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Simon Craven

@Simon_Craven

4 days

Shot on Wednesday, edited on Thursday, shown on Friday: we've made the most of the better weather

Catherine Warr

@HiddenYorkshire

4 days

NEW VIDEO - LINK IN BIO! During the 2022 heatwave, I made a video about the remains of a village which were revealed under Thruscross Reservoir. Now - in one of the wettest summers - I've come back to see what's changed and talk about climate, infrastructure, and heritage.

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Simon Craven

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8 months

@jakezward So you made the world worse for everyone. Okay

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3 months

@HiddenYorkshire It’s a busy life, especially when you have to cram in also knowing more than the leading experts on so many other subjects: virology, immunology, climate, chemtrails…

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Simon Craven

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7 months

As I assemble my travel gear I find I have become the subject of a Private Eye lampoon

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Simon Craven

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10 months

@RTS_media This is a profoundly sinister point of view which requires maximum resistance

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@dieworkwear they look like vacuum-packed sausage meat, all of them

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@mrianleslie It’s not under-discussed because it’s a non-issue and your comparisons with US presidential candidates two decades older are just silly. When Starmer is in his late 70s that might be a time to raise the question

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Simon Craven

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3 months

@UKikaski Former Yak-52 owner here. There have been armed variants before using rocket pods. Rigging up one with a pair of light machine guns in pods under the wings would not be too difficult

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Simon Craven

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10 months

@RachaelMaskell Why on earth are you against this? It was previously a nightclub!

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Simon Craven

@Simon_Craven

10 months

@hugorifkind But that's because the real target audience isn't the general electorate. It's all aimed at fluffing up the cranks who will select the next Tory leader after they lose the General Election

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Simon Craven

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3 months

@RodneyMarshall1 I was fond of it. Laurie Johnson's evolution of his original theme music was fun, time had not touched Steed, and the whole show was entertaining, if not as avant-garde as the original run

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Simon Craven

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9 months

Even by Michelle's high standards: oof

Michelle Cowbourne

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9 months

Sunrise from Glastonbury Tor, taken this morning.

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Simon Craven

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@HuguenotHouse @petersharding @cityoflondon You want people to live in deep subterranean tunnels?

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Simon Craven

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4 months

@tempest_books Heavens, no

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Simon Craven

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@rolandmcs Just you try running a street gang these days with inadequate supplies of polenta

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Simon Craven

@Simon_Craven

10 months

@hmtreasury @wbd @WBSLeavesden This is utterly cringeworthy. You're supposed to be a public institution. Try to behave like one

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Simon Craven

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4 months

@HiddenYorkshire this is an excellent substrate for a few morsels of cheese and I shall not stand to have it disparaged

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Simon Craven

@Simon_Craven

3 months

@Samfr Old Tory habits die hard

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Simon Craven

@Simon_Craven

2 months

@a_gossweiler @welshbuildings That's a 'you' problem

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Simon Craven

@Simon_Craven

2 months

@eugah @kamilkazani Somewhere between 30 and 40, some quite old, some modernised, some new-build

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Simon Craven

@Simon_Craven

23 days

"People have once again been making life difficult for Farage and his colleagues by recording things that they say and then broadcasting them. This, Farage has always felt, is cheating."

Robert Hutton

@RobDotHutton

23 days

"We now turn to Liars" - my SKETCH of Nigel Farage's speech accepting this year's Golden Politician award.

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Simon Craven

@Simon_Craven

2 months

@archer_rs Brutal pre-nup, presumably

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Simon Craven

@Simon_Craven

2 months

@Hush_Kit *best Paul Hogan accent "That's not an oddity. THAT's an oddity"

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Simon Craven

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1 month

@nogulagsagain @BBCBreaking He had his freedom of speech, and used it. He also has had to take personal responsibility for the consequences of his choices in exercising that free speech

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Simon Craven

@Simon_Craven

3 months

Look, if you haven't seen Enemy At The Door, you're missing out on one of the best TV dramas ever, on the subject of living under occupation. Also you're missing a great Alfred Burke performance. Think of it as a police procedural, but with Nazi cops in wartime Guernsey

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@TalkingPicsTV

3 months

Tonight at 8pm! #AlfredBurke #BernardHorsfall #AntoniaPemberton #SimonCadell star in ENEMY AT THE DOOR (1978) Episode 1 #TPTVsubtitles

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Simon Craven

@Simon_Craven

5 months

@RodneyMarshall1 For me it’s so much better than the BBC Sherlock

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Simon Craven

@Simon_Craven

30 days

Weird choice of words. This is not some kind of plague, it's not a natural force moving between innocent victims. It is people making conscious choices of corrupt behaviour to feather their nests.

Alex Wickham

@alexwickham

30 days

Senior Tories now seriously concerned the betting scandal will spread to other prominent figures

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Simon Craven

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2 months

@beccacaddy This is terrible but I think you're handling it superbly

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Simon Craven

@Simon_Craven

6 months

Another take is that RBs of yesteryear understood the basic social contract that the nation-state will protect their property rights against the mob if they nod in the direction of the public good and paying taxes, whereas many today think they are bigger than the nation-state

Jim Demetre

@JimDemetre

6 months

@chaedria Robber barons of yesteryear understood that their wealth was dependent upon death, destruction, and environmental ruin and sought atonement via philanthropy. Today's billionaires actually believe their work is advancing the cause of human civilization.

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Simon Craven

@Simon_Craven

7 months

@maphumanintent @GandalfObiewan Most people also don't get that, for the trivial cost of the drones, there is very little barrier to the opposition launching swarm attacks, in which the sheer number of incoming targets swamps defensive systems which were designed with a very different attack profile in mind

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Simon Craven

@Simon_Craven

1 month

@clark_aviation Happy outcome of a Bee Gee R1 crashing into the back of the Antonov

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Simon Craven

@Simon_Craven

6 months

If you would like to see this sort of thing in 16:9 as a half-hour broadcast TV show on the history and workings of Big and Important Things, keep your fingers crossed because by hook or by crook we intend to make one

Catherine Warr

@HiddenYorkshire

6 months

Cath and Simon do HMS Belfast, a 🧵

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Simon Craven

@Simon_Craven

3 months

@bbclaurak resignation?

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Simon Craven

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6 months

@PeopleofLeeds A few weeks ago @hiddenyorkshire ’s mum found out it was my birthday and made me an absolutely beautiful birthday cake based on some of our fave characters from our 2023 filming

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Simon Craven

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21 days

@DrFrancisYoung Went The Day Well?

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Simon Craven

@Simon_Craven

3 months

And I bet they had a lot more fun on a day’s shoot with the apple crates and gaffer tape, and rubber monsters, than having everything added digitally in post

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#StarTrek It is a good reminder that, when all is said and done, the slick-looking product on the screen is put together using plywood, apple crates, and gaffe tape -- and the all-star cast is nourished by food served on paper plates.

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Simon Craven

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@tempest_books It was better served building a fighter from a different experimental research aircraft, as it did

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Simon Craven

@Simon_Craven

8 months

@Carpervert *lights cigarette *takes off sunglasses "ISDN Codec, you say. Now there's a name I haven't heard in a long time" *spits reflectively

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Simon Craven

@Simon_Craven

5 months

It’s mixing. Modern audio mixing has gone down a terrible rabbit hole. You can prove it’s by watching an old 1960s to 1990s movie or TV show and finding that you can hear all the dialogue with clarity, without having to turn the volume up and down all the time

Joey Pedras

@JoeyPedras

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@DougRussell Don’t know if it’s modern TVs or modern mixing practices but the levels between dialogue and music and sound fx are always way off. I used to never be a subtitles guy and now I feel like I need them all the time (and I don’t have any hearing issues….i checked lol)

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Simon Craven

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@ScornflakeGrrrl I don't like the look of that "use by" date

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Simon Craven

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I appreciate 1823 was a world ago but seriously, I’d be giving the credit to the donkey, not to the man

Reporting the news from 1823

@Live1819

5 years

A tourist on a donkey has become the first man (and second person) to ascend Helvellyn, England's third highest peak, other than on foot. The Westmorland Gazette says this was thought impossible until recently, and left the man's friends accompanying him astonished. [2005 photo]

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Simon Craven

@Simon_Craven

9 months

hearing @HiddenYorkshire is under consideration for the remake of The Young Winston

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Simon Craven

@Simon_Craven

2 months

@clark_aviation Not Egyptian but Iranian air force, and post-war. They had 18 IIc delivered in 1946 of which two were two-seaters: this is one of those two

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Simon Craven

@Simon_Craven

9 months

No, YOU'VE just run around the room making whooshy cold-war jet noises

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Simon Craven

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3 months

@HiddenYorkshire I forgot mobile phone networks. How could I forget the mobile phone networks discourse

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Simon Craven

@Simon_Craven

9 months

Almost ready

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Simon Craven

@Simon_Craven

2 months

@JustineBateman It's here

"Girl in the Fog" - a student film

The longest 4 minutes of my life... Animation is a joy.An animated short, about a day in the life of a young man, who keeps daydreaming about a girl, who's f...

www.youtube.com

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Simon Craven

@Simon_Craven

3 months

@ChristianJMay If you had any respect for reality you would wait to see what he says rather than making it up in advance

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Simon Craven

@Simon_Craven

6 months

Why do they do this. WHY

John Crace

@JohnJCrace

6 months

The BBC now have a royal correspondent outside a palace where the king isn’t and a medical correspondent outside a clinic where the king also isn’t.

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Simon Craven

@Simon_Craven

3 months

@AskAManager Someone once brilliantly described a fox as “a dog running cat software” and it’s never seemed more appropriate

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Simon Craven

@Simon_Craven

7 months

Don't know about the US, but in the UK the Apple TV paying clientele is pretty small

Terry Matalas

@TerryMatalas

7 months

I cannot believe more people aren’t talking about one of the best shows on television. #SlowHorses

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Simon Craven

@Simon_Craven

5 months

@JCAP201 @EmiliaRxse Yeah sure, the way some 60 year old dude who's been commuting in a Toyota Camry for the last few decades should have been telling Danica Patrick how to take the banked turns at Daytona

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Simon Craven

@Simon_Craven

2 months

not to go all boomer-nostalgia but it was fun when cars looked different from each other and came in colours other than black, white and 20 shades of grey

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@KizoolSizam

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Lamborghini Espada @kidston .com 1️⃣

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Simon Craven

@Simon_Craven

5 months

@guardian Will you be issuing a correction for this obvious legal fictions in this piece?

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Simon Craven

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@KyivIndependent Would be funny if Finland decided to retake some of their old turf, that Russia took in the Winter War

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Simon Craven

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1 month

@clark_aviation Lot of Gerry Anderson going on there

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Simon Craven

@Simon_Craven

4 months

this is going to be a rare three-hander, and our first multi-national production

Catherine Warr

@HiddenYorkshire

4 months

Next up.

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Simon Craven

@Simon_Craven

10 months

ban this disinfo, it's quite clearly a giraffe-flap

James Taite

@James_Taite

10 months

set-painter's workshop, outside St. Giles

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Simon Craven

@Simon_Craven

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@EchoSerenityXb @HiddenYorkshire She doesn't like to talk about it

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Simon Craven

@Simon_Craven

4 months

@tomr515 @FredWoodard19 @lawofruby His PAC is paying these lawyers, so it's the rubes who think they are contributing to his election campaign

Trump’s PAC spent $230k a day on legal fees in February, records show

Trump is blowing through cash in the middle of a critical campaign crunch as he faces 88 criminal charges and tens of millions of dollars in penalties

www.independent.co.uk

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Simon Craven

@Simon_Craven

10 months

@WW2TV They're not doing it for the general public, though, they're doing it for themselves, and for the collective vibe at the event. If they didn't have fun they wouldn't do it at all. Personally I think all the 45 year-olds in '60s Hollywood war movies are a bigger problem

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Simon Craven

@Simon_Craven

4 months

What a grumpy observer. If I were the pigeon I'd poop on his head

Military Pigeons

@MilitaryPigeons

4 months

Illustration of a US Army pilot releasing a pigeon to relay information back to the ground, Aug. 1930 (courtesy of Popular Science)

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Simon Craven

@Simon_Craven

4 months

@Variety Danny McBride may not be able to put a cork in it for a couple of hours but that's no reason for the rest of us to be denied a couple of drinks with a movie

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Simon Craven

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5 months

I am supposed to be curing myself of old cars but this would be a lottery win

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Simon Craven

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@richardosman The Rockford Files, because just go listen to it, plus you got the little comedy customisation every week with the message on his answering machine

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Simon Craven

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@fesshole The old one was so much better and quicker

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Simon Craven

@Simon_Craven

8 months

Not a villain but if she ever went into villainy you can bet she'd be competitive about it

Catherine Warr

@HiddenYorkshire

8 months

in my sleep i was like...superwoman by alicia keys...madvillainy by madvillain...."I am a supervillain"...subconscious DJ me really thought she did something with that one

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Simon Craven

@Simon_Craven

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@CcibChris These baggage hold doors don't look anything like big enough to me

Concorde Baggage Doors

Description of the baggage hold doors on Concorde

www.heritageconcorde.com

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Simon Craven

@Simon_Craven

6 months

Can't wait to have my wild strawberry patch full of cheeky little fledgling blackbirds again. They are so cute and so incompetent, hiding in the undergrowth via the medium of crashing about as noisily as possible while shouting "I'm not here, I'm not here"

Fiona Finlayson Art

@ffinlaysonart

6 months

A needle felted Blackbird

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Simon Craven

@Simon_Craven

5 months

The full film is about 19 minutes and packed with ACTION and EXCITEMENT and HISTORICAL THINGS, so make it a date with your chippy tea and a suitable refreshment. 7pm tomorrow at , and why not check out some back numbers while you wait?

Catherine Warr

Historian, filmmaker, author.

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Catherine Warr

@HiddenYorkshire

5 months

IT'S TEASER TRAILER TIME COMING FRIDAY (16th) 7PM As usual, we've done everything ourselves to bring you a fascinating and engaging story about sportswashing, Nazis, and thrilling pre-war racing. This is Racing Hitler: The Donington Grand Prix.

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Simon Craven

@Simon_Craven

7 months

@WW2Airfields Another Elizabeth had a nice P-51B, and lent it to Lt William T Whisner, 487th FS, 352nd FG, Bodney, probably May or early June 1944 (shot down on D-Day, he survived)

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Simon Craven

@Simon_Craven

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What Timpson evidently appreciates is that he’s building more than a here-today-gone-tomorrow business. He’s built an institution, with observable values which are lived out in the operational units

Catherine Warr

@HiddenYorkshire

18 days

James Timpson has this real old-fashioned paternalist attitude to business, something we've not seen since the Victorian philanthro-capitalists like Titus Salt, George Cadbury, and Andrew Carnegie; an economic noblesse oblige which shames the past forty years of wanton excess

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Simon Craven

@Simon_Craven

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@ILuvMilqueToast @TheDeadDistrict As a former Yak-52 pilot, J can tell you the Yak-52 is much more suitable for the job. And plentiful / inexpensive in Easter Europe

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Simon Craven

@Simon_Craven

8 months

There's never an abandoned gasworks around when you need one. We could use a bit of post-industrial squalor for a shoot in January so if you know of one within a couple of hours drive of Leeds lmk

Rodney Marshall

@RodneyMarshall1

8 months

The abandoned Becton Gas Works, a location used by so many in the 70s and 80s: John Wayne, 007, Kubrick, 1984, The New Avengers, The Professionals, Blake's 7, numerous pop videos. Post-industrial cityscape or dystopia, it clearly had a magnetic pull for filmmakers.

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Simon Craven

@Simon_Craven

10 months

@baddestmamajama Yep

Joint Base Charleston

@TeamCharleston

10 months

We’re working with @MCASBeaufortSC to locate an F-35 that was involved in a mishap this afternoon. The pilot ejected safely. If you have any information that may help our recovery teams locate the F-35, please call the Base Defense Operations Center at 843-963-3600.

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Simon Craven

@Simon_Craven

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@Hush_Kit Met the most absolutely frightful bounder the other day. Fellow called Heston Phoenix

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