This is nice! Our @thetimes.com podcast series The Poppy Day Bomb has been nominated for an Ambie @thepodcastacademy.bsky.social Congrats to @marioledwith.bsky.social and the whole team 👏
Mario Ledwith
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News reporter at The Times. Londoner by way of Ireland. Get in touch: mario.ledwith@thetimes.co.uk | DMs open | Signal available on request Stories: thetimes.com/profile/mario-ledwith
It was great to speak about The Poppy Day Bomb podcast on on @rteradio1.bsky.social 's Today with David McCullagh. We discussed my year-long search for answers and why mystery still surrounds the events of that awful day in November 1987. www.rte.ie/radio/radio1...
The Poppy Day Bomb: a veil of secrecy still surrounds the Enniskillen bomb of 1987
Mario Ledwith, reporter with the London Times and presenter of The Poppy Day Bomb podcast
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🚨 Full series out now 🚨 🔴 All six episodes of The Poppy Day Bomb, an investigative podcast for @thetimes.com into one of the darkest episodes of The Troubles, are available and free to listen 🎧 Listen here: podfollow.com/poppy-day-bomb Please do share if you have enjoyed.
The Poppy Day Bomb | Times Investigates
A bombing kills 11 people attending the Remembrance Sunday commemorations in the small town of Enniskillen, Northern Ireland.A twelfth victim will die years later in coma.No one has ever been charged....
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🔴 The Poppy Day Bomb podcast 🔴 🎧 podfollow.com/poppy-day-bomb On 8 November 1987 an IRA bomb exploded in Enniskillen on Remembrance Sunday, killing 11 people I was born 2 days later, arriving in the local hospital alongside those who'd been mutilated
The Poppy Day Bomb | Times Investigates
A bombing kills 11 people attending the Remembrance Sunday commemorations in the small town of Enniskillen, Northern Ireland.No one has ever been charged.A lifetime later, The Times’s reporter Mario L...
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"A car crash": Inside the heated meeting between Angela Rayner and Grenfell families where she revealed the tower would be destroyed www.thetimes.com/article/e802...
Angela Rayner’s Grenfell demolition meeting an ‘aggressive car crash’
The deputy prime minister grew ‘flustered and angry’ before she was escorted from the room in tense scenes, according to those who attended
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Quite the claim from former Post Office boss Paula Vennells on the penultimate day of the public inquiry into the Horizon scandal. Witnesses, her lawyers say, will seek to point the finger of blame at her because of how she been "portrayed in the media" and "their desire for self-preservation".
The BBC is facing questions about how it dealt with Gregg Wallace - contestants and staff say they've been complaining since at least 2008 www.thetimes.com/article/e88f...
Gregg Wallace investigated by Channel 5 over new allegations
The presenter often made inappropriate comments about sex, including spanking and domination, said a woman who worked with him on Gregg Wallace’s Big Weekends
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Strongly-worded column here from Ian Hislop about Justin Welby's appearance at a British Museum trustees' dinner the day after he announced his resignation
New: the family of a woman found murdered in a car boot in London have called for UK/Indian authorities to work swiftly to find her fugitive husband "Her voice must be heard," they say. Pankaj Lamba, 23, is wanted over the murder of Harshita Brella, 24. www.thetimes.com/article/33cc...
Harshita Brella: woman found in car boot deserves justice, says family
Pankaj Lamba, 23, who has fled the country, is suspected of murdering his wife, 24, whose body was found in east London on Thursday
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Sad news. The RSPB is selling off about 1% of its land, including potentially offloading some of its smallest nature reserves, as the conservation charity struggles under financial pressure. Some shops, cafés and visitor centres will also be closed. Story 👇 www.thetimes.com/uk/environme...
RSPB may sell off smallest reserves due to funding crisis
With the conservation charity struggling under financial pressure, some shops, cafés and visitor centres have been earmarked for closure
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New: Police have launched an international manhunt for the husband of Harshita Brella, whose body was found in the boot of a car in east London last Thursday. Police believe Pankaj Lamba, 23, fled the country after killing her.
Yet another grim episode of police incompetence. The Met involved, again. Officers telling victims that they need to do the investigatory work, dragging their feet to carry out basic police work. Really not on. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Lucy Manning: A sexually obscene phone call - and my two-year ordeal getting police to act
BBC correspondent Lucy Manning describes having to fight at every moment to keep her case on track.
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We are all here but where are we? Useful piece here on the inception of Bluesky and who owns it, from @thetimes.com www.thetimes.com/article/6c9a...
The rise of Bluesky and what it could mean for Elon Musk’s X
The app has had more than a million sign-ups since Donald Trump’s election, as X users seek sanctuary from bots, offensive posts — and its owner’s politics
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New article: A coroner has raised concerns about the dangers of "self-policing" on university campuses following the death of an Oxford university student. Story here 👇https://www.thetimes.com/uk/education/article/stop-students-self-policing-coroner-says-after-oxford-suicide-70jk8cnt7
Stop students ‘self-policing’, coroner says after Oxford suicide
Warning follows inquest for Alexander Rogers, 20, who was ostracised by peers
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