Dr Anna Wright, PhD💙 🇺🇦

.@BBCSport @ManCity fans cheering for the curling!

2026 gets off to a flying start at the RNCM. January is packed with world-class orchestras, acclaimed soloists and bold new music — a perfect way to bring more classical music into your life. See what's happening: oxfordroadcorridor.com/venues/royal-n…

Good morning @BBCRadio3 @Ianskellyradio3 Music for household appliances? Might I suggest Malcolm Arnold's 'Grand, grand overture' for 3 vacuum cleaners amongst other instruments? Thank you for the Rutter which my small group has performed several times. Anna, Altrincham

A royal penguin in an inspection tour with his son 🐧

When will Chris and Alice realise...? #TheArchers

As a child, my dad took me and my brothers every week to our local East Ham Library. Those weekly visits shaped who I am today. From BBC’s University Challenge to sharing my love of learning on TV and social media, libraries have always been at the heart of my journey. Libraries are the beating hearts of our high streets and communities. I’ll continue to campaign for them as a former @CILIPinfo (professional libraries body) UK champion and current @readingagency ambassador. This MBE is dedicated to all our libraries and librarians. Libraries are FREE for everyone, so let’s use them, support them, and make sure they are properly funded. @NewhamLibraries

@Bobby_Seagull That's brilliant news, and well-deserved. Congratulations!!

Well… a thing just happened! 🤯📚 Bobby Seagull MBE "for services to public libraries” 🇬🇧✨ I was just on BBC News talking about my passion for books, libraries, and our incredible librarians ❤️📖 and why they are so vital to our communities. Tomorrow, I’ll talk all things libraries on: 📺 BBC Breakfast – 6.40am 🎙️ LBC – 7.40am 📺 ITV Good Morning Britain – time TBC If you’d like to read more: bbc.co.uk/news/articles/… Thank you to everyone who believes in the power of libraries 🙏📚 As an former @CILIPinfo UK libraries champion & current @readingagency ambassador, I will continue to campaign for libraries on our high streets. #library #libraries #newyearshonours #MBE

Roald Dahl on Measles: Olivia, my eldest daughter, caught measles when she was seven years old. As the illness took its usual course I can remember reading to her often in bed and not feeling particularly alarmed about it. Then one morning, when she was well on the road to recovery, I was sitting on her bed showing her how to fashion little animals out of coloured pipe-cleaners, and when it came to her turn to make one herself, I noticed that her fingers and her mind were not working together and she couldn’t do anything. 'Are you feeling all right?' I asked her. 'I feel all sleepy,' she said. In an hour, she was unconscious. In twelve hours she was dead. The measles had turned into a terrible thing called measles encephalitis and there was nothing the doctors could do to save her. That was...in 1962, but even now, if a child with measles happens to develop the same deadly reaction from measles as Olivia did, there would still be nothing the doctors could do to help her. On the other hand, there is today something that parents can do to make sure that this sort of tragedy does not happen to a child of theirs. They can insist that their child is immunised against measles. ...I dedicated two of my books to Olivia, the first was ‘James and the Giant Peach’. That was when she was still alive. The second was ‘The BFG’, dedicated to her memory after she had died from measles. You will see her name at the beginning of each of these books. And I know how happy she would be if only she could know that her death had helped to save a good deal of illness and death among other children. Roald Dahl, 1986

Oliver Dowden says Gary Lineker should stay out of politics. Lets do a little test of public opinion. If Gary Lineker should stay out of politics LIKE If Oliver Dowden needs to get out of politics RT

Wisdom from Desmond Tutu (d otd 2021) - what a man: “Do your little bit of good where you are; it's those little bits of good put together that overwhelm the world.” “We learn from history that we don't learn from history!” “Don't raise your voice, improve your argument."

Dear Mogg As Xmas Day draws to a close just as the sun sets in the east casting shadows across the cricket pitch of life, I dwell on my successes of the last 10 years. My greatest success was Brexit. I was like Henry V winning the Battle of the Boyne. Rex woofus woofus Boris

Today we celebrate Boxing Day in the UK, so named because cats spend the day exploring empty boxes discarded from Christmas Day

Prof Richard Brook on how Manchester came to look and work as it does. Mon 19 Jan 2026, 7–8:30pm, Friends’ Meeting House. £15 / £6 students (members FREE). Book: manlitphil.ac.uk/events/the-mor… #Manchester

⭐️Confidentiality in GP waiting room⭐️ -After a distressing event elsewhere (below) we had to act -We made a sharable sign (below)& informed our patients -Anyone can print the PDF & ask if their surgery would use it ⭐️Nobody should have to disclose something private, in public⭐️

We’re excited to share our new main catalogue, making it easier for you to find and request the majority of our published collection. We’ve also launched an interim version of our Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue. Find out how to start searching and requesting on our website: bit.ly/BLNewCatalogues

PRISONER 951: THE HOSTAGES’ STORY, the brilliant feature doc from Erica Gornall commissioned to accompany the BBC hit drama series about the incarceration of British-Iranian charity worker Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe, airs on BBC Two Wed 3 Dec at 9.00pm. 🔗 ow.ly/Y9jC50XAfH0

Who takes a coffee machine on holiday...??!! #TheArchers

Royal Northern College of Music wins #THEAwards Outstanding Library Team 2025. The judges were impressed by RNCM library’s innovative and student-centric approach that placed collaboration, well-being and community engagement at its heart 🍾

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