RIP Bernard Hill. His performance as Yosser Hughes on Boys from the Blackstuff was perfection and British television at it's best

Lovely to hear two classy speeches from Richard Parker for West Mids Mayor 🌹 and Andy Street showing you can profoundly disagree with each other and still be generous and decent to your opponents.

Well JustGiving not impressed about how you have automatically taken £160 as a “voluntary contribution”, you seemed to have hidden this, why not be transparent as you used to be and give me an option of how much to contribute towards your admin?! #charity

Reaction isn’t a choice. A victim of rape may fight but they may equally freeze. If they freeze it’s not through choice but because their brain is in survival mode. Failing to fight off an attacker is not something that necessarily should inform our judgment about what actually…

Last year 1,436 trials of all offences in the Crown Court were adjourned on the first day due to the absence of either a prosecution or defence advocate, a 20 fold increase on 2019 when 71 trials were similarly adjourned. Of those 252 were trials of sexual offences adjourned due…

Word of the day is ‘fudgel’ (18th century): to make a big show of working hard whilst actually doing very little.

Multi-award-winning Yorkshire businesswoman set to launch second business HelloHope businessupnorth.co.uk/multi-award-wi…

Here, Sir Bob sets out the ongoing disgrace of IPP sentences. Hundreds of humans left in prison 10 years after their original tariff. Almost 100 self-inflicted deaths. Blunkett’s biggest regret. And this Parliament’s greatest legislative omission.

The WC Ponzi scheme exposed. 👇

'Water company accounts are imprudent and deceptive.

Contrary to ministerial claims, companies are paying dividends... The total amount of dividends paid since privatisation is likely to be far higher than the numbers circulating in the media.'

Thursday’s MATT: #TomorrowsPapersToday

Feeling the love for 'You Lucky One'; thanks everyone, and thanks BBC Radio 6 Music for adding it to the Playlist 🙏

'Shellfish industry on a 'knife edge' as sewage dumped in designated waters for 192,000 hours last year.'

And right on cue this comes along, the shellfish industry having to pickup the tab for the water industry's greed and the regulator's failure.

news.sky.com/story/shellfis…

Malcolm Graham named new SCTS chief executive scottishlegal.com/articles/malco…

judiciary.uk/appointments-a…

NEW: England's quarterly homelessness stats are out - more bleak reading.

There are 145,800 homeless children living in temporary accommodation - the highest ever recorded and up 15% on last year

There are 112,660 homeless households - up 12% in a year and the highest on record

So Yorkshire Water 💧 says the reason for sewage dumping is two issues: 'exceeding the amount of sewage the system can handle and failing to adequately maintain assets'.

That a confession? Looks like it to me. Will Environment Agency do anything, will @ofwat? Nah!

rotherhamadvertiser.co.uk/news/environme…

When my daughter was diagnosed I realised how little I knew about #type1diabetes . So much so it made our heads spin. If you are new to this journey then do take a look below to help you understand a little more…

💥What is Type 1 Diabetes?💥

If you'd like to learn more about what #type1diabetes is then take a look at our animation which helps everyone understand what #T1D is.

You can watch the full film 📽️ in your #DigiBeteApp age page or👇

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It's also…

Have to say Private Eye Magazine is absolutely on fire this week. 👏👏👏