John Henderson
@jphendo.bsky.social
Retired after more than 45 years in journalism on local and regional papers and national magazines. Motoring writer for 25 years. Last paper Bury Free Press. Dog lover, interested in wildlife, intolerant of intolerance. UK.
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⚠️ Yellow weather warning UPDATED ⚠️
Extended into central & western Scotland
Now valid until 1900 today
Latest info 👉 bit.ly/WxWarning
Stay #WeatherAware⚠️
Extended into central & western Scotland
Now valid until 1900 today
Latest info 👉 bit.ly/WxWarning
Stay #WeatherAware⚠️
November 13, 2025 at 9:37 AM
⚠️ Yellow weather warning UPDATED ⚠️
Extended into central & western Scotland
Now valid until 1900 today
Latest info 👉 bit.ly/WxWarning
Stay #WeatherAware⚠️
Extended into central & western Scotland
Now valid until 1900 today
Latest info 👉 bit.ly/WxWarning
Stay #WeatherAware⚠️
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Love being reminded to do this every year. It's a win/win all round
November 11, 2025 at 11:00 AM
Love being reminded to do this every year. It's a win/win all round
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Felicity.hannah@bbc.co.uk - please do share if you can. Thanks #blendedfamilies
November 11, 2025 at 2:49 PM
Felicity.hannah@bbc.co.uk - please do share if you can. Thanks #blendedfamilies
Should you venture to X yoday, don't bother looking at the responses to any BBC News post. They are full of the "defund the BBC" mob and Maga/Muskbots ranting about nothing to do with the story. Many are claiming to be Americans with remarkably few posts or followers.
November 11, 2025 at 11:35 AM
Should you venture to X yoday, don't bother looking at the responses to any BBC News post. They are full of the "defund the BBC" mob and Maga/Muskbots ranting about nothing to do with the story. Many are claiming to be Americans with remarkably few posts or followers.
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Nowhere in the hysterical pile-on against the BBC in the British press has anyone mentioned that BBC News now has 77 million viewers & listeners in the US and has established itself as the second most trusted news source there.
November 11, 2025 at 8:37 AM
Nowhere in the hysterical pile-on against the BBC in the British press has anyone mentioned that BBC News now has 77 million viewers & listeners in the US and has established itself as the second most trusted news source there.
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Train hero Samir Zitouni wakes in hospital and speaks to wife
Train hero Samir Zitouni wakes in hospital and speaks to wife
The injured crew member is credited with saving multiple lives during a mass stabbing incident.
www.bbc.com
November 10, 2025 at 12:06 PM
Train hero Samir Zitouni wakes in hospital and speaks to wife
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This is top-tier reporting from @paddyedrich.bsky.social into the disturbing world inside Southport killer Axel Rudakubana’s home and the terrifying signs of what was to come
Inside the Rudakubana house where parents let 'evil go unchecked'
SPECIAL REPORT: The ECHO lifts the lid on what life was like in the Rudakubana household after listening to every minute of the family's inquiry evidence
www.liverpoolecho.co.uk
November 8, 2025 at 10:06 AM
This is top-tier reporting from @paddyedrich.bsky.social into the disturbing world inside Southport killer Axel Rudakubana’s home and the terrifying signs of what was to come
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Wondering why no one likes your posts anymore, even among your friends? It's because @jay.bsky.team and team have decided to hide a huge amount of content from all of our feeds by default.
Here's how to turn it off.
First go to the hamburger menu in the upper left corner
Here's how to turn it off.
First go to the hamburger menu in the upper left corner
November 6, 2025 at 6:23 PM
Wondering why no one likes your posts anymore, even among your friends? It's because @jay.bsky.team and team have decided to hide a huge amount of content from all of our feeds by default.
Here's how to turn it off.
First go to the hamburger menu in the upper left corner
Here's how to turn it off.
First go to the hamburger menu in the upper left corner
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Worrying reports of bird flu (avian influenza) are coming in, including an outbreak in Whooper Swans in the Fens. Other waterbirds are also being affected, and cases are rising.
📷 Sick Whooper Swan by Kane Brides
#UKBirding #BirdingWales #BirdingScotland
📷 Sick Whooper Swan by Kane Brides
#UKBirding #BirdingWales #BirdingScotland
November 6, 2025 at 8:08 PM
Worrying reports of bird flu (avian influenza) are coming in, including an outbreak in Whooper Swans in the Fens. Other waterbirds are also being affected, and cases are rising.
📷 Sick Whooper Swan by Kane Brides
#UKBirding #BirdingWales #BirdingScotland
📷 Sick Whooper Swan by Kane Brides
#UKBirding #BirdingWales #BirdingScotland
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Your periodic reminder that mRNA vaccines are a scientific and public health game-changer. Those that have been approved have passed stringent efficacy and safety checks. They protect you and your child against potentially fatal diseases. You may, however, get a sore arm.
September 3, 2025 at 10:55 AM
Your periodic reminder that mRNA vaccines are a scientific and public health game-changer. Those that have been approved have passed stringent efficacy and safety checks. They protect you and your child against potentially fatal diseases. You may, however, get a sore arm.
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First the likes of Farage said we needed to leave the EU. Now they’re coming for the ECHR.
Paul Kohler MP: "It feels like Brexit déjà vu with the same hollow promises of taking back control, the same disregard for facts, the same blindness to consequence."
Paul Kohler MP: "It feels like Brexit déjà vu with the same hollow promises of taking back control, the same disregard for facts, the same blindness to consequence."
November 5, 2025 at 6:22 PM
First the likes of Farage said we needed to leave the EU. Now they’re coming for the ECHR.
Paul Kohler MP: "It feels like Brexit déjà vu with the same hollow promises of taking back control, the same disregard for facts, the same blindness to consequence."
Paul Kohler MP: "It feels like Brexit déjà vu with the same hollow promises of taking back control, the same disregard for facts, the same blindness to consequence."
Why are manuals for any tech so crap? Was going to return a new radio alarm because the menu button didn't work. Fiddling with it I've found that while all other settings, like the alarms, are with it on standby the manual makes no mention that the radio must be playing for the menu button to work.
November 5, 2025 at 2:41 PM
Why are manuals for any tech so crap? Was going to return a new radio alarm because the menu button didn't work. Fiddling with it I've found that while all other settings, like the alarms, are with it on standby the manual makes no mention that the radio must be playing for the menu button to work.
If you're sick of energy suppliers making it difficult to sort things out, try @octopus.energy. We went to them after Shell's incompetent customer service took a year to replace a faulty meter through not passing info to the right depts or answering emails. Octopus was much easier from the start.
November 5, 2025 at 2:00 PM
If you're sick of energy suppliers making it difficult to sort things out, try @octopus.energy. We went to them after Shell's incompetent customer service took a year to replace a faulty meter through not passing info to the right depts or answering emails. Octopus was much easier from the start.
We've had a muntjac in the garden which isn't unusual but this one has been confidently laying in the open watching us moving about at the kitchen window. Usually, they're off as soon as they see movement. Wonder if it was the fawn whose mum brought it in in the summer to drink at the birds' water.
November 4, 2025 at 4:05 PM
We've had a muntjac in the garden which isn't unusual but this one has been confidently laying in the open watching us moving about at the kitchen window. Usually, they're off as soon as they see movement. Wonder if it was the fawn whose mum brought it in in the summer to drink at the birds' water.
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Reform-run Council Cancels Christmas... And, at significant cost.
I would say you couldn't make it up. But unfortunately Reform can and did. ~AA
I would say you couldn't make it up. But unfortunately Reform can and did. ~AA
November 3, 2025 at 2:09 PM
Reform-run Council Cancels Christmas... And, at significant cost.
I would say you couldn't make it up. But unfortunately Reform can and did. ~AA
I would say you couldn't make it up. But unfortunately Reform can and did. ~AA
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“Selma van de Perre, a valiant Jewish secretary who during World War II covertly transported suitcases bulging with cash, seditious newsletters, identity cards and ration books to Dutch resistance agents, even penetrating Nazi headquarters in Paris, died on Oct. 20 in London. She was 103.”
Selma van de Perre, Dutch Jew Who Resisted Nazis, Dies at 103
www.nytimes.com
November 2, 2025 at 12:38 PM
“Selma van de Perre, a valiant Jewish secretary who during World War II covertly transported suitcases bulging with cash, seditious newsletters, identity cards and ration books to Dutch resistance agents, even penetrating Nazi headquarters in Paris, died on Oct. 20 in London. She was 103.”
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Melissa was one of the strongest storms on record. NOAA’s Hurricane Hunters flew into it without pay.
Crews are asked “To be fully mentally present, especially in this environment, and it’s hard to do that when you know you can’t potentially make ends meet.” www.cnn.com/2025/10/31/w...
Crews are asked “To be fully mentally present, especially in this environment, and it’s hard to do that when you know you can’t potentially make ends meet.” www.cnn.com/2025/10/31/w...
Melissa was one of the strongest storms on record. NOAA’s Hurricane Hunters flew into it without pay | CNN
The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s Hurricane Hunters have spent the past week diving into the eye of Melissa — a storm of historic ferocity — to gather life-saving data. But the gov...
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October 31, 2025 at 3:09 PM
Melissa was one of the strongest storms on record. NOAA’s Hurricane Hunters flew into it without pay.
Crews are asked “To be fully mentally present, especially in this environment, and it’s hard to do that when you know you can’t potentially make ends meet.” www.cnn.com/2025/10/31/w...
Crews are asked “To be fully mentally present, especially in this environment, and it’s hard to do that when you know you can’t potentially make ends meet.” www.cnn.com/2025/10/31/w...
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If you're a National Trust member, it's that time of year again: Midnight tonight is the deadline. It's a shame people have to keep doing this to keep a toehold on historical truth in this country, but here we are. Voting link: www.nationaltrust.org.uk/who-we-are/a...
![[Scene is the entrance cabin to a NATIONAL TRUST PROPERTY AND GARDENS]
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NATIONAL TRUST EMPLOYEE [inside cabin]:
Hello there
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[A young family - two parents two kids - have arrived at the front desk].
DAD:
Hi - do you have an activity trail, for the kids?
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NT EMPLOYEE:
Of course – you’re just in time for the Autumn Gammon Trail!
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MUM:
That sounds fun, doesn’t it kids?
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NT EMPLOYEE [handing an activity sheet and pencils to the kids]:
Every autumn, the Reform Trust gammons flock back to the National Trust for the AGM. Just follow the trail round the grounds, and see how many you can spot!
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NT EMPLOYEE [hearing something in the gardens]:
Listen - that's their call
[Calls emanating from the landscape]:
tut-tut
woke-woke
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NT EMPLOYEE [showing the family an apparently empty fenced enclosure with some bushes in]:
They are extremely sensitive and fragile...
But you can bring them out of hiding if you put a little sign down mentioning slavery.
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KIDS [pointing]:
There they are!
[Some little red faced PEOPLE wearing Barbour jackets and gilets emerge cautiously from the bushes. They are creeping towards a TINY SIGN in the middle of the enclosure].
[Little people noises]:
woke-woke
tut-tut
woke-woke
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[Close-up of the TINY SIGN - we can read that it says]:
Slavery had a bit to do with building this massive house.
[Noises from the little people again as they inspect the tiny sign]:
tut-tut
woke-woke
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MUM [pointing]:
What's that one doing there?
NT EMPLOYEE:
Oh, that's so sweet…
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[We see that one of the people is sat on a rock, with a little laptop open on a tree stump, and they are furiously typing away].
NT EMPLOYEE:
I think he's writing a column for the Daily Telegraph…
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[We see close up to the little person’s screen, it is a word document reading]:
Are National Trust scones secretly WOKE?
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October 31, 2025 at 9:02 AM
If you're a National Trust member, it's that time of year again: Midnight tonight is the deadline. It's a shame people have to keep doing this to keep a toehold on historical truth in this country, but here we are. Voting link: www.nationaltrust.org.uk/who-we-are/a...
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Farage: epic grifter
October 27, 2025 at 12:45 PM
Farage: epic grifter
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My friend Mark Mardell was chucked off his Turkish Airlines flight at the weekend because he had Parkinson’s and his son had asked for assistance for him. (He’s written about it as a public post on Facebook but the link is proving hard to share outside,)
My friend Mark Mardell was chucked off his Turkish Airlines flight at the weekend because he had Parkinson’s and his son had asked for assistance for him. (He’s written about it as a public post on Facebook but the link is proving hard to share outside,)
October 27, 2025 at 6:00 AM
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My friend Mark Mardell was chucked off his Turkish Airlines flight at the weekend because he had Parkinson’s and his son had asked for assistance for him. (He’s written about it as a public post on Facebook but the link is proving hard to share outside,)
My friend Mark Mardell was chucked off his Turkish Airlines flight at the weekend because he had Parkinson’s and his son had asked for assistance for him. (He’s written about it as a public post on Facebook but the link is proving hard to share outside,)
Few hundred whooper swans have found a couple of harvested maize fields to graze on down the road (Suffolk). It must be tasty because they usually avoid fields with nearby trees. Doubt they see many in their Iceland summer home. They'll gather on harvested beet fields later. #swans #migration #birds
October 27, 2025 at 9:05 AM
Few hundred whooper swans have found a couple of harvested maize fields to graze on down the road (Suffolk). It must be tasty because they usually avoid fields with nearby trees. Doubt they see many in their Iceland summer home. They'll gather on harvested beet fields later. #swans #migration #birds
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BIG ARCHAEOLOGY NEWS! 💫
A new section of Hadrian’s Wall has been discovered! The furthest west bit found yet - and it is glorious! 🤩
Reported by the great WC21. Link to his full video here: youtu.be/VfVvl3A_sO4?...
#archaeology #history #Roman
A new section of Hadrian’s Wall has been discovered! The furthest west bit found yet - and it is glorious! 🤩
Reported by the great WC21. Link to his full video here: youtu.be/VfVvl3A_sO4?...
#archaeology #history #Roman
October 26, 2025 at 11:55 AM
BIG ARCHAEOLOGY NEWS! 💫
A new section of Hadrian’s Wall has been discovered! The furthest west bit found yet - and it is glorious! 🤩
Reported by the great WC21. Link to his full video here: youtu.be/VfVvl3A_sO4?...
#archaeology #history #Roman
A new section of Hadrian’s Wall has been discovered! The furthest west bit found yet - and it is glorious! 🤩
Reported by the great WC21. Link to his full video here: youtu.be/VfVvl3A_sO4?...
#archaeology #history #Roman
@lizanderson.bsky.social Not a #mudlarking find but I wondered if you or your followers knew what this tiny bottle I found on a molehill might be. Only marking is the number 26 on the base. It has a simple thread moulded round the opening. Base is about 10mm wide.
October 26, 2025 at 9:20 AM
@lizanderson.bsky.social Not a #mudlarking find but I wondered if you or your followers knew what this tiny bottle I found on a molehill might be. Only marking is the number 26 on the base. It has a simple thread moulded round the opening. Base is about 10mm wide.
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possibly the funniest political moment of the year
Kemi Badenoch’s ability to plant political time bombs that blow up in the face of the party she leads is truly unparalleled.
What’s particularly impressive here is she could have found this out herself before raising the profile of this issue at PMQs.
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What’s particularly impressive here is she could have found this out herself before raising the profile of this issue at PMQs.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Key China spy case witness removed 'enemy' from evidence under Tories
Security adviser Matthew Collins says the term
www.bbc.co.uk
October 24, 2025 at 5:07 PM
possibly the funniest political moment of the year