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Happy Spacemen 3 day to all who observe
#wavesofjoy
#spacemen3day
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Jim Waterson
about 1 month ago
I think this is the weirdest story I've ever reported.
www.londoncentric.media/p/terry-ball...
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The snail farmer of London, his mafia friends, and a £20m vendetta against the taxman
Terry Ball runs elaborate mollusc-based tax avoidance schemes that are costing London councils millions of pounds. Yet when London Centric tracks him down, an even stranger story emerges.
https://www.londoncentric.media/p/terry-ball-the-snail-farmer-his-mafia
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Dead crocodile found in Derbyshire canal 🐊
www.derbytelegraph.co.uk/news/local-n...
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Police ask for help after crocodile dumped in Derbyshire canal
It was seen near a bridge earlier this week
https://www.derbytelegraph.co.uk/news/local-news/police-issue-strangest-appeal-ever-10578956?utm_source=app
about 1 month ago
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Incredibly life-affirming to learn of the 80-year longitudinal Harvard Study of Adult Development. It found people who are happy and well when they get old all have one thing in common and that thing is love… ❤️🥹 “Happiness is love, full stop” via Freakonomics
open.spotify.com/episode/2Svn...
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How Can We Break Our Addiction to Contempt? (Update)
https://open.spotify.com/episode/2SvnGrZwMZo608E1dzaQA6?si=q7z28cIvSUeUdJZ5L526EQ&context=spotify%3Ashow%3A0KxdEdeY2Wb3zr28dMlQva
about 1 month ago
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Dan Neidle
about 2 months ago
Douglas Barrowman and Michelle Mone's company, PPE Medpro, has just been ordered to refund the Government £122m from a PPE contract. There are two very odd things about PPE Medpro that may affect the odds of the Government ever getting that £122m... Thread:
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The Guardian
about 2 months ago
Nottingham paper takes legal action against Reform council that banned its reporters
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Nottingham paper takes legal action against Reform council that banned its reporters
News outfit claims being barred from talking to the council’s leader is breach of right to free expression A local paper whose journalists have been ostracised by a Reform UK council is taking legal action, arguing the move is a breach of its right to free expression. The Nottingham Post, and its online site Nottinghamshire Live, has been barred from speaking to the council’s leader and removed from media mailing lists by the Reform-led Nottinghamshire county council. Continue reading...
https://www.theguardian.com/media/2025/sep/30/nottingham-paper-takes-legal-action-against-reform-council-that-banned-its-reporters?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=bluesky&CMP=bsky_gu
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Kathy O'Donnell
3 months ago
All the things that never get said on Question Time.
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So long, Oggy…we’ll miss you 😢
4 months ago
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People of Bristol run for your lives!!!!!
4 months ago
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Dan Neidle
4 months ago
In 2022, Nadhim Zahawi’s solicitor sent me a libel threat - and said I wasn’t even allowed to say he’d written to me. The Solicitors Disciplinary Tribunal ruled that was improper. Now he’s appealing. A 🧵 on why it matters.
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Angry People in Local Newspapers
4 months ago
Don’t think we haven’t noticed the picture caption and the brazen attempt to get onto our page. Because we did, and it worked.
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'Rotting fish' stench and 'ugly' new windows fury in Devon
A row has erupted
https://www.devonlive.com/news/devon-news/rotting-fish-stench-ugly-new-10391502?utm_term=Autofeed&utm_medium=Social&utm_source=Facebook#Echobox=1754285632
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Angry People in Local Newspapers
5 months ago
I’ve literally had the same problem with a couple of leopards I was sending to Terry Nutkins. Luckily, they followed the trail of dead and mauled posties and managed to deliver them safely!!
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Large venomous tarantulas go missing in the post
'For the love of God don't open my parcel!'
https://www.bristolpost.co.uk/news/bristol-news/large-venomous-tarantulas-go-missing-10332339?utm_term=Autofeed&utm_medium=Social&utm_source=Facebook#Echobox=1752070357
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Tristan Cork
5 months ago
The council dodged a direct question from the Bristol Post & could offer no evidence or confirmation the ‘Barton Hill Disabilities Group’ was real & the council hadn’t simply made it up to tick boxes for the Liveable Neighbourhood consultation. Full story here👇🏼
www.bristolpost.co.uk/news/bristol...
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Council accused of making up fictional disabled group for roads consultation
The council has failed to provide any confirmation or evidence the 'Barton Hill Disabilities Group' is real
https://www.bristolpost.co.uk/news/bristol-news/council-accused-making-up-fictional-10294057
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Today’s a great day for making car-windscreen sun-dried tomatoes 🍅 🌞 😋
5 months ago
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Jim Pickard
6 months ago
a leading campaigner against the recent rise in National Insurance is married to a man convicted of one of Britain’s biggest ever NI frauds - via The Times
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Huge for Royces
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6 months ago
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6 months ago
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East Anglia Bylines
6 months ago
You know it's bad when your whole "government efficiency" pitch collapses because you didn’t bother to read the detail. 🙄 The Bear goes into Reform UK’s latest scandal-that-wasn’t, ⤵️
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Exposed: Reform UK doesn’t know how government spending works
Reform UK just confused a procurement framework with a spending scandal – and revealed they don’t understand government
https://eastangliabylines.co.uk/politics/local-government/exposed-reform-uk-doesnt-know-how-government-spending-works/
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WG RumblePants
6 months ago
Today’s beautiful cricket ground is the home to Buxton CC in Derbyshire
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Angry People in Local Newspapers
6 months ago
You can’t park there mate.
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Land Rover ends on its nose after pile-up in supermarket car park
Two people were in one of the vehicles
https://www.cornwalllive.com/news/cornwall-news/land-rover-perched-nose-after-10230369
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Angry People in Local Newspapers
6 months ago
SPOILER: I have some bad news for you.
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Carl Eve
6 months ago
Jury shown footage of Plymouth dad falling after stabbing
www.plymouthherald.co.uk/news/plymout...
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Jury shown footage of Plymouth dad falling after stabbing
Tahla Redwan is accused of murdering Shane Sweet
https://www.plymouthherald.co.uk/news/plymouth-news/jury-shown-shocking-footage-plymouth-10216839
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Robert Reich
6 months ago
CEO pay is up 1,085% since 1978, while typical worker pay is up just 24%. Why do we always hear "we can't afford to pay our workers more" but never "we can't afford to pay our CEO more"?
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6 months ago
'Another year, another summer of swimming and surfing in sewage'
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Activists take to the sea to protest the 'broken water industry'
'Another year, another summer of swimming and surfing in sewage'
https://www.devonlive.com/news/devon-news/thousands-activists-take-sea-protest-10191506?utm_term=Autofeed&utm_medium=Social&utm_source=Bluesky#Echobox=1747494165
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Lomelindi12
6 months ago
Let the octopuses conquer They will be our eventual overlords if we don’t boil the seas
www.plymouthherald.co.uk/news/plymout...
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Octopus invasion sparks nightmare in Plymouth
Fishermen left with empty traps and mounting bills
https://www.plymouthherald.co.uk/news/plymouth-news/octopus-invasion-sparks-nightmare-plymouth-10186528?int_source=nba
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Angry People in Local Newspapers
6 months ago
I, for one, welcome our eight-legged inky overlords.
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Thames Water is complete basket case in a death spiral of unaffordable debt, longstanding mismanagement and uncontrollable effluent
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7 months ago
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Jim Waterson
7 months ago
Free “most read with a bullet” feature idea for every national newsdesk: The UK’s longest direct train journey between Aberdeen and Penzance runs for the final time on Friday, send the reporter you hate the most to spend the whole day on it.
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Jim Pickard
7 months ago
Gates on Musk: “The picture of the world’s richest man killing the world’s poorest children is not a pretty one”
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As foretold in the Book of Revelation
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7 months ago
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SomersetLive
7 months ago
The motorway was closed in both directions
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Runaway goat brings M5 traffic to a standstill
The motorway was closed in both directions
https://www.somersetlive.co.uk/news/somerset-news/m5-bank-holiday-traffic-comes-10156035?utm_term=Autofeed&utm_medium=Social&utm_source=Bluesky#Echobox=1746435653
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Jim Pickard
7 months ago
just the perfect story
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Cracking piece of work this story
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7 months ago
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There’s an awful lot going on here
www.devonlive.com/news/devon-n...
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Lobster sparks violent Devon beach assault
Man emerged from a swim clutching a lobster but the atmosphere soon turned heated
https://www.devonlive.com/news/devon-news/lobster-sparks-violent-torquay-beach-10110501.amp
7 months ago
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The Onion
7 months ago
It Only Tuesday
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It Only Tuesday
WASHINGTON, DC—After running a thousand errands, working hours of overtime, and being stuck in seemingly endless gridlock traffic commuting to and from their jobs, millions of Americans were dishearte...
https://theonion.com/it-only-tuesday-1819569397/
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Jim Pickard
8 months ago
this is gob-smacking:
www.ft.com/content/e025...
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Scottish Power not making it easy to pay my bill
8 months ago
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CornwallLive
8 months ago
People are livid about the cat's eviction
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Cornwall cat famous for sitting in Costa Coffee gets banned
People are livid about the cat's eviction
https://www.cornwalllive.com/news/cornwall-news/cornwall-cat-famous-sitting-costa-10071306?utm_term=Autofeed&utm_medium=Social&utm_source=Bluesky#Echobox=1743567901
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Dan Davies
8 months ago
eh up lads, the yanks have discovered chips
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Angry People in Local Newspapers
8 months ago
You can’t park there mate
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Epic parking fail as car gets stuck on wall
You can't park there mate
https://www.cornwalllive.com/news/cornwall-news/epic-parking-fail-cornwall-car-10050136.amp
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Jim Pickard
9 months ago
this is an interesting twist
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Captain of container ship in North Sea collision is Russian national, owner says
[FREE TO READ] Crew was mix of Russians and Filipinos
https://on.ft.com/41I5zrJ
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Tristan Cork
9 months ago
BREAKING: One of the four teenagers who murdered Max Dixon and Mason Rist last year stabbed another teenager in South Bristol 22 hours earlier Read more here:
www.bristolpost.co.uk/news/bristol...
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Boy convicted of South Bristol double murder stabbed another teen
It was 22 hours before he was involved in the double murder
https://www.bristolpost.co.uk/news/bristol-news/teen-convicted-south-bristol-double-10016014
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Tristan Cork
9 months ago
Tragic news from South Bristol: A 19-year-old woman has been killed by a dog in a flat in Withywood. Read more here:
www.bristolpost.co.uk/news/bristol...
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Young woman killed by dog in Bristol
Two people have been arrested
https://www.bristolpost.co.uk/news/bristol-news/young-woman-killed-dog-bristol-9980702
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CornwallLive
9 months ago
'I only managed to get a good view after a month of tracking it. It’s been swimming around in the evening, creating chaos with parking as people try and see it.'
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Whale chaser captures incredible humpback footage off Cornwall
https://www.cornwalllive.com/news/cornwall-news/humpback-whale-cornwall-caught-latest-9921902?utm_term=Autofeed&utm_medium=Social&utm_source=Bluesky#Echobox=1739967826
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Tristan Cork
9 months ago
This looks like it's going to be great fun - and for a good Bristol cause as well.
www.bristolpost.co.uk/whats-on/cra...
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Exciting Birdman competition to be held in Bristol for the first time
The event will be run by a local organisation which has challenged the city to take part
https://www.bristolpost.co.uk/whats-on/crazy-birdman-competition-held-bristol-9946148
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Angry People in Local Newspapers
10 months ago
He’s not even running around in a huge wheel
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Residents 'feel like hamsters' after metal fence blocks off field
"It feels like bullying tactics"
https://www.gloucestershirelive.co.uk/news/gloucester-news/gloucester-residents-feel-like-hamsters-9935525#jpcifu2brtjisp0odv83qjt8ys052p3v
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Tristan Cork
10 months ago
THIS is the best thing you’ll see this weekend When Daisy was stolen from her garden in 2017, it made national news, Tom Hardy joined the appeal & the case led to a new law. You’ll never guess what… Read the full story here 👇🏼
www.bristolpost.co.uk/news/bristol...
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Emotional moment stolen dog reunited with owners after EIGHT years
The theft of Daisy caused a national outrage - now she's been found in Weston
https://www.bristolpost.co.uk/news/bristol-news/emotional-moment-stolen-dog-reunited-9929100
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Can confirm George and Mildred is seriously underrated having once spent a month bingeing on it
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10 months ago
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Plymouth Live
10 months ago
Sonia was testing a scooter she had hired for her father when it malfunctioned
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'I almost lost my leg after hiring a mobility scooter in Tenerife'
https://www.plymouthherald.co.uk/news/health/i-almost-lost-leg-after-9913455?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=Bluesky#Echobox=1738598798
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