'Certains'

*adjusts monocle*

#Thailand Bangkok's pocket park amid highways
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'I'd like to speak to someone about how the heatwave is affecting dogs in Thailand' Overheard in the Newsroom

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➡️ 'C'est la première fois qu'un accident de ce type se produit depuis sa création le 6 octobre 1889', a précisé à l' #AFP le Moulin Rouge, qui ne dispose 'pas d'informations' sur la cause de cet accident

On this day in 685, King Ecgfrith of Northumbria founded the monastery at Jarrow, established by Benedict Biscop and home to Saint Bede as well as the greatest library in Britain, acquired through Biscop's travels to Rome.

The dedication stone reads:

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Words to live by.

Indonesia's Mount Ruang erupting tonight. Insane pic. (Credit: Indonesian volcanology agency / handout to AFP News Agency).

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Good old GNLM. Nobody does it better

A lovely thread by one top man in Rob Draper about another in the late Joe Kinnear. By the way, I was also told to go forth and multiply by Mr Jones at Wimbledon training while reporting for Hayters 😂

Happy Easter folks. Here is Joseph Wright's 'Experiment on a Bird in the Air Pump', one of the most profound religious pictures of all time. Yes, it's all about the Resurrection (as I shall explain in my forthcoming book)!

I'm sure there's a perfectly reasonable, innocent explanation for this

Whenever i'm in Wallsend I have a peek over at the end of Station Rd - the famed steeping entrance to Swan Hunter's yard. There's been a lot of changes here recently as the site prepares for a new life.

Every morning and night, this place would look like a Lowry painting.

What a year for music that was. Oh to be 14 again!