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Business Correspondent @SkyNews . Previously health, sport and newspapers. Tips & trivia welcome at paul.kelso @sky .uk

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Paul Kelso
6 years
The tension is unbearable @SkyNews
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Boris Johnson wishes Scotland and England well in the Euros "and any other home nations that may be competing". Think the word he was looking for is "Wales"
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Clarification from Home Office that the £38,000 income threshold for UK citizens wishing to bring a spouse applies to "the income from the UK-based partner" NOT joint income. Concern this effectively means only those among the top 25% of earners can afford to marry a foreigner
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I've rarely seen an athlete as rounded, informed or principled as Rory McIlroy (it's a very small club including Andy Murray) and golf has chucked him under a bus full of money
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Sky Sports News
1 year
🎙️ "At the end of the day money talks and you'd rather have them as a partner." Rory McIlroy says that the PGA Tour, DP World Tour, and LIV Golf merger is 'ultimately good for the game of professional golf'.
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2 years
Numbers of the day - Centrica, owner of British Gas, announces 500% increase in 6-month profit to £1.3billion & £59m dividend - Shell records $11.5bn quarterly profit and announces $600m share buyback - energy price cap forecast to rise to £3,850 in January & persist to 2024
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8 years
Hearing an Olympic kayaker may have capsized after hitting a submerged sofa. Story of day & possibly the week if true. #kayaksofa #Rio2016
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Replace “golf” with anything you or your kids like, this is sensational parenting advice from Padraig
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Kyle Porter
8 months
This is incredible.
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2 years
Bump for the pound coinciding with reports of U-turn on mini-Budget. (If you don't believe it had any impact, it's just a coincidence)
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Hands: “I know the PM has total confidence in Kwasi Kwarteng, he is incredibly capable person, very very bright, he makes good judgment calls”
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5 years
June 2000, 58 Chinese people were found suffocated in a Dutch lorry at Dover. Covered the case then. Dreadful, dreadful parallels 19 years later
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6 years
Big #blenheim boo for anyone driving into the Palace #TrumpProtest #TrumpUKVisit
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Passed playing fields of a fabulous private school this morning, saw rugby matches in full flow. Good for them. Council sports pitches nearby, normally teeming with all the other kids playing club football, empty. Desperate really.
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3 years
Missed the start, but we appear to be getting a Downing Street press conference to announce that Test & Trace has found someone
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@itvnews
ITV News
4 years
Watch @robertmooreitv 's report from inside the Capitol building as the extraordinary events unfolded in Washington DC
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2 years
I’m old enough to remember when the FedEx was the most vulgar purse in golf, but Rory is special. What makes him so deadly to the LIV money train is everyone knows he’d swap every cent for the Old Course Open. Like Andy Murray, a rare & exceptional mix of brilliance & character
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Paul Kelso
6 years
Cogent case for death put here. As life expectancy rises feels inevitable that developed nations will have to reach an accommodation with assisted dying. Populations will demand it.
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Mark Stone
6 years
We all aspire to live long but what happens when it becomes too long? David Goodall is 104. He’s not terminally ill. Medically, he isn’t dying. But he will die, today, at a Swiss clinic. He’s just had enough. His profound decision really focuses the mind
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3 years
At Heathrow for a @British_Airways “sustainability announcement”. Still planning on flying by looks of it so we await content with interest…
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10 years
Just to re-iterate. A World Cup host claims it has no records of its bid because the computers it used have been destroyed.
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7 years
Female Commissioner, Muslim mayor, not a bad face for London to show the world
@SkyNews
Sky News
7 years
'The poisonous ideology of the London attackers has no place in Islam' - Mayor of London @SadiqKhan #LondonAttack
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Paul Kelso
3 years
Last night when @SamCoatesSky asked @OwenPaterson why two companies pay him more than £100,000 a year he said, “You’d have to ask them.” So we did. This morning @RandoxOfficial would only say “No comment”
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Sam Coates Sky
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Tonight I asked Owen Paterson why he thinks two companies pay him over £100k a year, as he says he’d do it all again Transcript:
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6 years
Breaking: The government has asked pharmaceutical companies to stockpile a minimum of six weeks additional medicine in the event of a no-deal Brexit. Suppliers have also been asked to arrange for short shelf-life medicines to be air-freighted to avoid border delays
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6 years
The more you think about it the more outrageous this is. Boycott, who took an apartheid cheque & an England ban to tour South Africa, criticises Rashid for accepting T20 gigs. Dreadful.
@TeleCricket
Telegraph Cricket
6 years
Geoffrey Boycott: Adil Rashid is a spoilt brat - he should never have been handed a Test recall
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Paul Kelso
8 months
If anyone is affected by this policy change and would like to talk about it, or knows someone who is, please do get in touch. DMs are open
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Paul Kelso
4 years
In his leadership campaign the PM, endorsed by the health sec, said he has a plan for social care “ready to go”. There has been no plan, but there is now a badge. As with the NHS, the labour market, housing, benefits & so on, this epidemic is revelatory about the state of the UK
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4 years
Applause for the first shoppers as . @selfridges reopens after 13 weeks
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7 years
Ranieri statement: "No-one can take away what we achieved"
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8 months
Further Home Office clarification: joint incomes count towards £38k threshold if the non-UK/settled partner has permission to work in the UK. Of course for that they need to earn work visa threshold of £38k (or be in an exempt profession) & wouldn't need a family visa to be here
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Paul Kelso
3 years
TV golf tonight Women: compelling contest, gripping format,interesting course, every club hit, prize money $0 v Men: 30 guys (same ones as usual), rigged format (best player may not win), drive-wedge-putt, prize money $60m No contest
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Paul Kelso
6 years
Whoever chose Blenheim as a venue to entertain made an astute choice. As well as birth (and resting) place of Churchill, it’s also impossibly ostentatious. The state rooms would make an oligarch (or an NYC property developer) blush, gilt & trompe (trump?) l’oeil etc #Blenheim
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Paul Kelso
7 years
Number of EU nurses registering to practice in UK down 96% since Brexit vote, according to figs obtained by Health Foundation
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5 years
Some personal professional news: excited to be taking up a new role as @SkyNews Business Correspondent in the autumn 📈🏗💰
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Paul Kelso
4 years
A month ago we revealed trade unions, business & consumer groups & NGOs invited to advise . @trussliz on trade deals had concerns about signing sweeping gagging orders. The Government has found a solution - they’ve left them off 11 trade advisory groups
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4 years
@martynziegler Void seasons, no promotion or relegation, restart all competitions, domestic & European, as at start of 2019-20. Simples...
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Paul Kelso
10 months
There’s a Parliamentary aspect to cancelling HS2 - it requires a vote to end the line at Birmingham because it’s already been approved to Crewe, one Rishi Sunak might not be guaranteed to win. Details here
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Paul Kelso
10 months
Cancelling HS2 is not the end of Rishi Sunak’s train trouble. Binning the Manchester leg leaves a 13-mile gap in Northern Powerhouse Rail, the east-west line, non-negotiable with northern MPs, that could cost £15bn to fill. Analysis of what happens next
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8 years
In Europe, there is more that unites us than divides us, as the gleeful replaying of Ronaldo's penalty miss here proves.
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4 years
The backlash from business at the Government position - telling customers to stay away but not forcing them close, thus denying insurance - will demand a response. Likewise the thousands of jobs that it will cost. Many will ask, if government bailed out the banks, why not us?
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5 years
Barnier latest: deal between Coleen & Rebekah "possible" but "very difficult"
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5 years
Journalists fourth-bottom here, so we stay up for another season.
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Ben Page
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New - 41% trust local councillors - 14% trust politicians generally... (54% trust pollsters :)
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4 years
I tell you who deserves a medal. The kids. As far as I can tell they are bearing this huge disruption to education and social development heroically. Return to school cannot come soon enough
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2 years
Boris Johnson says giving Ukraine a bye to the World Cup finals “sounds like a good idea” and he “can’t think of a good reason why not”. May have slipped his mind they’re drawn to play Scotland in the qualifiers…
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Paul Kelso
10 years
@J_Ennis says she will ask for her name to be removed from a stand at Bramall Lane if Ched Evans is resigned by Sheffield United #sufc
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Paul Kelso
3 years
. @jpmorgan statement on Super League: “We clearly misjudged how this deal would be viewed by the wider football community and how it might impact them in the future. We will learn from this.”
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Paul Kelso
5 years
Geoffrey Boycott also walked out on the England team twice & defied the apartheid ban to tour South Africa in the 1980s
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Paul Kelso
10 years
Has anyone ever finished 5th after the 3rd place play-off match
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8 years
Got to love Rio's luck. The flame will be extinguished by fake rain on a night when they have stacks of the real stuff free
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5 months
Wait until people see the London 2012 kits...
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8 years
Unbelievable, Geoff @chris_kammy
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5 years
I’ve been listening to Bill Cash talking about Europe on the radio for nearly 40 years.
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7 years
I've got a crazy plan for a novelty boxing stunt: a real boxer fights another real boxer in front of qualified, credible judges. Who's in?
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2 years
Two weeks after the pound slumped on the first Monday after the mini-Budget, all eyes on gilt markets at 0800 tomorrow on first day in 10 without BoE acting as backstop. If Friday's sell continues, huge political pressure on Truss & practical headaches for the bank @SkyNews
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Paul Kelso
4 years
🎥 Cineworld confirms closure of 127 UK cinemas & 536 in US. “Cineworld cannot provide customers in both the US and the UK - the company's primary markets - with the breadth of strong commercial films necessary for them to consider coming back to theatres“
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3 years
It came home. Leicester Square gets a taste of the delights visited on Marseille, Lille, Lisbon, Stuttgart etc etc etc over the years
@Urban_Pictures
Urban Pictures
3 years
Bottles thrown as Leicester Square, London, becomes unofficial ‘fan zone’ for thousands of England fans. #ENGITA #EnglandvsItaly #England #ENG #EURO2020
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Paul Kelso
7 years
Several thousand nurses at @theRCN #scrapthecap demo in Parliament Square
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9 years
Platini says that UEFA members may all decide not to participate in FIFA executive committee if Blatter re-elected
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3 years
Ah, Murray. Clive James put it best. “Even in moments of tranquillity, Murray Walker sounds like a man whose trousers are on fire.” He could unwittingly enliven the dullest procession. Personal fave from a long forgotten race: “Unless I’m very much mistaken - WHICH I AM!” 👖🔥 🏎
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4 years
Staggering report from @frazeratsky on the ground in Sunderland at a testing centre that doesn’t exist - hundreds of people queued up in cars after being directed by NHS Test & Trace to the site, where all they found was a sign and a Portaloo @SkyNews
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2 years
Routinely argued that monarchy pays its way in tourism. Striking then that the maintained Palaces open to public generated just £9m last year, and none are in top 20 most-visited paid attractions in England. (For reference, Versailles gets 10m a year)
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4 years
Regular reminder that six times as many people go to the cinema every year than a professional football match
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Sky News
4 years
Cineworld will close all of its cinemas in the UK, Ireland and US this week because of the impact of coronavirus
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4 years
Yesterday’s queues heading for continent on the M20. Covid, Christmas and Brexit stockpiling all contributors. Worth remembering the majority of these trucks are empty because UK a net importer. In 14 days drivers will face new customs processes too
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Sky News
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Trucks queue down the M20 for mile upon mile at the entrance of the Eurotunnel in Folkestone, as companies rush to stockpile as the deadline for a Brexit trade deal looms. Latest politics news here:
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Boris Johnson’s responsibility for delivering London 2012 routinely overstated. He inherited the project, (wisely) retained Livingstone advisers who allowed ODA/Locog to get on with it. Did provide some lols eg whiff-whaff/zip wire, but he was along for the ride, not driving
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1 year
RIP Dick Fosbury. ‘Flop’ never came close to describing the elegance of his revolutionary move. Is there a single technical innovation that changed a sport more?
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The Olympic Games
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Happy birthday to Dick Fosbury, the man who changed high jump forever. 💪 @DickFosbury1
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7 years
Rare footage of people singing from same hymn sheet at @Number10gov
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8 years
@Patriots Super Bowl winners Devin McCourty & Martellus Bennett to boycott @realDonaldTrump White House visit. Tom Brady swerved Obama 2014
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2 years
Just spoke to @ManUtd owner Avram Glazer in Davos. In rare public comments he conceded it had been a disappointing season, that he’s confident Erik Ten Hag is the man to turn the club round, and hinted at future investment. More @SkySportsNews @SkyNews shortly
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9 years
Blatter: "You can't just ask people to behave ethically just like that..." Sound of jaws dropping in media seats...
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Paul Kelso
4 years
. @AndyBurnhamGM adamant Greater Manchester will not accept Tier 3 restrictions without 80% compensation for businesses. "They're willing to sacrifice jobs & businesses here to try to save them elsewhere. We are the canaries in the coal mine for an experimental regional lockdown."
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Paul Kelso
4 months
Education secretary Gillian Keegan responds to sewage figures: “Whats really happened is we started monitoring much more... so we just know more". What actually happened Increase in monitored storm drains (2022-23) 7% Increase in sewage outflows 54% Increase in total hours 105%
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Sky News
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Discharges by water companies of untreated sewage doubled from 1.8 million hours in 2022 to a record 3.6 million in 2023, according to new Environment Agency data Sky's @pkelso has the latest ⬇️ 📺 Sky 501, Virgin 602, Freeview 233 and YouTube
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Paul Kelso
8 years
Actually this #WeAreAllLeoMessi is not even close to annoying, it's offensive
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6 years
It’s every tourists idea of what an English manor looks like. The peak of English Baroque, it’s got to be one of the ugliest great houses in England, but the Capability B grounds are splendid (and easily secured) #TrumpProtest
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9 years
Simon Brodkin, prankster "comedian", interrupts start of presser and showered @SeppBlatter in dollar bills on behalf of "North Korea 2026"
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7 years
Cressida Dick: We believe there were three attackers and threat they posed was neutralised in 8 minutes...
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10 months
Cheers and applause from Conservatives at the cancellation of an infrastructure project backed by last four Prime Ministers
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Paul Kelso
7 years
I see FIFA has banned a player for a year for a cocaine positive. The man implicated in running a state doping program and organising FIFA's next World Cup? Carry on, comrade
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4 years
The mass demonstrations against injustice by overwhelmingly peaceful young people around the world, played out in such miserable circumstances, are the greatest cause for optimism I have had in months
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Paul Kelso
10 months
A £15bn hole in east-west rail & a perilous Parliamentary vote on the death of HS2 - just some of the consequences that could flow from Rishi Sunak’s decision today
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Paul Kelso
10 months
Cancelling HS2 is not the end of Rishi Sunak’s train trouble. Binning the Manchester leg leaves a 13-mile gap in Northern Powerhouse Rail, the east-west line, non-negotiable with northern MPs, that could cost £15bn to fill. Analysis of what happens next
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4 years
. @IanKingSky on form this morning. Just asked Francis Maude why UK would "die in a ditch" over fishing. "It's total value is less than the takings of Harrods"
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8 years
Marcus Rashford included in 26-man squad for @England @UEFAEURO 2016 preparation matches. Only 23 will go to France
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7 years
Good luck to Ed Sheeran, seems a nice bloke & millions clearly love whatever he's got. I just have absolutely no idea what it is.
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Paul Kelso
3 years
Rugby union has worked incredibly hard over the years to make its rules utterly impenetrable to even close students. That journey is complete now the knock-on, the one law it was possible to explain without a diagram, no longer applies. Well done everyone 🏉 🙄
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2 years
Interview with Jeremy Hunt by colleague @BethRigby notable for Chancellor rejecting OBR assessment that Brexit will cost 4% of GDP (figure re-endorsed last week) while accepting other numbers "I agree with". As economy falters Brexit's role getting harder for Con & Lab to dismiss
@BethRigby
Beth Rigby
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Sat down with CX to discuss govt’s record on ec competence, from mini-Budget to Brexit & Autumn Statement. Spent c8 mins (of 24) on Brexit, cos imp Qs about how it’s working, esp given OBR assessment at time where UK in recession & needs growth Full i/v >
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Paul Kelso
6 years
Peak May
@NialFoster
Nial
6 years
FA Cup live on @BBCOne with it currently going into extra-time. Theresa May statement due at 10pm. #Carnage
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8 years
Bloke next to me: "Where were this lot when we were shite last season?"
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2 years
As in everything else, GS a class act in defeat
@danielstorey85
Daniel Storey
2 years
Gareth Southgate: "We’ve lost a game. I shouldn't be speaking about referees. I just want to compliment France and wish them well - congratulations. It’s not right when you lose to talk about referees"
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1 year
Parklife! An unexpected Friday job, a chat with Blur as they start their UK dates on home ground in Colchester tonight. Hear them on Brexit, 30 years of Britpop & their first new album in eight years ⁦ @SkyNews ⁩ tonight
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9 years
The 'home end' at Wembley during anthems
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3 years
Theresa May asks PM question about whether Government will learn lessons of justice denied to families of Hillsborough victims. Pin-drop silence in Commons
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Paul Kelso
2 years
Compiling a list of players who could have played that epic pass 1 Luka Modric 2 That’s it
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Paul Kelso
4 years
Euro 2020 cancelled so the foul, mindless thuggery usually visited on overseas forces gets aimed at British police. And in the name of what, exactly? Patriotism? Look more like traitors to me
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Paul Kelso
10 months
Cancelling HS2 is not the end of Rishi Sunak’s train trouble. Binning the Manchester leg leaves a 13-mile gap in Northern Powerhouse Rail, the east-west line, non-negotiable with northern MPs, that could cost £15bn to fill. Analysis of what happens next
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Paul Kelso
2 years
@RMTunion confirms national strike on Oct 1. Mick Lynch: “Transport workers are... sending a clear message to the government & employers that working people will not accept continued attacks on pay & working conditions at a time when big business profits are at an all-time high"
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9 years
A close friend & advisor to Sepp Blatter has told Sky News the FIFA President has been suspended for 90 days by FIFA ethics committee 1/2
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7 years
Sky Views: NHS & emergency services haven't had a decent pay rise in seven years - it's time they got one
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Paul Kelso
3 years
. @TSLComms understand Super League will commit 8% of revenue, minimum €400m a year, in 'solidarity payments' to European clubs, more than @Uefa $240m. That assumes annual revenues of €5bn - UCL currently generates €3.2bn - that's a big uplift for fewer matches & fewer teams
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Paul Kelso
9 years
Remarkable performance from Blatter at 79, still shamelessly defiant in four languages
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Paul Kelso
7 years
Raise a marmalade sandwich
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Sky News
7 years
Michael Bond, the creator of Paddington Bear, has died at the age of 91
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Paul Kelso
7 years
Chuffed
@SportSJA
Sports Journalists
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The @sportSJA Broadcast Journalist 2016 is @pkelso ( @skynews ) #SJA2016
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Paul Kelso
4 years
Even watching this will shake your teeth out
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Northern Ireland chair of Federation of Small Businesses hammer Boris Johnson proposals @SkyNews "All the promises of unfettered access have been abandoned... NI is a small business economy and this is a death knell for some of those businesses" 1/2
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