@liamtrim

Sub Editor/journalist/press officer. Ex Reach and Salisbury Journal, @bathlive + @SomersetLive. Other past haunts: @myldn @Exepose @flickeringmyth. Views mine.

 Dorset, England
Joined October 2009
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Why is Napoli’s stadium playing “PM’s love theme” from Love actually 😅
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"When I asked the planning inspectorate for documents relating to cases involving Samuel Smith Old Brewery, they deemed my request impractical. Why? Because, they said, they held 13,000 such documents." Today's @gdnlongread by @DrBlacklock theguardian.com/news/2024/de…

Humphrey’s world: how the Samuel Smith beer baron built Britain’s strangest pub chain

Since the 1970s, Humphrey Smith has acquired scores of pubs and historic properties around the UK. But time after time, he has left the buildings empty. Why has he allowed his empire to moulder?

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9️⃣ players. 1️⃣3️⃣ passes. Back to front. ✅ Teamwork. #itfc
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Exclusive: New police figures show 77% of applications by sex offenders to be removed from the sex offenders register are successful - with some forces approving 100%. Now Laura Stewart, who was abused as a child, is campaigning for a change in the law. news.sky.com/story/frightene…

'Frightened' abuse victim wants law change as number of sex offenders removed from register revealed

Offenders have had the right to apply for a review after 15 years on the register since 2012. But now Laura Stewart, who was abused as a child, is petitioning MPs to change the law after she discov...

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Quite like this. Rowan Atkinson writes a piece on electric vehicles. PLOT TWIST: he turns out to be very knowledgeable, piece is sensible and balanced theguardian.com/commentisfre…

I love electric vehicles – and was an early adopter. But increasingly I feel duped | Rowan Atkinson

Sadly, keeping your old petrol car may be better than buying an EV, says actor Rowan Atkinson

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Why Wrexham? How Ryan Reynolds and Rob McElhenney came to buy a club they’d never heard of independent.co.uk/sport/foot…
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SUNDAY TIMES: MI6 spy sent to jihadist camp killed own child #TomorrowsPapersToday
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In Northern Ireland, it's the unionists who now feel lost | @TomMcTague unherd.com/2023/03/larkins-l…

Larkin's lesson for Northern Ireland

Unionism is condemned to an endless struggle with its reality

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How the @bankofengland and @hmtreasury came within a whisker of allowing Silicon Valley Bank's UK arm to implode. My long read with the inside story of what insiders codenamed "Operation Cork" news.sky.com/story/hsbcs-svb…

HSBC's SVB UK buyout: The codenames and secret talks which averted a banking disaster

Questions remain after the Silicon Valley Bank saga showed the financial system remains vulnerable to unexpected shocks. But here's the story of how a hidden effort went on throughout the weekend to...

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Everyone’s aware of the current NHS crisis. This is how funding connects to it. In 5 mins.
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After years of reading spy fiction and wondering where all the women were, I asked MI6 if I could speak to their top female spies about the realities of being a women in espionage. I met Kathy, Ada and Rebecca, and here is their story: ft.com/content/741772c0-ee76…

The secret lives of MI6’s top female spies

For the first time ever, SIS officers reveal why women often make the best spies for our times

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🔌POWER GRIDS🔌 Arguably the most important & underdiscussed issue in the pursuit for net zero. The grid is creaking. It cld trigger blackouts & even prevent net zero. It’s a v big deal! But let’s begin our story with something else. A bit of history. The first power station… 🧵
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This is the report on the controversies around Qatar being host of the World Cup that just played on @BBCOne as @GaryLineker begins @BBCSport's coverage of the tournament.
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Planes, trains, automobiles... and everything else. There's a lot of people out there who want to convince you hydrogen is the fuel of the future. But how much of this is realistic? And how much is just hype? I tried to get to the bottom of it news.sky.com/story/the-futur…

The future of energy may lie with hydrogen, but the journey to get there won't be easy

Hydrogen could be a vital bridge in the transition to renewables but investment, vision and commitment are lacking at a government level.

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This is such a wonderful story. theguardian.com/football/202…
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Glad everyone is okay somersetlive.co.uk/news/loca…

Car crashes into abandoned shop front in Bath

A section of Lansdown Road is closed after the crash

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Pictures from an ongoing crime scene in #Twerton #Bath today somersetlive.co.uk/news/some…

Neighbours wake to shouts of 'they've got knives' at Bath flats

Avon and Somerset police officers have a crime scene in place in Twerton

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UPDATE: #M4 lorry fire video shows scale of inferno, as witness describes seeing a mile of 'small 'fires' because of hay bales which apparently fell off the lorry wiltshirelive.co.uk/news/wil…

Video shows 'massive' lorry fire which left trail of flames on M4

M4 traffic was stopped both ways because of smoke and flames, with one witness saying 'small fires' stretched back for a mile

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