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Rory Cunningham

@Rory_Cunningham

Former City (of London) worker, BSc (archaeology), grandfather, FSA Scot. Autistic and increasingly thinking that's neurotypical. Pronoun: it (© my father).

 Mostly various parts of the UK
Joined July 2011
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As if they didn’t have enough problems—nobody deserves to have yellow rain falling on them.
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I followed your advice and switched from Three to Lebara, because I was sick of the price hikes. Unfortunately, the 9-month deal I got through your link has inexplicably expired after just 2 months! I'm awaiting a call from a supervisor at Lebara. Let's hope they fix this.
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.@BBCWorld Do you not employ sub-editors to check reporters’ copy, who might have spotted a reference here bbc.co.uk/news/articles/ce8j… to “sceptic tanks”? @PrivateEyeNews
Nigerian man jailed for storing human faeces outside his home in Kano

Nigerian man jailed for storing human faeces outside his home in Kano

Neighbours said the stench from the property had become so overwhelming that it was impossible to relax at home.

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.@BBCScotlandNews bbc.com/news/articles/c4g5n3… the side of the coin with the cross is the reverse, the side with the head is the obverse.
Earliest coin minted in Scotland saved for the nation after 900 years

Earliest coin minted in Scotland saved for the nation after 900 years

The medieval David I silver coin, discovered in a wooded area in Midlothian, has been dated to the second half of the 1130s.

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Watched this 5+ times - doesn’t get any less funnier 😂😂😂 #eppingforeveryone #eppingprotests @mralistairgreen
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Dear @MichaelTakeMP, you seldom comment on matters of high culture, but I wondered if you could share your memories of the late Mr. Oswald Osbourne, whose soaring tenor so beautifully captured the bucolic nature of his native Birmingham?
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Reform MP alleged to be decent.
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DMA statement on the @DurhamGala and Reform UK. Reform chose to criticise us publicly for not inviting them to the #DurhamMinersGala. They obviously don’t understand how this works, so we will explain... Read more: durhamminers.org/statement_d…
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I don’t know who Foxx is, and sympathise with anyone who has had a stroke, but (@bbcnews) what has this to do with Syria?
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.@bbcnews “Pensioners in Scotland” is not the same as “Scottish pensioners”. bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cj6k…
All Scottish pensioners to get winter fuel payment

All Scottish pensioners to get winter fuel payment

Scots missing out on the benefit this year will receive extra cash in winter 2025.

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“Pompeii … is one of the best-preserved Roman sites anywhere in the world” so ⁦@BBCNews⁩ tells us. bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cjdl…
Italy's Pompeii to cap daily tourist numbers to 20,000

Italy's Pompeii to cap daily tourist numbers to 20,000

Nearly 4 million people visited the ruins of the Roman city of Pompeii in 2023, a third more than the previous year.

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Do you think other nations would accept the UK as leader, @pimlicat?
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Canada prepared Trump’s win? Or prepared for it? @BBCNews
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.@sturdyAlex so… questions for you & your followers about this bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c4gq… … are we better off outside the EU in this regard? Or even worse off? Or: would both we and the EU do better if we rejoined? Answers on a postcard (for those of us who remember them).
EU faces 'existential' problems, Brussels warned in Mario Draghi report

EU faces 'existential' problems, Brussels warned in Mario Draghi report

The long-awaited report paints a bleak picture days ahead of the EU's new top team being confirmed.

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.@youngvulgarian re: leaving Twitter: isn’t it ok here if you simply avoid/block unpleasant people?
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.@charlieejoy “A village row has broken out after a couple destroyed a bed of wildflowers outside his house”; ‘their’ rather than ‘his’ would be better I think.
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.@matzamax @bbcnews were not more people killed on 9/11 than at Pearl Harbor? bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c720…
Plea deal with accused 9/11 plotters revoked - US government

Plea deal with accused 9/11 plotters revoked - US government

US defence secretary Lloyd Austin says he did not agree to deal and relieves officer overseeing court of authority.

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.@AOL where is Quincy?
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