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My dad and the cat I adopted, one month after he said, 'I don't want a cat in this house.' 😂❤️
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Just finished the beer garden for the world cup.
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Producer exhausted thinking about Boom at 1400.
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Boom producer awaits 1400 kick off, every nerve strained
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Breaking News:- Historians have discovered the grave of what they believe to be the UK’s oldest ever living man in Yorkshire. He was 193 and his name was Miles from London.
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Great that Kid Creole could make it to Mexico City tonight
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Well that would appear to be that. A few days or so until the by election and chaos is about to descend on us just in time for the summer holidays. How stupid
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Que nosso dia tenha a força do tigre e a coragem do gato… 😆🤣😂❤️
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In the snow-covered mountains, a group of horses became trapped after a severe spring snow storm buried the fields and cut off their access to food. With the roads blocked and no safe way to reach them by land, rescuers used a helicopter to fly over the frozen valley and drop bales of hay from above. One by one, the hungry horses moved through the snow toward the scattered food, finally getting the help they needed to survive.
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Fucking NHS. I woke up this morning with some trouble in my eye. Called the optician. Had tests. Sent straight to hospital with a torn retina. They insisted on giving me laser surgery there and then to fix it. Didn't want any money for the job. Now I'm home again. How inconsiderate. Joking aside. Remember there are people out there who want to dismantle the NHS.
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The Somerset Farmhouse of 1 North Street, Williton were approached by a "food influencer" that wanted to charge them £2,000 for a review. They put out a video of Sally eating a sausage roll instead 😆. Lets make Sally and the Somerset Farmhouse famous for free.
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We need your help to #SaveDenby! We are sad to share that we may be forced to close and a British institution could be lost. We need your help: 1. Share this post 2. Sign the government petition 3. Buy Denby 4. Visit us at the Pottery Village Read more: denbypottery.com/pages/save-…
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The door was locked.. 😅
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They’re not singing. They’re hungry.
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Still good things in the world
Chuckle Brother Paul Elliott receives MBE from King Charles III - BBC News - goo.gl/alerts/fBPtJr #GoogleAlerts @PaulChuckle2 What a wonderful day mate 👏👏
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New statement from Scott Pelley:   There has never been anything in America like 60 Minutes.   The Sunday tradition is the most successful program of any kind in history. For more than a decade, its innovative growth on every major online platform has extended its reach to countless millions around the world. This spring, at the end of our 58thseason, 60 Minutes grew rapidly with an unheard-of 9% jump in viewers on CBS.   “60” has been the number-one program in America for decades because our beloved audience finds integrity, quality, and humanity in our stories. When stewardship of the program passed to my colleagues and me, our responsibility was to expand energetically into a new age of media technology while preserving the values our audience expects. Now, the new owner of our network is casting this legend aside, apparently to curry a moment of favor with the Trump administration.   The waste is heartbreaking.   Last month, 60 Minutes lost its DNA when our entire senior leadership and two of our best on-air correspondents were cruelly fired without cause. Good people were silenced because they stood up for our audience. They stood for fairness against the forces of political bias; they stood for professionalism against chaos.   For my part, new management has instructed me to inject falsehoods and bias into a politically sensitive story. I’ve been told to include assertions that are unverified. To date, in every case, I have managed to ignore these instructions or refuse them. Recently, politicians have been invited to choose correspondents for interviews on the broadcast. Giving politicians control over 60 Minutes interviews is not how this is done. Finally, incompetence and unprofessionalism in the new management have wreaked havoc. In a case involving one of my stories, the entire program came within 19 minutes of not getting on the air at all.   At 60 Minutes, we have fought harder than anyone knows to save the program that became an American icon. We owed that to our millions of viewers. I am deeply moved by the thousands of wishes we have received to “keep up the good fight.” Most of the men and women of CBS News are still in that fight. But now the collapse of values at the top has become untenable. The leadership of 60 Minutes is no longer recognizable. The principles I hold dear are gone, and so I must leave as well.   I depart after 37 years at CBS with one emotion—a heart brimming with gratitude for the men and women of CBS News who encouraged and enriched my work, very often at the risk of their own lives. I pray for a day when those people and their ideals are honored again—a day when sanity, competence, and courage return.   Scott Pelley
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Replying to @PaulChuckle2
@PaulChuckle2 How wonderful and well done mate 🥂
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