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Theres a story behind every tattoo 'Tattoo Stories' Local stories tied in with a story from the 1947 partition of India Story created and told by me sound @anniemahtani and music by @kavirajsingh_ Podcast Produced by @BCT_Touring Appreciate a retweet bctouring.co.uk/tattoo-stories…

At the @rts_mids awards with Bharti Patel, Corey Campbell, Bhulla Beghal Sima Gonsai, Lara Ratnajaj

H and Donia representing WBC on Big City radio this evening. Great chat on the show about women in boxing and sharing their stories. Well done ladies. 🥊 @JasonLo94345609 @vimal68

Wouldn’t be a win without…🤩

🗣️ “We’re all united as a team, we all want the same goal”

Wild. 16th-26th October Local venues in the Black Country bctouring.org.uk/wild with the @Graerose @AprilNJHudson Holly Williams Script @rochirampal Music Katy Bennett Set @InfamousArtsUK Costume Abigail king Directed by Steve Johnstone and Frances Land @BCT_Touring

RIP Maggie Smith. A British icon.

🏆 UK THEATRE AWARD NOMINATION: Swim, Aunty Swim! We're thrilled Swim, Aunty, Swim! has been nominated for Best New Play @uk_theatre Awards! A big congrats to the fabulous team 💙 @Sianaarrgh @MadeleineKludje @tiatafahodzi @DomingoAnni @GracePaseda @duah_evelyn @sambakerjones

Heavy rain causes flash floods across city bbc.in/3BjmMhD

Good Brummies doing a really good thing. We're a helluva strong city when we team up. ichoosebirmingham.com/love-words

Naomi Campbell's charity spent over 90% of the raised funds on luxury goods & travel for herself and other trustees. Millions stolen from the needy and poor. This woman's net worth is around £60mill. What a disgrace of a woman.

Naomi Campbell banned from being charity trustee #Echobox=1727351263" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">theguardian.com/fashion/2024/s…

We sat down with the one and only @JZorenti_Nakhid to find out more about family drama Revealed, opening in B2 from Fri 18 Oct to Sat 2 Nov. 💛 Revealed 🎟️ buff.ly/3VDypIx

Ladies and gentlemen... your first look at Play On! ✨🤩 🗓️ Running until Sat 5 Oct 🎟️ buff.ly/3TJscIb 👉 @TalawaTheatreCo

UNBELIEVABLE! 🤯 DANIEL DUBOIS KNOCKS-OUT ANTHONY JOSHUA! 💣😯 #JoshuaDubois #RiyadhSeasonCard

𝙏𝒉𝙧𝒆𝙚 𝙢𝒐𝙧𝒆 𝒈𝙤𝒂𝙡𝒔, 𝙩𝒉𝙧𝒆𝙚 𝙢𝒐𝙧𝒆 𝒑𝙤𝒊𝙣𝒕𝙨

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Thoughtful touch from ⁦@AVFCOfficial⁩ today,leaving the press box seat empty that was usually occupied by Gary Shaw. Tribute from yours truly just before 2pm on ⁦@5liveSport⁩

Gary Shaw – a tribute. Shaw, who has passed away aged 63, played the game the way it should be played. The Aston Villa attacker played with flair, an unquenchable hunger for goals, commitment to team and loyalty to club. He played to win, conquering England in 1981 and Europe in 1982, and he did it in style. Shaw’s finishing was not only about the quantity, 79 goals in 213 games for the Villa, but also the quality. Shaw was fleet of mind and body, able to sense the best positions to glide into, whether holding his run to the edge of the area for a cutback and strike with either foot or darting to the near-post for a poacher’s finish with head or foot. He could stun a ball speeding in, flick it up, juggle it and volley it in, all under pressure from a merciless centre-half and on pitches that sometimes looked more suited to ploughing than pillaging goals. And he scored vital goals. It feels like only yesterday, rather than 42 years ago, that Shaw was dribbling through Dinamo Kyiv’s defence and scoring with a low left-footed shot from the tightest of angles at Villa Park in 1982. It was not only a brilliant strike but hugely significant in Villa’s run to European glory. So many fine finishes: running on to Dennis Mortimer’s through pass and driving the ball through Jim Platt’s legs at Middlesbrough in 1980; and gambling on a David Geddis flicked shot coming back off the post, falling to his right, connecting with his left in 1980 at Villa Park in the 3-0 Derby win over Blues – that athleticism and positioning again. Shaw could link and create and finish, famously against Nottingham Forest in 1981, dropping deep and taking the ball from Morley, loaning it to Geddis, then giving it to Mortimer in the centre-circle and ghosting into the area. Kenny Swain, released by Mortimer, crossed low and hard from the right, Shaw timed his run to perfection, meeting it first time. A bad knee injury in 1983 lessened his impact but his mind was still sharp, taking him into the right positions. When Paul Rideout nodded down against West Brom in 1984, Shaw pounced. For Villa fans, he was “one of our own”. For the rest of us admiring from afar, Shaw was a Boy’s Own hero, prolific and photogenic, the PFA Young Player of the Year, then European Young Footballer of the Year. Shaw would be worth a fortune in the modern era. His versatility would be highly prized. He could play as a second striker, centre-forward, even wide. His partnership with Peter Withe was the proverbial rapier and broadsword, silk and steel. They cut a swathe through opposition defences. The photo of Shaw and Withe holding the 1982 European Cup above Morley and placing it on his head remains an iconic image and embodied Villa’s attacking approach. That year, Shaw made the 40-strong long-list for the World Cup but was eventually overlooked by Ron Greenwood. He ended up with just Under-21 caps, and only seven of them, crazy really, given his calibre. Shaw’s impact felt even more uplifting because it was a counterpoint to the mood of the country at the time. With the dark clouds of unemployment, strikes and bombs in London parks scurrying across the landscape, a glamourous footballer who scored fabulous goals brought hope as well as joy. Villa have lost a legend and English football has lost a player who lit up the 80s. His family have lost someone very special. Shaw was a very likeable and down-to-earth human being even to those of us who only encountered him briefly in the Villa Park press room. Just a really approachable guy. My thoughts with Gary Shaw’s family, friends and former team-mates. RIP.

"What a Champions League debut." 🤳