Award winning writer. Waterloo Road, EastEnders, The Piper, Germ Free Adolescent. Ones to Watch 2019, BAFTA Connect 23/24
Joined January 2012
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Natalie Mitchell retweeted
I, Kevin Rowland (the son of Irish immigrants) and the main songwriter of ‘Come On Eileen,’ am disgusted to learn that Nigel Farage has used our song to make his entrance for his party conference. Myself, and all of Dexys are passionately against Farage’s politics.
@ByDonkeys .
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Black babies are still more than twice as likely to be stillborn.
Black women are almost three times more likely to die during pregnancy and childbirth.
It isn't enough to have another report.
What Black women want is equity of treatment to change this.
Natalie Mitchell retweeted
Oh man… a stunning 🧵 from the great @GinaIppy forensically laying out how disrupter tech bros killed the US TV industry for writers. I’d only add that the UK industry, with a fraction of the money, is trying to compete with streamers and killing what’s left over here… 👀👇
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Films more likely to star an actor called Chris or a talking animal than a woman over 60, study finds theguardian.com/film/2026/ma…
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literally how can it get bleaker than this
Teenage gang who lured schoolgirl, 15, to underpass and laughed as they filmed themselves raping her handed youth rehabilitation orders trib.al/RkAJsUQ
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This is long overdue.
It also needs to be ongoing and widespread. Now, "Black women are three times more likely to die at childbirth. Black babies are twice as likely to be stillborn."
Midwives to receive anti-racism training to curb maternity deaths
thetimes.com/uk/healthcare/a…
Natalie Mitchell retweeted
The arts funding debate misses something crucial: you can't gut state school music and drama, then wonder why working-class voices aren't reaching our stages. I've watched it happen. Training, access, networks-these aren't optional extras.
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BREAKING 🚨 | Reform announce plans to legalise discrimination.
Plans include scrapping the Equality Act, which would legalise discrimination against a worker if they were a woman, disabled, black, pregnant or gay.
From ripping up equality protections, to backing fire-and-rehire, to opposing a ban on zero-hours contracts, Reform UK have made it clear whose side they’re on – and it’s not working people.
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A lot of sadness currently at the injustice for the Epstein victims.
I wanted to write about a child who never got justice; an Irish girl who died on October 18th, 1998 in London.
Her name was Aliyah Hurley, described by tabloids as a "junkie hooker."
She was 13-years-old. /1
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As part of our desire to support diversity & inclusion and deliver long-term change to our industry, we are announcing our next script callout; this time to support writers from under-represented groups.
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Our Report into working classes in the creative industries
We found genuine anger & despair as talent was lost
Class discrimination can be found across all current protected characteristics so amongst our recommendations we call for class to be treated as one too
#ClassCeiling
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In the early hours of Saturday 2 August 1986, 21-year-old Diane Sindall was murdered in #Birkenhead.
Her body was discovered by a member of the public in an alleyway off Borough Road several hours later. She had been sexually assaulted and suffered extensive injuries. The cause of death was confirmed to be a cerebral haemorrhage.
Following advances in forensic science, the investigation into Diane’s murder was reopened in 2023 after new DNA evidence was confirmed not to be a match for the man previously convicted of her murder.
👉 We are continuing to work to identify who the DNA belongs to and are urging anyone with information to come forward.
@CrimestoppersUK is offering a reward of up to £20,000 for information given exclusively to the charity that leads to the arrest and conviction of the person responsible for Diane’s murder.
It is absolutely devastating for Diane’s family that they are still waiting for the answers as to who was responsible for her murder 💔
In 1986 DNA was very much in the early stages and as such was not available to the detectives who originally investigated Diane’s death, but her murder was fully investigated by the team.
Unfortunately, there is no match for the DNA identified on the national DNA database and we know it does not belong to any member of her family or her fiancé at the time.
The investigation team has obtained samples locally, but screening has also taken place in Swansea, Perth, London, Hull and Newcastle with the voluntary DNA elimination samples.
❗ To date 461 males have been eliminated from the investigation.
We are currently awaiting the forensic results in relation to a further 43 samples submitted earlier this month.
❓ Were you on Borough Road on the evening of Friday 1 August or the early hours of Saturday 2 August 1986 and saw or heard something suspicious? Or can you help identify the man seen running away from Bidston Hill on Sunday 3 August? In the years since Diane’s murder has anybody you know raised any suspicions or passed any information which you think could help?
We can trace and request a DNA sample from any person you suspect or even a relative if they have passed away or emigrated.
Please help bring answers to Diane’s family who have waited almost 40 years for justice. Someone, somewhere, knows what happened that night, and we’re urging them to come forward.
Contact Crimestoppers anonymously on 0800 555 111, or via their website.
Natalie Mitchell retweeted
SCREENWRITING TIP: don’t worry too much about the who, what, when, where, and why of it all. This thing is never going to sell anyway
