Former blogger for Community Care magazine and freelance on the erstwhile College of Social Work's digital magazine, Social Work Matters. Now lurking on Twitter
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The Cricket Council meeting in session to ratify the recommendations of the Test and County Cricket Board (the forerunner of the ECB) concerning the proposed tour by the South Africans. The final decision on whether the tour would go ahead was made later that evening, February 12th 1970. The tour went on but with a drastically shortened itinerary. In the end the decision was taken out of their hands by the government
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The genius of the running-elevator gag in Police Squad! is how Leslie Nielsen and Alan North manage to keep perfectly straight faces.
I have no idea how many takes it took, but North not even blinking through the flowers and the arrow is unbelievable.
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#Broadsands Beach viewed from the South West Coast Path was historically known as Broadstrands. A major landslip destroyed parts of the access path in April 2025 although it can still be accessed by kayak or boat #CombeMartin #Watermouth #beach #SWCP
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Men who murder their children's mother retain their parental rights when in jail. A law passed two years ago to suspend those rights whilst they're in prison - still isn't in force.
Any chance the ''protect are women lads'' will protest about this?
news.sky.com/video/killer-ha…
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2 November 1871. British police forces began taking mug shots of convicted criminals. The purpose was to give the police a photographic record of an arrested individual to assist investigators to identify repeat offenders. Pictured is a criminal who was known as “Dick The Devil”.
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My children sometimes ask me how did people make arrangements to meet up before phones.
Well, back in 1930's Shepherds Bush there was always the personal columns of the local paper...
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1/ I'm having no end of trouble with @WordPress, first my old account was hacked and frozen, now links to my new account won't work here. So here are screengrabs of the blog I wrote over the weekend . . .
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2 November 1962. John F Kennedy announced in a national TV broadcast that the USSR was dismantling missile bases in Cuba thereby ending the tense Cuban Missile Crisis.
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This day in social work history ⏳
2nd November 2024: Paul Stephenson died (age 87). Dr Stephenson was known for being the first black social worker in Bristol, and for his civil rights campaigning, including leading the Bristol Bus Boycott in 1963.
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The Stewart family are greatly saddened to announce the passing of Sheila Stewart, wife of Micky Stewart and mother of Neil, Alec and Judy.
The thoughts of everyone involved with the Club are with the Stewart family.
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2 November 2014. Popular clarinet player Acker Bilk died (aged 85). His instrumental tune Stranger on the Shore became the UK’s biggest selling single of 1962 and was a US No 1.
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PHOTO OF THE DAY. Sir Laurence Olivier narrating the ITV series The World at War (1973). 📷 Silver Sirens
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1917 - following the Silvertown Explosion, where 50 tons of TNT exploded in the heart of the busiest metropolis on earth at the time, children are treated at an impromptu first aid post in Barking Road Methodist Church... the-east-end.co.uk/the-silve…… #eastend #History #silvertown
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That would explain a lot😂
Sometimes......
I feel like I'm banging my head against a brick wall.
Andy Burnham says he is going to send illegal migrants to every postcode in the UK.
Only @reformparty_uk MPs are fighting this whilst Labour MPs support it.
I don't want rapists, paedophiles, murderers and terrorists sending to every postcode.
1200 illegals have arrived over the past few days.
Have a listen to this.
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2 November 1953. Samaritans help line was established in London by Chad Varah, an Anglican Reverend, who wanted to do something more specific to help people contemplating suicide. He answered the first ever call to the brand new helpline.
Trump’s idea of “friendly fire” 🤦♂️
Trump:
I could have won the Vietnam War in a week.
They kept bombing forests for years instead of going after Ho Chi Minh City.
Readers added context they thought people might want to know
Ho Chi Minh City was called Saigon during the Vietnam War and was the capital of US-allied South Vietnam; North Vietnam's capital was Hanoi.
britannica.com/place/Ho-Chi-M…
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fall_of_S…
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Trump says he could have won the Vietnam War in a week.
By bombing Ho Chi Minh City.
IDIOT. The United States was defending Ho Chi Minh city, the capitol of South Vietnam. The enemy was North Vietnam, it's capitol is Hanoi.
And by the way the United States did conduct limited bombing near Hanoi, but direct bombing of Hanoi itself would likely have drawn China or the Soviet Union into directly fighting against the United States.
My God. This stupid violent idiot is Commander in Chief of the United States.
Trump:
I could have won the Vietnam War in a week.
They kept bombing forests for years instead of going after Ho Chi Minh City.
Readers added context they thought people might want to know
Ho Chi Minh City was called Saigon during the Vietnam War and was the capital of US-allied South Vietnam; North Vietnam's capital was Hanoi.
britannica.com/place/Ho-Chi-M…
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fall_of_S…
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ho_Chi_Mi…
