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Tracey Briggs
@traceybriggs1.bsky.social
Happy long time dyslexic actor👵🏻 love being part of brilliant stories ❤️ brilliant writers. ❤️ Dancing singing and campaigning. Known for Calendar Girls #DavidPughLtd, BBC Archers. Spotlight: https://app.spotlight.com/6215-7869-5146
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On the day that BBC Doctors ends on our screens. I'm sharing a poem I wrote about the way the BBC has treated Birmingham and the Midlands region.
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BBC Midlands Poem film
4 minutes © Tracey Briggs 2024 Filmed and edited by Sherrie Edgar Location: Mockingbird Cinema, Birmingham Campaign for Regional Broadcasting Midlands Story…
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Good morning & welcome to #Caturday

There’s someone out there who still remembers you.

Not because of how you looked or what you did, but because, when no one else showed up with kindness, you did.

Kindness always matters
November 22, 2025 at 8:21 AM
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This story is all Nigel Farage should be asked about by journalists for months
Ex-leader of Reform UK in Wales sentenced to 10-and-a-half years for taking pro-Russian bribes
The judge tells Nathan Gill his actions were a
www.bbc.co.uk
November 21, 2025 at 2:34 PM
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Nathan Gill has been sentenced to 10.5 years for endangering national security and taking Russian bribes.

Nigel Farage and Reform are a danger to national security, the Liberal Democrats will continue to hold them to account and defend our democracy.
November 21, 2025 at 1:26 PM
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Rachel Reeves admits Brexit has damaged the economy but won’t take the steps needed to fix it.

Lib Dems have a plan to rebuild Britain’s trade with the EU and boost growth.
November 21, 2025 at 5:00 PM
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Ukraine is on the brink of an historic betrayal by Trump to Putin.

Keir Starmer must bring our European allies together to back Zelensky, starting by seizing frozen Russian assets to support Ukraine.
November 21, 2025 at 5:16 PM
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We've recently been thinking that we should level up our snack game, so we did!

Some serious crisps and nibbles from some brilliant makers of snacks including Superbon, Soffle's Chip and @currysmugglers.bsky.social!

We hope you enjoy them, more to come...

#VivaStirchley #VivaBrum #ShopIndependent
November 21, 2025 at 4:04 PM
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#THEATRE #REVIEW ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Sherlock Holmes and The 12 Days of Christmas #BirminghamREP www.thereviewshub.com/sherlock-hol... "festive fun: pantomimic, but not pantomime; it comes highly recommended" #Birmingham
Sherlock Holmes and The 12 Days of Christmas - Birmingham REP - The Reviews Hub
Writers: Humphrey Ker and David Reed Original Songs: Tim Rice and Andrew Lloyd Webber Director: Phillip Breen with Becky Hope-Palmer It’s Victorian London, and a sinister serial killer is on the loose...
www.thereviewshub.com
November 21, 2025 at 2:49 PM
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GET THIS IN YOUR EARS

Jewellery. Deporations.
Distraction tactics.

Same circus, different week

But we cover it…differently 😉

(and that piggy from the US makes a cameo too)

Brand new ep on link below…

podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/t...
Jewellery, Deportations & Distraction Tactics
Podcast Episode · The Trawl · 21/11/2025 · 38m
podcasts.apple.com
November 21, 2025 at 1:53 PM
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Within Reform, it’s evident that the council is in a make-or-break situation, to show whether they can be trusted to govern the country.
Are standards of civility falling at Reform Kent County Council?
The ‘suck it up’ Linden Kimkaran car crash video of Reform UK’s KCC virtual meeting escapes onto the web
kentandsurreybylines.co.uk
November 21, 2025 at 11:04 AM
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We sold our water to foreign billionaires. Now we’re handing them our health data.
Government’s last chance to keep control of digital
Digital sovereignty isn’t optional anymore. We sold our water to foreign billionaires. Now we’re handing them our health data
yorkshirebylines.co.uk
November 21, 2025 at 11:01 AM
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Gill-ty as charged.

I wonder if Nigel Farage will be giving a press conference on this one?
November 21, 2025 at 1:05 PM
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Facist tapeworm’s traitor chum Gill jailed for 10 yrs - meanwhile
“A cryptocurrency backed by one of Farage’s biggest donors used to help Russia fight…Ukraine…The National Crime Agency has spent four years trying to crack a multibillion-dollar scheme”
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
Cryptocurrency backed by Farage donor is used for Russian war effort, investigators say
Tether tokens found to facilitate scheme that enables sanctions evasion and launders money for the Kremlin
www.theguardian.com
November 21, 2025 at 2:13 PM
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The government will soon publish its child poverty strategy.

We’re calling for clear, measurable child poverty reduction targets.

A huge thank you to our ambassadors for standing with us:
⭐ George Clarke
⭐ Rose Williams
⭐ Lorna Tucker
⭐ Kwajo Tweneboa
⭐ Chris Packham
⭐ Rotimi Merriman-Johnson
November 21, 2025 at 2:13 PM
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BREAKING: As Reform UK's former Welsh leader and Nigel Farage associate is sentenced to 10 and a half years in prison for taking bribes to spread pro-Russian propaganda, @peterjukes.bsky.social reports on why it opens the door to a broader investigation of Russian interference in our politics
Nathan Gill, Voloshyn and the Kremlin’s European Network
The sentencing of Reform UK's former leader in Wales to ten and a half years in prison should open the door to a broader investigation into the pro-Kremlin network that has infiltrated European politi...
bylinetimes.com
November 21, 2025 at 1:06 PM
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Gent with stubble, "Just with regards to the idea that cutting net zero is going to reduce energy prices"

"Renewable power is cheaper to generate than gas energy"

"How do you square those two things, it just doesn't make sense" #BBCQT
November 21, 2025 at 11:46 AM
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Josh Babarinde, "We need radical solutions and the Liberal Democrats are offering that"

"Fundamentally we need to cut bills, and our plan involves taxing the big companies in society to help those struggling the most"

"There are people with cash in our society that need to be paying their way"
November 21, 2025 at 12:17 PM
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Zoe Lyons, "There's such a massive gap now between the rich and poor in this country that if you are genuinely are on lower wages, and inflation is hitting you, it's really bloody hard to survive"

"There are people in this country working full time using food banks, that should never happen"
November 21, 2025 at 11:41 AM
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How To Platform Socialist Ideas Through Billionaire Owned Channels | George Monbiot | Zack Polanski

www.youtube.com/watch?v=3xx6...
How To Platform Socialist Ideas Through Billionaire Owned Channels | George Monbiot | Zack Polanski
YouTube video by Bold Politics with Zack Polanski
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November 19, 2025 at 11:28 PM
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When you deny others their humanity, you relinquish your own.

We all deserve better.

join.greenparty.org.uk
November 19, 2025 at 8:46 PM
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In an exclusive PoliticsJOE interview, former Labour MP Lloyd Russell-Moyle sits down for his first in-depth conversation since defecting to the Green Party, now led by Zack Polanski.

Not the last, by a long way!!
EXCLUSIVE: Former Labour MP defects to Green Party
YouTube video by PoliticsJOE
www.youtube.com
November 20, 2025 at 7:22 PM
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Among other topics, we discuss the sale of children in care.
They're worth roughly £100k each. The profit you can extract by sending them across the country to the cheapest housing in derelict places, cutting them off from all hope and contact, is off the scale. www.youtube.com/watch?v=3xx6...
How To Platform Socialist Ideas Through Billionaire Owned Channels | George Monbiot | Zack Polanski
YouTube video by Bold Politics with Zack Polanski
www.youtube.com
November 20, 2025 at 2:03 PM
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New #EpsteinFiles @bylinetimes.bsky.social investigation: how Steve Bannon’s planned “European revolution” ran through Nigel Farage’s network – with convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein quietly helping in the background. 🧵 1/12
Dinner with Mr Brexit: Bannon’s European Revolution – Planned with Farage, Backed by Epstein
Nigel Farage was the figurehead and his partner Laure Ferrari started it. Steve Bannon and convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein were providing almost daily support
bylinetimes.com
November 19, 2025 at 8:55 PM
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Ferrari had worked for Farage’s UKIP and ran the Farage-linked IDDE think tank, later accused (alongside ADDE) of diverting EU funds into UKIP campaigning. She is now openly Farage’s partner – and bought the Clacton house he had claimed was his.
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
(4/12)
Nigel Farage admits he was wrong to say he had bought house in Clacton
Reform UK leader says he should not have claimed he was buyer of property that was really bought by his partner
www.theguardian.com
November 19, 2025 at 8:55 PM