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Oct 31, 2022 • 7 tweets • 2 min read
🔵 NEW: Dominic Johnson was a government minister for just 26 days - but will keep his peerage
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🔎 His dismissal was as low-key as his appointment, confirmed by an update to the gov.uk website today, which said he had left office on 28 October.
Oct 31, 2022 • 12 tweets • 5 min read
🗣 “Why am I in so much pain? Why is no one listening to me?”
It took nearly two decades for Chetna Mistry to be diagnosed with #endometriosis. Charities are calling for more research into women’s health so others don’t suffer a similar experience.
She visited her GP, who told her it was normal. But the pain was so bad that she couldn’t go out with friends, struggled to survive a day at work, and frequently ended up bed-bound.
Oct 30, 2022 • 4 tweets • 2 min read
Update: the man who threw three petrol bombs at the Border Force migrant and refugee centre in Dover has killed himself, the area's MP Natalie Elphicke has said. Kent Police are yet to confirm this, however officers erected a tent around the suspect's car. nationalworld.com/news/crime/dov…
The Dover MP said: "I understand that the Dover immigration centre that is at the Port of Dover was firebombed with the number of devices before an individual then committed suicide. I understand that all the people who are at the centre are being looked after."
Oct 30, 2022 • 10 tweets • 4 min read
A man threw three petrol bombs from a car at a Border Force migrant and refugee centre in Dover. Kent Police have not confirmed reports that the suspect killed himself at a nearby petrol station shortly after the firebomb attack. nationalworld.com/news/crime/dov…
Kent Police were called at 11.22am on Sunday to The Viaduct, where two to three incendiary devices had caused a fire. The migrant centre - pictured - in Dover port is used for processing migrants, refugees and asylum seekers, who travel across the Channel on small boats.
Oct 30, 2022 • 14 tweets • 5 min read
Exclusive: there is no written correspondence between the government and the CMA on the decision to close the UK’s biggest gas storage site in 2017, Centrica's Rough facility, which has since been reopened to tackle the energy crisis. nationalworld.com/news/politics/…
The revelation that high-level discussions around mothballing the facility were only carried out verbally, comes amid warnings from the National Grid about blackouts and concern about the country’s energy security following Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. nationalworld.com/news/uk/blacko…
Oct 29, 2022 • 7 tweets • 3 min read
Taylor Swift joined Bon Iver and the National's Aaron Dessner in London to perform her hit Exile live for the first time. She surprised fans on Bon Iver's tour at Wembley Arena with a special appearance to sing the Folklore hit. nationalworld.com/culture/taylor…
As Bon Iver singer-songwriter Justin Vernon began the first few verses of the song from the Midnights star’s eighth record at the Wembley show, she walked on stage and began singing. Fans in the crowd went delirious for the unexpected appearance from Taylor Swift.
Oct 19, 2022 • 8 tweets • 4 min read
🔵 EXCLUSIVE: Major UK supermarkets have hiked prices on almost two-thirds of their value range food, drinks and household products since April, hitting poorer shoppers in the pocket during the #costoflivingcrisis
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🛒 We’ve been tracking the price of hundreds of budget products from Asda, Tesco, Sainsburys, Morrisons and Aldi between the first Monday of April versus October.
🔎 During that time, 64% of items have become more expensive.
Oct 19, 2022 • 10 tweets • 3 min read
🔵 NEW: #LizTruss will be entitled to claim up to £115,000 per year from the taxpayer for the rest of her life once she leaves office, despite likely being one of the shortest-serving prime ministers in history.
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🪙 The Public Duties Cost Allowance allows former prime ministers to claim back money toward the cost of maintaining activities in public life.
Former PMs have claimed back millions through the scheme since it was set up in 1991 following the resignation of Margaret Thatcher.
Oct 19, 2022 • 9 tweets • 3 min read
🔵 NEW: The @RMTunion has announced that workers are set to stage fresh #railstrikes in November after Network Rail “performed a U-turn on pay offer”.
It has said: "Network Rail bosses “reneged on their promises.”
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The union said that following negotiations, there “was an agreement where the company would commit to an improved offer on pay and working towards a negotiated settlement”, however, Network Rail bosses sought to “impose job cuts, unsocial hours and detrimental changes to rosters”
Oct 19, 2022 • 7 tweets • 3 min read
🦟 Tiny white flies swarming in parts of the UK are being compared to #StrangerThings Upside Down
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The creatures, which measure less than one millimetre in length, seem to fly directly in people’s faces, causing some to fear they’ve swallowed them.
🌨 Other people have mistaken them for ash, blossom or even snowfall.
Oct 18, 2022 • 8 tweets • 3 min read
🔵 NEW: Women are facing a ‘postcode lottery’ in accessing Hormonal Replacement Therapy (HRT) medication and menopause treatment, with some waiting as long as 18 months for NHS treatment.
Campaigners say the situation is a “disgrace”.
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🔍 Analysis of NHS prescription data by the BBC’s Shared Data Unit to mark #WorldMenopauseDay2022 found geographical disparities in spending on HRT drugs across Clinical Commissioning Groups (CCGs) in England between April 2021 and June 2022.
Oct 18, 2022 • 8 tweets • 3 min read
🔵 NEW: The head of the UK’s electricity and gas systems’ operator has outlined the “worst case scenario” which could see UK households facing three-hour blackouts this winter.
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🗣 #NationalGrid boss John Pettigrew said blackouts would have to be imposed in the “deepest darkest evenings” in January and February if electricity generators did not have enough gas to meet demand, particularly if there is a bout of cold weather.
Oct 17, 2022 • 5 tweets • 5 min read
💡 The 14 areas with the highest Covid infection rates in England - from our Data Reporter @aimeestanton4
📌 Hello, here are our headlines on Wednesday 11 May.
A lucky ticket-holder has won a huge EuroMillions jackpot and will become the UK’s biggest ever National Lottery winner.
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BBC presenter Deborah James broke down in tears as she recalled “hard conversations” she had with her children about her death.
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🍽 The latest @ONS inflation data showed food was 5.8% more expensive this March compared to last - but official figures may understate the impact on poorer families, as highlighted by food poverty campaigner @bootstrapcook in a tweet earlier this year.
📌 Hello, here is a round-up of our headlines on Tuesday 10 May.
BBC presenter Deborah James has told fans she does not know “how long I’ve got left” in a heartbreaking Instagram post.
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After months of legal wrangling, the highly anticipated “Wagatha Christie” High Court libel trial between Coleen Rooney and Rebekah Vardy is set to begin.
📌 Hello, here is a round-up of our headlines on Monday 9 May.
Russian forces have pushed forward in their attempts to capture the southern Ukrainian port city of Mariupol as Moscow held celebrations marking its national Victory Day holiday.
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Some 65,400 people every month in England are waiting too long to find out whether they have cancer, new analysis from charity Cancer Research UK has found.
