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British Actor and Teacher of Performing Arts

[Mr @TinoTimes]

Win a pair of tickets to Beetlejuice The Musical with @lbo_theatre https://t.co/0Nfz1dzdQs

[Artur Nadolny @ArturNadol7566]

A KNIGHT, A KNIGHTHOOD, AND £2.7 MILLION IN SCHOOL MONEY. GUESS WHO ENDED UP SUSPENDED.

Copland Community School, Wembley, 2009. Headteacher Sir Alan Davies, knighted for services to education, was quietly pocketing £400,000 in bonuses in a single year. Three times the going rate. While teaching a school full of kids in one of London's most deprived boroughs.

Hank Roberts, teacher, union rep, and apparently the only adult in the building paying attention, blew the whistle.

His reward? Davies immediately suspended him. Along with two other union reps. They faced dismissal.

The total racket came to £2.7 million in illegal bonuses, carved up between Davies and his associates, including the deputy head, the HR manager, the bursar, and the chair of governors. A lovely little club.

Brent Council had been letting foundation schools like Copland appoint their own auditors. Turns out that is a bad idea. Who could have predicted it.

It took four years for Davies to end up at Southwark Crown Court, where he pleaded guilty to six counts of false accounting in 2013 and received a suspended sentence. A suspended sentence. For stealing £2.7 million from a school. You cannot make this up.

His knighthood was stripped in 2014. In 2019, after a High Court case, he was ordered to repay £1.4 million. Hank Roberts, the man who started all of this by refusing to stay quiet, called it publicly and said he would do it all again.

The school closed and was replaced. The system that allowed it to happen? Still very much open for business.

Sources: @guardian @TES @BBCNews @NEUnion @BKTAdvertising

[Mr @TinoTimes]

@PeterStefanovi2 Will the job tool help all the out of work teachers this will create?

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Any help? @AmazonAlexa #alexahelp #alexafails

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2025 Echo Studio, cinema group keeps saying "I'm not quite sure how to help you with that" using eero too. Any help? Amazon useless at responding. Tried switching all off, connecting fine until paired with TV as single or cinema @AmazonAlexa @geteero #alexaproblems

[Mr @TinoTimes]

2025 Echo Studio, cinema group keeps saying "I'm not quite sure how to help you with that" using eero too. Any help? Amazon useless at responding. Tried switching all off, connecting fine until paired with TV as single or cinema @AmazonAlexa @geteero #alexaproblems

[Mr @TinoTimes]

2025 Echo Studio, cinema group keeps saying "I'm not quite sure how to help you with that" using eero too. Any help? Amazon useless at responding. Tried switching all off, connecting fine until paired with TV as single or cinema @AmazonAlexa @geteero #alexaproblems

[Mr @TinoTimes]

Can @NEUnion start protesting salary and working conditions rather than generic 'far right'. Why is my union trying to mobilise on this? What policy? What pay increase? Look what happened last time. @reformparty_uk #teachers #edutwitter #fairpayforteachers #standwirhteachers

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@nationalexpress AC is broken, colder inside than out, and that's something in December. Only two hours to go 🥶🥶🥶

[Mr @TinoTimes]

@ripx4nutmeg You can't leave airdrop on anymore

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@Brunte84 They can live in a hotel, it's against their human rights

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@gemmaallred Not sure if you have to, but everyone does

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@Redheadange @RoyalAlbertHall I'm looking for a ticket. In the middle of an interval now but if you dm me I'll respond later

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@GoldingBF Just another multimillionaire director taking money intended for schools. Harris is the same

[Mr @TinoTimes]

Shortage of train crew? What does this mean? Not like we have guards or ticket checkers anymore. @TLRailUK This happens all the time.

[Mr @TinoTimes]

Don't forget there won't be trains on NYE. It'll be a strike, or the trains will be in the wrong place or something other rubbish

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New Years strikes have started early, or they all called in sick for NYE #tfl #trainstrikes @MayorofLondon @Mark_J_Harper #newyearse

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I guess this means no one will die from the cold.
#letuschoose death over fuel allowance. Sure this will help those statistics. #winterfuelallowance

[Mr @TinoTimes]

When are we going to #getbrexitdone ?

[Rt Hon Steve Baker FRSA 🗽 @SteveBakerFRSA]

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[Mr @TinoTimes]

Do @parcelforce deliver to London? I've had three shipments returned to sender without delivery attempt

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@rose3swd @IvySatinee @WishTender How do you sign up to beta testing?

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Seems to be a train strike this morning. 4 cancelled trains and it's not even 8am @TfL #trainstrike