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always by the north sea really
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It's not been good for, y'know, decades, but the last month has been *abysmal* for journalism job losses.
Genuinely hard to see it as anything less than the slow death of a profession at this point.
The Guardian has said it will be ending its use of casual staff (who are not formally employed with the paper) and creating roles for “rota shortfall” staff, resulting in a loss of work for up to 315 people
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Any journalist willingly pulling the Home Secretary's comments about rape out of context is being wildly irresponsible.
She was referring to the journey *to* Northern France, not the channel crossing.
Nearly all women who try to reach UK in small boats are raped during their journey, home secretary says trib.al/C03wjt3
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The 2026 Nobel Prize in physics has been awarded to Francis Halzen for his work detecting cosmic particles cnn.it/4z90Zlw
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It's awful but this is such a fascinating picture
The Great Fire of Newcastle and Gateshead began on this day 1854, leading to 53 deaths and hundreds injured. At least 800 homes and businesses were lost. Caused by explosion at worsted yarn factory owned by Wilson and Sons in Hillgate, Gateshead. (Pic: Illustrated London News.)
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The Great Fire of Newcastle and Gateshead began on this day 1854, leading to 53 deaths and hundreds injured. At least 800 homes and businesses were lost. Caused by explosion at worsted yarn factory owned by Wilson and Sons in Hillgate, Gateshead. (Pic: Illustrated London News.)
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RT @CIoJournalist: Clare Quinn reports for BBC News: "The murder of a journalist 25 years on - why has no one been caught? Martin O'Hagan w…
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EXCLUSIVE: Gateshead FC players and staff go unpaid as club plunged into crisis after resignation.
Club say they 'have been fully focused on seeking new investment.' #WorClub
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PM appears to have taken his cricket bat to vast swathes of the post 2016 economic-political consensus
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Surely sports bulletins don't cost a huge amount to do?
The pursuit of a younger "very online" sports fan is a concern. There's a chance they will lose just as many of BBC Sport's core audience. So they'll get the worst of both worlds.
NEW: BBC to cut sports bulletins - more sport staff to go.
Staff split on whether bosses moving too fast away from general (older) viewers in order to cater for very online sports fans.
Morale low among staff. This is the first of many BBC cuts to come:
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There is *plenty more*. I know competitors at the Northern Echo have been all over this too.
Should have been a national story months ago. Great that it is now.
But let's not ignore the fact that it has in fact been largely ignored, eh?
Always good when the national press picks up on huge local and regional stories!
Here is a @chroniclelive thread of reporting on the Durham and Darlington breast cancer scandal going back to spring 2025....
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Always good when the national press picks up on huge local and regional stories!
Here is a @chroniclelive thread of reporting on the Durham and Darlington breast cancer scandal going back to spring 2025....
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Lawyers call for Government to step in over Durham breast cancer failings
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'Unnecessary biopsies' and cancelled weddings - but Durham NHS bosses say service 'is safe today'
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14 women faced 'severe harm' and one died following Durham hospital breast cancer failings. (This was from the running reporting coming out of the 'look-back exercise', which is why the number is now much bigger.)
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I met this family very briefly at events around UK nationals detained abroad (such as @FreeNazanin) a long time ago.
It's *staggering* that their ordeal only now might be ending.
Scot detained in India granted bail after nine years in hell-hole prison
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