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@HillsboroughSu1 Never been back inside, once went outside a few years after but never been back since 😢

And so we’ve returned to pay our respects to those no longer here

Today is the 33rd anniversary of the day the IRA bombed Warrington town centre and killed my son Tim and 3 yr old Johnathan Ball. Words can never describe how losing a child leaves a huge hole in your heart and your family. Eternal love Tim ❤️❤️

💙 'We focused so much on turning something bad into something good.' Remembering Tim Parry, 33 years on from his death following the IRA bombings in Warrington.

Hello, there 👋 Have you heard David Lammy MP and Sarah Sackman MP talking about people stealing bottles of whisky and swiping mobile telephones as examples of people who should not get jury trials? Well. I’d like to tell you a story. 🪡 🧵

🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 Kriss Donald: “I’m only 15, what have I done?” “Kriss was snatched while walking with a friend, forced into a stolen silver Mercedes despite desperate resistance—he reportedly cried out, ‘I’m only 15, what have I done?’” The UK’s most shocking racially motivated killing. A Pakistani gang targeted him because he was white. He was taken to a flat where he endured hours of prolonged torture and brutality. The perpetrators stabbed him repeatedly (13 times, including a severe throat wound), beat him, and eventually doused him in petrol and set him alight while still alive. Forgotten... The anniversary of #KrissDonald’s death is tomorrow, 15 March, 2004.

Four words that seem to confuse A LOT of drivers! #RoadSafety

We were delighted to welcome John Davidson to Scottish Gas Murrayfield yesterday! Excellent work on the trews, John 💙💛 #AsOne

Earlier today, I posted about overhearing someone in a café - enjoying a full English breakfast while complaining to the owner that their housing association wasn't fixing problems in their social housing fast enough. I implied that someone on benefits shouldn't be dining out. I want to clarify my position. I fully and completely stand by it. If you are getting paid not to work, I am paying for you. You are reaching into my pocket and taking money I earned and made available to the government as part of my obligation as a taxpayer. That creates an obligation on your end - to spend as little of that money as possible. This is exactly the same standard I apply to government itself. Every public body, from the NHS to the council fixing potholes, owes the taxpayer the same duty: extract maximum value from the budget you're given. I see no reason why individuals receiving benefits should be held to a lower standard. They are spending someone else's money. If you can afford to dine out, you should not be on benefits. You should not be in social housing. To me, that is a clear signal that you are receiving too much and abusing the system. I am not willing to fund someone's restaurant meals while also housing them. Benefits and social housing are meant to be a bridge, not a destination. They exist to carry people through hardship until they can stand on their own. Social housing is temporary accommodation - it is not a home. At least, it shouldn’t be. The moment it stops being treated as temporary, the entire logic of the safety net collapses. This brings me to the part people will call draconian. The moment public funds begin flowing into your bank account, you should expect zero privacy into your family's finances. That should be the deal - stated plainly, signed away upfront. You get the money. We, the taxpayers whose money you are spending, get full visibility into how it is spent. Cash withdrawals should be disabled by default from any account receiving benefits. If cash is needed, invoices and receipts should be uploaded promptly. If they don't reconcile, if dates are wrong, if there is any suspicion of luxury spending or wrongdoing - benefits stop. Simple as that. I know people will invoke human rights and privacy. My answer is equally simple. You take my money, I take your privacy. If you spend that money without taking the mickey, you have nothing to worry about. And I think a great many people would think twice about abusing the system if this contract were real. Because here is the truth: if you are in genuine hardship and you know the money you are receiving belongs to someone else, you are not dining out. You are not buying luxuries. You are spending the bare minimum to keep yourself going until you find the next job and get off the benefits. That is what genuine hardship looks like. There are plenty of countries in the world where this safety net does not exist at all - where individual families bear the entire burden, and where those without family simply fall. We should never become one of those countries. We should always help those facing hardship through no fault of their own. But the point of a safety net is that you bounce back. If you cling to it indefinitely, it becomes impossible for those of us maintaining it through our taxes to keep it standing. For anyone facing genuine hardship, this system - this social contract - will work just fine. It is only a problem if you are abusing it. And that is exactly the point.

Dear @NationalHways and @HighwaysNWEST Please explain why the matrix signs were showing 50mph all the way from Birmingham to Preston last night on the M6. Next to no traffic… Some ignored the limit, most obeyed, with your proliferation of cameras.

@HighwaysNWEST @YTimesMotoring That’s doesn’t really answer the question @HighwaysNWEST . @HighwaysEAST does this on the new section of A14 towards Brampton at night. Minimal traffic and clear for miles and drops the speed to 40mph.

@YTimesMotoring Hello. We implement reduced speed limits on sections of our motorway network while we undertake essential maintenance and upgrades to our traffic management systems. You can find out more info here: nationalhighways.co.uk/travel-updates…

It’s absolutely outrageous that people are being cruel. These celebrities have no idea what the real world is like. Seems like their be kind motto is for everyone else and not them

Petition: Legally require all councillors & mayors to speak proficient English petition.parliament.uk/petitions/7587…

@classiccarguru1 Have you tried contacting PALS ? I think it goes straight against there KPI’s so they don’t like people using it to complain. From experience they suddenly become very helpful. uhsussex.nhs.uk/patients-and-v…?

6 wks ago my blood test had quadrupled PSA levels GP called me in Talked about counselling & end of life plans Said I needed CT scan within 2 weeks 6 weeks later- nothing Called Hospital “Your GP isn’t qualified to book scan, we have to see you first” “When?” “Wait for a letter”

It does peeve me seeing some Americans sneering at the British in general because of the actions and behaviour of Kier Starmer and his party of leftwaffe twats. How quickly they have forgotten that they had a similar dribbling moron in charge of their country before Trump. Please understand, guys, that Starmer is the most hated Prime Minister in recorded history, while his party is so ridiculed they want to be rid of jury trials so they they can imprison people for 'speech crimes'.

Deon Cole: "If there are any white men in the room with Tourette's, I advise you to tell them to read the room, lord. It might not go the way they thinketh."

HMRC just released their latest alcohol and tobacco duty figures. The numbers are a damning indictment of the nanny state "sin tax" strategy. A thread 👇

Eddie’s on the edge of breaking down here. I am… Jason Becker, what a fighter. Never lose hope people. Touching work Eddie Van Halen.

It's important that we respect the result from Gorton. The people have spoken. Well, their husbands and brothers have.

A Scottish grandmother posted the following today, begging the public for help: "This is my grandson, Lucas, being attacked by a gang of Asian youths. Lucas attends BELLAHOUSTON ACADEMY in Glasgow. Lucas is 12 and from the day he started at this school, he has been bullied for being white and little bit overweight plus he is tall for his age. Lucas has ADHD and a degree of Autism. These youths are from his school and are older. They told him they will Rape, Stab or Shoot his mother. They are terrorising the whole area and have been for around a year. We have now involved the Police, Media and written to the Board of Education. He is terrified to go back to school, Lucas is the kindest boy you could ever wish to meet. This has to stop". Share this and show what’s really happening.

#ConsumerRightsAct #Currys #KnowYourRights A rant for @currys, who are currently breaking the law. Normally I'd let it go, but your customer service is a shitshow and your desire to wash your hands of the faulty items you sell is illegal. On 10 October 2025, I walked into your Exeter shop and bought a PCSpecialist computer. This was the birthday present for my 12-year-old. A present they'd been dropping hints about for months with the subtlety of a child who remains terrible at poker. They'd saved their own pocket money towards it. I topped it up. It was, genuinely, a lovely moment. For four months, it was perfect. Homework. Games. The full experience of being 12 in 2025. On 22 February 2026, four months and 12 days after purchase, it stopped working. No final farewell. It just… stopped. My child sat there pressing the power button with increasing desperation, and nothing happened. The machine that had cost a significant amount of adult money, and a not-insignificant amount of 12-year-old pocket money, was dead. Fine, I thought. This is what a receipt is for. I'll call Currys (the shop I bought it from, with my money, as a birthday present for my child) and they'll sort it. Your staff told me that my contract wasn't with Currys, and that I should contact the manufacturer. They also told me to go in-store with the machine to have it looked at. I went in-store. The in-store staff told me to call the number I had just called. I called again. I was given the phone number for PCSpecialist. Phone → store → same phone → manufacturer. A perfect circle of not helping. A masterpiece of redirection. If it weren't happening to me, I'd almost admire it. Now let's talk about the law, because I think someone at Currys may have forgotten it exists. The Consumer Rights Act 2015 is not a suggestion. It is extremely clear on this point: when you buy something from a retailer, your legal contract is with that retailer. Not the brand on the box. Not the manufacturer. Not some third party you've never met. The shop. The one that took your money and handed you a receipt. Within the first six months of purchase, the law presumes the fault existed at the point of sale. I don't have to prove the computer was faulty when I bought it. Currys has to prove it wasn't. The burden of proof sits entirely with them. During this window, I am legally entitled to a repair or a replacement, and if either of those fails, a full refund. We are currently inside that six-month window. I bought it on 10 October 2025. I complained on 22 February 2026. I am four and a half months in. The law is not ambiguous about what happens here. What makes this particularly spectacular is that Currys' own published policy acknowledges the six-month framework. It is written down on their website. They know the rules. They have typed them up and put them on the internet. They are simply hoping that their customers are too tired from the runaround to actually enforce them. PCSpecialist are entirely blameless in this story. They manufactured a machine. Currys sold that machine to me. My dispute is with Currys. Directing me to PCSpecialist is the retail equivalent of Tesco selling you a gone-off chicken, and when you try to return it, handing you the farmer's phone number. The farmer didn't sell you the chicken. You don't have to knock on the farmer's door. You go back to the supermarket. This is not a controversial legal position. It is just how shops work. My 12-year-old has been without their birthday present for a few days now. They have been, I have to say, considerably more gracious about this than I have. They haven't complained. They've been patient. They are, in this situation, the bigger person — which is a sentence I never expected to write about a primary school leaver, but here we are. They shouldn't have to be patient. They should just have a working computer. So this is where we are, @currys. I know my rights under the Consumer Rights Act 2015. But before I go down the small claims court route, and start contacting every journalist in my network on a slow news day, I am giving you the opportunity to do the right thing, in the hope that public accountability is more efficient than your customer service helpline. A child saved their pocket money for this. Sort it out.