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Todmorden
Joined November 2016
Mike Westbrook obit in this morning’s print edition of the Guardian:
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I give you the golden age of UK telly. There were quite a few blokes like this around when @StephenMoss_TV and I joined the BBC in 1982. And some similar women too to be fair. I well remember the truly formidable Biddy Baxter yelling on network talkback when I worked the live Look North gallery in Newcastle. God help you if you snipped ten seconds off the end of her Blue Peter!
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Every Arsenal corner this season
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Please urgently need a lawyer. 😂
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Hale and Pace were hilarious 😂
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This photograph was found at Lime Street Station yesterday. We believe it may have sentimental value, so it’s being kept safe by our station team. If it’s yours, please come to the customer information desk and we’ll be happy to get it back to you!
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Friendly reminder to anyone not familiar with some of Jose Mourinho’s off-pitch behaviour, that he effectively ended the football club career of an excellent, highly respected doctor, Eva Carneiro, for absolutely no valid reason.
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Peace and love, Mary, peace and love Christmas peace and love, peace and love Ringo😎✌️🌟❤️🍒🥦🌈🎶☮️
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Michelle and I are heartbroken by the tragic passing of Rob Reiner and his beloved wife, Michele. Rob’s achievements in film and television gave us some of our most cherished stories on screen. But beneath all of the stories he produced was a deep belief in the goodness of people—and a lifelong commitment to putting that belief into action. Together, he and his wife lived lives defined by purpose. They will be remembered for the values they championed and the countless people they inspired. We send our deepest condolences to all who loved them.
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A very happy birthday to the divine Dionne Warwick, who is 85 today.
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A Furious Devotion: The Life of Shane MacGowan is available in paperback and would make an ideal gift for Christmas 🎅 You can buy a copy here amazon.co.uk/Furious-Devotio…
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Dukes can't even be sweaty nonces these days, because woke
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Also from the MacLaren-Ross. This is one of the greatest things I've ever read. This should have been a Fall collab with Michael Clark or at least an Adrian Henri poem.
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Another photo from Pete’s 100th birthday celebration.
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Simply wonderful and that’s what today is all about
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Goodbye on you, Gary Stevens. WMCA night jock, 1965-68. No one had a bigger influence on me going into radio. Https://radioinsight.com/hea…
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Music documentary makers, when choosing talking heads, please choose someone who lived what they're talking about. Getting very tired of people in their 20s/30s making authoritative statements about the cultural experience of the 1960s.
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