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Bristol, England
Joined May 2015
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LIVE from 10 with @SteveHReports: ▶️@Chris_Chambo_ on Sir Mark Rowley's plans for an overhaul of policing. ▶️@helenhoddinott on Russell Brand's first night in a police cell after rape conviction. ▶️@TheaRickard on Gavin Newsom's death row plans. 🎧l-bc.co/LBCNews
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Bumping this up again. So powerful @SophyRidgeSky
I don’t know what happened with Russell Brand. He denies criminality.   But I DO understand why women might not report rape to the police My take on tonight’s #PoliticsHub 👇
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Live with @SteveHReports: ▶️ @benjihyer on a seismic night in US politics as Democrats take House and Senate ▶️ @HL_Cartwright on 320,000 school files published on dark web ▶️ @TheaRickard on calls for formal apology for transatlantic slave trade 🎧: l-bc.co/LBCNews
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Michigan's Democratic candidate for Senate Abdul El-Sayed confronted @jamesmatthewsky, telling him he wouldn't answer his questions as he wants "zero" votes in the UK. Watch the heated exchange between the two. Watch our live coverage of the US midterms➡️ trib.al/BikRSb2
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LIVE from 10 with @SteveHReports: ▶️@NatashaC interviews the Home Secretary on her revised migration rules. ▶️@benjihyer previews the US Midterm elections. ▶️@TheaRickard on a fresh warning about the UK's cyber defences. 🎧l-bc.co/LBCNews
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Statement from @CarolineVoaden - below:   1 - “It's very strange that Farage has dredged up this incident, which happened five months ago while scrambling for an excuse as to why he wasn't in the Chamber for the Budget speech.”
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6 - “It's the same old story, he just wants to be in the limelight, in front of a camera, taking centre stage rather than actually doing the job he's been elected to do.”
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7 - “It's impossible to imagine him ever being leader of the Opposition let alone Prime Minister - he might actually have to show up and do some work.”
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And we both know that’s not true Nigel don’t we? I’m still waiting for the apology you were required to write to me… Though I won’t hold my breath
🚨 WATCH: Nigel Farage says he didn't attend the Budget in Parliament to "avoid a physical altercation" "Given my prayer card [to reserve a seat] was removed, I was heading towards another physical altercation... being a quiet, shy and modest person, I decided against it"
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EXCLUSIVE: @JoshBabarinde has told me “I was there and I saw myself— I saw Nigel Farage LAY HANDS on one of my woman Lib Dem MP colleagues, and it was pretty shocking to see”. This is the latest on the Commons saga referenced by Farage as to why he was not present at the budget.
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We have approached @reformparty_uk for comment and I will update this thread when we receive one. More on @LBC
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New from MI5: The Iran-linked incident at RAF Fairford is “not unique”. Chief Sir Ken McCallum also said “those who seek to cause mayhem on British streets – whether hired thugs here or their paymasters overseas – will meet an unflinching response.” #news #raffairford #crime
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This was such an eye opening podcast by the inimitable @louisetickle - I’m glad to see this being explored further and look forward to watching the doc.
"Four years ago Louise Tickle made a podcast called Fallen Women. It was about police failing to investigate signs of domestic abuse – and homicide – in cases of women who died falling from heights." observer.co.uk/news/national… "Now there’s a documentary inspired by that podcast (Stacey Dooley's 'Fallen Women', at 9pm on Tuesday 13th October on BBC Three and iPlayer), and one of its subjects, Killed Women co-founder Jhiselle Feanny, is calling on police chiefs to rethink how all fall deaths are investigated. Louise has the update, and it’s definitely worth paying attention to." [The Observer, 12 October 2026] 'A fall is a mechanism, not the context.' Listen to the Fallen Women podcast here: tortoisemedia.com/listen/the… Watch the Stacey Dooley 'Fallen Women' documentary here (after 9pm on Tuesday): bbc.co.uk/programmes/p0pfr16… #FallenWomen #BeesLaw #KilledWomen #EndViolenceAgainstWomen #DomesticAbuseAwareness
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The prosecution has opened in the case of a Robotics student accused of murdering his housemate in Bristol. The court has heard Zack Coughlan admits stabbing 21-year-old Jamie Collins (pictured) around 30 times, but denies murder, alleging he 'lost his self control'.
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