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Journalist, Grierson & BAFTA winning doc maker. Via BBC & C4 News. Grenfell: The Untold Story (C4) Series Director, State of Chaos (BBC) The Arsenal

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Daisy Ayliffe
4 years
BREAKING: Having achieved nothing in many months of lockdown, today some good news. I have helped reunite a Syrian child with their mum in Britain. It is the single greatest achievement of my life.
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This Wirral pub has changed its name to ‘The Three Bellends.’ In protest at the new Tier 3 restrictions placed on the Liverpool city region.
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There are thousands of Syrian children like the little one we helped this week, there is much more to be done. But for the child whose life we have transformed, for the family we reunified, for the love we have spread, I am grateful all the same. #chooselove
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Politicians, civil servants and exemplary British officials overseas have worked around the clock to make this reunion possible. Words will never be enough to thank them. And we don’t thank our politicians and civil servants enough.
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2 years
For little English girls, this is EVERYTHING!!! Come on England!!! #Lionesses
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2 years
A great-grandmother and Windrush campaigner who has terminal cancer has begged the Home Office to resolve her immigration status before she dies, but it has refused to expedite her case.
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1 year
A hare and a blue sky in charcoal. By my daughter aged eight. (She says charcoal is best because you can rub things out then go again.)
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4 months
Tonight is the end of @BBCNewsnight as we know it. A bodyblow to investigative filmmaking and to so many old friends. #BBCNewsnight
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5 years
“Diversity matters hugely!” says BBC Executive Committee. The cttee is 94% white, 63% male, with an average salary of £316,000 (Over 11x nat average.) Diversity matters! Just don’t let it get in the way of assembling an old fashioned executive committee! @BBCNaga #nagamunchetty
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4 years
An outpouring of love from every corner of the world for our little Syrian friend! I will make sure child and mum know how loved they are. Thank you everyone for being so kind. ❤️ #chooselove #helprefugees
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4 years
@jonlis1 Yes I feel the same - it’s old news already but still hard to accept that our country might be run like my disorganised household. Forgetting to pay for swimming lessons / sign up for ballet / join the ventilator procurement scheme.
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3 years
In France they’re saying he’s the best diplo cat in the world...are you gona just lie down and take this? @Number10cat
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3 years
Accueil de choix ds le Salon de l’horloge : meilleur diplomate du monde 😻 #CatsofTwittter #diplocats @francediplo
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1 year
My article in @spectator is now free to read. Thank you to everyone has sent me kind comments, they really mean a lot. Thank you also to @FraserNelson for believing us, caring about this and allowing me to write.
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Daisy Ayliffe
7 years
The perils of being a pregnant journalist: An MP might use it against you. From tonight’s amazing #c4news
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Hayley Barlow
7 years
Moment @TulipSiddiq repeatedly warns @alextomo and the Channel 4 News team to "be very careful" before telling our pregnant producer "Thanks for coming Daisy, hope you have a great birth, because child labour is hard! See you!"
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2 years
The head of the WHO on #Tigray #Ethiopia “I haven’t heard in the last few months any head of state talking about the Tigray situation anywhere in the developed world. Anywhere. Why? Maybe the reason is the colour of the skin of the people in Tigray.”
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Daisy Ayliffe
3 years
LOL John McEnroe on #Raducanu when she was forced to retire at Wimbledon: “It appears it just got a little bit too much...Allow her to take some deep breaths and maybe get some wild-cards. She’ll probably get one for the Australian Open but I’m not sure about the US Open.”
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BBC Breaking News
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Emma Raducanu becomes first British woman to reach a Grand Slam singles final in 44 years, with straight-set win over Greece’s Maria Sakkari at US Open
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4 years
Is Ozil the Gunnersuarus? It is 2020, you have to think of everything.
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Daisy Ayliffe
3 years
I have produced a feature documentary for Channel 4 using never-seen-before footage captured by #Grenfell Tower’s Artist in Residence. Grenfell: The Untold Story will be on Channel 4 on Wednesday, September 8th at 10pm. Please watch.
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4 years
This is the only thing that matters right now.
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2 years
I endorse this message. We have no car, our cargo bike is EVERYTHING.
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Daisy Ayliffe
2 years
My ITN role models are also women who spoke out against misogyny. The ones who reported harassment and sexual harassment in your newsrooms, who lost their jobs and who were gagged with NDAs. I salute their courage and indefatigability. @cbmsilence
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ITN
2 years
This International Women’s Day, we asked colleagues across ITN to tell us about a female role model who has inspired them. With special thanks to our colleagues at @ITNBusiness and our women’s network Thrive for putting this film together. #IWD2023
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Daisy Ayliffe
2 years
My first documentary has been nominated for THREE BAFTAS! I am blown away and so proud of all my friends right across the #grenfell community who were so brave and so kind to work with us. This is for you. Never Forget. @GrenfellTowerMC @GrenfellUnited
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Daisy Ayliffe
5 years
My friend saw the Prime Minister in Asda Ruislip today. Along with a flying unicorn.
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Daisy Ayliffe
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If Sheikh Hasina is heading to the UK, major questions for Keir Starmer and the Labour Govt will surely follow. In the UK a govt minister - Tulip Siddiq - once boasted that she “worked” for Hasina’s now toppled Awami League Govt. #Bangladeshstudentprotest
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Daisy Ayliffe
2 years
I directed & produced #Partygate : Inside the Storm with @bbclaurak & @BreakwellNeil for the good people at @BBCPanorama For the first time, insiders have told us - in detail - what they saw. Tune in to our documentary tonight on BBC 2 at 7 🍿
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Daisy Ayliffe
4 years
@hassan_akkad We’re so grateful for you!
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Daisy Ayliffe
3 years
Me and mum. This is how we roll. #MothersDay2021
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Daisy Ayliffe
2 years
Last night we won the @griersontrust award for best single documentary for #grenfelltheuntoldstory An honour. Thank you @Channel4 @bbcstudios @GrasArt @78newton @jessieversluys1 But mainly, to our lovely friends across North Ken, this award is for you. 💚
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There is now a group of brilliant, talented, principled journalists outside ITN. All lost their jobs for reporting harassment, discrimination, bullying inside ITN newsrooms. If you have been affected, my DMs are open. I know how scary it is. But you are not alone. x
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Daisy Ayliffe
1 year
This evening @popbitch describes a 200 page dossier of evidence of racism and a toxic work environment in an ITN newsroom. Feel exhausted. @MariaMillerUK @jessphillips
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Daisy Ayliffe
2 years
We all owe thanks to the unshakeable, encyclopaedic @peteapps who has, for almost FIVE YEARS, been revealing the layers upon layers of injustice that caused the #grenfell disaster. His journalism is so important. Follow him if you don’t already!
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Peter Apps
2 years
Report from today at the Grenfell Inquiry from @luciemheath : Research required to begin a review of fire safety rules was not signed off by the responsibile ministers after it was branded “far from being a priority” in an email to ministerial advisors
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Daisy Ayliffe
3 years
We finished our mosaic today. It will go in the pavements around #grenfell to mark the 5 year anniversary #neverforget
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Daisy Ayliffe
4 years
Months ago, my daughter left her Elsa doll in the @ltmuseum Lesley who works there has kept us updated on Elsa’s welfare and today she posted Elsa home to us with a lovely letter. We are so grateful. Lesley, you’re the BEST 💖
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Daisy Ayliffe
3 years
Poor old de Gea, lets in 12 goals then misses a penalty. 🤭
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Daisy Ayliffe
4 years
Absolutely astonishing heartbreaking story by @JackieLongc4 & @C4Faye now on Channel 4 News. The bank manager handcuffed & arrested - accused of everything from fire arms offenses to terrorism & money laundering. Then the police searched his mum’s house too. Because he is black?
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Daisy Ayliffe
3 years
One nil down, two one up. #ARSWOL
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GOAL!!! Arsenal 2-1 Wolves. Alex Lacazette sends the Emirates into raptures!!!!!!
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Daisy Ayliffe
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I worked with the best journalists in Britain: Paxman, @MichaelLCrick Steve Smith, Tim Whewell, Kirsty, Maitlis, Liz MacKean and so many amazing crews, editors, production managers, producers and the prog’s lovely driver Dave Murden. God bless you Newsnight. You’ll be missed.
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Daisy Ayliffe
2 years
Good for @BrentfordFC and good for Thomas Frank. My brother in law sat next to him on the bus in Richmond the other day and he chatted all the way. No limos or posh cars thank you very much. 🚌 🚍
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Daisy Ayliffe
4 months
In my first ever shift as a freelance producer, I ran around TV Centre in West London and found @theresa_may in the lobby. She was Home Secretary. I begged her to sit in a studio and be interviewed. Kindly, she said yes and that’s how I got a job at #Newsnight
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Daisy Ayliffe
2 years
Team Grenfell has already won a BAFTA for #grenfelltheuntoldstory but last night we missed out. It was an honour to be there. Thank you to all my friends across the community for bravely telling us your stories. @GrenfellTowerMC @GrenfellUnited
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Daisy Ayliffe
3 years
❤️🧡💛💚💙💜
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Daisy Ayliffe
4 years
Please credit @Channel4News and @MinnieStephC4 for the story about ‘Ella.’ (Not her real name.) We told it exclusively on our programme on Friday.
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James Newton picks up the Director: Factual BAFTA for Grenfell: The Untold Story 👏 #BAFTATV
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Daisy Ayliffe
4 years
@jonlis1 The EU announced the scheme publicly too and many uk officials work out there. The story had a very unlikely air to it.
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Daisy Ayliffe
4 years
How will #covid19 impact a refugee camp? Please read this! Such a powerful explainer by ⁦ @sandiewe ⁩ ⁦ @ACAPSproject
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Daisy Ayliffe
4 years
And finally... after 7 joyful years at Channel 4 News, tonight I wave goodbye to my heroes @jonsnowC4 @JackieLongc4 @lilo11 and far too many friends to mention. Any questions to my disorganised assistant @ben_wicks but for now it’s back to that Quality Street tin.
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Daisy Ayliffe
3 years
Crying out for help. How did fire safety become an unaffordable luxury in modern Britain? #endourcladdingscandal
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Daisy Ayliffe
2 years
If you have not done so already, please watch #grenfelltheuntoldstory on all 4. Rarely will you see a documentary as powerful. Or as damning.
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Daisy Ayliffe
4 years
British women can have their lives ruined by unscrupulous bosses simply because they asked if they are paid equally. This has to stop. #therighttoknow #showthesalary
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Fawcett Society
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The Fawcett Society supports the pledge to Show the Salary because we know the culture of pay secrecy undermines the fight for #EqualPay . Join us in pledging to #ShowTheSalary :
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Daisy Ayliffe
4 years
Please do remember to credit our journalism next time you write it up @ShippersUnbound - Ella was not her real name and her story was told on Friday on @Channel4News by @MinnieStephC4
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Daisy Ayliffe
3 years
As a journalist and an Arsenal fan, I have three very important words: SAVE THE GOONER @GoonerFanzine @laythy29
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Daisy Ayliffe
4 years
@Refugees Thank you, friends! 😍
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Daisy Ayliffe
4 months
We broke the story of the undercover cop Mark Kennedy with @richardwatson1 from a court in Nottingham when the case against a group of environmentalists collapsed and the truth about #spycops exploded
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Daisy Ayliffe
3 years
Only one 50-truck convoy has been allowed into Tigray since November. The UN estimates at least one 100-truck convoy is needed daily to meet demand.
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The Ethiopian government has ordered Doctors Without Borders and the Norwegian Refugee Council to cease aid operations in the Tigray, Amhara, Gambella and Somali regions
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Daisy Ayliffe
2 years
The only other people I saw in Richmond Park / winter wonderland this morning were photographers. ❄️❄️❄️❄️❄️
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2 years
For Father’s Day: A Syrian refugee sleeps in his dad’s arms after arriving in Europe on a dingy @everydayrefugee
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Me & Allegra were first to tell the story of zero hour contracts on #Newsnight I woke up the next morn and it was the phone in on 5 Live. I realised we’d told something that mattered. Our friend Jonathan Callery filmed, I made the graphics out of post its
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Here are me and @AllegraStratton in an old fashioned looking newsroom where we still wrote things down with pen and paper. Those days on the road, the long evenings in edits with such brilliant people, it was some of the most fun I ever had at work.
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Daisy Ayliffe
2 years
Thrilled our #Grenfell documentary has been nominated for a Grierson! @griersontrust Thank you to all our friends in North Ken who bravely shared their experiences with us. #grenfelltheuntoldstory 💚 @GrasArt @78newton @Channel4 @bbcstudios @GrenfellTowerMC @GrenfellUnited
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Daisy Ayliffe
3 years
BREAKING: Just had a taxi ride with a driver who told me all the premier league footballers who don’t give tips. Can’t say anymore for legal reasons.
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4 years
The best Arsenal Anecdote: when Bergkamp signed, he knew he was a big deal when he saw himself on Ceefax “I call up Page 301 I'm shocked. In huge letters: BERGKAMP JOINS ARSENAL. For the 1st time it hits me: Woah! I'm on teletext. Me! I go to Page 302 DUTCH STRIKER GOES FOR £7.5M
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3 years
Very proud that #grenfelltheuntoldstory has been nominated for an RTS. Thanks to everyone who worked with us on it. @78newton @GrasArt @shamindernahal @Channel4 @bbcstudios @jessieversluys1
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Royal Television Society
3 years
Congratulations to all the nominees of the RTS Programme Awards 2022, in partnership with @audionetwork . See the full list of nominations here: #RTSAwards
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Daisy Ayliffe
1 year
Tune in to the latest brilliant ep of #stateofchaos now. 9pm on BBC 2. Massive shout out also to our friend and yours, shooting director supreme @stupowell123
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Laura Kuenssberg
1 year
Tonight! and now on @BBCIplayer - if you're not one of the millions who've already watched it, you can now do all 3 in a box set binge - State of Chaos box set
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4 years
@krishgm The m25 should be clear. 🚲
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Daisy Ayliffe
2 years
Last night on our #partygate Panorama special, we revealed how a security guard who tried to stop a party in full flow was jeered at. Today the #SueGrayReport describes ‘multiple examples of a lack of respect & poor treatment of security & cleaning staff. This was unacceptable.’
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Daisy Ayliffe
8 years
#marchforeurope arrives at parliament square
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Daisy Ayliffe
8 months
Me @RSheikh26 & @tomtraies have been visiting schools to hear about Britain’s Crumbling Schools. We met kids whose handwriting’s wobbly because their classrooms are so cold & headteachers who use sandbags & buckets in class when it rains. Watch our film tonight BBC One at 8pm!
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“The whole documentary is a treasure-trove of newsworthy snipes and seemingly minor revelations that coalesce into a picture of a government at loggerheads and in permanent crisis.” Lovely reviews! Thank you. Off to bed. #StateOfChaos
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2 years
The morning after the night before! #BAFTATVAwards
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Daisy Ayliffe
2 years
Just went to a kids piano recital. The first little girl played Chopin waltz in C# minor. My daughter played three blind mice very slowly with one finger, stopped, started again, ended abruptly and took a massive bow.
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2 years
Stuck in traffic on Dartmoor.
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Daisy Ayliffe
3 years
A hanky is worth a thousand words. @TinyPricks
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@krishgm Yes! Also if you tell women who report harassment at work that they should stop going on, or what they think is harassment isn’t, or they should protest in a less controversial way or concentrate on their job maybe ask yourself: am I the problem?
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London private school @JAGSschool has 22 acres of fields, a purpose-built theatre, ozone-filtered pool & it claims to have “a social conscience.” But its cleaners are treated like this? “When we get sick, we work while ill or lose our pay. @UVWunion
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The Queen just drove past me and my daughter in Hammersmith. 👸
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2 years
Thrilled our documentary #GrenfellTheUntoldStory has also been nominated for a Grierson Award! @griersontrust The #grenfell community is still fighting for justice more than 5 years after the fire. Please watch our film on @Channel4 💚 #neverforget
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Daisy Ayliffe
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Do take the time to read this astonishing thread by Nazmul of Bloomberg to understand what has been going on in #Bangladesh and what may happen next.
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Nazmul Ahasan
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🧵 Bangladesh’s Prothom Alo newspaper has a front-page story on the final moments of Hasina’s tenure. She insisted on using brute force until only 45 minutes before her departure; no amount of pleading from her aides and officials could persuade her to relent. 1/n
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Shame about today and all, but win or lose I cannot WAIT til we can do this again. #arsenal #northbank #emirates
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Daisy Ayliffe
3 years
My mum has made these for her grandkids’ school bags. 🕊 🇺🇦
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Daisy Ayliffe
2 years
I’m just so proud 💚💚
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shaminder nahal
2 years
Our brilliant director and editor James Newton and Emma Lysaght at the #BAFTATV craft awards - thanks so much to Constantine Gras, all the Grenfell community, @daisyayliffe Amy Flanagan, Kirsty Cunningham, Sam Emmery and all the team thank you
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Daisy Ayliffe
2 years
We are approaching the 5 year anniversary of the tragic #Grenfell fire and bereaved and survivors are still fighting for justice. We will never forget. @GrenfellTowerMC @GrenfellUnited #grenfelltheuntoldstory
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BAFTA
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James Newton's winning speech for Grenfell: The Untold Story with a special thank you to the residents. 💚
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Daisy Ayliffe
4 years
@bbcnickrobinson A happy story when there are not many of them x
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Daisy Ayliffe
1 year
This evening @popbitch describes a 200 page dossier of evidence of racism and a toxic work environment in an ITN newsroom. Feel exhausted. @MariaMillerUK @jessphillips
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Daisy Ayliffe
2 years
Please watch our documentary this evening! #Partygate Inside The Storm on BBC 2 at 7. You will hear astonishing testimony from Downing St insiders - speaking for the first time to us on @panorama
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3 years
This is appalling. #tigray
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Daisy Ayliffe
2 years
Me & my kids made this mosaic with @ACAVANorthKen in honour of the Portuguese speakers of Grenfell Tower - including our friend @MarcioPDSGomes It contains 72 pieces of gold to remember those we lost - and it’s now in the pavement of North Ken. #grenfell #justiceforgrenfell
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Daisy Ayliffe
10 years
Beautiful Anish Kapoor memorial candle burns outside #c4news newsroom: 70 years after Auschwitz was liberated http://t.co/xIBJBmHWLN
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3 years
1/5 For those who watched #grenfelltheuntoldstory know this:
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Daisy Ayliffe
7 years
Anthony Scaramucci, former White House comms director on modern #America tonight on #c4news - ‘We’re a little crazy with the guns, so we should knock it off now. But by and large, the place is amazing.’ #GunViolence
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Daisy Ayliffe
3 years
Grenfell: The Untold Story Wednesday at 10 on 4 @Channel4
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