Sarah Bell
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Sarah Bell
@bellesy
Senior BBC Journalist specialising in digital news and social media. Formerly @VictoriaLIVE @BBCBreaking. Usually hoping for a cup of tea or a nap.
Bromley, London Katılım Şubat 2009
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My latest investigation: The deaths of at least 56 babies and 2 mothers, at an NHS trust, over 5 years, may have been preventable, BBC finds. bbc.com/news/articles/…
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Do you require a pizza delivery or the police?
A heroic police emergency call handler has been commended for her quick-thinking after realising a call from a woman was in fact a disguise and an urgent call for help.
🔊 Listen to the 999 call
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Happy birthday @BethMatthewsz Today you would have been 29, but you’ll always be 26. In my head you’re still alive.
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🚨JOB NEWS🚨
Excited to start a new job in mid-January in the newly created role of Sky News Output Editor - Video - leading our video journalism teams and overseeing digital-first video content across Sky’s platforms and social media channels - joining a top team! #skynews
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@darinjgraham Good luck- it was a pleasure working with you. A loss to the BBC x
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Johnnie Walker’s final radio broadcast was two months ago.
His final words: “Walk into the future with our heads held high, and happiness in our hearts.”
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What does a new widow do on NYE? She listens to @BBCRadio2, opens a bottle and toasts her amazing husband. Courageous, wise, strong, creative and never dull. They didn’t call him the Pirate for nothing. Above all - the most devoted loving husband. Pls raise a 🥂to Johnnie Walker
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#GavinAndStacey behind-the-scenes details, which were revealed during a Q&A.
Sonia (Laura Aikman) stayed in different hotels than the crew to protect the plot.
She even didn't tell her parents she was in it, who are tuning in to the finale tonight alongside her.
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Laura Aikman (who played Sonia) didn’t tell her family she was back in Gavin & Stacey until she popped up on the screen last night. #GavinAndStacey
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Ripping CDs to my iPod so 8yo can listen to her own stuff in the car like it's 2005
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📻 @BBCWorldService to provide people of Syria with enhanced services
Broadcast on medium wave and FM, an enhanced audio service will provide a trusted source of independent news when audiences need it the most
Read more ➡️ bbc.co.uk/mediacentre/20…
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A library torched in violent riots during the summer has reopened after a huge community effort to rectify the damage.
Children's Laureate Frank Cottrell-Boyce was at Spellow Library in Liverpool and wrote a special tribute which he read out on #BBCBreakfast
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Stranded in a care homes with no bank cards or ID.
Others left without oversight of their money.
Homes cleared and sold. Wills written and disputed.
Months investigating power of attorney @BBCRadio4 @wrobinson101 @joelmoors @Dr_CStephens @hughlevinson
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Over the moon to share that I have won the 2024 Mslexia Short Story Competition. Huge thanks to @leoneross who judged the competition. It is such an honour and I cannot wait to read the other shortlisted stories (when my copy eventually makes it to Amsterdam!) ❤️
Mslexia ✨@Mslexia
Our 2024 Short Story Competition winner is Lauren Collett @collett_lauren for ‘Lanugo.’ Judge Leone Ross writes, ‘It feels like a small hymn to things that must be accepted, a song for female resilience.’
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Sex workers in Belgium will get maternity leave and pensions under a world-first law.
Should prostitution be treated like any other job? Or is this law normalising a profession that exploits women?
We speak to escorts and employers in Belgium👇
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So I’ve never written a story about myself. But I broke the rule to show how, despite warm words about change, police still fail women reporting sexually motivated crimes. Here’s my story of the 2 yr battle to get my offender convicted. TLDR: Don’t give up bbc.co.uk/news/articles/…
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“It’s absurd. I can’t get my head around what’s happening,” 68-year-old paediatrician Nadezhda Buyanova tells me. Minutes later she’s sent to prison for 5 1/2 years for alleged comments on the war in Ukraine. Our report for @BBCNews Camera @AntonChicherov Producer @BenTavener
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many years ago during my first job at the BBC, I was nearly scammed when looking for a place to live. I took it to @vicderbyshire and the team who let me investigate and report—with the help of @jim_reed !—and there have finally been consequences for these rogue letting agents.
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