Former BBC. TBIJ Global Health Editor. Doorstep Murder Podcast. Investigative documentaries incl Panorama.
Glasgow
Joined March 2010
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Today let's take a look at our Editor of the Year MJA Awards 2025 shortlist. We have @jameshalliwell from C+D, @journojennifer from The BMJ and @FinScotland from TBIJ - Congrats all! See the full details of their work below mjauk.org/2025/08/15/finalis…
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Global leaders have agreed to reduce the number of people dying from superbugs by 2030
The United Nations declaration aims for a 10% fall in deaths caused by antimicrobial resistance
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🚨The UK government is planning to ban disposable vapes to clamp down on underage vaping
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🆕 We’re banning disposable vapes in the UK to protect children’s health.
This is part of new measures to clamp down on underage vaping and create a #SmokefreeGeneration by making it illegal to sell tobacco products to anyone born on or after 1 January 2009.
Details 🔻
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Earlier this week the transport secretary Mark Harper brought up ‘15-minute cities’ during the Conservative Party Conference
His description wasn’t far off the mark, but then he went on to say that the concept was being “misused” 🤔
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This is what it feels like to be alive as we approach the end of the world as we know it. There is time to avoid the worst but it means every single one of us becoming activists. Leave it to other people and we are toast. Listen to David Attenborough who warned us time and again
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I wasn’t going to give this any attention… but here’s a taster of the abuse I’ve been receiving today for publishing a story about Andrew Tate. It serves as an important reminder of the hold he has over disillusioned young men & how misogyny runs deep
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New from @monamcalinden & @FinScotland for @BBCiPlayer | Are Scottish police getting closer to solving an 18-year-old murder?
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💥 UPDATE: "It's time to take Talk Media to a new level..."
➡️ All future episodes of the show will be published via the Talk Media Club. Go to: patreon.com/talkmedia
🎧 New ways to listen: copy + paste your new Patreon RSS feed or download the Patreon app (iOS/Android).
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Hi there, you can watch David Wilson's Crime Files here: bityl.co/8FcO
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Breaking: Novavax Covid vaccine shows 89% efficacy in UK trials. Half the cases on the trial were the new ‘Kent’variant so this is first vaccine to show it is effective against the new more contagious variant
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Right, let’s shine a light on some people volunteering in your community and going above and beyond to help out people who so need that helping hand. Tweet me with your stories of how you and others are helping and I’ll try my best to get it on the telly 👏👏👏 (please retweet)
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BBC News - Coronavirus in Scotland: Who is dying and where?
Health Correspondent Fiona Walker @FinScotland
#bbcgms 0705 bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-5…
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We are currently looking for Disney character costumes for a 6 year old Girls funeral this Friday at Newmains. We have some already but would love to fill the street. Any help would be appreciated 💔
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BBC News - Coronavirus in Scotland: Total number of deaths rises to more than 1,600.
Details from Health Correspondent Fiona Walker @FinScotland
#bbcgms 0705 bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-5…
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Join @BBCGaryR and me for #BBCgms from 0600.
The PM remains in Intensive Care.
We have regular updates from our corrs @macdonke @GlennBBC @FinScotland. We'll also hear from consultant Dr Ron Daniels @SepsisUK and former adviser to Mr Johnston @Guto_Harri
Inside an intensive care unit fighting coronavirus bbc.in/2V0kAmg
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UPDATE - I now understand that #COVID19 community death data from @NatRecordsScot will be published from this Wednesday. Will post other clarifications I am chasing... @BBCLisaSummers @FinScotland
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BBC News - Covid-19: The virus that changed life as we know it.
The latest on #COVID19 from our Health Correspondent @FinScotland
#bbcgms 0635
bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-5…
