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Mar 15, 2020 3 tweets 2 min read Read on X
If you have been diagnosed with #coronavirus #COVIDー19 and feel you are able to come on our programme tomorrow to tell people in a straightforward, public service kind of way what it’s like, plse DM me - my DMs are always open #journorequest
we interviewed this US citizen who had it, on March 6.

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Mar 11, 2023
‘Richard Sharp’s undergoing 2 investigations, but he’s not suspended….whereas Gary Lineker’s suspended while work goes on to decide what guidelines shld cover his tweets. That doesn’t seem fair does it?’

Ex-Ed of Sun Telegraph, crossbench peer Baroness Wheatcroft on @BBCr4today
Richard Sharp is Chairman of BBC. When applying for the job, he didn’t disclose his role in introducing a wealthy cousin who wanted to help then PM Boris Johnson with his finances, to cabinet secretary Simon Case. He’s being investigated by BBC & office of public appointments.
Mr Sharp was the government’s preferred candidate for the job. It was in the public domain that he is a Conservative Party donor.
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Meet Sophie Weaver. She’s 53, lives in Mersea Island nr Colchester, Essex & uses a wheelchair all the time (she has Stills disease which is a kind of arthritis - diagnosed aged 6). She tells me she lives a full life: she’s a town councillor & a member of the local drama group 🧵
As she lives on her own, she has 24 hr care & has done for years. Carers - called personal assistant (PAs) - who’s she known for ages & who she trusts, help her do - well, pretty much everything….
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• drive her to the supermarket 9 miles away in Colchester, & town council meetings etc

Sophie says ‘everything in my life happens because of the personal assistants.’
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Feb 16, 2022
Linda Evangelista breaks her silence about the ‘fat-freezing’ procedure she says has left her "permanently deformed" & brutally disfigured." She’s suing the company behind it for $50 million alleging she's been unable to work since undergoing seven sessions of ‘CoolSculpting’
She says after treatment, her chin, thighs & bra area started to bulge. The areas she'd wanted to shrink were growing, before turning numb. She began dieting & exercising more. "I got to where I wasn't eating at all. I thought I was losing my mind."
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Sep 27, 2021
Tonight on ⁦@BBCPanorama⁩ I talk to people who feel forced into private healthcare because some say they’re being told NHS surgery to treat their condition could be up to TWO years away.

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bbc.co.uk/news/health-58…
These are not wealthy people with cash sitting in bank accounts. They are people who are so desperate and often in such pain, they are taking out bank loans or setting up crowdfunding pages to raise funds to go private.
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Apr 27, 2021
Judging from @BBCNews viewers today, it’s not quite true *no one* cares about the refurbishment of the Downing St flat & what that says about standards/integrity/transparency when it come to the PM...
Sue Hayward wrote: it does matter because I’m a council employee as a carer. Every year I have to make a declaration that I haven’t had any loans or gifts that may have a council interest . And it needs to come from the top.
Veronica Tippins wrote: as long as it’s been paid for by the PM it’s of no interest to me if it’s a late declaration or not.
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Apr 21, 2021
Here are the texts between Boris Johnson and businessman Sir James Dyson from March 2020. Mr Johnson says he will ‘fix’ the tax system for Dyson’s employees...
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