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Editorial Director GB News.

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Michael Booker
2 years
I know there’s a lot going on but still surprising that a 12-year-old girl can get stabbed to death in the street and it not be on more front pages.
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Michael Booker
2 years
I’m no expert, and I know there’s tough times ahead, but I’m not sure stoking panic at EVERY AVAILABLE OPPORTUNITY! is necessarily going to solve things.
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Michael Booker
3 years
@afneil writes in this week’s Sunday Express about what to expect from new TV channel GB News
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Michael Booker
2 years
We need new parties. New politicians. Real people.
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Michael Booker
3 years
Today, in an amazing victory for the Unite to End MND and the Sunday Express Fund the Fight to Cure MND campaigns, Boris Johnson has told us he’s given the go ahead for £50 million funding to research a cure for Motor Neurone Disease - like @DoddieWeir5 we are over the moon!
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Michael Booker
4 years
Favourite pastime today has been saying “you in no rush to have your hair done then?” to people who I know have actually been to the hairdressers
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Michael Booker
2 years
I’ve just helped a woman on her own with a suspiciously heavy pram down two flights of stairs at Liverpool st station. When I got to the bottom I saw there was two very capable of walking dogs in it and no child.
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Michael Booker
3 years
A bit of news...
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Press Gazette
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Sunday Express editor @MickBooker , formerly Daily Express and Daily Star, is joining @GBNEWS as editorial director
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Michael Booker
3 years
18 years today since we sneaked off to Sicily, got married and I started making Mrs B’s life difficult
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Michael Booker
3 years
Incredibly powerful words from Doddie Weir, Rob Burrow, Len Johnrose and others in today’s Sunday Express as pressure grows on ⁦ @BorisJohnson ⁩ ⁦ @RishiSunak ⁩ and ⁦ @sajidjavid ⁩ to properly fund MND research
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Michael Booker
3 years
Disappointed that no one spotted that I’d turned up in the background dressed as a very long hedge.
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Michael Booker
3 years
They look like they are dressed like Superman’s mum and dad welcoming him back to Krypton
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Michael Booker
4 years
We did it - we managed to get the boy in the chef’s hat safely to 21 today!
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Michael Booker
3 years
Realised that grumpily asking my son & daughter if they ‘think this is Blackpool’ after leaving the kitchen light on all night as they watch UFC has no effect if you have brought them up in the south east and never seen the illuminations
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Michael Booker
1 year
RIP Doddie… one of the MND heroes who fought and won the £50 million.
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Michael Booker
2 years
23 Christmases and she still hasn’t dumped me
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Michael Booker
2 years
We’ve just realised that what we thought was a tablecloth that my wife inherited from her Grandmother and used as a tribute to her for Christmas day and Boxing Day dinner is in fact a duvet cover.
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Michael Booker
3 years
My mum has arrive with pictures.. and a reminder I once had TREMENDOUS hair
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Michael Booker
2 years
Comes around quick doesn’t it? Soon it will only be 25 days until we can start saying everything will be ok by Easter again.
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Michael Booker
3 years
Nice to see we’ve got an extra hour of rain today.
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Michael Booker
3 years
Not every week you meet a real legend. The Sunday Express is proud to be backing back Rob Burrow, the MND warriors and the @mndassoc in fighting for £50 million for a research institute - time to act @sajidjavid @BorisJohnson @RishiSunak
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Michael Booker
2 years
Who would have thought when I sat watching Monty Python’s Meaning of Life with my older cousins as a kid that one day I’d be calling John Cleese a work colleague…
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Michael Booker
5 years
Watch out @piersmorgan - @KayBurley is going to have you and Britain’s warring MPs for breakfast!
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Michael Booker
4 years
Just finally found out - among the gloom - that this little first born Booker has got a First Class degree!
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Michael Booker
5 years
So now he’s playing in England it’s ok to say Kieran Tierney’s a brilliant player. Can we have another £25m then?
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Michael Booker
2 years
One day you are carrying them everywhere then before you know it they are getting their A Levels and heading for uni… good old Molly
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Michael Booker
4 years
Hastily appointed new Sunday Express chief reporter while working at home. Regretting it as all he wants to write about is illegal mice cheese smuggling gangs and features on how best to wear whiskers this season.
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Michael Booker
4 years
The shy baby in the christening blanket is about to turn 21 and graduate uni and somehow the two kids on the right didn’t break him on the way.
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Michael Booker
2 years
Saying a multiple stabbing is 'not terror related' should not divert attention from a widespread deterioration of the state of safety on the streets of Britain.
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Michael Booker
2 years
GB News at the Jubilee. The People’s Channel really getting in amongst the people that matter.. you
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Michael Booker
4 years
17 years ago today since I got dressed up as Michael Corleone for our wedding in Sicily. So far there’s been no subsequent assassination attempt.
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Michael Booker
3 years
Now the ‘kids’ are 21 and 17 I was worrying I was no longer needed. Daughter just asked for my help for the first time in months. There was a daddy long legs in her room. I do now have a purpose.
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Michael Booker
4 years
“I’ll be up in a minute!” How cunning Mrs Booker managed to order a cup of tea in bed via @skystephen while I was on Sky News.
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Michael Booker
3 years
Brilliant piece with Stephen Darby calling on the government to give £50 million to create a Motor Neurone Disease institute in Week 3 of our crusade - while MPs write to ⁦ @sajidjavid ⁩ to demand he invest the cash
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Michael Booker
2 years
My mum is clearing out stuff from her house ahead of moving. She’s revealed how she wants things to go to the more ethical charities, although at the moment the Cats Protection league are currently getting everything because ‘you can park out the back.’
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Michael Booker
2 years
When it’s even on the front of the Observer you get the feeling it’s nearly over
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Neil Henderson
2 years
OBSERVER: End mass jabs and treat Covid like we do flu - ex vaccine chief #TomorrowsPapersToday
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Michael Booker
2 years
GB News first to the ‘fine’ scene
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Michael Booker
3 years
Only just realised it’s #mndawareness day - tweeted this before but it shows what it did to my dad and why the @mndassoc need as much help as possible.
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Michael Booker
3 years
Privileged to have BBC Breakfast’s @sallynugent write movingly today for the Sunday Express about her bond with Rob Burrow and his family as he battles MND. Also there’s hope the campaign to get £50m for an MND research institute is making @sajidjavid sit up and listen.
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Michael Booker
4 years
Think I’m getting old, I’m unnaturally pleased by our new table that’s made out of an old pavement light and it weighs about a ton. It’s ‘grate..’
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Michael Booker
4 years
Just caught our cat Bob after he commandeered the kitchen table for a board meeting - I think he’s trying to force me out in a family coup
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Michael Booker
1 year
We need to bring back 1980s dads. They wouldn’t have let this snow still be here 5 days after it fell. They’d have formed paramilitary-style street-shovel gangs with other neighbourhood 80s dads they never normally spoke to within seconds of a flurry.
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Michael Booker
2 years
I’ve not been allowed in the Oscars for 46 years now - I’ve never chinned anyone - how’d you think I feel?
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Michael Booker
3 years
Week 2 of our campaign to secure £50m for a Motor Neurone disease research centre with a moving piece by ⁦ @CharlotteHawkns ⁩ about her father and a response from ⁦ @sajidjavid ⁩ … but we won’t stop until we get the money!
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Michael Booker
4 years
Does anyone have a number for the heating police? I’ve just found my wife’s fingerprints on the thermostat.
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Michael Booker
2 years
I’ve just met a man whose job was to pass messages between Harry H Corbett and Wilfred Brambell on the set of Steptoe & Son after they stopped speaking and now anything I achieve in life will be worthless in comparison
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Michael Booker
2 years
Family concerned to hear Durham police are ready to close an investigation into my mother in law being racially abused in the street near her home despite a CCTV and a pic of a potential suspect.
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Michael Booker
4 years
With Big Brother back on I’m already nostalgic for when I spent the early hours of Saturday mornings trying to convince exiting housemates to tell all for £500 to the Daily Star Sunday instead of the £10k from the News Of The World
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Michael Booker
3 years
WARNING: this is what happens when you go to do the ‘big shop’ hungry
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Michael Booker
4 years
What’s the point of telling kids to kick down the establishment’s doors if there’s no one there when they get inside? ...Me in the Sunday Express on the threat to social mobility if offices shut forever.
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Michael Booker
5 years
@PaulDykes ⁩ ..in full
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Michael Booker
2 years
Judging by the fashions at our hotel bar (Ralph Lauren, Tokyo Laundry, Lee Cooper) it looks like all us dads went shopping in a panic at Tk Maxx the day before the flight
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Michael Booker
4 years
Posting one last time for MND Awareness Day and how this horrible disease can take the best of us - me and @adambooker21 ‘s dad. @mndassoc
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Michael Booker
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20 years this month since we sneaked off Godfather style to get married in Sicily .. luckily for me the bride wasn’t blown up a couple of days later .. after two decades with me Mrs B may not think it was so lucky
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Michael Booker
2 years
If everything in Holland and Barratt worked in conjunction correctly why is there not a generation of strapping, superfit 150 year olds knocking about the place?
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Michael Booker
3 years
Today the Sunday Express is launching a new campaign to get £50million from the government to fund a cure-finding MND research institute - Give us the funds so we CAN cure Motor Neurone Disease |
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Michael Booker
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It’s almost like all those rules weren’t very well thought through
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Michael Booker
3 years
Bookers in the Christmas pjs 2020
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Michael Booker
3 years
I’m a father of two adults officially - crikey
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Annis Booker
3 years
We’ve got Molly to her 18th birthday! We’ve got our two to adulthood - so proud of the young lady she has become.
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Michael Booker
3 years
Not for everyone … but why offices worked for me
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Michael Booker
4 years
Mask-wearing has made me a winker - I do it all the time, like some cheeky WW2 spiv
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Michael Booker
4 years
Just told my daughter that if she beats my GCSE results without having sat the exams, I’ll be stood outside the school gates on results day with a megaphone shouting ‘fraud!’
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Michael Booker
4 years
Having just been in TK Maxx I can reassure that, despite only 80 people in at a time, someone is still chucking hats and bags on the floor, all the Calvin Klein undies have been unboxed and there’s still plenty of weird shoes by designers that sound a bit like Armani..but aren’t
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Michael Booker
4 years
The shameful moment Sky News viewers saw the terrible standard cup of tea I’d made for ⁦⁦ @annistherapy ⁩ in between paper reviews after she conspired with ⁦ @skystephen ⁩ to humiliate me
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Michael Booker
4 years
We’ve managed to get the younger Booker to 17 today without breaking her...and she no longer dribbles on my shoulder
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Michael Booker
3 years
I’m waiting for the Boots-own brand vaccine - I’ll get more points on my Advantage card that way
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Michael Booker
2 years
19 years ago this week we headed off to Sicily with a four year old best man and another little ‘un on the way to get married.. think James is trying to say he gives it two years in the picture
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Michael Booker
2 years
I think people who say trickle down more than 5 times a day on television should be penalised by the tax system
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Michael Booker
3 years
If Mark Hughes is keen on the Celtic job and needs an assistant we do have a history
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Michael Booker
4 years
My locked-down mum is now making masks, although they make my ears look like a cross between Pob and Spock
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Michael Booker
4 years
Cleaned under stairs and found these. Kids baffled. Told them humans used to fill them with terrible clothes, fly ‘abroad’ to sit round a ‘pool’ belching with other badly dressed British people before spending up to 14 nights drinking heavily to the bemusement of ‘hotel’ staff.
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Michael Booker
3 years
Back up north for the first time in a year and the view from the end of my mum’s road is still as glorious as ever…
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Michael Booker
4 years
I’m aware bigger conflicts are brewing around the world but our cat Bob (right) and this cat have been staring at each other for 10 minutes in our back garden and I’m concerned it could escalate.
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Michael Booker
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The crafty call centre worker on the Barclays fraud advert is the scariest villain on telly
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Michael Booker
3 years
Proud to be alongside these heroes as they petition @BorisJohnson @sajidjavid @RishiSunak fighting for £50m for a Motor Neurone Disease institute
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MND Association
3 years
And there we go... @Rob7Burrow , @MummyWithM and Co hand the #United2EndMND patient letter in to @10DowningStreet . Thank you to everyone living with motor neurone disease who signed the letter 💙 We're asking @GOVUK for £50 million to fund a virtual institute for #MND research!
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Michael Booker
3 years
Honoured to have @LJohnrose in the paper as part of the campaign to get @BorisJohnson and @sajidjavid to give £50 million for a MND research institute - we’ll not stop until we get it!
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Michael Booker
3 years
Me and the my feline advice team prepping before the BBC Papers this morning - she wanted me to focus on the dangers of the mice population while I wanted to stick to what was in the papers
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Michael Booker
3 years
Ready to go on The Week on GB News with @IsabelWebster_ !
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Michael Booker
3 years
I don’t really want to go in other people’s houses again - I’ve already forgotten what my fake, almost bearable, personality that I use in ‘company’ is like
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Michael Booker
3 years
I’ll be discussing the return of common sense, coincidentally with the news king of common sense @AlStewartOBE , at 12.20-ish on @GBNEWS
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Michael Booker
2 years
If this report is still being finished tonight it might be done in a rush like Line Of Duty - and it all gets blamed on a minor character from season 1
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Michael Booker
3 years
Who decided printer cartridge boxes should be harder to open than The Ark?
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Michael Booker
3 years
Bob called a family board meeting after the vaccine news. He wants to know who will pander to his every need all day if we all start leaving the house again.
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Michael Booker
3 years
Sightly concerned Branson's space team doesn't appear to contain a maverick, stubbly, alcoholic, cowboy-hatted space veteran who, though flawed, knows how to deal with aliens.
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Michael Booker
3 years
@LucyABeaumont @MarkLabbett I lived in Hull for three years at uni and it’s got the same share of history and tradition that all the north of England has. Anyone who treats Hull as a joke is wrong. I’d end my days there if I could. As long as the Mainbrace was still open…
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Michael Booker
5 years
@PaulDykes the new away shirt
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Michael Booker
4 years
This is my first ever shed - I was hoping to do a Meghan & Harry and raise the money by selling the rights to a TV documentary about my life but Tyne Tees TV wouldn’t believe I was as popular up there as Jimmy Nail. Looks like I’ll have to find the cash elsewhere.
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Michael Booker
2 years
After three long years..Bookers abroad!
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Michael Booker
4 years
Now Tesco have removed floor arrows the greatest restored freedom is the ability to walk freely from confectionary to crisps via bottles of pop rather than the opposite, which was just plain wrong.
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Michael Booker
4 years
Your mission today - is to read about my James Bond themed midlife crisis
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Michael Booker
4 years
Bookers in Christmas jimjams
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Michael Booker
5 years
Our little Best Man turned TWENTY today - in the same week as our 16th wedding anniversary!
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Michael Booker
4 years
Here are the contents of just one of my 16-year-old daughter’s school blazer pockets. This is another reason why people of her age shouldn’t get the vote.
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Michael Booker
5 years
The Holiday Bookers
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Michael Booker
5 years
Just done the first post-Greek holiday shop buying lots of aubergines, peppers, olives, fruit and yoghurt which I have put in the fridge to turn to a mushy pulp over the next few days when we order out.
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Michael Booker
2 years
Just made it to Durham - greeted with Mother in law’s caring gift for me this year
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Michael Booker
5 years
Team Booker in Christmas Jim jams
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Michael Booker
3 years
As politicians spend the week pontificating about saving the world, closer to home MND remains the ‘forgotten disease’ as ⁦ @Rob7Burrow ⁩ tells the Sunday Express - he’s ‘devastated’ ⁦ @RishiSunak ⁩ and ⁦ @BorisJohnson ⁩ didn’t help in the budget..but he won’t give up
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Michael Booker
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Diagnosed with MND at 29 - Jo Knowlton and ⁦ @MNDScotland ⁩ urge the government to do more to fund the fight against Motor Neurone Disease in today’s Sunday Express - I hope ⁦ @sajidjavid ⁩ is listening …
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