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Leigh Jones
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Freelance journalist. Investigations, writing, broadcast, newsreading, BBC Radio Newcastle etc

Editor, The Teesside Lead.

🔗 https://theteessidelead.substack.com

Used to work in music. Ex-Yorkshire Post Teesworks expert. Oh, and once I saw a blimp.
And you know who that 1 is in Coventry's L column don't you?

What you doing messing around in the CL spots. Come back to a proper league!
November 26, 2025 at 10:29 PM
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There's an advert on his website for a 'Depot Supervisor' that pays £12.75 an hour for shift work.
If he wants to reduce welfare spending maybe he should pay staff enough that they don't need in-work benefits.
‘Madness’ to increase welfare spending in Budget, says AO World boss
November 26, 2025 at 8:26 AM
Yeah, we shouldn't take things for granted. But as always, we need to ask who is saying these things and question why they might be saying them.
November 25, 2025 at 7:59 PM
A king.
November 25, 2025 at 6:29 PM
There's a guy who goes round non-league grounds and clips the mic onto a different object each time.

He had an oil-filled radiator for one video.
November 25, 2025 at 6:17 PM
It's just an avatar of me doing the same pose and smile, photoshopped onto different backgrounds.
November 25, 2025 at 1:30 PM
Middlesbrough probably a better case study for what they were trying to say?
November 24, 2025 at 9:53 AM
I drank something stupid like 12 pints and 3 shots on my stag do and had no sign of a hangover the next day.

But sometimes 3 pints mid-week will leave me dry heaving until 4pm the next day.

Like flies to wanton boys are we to the gods.
November 23, 2025 at 10:43 AM
Now I read the news on the radio 🤷🏻
November 23, 2025 at 7:55 AM
That's the bit that really jumped out at me.

Is he saying he fell in line with Reform because he didn't want a fight?
November 22, 2025 at 8:58 AM
In regular elections it's usually around 40%.
November 21, 2025 at 11:40 AM
I've been taking a break. Should be back soon!
November 21, 2025 at 10:19 AM