Simon Hughes

Chancellor, London South Bank Uni & Strategic UK Advisor to Talgo. LD, formerly MP for Bermondsey, UK Justice Minister & @ The Open University.🇺🇦

[Simon Hughes @SimonHughes]

@bbclysedoucet @bbc @RoryStewartUK @LSBU @LibDems @liberalinternat
….beautiful, challenging, disturbing, horrific, tragic. ‘When will we ever learn?’ 2 all Afghan friends-refugees, students, those with settled status & those still home : We will stand with & 4 u & hope & pray.

[Simon Hughes @SimonHughes]

@bbclysedoucet @bbc @RoryStewartUK @LSBU @LibDems @liberalinternat
In this month of the 5th anniversary of the retaking of Kabul by the Taliban, have just finished ur wonderful book Lyse - ‘The finest hotel in Kabul’. So proud of all u do and now back in Afghanistan. ….

[Volodymyr Zelenskyy / Володимир Зеленський @ZelenskyyUa]

Today, we mark the 975th anniversary of the Kyiv-Pechersk Lavra – almost a millennium. Longer than the history of individual people, families, or generations. And yet still less than everything that unites us – unites us into a community, a nation, a state. Unites us as Ukraine.

We must preserve every one of our national shrines like this. And all the more so now, when the challenges of the passage of time have been compounded by the challenges of Russia’s utterly godless and asinine war against Ukraine and against all the places of our culture, our history, our memory – against all places that embody humanity.

You have to be utterly despicable and utterly witless to strike the Lavra, but Russia did it.

From the address marking the 975th anniversary of the Kyiv-Pechersk Lavra. 1/3

[Duncan Mackay @duncanjourno]

Quite how shocking a decision by @thecgf it was to turn down an offer from @BBCSport and sell the UK TV rights for @Glasgow_2026 to @tntsports has been illustrated by the viewing figures for the @EuroAthletics Championships at @birmingham2026.

Numbers have been rising steadily over the course of the Championships and peaked for the women's 800m final on Thursday night, featuring Keeley Hodgkinson, at 3.11 million.

BBC One drew an average of 2.44 million viewers for that Thursday evening session, securing a 25.7 per cent market share.

Evening sessions have consistently drawn an average base of 2 million viewers

For Glasgow 2026, TNT Sports coverage averaged 100,000, failing to get over 200,000 even for the men's final featuring world record holder Josh Kerr.

https://t.co/Z0zkdvexTQ

[Team GB @TeamGB]

Two silvers to seal the deal 🥈🥈

Both 4x400m relays win silver to cement @BritAthletics place as second on the medal table at their home European Championships 😍

[Church Times @ChurchTimes]

The Michigan primary result was more than a straw in the wind, ✍️ Paul Vallely (@pvall) #Comment #Israel #Palestine https://t.co/wPNSHVI1DQ

[AW @AthleticsWeekly]

Dina Asher-Smith has eight gold medals at the European Athletics Championships 👑

That's the most of anyone in the championships history 🇬🇧

🥇 Amsterdam 2016 (200m)
🥇 Berlin 2018 (100m)
🥇 Berlin 2018 (200m)
🥇 Berlin 2018 (Women's 4x100m relay)
🥇 Rome 2024 (100m)
🥇 Rome 2024 (Women's 4x100m relay)
🥇 Birmingham 2026 (Women's 4x100m relay)
🥇 Birmingham 2026 (Mixed 4x100m relay)

📸 Graham Smith

[Millwall FC @MillwallFC]

Josh gets off the mark in style 🎯

Head to Millwall TV+ for the full interview with Josh after his brace this afternoon!

[AW @AthleticsWeekly]

It's Great Britain who are European mixed 4x100m champions ‼️

Jeremiah Azu, Dina Asher-Smith, Zharnel Hughes and Amy Hunt combine to run a European record of 39.97 on home soil 🇬🇧

These are the splits:

Azu – 10.54
Asher-Smith – 10.04
Hughes – 9.53
Hunt – 9.86

[Anton Gerashchenko @Gerashchenko_en]

Ukrainian high jumper Yaroslava Mahuchikh won gold at the 2026 European Championships in Birmingham, clearing 1.97 meters.

This marks her third consecutive European title following victories in 2022 and 2024.

Congratulations!

📹: Suspilne

[BBC Sport @BBCSport]

⭐ FOUR GOLDS FROM FOUR FOR AMY HUNT 🥇🥇🥇🥇

She's the first athlete in history to win four European gold medals at the same championships 🔥

[Volodymyr Zelenskyy / Володимир Зеленський @ZelenskyyUa]

Emergency services are working at the sites of the Russian strikes that took place this morning and last night. In Kyiv, the fires were quickly extinguished, and emergency work is now ongoing. The Russians injured six people in the city and the region. Kremenchuk and Kryvyi Rih were also hit with ballistic missiles. Wherever the Russians can reach with their ballistic missiles, they strike civilian infrastructure. In Kryvyi Rih, two people were killed and 14 others were injured. One person was killed in Sumy. My condolences to their families and loved ones. Since this morning, air raid alerts have continued in many regions – the Russians launched another wave of drones.

This week alone, 13 regions came under attack. The enemy launched more than 1,550 attack drones, nearly 1,560 guided aerial bombs, and 62 missiles at our cities and communities, most of them ballistic missiles of various types.

I am grateful to all the services – State Emergency Service units, police, and medics – who are the first to arrive at the sites of attacks, help people, and respond quickly to save lives and restore normalcy. It is very important that this dedication of our people be complemented by new steps from our partners to protect the skies. When North Korean ballistic missiles destroy infrastructure and claim lives here in Europe, European interceptors cannot simply be allowed to sit in storage. Lives need to be protected. Russia must be stopped. New packages literally mean lives saved and infrastructure protected every single day. I thank every partner who is helping with this.

[Millwall FC @MillwallFC]

Right in front of the travelling support 🤩

🔴 0-2 🦁

[Team GB @TeamGB]

When winning is so nice, you just have to do it twice ✌️

Both @BritAthletics 4x100m relay teams storm to gold in Birmingham 😍

[Millwall FC @MillwallFC]

OFF TO THE PERFECT START! 🔥

[BBC Sport @BBCSport]

Amy Hunt does it again! 🤩

A second gold of the European Championships as she stormed victory in the 200m 🥇🥇

[Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office @FCDOGovUK]

"I thought I was going to be a rock star" 🎸

Dreadlocks. Lip ring. Punk band.

Not the typical route to becoming a British Ambassador.

Hear @nicbowler's story ⤵️

[Andy Burnham @andyburnham]

Turns out you can never escape your old teachers 🤣

This was a lovely surprise for me, on a very big morning for thousands of young people.

Good luck to everyone getting their A-level, T-level and BTec results today. Whatever it says in those envelopes, you should be proud of the hard work that got you here. And remember, there isn't just one route to success.

[Simon Hughes @SimonHughes]

Congratulations if you have a place at Cambridge. If not, then in clearing consider London South Bank Uni now. A great uni for the world of work in the late 2020s and beyond.

[Cambridge University @Cambridge_Uni]

Today is A level results day! 🥳

If you’ve found out you’re coming to Cambridge, congratulations! We can’t wait to welcome you in October. Let us know in the comments which Cambridge College you'll be joining 👇

If your results weren’t what you expected, we’ve put together this video to answer all the questions you may have about what to do next.

Big thanks to Dr Kamran Yunus, Director of Admissions at @downingcollege, for all the helpful advice in this video 👏

#AlevelResultsDay #Alevels #Year13 #CambridgeUniversity #Cambridge

[Roger Mosey @rogermosey]

This reinforces the point that it seems very unwise to be imposing more cuts on BBC News centrally and in the nations & regions.