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[Andy @Andrew676767]

@MarkRing10 After 65 mins yes, apart from the half time "turns".

[Leeds Rhinos @leedsrhinos]

As Kev goes passed Desperate Dan, the team fundraising amount passing £1️⃣,0️⃣0️⃣0️⃣,0️⃣0️⃣0️⃣

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[UNITED24 Media @United24media]

⚡️ A former Reform UK leader in Wales has been jailed after admitting he took tens of thousands in pro Russian bribes.

Nathan Gill received a 10 and a half year sentence after investigators uncovered cash payments sent through a Kremlin linked figure.

[Peter Stefanovic @PeterStefanovi2]

Appeals against deportation on human rights grounds are vanishingly rare - less than one per cent of foreign national offenders remain in the UK on human rights grounds. So changing how the Convention is interpreted won’t make a material difference to migration figures – but it does risk setting us on a path to undermining the rights of every person in Britain👇

[Andy @Andrew676767]

@Iwinenotwhine @drdavidbull It will be interesting to see what will be said in mitigation at the sentencing hearing on 21st November. The trial had originally been listed to last 15 weeks. Will more come out of the woodwork?

https://t.co/nHvMKwgJfD

[TheWelshDragon 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿🐉 @TheWelshDragon9]

On this day 1️⃣0️⃣ years ago 😯

"Wales have done it, they have beaten England at Twickenham, in Englands World Cup"

[Andy @Andrew676767]

@RhonddaBryant Summary of CA decision here. Only two issues before the court: The joining in of the Govt in the proceedings and the appropriateness of an interlocutory injunction. Planning issue to be heard in October.
https://t.co/2OJvDMlyyb

[United Nations Geneva @UNGeneva]

.@UNGeneva marks the International Day of UN Peacekeepers, #PKDay.

Since 1948, more than 4,400 peacekeepers have paid the ultimate price for peace.

There are currently 11 @UNPeacekeeping operations around the world.

[Andy @Andrew676767]

@MrNickKnowles @SaintsRugby Ridiculous as it may seem, it's the new law:
Players involved in the ruck cannot interfere with opponents, including the scrum-half, within one meter who are attempting to play the ball.

[𝐋𝐞𝐞 𝐉𝐚𝐫𝐯𝐢𝐬 @LeeJarvis10]

Bumped into a few young lads in Llantrisant earlier outside one of the shops passing round an old, flat and no grip rugby ball it had seen better days that's for sure. Pulled a new one out of the boot of the car + kicking T and gave it to them. They were buzzing, and so was I🏉👌

[CAMRA @CAMRA_Official]

@JonnyGarrett 🍻 @BeerChannel’s new episode of Keep Cask Alive features our Chairman Ash Corbett-Collins & we are backing their petition to get the UK Government & UNESCO to protect cask beer.
🎥 Watch their video here: https://t.co/aHi3tcvp9H
📝 Sign the petition now: https://t.co/oXsQBxJczH

[CAMRA @CAMRA_Official]

⏱️ Did you know, once a cask #beer is tapped, it only has a few days before it goes off?

🍺 @JonnyGarrett explains in his video on our #Youtube channel what support cask beer needs & what we as beer drinkers can do about it.

🎞️ Watch Jonny’s video here: https://t.co/8ld7P0IT90

[Aberavon Rugby Club @AberavonRugby]

Huge congratulations to @dan_edwards10 for making the @WelshRugbyUnion for the @SixNationsRugby.

Your hard work, dedication, and passion for the game have truly paid off, time to show the world what you're made of! 🙌🔥

Good luck, Dan – we’ll all be cheering you on!❤️

[Caroline Lucas @CarolineLucas]

British political system is far too complacent about risks posed to our democracy from malign actors like Musk spreading lies & misinformation & poisoning political discourse #Newsnight

[🎸 Rock History 🎸 @historyrock_]

Rod Stewart surprises people by singing with a street musician in London

[Andy @Andrew676767]

@elonmusk That sounds like disinformation

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[Andy @Andrew676767]

@AmnestyUK @mikegalsworthy What can we learn from Norway & Finland?

[Robert Peston @Peston]

There seems to be significant faux outrage from Tory leadership candidates Cleverly and Tugendhat about the Starmer government’s transfer of the Chagos islands to Mauritius.

Official sources tell me the transfer would have happened in materially the same
way at roughly the same time if Sunak had somehow won the election.

The point is that the transfer was being negotiated on the recent Tory government’s watch - including by Cleverly as foreign secretary and then by Cameron - and the deadline was in effect set by Washington.

I am told that President Biden wanted the deal done before the 5 November presidential election. Biden wanted certainty about the future of the US military base on the Chagossian island of Diego Garcia, just in case Donald Trump were to win the election.

For confirmation that the deal was clinched on a timetable and in a style to suit the US administration, see Biden’s statement that “it is a clear demonstration that through diplomacy and partnership, countries can overcome longstanding historical challenges to reach peaceful and mutually beneficial outcomes”.

Biden pointed out that the agreement between the UK and Mauritius meant the US had secured “the effective operation of the joint [military] facility on Diego Garcia into the next century.”

It is therefore curious Tugendhat should describe the transfer as “leaving our allies” exposed when the UK’s most important ally, America, has welcomed it.

And Cleverly’s denigration of Starmer as “weak, weak, weak” for formalising it seems eccentric when the negotiations with Mauritius were in full swing when he was in the cabinet.

As for Liz Truss’s assertion that Boris Johnson is to blame, I am told that Johnson was the last PM to wholly oppose giving up sovereignty over Chagos, and that the talks did not start properly till she was PM.

If anyone in the Tory party wants to know the nitty gritty of all this, possibly they could ask for an introduction from the former minister Lord Frost - because his spouse Harriet Matthews has been the lead official negotiator for the foreign office on the Chagos treaty with Mauritius.

[Andy @Andrew676767]

@Channel4News Find it difficult to believe that if she had been offered say £20k less than the PM, that she would not have taken on the role.