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🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 Writer, reporter, radio, photos. Often in Ukraine; book NIGHT TRAIN TO ODESA out May 2024 with Polygon

Ukraine / Shetland

https://t.co/U0z7rmyWDD

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4 months

"A luminous love letter to an embattled nation" "wonderfully written... vivid, lyrical passages" Blown away by this review of Night Train to Odesa in today's Observer. Particularly as it's by @lukeharding1968 who is in Ukraine right now, writing brilliant frontline dispatches.

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2 years

'You're from Scotland? Ah, like - "ELEVEN"!!' Wasn't expecting this in a bunker in Kharkiv tbh, completely made my day

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8 months

Timothy Snyder spelling it out extremely clearly for Americans.

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Digging around in my bag for treats as I wait out the air raid sirens and what should I find but a Tunnocks wafer, squirrelled and away on a Loganair flight a month ago. Little bit of Scotland in Kyiv!

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A train disappearing into the haar on the Forth Rail Bridge. Three of my favourite things at once.

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2 years

Fair Isle today. Those dark dark skies as the snow swept in!

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3 years

So it has snowed in Shetland.

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6 months

Russia has destroyed all the substations in Kharkiv, a massive city of more than one million people. Are we paying attention?

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3 years

A white Easter Monday in Shetland. Voe looks beautiful. Howlin gales!

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2 years

I used to LOVE the sleeper. Scotrail ran advanced tickets - 'bargain berths' for weekdays, £25. Now run by Serco. £345. Even that sold out one - 'Classic' (just a bunk, but now with tasteful tartan) is £190 when avail. £190?! Honest to god, who can pay this? Why is this allowed?

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4 years

Sea ice, Voe, Shetland

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4 years

Nothing more beautiful than Shetland in snow, I think.

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7 months

The postie braved the 70mph Shetland winds to deliver my mail this morning - and look what she brought. Publication is 3 months away but the advance review copies are real! Can't describe how this feels. Hope everyone reading is enjoying... @PolygonBooks

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4 years

I know the word 'community' makes you all fall asleep. But I grew up with the real thing, and then spent 10 years trying to find it again, and lockdown briefly provided it. I wrote a wee bit about this. Would like to know your thoughts.

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Isolation, lockdown, belonging

When lockdown came my world had already shrunk to my four walls — 23 March actually widened that world to a tenement stair and the people…

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2 years

@francis_scarr I don't know where to start

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1 year

'This time not you'. Until it is.

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3 years

I spent the day in east Yell, recording a programme, and was given two bags of peat, another of firewood, a dozen eggs, and a cup of tea and a jaffa cake, by people I've never met before. Think this sums up Yell.

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2 years

That's a lot of makeup, pal

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4 years

Photos fae today - I've never seen Shetland like this. Very low temps. Drove out to Sandness in the westside - a favourite anyway, but today it was beyond beautiful. I'll do a peerie thread.

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3 years

Because I sleep with the window open, I wake up early to the sound of curlews, starling, oyster catchers, crows, snipe, sparrows, and the trickle of the burn. There is no better noise.

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2 years

Very tired - I think haggard might be the word - but now after a long border crossing and 3 days driving am in Ukraine and eating borscht. Very happy to be here again.

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4 years

So! I'm leaving Glasgow, but not the BBC, and am heading home to Shetland. (will self-isolate once there, obv) Very very excited.

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@Shetnews Community / Jen moves back to the isles to take up radio post @Shetnews

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1 year

Been kinda quiet lately, this is why... Very excited to be working on this with Polygon/Birlinn.

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. @PolygonBooks has signed Night Train to Odesa, a 'deeply reported, deeply human book of stories' gathered in Ukraine by reporter @jm_stout following the Russian invasion (£)

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2 years

More snow on the horizon. Isn't it amazing the way it looks from afar...

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3 years

I'm leaving my (brilliant) job at BBC Radio Shetland next Friday. I'll miss it more than I can say. Going to Russia, at long last, on a fellowship programme, which is long-delayed but should start before the end of the year. Apply for my job! Closes 7 Sep

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1 year

This is pretty overwhelming and wildly exciting! Somehow ended up in the Scottish Press Awards shortlist.

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7 months

In the 1930s there were propagandists in the UK and US purporting to be ‘independent journalists’, arguing that hitler was just misunderstood. This is nothing new. But it’s revolting. And it wins over a lot of people. Stand against it.

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He says he’s interviewing Putin because freedom of speech is Americans’ birthright I guess he knows that Putin made it a crime to tell the truth about Russia’s war on Ukraine? That independent Russian journalists have fled to avoid prison? And @evangershkovich is behind bars

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3 years

Oh dear, Central Belters.

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4 years

Shetland today

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3 years

Leaving Moscow. In something of a hurry. Turkish airspace still open so that way we go. Suspect this will not be our route, though...

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1 year

The Sunday Post rightly got a lot of awards last night, and I was very chuffed that included runner-up Reporter of the Year for my coverage of Ukraine over the past year. It's been a huge stroke of luck working with this great paper, and in particular with this stellar editor.

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1 year

Things I want to tell you about Victoria Amelina. Her sincerity and empathy, her brilliant mind. Her commitment to documenting, proving, speaking out, MAKING justice happen. I've tried to write this all down. You can read it here:

The eloquent fury of Victoria Amelina

A friend remembers the Ukrainian novelist turned war crimes researcher killed in a Russian missile strike on a Kramatorsk pizza restaurant

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2 years

@sarahrainsford I've friends in Romania, mountain region, happy to take refugees - beautiful, idyllic place, plenty of free guest houses, work if they want it. Lovely place for kids. Pit stop or longer-term. I can get them there (I'm in Romania) from the border. x

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8 months

Night Train to Odesa, my book about covering the war in Ukraine, is available to pre-order. It comes out 2nd May 2024 with @PolygonBooks . Hugely excited to share this story with everyone...

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Night Train to Odesa | Birlinn Ltd - Independent Scottish Publisher - buy books online

When Russian tanks rolled into Ukraine, millions of lives changed in an instant. Millions of people were suddenly on the move. In this great flow of people was a reporter from the north of Scotland....

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2 years

Soaring fuel poverty in the energy capital - the irony of Shetlanders facing a cold winter when we're surrounded by oil, gas and now industrial-scale wind farms. Opinion piece for openDemocracy, up today:

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The UK region where 96% of residents face fuel poverty

To avoid fuel poverty, residents of the ‘energy isles’ would need salaries of £104,000. Almost nobody here earns that

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1 year

Overhearing people in white linen walking round Leith like they’ve discovered the forbidden land: “Yes it used to be a VERY bad area!” “And of course there’s still remnants of that”, another adds, and they all gaze around in trepidation. 😐

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3 years

My mum. Should have been celebrating her 59th birthday with us yesterday. She always strived so hard for things to be better.

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4 years

Here's an amazing story about a Shetland dental nurse in the 1950s - and how it's come to light years later. Margaret Isbister would go to all the wee isles across Shetland, with dentist Henry Levison. They'd set up in the local school with a foot-operated drill (oh horror)...

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23 days

This is awful. I never could have written Night Train to Odesa without a grant from this fund, which allowed me to spend 7 weeks focused on the book alone. Do we want to be a country where people actually write books? Or just well-off people?

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This is shocking news and will have severe ramifications for authors and the whole sector: “Creative Scotland has taken the difficult decision to close the Open Fund for Individuals” @Soc_of_Authors

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4 years

Imagine whaaps calling, sheepy soonds, gentle ssh of the sea. My view every day now.

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2 years

Fair Isle snow pano. That looming dark sky to the west… fantastic

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4 years

My sister just casually painted this in a morning. I’m trying to convince her that people would likly buy it, and testing the theory here. Anyone?

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2 years

Watching my childhood pal get married in Shetland, via livestream, from a Donbas hotel room, is rather more emotional than I can handle. The world is peerie! Also gutted I’m missing the almighty spree (two folk musicians getting married - I expect a 3-day do at least)

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2 years

The best library, in the best town, winter sun and glowering sky. Extremely good to be home.

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2 years

Snow. Pretty. No planes today.

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2 years

Recommend this Politico story on Belarus plane hijacking. Details are incredible - the KGB man just standing there in the control room giving orders - 'tell them it was in an email'.

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Inside the control room of Belarus’ hijacked Ryanair flight

A follow-up report by the UN aviation agency tells the story of the diverted passenger flight.

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4 years

The Arctic / Shetland OK, it's not *that* cold, but the frozen sea voe and howling noise of the easterly wind really reminding us this is 60* North. Brief glimmer of sun over Olna Firth yesterday.

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4 years

Strom, Shetland. The most magical thing about all this snow is the way it seems to prolong and intensify the light, which by February at this latitude is much-needed. See this rose gold glow and the dark sky. It's all beyond words.

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1 year

Extremely kind of Shetland MSP to lodge this motion in parliament. I’m rather taken aback. And really honoured.

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4 months

Few folk have told me they couldn't get Night Train to Odesa in Waterstones and some other shops as they sold out- well, if you're in Edinburgh, Toppings has TONS of copies - and now they're all signed!

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2 years

Ferrymen handing cuddly toys through the windows of cars coming from Ukraine into Romania.

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4 years

Snow on the huge hills of Foula, hovering on the horizon

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4 years

The holes of Scraada. The cliffs are 20ft behind me. The sea runs through an UNDERGROUND TUNNEL to this big hole. See the shapes it makes on the black sand. And the thundery grumble below.

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3 years

There is ONE native hazel left in Shetland. Can't pollinate itself. But the Woodland Squad think there's hope. Hear how, on Radio Shetland in five mins!

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2 months

Five years ago at St Ninian's Isle, Shetland. Long exposure to catch the way the light and the water move together. (And some dust in the sensor marring the lovely sky 🙄)

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3 years

I've only been to Leakey's bookshop in Inverness once, but I still dream about it. It was like stepping into a cathedral of books.

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2 years

@reganpeggs Sure, for people who spend that much on a hotel. For the many who never do, it's an insane amount. There used to be an affordable option. Now there is none. There's only one sleeper train, it's not like you can choose a different company. Monopoly. Who benefits?

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2 years

Please read this thread. We knew it would be bad, every time Russians are driven out, more horrifying stories of torture rape and degradation. This is Izyum. There will be so many more.

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1/ After 6 months of Russian occupation, residents of Izium, Kharkiv have finally been able to speak to @hrw about the unlawful detentions and torture they were subjected to

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1 year

One stair. Imagine. There used to be residents in the Old Town of Edinburgh.

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Just one stair needing #stl planning in Edinburgh. That’s 8 in one stair well. Locals don’t count Airbnb profiteering does. 😳

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3 months

Just about fell off my chair hearing the continuity announcer describe Night Train to Odesa there ... It's happening! BBC Radio 4, in 40 mins, in my own dulcet tones, the first of five part serialisation. Tune in!

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1 year

So struck by this beautiful painting, spotted at the kid's club in Kramatorsk this morning.

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4 years

Kirkwall, nearly midnight

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"He wasn’t just a person or the father of my children – we thought the same way.” This is one of the most heart-breaking stories I've read in the past year. By @IKoshiw and Anastasia Vlasova, about one family from Luhansk oblast.

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‘If we get out of here it will be a miracle:’ a family at war in the hell of Bakhmut

After volunteering for the Ukrainian territorial defence force, a headmaster and his son found themselves in frontline battles

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3 months

Can't believe this - Night Train to Odesa was chosen as a Pick of the Week by @Tessadunlop on Radio 4 this eve - and with @SoldierHxtorian saying "she's very Martha Gellhorn" - there's no higher praise, at all. My great hero. Listen back:

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Pick of the Week - Tessa Dunlop - BBC Sounds

Tessa Dunlop chooses audio highlights from the past week.

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3 years

I'm currently freelance in Isaccea, a ferry crossing between Romania and Ukraine, where 1000s are crossing every day, mostly from Odessa. Open to commissions (radio, photo, written & TV). Portfolio in bio.

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5 months

Enjoying a day off in Kyiv - cherry blossom, nice weather, no sirens. Lovely. Sent my granny this reassuring picture - her reply was ‘You do not look in the best of health’. 😂

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4 years

A rare sight - snow in Shetland!

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3 years

Perfect, perfect night

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5 months

This is how civilised countries do night trains, with the mighty @Ukrzaliznytsia . My bed for the night, 14 hours across Ukraine to Kharkiv in the east. £20. (You don't need a blanket because it is, as always, a million degrees).

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1 year

My very wonderful mum with her huge smile. She would've been 61 today.

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5 months

Couldn't stop smiling this morning stepping off the train into sunny Kharkiv. Air is much fresher than Lviv! One year almost to the day since I was here. Air raid alert went off immediately, and explosions heard late morning then around lunchtime. It's every day for people here.

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4 years

Another beautiful snowy day in Shetland

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4 years

And the postscript is, of course, that she's my granny, and without her dental nursing taking her to Fair Isle in the 1950s, she'd never have met Alec, and I wouldn't be here today.

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4 months

Tonight! Sold out! I've haunted this doorway many times but never thought I'd be presenting my book upstairs. 7pm, Frontline in Paddington

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2 years

'Oh but why can't they just negotiate?' Yeah...

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3 months

Blown away by this review of Night Train to Odesa - the abridged Radio 4 version which starts on Monday - "tremendous eloquence, vividness and humanity". Found in the current @RadioTimes .

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4 years

I had a long perch on this rock, just sitting listening to everything.

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9 months

Just standing up on the hill in the shifting golden light and hail and biting Arctic wind and dark mad clouds of snow moving round the horizon. What a place to be.

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5 months

Something pretty exciting came in the post yesterday... Not long now till it's out in the world too. Night Train to Odesa is published by @PolygonBooks on 2nd May. You can have the same wee parcel arriving then, by pre-ordering here:

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5 months

A launch date for Night Train to Odesa, in Edinburgh!

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We welcome you to a highly relevant event on the Russia-Ukraine war with Scottish journalist and radio producer @jm_stout , who joins us to present her latest book, Night Train to Odesa. 📅Mon 10th June 🕐7:30pm 📍Ukrainian Community Centre 🎟️⬇️

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Nine years today since my mum died. She was bright and bubbly, occasionally quite mad, very clever, always striving for things to be better. Cathy Falkner.

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4 years

The bonniest kirk, in the bonniest village in Shetland (Voe)

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Kirk

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4 years

BBC Radio is brilliant. This evening, pottering about cooking, I learnt about Sicilian fisherman jailed in Benghazi, and how the mafia reach worsens covid in Calabria. Heard the voices of those affected, theor accents, their emotions. It's irreplaceable. R4 & World Service.

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Lerwick’s most impressively treacherous lane. It is icy and I have spagied legs. Risking life and limb.

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4 years

Whar I bide. What luck.

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Kyiv last night. Something else!

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Malcolm's Head looming behind Houll, even more spectacular with a dusting of snow.

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2 years

At sea on a sixareen. Very very happy.

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1 year

Completely out of the blue, I was one of the winners of the Travelling Scholarships this year. Enormously grateful. Couldn't quite believe the kind words from @annemcelvoy in the programme. Gellhorn!? AND I met @valmcdermid . I'll just retire now I reckon.

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A very beautiful, still, shimmering morning in Shetland

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2 years

Happy Easter, friends. This is one of Odesa's beautiful Catholic churches. A day to think of peace and hope.

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4 years

Snapped a skorie over Lerwick rooftops. What a lovely day it is here.

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5 months

My Kharkiv piece in yesterday's @Sunday_Post . Hopefully an online version you can read up soon. Really glad we could go back to find Yulia and Misha two years on - I don't think we do this often enough in reporting.

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3 years

Sun sun sunny Shetland. I bide in this valley, isn't it gorgeous

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2 years

The other day I went to Mykolaiv, the shipbuilding port city 70 miles from Odesa. It's been under attack since the start of the invasion, and about half the population has left (thread, photos) (1)

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2 years

Olya and Vadim in Mikolaiv. Asked them how they felt when Russian defence minister said aim is to take southern Ukraine. Vadim just grinned and made a rude gesture. 'We're not scared'.

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2 years

A 28-year-old rising star of a Kharkiv university, with big ambitions in medicine and huge determination. I met Vlada Chernykh in November reporting on her unit. She was killed last week in Donbas. Please read about her:

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2 years

Fair Isle on the last day of the year. It's strange, as I'm half-here and half-elsewhere, scrolling through news of bombed hotels and houses in Kyiv, and people killed at the front. Worrying about friends. My fervent wish for 2023 is an end to the Russian aggression in Ukraine.

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I've spent many many hours of my life throwing up on this boat. But oh she is a fine sight isn't she

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