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Sam Russell

@SamRussellPA

Regional reporter for East Anglia @PA. Was @EDP24. Views my own etc, re-posts are not endorsements.

 Cambridgeshire
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Retired great-grandfather who left school at 14 achieves GCSE in English standard.co.uk/news/politics…
Retired great-grandfather who left school at 14 achieves GCSE in English

Retired great-grandfather who left school at 14 achieves GCSE in English

Danny Davey, 73, sat his exam at Suffolk New College in Ipswich.

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Driver's winking selfie that led to fatal crash bbc.com/news/articles/ck551n…
Norwich driver's winking selfie that led to fatal crash

Norwich driver's winking selfie that led to fatal crash

Amber Potter was checking this image on her phone when she ploughed into scooter rider David Sinar.

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Cambridge graduations moved to ‘alternative’ location amid pro-Palestine protest irishnews.com/news/uk/cambri…
Cambridge graduations moved to ‘alternative’ venue amid pro-Palestine protest

Cambridge graduations moved to ‘alternative’ venue amid pro-Palestine protest

Protesters set up camp outside Senate House and chanted ‘Let your students graduate; come and negotiate’.

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Fentanyl double murderer may have been driven by desire to control, says judge independent.co.uk/news/uk/cr…
Fentanyl double murderer may have been driven by desire to control, says judge

Fentanyl double murderer may have been driven by desire to control, says judge

Prosecutors said D’Wit created a fake will on his phone the day after the Baxters were found dead.

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@FenSkaters afternoon, our photographer's been out today capturing images of Fen skaters. Could you follow me so I can send you a message about this please? Thanks
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Grower produces rarer white variety of poinsettia house plant independent.co.uk/business/g…
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Good views from the top of Cambridge’s King’s College Chapel where solar panels are being installed independent.co.uk/climate-ch…
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Image from Sam Russell (@SamRussellPA)
Image from Sam Russell (@SamRussellPA)
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Princess of Wales drives seven-tonne armoured vehicle with machine gun independent.co.uk/news/uk/pr…

Princess of Wales drives seven-tonne armoured vehicle with machine gun

Kate donned a combat jacket and helmet during her visit to 1st The Queen’s Dragoon Guards at Robertson Barracks in Swanton Morley, Norfolk.

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Man shot dead a father and son over family court case, court told independent.co.uk/news/uk/cr…
Man shot dead a father and son over family court case, court told

Man shot dead a father and son over family court case, court told

Stephen Alderton has pleaded guilty to the murders of Joshua Dunmore, 32, and his father Gary Dunmore, 57, in Cambridgeshire on March 29.

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Spitting Image’s entire archive donated to Cambridge University Library independent.co.uk/news/uk/no…
Spitting Image’s entire archive donated to Cambridge University Library

Spitting Image’s entire archive donated to Cambridge University Library

The free exhibition Spitting Image: A Controversial History opens at Cambridge University Library on September 30 and runs until February 17 2024.

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‘She played it down’: Bletchley Park codebreaker dies aged 99 theguardian.com/world/2023/s…

‘She played it down’: Bletchley Park codebreaker dies aged 99

Margaret Betts, of Ipswich, was headhunted in 1942 to decipher enemy communications during WW2

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Boy born without hand gets Ironman-style 'robot arm' as stranger pays full cost mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/bo…
Boy born without hand gets Ironman-style 'robot arm' as stranger pays full cost

Boy born without hand gets Ironman-style 'robot arm' as stranger pays full cost

The young lad had just begun fundraising for the prosthetic when his story caught the eye of a benevolent businessman who offered to cover the entire £13,000 cost

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Frankie Dettori’s trophies, jockey scales and boots among items up for auction independent.co.uk/news/uk/fr…
Frankie Dettori’s trophies, jockey scales and boots among items up for auction

Frankie Dettori’s trophies, jockey scales and boots among items up for auction

A saddle and photographs are also among the 126 pieces to be sold in an online auction by Cheffins in Cambridge from July 5.

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Cambridge University student becomes juggling world record holder via @irish_news irishnews.com/news/uknews/20…
Cambridge University student becomes juggling world record holder

Cambridge University student becomes juggling world record holder

The 23-year-old said that drawing on his academic background helped him to improve his juggling technique.

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Boy born with one hand to get ‘robot arm’ as benefactor offers to pay £13,000 independent.co.uk/news/uk/op…
Boy born with one hand to get ‘robot arm’ as benefactor offers to pay £13,000

Boy born with one hand to get ‘robot arm’ as benefactor offers to pay £13,000

Louie’s mother Hannah Morgan said her son was ‘so excited’ that he is going to get the Hero Arm.

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Former Metropolitan Police officer jailed for sexually assaulting child news.sky.com/story/former-me…
Former Metropolitan Police officer jailed for sexually assaulting child

Former Metropolitan Police officer jailed for sexually assaulting child

Farhan Ghadiali's victim was said to be "traumatised at every level" and had "self-harmed" because of the offence against her.

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Tributes to ‘charmer’ Joe Cattini as funeral held for D-Day veteran standard.co.uk/news/uk/bury-…
Tributes to ‘charmer’ Joe Cattini as funeral held for D-Day veteran

Tributes to ‘charmer’ Joe Cattini as funeral held for D-Day veteran

Joe Cattini was just 21 years old when he took part in the Normandy landings on June 6 1944.

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Friends raise funds to help Ukraine aid volunteer paralysed by moped crash independent.co.uk/news/uk/fr…
Friends raise funds to help Ukraine aid volunteer paralysed by moped crash

Friends raise funds to help Ukraine aid volunteer paralysed by moped crash

Darius Linkus and his wife Saule live in Trimley St Mary, Suffolk.

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Flying rings banned from beaches by UK council to protect seals independent.co.uk/news/uk/ho…
‘Nobody expected me to live’ – mum leaves hospital a year after catching Covid standard.co.uk/news/health/r…
‘Nobody expected me to live’ – mum leaves hospital a year after catching Covid

‘Nobody expected me to live’ – mum leaves hospital a year after catching Covid

Nicoleta Tuna, 30, spent so long in hospital that she learned English while on the ward.

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