False news independent.co.uk/news/science/f… BAS

New IPCC report out today. Things are looking bleak, but if we really, really, REALLY try hard we can avoid some of the most devastating impacts of climate change. This is the biggest news story in the world and I'm proud to work somewhere that puts it on the front page.

Saudi Crown Prince MBS, ordered an operation to lure Jamal #Khashoggi from his home in Virginia to Saudi and “detain him,” US intelligence intecepts of Saudi comms reveal via The Washington Post washingtonpost.com/world/national…

With exquisite timing after landmark IPCC global warming report, UK has announced it is looking at supporting a £3.8bn+ oil refinery project in Bahrain independent.co.uk/environment/uk…

This story is mad. The Tommy Wiseau of music nme.com/blogs/nme-blog…

Parents of teenagers killed by ecstasy overdoses call for drug testing in city centres independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-n…

“City-centre testing benefits everybody; it benefits non-drug users as well as drug users because it reduces the burden on the NHS for everybody who is paying taxes into that” Fiona Measham in today’s The Independent independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-n…

We live in strange, remarkable times for music and censorship. I spoke to Skengdo and AM, the drill rappers who have made legal history, after being given a (suspended) jail sentence for performing one of their songs theguardian.com/music/2019/jan…

The UK is sticking by its laughable claim that it has only killed one civilian throughout the entire anti-Isis campaign. With Chris Baynes. independent.co.uk/news/world/mid…

UK urged to give refugee status to China's persecuted Uighur Muslims independent.co.uk/news/world/eur…

[Thread]1/ This one is about the fake news claiming that a sick boy on the floor of a hospital in leeds was staged by his mother. We know the story is real, Dr Yvette Oade, chief medical officer at Leeds even apologised bbc.com/news/uk-englan…

Yesterday 10 armed police and a helicopter were called to a house in Kent after reports of a big cat on the loose. The tiger is made of chicken wire and resin, and the exceptional sculptor happens to be my 85-year-old grandmother theguardian.com/uk-news/2020/m…

BREAKING: It's understood Sheffield Council Leader @CllrTerry_Fox is standing down. Sheffield's election count is not yet underway but Coun Fox is expected to resign as Labour Leader. Labour in Sheffield has been put in special measures by the national party

NEW Survation polling of 2,426 people in former coalfield communities in England, Wales and Scotland for the BBC finds 73% of people living in former mining towns and villages felt they had seen little or no progress on levelling up: bbc.co.uk/news/uk-englan…

Miners, police, journalists and politicians tell the story of the strike which changed Britain. bbc.in/3P3S53W

Thank you so much to BBC Breakfast for giving us the opportunity to spread the word about #clareslaw Our investigation has found some people are waiting hundreds of days for a response from police. A huge thank you to Mads for having the courage to speak out.