A thread to make it easy for women & girls who come across Adam George Stein to read all our stories about his monstrous rape and murder of Collette Gallacher in Corby in 1986.
He is now 61, out of prison, and likely to be using a different name .
All these dickheads having a go at Kate Middleton for going to Clapham today, calling her an opportunist, saying how she has no idea what it’s like for ‘real women’
Shame on you.
How can you in one breath ask people to stop abusing women & in the next, verbally abuse a woman?
I won’t put the whole story on here because you should go out and buy a copy of Private Eye but this is jaw-dropping stuff. £600m of Government money paid to a private company for PPE is simply ‘missing’.
Hope George Eustice is listening to the electrician speaking on
@mrjamesob
crying his eyes out because he goes 48 hours without food and is contemplating stealing clothes for his baby because he has so little money 😔
@charlotterlynch
@HertsPolice
Bloody hell Charlotte. And even after you showed your press card?! I hope there’s some serious re-training in Herts Police after this. Hope you’re ok.
Maybe she feels as sad and as bloody angry as the rest of us. Maybe she knows that if she goes there it will raise awareness of the problems women face. Maybe she had been assaulted herself. Who bloody knows? Not you.
I think turnout in some PCC elections might be below ten per cent.
People don’t understand the role. They aren’t behind it, and it seems like it’s been a failed project in many areas.
I think whoever gets into government at the next GE should look again at the system.
This is what Kingswood Catering in Corby have sent out to 500 kids this week. Each kid gets their own box, even families with multiple children.
Much better than the awful examples I’ve seen on Twitter this morning.
(That milk and those eggs are so important for many families)
No journalist would have picked up this story if I hadn’t been in court waiting for another case.
Stuart Clough used a different name on the court list (John) and there as nothing to suggest he was a police officer on the charge sheet. Pure luck I was there.
@SistersUncut
One of these women, Michelle Pearce, died in prison of cancer. She was in prison because she stabbed her mum 30 times. This list is massively misleading.
ALL women are bound by their biology. If someone things a palace and a security guard are protection from verbal, physical, emotional, financial or sexual abuse then they have grossly misunderstood what it means to be a woman.
So much for some patronising national journos who last night were saying Truss was doing to local radio rounds because she wanted an easy ride.
Turns out, regional journalists aren’t so soft after all, which comes as no surprise to actual regional journalists.
@charlotterlynch
@LBC
In August we found out about a plan to house asylum seekers in a well-known local hotel before it was made public. It’s in the constituency of Tom Pursglove, who was immigration minister at the time. A few days later, it was inexplicably ditched 👀
@elonmusk
We are the local paper that covers North Northamptonshire. We declined to cover this story because it was offered to us as propaganda by a political party during a highly-contested by-election and was not an accurate representation of what actually happened.
I have spoken to the Prime Minister to tender my resignation as Secretary of State for Health & Social Care.
It has been an enormous privilege to serve in this role, but I regret that I can no longer continue in good conscience.
@youngvulgarian
How many young men would like to be choked by their female partners? Or is it just women that have to risk their lives to help men achieve sexual satisfaction?
I had hoped the rumours weren’t true but if North End sign Ched Evans - a man who treats a night out like a meat market, and women the tasty treats he picks up there - then they can wave goodbye to the support of this and many other female fans.
This 'people didn't vote for Labour or Reform, they just didn't want to vote for Tories' media narrative is old already.
How about we don't treat voters like they're stupid and accept they voted for who they wanted in power in their respective area. It's *so* patronising.
@BexleyLister
@Fhamiltontimes
Ah yes, and remember boob-grabber Bill? Lovely guy. They called him that because he used to knee people in the bollocks all the time.
How incredibly brave Georgia Harrison has been.
Waiving her anonymity shows that women who are victims of predatory sex offenders have nothing to be ashamed of.
Stephen Bear is now saying he didn’t get a fair trial. What a load of old shite.
Hey criminals, if you commit an offence and go to court,expect to be in the paper. It’s just another consequence of the crime you’ve committed.
Don’t ring us and ask us not to publish the story. We’ll say no.
Hi national reporters. You’re all here in Corby looking for pictures of boarded-up shops & gangs of disaffected youths telling very bleak tales of how terrible life is here.
That’s not our town.
It’s 25 years since a child was last killed in Corby.
Voters had their say in 2019.
@BorisJohnson
won an overwhelming mandate. CorbyEN Conservative members and many of our supporters felt let down when he was removed and will arguably feel cheated again if he isn’t on the ballot. He can legitimately see it through.
#BringBackBoris
Imagine being forced to make an actual video explaining your illness to the entire world when you’ve three young kids because if you don’t do it straight to camera people won’t believe it’s true. Absolutely abhorrent.
There’s a good reason journalists do a year’s law training before their prelim exams, another 2 years on-the-job training before their senior exams, & then have access to company lawyers.
And yet all these blokes on Twitter saying you can’t get sued if you just use initials 🤣
Look. If you deal drugs in Corby & get caught your name’s going in the paper. I know that’s hard to handle but it’s how it is
I’m coming to court to cover your case & I’ll include every one of your appalling hypocrisies
I’m telling you this now so it doesn’t come as a surprise
@annietrev
So are you saying this was never the plan and the reporter has made it up? Or are you saying after seeing the response to the reporter’s story, you’ve changed your mind?
Have been watching
@carolvorders
reports on Conservative cllrs & MPs deleting any reference to the party from their bios. Thought it was just a bit of a laugh etc.
Looked at our Tory NNC executive, MPs and PCC. Only one ‘proud conservative ‘ among them. Bit weird 😅
@charlotterlynch
@LBC
Apologies, Tom was policing minister at the Home Office at the time, not immigration minister. He only became immigration minister on September 7.
He has also told me this morning he had no say over these issues in his constituency.
Very questionable decision by the BBC to interview Farage this morning hours after he tried to exploit the Trump shooting to his own ends by proposing the incredibly dangerous narrative that ‘the mainstream media’ was to blame.
⚽️ My boy and his mates gave a ten minute power-point presentation to Uppingham Town Council’s AGM tonight on the lack of football pitches in the town and their ideas for a new place to play 👏
@TheMrLoophole
‘High profile’ people 🙄 also shouldn’t be getting private speed awareness courses arranged for them to save their blushes. The law should be applied equally, to all, at all times.
I’m on the scene of the Corby landslip. The bank behind Stevie Way has given out and has hit the side of a train. The whole track is flooded. There’ll be more on our website soon
I work in Corby library quite a lot and you can always tell it’s half term because the kids come and lie under the desk next to the radiator, charge their phones and use the free wifi 🤣 (There’s four of them under there 😅)
I’ve seen police forces in other areas taking a bit of a hammering on Twitter for not letting journalists do their job during the Covid-19 outbreak. We’ve been out to cover several serious crimes in the past few weeks & officers here have been nothing but welcoming and helpful.
BREAKING: Helen Harrison, Peter Bone’s girlfriend, has won the contest to stand as Wellingborough’s Conservative candidate in the forthcoming by-election.
Huge thanks to the thousands of people in Corby, mainly Eastern Europeans on zero-hours contracts, working in food production, packaging & logistics who haven’t skipped a beat & are working extra hours to fulfil demand 💪🏻
I’ll have a story about their efforts later this week.
How many other public officials slip through our court system unnoticed because there’s no reporter there?
Journalists have no access to case details other than name, age, address and basic charge on daily court lists
Please do let us know if there’s a case you want us to cover
I’ve had an 83-year-old man from Rushden in tears on the phone this morning because he couldn’t get any milk for him and his wife who has Alzheimer’s.
Please buy only what you need. If there are two bottles left & you need two, just take one.
When the national journos make their pilgrimage from the train station along Midland Road in Wellingborough this week, I hope that as well as photographing Peter Bone’s closed-down office, they turn their heads to the left to look at the Seen and Heard.
@NicholasTroop
@NightSocialist
Maybe it’s because actual trained journalists know that hearing rumours from a friend is not enough proof to make serious accusations in public. And that saying the word ‘allegedly’ is no defence for a libel case. Good luck with that.
There’s a five-day GBH floater trial listed at Northampton Crown (in a courtroom where another trial is already fixed) today where the offence happened in June 2017. First mags hearing was June 2019. It’s unlikely to be heard today.
I went to Lodge Park Academy on Friday to find out how new headteacher Carly Waterman plans on tackling the climb back up from inadequate.
If anyone’s going to understand what it takes, it’s a Corby girl who grew up a hop, a skip and a jump away.
Before entering Parliament Gen Kitchen, 28, the new Labour MP for Wellingborough, had spent 7 years in the charity sector, her last job running philanthropy for a children’s health charity. So she knows how to spend it but no idea how to create it. Will make a fine Labour MP.
Another alleged Corby drugs gang busted. Police are absolutely hammering those suspected of dealing coke in our town during the past few months. Several big trials currently making their way through the courts.
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I totally forgot to mention after the general election that I had a chat with Corby Labour candidate Beth Miller and, although she said that five years is a long time, she seemed fairly keen on standing again in her home town which I know will please lots of local people.
I earn fuck all in this job. Not enough to pay tax. I have four kids and a mortgage. If my editor asked me to write this I’d walk out.
There’s never a scenario where you ‘have’ to write anything. I’d rather be on universal credit.
Re Angela Rayner: I used to work with Glen Owen, the MoS writer. A decent enough chap. This is how the Mail works. They pay you an awful lot of money, and now and then you have to write something like this.
My youngest child was born four months before the offence and he started school last week. That’s how long ago the witnesses are going to have to cast their minds back.
Just a reminder (although it shouldn’t need one) to not abuse journalists online. We have a job to do, now more than ever. If you cannot understand the importance of recording this period in our history then move along. Don’t stand around (virtually) shouting abuse at reporters.
Will he have to wait 90 minutes on the phone to be told by the receptionist the next available GP appointment is July 29th and then he’ll go on an 18-month waiting list for six sessions of CBT?
Didn’t think so.
Hundreds of racist comments deleted and dozens of people banned this afternoon after we posted our
#blacklivesmatter
stories on FB.
All of us have had to monitor Facebook all afternoon.
And still Facebook won’t allow newspapers to turn off commenting on individual stories.
Oxford’s Covid-19 vaccine, devised by Sarah Gilbert, is in human trials. AstraZeneca has lined up agreements to produce 2 billion doses. Now the world waits via
@BW
If you’re a celebrity who has tested positive for coronavirus after accessing a private test and experienced very mild symptoms, it’s probably better in all honesty to just keep your trap shut.
I won’t to link to the Mail on Sunday story about Angela Rayner but it’s this kind of debasing, misogynist (and obviously made-up) shit that puts women off going into politics.
Why wasn’t the story that the Prime Minister is distracted at PMQs by looking up a woman’s skirt?
Fantastic morning on the campaign trail.
Big chance to send a message to Westminster today, by voting for change —
@benhabib6
!
Polling stations are open until 10pm 🕙 🗳️
#BackBenHabib
🇬🇧
@reformparty_uk
Really happy to be nominated for this award. Couldn't do this job without the incredible team of reporters we have here at the
@NTelegraph
and my wonderful Corby friends who never let me miss a story.
Good luck to
@Katie_Cronin
this afternoon in the
#Jpimediaawards
- nominated in the News Reporter of the Year category. Thoroughly well-deserved nomination for a superb reporter
@DanNeidle
Left my third child in Market Harborough McDonald’s and drove off. We were in two separate cars and each parent thought we had him. We did not 😬
🌳 Massive shout out to my brilliant colleague
@AlisonBagley1
who has reported superbly on the Wellingborough tree saga 24/7 for the past week 👏
As a newspaper we always try to put our communities at the heart of our work. Nobody does it better than Baggers 💪
POLICE, FIRE AND CRIME COMMISSIONER ELECTION RESULT 2024
🔵 Martyn Emberson (Con) – 39,714
🟡 Ana Savage Gunn (Lib Dem) – 27,799
🔴 Danielle Stone (Lab) – 43,684
Danielle Stone has been elected as the new Police, Fire and Crime Commissioner for Northamptonshire.
If you’re going to join a thread of hundreds of people slagging off local newspapers, maybe don’t then admit to not having bought a paper for years.
You want us all to just work for free, yeah, to be there in the background in case you ever need us.
I’m absolutely disgusted by those hounding
#LauraKuenssberg
. She’s an outstanding journalist. Those trying to get her sacked have no idea of what the alternative could look like.
Here’s my mum and dad who have travelled from Lancashire to London to march for climate justice on the Global Day of Action for the Climate 💚 🌳
#cafod
#ClimateJustice
My kids' school has decided to open up outdoor classrooms to all year groups for 2 hours a week so they can see their mates, do group activities, talk about feelings and play games. It's a great idea. My kids' emotional health has taken a big nosedive these past couple of weeks.
What a great day for
#Corby
.
Our first Olympic gold (and a bronze!) and international recognition for
@AdrenalineAlley
but most of all for the incredible
@Young1Mandy
MBE whose contribution to Corby can never be quantified.
Here she is in 2006 when the Alley was being built.
Wellingborough MP
@PeterBoneUK
becomes one of a growing number of Conservative MPs to call for the resignation of Dominic Cummings.
Telling silence (so far) from the remainder of Northants MPs.
Another dreadful episode in the tenure of Northants police, fire and crime commissioner Stephen Mold. When asked what will happen if his new fire chief is found guilty of misconduct allegations against her, he said “I’ll dump the bitch’. Full story here 🧵