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journalist @guardian https://www.theguardian.com/profile/matthew-pearce Please do send stories to: matthew.pearce@guardian.co.uk

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‘These murders still live with me’: the show that goes inside Fred and Rose West’s ‘house of horrors’ Featuring moving interviews from the relatives of victims and chilling new footage of a handcuffed Fred locating the bodies at Cromwell Street, a new Netflix documentary pushes the true crime genre to...

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13.05.2025 15:27 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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‘It spoke to the nation’ – Mr Bates vs the Post Office wins big at Bafta TV awards The show is called ‘public service television at its best’, while Marisa Abela and Lennie James are among other winners

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11.05.2025 21:34 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Ministers plan major changes to Send education in England White paper being prepared as councils hope for relief from huge deficits in special educational needs budgets

NEW: "An impossible situation": Special educational needs spending deficits could bankrupt dozens of councils @patrickjbutler.bsky.social @raphaelboyd.bsky.social

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03.03.2025 16:42 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

There is no microclimate around Apollo house!

19.12.2024 18:04 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Call for end to ‘draconian’ police cautions for sex workers that last until age of 100 A ‘prostitute’s caution’, unlike other cautions, does not require a person to admit an offence or agree to it

Sex workers and lawmakers have demanded that police forces are immediately stopped from issuing 'prostitute's cautions', which “trap people in the conditions that we stigmatise them and marginalise them for” 👇🏼

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08.12.2024 12:50 — 👍 3    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0
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More foster carers in England leaving than signing up, says Ofsted report Children’s campaigners say ‘national crisis’ adds to trauma for vulnerable young people, amid huge fall in numbers fostering

My story in today’s Observer 👇🏼https://www.theguardian.com/society/2024/nov/24/more-foster-carers-in-england-leaving-than-signing-up-says-ofsted-report?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other

24.11.2024 15:16 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 1

There’s been quite an influx here overnight! The great @severincarrell.bsky.social has made a starter pack of Guardian journalists and columnists here go.bsky.app/B6CxPTX

13.11.2024 06:06 — 👍 206    🔁 79    💬 17    📌 6

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