An amazing step forward for public health. Well done for campaigners like ASH and Fresh - Making Smoking History for work over the years. This will save thousands of preventable deaths, and millions for the NHS.

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RIP Gudrun Ure An absolutely amazing show. Now, make sure the Scunner isn’t up to no good up there.

TBF, this isn’t as bad as when I was videoed at a press call missing the goal and belting the ⚽️ into a group of primary school children. A take the comms team chose to put on social media.

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Lots of activity around the Civic to ‘sanitise’ in time for #DDay80 😞 We can have new flowers but not house people.

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Good response from Keir. Private schools can save money by lowering salaries to state levels to encourage the best teachers going where they are most needed.

BREAKING: 🚨 On 23 May, Liz Truss placed a £10k bet on an October election.

Well done, whoever this is. I loved representing Heaton. A strong Labour ward where the Greens are the main opposition followed by LibDems.

But at least people are talking about Just Stop Oil, so the disruption to your lives is worth it? That’s how it works, right? Or is that just other people’s lives?

This is a terrible disproportionate use of force Greater Manchester Police Whatever else went on, it is clear that this individual was not a risk to police.

There are many who have sought to frame this week of far-right riots as outpourings of legitimate anger. They are not. This is racist violence spurred on by far-right hatred. Those directly involved in these horrifying scenes need to face the full force of the law. (3)

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I’m over at the nice new place under jpnewcastle for anyone who wants to escape from this hellfire.