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Broadcaster | Culture Correspondent @channel4news

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Minnie Stephenson
3 years
NEW: The police officer who violently attacked Emma Homer as she walked home has resigned tonight. PC Oliver Banfield’s resignation follows the shocking CCTV we aired on @Channel4News on Friday.
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Roving news ⚡️my pole 🎤 & I are delighted to become permanent members of @channel4News as a correspondent. It already feels like home but over the moon to make it official 🎉
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The open letter addressed “Dear Sisters” was written by actors including @EmmaWatson @NaomieHarris & Jodie Whitaker & addresses the gender pay gap for women in their 20s in the UK stating, “it is now five times greater than it was six years ago” #TimesUp #BAFTAs
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EXCLUSIVE: 129 women come forward with claims of being raped, beaten or coerced by their police officer spouses & partners. Over 100 women who feel the system has failed them, claiming a “boys club” culture of coverups where survivors felt silenced. More @Channel4News at 7pm
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A short history of appalling interviewing of women 👇🏻👇🏻👇🏻
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Stefan Simanowitz
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1/. Horrific! @lindsaylohan interviewed by David Letterman in 2013.
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With respect, this Prince Philip headline appears to have been written in the 1950s👖
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“She was strong and principled and a shining example to us all”, the family of Sarah Everard remember their kind, bright, daughter & sister as they appeal for witnesses to come forward.
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NEW: Schillings representing Johnny Depp say the actor will appeal, “This judgment is so flawed that it would be ridiculous for Mr Depp not to appeal this decision. In the meantime, we hope that in contrast to this case, the ongoing libel proceedings in America are equitable”.
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Meet the @SilentChildFilm 6 year old super star Maisie Sly, the profoundly deaf actor from Swindon is heading to the Oscars too she’s nominated alongside @overton54 @RachelShenton - they told me shining a spotlight on disability is already winning #TheSilentChildOscars90 @5_News
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“Let her speak” protesters chant at police at the Sarah Everard vigil in Clapham @Channel4News
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It’s......Rebekah Vardy vs Coleen Rooney, the first hearing at the High Court today in the ‘Wagatha Christie’ libel trial. We’re in court @Channel4News
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“Amber Heard physically assaulted her sister”, Johnny Depp’s barrister David Sherborne claims at the High Court.
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“I was terrified, absolutely terrified two male police officers held me down”. Tonight @Channel4News Patsy Stevenson tells her side of the story. After photos of her arrest are shared around the world, Patsy tells me she came with a candle for Sarah Everard & left in handcuffs.
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Minnie Stephenson
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Deputy Chief Constable Vanessa Jardine, of West Midlands Police, said: “Today I have accepted the resignation of PC Oliver Banfield. “I want to stress that former PC Banfield will still face an accelerated misconduct hearing, chaired by the Chief Constable, in the near future”.
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Minnie Stephenson
6 years
Roving news⚡️for the last 9 years you’ve usually found me @5_News reporting alongside brilliant storytellers & great friends. Now I’m off to rove some more, hugely excited to be joining the very talented team @Channel4News to report for a programme I’ve always admired
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Minnie Stephenson
3 years
BREAKING: Metropolitan Police officer Wayne Couzens has pleaded guilty to the murder of Sarah Everard at the Old Bailey.
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Minnie Stephenson
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PC Oliver Banfield was seen on CCTV grabbing and pulling Emma Homer to the ground near her home in Bidford-on-Avon last summer. He pleaded guilty and was given a 14 week curfew order. He was suspended from his job pending an investigation into allegations of gross misconduct.
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To the sound of Gloria Gaynor’s “I Am What I Am’ rugby player Ken Macharia flanked by his LGBTQ+ team @bisonsrfc arrives at a police centre. Ken’s been told he won’t be detained today but still faces being sent back to Kenya where being gay is illegal #C4News
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Don’t mind us, all very casual. We speak to @THEREALGHETTS as he subtly goes into battle for the UK #1 @Channel4News
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“You’re just making this up as you go along!”, Eleanor Laws QC to Amber Heard.
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Minnie Stephenson
5 years
The fifth dimension of fame, the loss of all self-awareness.
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Fake Showbiz News
5 years
Ellie Goulding says it’s ridiculous she still has to go through security at airports. “Why would I be a terrorist?” she said
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This has made my day 💛 proud to be shortlisted for Broadcaster of the Year alongside such brilliant women. Thanks @DIVAmagazine readers & @Channel4News for giving me a platform to tell LGBTQ+ stories. If you fancy voting for me 👉🏻
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Minnie Stephenson
3 years
NEW: Mariah Carey’s ‘All I Want For Christmas Is You’ set to be #1 this week for the first time in the UK, 26 years after its release. 2020 gloom appears to have accelerated the need for festive anthems 🎄🎄🎄
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Minnie Stephenson
3 years
EXCL: Shocking CCTV of a police officer assaulting a woman as she walks home. PC Oliver Banfield, an off-duty officer, used techniques learnt in the police to restrain the woman. Tonight we speak to the victim Emma Homer, as the officer is spared jail.
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Ben de Pear
3 years
Channel 4 News has obtained shocking CCTV footage of the moment a serving police officer violently assaulted a woman as she walked home alone. @MinnieStephC4 reports #c4news 7pm
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Minnie Stephenson
3 years
NEW: Desperately sad news this evening police searching for missing Sarah Everard say they have found human remains in woodlands in Kent.
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Minnie Stephenson
4 years
Amber Heard: “Babe you’re not punched” Johnny Depp: “Don’t tell me what it’s like to be punched” Amber Heard: “I did not deck you...you are such a f*cking baby” The High Court is played a recording of an argument between Heard & Depp.
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Minnie Stephenson
3 years
Better street lighting will sort that.
@guardiannews
Guardian news
3 years
Institutional misogyny 'erodes women's trust in UK police'
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Minnie Stephenson
5 years
Me after Coleen tweeted.
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Minnie Stephenson
6 years
Thousands have come out in the city centre 1 year on from the #ManchesterArena attack they are determined not to be divided @5_News
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Minnie Stephenson
5 years
What a privilege to interview these amazing women. After such an appalling homophobic & misogynistic attack, Melania & Chris are an extraordinary example of allyship 🏳️‍🌈
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Channel 4 News
5 years
“First of all it was an attack towards women and then after homosexual women. They thought we were there to entertain them." The lesbian couple who were involved in a suspected homophobic incident on a London bus feel it was a misogynistic as well as homophobic attack.
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Chair of the Women & Equalities Committee...
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Caroline Nokes MP
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Truly shocked at the scenes from Clapham Common - in this country we police by consent - not by trampling the tributes to a woman who was murdered and dragging other women to the ground. Badly misjudged by #metpolice
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Regrettably I’ve been forced to issue an ASBO this evening...
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Minnie Stephenson
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The #GrenfellFire cat, Pancho was rescued from a nearby flat & is being looked after at St Clement's Church @5_News #Grenfelltower
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Minnie Stephenson
4 years
More flowers for Depp this morning, Sophie (12) has come down to the High Court with her mum to hand deliver 💐
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Minnie Stephenson
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“This is about protecting vulnerable children”, Keira Bell, says the Tavistock gender identity clinic should have challenged her more over her decision to transition to male as a teenager. The 23-year-old was prescribed puberty blockers when she was 16 @Channel4News
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Minnie Stephenson
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This is important on the passive language we all use to talk about men who attack women 👇🏻👇🏻👇🏻 thanks for sharing @heawood
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“I did not see him (Depp) beat or hit her”, Raquel ‘Rocky’ Pennington, Amber Heard’s close friend tells the High Court.
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That’s snowbiz ❄️
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“In memory of Princess Diana, in memory of all those we have lost to HIV & AIDs let us bind together for the good we can do” - Sir Elton John’s landmark #DianaHIVLecture as he sets out his vision to end the disease worldwide by 2030 @5_News @ejaforg
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“To JD”, fan hoping to hand deliver flowers to Johnny Depp this morning outside the High Court 💐
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3 years
It works
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NEW: Children under 16 who want to undergo gender reassignment can only consent to having puberty blockers if they are able to understand the nature of the treatment, the High Court has said in a landmark ruling.
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Minnie Stephenson
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Melody, 22, hoping to hand deliver flowers to Johnny Depp this morning 💐
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“Our Bernie all the way from Vermont!!!”
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“I need to be able to tell my children I did not stay silent”, a protester wears her heart on her placard in Clapham @Channel4News
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Minnie Stephenson
3 years
Duchess of Cambridge pays her respects to Sarah Everard after police pull the planned vigil here...
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Thomas Newton
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The Duchess of Cambridge has paid her respects to Sarah Everard at Clapham Common bandstand
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“There was a sound you’d hear when a mother had her baby taken - I can still hear it” Inside Ireland’s church-run homes for unmarried mothers. An investigation finds thousands of babies & children died. Tonight @Channel4News we hear from the women whose children were stolen.
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Minnie Stephenson
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This is my mum Sheila, I couldn’t more proud of her and the work she does to help the homeless @SFTSLondon
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Channel 4 Dispatches
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"It's the woman that looks after your granny... people are working as teaching assistants in schools." Sheila runs this homeless shelter - she says a third of the people here need help despite having jobs.
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Minnie Stephenson
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Fashion weeks are cancelled but pls pause to watch this NHS hero saunter through the Royal Bolton
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Joe
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Hello to this NHS legend. Every hallway is a runway
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Minnie Stephenson
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It’s thought over 100,000 people are protesting on the streets of Warsaw tonight, after the recent tightening of Poland’s 🇵🇱 restrictive abortion laws👇🏻👇🏻👇🏻
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Darren McCaffrey
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WATCH: Something extraordinary is happening in Poland This story has not got the attention it deserves, night after night of protests, big crowds after a court ruling that further limited its restrictive abortion laws
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Happy #LesbianVisibilityDay here I am being a visible lesbian unashamedly taking selfies, it took me years to be this proud @PrideInLondon 🏳️‍🌈🙌🏻
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Johnny Depp’s security guard is asked if he’s siding with Depp because the film star’s his boss? Mr Connolly replies, “I wouldn’t tolerate any man striking a woman...I don’t care if he’s the Pope”.
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Minnie Stephenson
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Johnny Depp has arrived for day 14 of his libel trial against The Sun
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Glad I got my roots done, that’s Channel 4 News.
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Minnie Stephenson
6 years
Arise Sir Richard Starkey, after being knighted #RingoStarr tells me, “It would have been great if we were all here, I miss John & I miss George to this day” @ringostarrmusic #Beatles @5_News
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Minnie Stephenson
2 years
Will never get over QCs in wigs saying “babe” aloud at the high court.
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Minnie Stephenson
3 years
Strong feelings in the crowd in Clapham tonight - lots saying Scotland Yard silenced them by trying to stop the Sarah Everard vigil. They came out anyway #C4News
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Lawyers inside the High Court now explaining the definition & origin of the word ‘WAG’.
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“I’m here live, I’m not a lawyer”
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What crisis of masculinity?? Don’t see it.
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“I’m scared because they know where I live now but someone has to fight”. This is Poland 2020 🇵🇱 a third of the country is now an ‘LGBT free zone’. Here queer teenagers are attacked & pride parades turn into riots. @Channel4News we’ve been investigating 🎥 coming soon.
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One was honoured to meet the #Corgis of #TheCrown - Prince & Lily for Golden Globes @5_News
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WAITING TO INTERVIEW ATOMIC KITTEN AT WEMBLEY NBD 🐱🐱🐱
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From friends, from strangers, the flowers left for Sarah Everard in South London keep growing @Channel4News
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4 years
post zoom meeting slump 🐱💻
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All dressed up & no one’s here. We’re at the socially-distanced #BAFTAs @Channel4News at 5.15
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Breaking news: somebody has updated the google location of the Edward Colston statue in Bristol
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There she blows🌪 #StormCiara
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SCOOP: Urgent news - ‘doorstepped’ Wayne Rooney inside High Court about his ‘man bag’ 💼 & he tells me it’s actually Coleen’s bag 💼 . Wayne has been carrying because of Coleen’s bad leg - laughing at phrase ‘man bag’ Wayne tells me, “I can’t wait to get my rucksack 🎒back on”.
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Melanie Urbano is still looking for her 12 year old sister Jessica, who was trapped in the #Grenfelltower fire @5_News
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“As long as our children are bereft of their father’s love and affection we cannot celebrate”, Julian Assange’s fiancé Stella Moris @Channel4News
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NEW: A High Court judge has ruled in favour of Rebekah Vardy in the first stage of the ‘Wagatha Christie’ libel case against Coleen Rooney.
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Johnny Depp arriving for day 12 of his libel trial against The Sun, Amber Heard’s in the witness box again. We’re inside court, watch our report tonight @Channel4News
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Minnie Stephenson
3 years
Tonight @Channel4News the Crown Prosecution Service have told us they were “wrong” not to originally charge PC Oliver Banfield with this attack on Emma Homer. The CPS said “we are sorry for the distress this has caused Ms Homer and her family.”
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@louisa_compton @Channel4News have promoted myself to Wagatha Christie correspondent
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BREAKING: Wayne Couzens a Metropolitan Police officer has been charged with murdering and kidnapping Sarah Everard. Wayne Couzens, 48, will appear before Westminster Magistrates' Court tomorrow.
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Minnie Stephenson
4 years
Thanks @campbellclaret , all credit to brilliant @hirdstephen who filmed this running backwards guided by @GirishJuneja
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ALASTAIR CAMPBELL
4 years
Proper reporter. Asks proper questions. Keeps trying. And his lack of answers was far more revealing than the spin and bullshit being broadcast all day on the outlets to whom he gave interviews.
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Lawyers for Keira Bell, 23, who took puberty blockers at 16, argued that under-18s cannot understand the drugs consequences in the case against the Tavistock & Portman NHS Foundation Trust, which runs England's only youth gender identity clinic.
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The first family photo: #Madonna shares picture of twin sisters she's adopted in Malawi saying they are "now part of our family" @5_News
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‘You are the light to my world’, Depp fan Bea has flown over from Germany 🇩🇪 especially for the libel trial
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"I've never seen such generousity" -people overwhelmed at St Clement's church where hundreds donating clothes & food #Grenfelltower @5_News
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“I’m working” 🎈 @LatitudeFest @Channel4News
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3 years
Things are bad when John Lewis are trolling you 🛋
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John Lewis & Partners
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Good thing we have a recycling service for old pre-loved furniture 🛋🚫👋
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Britain’s first major #TimesUp demonstration tonight at the #BAFTAS - I’ll be on the red carpet speaking to actors and activists calling for an end to “the imbalance of power” across all industries @5_News
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The Guardian
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Actors and activists join forces on Bafta red carpet to call time on sexism
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NEW: My mum has been jabbed! A historic moment, “sitting in really boring room” she reports 💉. Wasn’t the copy I was hoping for if I’m honest.
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Two stars & their runners 🤩🤩
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June 21st
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CARBE DIEM 🍞
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Guardian US
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Gwyneth Paltrow broke down and ate bread during quarantine. What was your lowest point?
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“If your son had Cystic Fibrosis I know you’d understand and lower the price”. Meet Luis Walker the 8 year old taking on pharmaceutical giant Vertex. The company make Orkambi the drug he desperately needs & yet it’s not available on the NHS as it’s deemed too expensive @5_News
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some personal news, my masks have arrived 😷
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The judges said in their ruling: "It is highly unlikely that a child aged 13 or under would be competent to give consent to the administration of puberty blockers...it is doubtful that a child aged 14 or 15 could understand and weigh the long-term risks and consequences”.
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Giuliani by Sho Shibuya to dye for New York Times
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Scotland Yard confirm arrests have been made after the appalling homophobic attack on a lesbian couple on a night bus
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Minnie Stephenson
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Stop all the clocks ⏰ the anchor with the best socks, the soul of @Channel4News . When I started working at ITN, I bumped into Jon Snow in reception he introduced himself (like I didn’t know who he was), smiled & said, “producers, just like policeman, get younger every year!” 💛
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Channel 4 News
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Jon Snow has decided to step down as Channel 4 News presenter at the end of 2021. Here's a look back at a remarkable 32-year career presenting Channel 4 News from around the world, and 45 years as a journalist at ITN.
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How it started How it’s going
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Tonight @Channel4News exposes with the @TBIJ the numbers & names unreported: 554 homeless people have now died in the UK since last winter, in most cases their deaths are never properly investigated #makethemcount #c4news
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