ve been eating”, he says.
I did not reply.
#HelloNewsdesk
#BrexitElection
Here we go... I’m co-ordinating our Sky News
#Vote2019
teams across the UK tonight... my co-pilot is
@lrhudson10
👊 We have comms 🎧, we have snacks 🍒 Enjoy the show
#EUelections2019
It was an absolute privilege to play a (tiny) part in producing the Queen's Christmas broadcast this year as part of the Sky News team.
Happy Christmas x
@shillcock_paul
A protest against lockdown, masks and vaccines. With a bit of BBC hating and free Assange throw in for good measure from what I witnessed
A big day for
@adamplevy
@SumiSomaskanda
and the BBC News channel team in Washington. Lots of hard work
@OpsBBC
under the hood. Looking good “Live from Washington”
Anyway. That brings an end to these updates from me… I was only here having some lunch in the sun and now the film has been cancelled. So… PUB. Enjoy your weekends. x
The BBC is building a flexible news channel for the future. I’ll be part of the management team led by
@paulroyall
that’s creating, innovating and running BBC News - the UK & world news stream always live from London, Washington or Singapore.
“And now you’re up to date” - the end of an era today as
@georgeedpainter
spends his final day
@global
after 15+ years (inc GWR, GCap). A incredible broadcaster, wise counsellor, hilarious colleague but most importantly a great friend. x
Tonight I called someone (who I vaguely know) out for being in a pub and getting on it. Their reply was: why would they care about my option when “I’d achieved very little in my life”. Then blocked me.
#Covid19
#StaySafeStayHome
Review confirms that those of Bangladeshi ethnicity had around twice the risk of death than people of white British ethnicity. Chinese, Indian, Pakistani, other Asian, Caribbean and black ethnicity had between 10% and 50% higher risk of death
#covid19
BREAKING: I believe Matt Hancock will announce the findings of the
@PHE_uk
review into BAME people disproportionately being affected by
#COVID19
shortly in parliament. The findings released here:
Westfield staff has just told me that all stores in Westfield London shopping centre are closing early. Doors are closing and diners are being told to leave soon
On the plane to Dublin for
#ge2020
on
@SkyNews
🇮🇪 FaceTime video called my mum from the aircraft itself... she did not bat an eyelid. She was more interested in telling me how the cat is now back eating solid food 🙄
Thank you to the
@SkyNews
bosses who took a risk and hired me! And to my amazing colleagues: I will miss you all so, so much. Keep having fun. Keep kicking ass. Keep in touch.
NEWS since 8pm
⭕️ Prime Minister Boris Johnson has been taken to hospital with
#Covid19
⭕️ The Queen has addressed the nation for only the fifth time during her reign
⭕️ Scotland’s Chief Medical Officer has resigned after she ignored her own ‘stay home’ advice
I’m incredibly lucky to count
@chrisckmedia
as one of my great friends 😂 and today he celebrates a big birthday 🎂 We’ve worked hard together 📺 and partied even harder together 🍸🍹🍾 I’m always grateful for his laugh, love and support… and gin ! Happy birthday m’love xx
1607 and after 7 hours asleep I’m heading back into work and unfortunately have a cab driver who is *very* into discussing the
#BrexitElection
result
#HelloNewsdesk
Been loudly singing ‘My Country ‘tis of Thee’ round Waitrose just now as if I myself have won the Presidency. Gins may have been purchased.
#Election2020
Just bought a hedge trimmer. I can already imagine the opening lines to “Michael Burke’s 999” … “went into the garden to find harmony with nature amid a global pandemic … but instead horror unfolded” **tick tick tick tick, sirens sirens**