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The MPs' Public Accounts Committee will launch a mini-investigation into Andrew and Royal Lodge after our front-page exclusive:
Chair @Clifton_BrownG said it will grill Treasury and Crown Estate to "ensure the taxpayer is receiving best value for money".
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Front page exclusive today - Prince Andrew has not paid rent on Royal Lodge for two decades
He paid £8.5 million upfront costs in 2000s and can stay there for another 50 years.
@GeorgeGreenwood and I obtained Andrew's unredacted lease for the first time.
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My story from last Saturday -
🗞️ Yvette Cooper accused of blocking investigation into ‘police rapists’
thetimes.com/uk/crime/articl…
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NEW: The NCA has taken over the investigation into alleged child sexual abuse by serving officers in Rotherham.
The BBC and @thetimes reported 6 complainants had lost faith in South Yorkshire Police to investigate its own officers.
One of the women was "elated" by the news.
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New: Three people have been charged with showing support for Palestine Action.
Jeremy Shippam, 71, W Sussex
Judit Murray, 71, Surrey
Fiona Maclean, 53, Hackney
... all arrested on July 5 in Westminster
The Met asks the 500+ signed up for the PA protest this week think twice.
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I've appeared on @thetimes's daily podcast The Story -
Talking about the fallout of the Afghan leak and the terrible story of the Triple Special Forces soldier's brother in Monday's splash.
Link in next tweet 👇
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Adnan Malik, from Barings with has 1,000 Afghan clients -
“The Taliban found out that he was the brother of a Triple and they killed him.
“The guy that was on the list. I’m assuming the Taliban put two and two together and killed the brother. I don’t think it’s a coincidence.”
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Exclusive p1 story tonight on @thetimes -
🚨 Afghan 'killed by the Taliban because his soldier brother appeared on leaked list'.
The serviceman's lawyer said his client's brother was tragically shot on Friday after a superinjunction was lifted revealing the government leak:
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Review of BBC Gaza documentary confirms our scoop from March -
It found 3 members of HOYO Films knew their narrator's father was a Hamas official when the film went out, but did not intentionally mislead the BBC.
Also: BBC breached guidelines on accuracy but not impartiality.
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She told #damianwhitworth:
“I was lying right at the very edge of the bed so that I was miles away from Oswall and he wouldn’t realise anything.
"When I started crying, I would put the sheets between my teeth and just lie there and sob my heart out.
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The Saturday interview in @thetimes - with the indomitable 92-year-old postmaster Betty Brown:
🚩 ‘Post Office scandal killed my husband. I want all our money back’
Offered 70% of her claim for her Horizon trauma - her response? "No! Not good enough. I want 100 per cent"
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Exc on Horizon -
The sister of Martin Griffiths, whose death by suicide featured in the ITV drama, has called for prosecutions of bosses after the first inquiry report.
Jayne Caveen said: "The only people suffering this never-ending nightmare are the innocent, not the guilty.”
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NEW: It is likely that 13 victims of the Horizon Post Office scandal took their own lives, the Post Office inquiry chair has found.
This is more than double the five that were publicly known about - four of which I revealed in a 2021 investigation:
Exc: My investigation has uncovered FOUR suspected suicides which relatives are blaming on the Post Office.
I'd long thought, out of 3,000-odd victims, the death of Martin Griffiths could not be the only case of a postmaster taking their own life. Sadly I was proved right 🧵👇
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Exc: Close to 350 Post Office Horizon victims have now died before getting a final payout.
Findings from FOI comes as the public inquiry publishes its first report tomorrow - a major milestone in this scandal.
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Top leader in @thetimes today -
'The antics groups like Palestine Action are malign and frequently criminal, but branding them acts of terrorism was a misuse of the law'
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New: British tourists in Israel have been asked to register their personal details -
The link is to allow those stranded to receive updates, and may allow ministers to work out if repatriation flights are practicable.
Link to the registration in the next tweet 👇
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Journalist Charlotte Henry, 37, said. “The main thing is you don’t go to bed and relax... you’re waiting for the siren to go off.”
Full story here - thetimes.com/uk/defence/arti…
** If you know other Brits stranded in Israel - please get in touch, my DMs are open **
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Retired accountant James Eden, 72, said he was weighing up an escape through the Negev desert by bus, to try to get to Egypt.
The grandfather, from Newcastle-upon-Tyne, told @PA: “The [Foreign Office] rang me and said there wasn’t a lot they could do."
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Dad of two Max Radford, 52, feared his stay in Israel would be “indefinite” and said the gov't should fly planes to Cyprus:
"There are thousands of Brits here that are stranded. They need to do something. There is no airline that can do it.”
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New: I interviewed Brits stranded in Israel as Iran's missiles struck Tel Aviv.
Zach Margolin, 31, told me "it's really frightening" and last night his AirBnB was damaged in a strike.
They called for British Gov't to organise repatriation flights for when airspace reopens. 🧵👇
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Britain was in the top three nations to visit Israel last year with 80,000 tourists, meaning the UK was behind only France and the USA.
Last month, when Jews celebrated Passover, the number of Britons heading to Israel hit 14,700.
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Britain is poised to advise against all travel to Israel - exc by @Steven_Swinford -
If you know someone who is on holiday or visiting family/friends there please get in touch.
My DMs are open >>>
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Interesting - average house prices in London were the same in 2016, as they are in 2025.
🏘️ Flat over nine years at £552,000 (from UK House Price Index).
In that time wages and prices (and no doubt rents) have risen by a third.
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New: The Post Office Inquiry will publish its first report this summer:
It will focus on compensation and human impact.
Doesn’t bode well for the main part of Sir Wyn’s report - been hearing it may not even be this year which would also delay police action.
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The algorithm...
Thread gets 57 RTs but the second tweet in the thread only gets 49 views? 🤔
Not to mention that tweets only reach a tiny fraction of your own followers, even if they get engagement.
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World-famous Blue Note jazz club opening in London next year - but only after pre-midnight licence was overturned on appeal.
Embarrassing for London - Met said punters could be exposed to “crime in the immediate area”.
Seems the Met would rather we were all tucked up at 10pm.
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New: A major piece of academic work about the trauma suffered by Horizon victims is published today.
Through interviews with 26 victims, Exeter/UCL document the appalling impact of the scandal.
Suicide, violence, depression, broken marriages, homelessness - list goes on 🧵👇
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The other startling figure:
📈 The number of claimants - or Horizon victims - has climbed to more than 10,000.
📈 This is quite extraordinary as in 2017-19, there were only 555 fighting for justice. End even 18 months ago there were around 4,000 fighting for redress.
You can view the government's full progress report here:
gov.uk/government/publicatio…
ALT @nickwallis @chrish9070 @rthonkevanjones @ExeterLawSchool @JoHamil73963257
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Massive congratulations to Mr Bates vs the Post Office on their Bafta win.
🚩 But where are we on paying compensation to Post Office Horizon victims?
In today's paper I interviewed the extraordinary Teresa-Marie Lean, who is still waiting after 2 decades.
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New from me this weekend -
🗞️ Meet the mother and daughter who ditched the Tories to win for Reform:
The story of how Emma and Cathy Hunt became disillusioned with Westminster is a cautionary tale for Kemi Badenoch and Sir Keir Starmer.
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New from me: Nigel Farage’s Reform UK denied its highest profile candidate Arron Banks offered a “bribe” to a Tory MP to defect.
We saw a Whatsapp message from Dame Andrea Jenkyns in which she says Banks “tried to bribe me”.
Now they're both standing as mayoral candidates 👇
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New: Oxford Uni is accused of leading a ‘slimy’ campaign to ban Boat Race rowers
Exclusive interview with the Oxford clubs senior member Sir John Bell (yes, the vaccine guy), who told me to "stop being so bloody stupid"
Cont. 👇
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Exc: An investor in Rory Campbell's £5m betting fund has died before receiving their cash back.
The well-known figure in the betting world had messaged Campbell in 2023:
“Are you going to send some money soon or are you just hoping I die before you need to pay up?”
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New read - Can courting MAGA make Liz Truss great again?
** UK friends "not really with her" - ally.
** Former arch-ally Baroness Coffey: "We don’t talk about our political paths."
** She has "disappeared" from Norfolk home & even “might be selling up”, said neighbour.
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20 years ago yesterday Jayakanthan Sivasubramaniam took his life after investigators raided his post office.
He was the fifth suicide I've uncovered related to the scandal.
His widow Gowri, who spoke to me last year, has still not received compensation.
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Huge congrats to my close friend Rupert Dastur on the release of his debut novel, Cloudless!
Waterstone's named him out as one of the most exciting new authors to watch.
He's a fantastic writer and the loveliest man so it's well deserved (1/2)
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Any tips on how to get faster broadband speeds?
We're in central London and Vodafone (in this case) can only guarantee 6-7 Mbps.
No fibre to the house available here - so it's all BT infrastructure
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My latest - Alastair Campbell’s son ‘accepted fresh backer to his failing syndicate’:
Rory Campbell took new investment into £5m betting fund weeks after existing backers struggled to withdraw their cash.
Read below for fresh detail on the timeline of the fund's collapse [1/4]
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My front page story today -
🗞️ The attorney-general was paid £30,000 to represent Gerry Adams in a high court case.
Keir Starmer's friend, Lord Hermer KC, has declined to say whether he had any say in a decision to open the door to compensation for Adams and other Republicans.
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I've written a series of stories about the failure of the betting syndicate run by Rory Campbell (Alastair's son).
If you are an investor or otherwise involved in the syndicate or C&N -
Please get in touch in confidence - my DMs are open.
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Post Office IT victims Lee Castleton and Chris Head received OBEs for services to justice - but still haven't been paid final compensation.
Jo Hamilton and Seema Misra also very well deserved OBEs - all four have campaigned tirelessly for postmasters for 15 years+.
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We're fulfilling a dream of getting our own border terrier in the New Year:
Stevie is going to be trained as a therapy dog to work with my psychotherapist partner...
So this article/pic of Brian with a patient is a complete joy!
bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cz7w…
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