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Glasgow, Scotland
Joined December 2012
Some news about me. After almost four incredible years at @BBCRadioScot, I'm moving to Salford to join @BBCBreakfast and BBC News at One. To my colleagues at BBC Radio Scotland News, working with you all has been a dream and privilege. I credit you for the journalist have become.
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After some time off exploring the Balkans, I’m back in the @BBCRadioScot newsroom tonight with your on-the-hour bulletins until midnight.
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Staff at the University of Edinburgh are on a second day of strike action, looking for the ruling out of compulsory redundancies while the campus looks to cut its wage bill. I'll be live on @BBCRadioScot's Lunchtime Live programme at 1215 BST with more.
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I'm reading your @BBCRadioScot news bulletins until seven o'clock. The dep. PM's future hangs in the balance ahead of a report by the PM's independent ethics adviser. Three Brits are known to have died in Lisbon and Vladimir Putin won't accept foreign peacekeepers in Ukraine.
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I've been spending time in London with The Newsroom programme on the @bbcworldservice. If you listen below, you will hear a report by me at 20 minutes in about the comment from the Venice Film Festival about CGI being "for losers". bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/w172zw…
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ariana casually talking about her christmas list while debby ryan makes history in the background. absolute cinema.
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name a historic battle
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📣 Some news about me: Yesterday (Wednesday) I was detained by police in Istanbul, held for 17 hours and then deported from Turkey to the UK. Told I was “a threat to public order”. In the country I lived in - and love. Journalism is not a crime. Here’s the BBC’s statement:
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“It’s devastating . I’m really worried for the future of Dundee University” - @reallorraine on news that the uni’s cutting 632 jobs to address a £35m deficit. The former rector tells #Drivetime @BBCRadioScot “cutting that amount of knowledge is heartbreaking”. More from 4pm 📻
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i should be eating tiramisu right now
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did not expect peppa pig’s mum announcing she’s pregnant, shrek & donkey have had a facelift for shrek 5 and katy perry is going to space to be the news all in one day today
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Dolly and me singing in a pickup truck!!!!!! I am so honored to have one of my biggest idols on a song that means so much to me. Short n’ Sweet deluxe is out now! Go watch and listen!!!! Love you forever @DollyParton 🤍🦋 linktr.ee/sabrinacarpenter
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Morrisons was never the same
18 years ago, Take That released "Shine"
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Making the storm chasing dream come true (somewhat), I'll have #StormEowyn updates at 0930, 1030 and 1130 GMT on @BBCRadioScot Mornings with @StephenJardine. A red alert comes into force in the Central and Southwest of Scotland from 1000 GMT, and with that comes a threat to life.
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My first live report of 2025 is coming up on @BBCRadioScot Drivetime with @Fionasstalker at 1735. I've got some travel updates for you as temperatures look to plummet to -20°C, and some tips on how to travel in those conditions. Listen live below: bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/live:b…
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tried to make year end instagram post and got too overwhelmed
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