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Hack turned flack. Gin connoisseur. All views are mine alone and no-one else's fault.

Joined November 2012
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The current scene at @MilanBergamoBGY where @Ryanair passengers from @EDI_Airport have been queuing for over 2 hours at passport control under new entry/exit scheme. Only a third processed so far. Another Brexit benefit - hah! @BBCScotlandNews @STVNews @ScottishSun
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Nipped into Lidl for a Pan loaf, a jar of strawberry jam & a knob of butter and to my great surprise @FIFAcom & Gianni Infantino gave me a medal for being a piece maker! (If you get it, you get it!) 🥪
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Hey @BBCSportScot think you might have got the opposition wrong, unless our footballers are now playing Argentina at Hampden on Tuesday night…
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We joined our hub colleagues for an event at Dover House in London hosted by @ScotSecofState to brief MPs, Lords and civil servants on how #HubScotland can play a major role in delivering the nation's community infrastructure needs. #collaboration #hubswork
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Hey @ScotRail this is currently your 1.28pm service from Edinburgh to Aberdeen. Three carriages all rammed, people standing everywhere, babies in prams in the corridor. A health and safety nightmare. First stop Cupar in Fife and we have do this? #notgoodenough #cattleclass
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Happy Star Wars Day everybody! #StarWars as photographs from the #Orkney Archive photographic collection. ⭐️ #MayThe4thBeWithYou #StarWarsDay
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I'm glad Jim Wilson, ex Sunday Mail editor, has written this terrific piece for the @LRB. It was such a brave decision to publish the story naming Emma Caldwell's killer, & attempts to uncover his sources are an enduring stain on the Scottish police. lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v46/n06/…
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CMRT were called out to a male who had sustained a lower leg injury from a slip on ice. He was treated by fellow Mountain rescue team members from @kirkbystephenmrt before CMRT arrived to help stretcher the injured person back to the ski area car park.
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Bob Dow retweeted
Richard Park, chief executive of hub North Scotland, said: “We are delighted to be a sponsor again because our role as a community infrastructure developer for the public sector brings us into regular contact with media organisations across the highlands and islands and -
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Join us 17 Jan at the Scottish Parliament to celebrate @CIPR_Scotland's 60th anniversary! Register here to guarantee your place: buff.ly/471aLI4 #PR #Scotland
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The full story of the Horizon Post Office scandal as seen on #MrBatesVsThePostOffice is now available as a free download on the Eye website here: private-eye.co.uk/special-re…
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An awful lot of politicians who took no interest in the Post Office Horizon scandal in the past seem to have reinvented themselves as tireless campaigners – at Kensington, London
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Prestigious Lifetime Service Achievement Award is to be Presented to Gordon Fyfe. Congratulations Gordon, very well deserved! bit.ly/3tGtTx9
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Congratulations to all of our Media Awards finalists, see you all on the 2nd February, 2024! #HIPBMA2024
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Thursday night: £85 Classic or £105 luxury Friday/Saturday: £95 Classic or £115 luxury   Both include breakfast (rates held till 2.1.24, limited rooms available). Call 01463 257100 to book, quoting Press Ball
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A reminder that our deadline to enter the media awards is 27th of November at 5pm.   Here a link to our website where you can get our entry details: pressball.info/how-to-enter   #HIPBMA2024
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Happy publication day to me. Please do buy from wherever you get your books It explains in detail why everything is going so terribly well
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Milltimber Brae between South and North Deeside Road is about to close due to the River Dee bursting its banks and overwhelming the bridge. The bridge will remained closed for most of tomorrow until structural engineers have made an assessment on reopening.
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