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🏆 Award-winning newsletter celebrating unique communities & diverse stories from our publications🗞️including The Mirror, Manchester Evening News, Liverpool Echo, Birmingham Live, WalesOnline, MyLondon! Sign-up link in bio 📝 Editors @Journo_MaryamQ @MediaDonnelly @HediMehrez_
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What better way to launch Britain Talks, the @DailyMirror's bid to help us all disagree better, than with an argument as fundamental to our culture as EastEnders vs Corrie? youtu.be/UzfGLtOI4vo?si=LcJ3…
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Stars @TracyBrabin (Coronation Street) and @RossKemp (EastEnders) went head-to-head on soap supremacy, the North-South divide, and what makes British television great for the launch of #BritainTalks
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Masked men in black shirts 'echo the 1930s' warns Lord who escaped Nazis Lord @AlfDubs is still giving back to the country that adopted him. Now he's released his autobiography 'The Boy with the Knapsack’ @realbritainros mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/sm…
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A decade ago, the UN settled 24 Syrian refugee families on the Isle of Bute, a tiny Scottish island of 6,500 residents – in a hail of negative headlines. As Scotland prepared to face Brazil, we went to Bute to find out what it means to be a 'New Scot'. Watch our brand new #IslandOfStrangers film here.... youtube.com/watch?v=fOw74sRE…
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We’ve been on tour across the country speaking to people doing amazing things, from a Birmingham charity who support up to 400 people a week at their coffee mornings, to a group of dedicated volunteers in Bradford, who often butter up to 400 slices of bread a day in the school holidays so no child goes hungry. mirror.co.uk/news/politics/h…
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This weekend Britain will celebrate a million moments of kindness, solidarity & connection as part of the Million Acts of Hope campaign - the broadest & deepest coalition of charities, community groups & faith organisations this decade. A letter signed by over 70k people, 239 charity partners & countless community groups – ran in Wednesday's Mirror. “To the people who give up evenings and weekend lie-ins,” the letter said. “Who pour tea, answer phones, raise funds, make lunches… To the people that get people talking – across divides and in tricky times. We thank you."
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Her nails painted a bold red, make-up perfectly in place, and wearing shorts she would not have dared put on back in Saudi Arabia, Junia Spencer was sitting in a crowded room in East London feeling, at last, like herself. mylondon.news/news/east-lond…
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Daughter Coleen told @Journo_MaryamQ there was a lack of internal communication at Nottingham City Hospital & failures by social services: "The whole system is so bad. They just kept saying he needed to go into a care home, but dad was adamant he didn’t want to. While he was in hospital, dad deteriorated." #NHS #DementiaCare #dementiaawareness
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For #RealBritain we spoke to Stanford Francis who was admitted for an emergency pacemaker & was still in hospital 6 weeks later. The Windrush hero is one of 30,000 patients experiencing delayed discharge. Now the Gov promises to get back half a million beds. In @DailyMirror mirror.co.uk/news/health/my-…
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Despite a national rise in antisemitism & Islamophobia linked to the war in Gaza & Oct 7 attacks, the project has kept going. "We have people on our steering group with families in Israel, we have pro-Palestine supporters & people who have anti-war beliefs. We had to have those difficult conversations", says co-chair Ferzana.
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What began as a community meal for 30 has now grown to a weekly dinner for over 100 people, 700 takeaway meals are handed out & 500 bags of groceries given out monthly. @Journo_MaryamQ visited the #Nottingham project, which was set up to bring their communities together. In @DailyMirror @realbritainros
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#REALBRITAIN 'My kitchen feeds Jews with Muslims - Prince Harry's support has left me gobsmacked' Salaam Shalom Kitchen turns 10 yrs old, at a time when divisions between the two communities are under immense strain from events in the Middle East mirror.co.uk/news/politics/m…
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It's not just one incident. It's part of a bigger, ongoing issue. According to the 2024 NHS staff survey, 14 per cent of nurses and midwives say they've experienced discrimination from the public. That's the highest it's been since the question was first asked in 2019.
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A Black nurse working at William Harvey Hospital in Kent has shared her traumatic experiencing of enduring 'constant racial abuse' - and how things turned violent earlier this month. 'Constant' racial abuse on the job has left Kent nurse 'scared for her life' kentlive.news/news/kent-news…
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June, who now works in a care home, says she doesn't dare complain in fear of losing a sponsoring company again. "The work is so hard, 8.45pm to 8am with no break. I make food, but I bring it home again – I don’t get time to eat it. The only person who speaks to me, or ever says thank you, is the clocking-in machine."
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Migrant worker June, who was scammed by her employer and told to find a new sponsor in 60 days or to go home to Nigeria, has found solidarity in Barnsley Caring Voices – a choir which brings migrant care workers together in song. This week's #RealBritain with @BCaringVoices @MediaDonnelly & @realbritainros mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/we…
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Congratulations to Untold's co-editor @HediMehrez_ on his win 👏
This award truly means a lot to me. I'm honoured to play a part in bringing attention to stories that too often go unheard. Being surrounded by such talented people from across the industry made the evening even more special! #CBJawards
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Delighted that the 2 newsletters run by our tiny @MirrorTogether team - @Journo_MaryamQ @MediaDonnelly @HediMehrez_ shortlisted for the Publisher Newsletter Awards for "smashing community outreach". Sign up here tinyurl.com/4m3v8urp & tinyurl.com/56hh8593
👏🥳We're delighted that @MirrorTogether has been shortlisted for a Publisher Newsletter Award in the Best Local & Community Newsletter category. Thank you to our readers for their continuous support. Congrats to @UntoldReach (also run by our amazing team) for being nominated too! 📝Sign-up to our newsletters via links in bio!
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