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Happy Mayor’s Fares on @My_Metro day! 🎉 You told me fares were too high so we’re were making the biggest cut for more in more than 20 years. From today, with Pop Pay As You Go, you'll pay no more than £2.50 for a single journey or £5 per day, no matter how far you travel

@AlastairMorgan Labour Future are essentially Maurice Glasman and Paul Embery. Enough said. More "Blue Labour" bollocks. labourfuture.co.uk/advisory-counc…

I don't like this rigid thinking. It's essentially undemocratic. Most people want to re-join now it's clear that Brexit has been an abject failure.

@LabourfutureUK Labour Future? If you persist with this nonsense, Labour won't have a future. It's one of the main reasons why you're now behind the Greens in the polls.

Nobody objects to removing trade barriers, working with the European Union on areas of common interest. But the British people took a once in a generation decision. Labour must respect that decision as we promised in 2024. labourlist.org/2026/03/labour…

#March moon

@Rini78823 @BootsUK Apologies if you have it already - the NHS app tells you when prescription items are ready, if you have that?

Why don't @BootsUK answer their phones? I have been ringing their Pharmacy for three days in a row. Surely, they have at least one person that can pick up a phone Disabled customers cannot just pop into their local Boots without checking that their medication is available first

A Jackdaw collecting scraps for its nest #March

Two women talking on Lavinia Street, Lower Crumpsall, Manchester, May 1972 (Mirrorpix/Manchester Evening News).

@neheritagelib Does anybody know where precisely they are planning on doing the building? I'm assuming it'd be somewhere west of Costco ?

Great news - there is literally no better place for homes than the old industrial stretches on the riverside. Next, can we sort Saltmeadows and Spillers out?

@simonwells01 @YouGov Where that % is now remains to be ascertained.

@simonwells01 @YouGov Back in 1983, Margaret Thatcher commissioned some Tory Party research as to why Labour had still come 2nd given they were in such a mess. The conclusion was that, just like the Tories, Labour benefited from a tribal vote that would not fall below a certain %.

Our latest Westminster voting intention (29-30 March 2026) has the Lib Dems on their lowest figure recorded by YouGov this parliament Reform UK: 23% (no change from 22-23 Mar) Greens: 19% (+1) Conservatives: 19% (+2) Labour: 18% (-1) Lib Dems: 12% (-1)

@LuanHanratty @JHCPAL Absolutely totally sure. They were pretty rough.

@Trystanian @JHCPAL Are you sure the pron you heard isn't just a Geordie attempt at RP? In any case, I say /læteɪ/

@JHCPAL I've noticed something recently which might interest you. There seems to be a division in Newcastle between how people pronounce Latte. Some say it like "lartay" with the "a" sound as in "far"; others with "a" sound like in cat. I wonder if there's a sub accent going on

@LuanHanratty @JHCPAL I was just looking at the video below as an example of ɑː - maybe it's because the lady in the video is a bit more southern, but the sound doesn't seem to quite fit the bill, it sounds like a more stereotypical middle class pronunciation youtu.be/uDHMuMQdBNw?si…

@Trystanian @JHCPAL I think they are two slightly different sounds: /ɒː/ in the 'plaster' Geordie shibboleth vs /ɑː/ in 'latte'. And /lɑːteɪ/ is missing the 'ster' ending of master/plaster/etc.

Today the @DailyMail published the findings of my two-year investigation "The Brass Pass" into the hidden epidemic of domestic abuse suffered by military wives and girlfriends. A dossier of 52 cases reveals torture by Army men against their wives.

@patrici86112430 @BBCNews Chalton St is one of the back streets leading away a distance from Euston. Its far end is nearer to Mornington Crescent than Euston. There's always been a maze of streets behind Euston & Kings X that were pretty dodgy. Caledonian Rd for example used to be notorious in the 80s

@BBCNews This is absolutely devastating. Euston is such a busy area for this to happen in broad daylight is terrifying. Heartfelt condolences to the victim's family.

Man, 26, shot dead in car near Euston station bbc.in/47xmmBz

It is 32 years since Trevor Patrick O’Donnell went missing, please keep his family in your thoughts 🙏🏻 ANNIVERSARY APPEAL - TREVOR PATRICK O’DONNELL Trevor Patrick O’Donnell was 23 years old when he went missing on 29 March 1994 from Canterbury in Kent. Known as Patrick by his family and friends, he is described as 6ft in height and of slim build, with blue eyes. At the time of his disappearance he was of slim build, weighing approximately 11st 9lb (76kg) with slightly receding short straight mousy hair. The University of London graduate worked at Christ Church College in Canterbury and lived in student accommodation in Wincheap. When his flat mates had not seen him for a few days, his family submitted a missing persons report. When Trevor’s mother featured in a missing people special of BBC One Inside Out, she said he had experienced some emotional problems prior to disappearance. She described him as quiet and withdrawn with a love of physics and art. In 2008, Missing People charity commissioned a computer-generated age-progressed image of how Trevor would have looked 14 years after his disappearance. If you have any information, please phone Kent Police on 101. If you would prefer to remain anonymous, please contact Crimestoppers on 0800 555 111. Alternatively, phone or text Missing People on 116 000 or email 116000@missingpeople.org.uk quoting reference 94-000613. Sightings and information about any missing person can also be given anonymously through the Missing People website (link below). All information is passed to the police. Your identity will remain confidential unless you indicate that it is ok for the charity to pass your details on to the police. Missing People: missingpeople.org.uk/help-us-find/t… Report a Sighting: missingpeople.org.uk/sightings #FindTrevorODonnell #MissingPersonsSupport

@ValerieRooney1 @PeterJLyth @vivamjm A very large slice of people who voted for Brexit are now dead. youtube.com/watch?v=_TSgi9…

@PeterJLyth @vivamjm Yeah, the fucking Brits, because I'm a Scot, and my country voted 62% Remain, but we were dragged out by England. Good to hear if there is a majority that regret it, but not much action to evidence your claim.

This would not happen if we still had our Freedom of Movement rights which *we* chose to end. So of course it is not "thanks to EU" it is very much thanks to Brexit. It is tiresome to still see these sort of headlines.

34 years ago, Shakespears Sister filmed the music video for ‘Stay’ They only had one day for the shoot, and waiting for her part, Siobhan Fahey was becoming bored… and decided to have a drink… several hours and a bottle of vodka later, this happened…

@JHCPAL @YankyGirltoo @TyneSnapper 👍

@Trystanian @YankyGirltoo @TyneSnapper There is a reason and I have it somewhere. But where....🤔. I'll try and find it.

Given I'm 300 miles away I cannot comment. However, what's with this lartay business ? Is it the same subset who live in the yellow patch on the spelk map and who use the invading word ?? I'm "lat" as in cat and indeed lat (which I've done & is another word entirely !)

@JHCPAL Got this stuck in my head now youtube.com/watch?v=XiMrrl…

Now, why is she reposting this you wonder. Slippy. It's a regional word - that caused much consternation when I first posted it. See ⬇️ Map from Upton, Widdowson & Sanderson.

@LuanHanratty @JHCPAL I wish I'd asked them where exactly they were from, and whether it's something from a very particular place

@LuanHanratty @JHCPAL I was wondering whether it was an extension of the North East pronunciation of the "a" sound in master / plaster. The people were saying it had very broad Geordie accent so it didn't sound like a class marker or an imitiation of southern pronounciations