Nicholas Booth writes detective stories about spies, fraudsters & with @howellspace, looking for life on Mars tinyurl.com/ydsb3u5e
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Bored? Listless? Ever wanted to rob the Bank of England? Parachute into Nazi territory as a double agent? Join the generational quest to find life on the planet next door? Then my books are for you - available at all good outlets
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Armageddon was funnier
Deep Impact is the most depressing '90s blockbuster ever.
That scene where they tell the public half the planet is about to die? Chills.
Armageddon was just fireworks. This one actually felt like the end.
🎬📺 Deep Impact ❤️🔥
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Le grand SNAFU de Giotto - live television when it went horribly wrong @drdwhitehouse
youtu.be/QxDMdH4uzxI?si=fcVW…
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My god, I remember that when it was first broadcast. I would have been in the last few weeks of Junior School. Loved RWT.
Rutland Weekend Television (16th June 1975). Tonight's late film - Incident at Bromsgrove.
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In the 1870s, the Belgian city of Liège experimented with using 37 cats as mail carriers. Messages were placed in waterproof pouches attached to the cats, but the feline postal service proved unreliable and was quickly abandoned. historydefined.net/the-most-…
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This has had the barmiest replies of anything I’ve ever tweeted
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Brilliant headline. Who knew the opening of World War III could be so entertaining?
The Sun
Russian warship fires warning shots at British pensioners in Channel.
Wednesday 17 June 2026
A look at #TomorrowsPapersToday
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Preliminary beetroot on a computer screen
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“The Queen is Dead” by The Smiths was released 40 years ago today.
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Back to the caravan after a long but brilliant day exploring Harlech Castle and Jess seems to have ...issues... with the sign Stella put up...
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Jun 14
A few stolen moments off this week at home in #Shetland and a chance to make my annual pilgrimage to Unst where, on the Keen of Hamar's serpentine debris, there were jewels to be found - one of the best years I've know for endemic Edmonston's Chickweed.
#WildflowerHour
ALT Serpentine debris typical of the Keen of Hamar habitat on Unst, Shetland © Jon Dunn
ALT Edmonston's Chickweed (Cerastrium nigrescens), Keen of Hamar, Unst, Shetland © Jon Dunn
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Norway fans are doing a “Viking Row” up the escalator at Boston’s South Station before heading to the World Cup
Adding this to the list of things I’ve never seen before and probably never will again
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Hidden Historical Gem 💎
The Bath House & Physic Garden, Congleton cared for by volunteers. ❤️
A rare surviving cold plunge pool & garden of medicinal plants 🌱
@socheshire #Congleton #BathHouse #PhysicGarden
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My latest cartoon for tomorrow's Telegraph
Buy a print of my cartoons at telegraph.co.uk/mattprints
Original artwork from chrisbeetles.com
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Green as far as the eye can see 🌳🌿.
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Part Two just now
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