Christopher Harrison

@skynews @SkyNewsBreak @SkyNewsPolitics MIDNIGHT INTRO' JUST NOW: So, no more "GOOD MORNING" at top of the hour on day-change then? PLEASE don't think I'm nit-picking here: but newscaster's diction needs improvement too. I venture to aver: further training required off-air?

@BBCNews @bbcworldservice @SkyNewsBreak @SkyNews @TheScotsman So, since February 27th, how many Illegal Immigrants has the British Government let in?

@WoodheadRoute @GreatCentralRly Oh my goodness. I remember it well. Train used to call at St.Albans City.

On this day. 15th March 1981. A collection of pictures taken on one of the very last diverted Sunday services from London St Pancras to Manchester Piccadilly (1M32) via the Woodhead Route before it's closure in July. © David Blower

@WoodheadRoute A FANTASTIC photo that REALLY BRINGS IT HOME TO ME just how Neanderthal & "Product-Led, Like It Or Lump It" the British Privatised railway has (complacently) become. Today: charisma-free; more expensively subsidised; grossly unhygienic; no Parcels or Newspapers carried, et al.

In the days probably before the automatic train wash, a very grubby EM1 brings an express passenger service through Broadbottom on a Manchester Piccadilly to Sheffield Victoria service, with its multi-coloured Mark 1 coaching stock in tow around 1967. © Eric Hunte

@ksorbs WHAT?!!

UK police just arrested a restaurant owner for putting a sign up that says 'we don't sell halal.' Realize where we're at

En-route earlier. (Halkirk now).

Off to Loch Dubh & surrounding area for Weather Monitoring.

@greateranglia @GreaterAngliaPR OK thanks.

@PhdHarrison @GreaterAngliaPR At present it is expected to arrive at 13:02. However, this could change. For delays 15 mins or more, you can claim compensation for your ticket here: greateranglia.co.uk/about-us/our-p… - Johnny

@greateranglia @GreaterAngliaPR DISABLED PASSENGER: Driver of this train advised passengers at Kelvedon to contact Greater Anglia on X in event of any queries caused by this SEVERE DELAY. PLEASE RESPOND. ... x.com/i/status/20298…

@greateranglia @GreaterAngliaPR KINDLY RESPOND ASAP. THANK YOU..... x.com/i/status/20298…

@GreaterAngliaPR @greateranglia @BTP I'm a DISABLED PASSENGER on a DSB ticket on 1N35, the 11.05 off Clacton. Currently at a stand south of Witham (near Signal L781, where BTP & NR staff in attendance). Being met at Liverpool Street. WHEN IS THIS TRAIN LIKELY TO ARRIVE PLEASE??

🚨BREAKING: A media BAN has just been LIFTED on a rape case and guess what - TWO AFGHAN ASYLUM SEEKERS RAPED A YOUNG GIRL 🇬🇧 THERE IS A MIGRANT RAPE EPIDEMIC IN THE UK AND OUR GOVERNMENT IS ALLOWING MORE OF THESE PEOPLE IN EVERY SINGLE DAY ⚠️ BRITAIN IS BROKEN 😡

@CliveMyrieBBC @BBCNews @BBCBreaking CLIVE - please - you & all your BBC Crew - GO CAREFULLY OUT THERE.

@bbcpress @SkyNewsBreak @GBNEWS @BBCr4today @InvCourier @Daily_Record @Reuters @TheEconomist @TheScotsman @bbcworldservice @labourpress "Our planes are in the sky for Defensive Operations" says British PM Sir Steer Calmer. What, all 4 of them?

@CalSleeper @RailwayMagazine @Daily_Record @InvCourier @GroatNews @ScotRail "Guests". I respectfully venture to aver: delusions of grandeur.

Yesterday was a very special and historic day for Caledonian Sleeper as we picked up guests from Birmingham International for the first time - the biggest change to our timetable in 30 years! 🚆 Guests can now board at Birmingham International and travel directly to Fort William, Inverness or Aberdeen. Our Managing Director Graham Kelly was joined by Andrew Lovett from West Midlands Tourism & Hospitality Board, Cllr. Karen Grinsall from Solihull Metropolitan Borough Council, Helen Bates from Birmingham Chambers of Commerce, Steven Harrison from Birmingham Airport, Peter Sargant of West Midlands Rail and Nikki Bains from Birmingham Airport.

@RupertLowe10 I go along with all of that.

I am so utterly fed up of this constant lie that Britain is absolutely reliant on low-skilled immigration to keep our country dragging along. That is just not true. It's boring and it's wrong. Let’s take the NHS. We’re always told how its built on immigration. Total nonsense. Reason number one - if we trained our own people, there would be no need to import foreign professionals through such vast numbers. We deliberately block British boys and girls from training medicine, then ship in staff from the third world. And let’s be clear. Their training is often not good enough. Their language is often not good enough. Their attitude is often not good enough. That’s just a fact. The NHS needs translators, but not for the patients - it’s the sodding staff half the time. So we have some of the brightest young British men and women unable to train through our own decisions, and we replace them with migrants who are all too often not up to the job. Great work, everyone. What a result that is. Even British medics who have been trained can’t get work. Those roles are being filled by imported Nigerians. It all just sounds too ludicrous to be true. It is very much absolutely true. Then these pro-immigration hide behind the fact that they bumped into a foreign receptionist in a hospital. It is absolutely nothing personal against these specific individuals, I don’t blame them. I blame our rotten politicians. I’m sure that receptionist is a possibly a nice lady, but she shouldn’t be here. We have millions of healthy Brits on benefits doing nothing. The answer is quite simple - GET THEM WORKING. There is also the moral argument of taking these individuals away from their own countries, but I am uninterested in that. But let’s just park all that for one moment. Why is demand so high in our hospitals? Go and sit in a hospital waiting room in London, Birmingham, Manchester - pretty much anywhere in Britain other than leafy Surrey. It’s packed full of foreigners. They have every need catered to them. Don’t speak English? Great. We’ll fund the translator. Hundreds of millions are spent on this. It is, and I don’t apologise for my language here, a total piss-take. All whilst taxpaying British men and women are unable to see their GP, get a scan or receive timely treatment. I have no issue with bringing in the odd brain surgeon or oncologist. Great, let’s do that until we can train our own. But to suggest that Britain’s health service is so indebted to immigration is total bullshit and we should call it out for the reasons stated above.

@WoodheadRoute Absolutely magnificent shot. I was on a cold Class 44 Railtour from St.Pancras to Manchester across the route around that time. But what a fantastic photo-shoot we had at Penistone. With spotters all over the Main Lines. Safety Police would have had multiple seizures!

Saturday 7th October 1978 and one of the many railtours in the latter years of the Woodhead line. This is the British Rail Pennine Rambler railtour. 76023 and 76010 are between Penistone and Dunford Bridge hauling 13 coaches. © John Marsh

@BBCNews @bbcpress Extremely interesting relay of interview with Gordon Brown from BBC Radio 4's Today programme to BBC News TV. Gives us all some hope in terms of the future "policing" of senior people in Public Office internationally.