Mark Mennell

[Alastair Hilton @London_W4]

Good morning boys and girls. Friday morning, the sun is shining and I haven’t been arrested for not breaking the law. Thank you so much for all the support regarding my video of the police yesterday. Really appreciated. I’m off to get a coffee. I’ve put on clean boxer shorts today though, just in case I get arrested. Better safe than sorry. Cheers 🍻

[David Atherton @daveatherton]

This is Cllr Rick Rowe, for the Green Party Chiswick Riverside. He proposed to stop outside seating in pubs along the Thames, which was critiallly commented on by Alastair. Rowe sent two police officers to warn him off about X posting on this issue & was threatened with arrest.

Last evening Rowe & his boyfriend visited the pub Alastair was drinking in. He was filmed & Rowe tried to grab his phone.

It appears the @MetCC Police passed on confidential information to Rowe.

[iamvictor EC @iamvictor_ec]

Declan Rice after today match against Dr Congo 🇨🇩
"I dedicate this masterclass performance to my beloved father, who has been courageously battling cancer for some time. I only wish I could bring the World Cup trophy home for him. He is my biggest inspiration, and every moment I step onto the pitch, I do it for him. I was hoping this performance makes him proud and gives him strength to keep fighting."Not knowing he passed away🕊🕊💔 while the game was going on

[Harry Kane @HKane]

This is what it means.

Got the job done. See you in Mexico. 🦁🦁🦁

[bryan mathieson @bmmtweet]

An absolute disgrace, spent many happy hours here in decades gone by . @LBofHounslow , get a grip and let the folks of this area enjoy what they have done for years and clean up your own dump of a backyard. Normal uk people want to sit outside enjoying a drink and a meal as old Father Thames laps in and out .Green stands for Mean , how can the populous be so dumb as to be taken in by yet another tree hugging dreamer .

[Al Murray 🇺🇦 @almurray]

That was quick!

[Alastair Hilton @London_W4]

And now I’m here and I’m very angry. I mean fuming. Strand on the Green in Chiswick and the councillor Rick Rowe of Hounslow council has said that the pubs here; the Bell and Crown, The City Barge and The Bulls Head, aren’t allowed outside seating anymore. They’ve had that seating forever and people love to relax outside in the sunshine by the river, but now, the council has said that must stop. Hounslow council govern Chiswick. Hounslow is an absolute third world shithole. All the taxes from Chiswick pay for Hounslow to survive and these idiots want to make it even harder for businesses to survive. I have no say in these pubs and they certainly haven’t asked me to post, in case someone thinks that. I’m posting because I know how hard it is to run a business. I know how hard pubs work to survive and I know how terrible councillors are. Disgusting

[England @England]

Harry Edward Kane. When we needed him most.

[Lee Harris @LeeHarris]

Sadiq Khan and Mark Rowley PUBLICLY DENIED they knew about Pakistani rape gangs in London.

It's now been revealed more than 4,000 potential cases could now be reopened and Sadiq Khan had *already seen the evidence*.

This is a *blatant* cover-up.
They BOTH need to go!

[SOI media 🇬🇧 @MediaSOI]

This is Marie-France van Heel, she is a director of Be.EV & Iduna Infrastructure, she is also Chief Marketing and Customer Officer for Octopus Energy. In her capacity on both these rolls she secured a contract to supply EV infrastructure and supply energy to Greater Manchester Combined Authority, the famous “Bus” project the now ex mayor of Manchester keeps banging on about. One thing that he possibly fails to shout about is the this woman that got this contract is in fact Andy Burnham’s wife

[Lee Harris @LeeHarris]

Can't believe I missed this.

How the HELL can the BBC justify spending licence fee payers' money on a helicopter to follow a sodding train that Andy Burnham in on?

This is blatant propaganda.
Outrageous.

[Robert Abel @rj_abel]

It’s hard to understand how Andy Burnham could be the next Prime Minister when only two weeks ago he wasn’t even an MP.
The country should decide who leads the people — at the ballot box — call a general election.

[Mario Nawfal @MarioNawfal]

🇬🇧 UK lawyer Paul Powlesland cleaned 200 bags of waste from a polluted river.

Fish and dragonflies have returned.

Now he faces up to 2 years in prison for doing it without a permit.

This is modern Britain: punishing people who actually clean up the environment while the bureaucracy strangles common sense.

Absolutely insane.

Source: @Coinvo / Writer: Oliver

[The Farmer's Dog @FamersDog]

An update and a message from Jeremy.

“Thank you so much for all the kind messages I've had but now, an announcement.”

[I Meme Therefore I Am 🇺🇸 @ImMeme0]

Zevenor Gordon, a sexual predator, has been jailed for 16 months for sexually assaulting 6 schoolgirls and women in London.

Paul Powlesland, an environmental lawyer, is facing 2 years in prison for cleaning and removing garbage from the London river without a license.

British justice system is broken.

[GB Politics @GBPolitcs]

🚨NEW: Football legend Harry Redknapp has spoken out on areas like Green party-led Bristol council banning England flags during the World Cup

"What is wrong with these people? We are proud to be English, that is what we are. Fly your flags, be proud of your country!"

[Clean Up Britain @cleanupbritain]

We're going to nail this lazy, anti-social, bloke.
However... we're not totally sure of where this fly-tipping location is. We think it might be in Petersfield, Hants.
Can anyone confirm or challenge this? Please email [email protected] with any info. Thanks.

[Benonwine @benonwine]

I think I speak for a lot of people when I say this.

For years, Sunday nights meant Top Gear. We’d sit down at 8pm and watch Jeremy Clarkson, Richard Hammond and James May do what they did best.

Now, through Clarkson’s Farm, Jeremy has introduced a whole new generation to the realities of British farming and earned the respect of millions all over again.

He’s made us laugh, he’s frustrated us, and he’s entertained us for decades.

Get well soon, Jezza.

The country is rooting for you. ❤️🇬🇧🙏

[FTBL_Planet @FTBL_Planet]

When Bobby Robson finished his last chemotherapy session in 2007, Dr Ruth Plummer pulled him to one side at the Freeman Hospital in Newcastle.

Bobby thought it was going to be about his health.

Instead, Ruth wanted to talk to him about something else.

Her department was too old.

There was a new Early Cancer Trials Unit being planned at the Northern Centre for Cancer Care, three times bigger than what they already had, with a proper laboratory, modern equipment and room for clinical trials.

But there was one problem.

They did not have the money to kit it out.

So Ruth asked Bobby if he knew anybody who might help.

Bobby went home and spoke to his wife Elsie.

The next day, they started making calls.

Very quickly, what had started as a quiet conversation with Ruth had turned into a committee.

Then the idea came up.

Use Bobby’s name.

He was not comfortable with that at first.

He did not want a charity built around himself.

But the others told him it would open doors, and once Bobby agreed to it, there was no going halfway.

The Sir Bobby Robson Foundation was born.

At the first meeting with the hospital, Don Robson got straight to the point.

How much money was needed to get started?

£500,000.

And Ruth needed it by the summer of 2008 because she wanted the facility running by October.

That was when Bobby knew what he had walked into.

“There could be no slowing down, no pulling out, no getting halfway down the road and turning back.”

The original plan had been simple enough.

Bobby would lend his name, act as a figurehead, and stay in the background.

It did not work out like that.

He went to the meetings.

He did the interviews.

He kept going even when he was not well.

Sometimes he would pull Ruth to one side and ask her:

“What have you bloody well got me into?”

But he never missed a single meeting.

The launch was held at the Copthorne Hotel.

By then, Bobby was fully in it.

“If I’m committed to something, then I’m committed.”

And then the money started coming in.

Within seven weeks, the first target had already been reached.

£560,000.

Then people started turning up at Bobby and Elsie’s house.

The first donation came from a woman carrying an envelope full of cash.

Her husband had recently died, and his final request had been that people at his funeral gave money to Bobby’s charity instead of buying flowers.

She handed over £271.74.

“What can you say to that?”

Then there was Johnny Bliss, a local singer with pancreatic cancer.

His doctors had told him he had months to live, but he still held a concert, sold CDs and raised around £10,000 for the Foundation.

Bobby met him at the Copthorne.

Johnny brought his family with him, and made the men wear their best suits and ties.

Bobby could see he was not well.

“I could have cried.”

And for all the football he had lived through, all the countries, all the clubs, all the games, this became his last big job.

“It’s not about beating Portsmouth any more.”

“It’s about beating death.”

As of today the Sir Bobby Robson foundation has raised over £27 million.
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