Christian Oliver

🐀 I went up to Birmingham yesterday to meet Martin, one of the pest controllers inundated with work after nine weeks of bin strikes.

For this weekend’s @theipaper.com: t.co/QahMGUmxbO

@thomsampson.bsky.social Hi Thomas. I hope you're well. I'm a reporter for The i Paper. Would you be willing to follow me back so I can send a DM?

Doing my bit here for public service journalism. You're welcome.

‘We had spray foam installed for free – now we face £7k bill to remove it’ Alan Atkins told The i Paper that he 'can’t sleep at night' due to concern about whether spray foam was damaging his roof

More in the ongoing spray foam insulation saga and the impact of the former Government’s Green Homes Grant scheme…

🔴 ‘We had spray foam installed for free – now we face £7k bill to remove it’

Rebels say Bashar al-Assad has fled Damascus, Syrian PM commits to transfer of power As rebel fighters flow into the Syrian capital the world prepares for regime change

As rebel forces enter Damascus, Syrian President Bashar al-Assad has reportedly boarded a plane and left to an unknown destination

🔴Follow live updates as they unfold

Who is watching Mrs Brown’s Boys? Someone out there must be watching it or the BBC wouldn’t keep funding it and canning other things. But where are these people?

Commenting on opposition from religious MPs, using
Danny Kruger as an example, Rantzen said:
"I understand that Kruger is implacably opposed to assisted dying on religious grounds.
"But that does not give him the right to impose his choice on others who do not share his faith."

Esther Rantzen: Religious MPs opposing assisted dying have no right to impose beliefs MPs voted 330 to 275, majority 55, to approve Labour MP Ms Leadbeater's Terminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill at the second reading

NEW: Dame Esther Rantzen tells @inews.co.uk that any intervention by opposition MPs to "block" or introduce "wreaking amendments" to the assisted dying bill would be "sad and undemocratic".

‘Spray foam insulation is a ticking time bomb - homeowners must be protected’ A quarter of the UK's biggest mortgage providers refuse to lend to homes fitted with spray foam insulation, a new report reveals

‘Spray foam insulation is a ticking time bomb – homeowners must be protected’

A quarter of the UK's biggest mortgage providers refuse to lend to homes fitted with spray foam insulation, a new report reveals

For @theipaper.bsky.social

Got to see Bob Dylan live last night (at his phoneless gig, hence the exterior pic). Incredible stuff.