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Dadding, nursing, PKUing. House servant to the child and @emmavardy2.bsky.social
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Each door of the History & Heritage Yorkshire Advent Calendar reveals a festive nugget of history, folklore and traditions, curious snippets and the events that shaped the region.
Please enlarge the image to read. #AdventCalendar #Advent #Yorkshire #Mistletoe #Holly #heritage
December 2, 2025 at 6:08 AM
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I think that must have been in one of the Gnostic Gospels.
December 1, 2025 at 7:10 PM
🅦🅞🅡🅓🄸🄿🄻🅈 #1076
🌟 Length Score: 100%
💫 Rare long word found!
🚀 Letter Score: 76
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🎬 Today's starter: 🅄🄽🄸
Pleased with an 18 letter word
Wordiply | The Guardian
Play the Guardian's new daily word game, and share your score with your friends. You have five goes to get the longest word including today's starter word.
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December 1, 2025 at 7:39 PM
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❗ Don’t miss it ❗

Our Xmas Social is just days away! 🎄

📅 Wednesday 3rd December
🕢 7:30pm
📍 Brew York

Hear from:
⚽ Andy Leaning
⚽ @joshstones09
⚽ Mark Kitching

FREE ENTRY – all fans welcome! 🦁
#YCFC
December 1, 2025 at 4:02 PM
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Former Tory deputy chair Jonathan "C" Gullis defects to Reform
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Ex Conservative MP Jonathan Gullis defects to Reform UK
Jonathan Gullis, a former education minister, lost his Stoke-on-Trent North seat in 2024.
www.bbc.co.uk
December 1, 2025 at 11:19 AM
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Without this section to Crewe (which isn't even long or particularly expensive), the part of HS2 currently under construction becomes a complete waste of money.
HS2 to Crewe to be officially killed off in 60 days as legal powers expire

After delaying a decision all year, Labour will be forced into a decision over its plans for northern rail investment”

Steve Robson
The i Paper
apple.news/AEQwYtf8XSoq...
HS2 to Crewe to be officially killed off in 60 days as legal powers expire — The i Paper
After delaying a decision all year, Labour will be forced into a decision over its plans for northern rail investment
apple.news
December 1, 2025 at 11:20 AM
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Ten-month-old Susan Torkington, of Regent Road, Stockport, gets a tow on the snow-clad slopes of Lyme Park, Disley, from her three-year-old sister Linda, January 1960 (Mirrorpix/@manchestereveningnews.co.uk).
November 30, 2025 at 9:19 PM
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Feeling grateful for everyone who has shared and supported my work. Thank you all🙏💙

If you want something in time for the holidays, now is the perfect moment to order and send it on it's way.
November 30, 2025 at 6:10 PM
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Late afternoon sunlight on the top of St. John the Baptist church, St. John's Square, Wakefield today.
#OnePlaceStudy
November 30, 2025 at 4:28 PM
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The Forgotten Women of Wakefield project are raising funds for a sculpture of suffragist Florence Beaumont in Wakefield. Further details about the project & a link to donate are below.
www.gofundme.com/f/forgotten-...
Donate to Forgotten Women of Wakefield - Florence Beaumont Sculpture, organized by The Forgotten Women of Wakefield by Dream Time Creative
Hello, my name is Sarah Cobham and I am the woman behind … The Forgotten Women of Wakefield by Dream Time Creative needs your support for Forgotten Women of Wakefield - Florence Beaumont Sculptur...
www.gofundme.com
November 30, 2025 at 4:35 PM
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Based upon images from Gearrannan Blackhouse Village, Isle of Lewis. Oil on Fabriano, 70 x 100cm

#oilpainting #scotland #isleoflewis #outerhebrides
November 30, 2025 at 3:08 PM
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Gaelic and Scots now recognised as official languages under the Scottish Languages Act. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Gaelic and Scots now recognised as official languages
The milestone is one of a number of new measures taking effect on St Andrew's Day from the Scottish Languages Act.
www.bbc.co.uk
November 30, 2025 at 3:36 PM
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South Park destroys Pete Hegseth.
November 30, 2025 at 12:36 PM
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Pressure is mounting on Hegseth over his order to murder victims at sea.
Congressional committees to scrutinize U.S. killing of boat strike survivors — The Washington Post
The Senate and House armed services committees’ pledge followed a Washington Post report revealing that Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth ordered that a U.S. strike leave no survivors.
apple.news
November 30, 2025 at 10:31 AM
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"But the measures will still leave the county council with a deficit of £72mn over the coming four years...

...unless councillors agree more cuts or council tax increases or use of reserves or a combination of the three."
Reform cabinet backs £10mn cuts to start filling Durham’s growing black hole
Reform is now learning that running a big council is not as easy as it probably thought
northeastbylines.co.uk
November 30, 2025 at 11:00 AM
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Good morning, James @nowthenthee.bsky.social & thank you. Here's another one that might qualify on the #SundayMorning front: this is "Canonbury Grove" by Elwin Hawthorne from 1932. #ElwinHawthorne #SundayMorning #EastLondonGroup
November 30, 2025 at 12:03 PM
Sunday Morning indeed
It is "that time of the week" again! Here's "Sunday Morning, Farringdon Road" by Cecil Osborne from 1929. It is in the collection at Brighton & Hove Museums & cards & prints are available here with 40% off: www.eastlondongroup.co.uk but only until 23.59 on 08/12/25! #SundayMorning #EastLondonGroup
November 30, 2025 at 9:57 AM
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Night and Rooftops, painting by Harold Riley, 1934-2023, (University of Salford). #NorthernArt
November 30, 2025 at 8:47 AM
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The thinnest skinned man in the world.

A new White House webpage presents a Hall of Shame for news reports the president disagrees with.
Trump ramps up reporter attacks with White House media bias tracker
A new White House webpage presents a “Hall of Shame” for news reports that the president disagrees with, coming after Trump voiced personal attacks on female reporters at ABC, CBS, the New York Times ...
www.washingtonpost.com
November 29, 2025 at 9:13 PM
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😂 It's what I've bought , nowt.
November 30, 2025 at 5:44 AM
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Waking to the news of another mass shooting in America. Four children dead for that country’s ‘Freedom’. Whenever one happens, I post my song that I wrote following the Sandy hook tragedy… and I’m posting it far too often. 😢

on.soundcloud.com/TJXu6j8FrDkY...
Gun Law
My reaction to the Sandy Hook tragedy. As an Englishman, I struggle to understand how the National Rifle Association of America can defend its stance on weaponry, and indeed call for MORE guns in the
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November 30, 2025 at 7:32 AM
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Over 100,000 signatures in a day.

Let's get that to 1,000,000 by the end of next week.

For a decade and likely much longer foreign and belligerent governments have inflicted lasting damage on our democracy and our society.

Enough is enough.

petition.parliament.uk/petitions/74...
Petition: Call a public inquiry into Russian influence on UK politics & democracy
We are concerned about reported efforts from Russia to influence democracy in the US, UK, Europe and elsewhere. We believe we must establish the depth and breadth of possible Russian influence campaig...
petition.parliament.uk
November 29, 2025 at 4:47 PM
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Following yesterday’s story about Australia’s success tackling cervical cancer with the HPV vaccine, here’s the latest research on how vaccines can help prevent dementia, heart disease and some cancers.
The common vaccines that can prevent chronic disease or some cancers
In addition to cancer, a growing body of research has shown that vaccines can reduce the risk of developing dementia and heart conditions.
www.washingtonpost.com
November 29, 2025 at 5:16 PM
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Map of potential US targets in Venezuela, via South American and Global Defense News.
November 29, 2025 at 3:33 PM