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2 years
Exclusive: A spy working for Canadian intelligence smuggled Shamima Begum and her two friends from Bethnal Green into Syria and Britain later conspired with Canada to cover up its role, according to explosive news claims ⁦ @thetimes
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🚨EXCLUSIVE: The Prime Minister’s father has ignored the Foreign Office travel warning to visit his holiday home in Greece. Speaking from the balcony of his villa last night, Stanley Johnson urged his son to sort out air bridges and said Brits pose ‘no danger’ to Greece.
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'Who stands for hours to watch royals attend a thanksgiving service? Primarily people who respect tradition, enjoy pageantry, feel positive about British institutions ... A Tory PM should be worried about being booed by people like that.'
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Scotland Yard was told the teenagers were trafficked into Syria by a people-smuggler, a double agent working for ISIS and Canadian intelligence. An inquiry has been demanded after it emerged Canada knew about their fate but kept silent while the Met ran an international search.
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Spoke to parents of 13-year-old Jemima Layzell, whose organs have helped save a record eight patients and restored the eyesight of three.
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Bombshell political exclusive in @TheTimes tonight. Gove endorses Sunak and announces he is bringing his frontline political career to a close. He says Truss’s campaign has been a “holiday from reality” and that her tax cuts will put FTSE 100 executives before the poorest.
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Letter in @thetimes from a reader whose 6ft 4in father lived in Nottingham Cottage for ten years and found it perfectly comfortable… but then he had spent three-and-a-half years as a Burma POW.
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Scott Benton, the MP for Blackpool South, guaranteed he could leak a copy of a forthcoming white paper on gambling reforms to the company at least 48 hours before it went public, potentially allowing them to profit from market-sensitive information.
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EXC. Tory MP offered to leak a confidential policy document and lobby ministers on behalf of gambling industry investors in return for thousands of pounds a month, undercover @thetimes investigation reveals tonight.
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2 years
Some of Boris Johnson’s aides are believed to have had sex at 10 Downing Street during a party that took place during lockdown on the eve of the Duke of Edinburgh’s funeral. More partygate revelations from @georgegrylls and @hzeffman
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Picture of the week. Air Force One and @POTUS pass metres above a pebble dashed terrace in Hounslow on final approach to LHR. Superb shot by @ManAviation1107 .
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Although Greece has banned direct UK flights, Mr Johnson was able to take a Wizz Air flight from Luton to Athens via Sofia. He stressed his trip is ‘essential business’ to make his four-bed villa Covid-secure ahead of the holiday letting season.
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Delighted to say that I have been promoted to news editor of @thetimes , beginning later this summer. I look forward to leading our world-class news editors, reporters and specialists as we continue to smash audience records. A tremendous opportunity for which I am very grateful👍
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3 years
🚨 Delighted to announce I’ve been appointed deputy news editor of The Times, starting next month. I’ve had a terrific eight years at the Mail, where I’ve been lucky to have many brilliant opportunities. Although I’ll miss my colleagues, I’m looking forward to a new challenge.
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He boasted of his “easy access to ministers” and said he was prepared to “literally sit outside” a minister’s office if the company needed an urgent answer to a question. He also claimed many MPs who accepted corporate hospitality were willing to table questions in return.
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2 years
Some serious🔥coming from @thetimes splash tonight
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2 years
A very tired @thetimes team raising a glass to her Maj 🍺
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1 year
Exclusive 🚨 President Zelensky has been blocked by the BBC and other broadcasters from addressing the world at the Eurovision Song Contest. Organisers feared his address to millions of viewers would politicise the contest. ✍🏻⁦ @alexfarber
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Gove says: “I am deeply concerned that the framing of the leadership debate by many has been a holiday from reality … I cannot see how safeguarding the stock options of FTSE 100 executives should ever take precedence over supporting the poorest in our society.”
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4 years
Big day for spotters: Thursday is planned to be the last time a BA 747 departs Heathrow. The final two in storage will take off simultaneously from both runways. One will circle over the airfield in a farewell gesture to its home of 20 years before heading to the scrapyard.
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Tom Payne
3 years
An asteroid destroyed Earth in a doomsday @NASA exercise carried out last month. The week-long simulation revealed there is nothing we can do to save mankind if an asteroid is spotted only six months before impact. ☄️🌎
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Tom Payne
4 years
Councils are abandoning Covid road schemes following a backlash from residents and business, we reveal today. Cycle lanes and low traffic zones that were installed weeks ago - at huge cost to taxpayers - are being torn out to free up traffic and reduce pollution. @DailyMailUK
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4 months
🚨 Election exclusive Reform overtakes Tories for the first time, YouGov poll in @thetimes shows. The so-called crossover is a milestone moment in the campaign.
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2 years
Times newsdesk serving views tonight 🌅
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Have been news editor for three months, and had a prime minister for every one of them
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3 years
Over and out. Thanks for a great 8 years @DailyMailUK
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Senior Tories are holding talks about replacing Truss with a joint ticket of Rishi Sunak and Penny Mordaunt as part of a “coronation” by MPs, reveal top lobby team @hzeffman @Steven_Swinford @Geri_E_L_Scott @Smyth_Chris @oliver_wright @georgegrylls
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Sue Gray’s report into lockdown-breaking parties in Downing Street is so damning that senior officials believe it could leave Boris Johnson with no choice but to resign as prime minister, ⁦ @thetimes ⁩ has been told.
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Tom Payne
2 years
Full story by @Steven_Swinford and @hzeffman here 👇
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4 years
Bit of news: next week will be my last as Transport Correspondent. From late December I will be Associate News Editor at the @DailyMailUK . It has been such an interesting year on the beat and I will miss it. Thanks to everyone who helped me on stories ✌🏻🗞
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Tom Payne
3 years
Among thousands of young whippersnappers getting their first dose of freedom at @Twickenhamstad this afternoon. Thank you science, thank you @nhs 💉👊🏻
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Tom Payne
6 months
Today we, The Times, joined journalists around the world on a 5k run marking the anniversary of the wrongful detention of our @WSJ colleague Evan Gershkovich in Russia. #IRanForEvan @thetimes
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2 years
‘That William —like his father— has a temper is well known. But the claim that he would grab his brother and knock him to the floor takes things to a new level. William will find it hard to shake off: he will always be the prince who attacked his brother’
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Tom Payne
3 years
To those who think news doesn’t pay… Profits at @thetimes and @thesundaytimes jumped to a record £34m in the year to June, driven by massive digital growth. In that time the number of digital-only subscribers increased from 31,000 to 367,000 (63% of subscribers overall) 👊📱📝
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6 months
Delighted that @thetimes won Daily Newspaper of the Year at the Press Awards last night. A big win after a year of sensational scoops from the team. 🙅‍♂️
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A lovely surprise to win Travel Journalist of the Year at the Press Awards✈️Huge thanks to @EditorsUK and congratulations to all winners @DailyMailUK and beyond. What a year...
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2 years
Great dispatch from Calais by @matt_dathan . "Everyone @thetimes spoke to at the camp is undeterred. The reaction among migrants living in tents at the deal signed by Patel ranged from bewilderment to nonchalance. Most plan to call her bluff."
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3 years
Today’s splash @thetimes
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2 years
Very lucky to to news edit @thetimes this week with @sebmann1 , @OliviaAlabaster , @greentoby and our superb newsdesk. This week’s editions were a labour of love by my colleagues, planned for many years before I joined. But felt immensely privileged to be a cog in the machine.
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3 years
If there was ever an excuse for Monday Moët... 🔑🏠
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Boris ‘wandered around gladhanding people’ as Downing St partygoers sipped Tesco rosé and joked about surveillance drones flying overhead. Great partygate read by @Steven_Swinford & @hzeffman
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Tom Payne
4 years
EXCLUSIVE: Tories demand u-turn on bike lanes and road closures. MPs sign letter to @grantshapps warning of ‘palpable anger’ over traffic schemes brought in during the pandemic. They say the £250m fund for road projects represents ‘war’ on motorists.
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1 year
🔥Day two of our cash-for-access investigation. MPs avoid having to declare corporate jollies by allowing companies to put a falsely low value on tickets they have accepted for events, Tory MP tells our undercover reporters. Scott Benton said there “were ways around” the rules
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Tom Payne
2 years
Has someone compiled a list of companies that don't use Evri? Would be genuinely helpful.
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Tom Payne
4 years
🚨EXC. Low traffic neighbourhoods brought in during the pandemic are turning residential areas into ‘crime hotspots’ and forcing ambulances to wait in standstill traffic. Revelations buried in an @EalingCouncil report intensifies pressure @grantshapps to scrap hundreds of LTNs.
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EXC. Son of Labour frontbencher and close Corbyn ally convicted for smuggling £2,500 of lethal drugs into a music festival.
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2 years
"The consequence of McDonald’s letter is that it makes Boris Johnson’s continued leadership of the Conservative Party even more uncertain. A loyal cabinet minister admitted this morning that the letter would 'need some very careful reflection'." @hzeffman
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‘Anoushka hadn’t even intended to join The Queue. She had scoffed at the madness. “For the first hour, I was in denial I was even in The Queue.” She had no water, coat and hadn’t fed the cat, but she got sucked in. Such is the seductiveness of The Queue.’
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On @thetimes tonight — Starmer has failed to heal the rift within his party and is said to have “made matters worse” after comments that left Muslim voters feeling “gaslit” and “betrayed”. Four shadow ministers on resignation watch 👀
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A BBC insider highlighted the issue of giving a platform to the potentially problematic leaders of countries which can compete in the contest, including Israel and Middle Eastern nations. A second source said ‘tricky and delicate’ negotiations are taking place.
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A privilege to news edit the @thetimes this week - proud of our editions and online coverage. A superb team effort!
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YouGov polling for @thetimes finds almost half of those who voted Conservative at the last election want the party’s MPs to oust Truss. Sixty-two per cent say grassroots members made the wrong choice in the vote for leader.
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2 years
A fuller picture including legendary Times royal writer @valentinelow . Cheers 👑
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Basic, but it’s been a week of exceptional sunsets at Times HQ. Today’s view 🌅
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A must-read by @TimesONeill
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ME and my girl: myalgic encephalomyelitis took the life of my daughter Maeve. @sajidjavid 's radical new approach is a huge step forward but the bitterest of bittersweet moments
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Liz Truss’s flagship trade deal with India is on the “verge of collapse” after Indian ministers reacted furiously to comments by Suella Braverman criticising migrants from their country, reveals @matt_dathan
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Around “20 to 30” former ministers and senior backbenchers are attempting to find a way for a “council of elders” to tell Truss to quit. “Conversations are stepping up,” says one former minister.
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4 years
Paris Charles de Gaulle has overtaken Heathrow as Europe’s largest airport for the first time ever. Amsterdam and Frankfurt not far behind. Industry leaders have spent months warning that a lack of action on airport testing threatens the UK’s status as an aviation world leader.
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Tom Payne
3 years
Important project by @SusieCoen exposing lethal flaws in the smart motorway programme - including failings so bad staff said ‘you’re all going to die … start praying to your God’. @DailyMailUK
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Powerful splash tomorrow... after a 20-year occupation that saw 457 British lives lost and £22billion spent, Taliban insurgents topple Afghan forces in days. Now families of British soldiers who died fighting ask: what the hell did they die for? @DailyMailUK
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2 years
Denmark does fantastic newsrooms. On the left is the hygge-inspired office of @politiken , on the right, the glass and steel HQ of state broadcaster DR. By contrast, Northcliffe House had ceiling maggots that once rained on the newsdesk…
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Some news🚨After two years as the Mail’s West Country/South Wales reporter, I’m off to London in a month to work from HQ. I’ve enjoyed every day covering this brilliant, bonkers patch with my very talented friends and colleagues. I may even miss the endless animal factfiles. 🗞
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Exclusive: I flew into Heathrow yesterday from Lisbon to witness the chaos and confusion of the Government’s 14-quarantine rule for arriving passengers. My report in @DailyMailUK today:
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And for my last story as West Country reporter - donkey and zebra produce Somerset ‘zonkey’
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Top attic discovery - @thesundaytimes from the day I was born. Spotted a few colleagues’ bylines...
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@eleanorhayward That 777 go-around was intense, he left it right to the last minute. "Go on son!"
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6 years
Love this story - Bristol students raise £1,500 so library cleaner can visit his home country of Jamaica.
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@EalingCouncil so much chaos being caused by your ‘low traffic neighbourhood’ idea. There was never a problem with these roads before. Now they are clogged with cars reversing and trying to work out how on earth to get where they need to be. Totally unnecessary. @HowardCCox
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Kwasi had no idea it was coming … 16 minutes later he was sitting in his ministerial car on the way back to London when ⁦ @thetimes ⁩ broke the news that he was about to be sacked. You’ll read every word of this read by ⁦ @Steven_Swinford ⁩ 🔥
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British Gas has been banned from force-fitting prepayment meters to protect its vulnerable customers, and all other major energy companies have agreed to suspend the practice after ⁦ @thetimes ⁩ investigation by ⁦ @pmorganbentley
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2 years
Ben Wallace shoots down speculation he could be a unity candidate if Liz Truss departs. Exclusive by ⁦ @larisamlbrown
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A “gang” of consultant neurosurgeons suppressed warnings about patient safety years before police were called in to investigate 40 patient deaths, a whistleblower has claimed. Great scoop @TomWitherow on @thetimes this evening.
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Thirty countries offer airport testing so travellers can cut quarantine - here’s how they do it. @DailyMailUK
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Russell Brand accused of rape, sexual assaults and abuse. Four women, including one who was just 16, make allegations after an investigation by The Sunday Times, The Times and Channel 4 Dispatches.
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2 years
Confronting reality… 😅
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Exclusive: Truss has significantly extended her lead over Sunak to 34 points in the Tory leadership race, according to a YouGov poll for @thetimes and @TimesRadio - and 9 in 10 members have made up their minds ahead of ballot papers going out this week.
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His mother Kate Osamor has in the past spoken out about ‘racist policing’ the government’s ‘failed war on drugs’.
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3 years
En route to the Caribbean (St Maarten) via thanksgiving in Miami. Been a long time coming… ✈️
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So pleased @thetimes has been shortlisted for website of the year at the Press Awards. The Times is undergoing its biggest digital transformation in a decade, including an entirely digital-first newsdesk. The result means we are growing our subscriber base faster than ever.
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Tomorrow’s @DailyMailUK , much of it written by reporters working remotely under great pressure. Please support newspapers at this time. Self-isolators can read the edition every day through the @mailplus app, or they can get the paper delivered 🗞
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Daily Mail: School’s out, exams axed, deaths soar ... and army in #TomorrowsPapersToday
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On @thetimes website today, how selfless and kind-hearted residents of Diss in Norfolk have clubbed together to offer more than a dozen rooms to Ukrainian refugees, as well as transport and free childcare.
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Lovely surprise to get shortlisted for Travel Journalist of the Year at @EditorsUK #PressAwards , alongside Mail travel boss @palmertours . Hats off to all other nominees too 🎉
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Shortlists announced for the Society of Editors' #PressAwards . Celebrating the best of UK national journalism in 2020, winners will be revealed at a celebratory virtual awards ceremony on Wednesday 31 March!
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Is this Britain’s worst council? Lambeth had racked up debts of £1bn and is accused of pursuing an ideological war on cars at the expense of the basic functions of local government, reports @andrewellson .
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Ahmad Nawaz was 14 when he was shot in the arm by a Taliban gunman in a terror attack that killed his younger brother — now he’s been voted president of Oxford Union
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Back in office for first time since March earlier today. Desk cluttered with old clippings warning of strange new virus in China...
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Today the @DailyMailUK has flown in £1million of PPE to help frontline hospital staff. #MailForceOne - a chartered 787 Dreamliner - touched down at a deserted Heathrow earlier this evening after an 11 hour flight from Shanghai. Brilliant effort from my colleagues.
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🔺Exclusive The police investigation into @AngelaRayner is examining multiple allegations not limited to potential electoral law offences, @Fhamiltontimes reveals on @thetimes tonight.
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5 years
Five years with the Daily Mail today, which seems an appropriate time to announce that I am taking over as the paper’s Transport Correspondent from mid-September ✈️🗞
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Back where it all began 👀 Spent too many late nights in this place as co-editor in 2012/13. Ruffled many a feather in that year and got a handful of stories picked up by nationals, which felt unbelievably thrilling at the time. ⁦great to see ⁦ @Exepose ⁩ still in print.
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EXC 🚨 @DailyMailUK gets first look at @HeathrowAirport ’s new Covid-19 testing hall. The facility is ready to begin swabbing thousands of arrivals - but can’t be used until ministers endorse airport tests.
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EXC. Excluding the pandemic, excess deaths are worst since 1951. Covid accounts for only a minority of recent excess deaths, adding to ‘compelling’ evidence that NHS delays and untreated health problems are killing hundreds every week. By @Smyth_Chris , @katlay and data team.
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4 years
SOS 🚨I’m a news editor whose never watched an episode of Line of Duty...
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EXC. MPs demand ban on cash rebates for gamblers as three more betting giants admit giving cash to entice customers in wake of Daily Mail investigation. #StopTheGamblingPredators #Gambling
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Tom Payne
5 years
Amazing achievement by my colleagues producing the first @DailyMailUK without a single journalist in the office 🗞
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Press Gazette
5 years
Today's Daily Mail was the first issue published without a single journalist in its offices in the paper's 124-year history. All meetings held digitally. Editor Geordie Greig said it was an "extraordinary moment" and an "amazing feat" during "unprecedented times".
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Daily Mail overtakes Sun to become Britain’s biggest selling daily newspaper 🗞✌️🎉
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Travellers’ personal details and PCR samples piling up in the street at a Randox drop-off point. Hardly a secure border policy - what a mess
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