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SIR PATRICK STEWART (1940-2026)
Before everything else, Patrick was defined by being born and bred in Yorkshire, the proud county in the north of England which he loved to the end. You could hear it in his accented voice and in the stern honesty with which he told you what he thought and felt. Yorkshiremen have no truck with half-truths or avoidance of big issues. He wore his heart on his sleeve, which made him a man to rely on, to admire and in my case, love.
We first met as ambitious young actors with the Royal Shakespeare Company half a century ago but we weren’t in the same productions. My first strong memory was a few years later, meeting him in the street in central London when he told me about an offer to take over a leading part in 'Star Trek'. “But Patrick think of your stage career in the UK. Do you really want to risk—getting lost in Hollywood for years and years?”. Well, he took the risk and thank goodness for us all that he did for not just his devoted Trekkies but film and theatre audiences, who marvelled at his using international celebrity to star in a string of cinema successes ('X-Men' of course) and in great classical plays by Shakespeare, Ibsen, Arthur Miller, Peter Shaffer, Pinter and Beckett at Stratford-upon-Avon, in London’s West End and on Broadway.
America was his adopted home, where he met his adored Sunny who has cared for him through sickness and health, through thick and thin. But he never forsook his origins: and the proudest achievement of the most respected and beloved actor of his generation on either side of the Atlantic, was his appointment as Chancellor of Huddersfield University in Yorkshire.
His farewell performance in 'Avengers: Doomsday' is yet to be seen.
Ian McKellen 29 October 2026
Photo: University of Huddersfield
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My report makes six key recommendations:
Fix the broken understanding of how the gas market works. Policymakers should recognise that British gas production is not sold on global markets at a global price. The GB gas market uses marginal pricing and additional domestic production displaces more expensive LNG imports, thereby reducing British gas prices. The report argues that claims that additional UK production cannot affect domestic prices are simply wrong.
Increase UK Continental Shelf gas production. Domestic gas should be preferred to imports wherever possible. UKCS gas is both cheaper and cleaner than imported LNG and provides a secure source of supply directly connected to the British gas network.
Reduce reliance on electricity imports. Britain is increasingly depending on electricity imports during periods of low domestic renewable generation. However, highly correlated weather patterns mean low wind generation in Britain can coincide with shortages elsewhere. The report warns that Norway and France cannot be assumed to provide unlimited electricity to their neighbours during periods of stress.
Model gas and electricity security together. The gas grid transports far more energy than the electricity network. Electrifying heating will take decades while gas-fired generation will remain critical to electricity security for years to come. The report argues that planning should recognise the interdependencies of gas and electricity to a greater extent.
Focus on cheap energy. Rapidly rising network costs are overtaking fuel costs as the main driver of energy bills. The report calls for tighter control of network expenditure and for the suspension of the Connect & Manage regime, arguing that consumers should not be required to fund expensive infrastructure whose output is frequently constrained or wasted.
Treat energy security as national security. The government should subject energy policy to an explicit national-security test, prioritising resilience, diversity of supply, sufficient domestic energy capacity and the preservation of strategically important industrial capability alongside affordability and sustainability.
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A Europa será destruída por mulheres que projetam naqueles animais a maternidade que cabia aos filhos que elas abortaram.
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My dear Stephen,
How lovely to see you marking the sixtieth. One of the darkest days in our history, etched in the memory of the nation, a community of such strength. All true. And all of it happening to somebody else.
Here is the part your tribute left in the drawer. The tribunal found the Coal Board wholly to blame and said the disaster "could and should have been prevented". The Coal Board then demanded £250,000 from the disaster fund to clear the tip that killed them. The fund, raised by public donation for the families, handed over £150,000.
Your party's government applied the pressure, in secret. George Thomas objected, then folded, and leaned on the trustees until they folded too. The Charity Commission sat on its hands. Nobody was prosecuted.
It took thirty years to give it back. In July 1997 Ron Davies, your party's first Welsh Secretary of that spell, returned the £150,000 without interest and without inflation, and conceded the demand should never have been made.
So yes. Remembering is lovely. Your lot billed the bereaved for clearing the mine's own tip.
Twenty three likes. Five retweets. And looking more like your father every year.
Do carry on, pet.
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Petition: Do not extend the BBC licence fee to streaming services
There are widespread reports that the Government is considering extending the BBC licence fee to include subscribers of streaming services that are not owned or run by the BBC.
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Breaking News
NHS Scotland
This is my dad an 88 year old @JohnSwinney @ScotGovFM
My brother called an
ambulance 2 am it arrived 7 am and he has been in ambulance in Crosshouse Hospital car park since
8.15am.
He is terminally ill.
This is your Scotland 🏴
He has worked since he was a 15 year old.
He is a proud military man, bricklayer, businessman and is a huge supporter of charities.
Like many other pensioners he has been failed.
I never post personal family business but today this has been the final straw for me and my family.
Should he not make it ... well I have my solicitors ready.
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How can you NOT believe in God when octopuses dream and otters have a favorite rock they carry around in a little skin pocket and cows have best friends and bees are out there communicating the coordinates of flowers through dancing and they have regional dialects?
Cats are purring at frequencies associated with bone healing? Forests get absolutely incinerated and respond by growing flowers? Dolphins literally invent names for themselves and yell them across the ocean? Penguins are waddling around Antarctica looking for the perfect rock to give their partner?
CROWS REMEMBER YOUR FACE. THEY TELL OTHER CROWS ABOUT YOU. THEY TELL THEIR CHILDREN ABOUT YOU. YOU CAN HAVE GENERATIONAL BEEF WITH A BIRD. I NEED YOU TO UNDERSTAND THE SIGNIFICANCE OF THIS.
Goats have accents. Rats laugh when you tickle them. Elephants mourn their dead. Whales make songs and then OTHER WHALES LEARN THE SONG and suddenly everybody across the ocean is singing the new song.
Monarch butterflies are born knowing how to fly thousands of miles to a place they have never been.
Sea turtles hatch out of an egg, immediately sprint toward an ocean that they have never seen, disappear into it for like 3 decades and then somehow come back to the same beach they hatched on.
Birds can see colors that we humans can’t see. There are colors out there right now that we don’t even get to know about.
There are sea slugs that eat algae and use the chloroplast/chlorophyll and then are just like…photosynthesizing. And they’re super adorable.
There are mushrooms communicating underground. There are seeds sitting in the dirt for decades like “no actually I will wait. It’s fine.”
Squirrels plant trees because they forget where they put their snacks. Relatable.
A CATERPILLAR GOES INTO A LITTLE BAG THAT IT CREATES ITSELF AND DISSOLVES MOST OF ITS BODY INTO ORGANIC GOO AND REARRANGES ITSELF, GROWS WINGS AND THEN LEAVES. WHY IS THIS NOT MORE BEAUTIFULLY TERRIFYING TO PEOPLE??
And you’re telling me a tiny acorn knows how to become a huge tree? It just has a blueprint inside itself?
Your body started as ONE CELL.
ONE.
And that cell divided itself into a brain that can think about its own existence and eyes that can look at stars and hands that can hold somebody else’s hands and a heart that runs on electricity without you even asking it to?
The iron in our blood was made inside a star??
We are walking around on a wet rock covered in bioluminescent oceans and singing whales and laughing rats and birds holding lifelong grudges and flowers exploding out of fire and somehow we’re supposed to act like this is a normal place to live?
We’re supposed to act like this is all just a random, accidental sequence of events?
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There’s been an update in the case involving the police officer who faked being hit by a car.
The arrested man is reportedly called Pete, has neurological health issues and diabetes.
It is alleged he was left in a police cell for 24 hours without food or welfare checks, and was effectively forgotten about, all while police searched his home.
There now needs to be full transparency over exactly what happened, why he was arrested, how he was treated in custody, and whether proper procedures were followed.
Fresh details have emerged on the Gosport arrest case, confirming Met / British Transport Police officers, reportedly diverted from a riot control training course, were behind the detention of a man named Pete.
A source close to him says Pete has serious brain and skull health issues along with diabetes, yet was held for 24 hours without food or medical checks while his home was searched, with police later claiming they “forgot” he was there. @georgedmadgwick is now looking into the case as calls grow for answers and accountability.
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This footage is going to become a big headache for the police.
A police officer appears to pretend he has been hit by a car.
Seconds later, the elderly man behind the wheel is dragged out of the vehicle and thrown to the ground.
How are the public supposed to trust the police to enforce the law when incidents like this happen?
This needs investigating properly, and if the footage is as it appears, there must be accountability for every officer involved.
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Thank you.
To every single person who quote posted, reposted and shared the video today of the toddler and the incident in the water, I genuinely appreciate it.
It matters that footage like this is seen beyond my own audience and that people can see for themselves what is happening.
I’ve sold the footage to media outlets because, quite simply, they can put it in front of an audience many times larger than mine. This has never been about me. It’s about documenting what happens and making sure the footage is seen.
The money will cover an improved video camera and a hire car that I’ve had to get for the last stretch as my car was far too well known and was being openly recorded and was a safety risk
I cannot honestly put into words what your support means to me. I’m incredibly grateful that so many of you have followed this journey and stood behind the work.
Six days left.
I’ll also be honest. When I witness things like today, there is a part of me that wants to pack everything up and go home to my family.
But I made a promise to finish what I started.
And I’m stubborn.
Another day tomorrow.
Adrian
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Disturbing footage shows a police officer appearing to fake being struck by a car before officers drag an elderly grey haired man from his vehicle. The clip raises serious questions about police conduct, excessive force and accountability, and this needs to reach the right people fast. Watch, share and judge this police interaction for yourself.
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FIND HIM 🙏
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It takes 3.2 seconds to RT and help find Missing 3-year-old boy Noah in Brantham
Noah was last seen around 3pm at the play park at the top of Decoy Merriam Close
He has curly ginger hair, is non-verbal, partially deaf and autistic He was wearing a white Bluey t-shirt, shorts
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BREAKING NEWS! @SuffolkPolice are to give a press statement update on missing 3yr child Noah Woods; he went missing at 3pm yesterday in Brantham the golden hour & almost 24hrs has passed; these are worrying circumstances & a major police led search for Noah continues in haste🙏