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Sep 21, 2022 16 tweets 7 min read
REVEALED: The Queen's hero pallbearers who carried the 'responsibility of a nation' on their shoulders

Read more: trib.al/ybw6ebu The eight pallbearers who heroically carried the Queen's 500lb lead-lined coffin were handpicked from the 1st Battalion Grenadier Guards
Sep 19, 2022 14 tweets 6 min read
Farewell to their beloved Gan-Gan: Heartbroken Prince George and Princess Charlotte attend the Queen's funeral

Read more: trib.al/qqptfbY The Queen's great grandchildren joined senior royals at the Queen's funeral bypassing thousands of mourners on the streets of London

+ They are pictured travelling by car with Camilla and Kate
Sep 19, 2022 4 tweets 2 min read
Funeral gun carriage that will carry the Queen’s coffin to Westminster Abbey towed by 98 Royal Navy sailors is prepared outside Parliament trib.al/pJyhNaK The gun carriage was last used 57 years ago at Winston Churchill's state service.

It will set off at 10.44am, drawn in spectacular style by 98 Royal Navy sailors who will pull on ropes attached to the carriage's front wheels, drawing the late monarch forward.
Sep 19, 2022 5 tweets 2 min read
Last in line to say goodbye: Final mourner pays her respects as the Queen's lying-in-state closes at 6.30am ahead of today's historic funeral trib.al/lxoSaCs Mourners gather at 5.40am on The Long Walk in Windsor this morning ahead of the funeral of Queen Elizabeth II.

At 12.15pm, the coffin will be taken in procession from Westminster Abbey to Wellington Arch and then travel to Windsor.
Nov 17, 2021 13 tweets 8 min read
Is THIS how Prince Andrew funds the high life he can't afford?

+ Prince Andrew's mutually rewarding relationship
with his financier friend revealed

READ MORE: trib.al/1o79Eqd Prince Andrew is reported to have taken out an £1.5m loan with Banque Havilland that was then paid off by friend David Rowland... who owns Banque Havilland

+ Pictured together at Royal Ascot in 2006

READ MORE: trib.al/1o79Eqd
Nov 17, 2021 10 tweets 6 min read
This is why you're poorer every month

+ Inflation soars to highest level in nearly a DECADE
+ The rate of Consumer Price Index (CPI) inflation hit 4.2% in October, smashing expectations

READ MORE: trib.al/5GMqv0q What is driving inflation?

+ Rising cost of living has been caused by the supply chain chaos, labour shortages and surges in energy costs

READ MORE: trib.al/5GMqv0q
Oct 26, 2021 13 tweets 6 min read
We are proof you CAN find lasting love on TV ❤️📺

+ Blind Date's first ever married couple celebrate 30th wedding anniversary

Read more: trib.al/pk4Xn6t Sue Tatham and her husband Alex were blessed to celebrate their 30th wedding anniversary on October 19 with their children Emily and Charlie

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Oct 26, 2021 12 tweets 7 min read
Britain's polluted beaches and rivers revealed

+ Maps reveal beauty spots where sewage is dumped by water firms

+ Water firms must be stopped from dumping raw sewage, say campaigners

Read more: trib.al/DSyqtYX This map from @sascampaigns tracks real-time combined sewage overflows and pollution risk forecasts

+ It also monitors the water quality at over 400 locations around UK rivers and coastlines

Read more: trib.al/DSyqtYX
Oct 15, 2021 7 tweets 4 min read
Tory MP David Amess stabbed multiple times in front of horrified constituents as police arrest suspect at scene trib.al/XR2E04n A knifeman is understood to have run into the building wielding a knife before attacking the veteran politician trib.al/XR2E04n
Oct 15, 2021 8 tweets 5 min read
That 90s home! Retro-obsessed man spends £5,000 transforming his home into a time capsule

Read More: trib.al/mrgtTcZ A self-confessed 1990s fanatic has revealed how he's so obsessed with the era he transformed his home into a time capsule to the decade

+ It comes complete with retro TVs, pine furniture, landline phones and a very chunky laptop

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Oct 15, 2021 8 tweets 5 min read
The Queen criticises world leaders who 'talk but don't DO' on climate change

+ Monarch makes rare public intervention

READ MORE: trib.al/5MuSqZZ The Queen was overheard on a TV livestream saying she was 'irritated' by world leaders' inaction on climate change.

+ The monarch made the pointed comment while attending the opening of the Welsh parliament in Cardiff.

READ MORE: trib.al/5MuSqZZ
Oct 14, 2021 9 tweets 5 min read
The world's first working nuclear fusion reactor could be coming soon near your town

Read More: trib.al/UydNC3i Five UK sites around the country have been shortlisted for a plant - with operations as early as 2040

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Oct 14, 2021 8 tweets 4 min read
Prince William slams the billionaires' space race 🚀❌

+ The Royal says they should focus on fixing Earth's problems first

Read more: trib.al/Yc2Rdp4 The Royal said: 'We need some of the world’s greatest brains and minds fixed on trying to repair this planet, not trying to find the next place to go and live'

Read more: trib.al/Yc2Rdp4
Jun 1, 2021 9 tweets 5 min read
How quickly is the Indian variant spreading in YOUR area?

Our interactive map reveals how mutant strain is dominant in 102 towns in England and has spread to 206

Try it here: trib.al/wWxoKSl These maps show how the Indian variant is becoming the dominant strain in an increasing number of areas

+ The mutant strain had overtaken the Kent variant in 102 out of 315 areas in the country (34 per cent) by May 22

Read more: trib.al/wWxoKSl
Feb 12, 2021 10 tweets 5 min read
Is YOUR area winning England's Covid vaccine race?

+ Somerset and Derbyshire lead the pack
+ Yet, parts of London see just 75% uptake

Read more: trib.al/IxF3uRn This map shows how parts of England have already dished out Covid vaccines to nearly 95 per cent of their over-70s, official figures reveal

Read more: trib.al/IxF3uRn
Feb 11, 2021 12 tweets 6 min read
Covid cases continue to fall in England

+ Number of people testing positive falls by a quarter

+ Hospital and death rates also dropping

Read more: trib.al/GGkOUU0 The number of people who tested positive for coronavirus through the NHS Test and Trace programme fell by a quarter last week

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Feb 10, 2021 13 tweets 7 min read
Government ends any hope of holidays - foreign OR domestic

+ Backlash over threat of 10-year sentence for lying about visiting Red List countries

Read more: trib.al/GXE51Ge Image Grant Shapps made clear there is no guarantee that breaks will be possible at all this year, saying he did not want to 'raise people's hopes'

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Feb 10, 2021 10 tweets 5 min read
Britain's vaccine drive IS working

+ Pfizer and Oxford vaccines 'are cutting the risk of falling ill with Covid’
+ Hospitalisation rates have also started falling

Read more: trib.al/4DtrlTm Both vaccines cut the risk of falling ill with the disease by 65 per cent after just one dose

+ Britain is jabbing at record pace, dishing out more vaccines per person than any country in the world other than Israel

Read more: trib.al/4DtrlTm
Dec 21, 2020 21 tweets 8 min read
Mutated Covid strain: What we know so far

+ SAGE expert says 'This is the worst moment of the pandemic'
+ 'Super-Covid' strain is 70% MORE infectious
+ Makes up 60% of new cases in London

Read more: trib.al/VpaUgu2 Millions more could be plunged into lockdown

+ Matt Hancock says Covid now 'out of control'
+ 'Professor Lockdown' Neil Ferguson warns Tier Four could be needed until EASTER

Read more: trib.al/24c1rQu
Oct 16, 2020 12 tweets 6 min read
THREAD: The TRUTH about the claims scaring us all to death:

Soaring infections, teeming hospital wards, and terrifying death rates... but do the numbers justifying crippling new lockdowns REALLY stand up to scrutiny?

Read more: trib.al/1ruKgZ2 Claim: ICU beds in Liverpool are already 95 per cent full

Reality: Fewer ICU beds are occupied than last year

Read more: trib.al/p2TgGih
Oct 15, 2020 25 tweets 11 min read
#LondonLockdown: Can I still meet my friends?

Your questions answered as nine million Londoners are plunged into Tier 2 lockdown

Read more: trib.al/ZhDSnt6 Nine million people in London are set to face tougher coronavirus restrictions banning households mixing indoors from midnight on Friday night.

London has been moved to 'High' alert level.

Read more: trib.al/ZhDSnt6