Declan McGrath

Hii its dec 31 part of the NHS crew 😉 friends with Sian for 27 years ❤.

Llanfaes Anglesey

[Declan McGrath @declaa]

@scottygb With Paramount about to have clearance from buying WB I can see channel 5 having more sports

[Scott Bryan @scottygb]

Channel 5 will show Tour de France TNT highlights daily from 7pm throughout July. It’s a multi-year deal.

It will also feature Grand Tours from Italy and Spain daily. Grand Tour will be live coverage for the departure in the UK.

[RadioToday UK @RadioToday]

Radio presenter Mark Goodier, comedian Ellie Taylor, and One Show host Alex Jones will cover Drive on BBC Radio 2 when Sara Cox leaves the show tomorrow (Friday 12th June). https://t.co/Vztxvwt4rc

[Projection Sports by Tyler Markley @ProjSports]

Wednesday ⚾⚽

[The TV Room @thetvroom]

🟦 CLEAN FEED | Some additional specifics:

- Sunday edition of Breakfast scrapped from the autumn. BBC One will simulcast News channel in the slot.
- Various Radio 4 progs cancelled, including The World Tonight, Midnight News and Money Box Live.
- Newsnight to move to earlier slot on Fridays.

[Scott Bryan @scottygb]

BBC One will no longer air Sunday morning edition of BBC Breakfast from September. BBC News channel will air instead

5 Live Weekend Breakfast will become a two-hour programme from April

Newsnight to move to peak time on Fridays "building on the success of its refreshed format"

[Artur Nadolny @ArturNadol7566]

A POLICE OFFICER SECRETLY EMAILED A LANDLORD TO GET A DISABLED TENANT EVICTED. CAMDEN COUNCIL HID EMAILS FROM THE OMBUDSMAN.

THIS IS WHAT AN INSIDE JOB LOOKS LIKE.

Someone messaged me on X a few weeks ago. His name is Ray Hanson @tenant49273533. He has disabilities. He sent me a pile of official documents and asked me to look at them.

I did.

Ray was living in a garden shed in Camden, North London. Not a converted one. Not a nice one. An illegal one. With rats. No heating. No hot water. Wires hanging out of a window. A toilet not fixed to the wall. A shower that did not work. And Camden Council knew about it since 2006.

A formal Enforcement Notice was issued against the property that year. The notice said a building had been constructed in the back garden without planning permission and people were living in it. Illegal.

Written down. Filed. Then Camden did what Camden apparently does best. Nothing.

Fourteen years passed. Ray ended up living there. In July 2020 Camden's own Environmental Health Officer finally visited and condemned the place on the spot. No fixed heating. A broken skylight. Rat holes in the front garden. A shower that did not work. A toilet hanging off the wall. A sink falling away from the wall. Dangerous electrics with wires going out through an open window. A kitchen so bad it was declared unsafe.

Camden's own document describes Ray as an extremely vulnerable tenant facing a very real risk of serious harm over winter. They banned the property from being used as a home.

That was July 2020. Now remember that date.

Because housing benefit records show £22,880 being paid directly to Ray's landlord in October 2021. Fifteen months after Camden condemned the property. With a weekly payment of £260 still running. Public money. Your taxes. Flowing to a landlord for accommodation that Camden's own officers had declared unfit and illegal. Nobody stopped it. Nobody joined the dots. Or maybe they just did not want to.

Then it gets worse.

In January 2021 a Metropolitan Police officer sent an email directly to Ray's landlord. Not to Ray. To the landlord. The email is on official Metropolitan Police headed paper with a verified collar number, station address, and direct phone numbers. He asked the landlord what his plans were for moving Ray out.

He said that once Ray was gone all the problems would be solved. He told the landlord he had a vested interest in making that happen.

He then referenced police powers to issue Community Protection Notices in the same email. A serving police officer emailing a private landlord asking when he planned to evict a disabled tenant living in a property that had already been condemned.

When Ray complained about this email a Met officer accused him of fabricating it and threatened him with a criminal review. The email is on official police headed paper with a verified collar number. So who fabricated what exactly.

While all this was happening Ray complained to the Local Government and Social Care Ombudsman, official case reference 20 003 347. During that investigation an internal Camden Council email surfaced.

A senior manager wrote to colleagues including the officer who signed the Prohibition Order and asked whether there were any past emails they would not want uploaded to the Ombudsman because of the sensitivity of relationship building.

A council manager asking his team which emails to hide from the official investigation. In writing. On a council email system.

Ray took his case to court. The judge confirmed everything. The property was an illegal construction, unfit for human habitation, with rats, no heating, no hot water and dangerous electrics. Ray Hanson was awarded £58,567.80 in damages. He won.

Then Camden Council went back to court and got him labelled a serial litigant. Because Ray had brought multiple claims about what happened to him, Camden's lawyers argued he was abusing the system. In November 2024 a General Civil Restraint Order was placed on him meaning he needed a judge's permission before making any further legal applications.

So when the possession hearing came in May 2025 Ray could not defend himself. His application was dismissed before it was even heard. The court granted possession to the landlord and said Ray owed £27,320 in rent arrears.

Just pause on those two numbers. Ray won £58,567.80 in damages from his landlord. Then a court said he owed that same landlord £27,320. Same man. Same landlord. Same condemned illegal shed.

On 11 August 2025 police arrived at the property with taser guns and removed Ray Hanson by force.

He was arrested and charged on the same day. He has been street homeless ever since. He is still homeless now. Still dealing with this. Still not resolved.

A disabled man. Housed in an illegal shed that Camden flagged in 2006. Condemned by their own officer in 2020. Public money paid to the landlord for over a year after that. A police officer working with the landlord behind his back. Council staff asking which emails to hide from investigators. A court victory worth nearly sixty thousand pounds that changed nothing. A legal order used to silence him. Armed police. Arrest. The street.

Camden called him the problem.

And if you think this is an isolated case, last week @SkyNews reported that Camden Council is now facing legal action from families whose children were abused at a West Hampstead nursery for seven years while Camden looked the other way. Different victims. Same council. Same pattern. Issue a notice. Start a review. Avoid accountability. Move on.

Ray Hanson is real. He is sleeping rough while Camden Council sits in its Town Hall on Judd Street. The documents are real. The court judgment is real. The Prohibition Order is real. The police email is real. The housing benefit payments are real.

@Victoria_Rixon @MLorrM @johnmcdonnellMP @premnsikka @stevemiddi1 @nw_nicholas

[Premier League @premierleague]

Next season's stages 🏟️🤩

[MLB @MLB]

-Davis Martin and the White Sox face Gerrit Cole and the Yankees in the Bronx
-Framber Valdez faces his former team in Houston

A 15-game night coming right up! ⚾️

[FIFA World Cup @FIFAWorldCup]

Another day in the books 📚

#FIFAWorldCup

[Andi Durrant @AndiDurrant]

1992 vs 2006

Interesting one this week.. 1992 is one of the strongest years on the DMA with over 130 possible tracks in the folder, and 2006 is one of the weakest with just under 50.. but those it does have are BIG. Which are we going for?

7pm KISSTORY if you’re around later 🙂

[SportsGully @thesportsgully]

The New York Knicks are 2026 NBA Champions!🏆🤩

Last 8 seasons, 8 different champions!🏆

[NBA @NBA]

The Knicks are NBA Champions for the first time in 53 years 🏆

Jalen Brunson (45 PTS) and NYK win Game 5 on the road, defeat San Antonio 4-1 in the NBA Finals, and capture their third championship in franchise history!

[ITV Football @itvfootball]

Australia kick off their #FIFAWorldCup campaign with a huge win against Turkey 🇦🇺

[FIFA World Cup @FIFAWorldCup]

The Aussies are back! 🇦🇺

#FIFAWorldCup

[Josh @JoshM_Jones]

Nice one BBC #WorldCup

[Declan McGrath @declaa]

@TVmusicNews I miss the box

[All On The Board @allontheboard]

9 years on we remember. 💚

#Grenfell #GrenfellTower

[Emma @MrsEmmaWebber]

Barnaby Philip John Webber
11/01/2004-13/06/2023 💔

If you can, share these images of the beautiful soul stolen from us by the worst of humanity.

Let his face today burn bright.
Barney, I promise you there will be accountability 💛💚

For You. For Grace. For Ian.

[MLB @MLB]

-Tarik Skubal returns to the mound against the Guardians
-Cam Schlittler and Kevin Gausman square off in an AL East matchup
-Yoshinobu Yamamoto and Jacob deGrom are also on the bump

Great pitching all around on a full Saturday of baseball! ⚾️