Former Chair, @HealthwatchCov. Retired broadcaster. My memoir: ‘My Grandad knew Rasputin...and I met Elton John’, available now via Amazon & on Kindle.
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🗣️Coventry City goalkeeper Carl Rushworth speaking about the Premier League returning on Monday night.
⚽The Sky Blues welcome Newcastle United to the CBS Arena on Mon 12th October.
🔗Hear the full interview here: bbc.in/4j8uM97
#PUSB #BBCFootball
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Stuart Linnell MBE retweeted
The show that I was talking about here is now on the Rosebud podcast channel on @YouTube. If you like Jeffrey Archer’s books you’ll enjoy it. It’s gentle & fun. The end is especially poignant & touching. Also on audio @therosebudpod on Acast, Apple, Spotify etc.
🗣️ "It was a rollercoaster life that he led"
@GylesB1 tells @SophyRidgeSky & @WilfredFrost that he saw Lord Archer and was on stage with him 36 hours ago, celebrating his career and new book.
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City in action around the globe. 🗺️
🔗 ow.ly/Fese50ZVnZw
ALT Yann Gboho representing Ivory Coast.
ALT Jay Dasilva playing for Wales.
ALT Brandon Thomas-Asante playing for Ghana.
ALT Stephen Mfuni representing England U21.
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David Moorcroft is one of those Coventry sporting names we probably don't make enough noise about.
On 7 October 1982, the Coventry-born runner lined up for England in the 5,000 metres at the Commonwealth Games in Brisbane.
He won.
Moorcroft crossed the line in 13 minutes 33 seconds, taking Commonwealth gold ahead of fellow Englishman Nick Rose.
But here's what makes that achievement even more impressive.
Moorcroft hadn't arrived in Australia simply as one of the world's best runners.
He arrived as the fastest 5,000-metre runner who had EVER lived.
Just three months earlier, Moorcroft had run an astonishing 13:00.41 in Oslo, smashing the existing 5,000m world record by almost six seconds.
He came painfully close to becoming the first human being to run the distance in under 13 minutes.
He missed it by 0.42 seconds.
And Moorcroft was very much one of ours.
Born in Coventry, he went to Woodlands School and competed for Coventry Godiva Harriers, the club he had joined as a youngster.
His 1982 season was extraordinary. World record holder. Commonwealth champion. European Championship bronze medallist.
He had already won Commonwealth gold over 1,500 metres four years earlier in Edmonton too.
So for a period in 1982, when people anywhere in the world looked up the fastest 5,000 metres ever run by a human being, the name at the top was:
David Moorcroft. Coventry.
44 years ago today, he added another gold medal to the collection. 🥇
Coventry has produced some incredible sportspeople over the years, but this achievement deserves to be remembered alongside any of them.
💙 Who would YOU put in Coventry's sporting Mount Rushmore?
And does David Moorcroft make your top four?
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Stuart Linnell MBE retweeted
A Rosebud Special
Jeffrey Archer’s farewell - a lovely show recorded in London this Sunday, the day before he died. There are stories here that even I hadn’t heard before! Enjoy.
podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcas…
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Happy birthday @Thompson1Garry. Hope you're well.
Happy 67th birthday to Sky Blues legend @Thompson1Garry ,49 goals in 159 games read about his Coventry career here Garry Thompson - Sky Blue Archive share.google/hGxRNjxYSEQ30AH…
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Stuart Linnell MBE retweeted
What a lovely bit of planning from a Coventry dad: he bought a shirt in an adult size when his son was born, then kept it tucked away until his boy turned 18 last year.
'18 years ago I bought the currentCov shirt at the time in adult size and put it away inside in a padlocked box. The box has been hidden and untouched since it was locked in 2007. 18 years ago today my first son came into this world and he's had no idea that the now retro shirt from the day he was born has been waiting all this time for him.'
That’s some present, and some commitment to keeping a secret. Dad’s absolutely nailed it 👏
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Putting to one side the remarkable achievements of Harry Kane, this extended international break has obviously worked well for England. We now look like a proper team, but the downside is that we've had to forgo our league matches. We'll welcome them back this weekend.
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🗣️”It’s a starting point for us now.”
🧤 Coventry City goalkeeper Carl Rushworth speaks exclusively with BBC CWR Sport about the win over Nottingham Forest and looking ahead to Newcastle United.
🔗Listen here: bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/p0pf8r…
#PUSB #BBCFootball
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Stuart Linnell MBE retweeted
A dominant display from England 👊🏴
The #ThreeLions wrap up this international window with three points on a record equalling night for Harry Kane 🏟️
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Stuart Linnell MBE retweeted
🧤Coventry City goalkeeper Carl Rushworth on returning to the club this summer.
💰The deal was reportedly worth £22m and Rushworth signed a long term deal to return.
🔗Hear an exclusive interview via the link here: bbc.in/4i5OcKL
#PUSB #BBCFootball
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BBC News - Coventry City Football Club set to agree £1.6m stadium land deal - BBC News
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Your #ThreeLions to take on Czechia! ✨
ALT England XI: Pickford, Trent, Hall, Quansah, Guéhi, Anderson, Kane, Bellingham, Lewis-Skelly, Rogers, Eze Bench: Saka, Gordon, Chalobah, Trafford, Ngumoha, Branthwaite, Garner, Calvert-Lewin, Gibbs-White, Lewis, Steele
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"It's a good building block"
Bobby Thomas reflects on the importance of Coventry's win against Nottingham Forest before the international break 🤝
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Stuart Linnell MBE retweeted
Very sad to have had to announce the death of my friend Jeffrey Archer on the show last night. A man of talents, flaws, positivity and bouncebackability, with a zest for life. He was a terrific interviewee. He sometimes invited me to his flat on Albert Embankment as he loved political gossip. His trilogy of Prison Diaries remain the best books of the last 20 years on what life is like in prison. He sold 350 million books in 47 languages in 114 countries but the literary cogniscenti always looked down their noses at him. I tried in vain to get him to write his autobiography. Yes, he sometimes lacked judgement, no he never achieved his aim to be a front rank politician, yes he did some bad things. But what a life. What. A. Life. @Jeffrey_Archer
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Stuart Linnell MBE retweeted
Very please to see @BBCNewsnight paid tribute to the extraordinary George Fenton. Other honourable mentions… #Newsnight #OnTheRecord #TellyAddicts
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How it used to be, as we are trying to reinvent things that worked…
In 1967 Britain had more electric vehicles on its roads than every other country on earth put together, and they were all delivering milk.
There were tens of thousands of them. The milk float: open sided, battery under the floor, top speed of about 15 miles an hour, and a whine you could pick out in your sleep. It was charged overnight at the depot and was back there by lunchtime.
It carried glass bottles. Each one was collected from your step the next morning, washed and refilled. A bottle went round like that 20 or 30 times before it broke. The foil cap went for scrap. There was no other packaging.
The milk had come from farms within a few miles, through a local dairy, and was on the step before 7.
So here is what the country had. A zero-emission delivery fleet. Reusable containers with a return rate any modern scheme would kill for. No plastic. A supply chain you could cycle the length of. A man who noticed if an old lady's bottles were piling up, and knocked.
It was dismantled in about 15 years, because a supermarket could sell milk a few pence cheaper in a plastic jug as a way of getting you through the door.
Every piece of that system is now the subject of a government target for 2040.
It was running in 1967, silently, in the dark, and nobody thought it was worth a mention.
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