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RIP Regis Philbin, who gave us one of the greatest moments in television history

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86,000 people are currently watching a live stream of a guy shouting GO ON THEN at pilots trying to land planes at Heathrow in #StormEunice

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In case you missed it, #Newsnight replaced its end credits tonight with a list of all the ministerial resignations so far set to an acoustic version of Bittersweet Symphony

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The reaction of Van Jones to the Joe Biden news is worth two minutes of your time #Election2020

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Sean Lock was once asked on 8 Out Of 10 Cats how he’d define himself…his response was predictably hilarious. RIP.

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This will be shown on journalism training courses for years to come on what happens when someone with no discernible news anchor ability is asked to deal with a breaking story

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The Daily Star's lettuce cam now has an added plate of tofu

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Whoever thought of having Paddington come to Buckingham Palace for tea with the Queen, 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻 #PlatinumJubilee #partyatthepalace

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Quite the pose from this man having his photo taken, pretending to be 007 - right in the middle of the BBC lunchtime news

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The shoe shop chain Shoe Zone has announced this morning that Terry Boot is taking over as its finance director. He’s replacing - and I’m not making this up - Peter Foot. 🦶🏻🦶🏻🦶🏻

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Have just stumbled on possibly the most unlikely gameshow reveal of all time

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Here’s a completely unimportant thing: McDonald’s go to the trouble of putting in nice modern touchscreens then when you come to pay it looks like something out of Windows 3.1

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Quite the exchange between Victoria Derbyshire and the head of the Society of Editors this morning

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A new victim of child Zoom-crashing tonight: shadow health secretary Jon Ashworth

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@JimMFelton It’s fine, I fixed it

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Ahead of kids returning to school on Monday, the headteachers at my old school have recorded their own cover of Take That’s Back For Good and...it’s quite something

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It’s another fairly grim morning on here so breaking up your timeline with Sweep singing Nessun Dorma on Stars in Their Eyes

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Quick factcheck... Number of people in UK and EU given AstraZeneca vaccine so far: 17 million Reported cases of clots (DVT/pulmonary embolism): 37 Usual number of people you’d expect to get clots in general population of that size: hundreds Risk level: 0.0002%

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Hope ITV do a split screen option so you can watch Love Island and the vote of confidence results at the same time

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BBC staff have just been sent a wellbeing survey and I'm fairly confident this wasn't meant to be one of the questions

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Wanted to highlight the work of the BBC’s Malik Mudassir - who’s usually behind the camera (either operating it or working as a producer) - giving a clear, detailed account of the situation in Kabul on the 10 o’clock news tonight as the Taliban patrolled the streets around him

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One final Millionaire memory - without doubt the best Phone a Friend moment in all the years of the UK show #Quiz

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Handforth Parish Council as the inevitable upcoming ITV soap

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Has there been a worse design decision in London in recent years than forcing people getting off the Tube at Euston to walk outside - today in the rain - then 180 degrees immediately back inside to get a train?

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Well this is the best explanation for a delayed train I’ve ever heard - beginning with our driver telling us what happened to the person he replaced

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If you’re enjoying #gogglebox tonight a phenomenal amount of work is happening to keep the show on the air. I know this because my other half is one of the producers. @pilotffi and the rest of the team, take a bow for keeping the nation entertained 👏🏻

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Britain in one sentence: Clare Balding on a drizzly Sunday evening talking to an Afghan hound in a headscarf

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Jacob Rees-Mogg appears to have a carriage clock with the letters MOGG where the 12, 3, 6 and 9 would usually be

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You have to wonder, in the heady days of Mysterious Girl, whether Peter Andre imagined himself 27 years later interviewing shadow cabinet ministers about whether the government should turn over Boris Johnson’s WhatsApp messages to a public inquiry

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It’s miserable here today so to lighten the mood here’s one of Germany’s best known newsreaders in absolute - and repeated - hysterics this morning as she tries unsuccessfully to get through her headlines

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When you insist you’re too full to eat your vegetables then someone brings out ice cream

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RIP Alan Hawkshaw, who composed some of the most iconic theme tunes in British TV history - including Grange Hill, Channel 4 News and Countdown. Here’s 80 seconds of his genius:

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If I didn’t make this someone else would have

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When Hull accidentally becomes Hell

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In classic local news, a print shop in Canterbury called “Omicron” is trying to take advantage of the new-found interest in its name by having the two blokes who run it pose outside in hazmat suits

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Really sad to hear Jerry Stiller has died. King of Queens has never had a lot of love in the UK despite the years of early morning Channel 4 reruns - but Jerry’s portrayal of Arthur Spooner and his constant headbutting with @KevinJames always made me smile (copyright @CBS , obvs)

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I've enjoyed the Press Association's straight reportage of the anti-lockdown demo in Clapham today: "One woman shouted from her car at the protesters, 'There's a pandemic going on you twats'."

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There’s always, always a local angle

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2020 is French Prime Minister Jean Castex searching desperately for the glasses he’s already wearing

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Colourblind was, in all sincerity, an absolute banger

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RIP Bernard Cribbins, here in his element as the obnoxious spoon salesman Mr Hutchinson that Basil Fawlty mistook for a hotel inspector

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As is quite often the case, an interesting contrast between the front pages of The Sun in England and Scotland #TomorrowsPapersToday

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In tribute to Ian St John, a reminder that the opening titles of Saint and Greavsie had the most 80s soundtrack you will ever hear

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For everyone retweeting this, you may be interested to know it’s an ad for Dettol, whose manufacturer Reckitt Benckiser said just four weeks ago it was “too early to say” when its own staff would go back to the office

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Farewell Des O’Connor - whose back-and-forth with Ernie here was TV gold

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Turns out Matt Hancock promising to put a cherry on Dido’s cake is further enhanced by the addition of some Carry On

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It’s #MentalHealthAwarenessWeek but for those of us dealing with mental health issues, they’ll still be there next week. I take one of these tiny pills each day to manage my health anxiety. It’s OK to need help - that’s what it’s there for. Please don’t suffer in silence.

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Oh @marksandspencer what happened here? 🤦🏻‍♂️

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Journalists when another journalist makes the same observation they did but gets all the likes and retweets

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10 points if you can get to the end of this statement from Boohoo about buying Debenhams without developing an aggressive migraine

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@johnisherwood A situation that could have been mitigated with - you know - journalism training and strategies to cope in precisely these circumstances

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I don’t even watch MasterChef: The Professionals but this happened last night and I need to know the backstory which seems to be shrouded in secrecy

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I was lucky enough to be one of the newsreaders on Steve Wright's show for several years - and my afternoon didn't really start until I saw him cheerfully waving through the glass just before he went on air at 2pm. He was a very, very nice bloke and obviously a radio titan. RIP.

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RIP John Savident - aka butcher Fred Elliott in Corrie. Arguably one of the most distinctive characters - and deliveries - in British soap history

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Thank goodness @pilotffi said yes otherwise it would have been an awkward Christmas

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Brought my baby daughter back from hospital last night. She now officially owns the hearts of me and my wife, who is literally a superhero. Also a massive thanks to the doctors at @GSTTnhs who sprang into action when things got a bit tricky at the weekend.

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Was sure I’d seen Lynn Faulds Wood recently - turns out she was on the BBC less than three weeks ago, debunking the coronavirus-5G conspiracy theories. Doing important work to the end.

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Goodbye Sky One, the channel that brought The Simpsons to the UK

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I’ve walked past this takeaway near me so many times yet I’ve never noticed this really unfortunate typo

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Very sad that Doreen Mantle - aka Mrs Warboys from One Foot in the Grave - has died aged 97. One of the all-time great supporting cast performers in British sitcom history, constantly rubbing Victor Meldrew up the wrong way

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You will never see a more effortlessly cool, takes-it-all-in-his-stride live news report than this one from Victor Williams in Detroit

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@MorganBroadcast Charlotte this is appalling - and sounds like an open and shut case for the Financial Ombudsman if Santander keep being ridiculous

How to complain

Find out how to bring your complaint to us, and how we can help.

www.financial-ombudsman.org.uk

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Afternoon to @theJeremyVine who just took a couple of calls on Matt Hancock then played Jocelyn Brown’s Somebody Else’s Guy

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Slightly unfortunate moment when one of the main Australian TV networks describes Liz Truss and her husband as “minor royals” then possibly “local dignitaries”

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Australian presenters Peter Overton and Tracy Grimshaw unable to identify UK PM Liz Truss.

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Partygate is on the front page of every European news website I looked at this afternoon - and is the lead story for several of them

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The clocks (literally) going back at the BBC

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RIP Mystic Meg - purveyor of weirdly specific predictions and single-handed saviour of dry ice manufacturers

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Now @richardosman has confirmed he’s leaving (daytime) Pointless after 13 years entertaining the nation, here’s how he was introduced for the first time in 2009

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What a privilege it’s been for me to be one of the many, many newsreaders on Steve Wright in the Afternoon on @BBCRadio2 over the years. Ahead of his last show here’s a megamix of his three main jingles that have become timeless earworms - composed by the legendary @AJMusicProds

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For everyone doubting the theory that Banksy is Art Attack’s Neil Buchanan, may I remind you Neil was already leading a double life in the 90s as Smarty Arty on Zzzap!

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Hello to the US attorney investigating the recent Twitter hack and the focus in his eyes as he reads “Bognor Regis” out loud for the first time in his life

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For those asking, Colin did play turpitude, got it right and went on to win £125k. But in a weird twist, the producers withheld his prize money after it emerged he had a criminal conviction for driving off from a petrol station without paying £5. He later received his winnings.

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The commitment of @DanJohnsonNews to introducing his package while being turned upside down at Blackpool Pleasure Beach is 👏🏻

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The son of Trivago boss Axel Hefer just crashed his interview on @CNN - so he decided to carry on with the boy on his lap

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Day 5 of the Cummings row and we’re now into “cut out and keep” mask territory #TomorrowsPapersToday

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Right, it’s time for a very important🧵on 🇫🇷 TV because the original French version of Countdown has gone into proper MELTDOWN

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My wife just opened the Star lettuce cam and they’re now piping in chillout music having dimmed the lights and put it in a sleep mask next to a teddy bear

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A stickler for accuracy, he then inspects the photo - still live on air - to make sure she got it spot on

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Most people know Robbie Coltrane for his excellent acting but he started out as a comedian - and had his own one-off sketch show on ITV in 1989 which started with him taking the mick out of regional continuity announcers

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There aren’t many people in the BBC newsroom at the moment, but those of us here still showed our appreciation #clapforNHS #ClapForCarers

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On a delayed Southern train yet to leave London Bridge and like a radio presenter skilfully teasing a song before the commercial break, the driver’s promised the “full rundown” of the “shenanigans” causing the delay…once we depart. Hooked.

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A French karaoke gameshow has started filming again, replacing the usual audience with dozens of balloon mannequins and it’s the stuff of nightmares

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I see Colin the Caterpillar’s in the news so it feels like the time to share - in short story form - the weirdest thing that’s ever happened to me in an office: the ritual of staff birthday celebrations at @magicfm @absoluteradio

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For those unhappy the BBC isn’t showing as much live sport from the #TokyoOlympics as it used to: 1️⃣ Discovery now has the pan-European rights; the BBC subcontracts them 2️⃣ Discovery paid £920m for those rights 3️⃣ £920m would pay for ALL BBC network radio **three times over**

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At the start of my radio career, reading travel news down an ISDN line for countless presenters, there were only a handful interested in knowing you and making you part of the show. Janice Long was one of them. This is what turned out to be her very last link a few weeks ago.

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RIP Johnny Briggs - aka Mike Baldwin in Coronation Street - who was involved in one of the unlikeliest bar brawls of all time with Roy Cropper

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Radio 4 listener writes to complain about Evan Davis saying hello at the start of PM

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Former Tory minister Shailesh Vara gives a like-for-like comparison between tonight’s confidence vote and Boris Johnson’s 2019 victory (against two other candidates) - then, when challenged on less favourable figures, says he’s “not in the business” of like-for-like comparisons

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A Radio 2 listener has threatened legal action because Vanessa Feltz uses the nickname “Lady V” on air

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The moment CNN called #Election2020

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In case you thought Captain Sir Tom Moore was known only in the UK, his death is featured on the front page of every European newspaper website I looked at tonight

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The main computer system at BBC HQ died overnight so @JamesKellyMedia had to fashion a 4am news bulletin with scissors and Sellotape. Really.

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Gripping stuff at the start of today’s Countdown

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Like many broadcast journalists I have far too many anxiety dreams about equipment going wrong during a live programme. So imagine *all* your equipment failing. All of it. And having to tell the audience of France’s most watched lunchtime news that there won’t be any news 😮

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BBC News presenters as the opposite sex - a thread: 1. Huberta Edwards

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If you're watching the Djokovic news conference on @BBCNews or @BBCWorld , the live translation is being provided by my colleague @DejanRadojevic who doesn't have live translation experience but is doing an absolutely superb job

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“Yes, you can have two biscuits” will now become the definitive TV signoff

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Unexpected BBC correspondent-footballer's wife crossover @EmmaVardyTV

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