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Analysed 42,000 tweets, tweets from the last 34 weeks.
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Tweets Day and Hour Heatmap (UTC)
| Top Applications | Count | % |
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13,848 | 33.0% |
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9,716 | 23.1% |
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7,283 | 17.3% |
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5,751 | 13.7% |
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2,258 | 5.4% |
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2,120 | 5.0% |
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845 | 2.0% |
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96 | 0.2% |
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62 | 0.1% |
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13 | 0.0% |
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| Top Tweet Types | Count | % |
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| Tweet | 40,250 | 95.8% |
| Reply | 1,075 | 2.6% |
| Retweet | 674 | 1.6% |
| Quote | 6 | 0.0% |
| Top Content Types | Count | % |
|---|---|---|
| URL | 39,700 | 94.5% |
| Video | 12,711 | 30.3% |
| Photo | 774 | 1.8% |
| GIF | 3 | 0.0% |
| Top Domains in URLs | Count | % |
|---|---|---|
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14,878 | 97.4% |
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337 | 2.2% |
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32 | 0.2% |
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9 | 0.1% |
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7 | 0.0% |
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4 | 0.0% |
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3 | 0.0% |
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3 | 0.0% |
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2 | 0.0% |
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1 | 0.0% |
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| Most Retweeted Users | Count | % |
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 @RidgeOnSunday - Trevor Phillips on Sunday
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369 | 54.7% |
 @KayBurley - Kay Burley
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95 | 14.1% |
 @SkyNewsBreak - Sky News Breaking
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89 | 13.2% |
 @SkyNewsWeather - Sky News Weather
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83 | 12.3% |
 @SkyNewsBiz - Sky News Business
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21 | 3.1% |
 @SkyNews - Sky News
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8 | 1.2% |
 @SkyNewsTech - Sky News Tech
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4 | 0.6% |
 @SkyNewsPolitics - Sky News Politics
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2 | 0.3% |
 @EdConwaySky - Ed Conway
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1 | 0.1% |
 @SkyIanKingLive - Ian King Live
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1 | 0.1% |
 @SkyCorporate - Sky Corporate
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1 | 0.1% |
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| Most Quoted Users | Count | % |
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 @AliBunkallSKY - Alistair Bunkall
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3 | 50.0% |
 @DiMagnaySky - Diana Magnay
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1 | 16.7% |
 @sajidjavid - Sajid Javid
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1 | 16.7% |
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@SkyNews - Sky News
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1 | 16.7% |
| Most Replied to Users | Count | % |
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@SkyNews - Sky News
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1,073 | 100.0% |
| Top Hashtags | Count | % |
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| #covid19 | 2,751 | 6.6% |
| #kayburley | 2,264 | 5.4% |
| #dailyclimateshow | 1,434 | 3.4% |
| #cop26 | 707 | 1.7% |
| #daily | 450 | 1.1% |
| #euro2020 | 428 | 1.0% |
| #covid | 354 | 0.8% |
| #climatecast | 328 | 0.8% |
| #tokyo2020 | 232 | 0.6% |
| #weeklyclimateshow | 223 | 0.5% |
| #storycast21 | 221 | 0.5% |
| #thegreatdebate | 187 | 0.4% |
| #alloutpolitics | 169 | 0.4% |
| #pmqs | 162 | 0.4% |
| #coronavirus | 159 | 0.4% |
| #teamgb | 121 | 0.3% |
| #breakfast | 83 | 0.2% |
| #analysis | 76 | 0.2% |
| #budget2021 | 54 | 0.1% |
| #backstage | 43 | 0.1% |
| #bigideaslive | 33 | 0.1% |
| #climateemergency | 29 | 0.1% |
| #phillips | 27 | 0.1% |
| #usopen | 26 | 0.1% |
| #eyewitness | 24 | 0.1% |
| #ipcc | 23 | 0.1% |
| #climatechange | 21 | 0.1% |
| #threelions | 21 | 0.1% |
| #dividedstates | 20 | 0.0% |
| #storycast | 16 | 0.0% |
| #️⃣ | 15 | 0.0% |
| #youth4climate | 13 | 0.0% |
| #batleyandspen | 13 | 0.0% |
| #g7 | 13 | 0.0% |
| #omicron | 12 | 0.0% |
| #afghanistan | 12 | 0.0% |
| #presspreview | 11 | 0.0% |
| #loveisland | 11 | 0.0% |
| #extinctionrebellion | 11 | 0.0% |
| #weather | 11 | 0.0% |
| #engukr | 11 | 0.0% |
| #coronavirus-related | 10 | 0.0% |
| #covid-19 | 10 | 0.0% |
| #afghanistancrisisappeal | 10 | 0.0% |
| #iankingpodcast | 10 | 0.0% |
| #paralympics | 10 | 0.0% |
| #kabul | 10 | 0.0% |
| #dailypodcast | 9 | 0.0% |
| #rain | 9 | 0.0% |
| #eng | 9 | 0.0% |
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| Top Words | Count | % |
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| covid | 3,600 | 8.6% |
| government | 2,727 | 6.5% |
| climate | 2,055 | 4.9% |
| boris | 2,013 | 4.8% |
| secretary | 2,007 | 4.8% |
| being | 1,534 | 3.7% |
| change | 1,486 | 3.5% |
| freeview | 1,386 | 3.3% |
| cases | 1,301 | 3.1% |
| coronavirus | 1,259 | 3.0% |
| police | 1,233 | 2.9% |
| prime | 1,141 | 2.7% |
| during | 1,049 | 2.5% |
| labour | 1,028 | 2.4% |
| pandemic | 1,009 | 2.4% |
| vaccine | 984 | 2.3% |
| since | 962 | 2.3% |
| restrictions | 958 | 2.3% |
| according | 884 | 2.1% |
| omicron | 882 | 2.1% |
| chief | 838 | 2.0% |
| taliban | 784 | 1.9% |
| before | 744 | 1.8% |
| deaths | 738 | 1.8% |
| died | 724 | 1.7% |
| nhs | 718 | 1.7% |
| shadow | 673 | 1.6% |
| tells | 670 | 1.6% |
| updates | 657 | 1.6% |
| rules | 626 | 1.5% |
| countries | 615 | 1.5% |
| britain | 610 | 1.5% |
| killed | 607 | 1.4% |
| lockdown | 606 | 1.4% |
| adding | 580 | 1.4% |
| mps | 564 | 1.3% |
| amid | 562 | 1.3% |
| joined | 553 | 1.3% |
| plans | 524 | 1.2% |
| biden | 520 | 1.2% |
| foreign | 519 | 1.2% |
| thousands | 517 | 1.2% |
| starmer | 517 | 1.2% |
| keir | 509 | 1.2% |
| reports | 509 | 1.2% |
| announced | 506 | 1.2% |
| downing | 493 | 1.2% |
| scotland | 490 | 1.2% |
| months | 484 | 1.2% |
| figures | 481 | 1.1% |
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| Top Emojis | Count | % |
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| 👇 Backhand Index Pointing Down | 2,056 | 4.9% |
| 📺 Television | 1,641 | 3.9% |
| 👉 Backhand Index Pointing Right | 1,572 | 3.7% |
| 🎧 Headphone | 1,225 | 2.9% |
| 📱 Mobile Phone | 1,003 | 2.4% |
| 🌍 Globe Showing Europe-Africa | 395 | 0.9% |
| 🔴 Red Circle | 324 | 0.8% |
| 🕐 One O’clock | 201 | 0.5% |
| 📲 Mobile Phone With Arrow | 181 | 0.4% |
| 🎥 Movie Camera | 112 | 0.3% |
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Tweets
BREAKING NEWS: Two men have been arrested by counter-terrorism police in Birmingham and Manchester as part of the investigation into the Texas synagogue hostage siege.
Latest: trib.al/3Kh2gJ3
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Latest: trib.al/3Kh2gJ3
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Boris Johnson lockdown parties: David Davis telling PM to resign is 'damaging', Sajid Javid admits news.sky.com/story/boris-jo…
Two men arrested in Birmingham and Manchester over Texas synagogue siege news.sky.com/story/two-men-…
Serbian tennis player Novak Djokovic and his wife hold a majority stake in a Danish biotech firm working to develop a treatment for #COVID19 trib.al/NwRXUsE
Novak Djokovic owns majority stake of COVID cure company
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Dr Richard Peabody of WHO Europe warns that #COVID19 can still be "very serious" in unvaccinated people, adding that we have not yet reached the point where it can be treated like flu.
#KayBurley: trib.al/TaVTqzm
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#KayBurley: trib.al/TaVTqzm
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Primark to cut hundreds of jobs in store management shake-up news.sky.com/story/primark-…
Primark to cut hundreds of jobs in store management shake-up
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Tickets for this year's World Cup in Qatar have gone on sale with international fans discovering that the cost of attending the final is up to 46% higher than the last competition in Russia trib.al/ryLjoWs
.@KayBurley will be joined by Labour's @RachelReevesMP as the government announces the lifting of Plan B #COVID19 measures.
🕗 8.05
👉 #KayBurley
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📱 Watch live: trib.al/NJ70lwb
🕗 8.05
👉 #KayBurley
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Watch Sky News Live
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Sajid Javid says two parties claimed to have taken place on the eve of Prince Philip's funeral were "unacceptable" and "wrong in every way", adding that those involved must be "disciplined".
#KayBurley: trib.al/vwpw9Nt
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#KayBurley: trib.al/vwpw9Nt
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.@KayBurley asks Sajid Javid whether he will run for Tory leader.
The health secretary says "there is no leadership election" and "we've got a prime minister who is getting on with the job".
#KayBurley trib.al/wj0iVwm
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The health secretary says "there is no leadership election" and "we've got a prime minister who is getting on with the job".
#KayBurley trib.al/wj0iVwm
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COVID: Sajid Javid says COVID could be with us forever but hopes all measures lifted by March news.sky.com/story/covid-sa…
COVID: Sajid Javid says COVID could be with us forever but hopes all measures lifted by March
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"If any minister, from the PM down, breaks the law, they should not continue to serve as a minister."
Health Secretary Sajid Javid says there are "no exceptions to the ministerial code".
#KayBurley trib.al/wj0iVwm
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Health Secretary Sajid Javid says there are "no exceptions to the ministerial code".
#KayBurley trib.al/wj0iVwm
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Health Secretary Sajid Javid tells #KayBurley that Boris Johnson has his "complete support", and the 'partygate' report should be published before a decision is made on whether he will remain as PM.
Live: trib.al/vwpw9Nt
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Live: trib.al/vwpw9Nt
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Work from home measures have been scrapped and face coverings will no longer need to be worn in classrooms in England from today trib.al/XojVDUK
COVID-19: Work from home advice ends and face coverings no longer mandatory in classrooms in England
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Health Secretary Sajid Javid tells @KayBurley he "disagrees" with David Davis, who quoted 'in the name of God, go' in #PMQs, and says "it is of course damaging" for the party.
#KayBurley trib.al/wj0iVwm
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#KayBurley trib.al/wj0iVwm
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Health Secretary Sajid Javid tells #KayBurley that COVID "is not going away" and "we need to learn to live with it" in the same way as flu, adding that in a "bad flu year" 20,000 lives can be lost.
Latest: trib.al/YRZ8Nyl
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Latest: trib.al/YRZ8Nyl
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.@KayBurley will be joined by former Conservative Justice Secretary @DavidGauke as several Tory MPs have publicly called for Prime Minister Boris Johnson to resign over #partygate.
🕢 7.45
👉 #KayBurley
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🕢 7.45
👉 #KayBurley
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Watch Sky News Live
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"It's never good to see one of your own defect."
Health Secretary Sajid Javid said he is "sad" to see Christian Wakeford leave the Conservative Party and join Labour.
#KayBurley trib.al/wj0iVwm
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Health Secretary Sajid Javid said he is "sad" to see Christian Wakeford leave the Conservative Party and join Labour.
#KayBurley trib.al/wj0iVwm
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Football fan message boards are rife with "openly misogynistic" attitudes towards women's sport among male supporters, according to new research trib.al/s9tf1NZ
Misogyny 'rife' on football message boards with fans posting 'hostile and sexist attitudes', research finds
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Watch #KayBurley live: @KayBurley is joined by Health Secretary @SajidJavid, former justice secretary @DavidGauke and Labour's @RachelReevesMP as the government announces the lifting of Plan B #COVID19 measures twitter.com/i/broadcasts/1…
Senior civil servant Sue Gray is currently the most talked about person in British politics, but what more do we know about her, the ‘partygate’ investigation and the power she holds?
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An artificial pancreas has proven "life-changing" for very young children with Type 1 diabetes, experts have said trib.al/Dhp07t0
Three stories:
🔴 Johnson tells rebels 'bring it on' as he vows to fight for his job trib.al/uHFDOJr
🔴 'My guess is he will move in': Russia will attack Ukraine, Biden says trib.al/CYDyxvC
🔴 Ghislaine Maxwell's lawyers file for re-trial trib.al/WU3kgub
🔴 Johnson tells rebels 'bring it on' as he vows to fight for his job trib.al/uHFDOJr
🔴 'My guess is he will move in': Russia will attack Ukraine, Biden says trib.al/CYDyxvC
🔴 Ghislaine Maxwell's lawyers file for re-trial trib.al/WU3kgub
.@KayBurley will be speaking to Health Secretary @SajidJavid after the government announced the lifting of Plan B #COVID19 measures.
🕖 7.05
👉 #KayBurley
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📱 Watch live: trib.al/NJ70lwb
🕖 7.05
👉 #KayBurley
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Watch Sky News Live
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The long and now desperate fight to save Derby County is bogged down in legal and financial wranglings that are threatening to take one of England's oldest clubs out of existence trib.al/zdn94qH
Britney Spears has reportedly sent a cease and desist letter to her sister Jamie Lynn in an escalation of their public feud over the release of her book trib.al/vDgQ1TR
Britney Spears reportedly sends cease and desist letter to sister Jamie Lynn in row over book
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'My guess is he will move in': US President Joe Biden has said he thinks Russia will mount an attack on Ukraine trib.al/wn2FN2t
'My guess is he will move in, he has to do something': Russia will attack Ukraine, President Biden says
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Prosecutions for child sexual abuse have dropped by around a half in four years, research by the NSPCC suggests trib.al/SbKA7e4
Online daters have been warned about the dangers of fake celebrity profiles after a woman was duped out of thousands of pounds by a romance fraudster posing as Hollywood star Nicolas Cage trib.al/EHyTNCb
Romance fraudster posing as Nicolas Cage scammed vulnerable woman out of thousands of pounds, says Victim Support
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US rapper Cardi B has offered to pay the burial costs for all 17 people killed in a fire that ripped through a New York City high-rise trib.al/cCUIwXl
Cardi B offers to pay funeral costs of 17 people who died in New York City fire
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A newly discovered coral reef off the coast of Tahiti could prove there might be more ecosystems in the ocean's depths that have not been damaged by pollution and global warming, scientists hope trib.al/5ZJv1hJ
Climate crisis: Newly discovered reef in ocean 'twilight zone' offers hope for marine ecosystems
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A newborn baby has been found dead after being left in a duffel bag outside a fire station in Chicago trib.al/Ffo955s
Newborn baby found dead after being left in snow outside Chicago fire station
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BREAKING: Lawyers for Ghislaine Maxwell have filed a motion for a re-trial, just weeks after she was found guilty of recruiting underage girls to be sexually abused by Jeffrey Epstein.
Latest: trib.al/7h4uPBf
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Latest: trib.al/7h4uPBf
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Emmanuel Macron has called on the UK government to tackle migrant crossings in the Channel by creating "legal, safe routes" to Britain trib.al/nPVEQTa
Channel crossings: UK 'needs to change immigration policies', says French President Emmanuel Macron
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Ghislaine Maxwell's lawyers file for a re-trial news.sky.com/story/ghislain…
Ghislaine Maxwell's lawyers file for a re-trial
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The chilling final audio call of the British gunman who took four people hostage in a Texas synagogue has revealed the terrorist told his brother: "I'm coming home in a body bag" trib.al/h6Es7sp
UK households are feeling the squeeze from high rents and rapid house price growth, but the #COVID19 pandemic has dampened demand in London trib.al/Pb6xiqQ
Will 40 years of house price inflation see Brits turn their backs on buying homes?
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COVID-19: Work from home advice ends and face coverings no longer mandatory in classrooms in England news.sky.com/story/covid-19…
COVID-19: Work from home advice ends and face coverings no longer mandatory in classrooms in England
news.sky.com
A defiant Boris Johnson is clinging on to power, insisting he won't quit even if his enemies in the Tory party force a vote of confidence in his leadership trib.al/VJ1n69Z
Boris Johnson tells rebels 'bring it on' as he vows to fight for his job
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Misogyny 'rife' on football message boards with fans posting 'hostile and sexist attitudes', research finds news.sky.com/story/misogyny…
Misogyny 'rife' on football message boards with fans posting 'hostile and sexist attitudes', research finds
news.sky.com
Climate crisis: Newly discovered reef in ocean 'twilight zone' offers hope for marine ecosystems news.sky.com/story/climate-…
Climate crisis: Newly discovered reef in ocean 'twilight zone' offers hope for marine ecosystems
news.sky.com
Will 40 years of house price inflation see Brits turn their backs on buying homes? news.sky.com/story/will-40-…
Will 40 years of house price inflation see Brits turn their backs on buying homes?
news.sky.com
Newborn baby found dead after being left in snow outside Chicago fire station news.sky.com/story/newborn-…
Newborn baby found dead after being left in snow outside Chicago fire station
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Boris Johnson tells rebels 'bring it on' as he vows to fight for his job news.sky.com/story/boris-jo…
Boris Johnson tells rebels 'bring it on' as he vows to fight for his job
news.sky.com
'My guess is he will move in, he has to do something': Russia will attack Ukraine, President Biden says news.sky.com/story/my-guess…
'My guess is he will move in, he has to do something': Russia will attack Ukraine, President Biden says
news.sky.com
Novak Djokovic owns majority stake of COVID cure company news.sky.com/story/novak-dj…
Novak Djokovic owns majority stake of COVID cure company
news.sky.com
British Paralympic swimming champion Alice Tai said she was "healthy, happy and thriving" after having her leg amputated below the right knee - an operation she has been considering for the past decade trib.al/uWEcxfO
Paralympic swimming champion Alice Tai 'healthy, happy and thriving' after foot amputation
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'The uncertainty in Westminster is crippling, and the mood has been toxic. There is talk that Mr Wakeford was sent over the edge by whips threatening the future of his seat with boundary changes.'
Sky's Beth Rigby writes
trib.al/XblYmOA
Sky's Beth Rigby writes
trib.al/XblYmOA
Boris Johnson: How electrifying moment in parliament and fuming Tory MPs show toxicity towards PM is spreading throughout the party
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Sir Kenneth Branagh has said the "introspection" of lockdown helped him to write the film Belfast - his semi-autobiographical take on his childhood during The Troubles - giving him a "fresh perspective" on the emotional days of his past trib.al/khqwcHf
Sir Kenneth Branagh on Belfast: Writer and director says 'introspection' of lockdown helped inspire movie which is tipped for success at BAFTAs and Oscars
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The device, created by scientists at the University of Cambridge, is more effective at managing blood sugar levels than current technology trib.al/J3RnVg5
Type 1 diabetes: Artificial pancreas 'life-changing' for very young children, experts say
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