Give Vito a pay rise. He's doing an excellent job. #StrictlyComeDancing

Also on this day in 1917, my great uncle, serving with the 1st Battalion South Staffordshire Regiment, was killed at Passchendaele. They were withdrawn the next day to go to Italy. Such are the close margins of war.

Absolutely thick as mince. Enjoy your trip to electoral anonymity. Another ingredient for the Vatnik Soup Vatnik Soup

"There are plenty of working-class Ukrainians who would be only too pleased to explain their hopes for their own country, their gratitude for Britain’s support – and their hard-won knowledge that freedom isn’t free, it needs to be fought for and defended."

ONLY way to do Halloween. Ahhhh the smell of burnt snagger.

A pilot cancelling a flight because he aint “feeling it” is fine by me. Go with your gut fam.

I remember this happening...

Rightly described as a hero.

Who'd have thought it - Joy Division still causing a stir! PunkAndNewWave

.Shaun Lintern

Paging Guinevere of Mason - a Chare in the wild...

Talking today with a Royal Air Force veteran pilot. Flew Vampire in the 50s. Vampire 3 had no ejector seat. When he asked his squadron CO "what happens if there's a problem" he was told to "fly upside down, open the canopy and let gravity take its course." John Nichol ✈ 💪

I know North East Heritage Library likes his North East metal things. Glad to see the product of a local foundry still in the street. Hauxwell's was on Atherton St, under the viaduct. Demolished in the 70s.

The book on this by John Nichol ✈ is excellent

This has to be a classic of the genre

It surely can't be FIFTY YEARS AGO!

A very moving picture