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Acting deputy editor, Sunday Times News Review @thetimes | Your favourite Geordie

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My boutique wine tour β€” Scandinavian style Sweden’s young vineyards can now fling open their cellar doors and sell direct to visitors… Katie Gatens adds slick hotels and pebble bays for an epicurean adventure

Sweden has changed its alcohol laws, meaning you can now buy direct from vineyards, which are quickly planting vines as the temperature warms up. I went on a vineyard tour two weeks ago for a first look for @thetimes.com www.thetimes.com/travel/desti...

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Sharing Ken Loach and Sixteen Films news and content here!

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The Story The Story: the flagship podcast from The Times and Sunday Times. One remarkable story, told in depth, each day.Hosts Manveen Rana and Luke Jones take you to the heart of the story you need to know wit...

πŸ—£ 'She seems quite well adjusted for a convicted murderer'

Don't miss today's episode of The Story podcast, where Katie Gatens takes us inside her interview with Gypsy-Rose Blanchard for The Sunday Times ⬇️

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Thank you!

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My year by Alan Bates: marriage, boating with Branson but still no payout This time last year the Post Office campaigner was a relative unknown. Then an ITV drama changed everything: how have he and his wife coped?

On January 4 I went to Colwyn Bay to meet Alan Bates, the man who helped bring justice to victims of the Post Office scandal. So it was lovely to speak to him last week about the year that changed his life. @thetimes.com
www.thetimes.com/article/7020...

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Gypsy-Rose Blanchard: I had Mom killed. I hope she’d be proud of me now After eight years in jail for arranging her abusive mother’s murder, Blanchard is a household name in America. Has she become too attached to her own fame?

πŸ”Ί EXCLUSIVE: After eight years in jail for arranging her abusive mother’s murder, Blanchard is a household name in America. Has she become too attached to her own fame

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Gypsy-Rose Blanchard: I had Mom killed. I hope she’d be proud of me now After eight years in jail for arranging her abusive mother’s murder, Blanchard is a household name in America. Has she become too attached to her own fame?

EXCLUSIVE: Since she murdered her mother, Gypsy-Rose Blanchard has spent eight years in prison, rubbed shoulders with Kardashians and now she's expecting a child of her own. My interview for @thetimes.com www.thetimes.com/article/a0da...

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πŸ—£οΈ 'By the end of 2029 there will be no UK nightclubs'

We hear from nightlife industry tycoons Sacha Lord and Cameron Leslie on the death of the UK clubπŸ•ΊπŸͺ©

@jonesluke.bsky.social | @katiegatens.bsky.social | @samchantarasak.bsky.social | @thetimes.com

Listen now ➑️ pod.fo/e/28c8b7

06.12.2024 16:18 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 2    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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The death of clubbing The Story Β· Episode

πŸ—£οΈ 'By the end of 2029 there will be no UK nightclubs if it continues at this rate'
We hear from nightlife industry tycoons on the death of the UK club ⬇️
πŸŽ™οΈ The Story podcast
🎧 @jonesluke.bsky.social | @katiegatens.bsky.social
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The death of clubbing The Story Β· Episode

Have we really fallen out of love with clubbing? Listen to today's @thetimes.com The Story podcast, where I spend a night in Manchester to find out about the death of clubbing, and what can be done to save it open.spotify.com/episode/0xGV...

06.12.2024 09:53 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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How Thames Water got away with trashing our rivers This summer Thames Water was fined a record Β£104 million for dumping sewage in our waterways and the company faces collapse. How was this allowed to happen?Β Jon Yeomans wades in


This summer Thames Water was fined a record Β£104 million for dumping sewage in our waterways and the company faces collapse. How was this allowed to happen?

01.12.2024 16:43 β€” πŸ‘ 77    πŸ” 18    πŸ’¬ 7    πŸ“Œ 0
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NEW: Why do we always think crime is rising, even when it isn’t?

This week I looked at one of the big data mysteries. Britain is 2/3 less violent than the 1990s; thefts were higher pre-lockdown

Why, then, doesn’t it feel like it?

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@thetimes.com

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My allergic son sent a photo of a snack, then his phone went silent A mother is sharing the story of her son’s near-fatal allergic reaction to raise awareness β€” and you can help by donating to our Christmas Appeal

And from this weekeend’s edition, a chilling article from Louise Eccles who spoke to a mother whose son died of a nut allergy @thetimes.com
www.thetimes.com/article/46eb...

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What do hospice patients think about assisted dying? Our writer’s mind was made up on the issue. But at St Christopher’s he found people determined to appreciate their final days, and the carers making it happen

With much written this weekend about the assisted dying bill, sharing this very thoughtful and emotional piece from Steve Bleach in @thetimes.com www.thetimes.com/uk/healthcar...

01.12.2024 16:25 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Your History: Barbara Taylor Bradford and geneticist Lyudmila Trut Barbara Taylor Bradford, the journalist who became a publishing sensation in her 40s with the best-selling novel 'A Woman of Substance', and the Soviet-era scientist Lyudmila Trut who tamed foxes t...

Very honoured to make my debut on @thetimes.com Your History podcast reading the obituary of Barbara Taylor Bradford - have a listen here podfollow.com/1747936428/e...

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Ahead of the curve !

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56 days of hunger strike. I’ll keep going until my son is free Laila Soueif’s son, the British-Egyptian activist Alaa, was meant to be released from a Cairo prison two months ago. She demands foreign secretary David Lammy does more to get him out

As my first post on Bluesky I thought I'd share my interview with the formidable 68-year-old Laila Soueif, who has been on hunger strike for 57 days. She will not eat until her son is free @thetimes.com www.thetimes.com/article/71d8...

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