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Regional Editor North West at Newsquest | Titles include @TheBoltonNews @LancsTelegraph @TheOldhamTimes @BuryTimes @WarringtonNews @StHelensStar | He/Him 🏳️‍🌈

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SATC fans watching Che Diaz and Miranda finally call time on their toxic relationship and seeing Steve stand up for himself #AJLT #AndJustLikeThat
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When someone asks you how you’re going to get through lockdown #DragRaceUK
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Me telling my grandkids what I got up to after coronavirus lockdown ended #DragRaceUK
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Catherine of Aragon is trending so I can only assume she's also thrown her hat into the ring to become the next Tory leader
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3 years
When you find out Gemma Collins is appearing on #DragRaceUK snatch game episode
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5 years
Aunt Zelda is hands down the best character in @sabrinanetflix and I am determined to source a similar cigarette holder for myself
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When you and your girlfriends are trying to figure out why he hasn’t text back #DragRaceUK
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Me when I got verified on Twitter
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Ritchie Scott from EastEnders is surely the only person who can get Boris Johnson off the hook now?
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3 years
Facebook comment: can’t you report on something positive? Journalist: here’s a nice positive story Facebook comment: this isn’t news
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4 years
How would you describe your best friend? #DragRaceUK
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1 year
For anyone still supporting Stephen Bear, just a reminder he is a sex offender for what he did to Georgia Harrison. Let’s not have him make any reality TV comebacks.
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1 year
Stephen Bear sentenced to 21 months in prison - it’s the least that nasty piece of work deserves
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@scottygb Desperate Housewives
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1 year
One good thing about #TheCrown deciding to cover the Diana Panorama interview in season 5 is reminding people exactly the kind of vile journalist Martin Bashir is.
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EastEnders has had more returns from the dead than the Bible
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3 years
Generation Ru sounds so much better than millennial #DragRaceUK
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2 years
Journalists of Twitter, what is your most-hated stock picture? Mine is this ballot box photo - the only one ever taken it seems
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3 years
Me every time I go to Lidl #DragRaceUK
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2 years
Coleen Rooney to Rebekah Vardy #WagathaChristie
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2 years
Local journalism at its finest: Christian Wakeford @Christian4BuryS defects to Labour in a crushing blow to Boris Johnson as a growing chorus of Conservative MPs call on the Prime Minister to resign. Exclusive by @stirzaker_ted for @BuryTimes :
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3 years
Never has a Drag Race UK quote ever been so applicable to British people on a hot day
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5 years
Damn it, No Time To Die was going to be the title of my autobiography or future self-help book #Bond25
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2 years
EastEnders viewers waiting for the Gray storyline to finally end
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Imagine thinking you know better than an Archbishop of Canterbury at this time of year
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4 years
Still waiting for the day EastEnders introduces @michellevisage as Kat Slater’s long lost American cousin @JessieWallaceUK
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1 year
Delighted to announce I’ve taken on an expanded role at Newsquest, Regional Editor North West, which means I’ll now oversee the brilliant titles in Merseyside and Cheshire in addition to the ones in Lancashire and Greater Manchester. 2023, let’s be having you!
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@scottygb She's been taking Fridays and half terms off for years
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4 years
Think @michellevisage said it best
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4 years
Piers Morgan thinks he's 'quite popular in the gay club' and it's all kinds of bizarre
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3 years
Delighted to reveal that from Monday I'll be the Editor of @EssexLive @HertsMercury @CambsLive and the newly-launched @BedsLive & @PeterboroLive . Really looking forward to this new challenge and the opportunity to work with more incredibly talented journalists in the South East.
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Me when a convicted criminal calls the newsroom to moan about the coverage of their case
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2 years
@scottygb Incredibly in shape people eating and drinking whatever they want and never working out
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4 years
Big, big fan of the new ticket inspector at Gipsy Hill station
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2 years
I am delighted to announce that from the start of January I will be the Regional Editor for Lancashire and Greater Manchester at Newsquest, managing fantastic titles including @LancsTelegraph and @TheBoltonNews (1/2)
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10 months
Today and tomorrow six local newspapers across the North West will have matching front pages as we launch our “No hungry kids this summer” campaign aiming to raise £5,000 for six foodbanks which provide vital resources for those in desperate need 📰
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2 years
@dan_egg She could literally be talking about any TV show
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2 years
A Gray free episode #EastEnders
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Can we get a Dennis Rickman ghost visiting Sharon scene please #EastEnders
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Me at Gavin and Taycey @michellevisage #DragRaceUK2
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3 years
@ChipShopBird begs to differ
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Nobody looks good in Yellow. Nobody.
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2 years
5 years ago today I moved to Chelmsford to start my first journalism job as a trainee reporter at @essexlive . Tomorrow I start my new role as Regional Editor for Lancashire & Greater Manchester at #Newsquest . It’s been a whirlwind few years to say the least🌪Here’s to the next 5!
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2 years
Larry ain't playing
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15 Conservative MPs have already publicly called for Boris Johnson to resign. The following Conservative MPs have previously indicated they’d make a decision following the police investigation. I kept receipts. It’s time for them to make up their minds.
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It’s been a hectic and difficult few weeks but excited to say I’m now the Acting Editor of both @SurreyLive and @HampshireLive until the end of the year. Looking forward to building on the already stellar work that’s been done on the latter since its launch over the summer 🍾
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4 years
“I am Richard, patron saint of the wine and cheese” Worryingly accurate.
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Feeling guilty for driving to the Co-op around the corner but remembering you grew up watching Come Outside with Aunty Mabel flying two miles down the road to buy some milk
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@dan_egg Or any of her appearances in court for that matter
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@RishiSunak you might want to take note of the front page of tomorrow’s @warringtonnews - a lesson you need to learn. #BriannaGhey #TomorrowsPapersToday
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We’re all more than happy to take to social media when we’re unhappy with our local authorities and not when they do something right, but shoutout to @ManCityCouncil who actioned my request for a bin outside my flat to tackle litter and cigarette ends
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Sorry not sorry @Dawn_French
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@dragraceukbbc
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What sounds like a line from #DragRaceUK but isn't?
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4 years
Just realised I’m at work tonight during the #DragRaceUK final
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3 years
We truly didn’t deserve Barbara Windsor or Wendy Richard - two EastEnders legends gone but not forgotten
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4 years
🚨Personal news klaxon 🚨 Very excited to reveal I’m heading over to @surreylive to take on the role of Acting Brands Editor from the middle of January 🍾 Sad to be leaving the @myldn team but really looking forward to this amazing opportunity. 2020, let’s be having you 💻
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And just like that… he owned his own flat in Manchester city centre 🔑
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3 years
I don’t remember @michellevisage playing Jafar in Aladdin #DragRaceUK
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@BBCNews 1. Wear leopard print
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#IHaveAMentalIllnessBut always tend to be the person cracking jokes. The people who appear to always be laughing are often the ones who are struggling. Always check in on your friends, no matter how happy they seem!
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5 years
2019 motto, courtesy of @GraceandFrankie
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2 years
Hands up if you're a journalist whose normal handwriting has been completely destroyed by shorthand 🙌
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4 months
I really hope Mrs Justice Yip sees fit to lift reporting restrictions so that Girl X and Boy Y can be named and shamed publicly for the brutal murder of Brianna Ghey.
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@adamtotscomix Only Madame Web I acknowledge
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3 months
They should have got a real psychic in #EastEnders
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2 years
Can I have the number of the spa Sharon went to? #EastEnders
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3 years
How Sharon fans feel about EastEnders right now
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Are we seriously facing the Carters back in the Queen Vic again #EastEnders
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@lighterfandango Reading this and immediately knowing the tweet it’s referring to
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Best PR email of the day so far
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2 years
Either @TrussLiz or @RishiSunak will be our next PM. My daily titles have joined other newspapers across the North to send a message to both candidates: Don't turn your back on the North when you're in 10 Downing Street. #TheNorthRemembers #TomorrowsPapersToday
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2 years
Had a few negative comments when I changed the newspapers' Facebook profile pics to include the 🏳️‍🌈 flag. Examples include: "Why don't we have straight pride?" "Woke culture!" "Why are you encouraging our children to attend?" That's why we still need to have Pride every year.
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3 years
Love this pic of Kate Middleton and Prince William on their wedding day #royalwedding #EastEnders
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Someone hasn’t been in a local newsroom recently (or ever...)
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@ChipShopBird remains the most quotable Queen of #DragRaceUK
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2 years
Live scenes from the House of Commons
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4 years
When you can’t tell whether the car behind you is flashing or has just gone over a bump
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5 years
@nathan_bevan @TheBiancaDelRio @EssexCanning We need as many laughs as we can get. The best bit is she’s an equal opportunity hater - no one is safe from her 🤡 #BiancaforPm
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It is an outrage @michellevisage still hasn’t been cast as Kat Slater’s long lost American cousin in EastEnders
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@benchampniss @bbceastenders One of the few people on that market who does a full shift while also covering everyone else’s stall 😂
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He’s a 10 but he thinks Coronation Street is better than EastEnders
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5 years
This was one of the hardest pieces I’ve ever had to write. I’ve shared my own personal story about my battle with mental health in the hope that others, particularly men, will see there’s no shame when it comes to asking for help.
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The King has arrived in Bolton and is greeting those who have gathered - live updates from @TheBoltonNews
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3 years
The face of someone who’s had their eyebrows threaded, hair done, and had a manicure all in one day. Oh, and looks like I’ve also found a flat in Chelmsford 😍
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Feeling sad because the Bank Holiday is over but then finding out #GavinandStacey is coming back for Christmas
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2 years
Queen Elizabeth II - 1926 to 2022 May Her Majesty rest in peace
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@ladbible You missed one out
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@KellieBrightLY Half of them have slept with Jack Branning
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3 years
Trump popping up on bebo and MySpace
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3 years
Absolutely thrilled to have been nominated for the Rising Star Award as part of @NCLalumni Achievement Awards 🍾 @UniofNewcastle
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5 years
I’m so thrilled and overwhelmed to have been shortlisted for Digital Live News Reporter of the Year 2018 at the @EditorsUK Regional Press Awards next month! Congratulations to everyone shortlisted this year 🍾
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@shirlpuzz Pack this in!
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Is Sharon’s beret coming back?! #EastEnders
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