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I am UK/Home Affairs Correspondent for BBC News. Police, prisons, law, crime and terrorism. Before that Moscow Correspondent so still post about Russia/Ukraine.

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@BBCDanielS
Daniel Sandford
2 years
Prince Harry, Sir Elton John, David Furnish, Elizabeth Hurley, Sadie Frost and Baroness Doreen Lawrence have launched a legal action against Associated Newspapers, publishers of The Daily Mail, The Mail on Sunday and the Mail Online.
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At £13.99 a month Netflix is now more than the BBC licence and there is no radio, no live TV, no news online etc etc
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8 years
Brexit, in a single shot. This morning at the EU summit.
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5 years
So this happened. The Conservative Party took an interview from @GMB this morning. They edited it to add on the last shot in which Keir Starmer looks stumped. But that didn't happen. In the original Keir Starmer immediately answered @piersmorgan 's question.
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WATCH: Jeremy Corbyn's Brexit Minister can't or won't answer a simple question about Labour's position on Brexit.
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Daniel Sandford
7 years
I have a general rule against tweeting Russia Today footage. But rules are made to be broken
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2 years
Something is definitely going on in the Russian TV news sector. Reports of several senior resignations at the other main TV company, VGTRK that produces news for Rossiya-1 and Rossiya-24
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8 years
David Cameron: "Thank you very much........................doo, doo, doo, doo. Right...Good." (The End)
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7 years
Fellow MEP in the European Parliament as Nigel Farage speaks. "He's lying to you" the sign says.
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7 years
When that letter "F" fell off (the last "E" then fell off later,)
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2 years
If I was RIA Novosti I might not have burnt in the company logo on pictures of a camera operator walking IN FRONT OF men "sweeping for mines"
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Przemo Plewiński
2 years
Fragment filmu wrzuconego przez ruskich. Czy tylko mi się wydaje, że ten operator kamery jest wyjątkowo odważny i idzie przed saperami? :)
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Daniel Sandford
6 years
The Berlin wall has now been down for longer than it was up.
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Alex Kokcharov
6 years
On this day in 1989, the #Berlin Wall comes down. The infamous barrier between East and West stood for exactly 10,315 days.
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2 years
Hamlins LLP said "These individuals have become aware of compelling and highly distressing evidence that they have been the victims of abhorrent criminal activity and gross breaches of privacy by Associated Newspapers."
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Hamlins LLP said the "unlawful acts alleged to have taken place include: 1) The hiring of private investigators to secretly place listening devices inside people’s cars and homes
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Daniel Sandford
7 years
Lawyer for Sergei Magnitsky's family Nikolai Gorokhov has been "thrown from the 4th floor of his apartment building" in Moscow.
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2) The commissioning of individuals to surreptitiously listen into and record people’s live, private telephone calls whilst they were taking place 3) The payment of police officials, with corrupt links to private investigators, for inside, sensitive information
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4) The impersonation of individuals to obtain medical information from private hospitals, clinics, and treatment centres by deception 5) The accessing of bank accounts, credit histories and financial transactions through illicit means and manipulation.
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2 years
At Conservative Party conference @BrandonLewis says "It cannot be right that transgender prisoners when convicted of serious sexual offences or those who have not had reassignment surgery are housed in the general women's estate. This will end"
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Daniel Sandford
6 years
This could have been written better...I am sure they are not really standing for child abuse, homelessness and people starving
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Daniel Sandford
4 years
I wonder if Darren Grimes is going to bring down each of his heroes one by one by doing interviews with them.....
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4 years
In the end it is up to the UK public to decide whether they want to see their politicians at times of crisis talking in self-crafted promo videos like this, or in a genuine engagement with the broadcast media like ITN, Sky and BBC News.
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Home Office
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. @PritiPatel was in Dover today seeing first-hand how Border Force officers are intercepting small boats in the Channel. We are committed to tackling this issue and working with the French government to make this route completely unviable.
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4 years
Stephen Yaxley-Lennon (Tommy Robinson) has lost the preliminary stage of a libel case to do with two videos in which he said a 16-yr-old Syrian boy was part of a gang which had beaten a young girl black and blue, and said the boy had also threatened to stab another child.
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Daniel Sandford
5 years
Apart from getting the name of the suburb wrong, the number of jihadists wrong, the number of mosques wrong, the location of the murder wrong, the reason for the veil ban wrong, and the profession of the teacher wrong, what was wrong with the original article? 😮
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Jeremy Vine
5 years
That's quite the apology. #DailyMail
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Daniel Sandford
4 years
NEW: The Court of Appeal says Shamima Begum should be allowed to come back to the UK to pursue her case "Ms Begum should be allowed to come to the United Kingdom to pursue her appeal albeit subject to such controls as the Secretary of State deems appropriate."
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Daniel Sandford
4 years
Absolutely shocking from Tim Montgomerie when the BBC has literally led the way with award-winning coverage that exposed the scale of the concentration camps for Uighurs, and at some considerable risk to the staff involved. Shameless.
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Tim Montgomerie 🇬🇧
4 years
If the BBC was truly a public service broadcaster China would be receiving at least as much attention as Trump. I guess BBC staffers are more offended by rude Tweets than concentration camps for Uyghurs
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Daniel Sandford
7 years
This used to be Daphne Caruana Galizia’s column in The Malta Independent. This was what they published today.
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Daniel Sandford
5 years
Three men have been arrested on suspicion of violent disorder and ABH after the attack on @OwenJones84 in the early hours of the morning of Saturday 17th August. The three men are aged 39, 34 and 29. They are currently in custody.
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2 years
Associated Newspapers has now said: "We utterly and unambiguously refute these preposterous smears which appear to be nothing more than a pre-planned and orchestrated attempt to drag the Mail titles into the phone hacking scandal concerning articles up to 30 years old."
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7 years
This is a fantastically arranged Skype interview. Looks professional. Really good....until the kids arive
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5 years
The US Department of Justice has announced charges against two Russia-based men accused of running a cybercriminal organisation called Evil Corp.
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2 years
Rainbow over Windsor with the flag at half-mast
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Daniel Sandford
4 years
Alexey @navalny 's lawyer says his court hearing is happening now, in a police station. It appears the Russian authorities do not want a public hearing for the man the President dares not mention by name.
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Вадим Кобзев
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Вот это да!!!
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7 years
Idiotic, daft story from an increasingly daft newspaper. Workers who have to get to work when there is no public transport (eg Christmas Day) sometimes use minicabs (NOT London taxis.) What is everyone doing over Christmas? Watching TV. Who makes the TV? The BBC.
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Mail+
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BBC racked up nearly £13,000 on taxis for workers in just three days last Christmas
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"These unsubstantiated and highly defamatory claims - based on no credible evidence - appear to be simply a fishing expedition by claimants and their lawyers, some of whom have already pursued cases elsewhere."
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UK Treausry freezes assets of Andrei Lugovoi and Dmitri Kovtun (suspected of murdering Alexander Litvinenko in London in 2006)
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Daniel Sandford
7 years
New barriers on Westminster Bridge this morning separating pedestrians from vehicles
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7 years
Suicide bomber who blew himself up nr Mosul believed to be ex Gitmo inmate Ronald Fiddler aka Jamal Ud Deen al-Harith h/t @FrankRGardner
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6 years
New statement from Yulia Skripal
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Daniel Sandford
5 years
I can't see any UK newspaper that followed up this amazing piece from @CatherineBelton on Friday
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7 years
The North West Counter Terrorism Unit is treating the incident at #ManchesterArena as a possible terrorist incident.
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7 years
Representative Adam Schiff: "We are involved in a new battle of ideas. Not Communism vs Capitalism. but Authoritarianism vs Democracy."
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8 years
The most under-used picture in the papers this morning. A young Florence Cameron in one of her dad's red boxes
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2 years
Two large fires in Russia today. One at the Second Central Research Institute of the Russian Air and Space Forces, in Tver. The other at the Dmitrievsky Chemical Plant, in Kineshma.
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6 years
NHS: “We are pleased to be able to inform you that Yulia Skripal is improving rapidly and is no longer in a critical condition. Her condition is now stable.”
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3 years
Police have released images of 20-year-old Harvey Parker on the night he went missing, just after leaving Heaven nightclub in London.
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Daniel Sandford
2 years
As people adjust to the news think of this: -A new head on the stamps -A new face on the money -New initials on the post boxes -No more Queen's Speech or Queen's Counsel -Formal toasts will toast "The King" -The heir to the throne and the Prince of Wales will be William.
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Daniel Sandford
4 years
Somehow pro-Govt LifeNews and Rossiya had advance warning of the hearing in the police station and are present. No other media appear to have known in advance
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Кира Ярмыш
4 years
Уважаемые журналисты, требуйте у УВД аккредитацию. Судья заявила, что заседание «открытое и гласное», но сейчас в «зале» только Лайфньюс и Россия
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Daniel Sandford
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Shamima Begum’s family say she has had her baby
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PC Ben Hannam tried to sneak out of the side door of the Old Bailey. But I had some questions to ask him. His scaffolder Dad had other ideas
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Daniel Sandford
3 years
BUT there are many aggravating features in this case. Not least of all that he abused his position as a serving police officer, but also the abduction and rape. So even if the starting point is not whole life it could start to creep up towards that.
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Daniel Sandford
7 years
From this photo of a Putin phone call in January only the President and the Vice President are still in their job
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Daniel Sandford
5 years
After an investigation by the FBI and the UK's National Crime Agency, Maksim Yakubets has been named as the group's leader, and Igor Turashev as a key administrator.
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Daniel Sandford
4 years
Boris Johnson's new catchphrase "Hands, Face, Space" (and get a test if you have symptoms). So wash your hands, cover your face, keep your social distance.
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Daniel Sandford
3 years
AND you can argue that is people get whole life for killing a police officer, then police officers should get whole life for killing,
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Daniel Sandford
4 years
Liverpool is just an example of how the number of Covd-19 infections has ballooned in a fortnight. Everyone really needs to start remembering all the rules. Hand-washing, masks, distancing, minimising unnecessary contact. How did we forget so soon?
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"The dangerous anti-police atmosphere in America is wrong. The Trump Administration will end it."
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4 years
The Metropolitan Police has arrested one of its own officers on suspicion of being a member of a banned right-wing group.
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Daniel Sandford
4 years
If the suspect (who has now been arrested) is charged, police will name him. The court will then decide if he did it or not. The principle of innocent until proven guilty is a long-standing one in English law.
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Nigel Farage MP
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Why have West Midlands Police not told us who committed the knife attacks last night? I think I know the answer.
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Daniel Sandford
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The Home Secretary Priti Patel says Ukraine has asked that Russia is suspended from Interpol and "we will be leading all international effort to that effect."
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Daniel Sandford
4 years
Guys. While you all flock to the supermarkets, in Italy where they now understand the death toll, this is how they queue.
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3 years
Pictures from inside Napier barracks asylum “contingency” accommodation released by inspectors today. This was where young men were sleeping during a pandemic.
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Daniel Sandford
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Asked his name the defendant in the dock says "My name is death to traitors, freedom for Britain."
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The UK’s tax authority, HM Revenue and Customs says it will revoke the Moscow Stock Exchange’s (MOEX) status as a recognised stock exchange.
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Daniel Sandford
4 years
It's almost as if there was a script! Imagine all the Labour MPs coming up with the same idea at the same time.
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6 years
These are the two suspected Salisbury Novichok poisoners and their aliases
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Daniel Sandford
3 years
Extraordinary that at the same time that some European countries are struggling to persuade people to have the Oxford/AstraZeneca vaccine it is doing BETTER than the Pfizer vaccine in a real world scenario in Scotland
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7 years
Best press release of the day, by a country mile. The Botswanan government asking the US government to clarify if Botswana (which is fantastic by the way) is a "shithole country"
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Botswana Government
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PRESS RELEASE |Botswana condemns remarks made by President Trump @VensonMoitoi @MIACBW @OfficialMasisi
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Brexit in sign language today. Please watch with the sound OFF......
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5 years
@toadmeister @GMB @piersmorgan When I see them I will post them. Send them to me
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Daniel Sandford
7 years
Seen today
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When @jeremycorbyn started throwing snowballs between balconies in his parliamentary offices
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He says Julian Assange’s behaviour is “the behaviour of a narcissist who cannot get beyond his own selfish interest”
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Daniel Sandford
7 years
This is actually brilliant. A woman who takes selfies with men who catcall her and they have no idea why
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Daniel Sandford
4 years
Here is my voice: the statement below is wrong. A plan to reopen schools and businesses and return to our normal lives through mass vaccination and testing is endlessly discussed by ministers and their expert advisors...along with the need to avoid 100s of thousands of deaths.
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Julia Hartley-Brewer
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Your regular reminder that there is no end to lockdowns. There is no exit strategy, no plan to reopen schools & businesses, to return to our normal lives. There will *always* be another reason to remain in lockdown. This will never end until we decide it does. Use your voice.
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As well as his alleged criminality, Maksim Yakubets is said by the US authorities to have worked for the FSB - a leading Russian intelligence organisation and one of the successors to the KGB.
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Daniel Sandford
5 years
Court 1 at Westminster Magistrates Court is now in session. The Julian Assange case is not up yet but the lawyers for the Crown Prosecution Service (acting for the US government) are in court.
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Daniel Sandford
2 years
This just does not seem to be part of the Russian calculation. How will they control a country or even parts of a country that will never forgive them?
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@DannyP081 You may have noticed it is not edited
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6 years
Major wildlife photography scandal.......the "night raider", an anteater, turns about to have been stuffed.
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Wildlife Photographer of the Year
6 years
It's with great sadness we're letting you know that after a careful investigation into the image 'The night raider', we have disqualified the photograph. It was the winner of the 2017 Animals in Their Environment category. More info here:
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Daniel Sandford
6 years
Though of course the most recently convicted terrorist, Darren Osborne, was a keen Tommy Robinson follower
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They say Yaubets "provides direct assistance to the Russian government's mailicious cyber efforts, highlighting the Russian government's enlistment of cybercriminals for its own malicious purposes."
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Daniel Sandford
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@thenamecast She certainly seems to be waiting to get it out. Not sure whether planned by the producers...or her Mum!
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3 years
a) the murder of two people or more and when they involve sex, premeditation or abduction b) the murder of a child if it involved sex/abduction c) the murder of a police /prison officer on duty d) ideological murder e) a murder after a previous murder conviction
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Daniel Sandford
6 years
Love this exchange from @bbcnwt
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2 years
A really shocking @policeconduct report into the culture at Charing Cross police station in London's West end - "We believe these incidents are not isolated or simply the behaviour of a few 'bad apples'"
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Daniel Sandford
5 years
Julian Assange will next appear on the 2nd of May by video link at this court on the extradition matter. He will next appear on the bail offence at Southwark Crown Court on a date to be announced. Hearing over.
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Daniel Sandford
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It is almost as if Surrey Police were following the Dominic Cummings press conference today
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Daniel Sandford
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District Judge Michael Snow finds Julian Assange guilty of failing to surrender
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Daniel Sandford
5 years
The first rule of politics is to learn to count
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Thérèse Coffey
5 years
Our 6 point plan from our new @Conservatives leader @BorisJohnson
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Daniel Sandford
7 years
After the crisis in UK/US intelligence relations caused by his spokesman yesterday, Donald Trump is tweeting about North Korea instead
@realDonaldTrump
Donald J. Trump
7 years
North Korea is behaving very badly. They have been "playing" the United States for years. China has done little to help!
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Daniel Sandford
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Spot the journalist who has not covered any courts/inquiries/inquests and does not understand what lawyers actually do for these huge enterprises.
@tomhfh
Tom Harwood
9 months
Fairly disgraceful that the Covid Inquiry doesn't sit until 10am, doesn't work past 5pm, and doesn't sit on Fridays. Dragging this on for far longer than necessary, and at greater cost as a result. What a microcosm of government efficiency.
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5 years
The United States Treasury has sanctioned 15 other Moscow-based people alleged to have links to Evil Corp, as well as Yakubets and Turashev.
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Daniel Sandford
3 years
The government is being threatened with legal action over its failure to give visas to a female judge and a female MP from Afghanistan Both women are still in Afghanistan and are being assisted by a team of lawyers in Britain who are acting for free (“pro bono”.)
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Daniel Sandford
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At least these guys will be providing @bellingcat with plenty of material
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WarTranslated (Dmitri)
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A herd of Russian mobiks going to the drill grounds, Primorsky Krai, Russian Far East.
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Daniel Sandford
3 years
The guidelines are quite clear. ""normally" a whole life order STARTING POINT should be reserved for:
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