Steve Dyson

@AvantiWestCoast Ok thanks

@stevedyson It is in place, but if it does affect services, it will be by a maximum of 15 minutes but may be less. - Pete

@AvantiWestCoast hi there. We’re booked on the 11:17 from Bham New St to London today and are pretty tight on times. I’ve just been alerted if possible disruption for this service. What’s the latest and what are my options to catch earlier train with same ticket?

@AvantiWestCoast Ok thanks. For info, the alert from Avanti I received related to some signalling problem between Wolverhampton and Birmingham which might possibly impact the train times. Has that signalling issue been resolved now? Many thanks in advance

@stevedyson I have had a look and there isn't any disruption on that service. - Pete

@AvantiWestCoast Ok. Can you take look at reported disruption that Avanti has just indicated for this service? As said I need to be in London on time so would go on another train if needed. Thanks in advance

@stevedyson Ok thank you, you will need to stick to your booked service with that ticket. - Pete

@AvantiWestCoast Hi Pete. We have Advanced Single tickets

@stevedyson Hi Steve, this service is currently running on time. What ticket do you hold? - Pete

@elonmusk @RSR108 If the @DailyMail is your only UK source of facts, @elonmusk, you are making yourself a prisoner of your own mind. Please broaden your horizons 👍

The UK has become a prison island

@KemiBadenoch @MPrinParr Really? @KemiBadenoch you need to base such divisive comments on fact. And the fact is that young men from ALL cultures need the guidance so rationally suggested by @jessphillips. Please @KemiBadenoch STOP your misguided, George Cross grabbing statements about migration

It’s not 11-year-old boys who are committing violence against women and girls. We need to get people who have come from cultures that don’t respect women out of our country! Not all cultures are equally valid. Labour’s plan to lecture schoolboys to respect women and girls is a complete distraction. This is what a government looks like when they’re completely out of ideas. Deport all foreign criminals. Put more police on our streets. Conservatives have a funded plan to recruit 10,000 extra officers. Pretending a few extra lessons in school will fix this is complete nonsense. Labour need to stop watching Adolesence and get real. But they can’t, because they’re too scared, weak and divided. They have no serious plan to tackle this problem. Only the @Conservatives do and that’s why we’ll build a stronger Britain.

@Nigel_Farage Methinks you are trying to distract attention from the schoolboy bullying allegations …

Not for the first time, I just told the BBC exactly what I think of them.

@Nigel_Farage Let’s get to the point. In your teens, did you taunt fellow pupils with racist and anti-Semitic taunts/songs? If you did, why not be clear and apologise?

The double standards and hypocrisy of the BBC is astonishing.

@MrsSOsbourne ‘FLAK SABBATH’ … Today’s Sunday Mercury, a paper based in Birmingham UK, home of Black Sabbath, highlights the fall-out between Sharon Osbourne @MrsSOsbourne and Jim Simpson of @BigBearMusic68 …

15 November 2025   In response to Jim Simpson’s press release of 14 November 2025, I am enclosing his original email to Tony Iommi and my subsequent emails to Mr. Simpson. As you can see, my emails to Mr. Simpson were not threatening. I was clearly stating the facts about Black Sabbath’s legal position.    Regarding his claim that Big Bear Records is the “longest-running independent record label in the UK, this is a false claim. “Topic Records” is a British folk music label. It began as an offshoot of the Workers' Music Association in 1939, making it the oldest independent record label in the world. It still operates today. Big Bear is not even a Limited company and does not file open accounts in public.      Simpson also states that he is "….in the process of relaunching Big Bear Records in a new distribution partnership with Trapeze Music & Entertainment Ltd (director being John Cooper), a well-established company with a huge catalogue including the likes of Johnny Cash, Buddy Holly, Marlene Dietrich, Count Basie, Duke Ellington, Digby Fairweather and hundreds of other artists. I seriously doubt that the artists he mentions, or their estates, would have authorized them to be sold in the USA.       Let it be known that Trapeze Music is an “out-of-copyright” UKbased label that is in debt for £539,000 and the entertainment division is in debt for £1.442 million. A previous entity under the Trapeze banner, with the director, (being John Cooper), was Discovery Records Limited, which went into liquidation in 2018 with an estimated deficiency of £1,407,388. These artist recordings he mentions appear NOT to be out of copyright in the USA, but Trapeze sells through a us domestic import distributor called MVD who they claim inadvertently put the BLACK SABBATH recordings online digitally in the USA and then quickly withdraw them when Simpson’s lawyers were told the Black Sabbath material is not out of copyright, despite the fact they had agreed not to release them to the public without giving us 14 days prior notice.   A full legal opinion from Kings Council was provided to their UK lawyer. Trapeze’s owner previously ran several companies that ended up in bankruptcy. We would never have allowed any BLACK SABBATH product to be released through Big Bear Records or Trapeze Music, and at no time did Simpson ever offer the band royalties, and he has continuously refused to let Black Sabbath hear the recordings that he claims are his. Their integrity is dubious.   In closing, Mr. Simpson may claim that he invited me to have coffee with him on 4 July 2025 but I was out of contact which he well knew as I was at Villa Park at soundcheck all day, and I later heard that Mr. Simpson was busy that day doing a Q&A about his time managing Black Sabbath from ’68-’70 at a pub called “Ye Olde Foundry” in Dudley for personal commercial gain.     Sharon Osbourne

HUGE BLACK SABBATH ROW: Jim Simpson, the orginal manager of @BlackSabbath and the musician's former band Earth, has rejected the outrage from Sharon Osbourne @MrsSOsbourne over the 'lost tapes' recorded back in 1969. @OzzyOsbourne @tonyiommi Full story: bravewords.com/news/black-sab…

@AvantiWestCoast Thanks, Pete

@stevedyson Yes that will be fine to do. - Pete

@AvantiWestCoast our pre-booked 11:47 from B’ham New St to London Euston has been cancelled. I assume we can use our tickets in an earlier service? Please confirm

@AvantiWestCoast So okay to use 11:17?

@stevedyson Hi Steve, sorry for the cancellation, you can use the two services directly before or after your booked service. - Pete

The Teesworks story as told by @PrivateEyeNews reads like a screenplay for a dark political drama in which public money and public assets have been shockingly exploited and public trust completely eroded. We need a full, independent investigation. 👇 northeastbylines.co.uk/region/teessid…

STRIPPED TEES: How Britain’s flagship ‘levelling up’ project turned into a scandalous giveaway. Read the eight-page special report in the new Private Eye, out now. It was to be the UK’s largest regeneration scheme in decades, a model for regional devolution and the flagship post-Brexit freeport. But the redevelopment of the former steelworks on the south bank of the River Tees became little more than an unlawful, taxpayer-funded scheme to promote the political career of a Tory golden boy and vastly enrich a couple of local businessmen and their families, all hidden in a web of deception. In the process, it is financially imperilling a major regional development body and squandering the chance to revive one of the country’s most deprived but industrially promising areas. Read how it happened in the new issue, in shops now.

@rbrooks45 @PrivateEyeNews A serious sit down and focus read for anyone interested in Teesside skullduggery. Excellent detail @rbrooks45 👍

What you won’t read in the Sunday papers. @privateeyenews special report on Teesside, featuring - - £100m’s to businessmen for no investment - £10m’s in deals for friends and family - Security deal for co with serious organised crime connections. And much more. Still in shops.

@tanjil_rashid_ @NewStatesman @TomMcTague An impressive article of immense importance @tanjil_rashid. It should be compulsory reading for every MP and the basis of essay questions in every school. I want to read such prose, or at least hear reflections like it, from our statesmen @Keir_Starmer and women @YvetteCooperMP

We are entering an age of deportation - my @NewStatesman cover story on how mass expulsions will transform what it means to be British, via Kipling, Enoch Powell, Hanif Kureishi...and a heroic vigilante cycle repairist from Eritrea newstatesman.com/politics/uk-po…

@BraveWords666 Stylish coverage by @sizeofficial and @adidas of Jim Simpson’s role in the founding of @BlackSabbath in Birmingham @BhamCityCouncil @BigBearMusic68

BLACK SABBATH’s First Manager JIM SIMPSON Stars In Adidas’ Heavy Metal Tribute To Birmingham; Video bravewords.com/news/black-sab…

@WestMidRailway No issues … mistakes happen … 🥵

@stevedyson Hi Steve, thank you for flagging this - I'll raise this to the control team. -James

@WestMidRailway you ought to know that electronic signs at Kings Norton station listed the 23:18 (last train to Sutton Coldfield) as departing from platform 4. It arrived on platform 1! No huge issue, as I can still run (just!). But just saying so you can check for future 😉