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nottinghampost.co.uk
Surfers, swimmers, runners, footy mums, birdwatchers and fishermen all love a dryrobe (Contains affiliate links)
'My dryrobe is a lifesaver as I train for frightening challenge'
www.nottinghampost.com
January 17, 2026 at 1:47 PM
olinews.bsky.social
We are indeed inundated with this toss
robinwigglesworth.ft.com Robin Wigglesworth @robinwigglesworth.ft.com · 15d
I’m getting a little worried that for large parts of the industry the future of journalism will involve fake AI generated sources being quoted by fake AI generated journalistic pressgazette.co.uk/news/named-5...
Named: 50 'experts' and linked brands publishers should treat with caution
Experts and brands associated with more than 1,000 likely fake stories are named.
pressgazette.co.uk
January 10, 2026 at 9:05 AM
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robinwigglesworth.ft.com
Who’s who at X, the deepfake porn site formerly known as Twitter.

Featuring illustrations by Grok, because “pixels 🟰 zero harm” apparently. www.ft.com/content/ad94...
January 6, 2026 at 10:26 AM
olinews.bsky.social
Happy Spacemen 3 day to all who observe #wavesofjoy #spacemen3day
November 19, 2025 at 8:24 AM
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jim.londoncentric.media
I think this is the weirdest story I've ever reported. www.londoncentric.media/p/terry-ball...
The snail farmer of London, his mafia friends, and a £20m vendetta against the taxman
Terry Ball runs elaborate mollusc-based tax avoidance schemes that are costing London councils millions of pounds. Yet when London Centric tracks him down, an even stranger story emerges.
www.londoncentric.media
October 18, 2025 at 6:00 AM
olinews.bsky.social
Dead crocodile found in Derbyshire canal
🐊 www.derbytelegraph.co.uk/news/local-n...
Police ask for help after crocodile dumped in Derbyshire canal
It was seen near a bridge earlier this week
www.derbytelegraph.co.uk
October 17, 2025 at 7:40 AM
olinews.bsky.social
Incredibly life-affirming to learn of the 80-year longitudinal Harvard Study of Adult Development. It found people who are happy and well when they get old all have one thing in common and that thing is love… ❤️🥹 “Happiness is love, full stop” via Freakonomics open.spotify.com/episode/2Svn...
How Can We Break Our Addiction to Contempt? (Update)
open.spotify.com
October 16, 2025 at 10:22 AM
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danneidle.bsky.social
Douglas Barrowman and Michelle Mone's company, PPE Medpro, has just been ordered to refund the Government £122m from a PPE contract.

There are two very odd things about PPE Medpro that may affect the odds of the Government ever getting that £122m...

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October 2, 2025 at 8:00 AM
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Nottingham paper takes legal action against Reform council that banned its reporters
Nottingham paper takes legal action against Reform council that banned its reporters
News outfit claims being barred from talking to the council’s leader is breach of right to free expression A local paper whose journalists have been ostracised by a Reform UK council is taking legal action, arguing the move is a breach of its right to free expression. The Nottingham Post, and its online site Nottinghamshire Live, has been barred from speaking to the council’s leader and removed from media mailing lists by the Reform-led Nottinghamshire county council. Continue reading...
www.theguardian.com
September 30, 2025 at 6:20 PM
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kathyodonnell.bsky.social
All the things that never get said on Question Time.
atrupar.com Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · Sep 3
Nigel Farage looks uncomfortable as Jamie Raskin uses his opening statement to absolutely demolish him
September 4, 2025 at 7:18 AM
olinews.bsky.social
So long, Oggy…we’ll miss you 😢
August 11, 2025 at 8:09 PM
olinews.bsky.social
People of Bristol run for your lives!!!!!
August 10, 2025 at 11:42 AM
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danneidle.bsky.social
In 2022, Nadhim Zahawi’s solicitor sent me a libel threat - and said I wasn’t even allowed to say he’d written to me.

The Solicitors Disciplinary Tribunal ruled that was improper.

Now he’s appealing.

A 🧵 on why it matters.
August 5, 2025 at 8:30 AM
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apiln.bsky.social
Don’t think we haven’t noticed the picture caption and the brazen attempt to get onto our page. Because we did, and it worked.
'Rotting fish' stench and 'ugly' new windows fury in Devon
A row has erupted
www.devonlive.com
August 4, 2025 at 10:20 AM
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apiln.bsky.social
I’ve literally had the same problem with a couple of leopards I was sending to Terry Nutkins. Luckily, they followed the trail of dead and mauled posties and managed to deliver them safely!!
Large venomous tarantulas go missing in the post
'For the love of God don't open my parcel!'
www.bristolpost.co.uk
July 10, 2025 at 8:14 AM
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tristancorkpost.bsky.social
The council dodged a direct question from the Bristol Post & could offer no evidence or confirmation the ‘Barton Hill Disabilities Group’ was real & the council hadn’t simply made it up to tick boxes for the Liveable Neighbourhood consultation.
Full story here👇🏼
www.bristolpost.co.uk/news/bristol...
Council accused of making up fictional disabled group for roads consultation
The council has failed to provide any confirmation or evidence the 'Barton Hill Disabilities Group' is real
www.bristolpost.co.uk
June 26, 2025 at 6:34 AM
olinews.bsky.social
Today’s a great day for making car-windscreen sun-dried tomatoes 🍅 🌞 😋
June 16, 2025 at 11:51 AM
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pickardje.bsky.social
a leading campaigner against the recent rise in National Insurance is married to a man convicted of one of Britain’s biggest ever NI frauds - via The Times
Charlotte Alt A leading campaigner against the government's increase in employer national insurance contributions is married to a man convicted of one of the country's biggest national insurance frauds, The Times can reveal. Nadra Ahmed CBE, who chairs the National Care Association, has spearheaded a campaign to exempt care homes from the tax rise announced in last year's autumn budget. Over the past nine months she has appeared on Sky News and Newsnight on BBC2 and has been quoted in national newspapers calling for an urgent change to the policy that she described as risking "the foundations of the public services we deliver". Yet in 2016 Ahmed's husband, Aquil, was sentenced to prison for seven and a half years after pleading guilty to his part in stealing £6.9 million in tax and national insurance contributions from the taxman. He remains barred from serving as a company director. The 69-year-old was an accountant and the tax mastermind of the fraud, which was conducted with two other people. The scam involved pocketing cash due to HM Revenue & Customs that had been paid in good faith by construction workers using a payroll service run by the three men. The money was laundered through companies in Gibraltar and Belize and from there was transferred to bank accounts in Jersey, Guernsey, Spain, Switzerland, Turkey, the US, South Africa, Dubai and Chile. At the time the amount stolen would have been enough to fund more than 500 care workers for an entire year. The fraud helped to fund lavish lifestyles for the three men, the court
June 11, 2025 at 6:36 AM
olinews.bsky.social
Huge for Royces
June 10, 2025 at 7:30 AM
olinews.bsky.social
😢
June 9, 2025 at 8:18 PM
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eastangliabylines.co.uk
You know it's bad when your whole "government efficiency" pitch collapses because you didn’t bother to read the detail. 🙄

The Bear goes into Reform UK’s latest scandal-that-wasn’t, ⤵️
Exposed: Reform UK doesn’t know how government spending works
Reform UK just confused a procurement framework with a spending scandal – and revealed they don’t understand government
eastangliabylines.co.uk
June 7, 2025 at 3:31 PM
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wgrumblepants.bsky.social
Today’s beautiful cricket ground is the home to Buxton CC in Derbyshire
June 5, 2025 at 2:16 AM
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apiln.bsky.social
You can’t park there mate.
Land Rover ends on its nose after pile-up in supermarket car park
Two people were in one of the vehicles
www.cornwalllive.com
June 3, 2025 at 12:10 PM
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apiln.bsky.social
SPOILER: I have some bad news for you.
MAR NTOINETTE NEW SERIES Can Marie Antoinette survive her reign?
May 30, 2025 at 5:40 PM
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carlevecrime.bsky.social
Jury shown footage of Plymouth dad falling after stabbing www.plymouthherald.co.uk/news/plymout...
Jury shown footage of Plymouth dad falling after stabbing
Tahla Redwan is accused of murdering Shane Sweet
www.plymouthherald.co.uk
May 27, 2025 at 5:47 PM