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Anyone who has spent time reporting the courts, covering everything from assaults to murders, knows perfectly well why the answer is ‘Bear’.

Its looking like a landslide - and for once I’m on the winning side, but poll isn’t closed yet
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(Traditionalists R Us)

This is a very good thread on the Times Blunt story. I’ll add my suspicion that “passing information to the Germans” in any way compromised Operation Market Garden, when the interpretation for decades has been more “dreadfully organised mess” than anything else

Moments like this are incredibly important. 👏

A few years ago I attended a call in the street where someone was threatening to end their life, holding a knife to their throat. 😔

They put it down when they saw me, because unbeknownst to me I’d once brought them breakfast…

Heineken, owners of Bulmer's cider, has chopped down an entire 300-acre apple orchard in Monmouthshire / Sir Fynwy in order to sell the land. (Via BBC News (UK)) ⬇️
bbc.co.uk/news/articles/…

Rage Against The Machine won our first grammy for “Tire Me”, a song on which I played a guitar costing 40 Canadian dollars. Though admittedly I’ve never really considered myself a “serious” musician!

I don't think anyone else will have noticed, so I'm dropping by to wish myself a happy 30th anniversary.

What a Carve Up!, published by Viking Books on 28 April, 1994.

Which of these classics is your favourite? Comment 'Danny' or 'Fox'
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Hilariously (and distressingly) Jews are supposed to find comfort in the fact that this monument has to be covered up for lots of events and by a different public authority. (This is perfectly right for the police to point out. But it is, naturally, the opposite of reassuring.)

Wales is treated like garbage when it comes to UK coverage

Imagine, for a moment, how the UK wide media would react if the Prime Minister had done the following when running to be party leader:

- Taken a donation from a criminal.
- That donation had been 6X the spending limit…

So proud of this, what an image

This is horrific

They should put this in the National Gallery.

A #bbcqt audience member originally from Congo cites conflict between Rwanda and DRC and asks if UK would send refugee from DRC to... Rwanda.

A confused Chris Philp: 'Well, Rwanda is a different country from Congo, isn't it?'

The #PostOfficeInquiry is examining the reaction to the death by suicide of Martin Griffiths, who had been a sub-postmaster for 18 years but was hounded for shortfall repayments and blamed for an armed robbery.

It's now been 14 years since the greatest correction in newspaper history ran in Rockhampton's 'Morning Bulletin' in Australia.

NHS doctors used haemophiliac children for reckless medical experiments. Many grieving families have never received a penny in compensation.

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Laurence Fox ordered to pay £90,000 to two people he called ‘paedophiles’ theguardian.com/culture/2024/a…

Thrilled to announce publication of A Debt Redeemed ‘ #CrimeFiction #crime #BookTwitter