Passionate about helping children and state schools play the sport i love , all children from all backgrounds
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Fine acting by all involved in this scene from Kes, Colin Welland stands out in this.
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Andy Burnham in Makerfield
“The last thing we should do is rerun those [Brexit] arguments.”
“I'm not proposing the UK considers rejoining.”
“I'm not advocating that in this by-election.”
Today: let's bring back EU free movement.
Total betrayal.
mattgoodwin.org/p/welcome-to…
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💙 Today, we remember the great Walter Smith.
On the fifth anniversary of his passing, we remember with immense affection one of the greatest figures in Rangers Football Club's history.
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Meanwhile at BHX Birmingham Airport 😬
Video: @AirportAction
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This makes me sick. What a vile evil excuse of a human and what a pathetic sentence. We need to toughen up o animal abuse sentencing. I hope she never gets another job after it is revealed what she did.
SHE STARVED HER DOG TO DEATH - AND SERVED JUST EIGHT WEEKS IN PRISON
Lucy Marie Craddock, 27, from Leominster, Herefordshire, was jailed for 16 weeks after admitting causing unnecessary suffering to her American bulldog, Ocean.
When Craddock took Ocean to a vet on 13 June 2025, the dog was already dead. Wrapped in a duvet, her body was covered in urine and faeces.
Ocean weighed just 7kg — against an expected healthy weight of around 30kg.
She had been starved for so long that little muscle or body fat remained. She had developed pressure sores and had eaten her own faeces in a desperate search for food.
Magistrates rejected any suggestion that Craddock had failed to realise Ocean was suffering, stating that only an immediate prison sentence was justified. She was handed a 16 week sentence.
Source UK Database.
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Labour love boasting about closing migrant hotels, but here’s what they won’t tell you: where are the migrants actually going?
They haven't vanished. They’re being redistributed across the country into HMOs, former military sites, and residential streets. Just ask the women of Piddington who've been thrown under the bus.
This isn't a stronger immigration policy. It’s political sleight of hand.
Sums the current state of our country up perfectly
Second life sentence Faisal Razzaq who became a gun dealer and advised associates to shoot the police after did eleven years for killing of PC Sharon Beshenivsky courtnewsuk.co.uk/second-lif…
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What an image!
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Thousands of Poles donated blood to support the Hungarians’ struggle against communist totalitarianism.
The plaque commemorating the 1956 Hungarian Revolution was unveiled by Gen. Władysław Anders at Ognisko Polskie in London on 23 October 1957.
The plaque, created by Ferenc Kovács, was commissioned by the British-Hungarian Fellowship and the Polish community in London in memory of victims of the revolution.
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The ghastly, entirely preventable, man-made tragedy that was Aberfan - 60 years on.
Beautiful, moving writing by @AllisonPearson - who grew up close by
No paywall ⬇️⬇️⬇️
telegraph.co.uk/gift/3f323a6…
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I was in tears yesterday talking to Leonard Moss. He was a 22–year-old nurse who offered to help when a tip fell on a school in Aberfan killing 116 children.
Leonard washed the children’s faces “so their mum and dad could give them a kiss goodbye”. Heartbreaking.
Aberfan was a man-made disaster. Coal production mattered more than safety. The National Coal Board gambled with children’s lives - and lost.
There were no criminal prosecutions. Zero accountability for killing 116 mixed infants - we see the same incompetence and villainy still thriving today in the Post Office scandal, rape gangs, infected blood, maternity deaths, Nottingham murders.
Many in the village had survivor’s guilt - only the guilty men didn’t suffer guilt.
Ordinary men and women, despised and treated appallingly by the state - £50 compensation per child? - were responsible for many acts of quiet heroism on that darkest of days.
Read about it here. 👇
The horror of Aberfan will never die, but neither will the humanity telegraph.co.uk/news/2026/10…
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A Labour MP has been suspended from his own party, yet the media response seems remarkably muted.
Perran Moon is facing serious questions over a taxpayer backed COVID loan, but where is the media outrage?
Imagine the headlines if this were a Reform UK MP. The coverage would be relentless.
The double standards are becoming impossible to ignore.
Labour simply cannot shake off the scandals.
It's one after another. Sometimes we're seeing multiple scandals in a single day.
This time, Labour MP Perran Moon has been suspended from the party amid concerns he attempted to wind up his company without fully repaying a taxpayer backed COVID Bounce Back Loan.
Another Labour MP. Another controversy. Another investigation.
The scandals just keep coming.
This is certainly one to follow closely over the coming months.
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FYI
THIS 👇 illustrates exactly how government views victims' families & survivors of England's longest unsolved mass, murder of C20th - the Legacy Act gives the establishment total control of the narrative because they're scared of the real TRUTH coming to light
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This looks criminal.
This from Labour Manchester City councillors is verging on misconduct in public office. They seem to have swindled residents out of around £86 million, on @theipaper’s calculations. The dodgy relationship, continued under Burnham, with the Abu Dhabi owners is beginning to stink.
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Yet another Labour MP involved in a tax scam?
But it cannot be true can it? @bphillipsonMP said today that it was Reform UK that was knee deep in scandals?
Is this yet more Labour hypocrisy i sense?
