Media stuff @MayorOfWY @WestYorkshireCA. Formerly @YorkshirePost @LeedsNews @IslingtonTrib
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4 Nov 2025
Two tickets for These New Puritans @TNPs for sale at the White Hotel Manchester this Friday. Face value.
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2 Aug 2024
Already so proud of all the work that’s gone in to this show. A total joy working with over 200 imaginative people across Sheffield, 50 talented, hilarious community performers and a killer creative team. Written and directed by me 😊😊😊😊
31 Jul 2024
It's Nat and Alex’s big day but everyone is behaving badly... Can they come together to save the wedding and their community?
A new show by Sheffield People’s Theatre, in collaboration with 200 local community members.
🎟️ Playhouse, Wed 14 – Sat 17 Aug
bit.ly/3Wwt30C
ALT Against a pale blue background, a group of wedding guests in formal clothing are gathered, some raising a glass. In the centre, a bride and groom stand together and look slightly apprehensive.
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14 Mar 2024
BREAKING: I’ve just announced my decision to bring West Yorkshire's buses back under public control!
When I was elected in 2021, I pledged to improve your bus services – and this is a huge step forward to creating the bus service that you deserve.
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6 Feb 2024
Job alert! @BBCYorkshire is looking for an online journalist to help expand our coverage of Bradford.
We want to reach more people, more often with stories which reflect their lives as well as telling people things they didn't know.
More here: careers.bbc.co.uk/job/Leeds-…
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25 Jan 2024
Industry friend secures the future of @NorthBrewCo - here's a heartfelt drill down of the past week that led to today's news. Thank you @kirkstallbrew @teamdb thedrinksbusiness.com/2024/0…
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16 Nov 2023
Europe is frequency cited for its excellent transit, but this European city actually doesn't have *any* rapid transit, not even light rail! Let's talk about how it can improve its transit system.
youtu.be/metZXriPsEM
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📢 Have your say on how buses are run in West Yorkshire!
Today, we've launched a public consultation about how buses are run in the region.
Have your say here 👉 yourvoice.westyorks-ca.gov.u… #BusReformWY
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31 Aug 2023
Brilliant piece by @JenWilliams_FT - on.ft.com/3YVJsfM
Any time any thinker makes plans premised on lower public spending, I'd like them to read this
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25 May 2023
As a commuter myself, I know the frustration of trying to get around on public transport – and I will not stop until #WestYorkshire gets a bus service fit for the 21st century.
📽️Watch the video to learn what we're doing to build a better-connected region.
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25 May 2023
West Yorkshire mayor @TracyBrabin took a massive step towards bringing buses under public control today, but how are efforts to bring in bus franchising going across the North?
That's my top story in The Northern Agenda today, have a read here:
e.manchestereveningnews.co.u…
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15 May 2023
1/5 For me, this @BBCPanorama doc about over-diagnosis of ADHD is pretty damning.
Check-box DSM culture & these clinics to blame. But also, it seems to me, the recent en masse social migration toward 'neurodevelopmental' answers for socio-psycho issues...
bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/m0…
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10 May 2023
Steely Dan is back, @jack_hamilton writes.
The insufferably perfectionist duo—one of the most polarizing acts in rock even at its peak—has acquired an army of new fans, many of them quite young. Here's how the band captured the hearts of a new generation: on.theatln.tc/gUkzYP1
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27 Apr 2023
This is what strength and determination looks like. 📷 True West Yorkshire heroes.
In support of Rob and Kevin's MND fundraising, I’m running Leeds Half Marathon.
If you’d like to support, please sponsor my run. All contributions make a real difference.
tinyurl.com/yck77x6k
ALT A photograph of Rob Burrow and Kevin Sinfield. Rob is smiling looking at his friend Kevin, who is leaning over Rob's wheelchair to talk closely to him. Both rugby players are wearing charity fundraising vests and are surrounded by a group of people at a fundraising event.
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22 Mar 2023
Ouch.
22 Mar 2023
Glasgow is particularly well connected internally, so for comparative purposes here's Glasgow rail infrastructure overlaid on the Leeds city council area
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24 Feb 2023
The council said: "We recognise that we got it wrong."
bbc.in/3EyG7ds
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25 Jan 2023
🧵FT reporting that Hunt is on board with new 'fiscal powers' for mayors
This is essentially the Chancellor re-committing to the 12th levelling up mission from the white paper
(every region getting a long-term funding
settlement by 2030)
ft.com/content/414e1f83-4d81…
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24 Jan 2023
🗣️ Veteran York councillor Janet Looker: "I can’t actually think of a time when I have been so ashamed to be British" ⬇️
bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-yo…
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