Jonathan Duffy

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@thisislaurent Welcome to the club. Mine was OPERA

Wordle 798 1/6 !!!!!!! 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩

@AlecuRussell @Telegraph @thetimes For the record, at 'around lunchtime' (1pm) on 1 August, the BBC News home page *did* carry a story about the Niger coup (looking at Russia's growing influence there). It was towards the top of the page. By 2pm we'd supplemented it with a piece about Brits stuck in Niger.

Why isn’t the crisis in Niger getting more attention? Janan Ganesh quite right to bemoan parochialism. It also reflects the cuts in international coverage & postings over last 20 years by so much of the U.K. media - @Telegraph @thetimes and more ft.com/content/fcbbd6…

Since October 2021, dozens of Tamil asylum seekers have been stuck on the remote British territory of Diego Garcia - the site of a UK-US military base - in what they describe as hellish conditions. bbc.com/news/uk-657778…

A fascinating story I found, chased and did up for ⁦@BBCNews⁩ assisted by my talented colleague ⁦@williammclennan⁩ - have a read! The man extradited to the UK for a 41-year-old pub brawl - BBC News bbc.co.uk/news/uk-646787…

@darrenwaters Welcome back to the fold

@cathburns Agree, that’s a great route - Parliament Hill Fields to Clapham Common

I’m helping out on my daughter’s school trip. Kids on the bus are guessing my age. 88 is the favourite.

Massive data leak reveals how top politicians secretly helped Uber in its bid to disrupt the taxi market in European cities bbc.in/3nSwTQC

11 years after losing her husband, Jude Tebbutt told the BBC she believes his killer is still at large. "The real murderer of David, who can only be one of two men - and I could recognise those men today - they are somewhere, living their lives and they've got no consequences."

bbc.co.uk/news/uk-618874… Thank you to the BBC's @mcdermottsarah and Rebecca Vincent for uncovering this story and bringing it to site.

Grenfell: Will anyone go to prison? Spent an hour with @metpoliceuk officers working on the Grenfell Tower Investigation. Very hard for them to say much but I got the impression of a confident investigation with promise to victims to deliver justice. bbc.co.uk/news/uk-617243…

My investigation into the resale of driving tests for the BBC bbc.co.uk/news/uk-612657…

Driving tests are being bulk booked and resold for profit, as a chronic backlog means learners are otherwise waiting months for a test date. Investigation by ⁦@HamzahAbbasBBC⁩ bbc.co.uk/news/uk-612657…

Hidden wealth of one of Putin’s 'inner circle' revealed bbc.co.uk/news/world-eur…

Leaked documents show how sanctioned oligarch Suleiman Kerimov - from Putin's "inner circle" - hid his wealth.They reveal a Swiss tattoo artist was falsely named as the owner of a company that transferred over $300m to firms linked to Mr Kerimov.bbc.co.uk/news/world-eur…

‘I saw my daughter killed, then was held captive in basement’ - was so hard to read this, but such crucial reporting by ⁦@annaefoster⁩ bbc.co.uk/news/world-eur…

Ukraine: Inside the spies’ attempts to stop the war - “One spy says of those days before the invasion that he had never seen anything like it - highly classified material would be on his desk one day and then emerge in the public domain the next.” bbc.co.uk/news/world-eur…

@avalaina Hi @avalaina could you follow me, please? Want to DM you re a story we are doing for BBC website? Thanks

Sergiy Shumylo: Thus, civilians killed in the Russian bombing of Chernihiv are buried in trenches. Since the main city cemetery in Yatsevo is under constant shelling by the Russian occupiers, the victims are buried in the Yalivshchyna forest. Eternal memory to victims of Russia

@AndyMcNib Thanks Andy. Some great questions. Good luck with all that’s about to happen!

This week's will be my last quiz for a few weeks. So enjoy - but not too much... bbc.co.uk/news/world-598…