My sweet boy isn't feeling the best today. He looks so sad.😢 #dogsoftwitter #germanshepherd

Calling all Sappers. An opportunity has arisen for lovers of classical music & bridging to join us at a seaside location. Months of bridge building with like-minded souls, whilst listening to Germanic opera. Generous terms. Tattoos & ruthlessness prefered. Apply: Wagner Group

75 missiles were fired, 10 people were killed. It is horrible that one person should be killed, but the firework display nonetheless appears to have been an expensive flop. #UkraineRussianWar

Russia is clearly still as out-of-date today as it was for the time when I filmed there in 1987. Yet Putin clearly does not realise

My Dad and his cousins often mentioned a low-flying German Ju88 machine-gunning local streets and the playground and class rooms at Copleston High School and Sixth Form in Ipswich while the girls were playing netball, in February 1941. The incident is mentioned in my Grandfather’s diary:

76017 being towed through Selhurst earlier today, en route from the Watercress Line to the Bluebell Railway for their Giants of Steam gala. This is also the first time (that I know of) that this engine has been on the mainline since the 1960s.

COUPSURE Here is a very good interpretation of tactical layout of the Russian defensive lines in the Donbass.

A Prime Minister resigning during the workday is the adult equivalent of when it starts starts snowing outside at school

Ding Dong. I am so sad to learn that one of my childhood heroes, the actor Leslie Phillips CBE, he of Carry on Nurse & Carrry on Constable and Harry Potter, has died. An officer in the DLI during the war, he was a scarcely credible 98.

Just wanted to give huge thumbs up 👍to all the Thomas fans who managed to get to the Midland Arts Centre yesterday, without the fans these shows wouldn’t happen. So well done and look forward to seeing you at the next one

⁦Mike O'Donnell⁩ ⁦Mike Evans 🏳️‍🌈🎨🎬⁩ ⁦Daniel Coffey⁩ ⁦Seaswine 🦞⁩ ⁦TheSodorSamurai⁩ ⁦Nicholas Jones⁩ this is Dedicated to all of you as a thank you for showering my childhood with gold you all the best! instagram.com/reel/ClBcl-AJ4…

Do please read this! The Thomas The Tank Engine Man by Nicholas Jones » WIlbert Awdry interview and Shepperton now scanned to 2K — Kickstarter

Happy 30th Anniversary to Nicholas Jones’s greatest documentary from 1995! x.com/steaming2legac…

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On this day 28 years ago I woke up to sad news. Wilbert had died overnight. I quickly asked the BBC to repeat the film he helped me make. The Thomas the Tank Engine Man trailer (Bookmark BBC 2, 1995). youtu.be/cUctlO5dSE8?fe… via YouTube

I got five more Japanese books of the きかんしゃトーマス【公式】 Railway Series including James and the Diesel Engines from Amazon.co.jp, along with a Complete Works 2 DVD from Buyee this month. #thomasandfriends #thomasthetankengine #きかんしゃトーマス

For those interested in history or ocean liners, today is the 110th anniversary of the Lusitania sinking. My grandfather survived this atrocity - hence I can write this now Dr Peter Caddick-Adams #StandwithUkraine Tom Holland facebook.com/watch/?v=26845…

At 7.15pm today in 1941 a UK jet plane first flew, the Gloster Whittle. Chris Bolton Yet it nearly didn't happen! Sir Frank Whittle reveals why as he recalls the flight in my TV doc WHITTLE THE JET PIONEER. I've just 110 DVDs of this left. To buy one visit quantafilms.co.uk

Here's the first flight of a UK jet plane today in 1941. Frank Whittle and Eric Brown recall it in my film Whittle The Jet Pioneer, on DVD at quantafilms.co.uk Whittle - The Jet Pioneer (History Channel). First flight of Frank Whitt... youtu.be/-sevzRChyng?fe… via YouTube

As it’s the 80th birthday of The Railway Series, here’s a feature I wrote for the Daily Mail to mark the 65th. It still reads well - but I wish the paper hadn’t such an inaccurate headline! Daniel Coffey dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1…