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Jan 11, 2023 4 tweets 3 min read
Exclusive: Boris Johnson joked to staff “this is the most unsocially distanced party in the UK right now” during a boozy Number 10 leaving do, ITV News has revealed in an explosive new podcast, Partygate: The Inside Story.

Full story here: itv.com/news/2023-01-1… "I heard the PM speaking and that's when I heard the quote 'this is the most unsocially distanced party in the UK right now' and everyone was laughing about it."

For the first time, hear our (actor-voiced) source describe the moment in their own words... itv.com/news/2023-01-1…
Jun 7, 2022 4 tweets 4 min read
In an exclusive interview with @itvnews, transgender cyclist Emily Bridges tells @stevescott_itv she had 'physical threats' made against her after Prime Minister @BorisJohnson voiced his opinion on the place of trans women in sport itv.com/news/2022-06-0… @stevescott_itv @BorisJohnson "I don't want special treatment from anyone, I just want the same opportunities as my fellow female athletes"

Transgender cyclist Emily Bridges answers criticism from those who say she shouldn't be competing in women's events itv.com/news/2022-06-0…
Oct 13, 2021 6 tweets 3 min read
Revealed: Some of the UK’s most popular dairy products, including Cadbury’s chocolate, Anchor and Clover butter, Cravendale milk and Cathedral City cheddar, are being linked to destroying the Brazilian rainforest.

itv.com/news/2021-10-1… The Cerrado forest in Brazil is being destroyed to make soya, which is used to feed farm animals. The milk from these cattle is then sold to big manufacturers including Cadbury, Arla and Saputo.

Read more: itv.com/news/2021-10-1…
Jun 29, 2021 4 tweets 3 min read
Mark Carney, the UN’s Special Envoy on Climate Action and Finance and former Bank of England governor, tells ITV News some of the world’s biggest banks need to do more to demonstrate they are committed to tackling global warming
itv.com/news/2021-06-2… ‘These are the types of actions that have to be stopped, they have to be eliminated.’
Mark Carney responds to ITV News' investigation which revealed Amazon is destroying millions of items of unsold stock every year #AmazonWaste itv.com/news/2021-06-2…
Jun 21, 2021 6 tweets 4 min read
Exclusive: Amazon is destroying millions of items of unsold stock in one of its UK warehouses every year, an ITV News investigation has uncovered.

Many of the products - including smart TVs and laptops - are often new and unused.

itv.com/news/2021-06-2…

#AmazonWaste A former Amazon employee secretly filmed the 'destruction zone' at the company's Dunfermline warehouse where unwanted goods are marked 'destroy'.

A leaked document showed more than 124,000 items marked as 'destroy' in just a week.

Watch: itv.com/news/2021-06-2…

#AmazonWaste
Apr 29, 2021 4 tweets 2 min read
A 48-year-old man who became so ill with Covid-19 he is having to learn how to walk and talk again after spending more than half a year in hospital

itv.com/news/2021-04-2… "It could've gone on 10 days and I'd be getting on with my life now, but it didn't - it went the other way": Rob Orton, who has been in hospital for six months after getting Covid, says he is "lucky to be alive"

itv.com/news/2021-04-2…
Apr 29, 2021 7 tweets 4 min read
Covid: Doctors left to comfort dying coronavirus patients in India as they feel 'helpless'
itv.com/news/2021-04-2… ‘I at least try to sit at their bedside, making it a little easier for them to pass away with someone next to them.’

Doctor U. H. Faisal says on most days she sits by the bed of her dying patients to comfort them
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Apr 27, 2021 4 tweets 2 min read
'I have to save her' - hero said before jumping into Thames to save woman itv.com/news/2021-04-2… “'Bernard, I have to save her, I’m going to save her’," his best friend Bernard Kosia, who was with him at the time of the tragic incident, recalled
Jan 18, 2021 4 tweets 3 min read
Intensive care matron tells of 'soul-destroying moment of seeing families being wiped out'
itv.com/news/2021-01-1… 'We're having families coming in and we're seeing families being wiped out - which is just so soul-destroying.'

An ICU matron also tells @emilymorganitv she's seeing more younger patients than in the first coronavirus wave.

More here: itv.com/news/2021-01-1…
Sep 3, 2020 4 tweets 3 min read
Being Uighur in China: 'After Nazi Germany the world said never again, but it is'.

@emmamurphyitv speaks to Nursiman Abdulrachid whose whole family have been taken to a Chinese camp itv.com/news/2020-09-0… @emmamurphyitv "The world become a place like hell"

Nursiman Abdulrachid used to regularly call home to China so her parents knew all about their granddaughter's life.

Then the phone went unanswered.

Her family, Uighur Muslims, had all been taken to a Chinese camp itv.com/news/2020-09-0…
Sep 2, 2020 5 tweets 4 min read
Uighur doctor tells ITV News of disturbing testimonies of 'forced abortions and removal of wombs' | By @emmamurphyitv
itv.com/news/2020-09-0… A former doctor in China tells @emmamurphyitv of participating in at least 500 to 600 operations on the country's minority Uighur women including forced abortions, sterilisations, the removal of wombs and contraception

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Dec 22, 2019 4 tweets 1 min read
On Saturday we reported on an interview by an Italian newspaper with the British rapper Stormzy in which the subject of racism in the UK was discussed. (1/4) Asked whether the UK was a racist country, Stormzy was reported by a news agency to say: "Definitely, 100%. It's like: 'Oh no, we're not racist'. But there's a lot of racism in the country... (2/4)
Oct 20, 2019 4 tweets 3 min read
Meghan admits she was 'naive' over British tabloids and reveals she was warned 'they will destroy your life' itv.com/news/2019-10-2… 'My British friend said to me 'I'm sure he's great but you shouldn't do it''

The Duchess of Sussex reveals she was warned not to marry Prince Harry because 'British tabloids will destroy your life' #HarryAndMeghan itv.com/news/2019-10-2…