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BBC newswoman; Chancellor of @YorkStJohn ; & on 2023 judging panels for #BBCNSSA , also @laurelprize , and Lucy Cavendish #FictionPrize

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In non-news news - it’s a big day for me: @HarperCollinsUK has announced the publication of my first novel. It’s called Finding Belle and it’s out next spring. What a thrill this is to write @miashby @lynnedrew @SOJseaside
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I was in A and E last night - it wasn’t serious thankfully but I was in pain - a lovely person in the waiting room called Jamie Marshall saw I was suffering and went to buy me some cold drinks. Just like that, a complete stranger. Hope you are on Twitter Jamie, thank you.
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At the end of a long weekend - the BBC news team that brought you #jubilee
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Thank you for all the kind messages during our broadcasts from Ukraine. We are now handing on to another team. It is hard to leave, especially our Ukrainian colleagues. But it is as nothing to the scenes we saw at the Polish border just now - men waiting stoically and smilingly…
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It’s a week of last shifts as #BBCNews Channel winds down: @BBCShaunLey doing his final weekday programme - followed by me at 5pm on my last Channel broadcast. What a great network it’s been to work for. So long, farewell..
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So pleased for Jane - and delighted to say that I too - along with the mighty @CliveMyrieBBC - am moving to @BBCOne news permanently... 1/2
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1/2 Realise there’s only one story in town #HappyValley - but just wanted to flag some job news, that I’m thrilled to be moving permanently to our BBC1 bulletins, working across @bbcnews at 1, 6 & 10. The volume of messages I’m receiving suggests this hasn’t been entirely clear…
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Just breaking - Boris Johnson and Rishi Sunak are among those being fined for breaches of lockdown regulations. More on #bbcnews #Partygate
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Been on the air now for 11 and a half hours... @huwbbc fresh as a daisy...not so sure about me... #Elections21
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And I couldn’t be more delighted to be here
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York St John University
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Today we're absolutely delighted to welcome @reetacbbc , our Chancellor, to our graduation celebrations. It's a true privilege to have Reeta preside at our ceremonies in the beautiful @York_Minster today.
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France goes to the polls this Sunday to decide between presidential candidates Emmanuel Macron and Marine Le Pen. Join me for extended coverage throughout the weekend as France chooses #bbcnews
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*UPDATE FROM LVIV MAYOR*: Several missiles hit the aircraft repair plant. The buildings were destroyed. Work at the plant had stopped in advance so there are no casualities. Rescuers are working on the site" #ukraine
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Reeta Chakrabarti
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Hi Philippa, thank you for circulating this. All I can say is -phew! I was just doing my job really, but probably good that I didn't know what was about to happen when I walked through the door...
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How do you present the news without any news? As we held our breath on Sat eve, BBC newsreader Reeta Chakrabarti filled 3 hours TV time, pulling out every skill in the presenter toolbox. Helped by ⁦ @ChrisMasonBBC ⁩. Respect! ⁦ @reetacbbc ⁩ ⁦ #lockdown2 #bbc
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Reeta Chakrabarti
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It's interesting you say this Tim, as it wasn't the case for me, nor I suspect for many others. I had no connections at all, and just approached papers/programmes asking for work experience...
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Tim Walker
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Cronyism is an awkward one for us to address in journalism. Hard to find someone who can write about it who isn’t a son, daughter, sister, brother, other half of someone etc important who fixed it for them to get their job in the first place.
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Air raid sirens in western Ukraine went off an hour ago, and we are still in the bunker #ukraine
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@NinaWarhurst I am Nina, and they really are - we spend so long reporting on the bad guys, it's easy sometimes to forget the good...
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4 years
Presser has started! #DowningStreetBriefing
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Keen watchers of #BBCNews will notice Geeta on the air right now. Preceded by Reeta. Who was preceded by Annita. Your rhyming top team... @AnnitaBBC @Geetagurumurthy
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Wow she speaks Bangla better than me! Hats off!
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Halima Khan
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This superhero is a retired GP in Limehouse East London I’m in tears because she’s saying she learned Bengali in the 80’s to understand her patients because there were no interpreters 😭 This is British pride 🇬🇧 she should be a household name 😭❤️
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Reeta Chakrabarti
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And a special mention for BBC cameraman Martin Roberts - whose father Trevor Roberts was a Welsh Guardsman on duty for the Queen’s Coronation #jubilee
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Reeta Chakrabarti
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Oh joy. Back in the pool before my #bbcnews at One shift. Am ridiculously excited...
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Britain is poised to have its first British Indian Prime Minister - whatever your politics this is a defining moment for the country #Sunak
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Reeta Chakrabarti
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The joys of live TV - and she's so poised!
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So near, yet so far.
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I don’t often post holiday snaps but couldn’t resist this one #kolkata 🌞❤️
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Reeta Chakrabarti
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From the #bbcnews BBCOne team on Xmas Eve - Merry Xmas! (And watch us at 23:20…)
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Reeta Chakrabarti
4 years
This is the entire Covid 19 message from @bbcasiannetwork from me, in Bengali
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BBC News Press Team
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Here is the message in Bangla from @reetacbbc
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Reeta Chakrabarti
4 years
Alok Sharma has been asked three times to answer the question of whether a failure to do a trade deal with the EU will have an impact on the UK’s ability to get supplies of coronavirus vaccines. I don’t think we got an answer. Significant? #DowningStreetBriefing
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..as they said goodbye to their partners and children, who were going to safety while they stayed behind. Heartbreaking. #Ukraine
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I’m one of 55 senior broadcast journalists urging Israel and Egypt to allow foreign media into Gaza with ‘free and unfettered access.’ Broadcast journalists send open letter calling for foreign media access to Gaza | Evening Standard
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Reeta Chakrabarti
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The guys bringing you the BBC One O’Clock News live from Lviv ⁦ @MooseCampbell ⁩ and Jonny Gledhill #ukraine
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Reeta Chakrabarti
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With greetings from the BBC1 News team this Xmas Eve @SJTHarrison @deejaycrox @zahidlalani @Chris1603 With you for the late news at 22:45. Merry Christmas!
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Reeta Chakrabarti
4 years
This man is crying on CNN. A good day for this country he says, because it shows that goodness and character matter
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3 years
Am I the only person in the country watching the tennis...?
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A few weeks ago, some of you were kind enough to wonder why I was off. Here’s an explanation: BBC News star REETA CHAKRABARTI reveals how easy it can be for medics to miss appendicitis
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1 year
...I feel though for colleagues living through a period of uncertainty, and hope the jobs process delivers for them
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A very Happy Christmas from the early team at #bbcnews @Felicity_Baker ⁩ ⁦⁦ @ascheema ⁩ ⁦ @NinaNanji ⁩ ⁦⁦ @sofia_berman @karenmorrison1
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@JamesWorldToday We spend a lot of time reporting bad news, so I wanted to share a simple act of human kindness - they do happen!
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Reports coming in about a Russian strike on a maternity hospital in Mariupol in south eastern Ukraine - which has already suffered days of shelling.
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Reeta Chakrabarti
4 years
Boris Johnson at liaison committee asked first off by chair Bernard Jenkin if he will return before summer recess - he says he’ll do his best. This is PMs first appearance since appointment last summer
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Reeta Chakrabarti
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25 years after Stephen Lawrence was murdered, Neville Lawrence tells the BBC he forgives his son’s killers. Watch the interview on #BBCNewsTen
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Reeta Chakrabarti
4 years
Am feeling swamped in a good way! Thank you very much Fern
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Fern Britton 💙No tick but the real deal
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I am so sorry that I spelt the brilliant Rita’s name incorrectly. Her twitter name is @reetacbbc ! Let’s swamp her with love ! Xxx
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Reeta Chakrabarti
3 years
Just in - for the first time, there were zero daily reported Covid deaths in the UK
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The small but perfectly formed team bringing you the final #bbcnewsten of 2020 ⁦ @jonnywhitaker ⁩ ⁦ @BBCLesleyR ⁩ ⁦ @DannyWittenberg ⁩ ⁦ @naomirainey ⁩. A Happy New Year from us all, and here’s to a better 2021...
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For the avoidance of doubt, everyone is fine
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@Letslaugh1419 We are and thank you but still in bunker, nearly two hours now
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@mroliverbarnes I’ll tell him!
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It’s snowing. In London. On March 31st
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This Saturday marks 30 years since Stephen Lawrence was murdered. On this anniversary I speak to his mother who has spent nearly half her life fighting for justice for her son: Nobody holds 'brutal' police to account - Doreen Lawrence - BBC News
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I know we’ve had lots of these but they never fail to startle. Oxford Street, London, 12pm, January 2021 #lockdown
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More than half of the 620,000 Rohingya refugees who've fled to Bangladesh are children. Many have lost one or both parents. My report coming up #BBCNewsSix #BBCNewsTen
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The team bringing you the #BBCONE news on Xmas Eve - Ian Atkinson ⁦ @jonnywhitaker ⁩ ⁦ @JonWhitneyUKDC @felicity_baker @HannahGreenNews ⁩. Merry Christmas!
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Reeta Chakrabarti
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Wow. This is quite something to wake up to. Where does this leave A-level students now? BBC News - A-level results: Ofqual 'reviewing' exam appeals guidance
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Reeta Chakrabarti
3 years
Yes - disgraceful and intimidating behaviour towards him. Let's not retweet it.
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James Landale
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I stand with @nicholaswatt
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Reeta Chakrabarti
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So nice, thank you
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Sarah Covington
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@reetacbbc Reeta, I thought you were absolutely brilliant this evening. Just thought you should know 🙏
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What we are all watching between teatime and late news…it’s given us all such pleasure and still does
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Guess where I am?!
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And before the news focus moves relentlessly on - one last pic with BBC Royal Correspondent Nicholas Witchell; I/C extraordinaire ⁦ @sarahparrish01 ⁩; top producer ⁦ @BBCLesleyR ⁩; and #jubilee director Roger Simpson
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President Trump says he is classifying houses of worship as essential - and tells state Governors to let them open this weekend. If they won’t, he says he will override them #coronavirus
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Reeta Chakrabarti
4 years
My father-in-law Patrick Hamilton is the latest to be featured in our #thepeopleswar series. He joined the Gordon Highlanders Regiment in Aberdeen in 1940, trained in India, and then fought against the Japanese in what was called the Forgotten Army in Burma #bbcnews
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Reeta Chakrabarti
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Aaargh
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Simon McCoy
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@jamesgolding @reetacbbc Broadcasting will begin six hours before the event. @reetacbbc is your host. #liveforage
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Reeta Chakrabarti
1 year
The view behind me at Windsor as we prepare for the teatime news #BBCNews #coronation
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I see Paddington is trending and thought it was about the trains being down - but no, it’s about the bear…
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3 years
The bulletin is over, but no-one can bring themselves to leave the newsroom #USOpen2021
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With my touchscreen better half - the inestimable ⁦ @callummay ⁩, top producer and a man with a terrific head for stats #bbcnews #USElection
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Reeta Chakrabarti
2 years
Meanwhile - while we were on the air - a gift to headline writers?
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Reeta Chakrabarti
3 years
The view through our skylight, again. Is this the worse summer ever??
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The big question of the day...does anyone else’s fridge have 30 jars of pickles that time forgot?
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Reeta Chakrabarti
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@sophieraworth @nightingaleitv Yep me too! Not my forte. Hats off to the talented women (mainly) who usually make us up, and sooo look forward to their eventual return...
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Reeta Chakrabarti
2 years
Preparing for a long weekend of Jubilee broadcasting outside Buckingham Palace with top director Roger Simpson. We start on BBC1 at One #bbcnews
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Reeta Chakrabarti
4 years
From my first news editor - Roger, thank you! Also tremendous work from @ChrisMasonBBC who had such insight and wit, plus the team behind the scenes, working their socks off to keep it all going
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Roger Mosey
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Heroes of the night: @reetacbbc for filling many hours of airtime with aplomb, and the @bbcstrictly production team who have done an amazing job in getting the show on air.
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Simply the best - Tina Turner has died, aged 83
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4 years
Now there’s a sad strap to read
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Reeta Chakrabarti
6 months
And look what I’ve got! Courtesy of @DiHeath from Hull City Council - a box of curd tarts for my lucky dad…and check out our great set for today’s Six and Ten O’Clock News from the Streetlife Museum in Hull #bbcnews
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Andy Comfort
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It was lovely to hear @reetacbbc talk about her early years in Hull with @CarlaGreene84 @RadioHumberside The BBC1 national news is in #Hull today.
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Reeta Chakrabarti
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A night to remember - a fantastic spectacle at Buckingham Palace #jubilee
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Thank you Hull and the Streetlife Museum - lovely to be here!
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Hull and the Streetlife Museum making a great location for BBC News last night with @reetacbbc #Hull 😍 If you missed it 📺👉🏼
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As taken by colleague Eoin Hempsall #birmingham2022
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Another short sharp succinct summary from @rosatkins and the team on the recent history behind today's Russian invasion of Ukraine
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Ros Atkins
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After today's invasion, we've seen lots of people asking how Ukraine became the front-line of tensions between Russia and the West. Here’s 3 mins on how it happened – from the 90s to this week. Produced by Michael Cox, Priyanka, Deladia, Catherine Karelli
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Back in the studio with the tireless @huwbbc - back on the air with more results at 1.15pm #Elections2021
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Don’t know about you but I am exhausted #Wimbledon
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4 years
Milk no sugar please
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REETA CHAKRABATI. I feel like she lives in my house now. I have to fight the urge to offer to make her a brew. @reetacbbc Let me know if you fancy a cuppa. Kettle's on.
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Just breaking - the Oxford vaccine has just been approved for use - hugely significant
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Wordle 277 2/6 ⬜⬜🟩⬜⬜ 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 Just saying..
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There is so much agonising news right now - and then I read this - such an uplifting story of persistence and success
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1 year
Another teachers' strike is here - and here is @BBCRosAtkins with another clear and concise explanation of what's happened to teachers' pay in the last decade
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Ros Atkins
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The latest teachers strike in England is today. 3 mins on what's happened to teachers' pay since 2012. The average teachers' salary has reduced in real terms - and more so than some other professions. Produced by Michael Cox, Rob England, Robert Cuffe.
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4 years
At the #BlackLivesMattter protest in Oxford. More on #BBCnewssix
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Reeta Chakrabarti
3 years
This from Leicester City Council: The Government has confirmed that new advice published on its website in relation to Leicester and other areas was incorrect, and people should continue to follow existing national guidelines as before. There is no local lockdown. #bbcnews
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Air accident investigators looking in the Channel for wreckage of the plane carrying footballer Emiliano Sala and David Ibbotson say that "Tragically, in video footage....one occupant is visible amidst the wreckage. " We'll have more on #bbcnews at One
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Reeta Chakrabarti
9 months
I look cold
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Chris Cook
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And here’s a fab pic with all of our lovely stars on the set @Schafernaker @reetacbbc and Asad Ahmed.
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3 years
Someone’s waiting to be let in..
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Whitty - in response to a q about what regrets the panel have re handling of crisis - is the only one to answer directly - he says testing should have been rolled out earlier #DowningStreetBriefing
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In a country at war there is still new life - a baptism at the Church of the Holy Apostles in Lviv #ukraine
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Reeta Chakrabarti
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Sad news for those of us left behind Rory. You've been such a great colleague, and everything good about the BBC
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Rory Cellan-Jones
3 years
Some personal news..in late October I shall be leaving the BBC. I’ve had the most fabulous time working with brilliant people,  But after 40 years it’s time to move on…
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2 years
On a week off and impossible not to be glued to the output #ukraine #bbcnews
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Reeta Chakrabarti
5 years
Very sad news - the Liberal Democrats have just announced the death of their former leader Paddy Ashdown- earlier this year it was revealed he'd been diagnosed with bladder cancer
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Huge congratulations to everyone graduating from @YorkStJohn - I so look forward to celebrating your success with you this week!
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Reeta Chakrabarti
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More than 600,000 Rohingya Muslims have now fled to Bangladesh because of the violence in Myanmar. But many face new dangers when they arrive. My report coming up #BBCNewsTen
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Reeta Chakrabarti
9 months
@ArtyBagger I blush. Thank you!
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Reeta Chakrabarti
2 years
And on a lighter note…
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Neil McMahon
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This took me a sec.
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Reeta Chakrabarti
4 years
If you missed Stephen: The Murder that Changed a Nation first time round, it's being broadcast again this week. It's a comprehensive and emotional account of the murder of Stephen Lawrence, and its huge ramifications. Starts tonight on BBC2 at 23.30.
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