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In summary:
How long?
30 days - Iain Macleod, Chancellor, died from heart attack, 1970
40 days - Kwasi Kwarteng, Chancellor
44 days - David Blaine in Perspex box
67 days - ‘Big’ Sam Allardyce
90 days - B&Q returns policy
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In summary: (updated)
How long?
30 days - Iain Macleod, Chancellor, died of heart attack 1970
38 days - Kwasi Kwarteng
40 days - Jesus fasting
44 days - David Blaine in box, Brian Clough at Leeds
67 days - ‘Big’ Sam Allardyce
69 days - Chilean miners
90 days - B&Q returns
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This is ... quite something. Live commentary from Heathrow as pilots try (and sometimes fail) to land planes in #StormEunice
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Johnston Press latest - bought out by JPIMedia. Deal done. Titles and jobs saved. Thanks to everyone over the past 20 hours for best wishes. #buyapaper
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Reader of @theipaper, Dave Gunn, from Ruddington, Notts, writes:
"The following was pinned to this morning’s i as it popped through the letterbox."
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🚨 Journo jobs klaxon 🚨
@theipaper is hiring x15 new roles across UK news, politics, foreign, features, our iweekend edition and audience team. The recruitment is part of a wider project that will also look at opinion, culture, sport.
Investing in original journalism
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EXCLUSIVE: UK lobbying watchdog is ... a lobbyist
Member of Acoba runs his own lobbying firm and advertises his access to Cabinet ministers
“a link between the leaders of UK industry and the Conservative Party Cabinet”
Report @theipaper @DavidParsleyPW
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📣 NEW: @theipaper is creating 2 new apprenticeships aimed at school- and college-leavers.
Our aim is to create a new route in journalism. We welcome candidates who may otherwise face barriers to a career in media.
Salary for 2 years and tuition @PA_Training and in our newsroom
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Every UK national newspaper editor signs an open letter to PM urging him to review new system of Lobby briefings, warning it will "create barriers to covering democracy"
Scrutiny of government jeopardised
Letter also signed by leading broadcast editors
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🚨 Jobs klaxon @theipaper, investing in original journalism
x20 staff appointments in thread below
i’s News team grows from 31 to 44, news editors from 7 to 11. We are recruiting for further x15 new staff journalist roles
Statement of intent. Builds on i’s fast digital growth
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Journalist jobs klaxon. We're hiring.
x8 jobs at i.
i Political Correspondent
i Policy Editor
i Science Reporter
i Money & Business Editor (maternity cover)
i Deputy Business Editor
i Digital Producer
i Sports Layout Sub-Editor
i Administrative Assistant
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🚨🚨Appointments klaxon @theipaper🚨🚨
x17 new staff appointments to i editorial team - across UK news, world, investigations, features, iweekend edition, opinion, specialist journalism, audience team, sports
Congratulations all
Details below... plus x6 new roles we're hiring
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Tory manifesto ticklist
- keep track of pledges Boris Johnson keeps, or not
(available here as inews link and also printable)
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Exclusive:
This weekend police will stop cars with caravans / roof boxes on the M5 heading to Devon & Cornwall and send them back home
Ministry of Defence Police based at Plymouth and Portsmouth will patrol beaches, using tannoys to disperse people
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Delighted @nick_clegg has joined i as a columnist. Important voice on Europe, UK government and future of liberalism inews.co.uk/opinion/nick-cle…
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Journalist jobs klaxon. We're hiring
x11 jobs at i
i TV Editor
i Deputy Comment Editor
i Policy Editor
i Political Correspondent
i Science Reporter
i Business Editor (mat cov)
i Deputy Business Editor
i Social Media Editor
i Sport Sub-Editor
i Admin Assistant
i Digital Producer
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"What's that big spike in our audience traffic at 2 in the morn.... ah"
🤍I feel like laughing in the middle of practice 🤍
✍️: Ed Power / @theipaper
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🚨 New appointments @theipaper as we invest in quality journalism.
@paulwaugh joins i as Chief Political Commentator. Brilliant journalist, a must-read for ministers, MPs and anyone who cares about politics
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EXCLUSIVE: Experts are being exiled from Downing Street briefings, as rift between ministers and scientists/medics grows over R rate and 2-metre rule.
Presence of top medics and scientists at No 10 briefings has halved since start of June.
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Dear Jeremy,
We were comfortable holding you to account when you were an i reader (still are? not sure) and we will continue to do so! Every leader of every other political party can expect the same - since we report on politics without fear or favour.
It's why our...
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NHS cuts killed my mother: leading heart doctor warns that systemic political failure is crippling health service
Powerful article by @DrAseemMalhotra, who comes from family of NHS medics, including @KailashChandOBE
'No one should suffer like my mother'
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Out of interest @fifamedia, how many Fifa corruption investigations would it take for Sepp Blatter to decide he's delighted us long enough?
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There is a special circle in hell for some of the firms who operate England’s hospital car parks, profiting from others’ misery and hardship. What a way to choose to make money
EXCLUSIVE: NHS workers will have to pay for parking at hospitals again, Government to withdraw funding
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...readers trust us. They judge us on our journalism. Hopefully you will welcome the same scrutiny.
And on a point of fact we haven't actually attacked Labour's plan to make the highest earners pay more tax...
We remain editorially independent, politically impartial.
Best - Oly
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EXCLUSIVE:
⚽️Confirmation: UK Govt looking at changing law on football club ownership to stop Super League
⚽️PM + @OliverDowden exploring "golden share" (fan veto over some board decisions) and German "50+1" models
report @theipaper @RichardVaughan1
inews.co.uk/news/politics/ne…
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⚽️ UK Government confirms tonight: still looking at changing law on football club ownership after Chelsea and Man City pull out of Super League, leaving breakaway on verge of collapse ⚽️
Events of past 48hrs have shown the need for change
EXCLUSIVE:
⚽️Confirmation: UK Govt looking at changing law on football club ownership to stop Super League
⚽️PM + @OliverDowden exploring "golden share" (fan veto over some board decisions) and German "50+1" models
report @theipaper @RichardVaughan1
inews.co.uk/news/politics/ne…
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SAVE BRITAIN'S RIVERS -
Why @theipaper + our sister title @newscientist are launching a joint campaign.
A unique collaboration between two trusted publishers.
A year of hard-hitting investigations, in-depth features, films, podcasts, live events.
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Rivers campaigner @Feargal_Sharkey among many quoted in our reporting
His idea: “I think we genuinely now need to change the legislation to make directors of water companies personally liable, with jail sentences to help focus their attention.”
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Hi @wesstreeting
We made sure to check we were accurately capturing your meaning - and were very careful in doing so. Can’t distance yourself after the event…
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Damning from Gus O'Donnell: The Prime Minister remains in office but whether he's in power is another question
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So farewell, then, Northcliffe House. Home to many thousands of journalists since 1988
@theipaper left UK’s “vertical Fleet Street” tonight, among last to go. (Indy, ES, DM, TMoS, MOL, New Scientist all out)
Refurb next few yrs then journos back in
Abandoned cruise liner vibe
Out with the old and in with the news. A new chapter for i inside No 9 | @OlyDuff inews.co.uk/opinion/editor/o…
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NEW @Emmabarnett is joining @theipaper as a columnist. Her articles will appear in our iweekend edition and inews.co.uk. She starts this Saturday (8 May) 📱🗞
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inews.co.uk jumps above The Guardian to become most trusted digital newsbrand - latest @PAMCo_Ltd data
Newsbrands - DigitalTrust:
i 89%
Guardian 87%
Independent 81%
Times 80%
Scotsman 79%
Evening Standard 75%
Telegraph 72%
Metro 68%
Total Newsbrands 68%
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🇬🇧 🇪🇺 EU leaders want Keir Starmer to become British PM.
Exclusive @theipaper
Brussels veterans believe a Labour government would rebuild ties with the EU. (Although they know he won't overturn Brexit or rejoin Single Market)
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Front page + back page of Tuesday's @theipaper: "The end of the Elizabethan age"
#TomorrowsPapersToday
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Loudest roar of the night for Nigel Owens, named Sports Person of the Decade at #stonewallawards
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🇬🇧🇺🇸 EXCLUSIVE: Biden state visit to Britain suddenly in doubt
@POTUS ready to scrap UK trip (timed w/25th anniversary of Good Friday Agreement) if Sunak does not strike Brexit trade deal on Northern Ireland in time
Story @theipaper @singharj @paulwaugh
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🚨 We are hiring x22 journalists @theipaper on News, Features, Arts, Opinion, Production, Business, Audience, Foreign, Sport ...
inews.co.uk = UK’s fastest growing news site in the past year (@Similarweb stats this summer)
#journojobs thread here ⬇️ (1/7)
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EXCL @janemerrick23 @HugoGye
UK's world-class system for measuring Covid faces axe in April to save ££. Weekly @ONS survey measures infection rates + antibodies.
Will save money. But concerns that the virus - and any new variants - could go untracked
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*** @theipaper named Newspaper of the Year by @londonpressclub ***
Runners-up @thetimes @FT @Daily_Express
Judges explain why: 7m30 piped.video/watch?v=rf4hQhx-…
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Thursday’s front page of i
@gareththomas14 prompts surge in HIV tests.
He is ‘overwhelmed’ by public’s positive response.
h/t to the brilliant @THTorguk for all of their work.
#TomorrowsPapersToday
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📱 NEW @HugoGye appointed Political Editor @theipaper. Takes effect 5 July. Brilliant journalist, agenda-setting scoops throughout pandemic including numerous exclusives on UK vaccines roll-out. Trusted, non-partisan reporting. Has led rapid growth of “i on Politics” newsletter
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i sees fastest readership growth among UK national newsbrands in 2019 across print and online (+54%).
Bravo team i.
Journalism you can trust appeals to people.
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Big announcements at @theipaper
📳 x10 appointments to i’s editorial team (4 internal promotions, 6 new hires)
🚨 x22 i editorial vacancies #journojobs. Details in thread below
inews.co.uk is UK’s fastest growing news site in past yr (@Similarweb stats this summer)
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1/ Today, our newsroom remembers former science editor Steve Connor. World-class science journalist. Trusted by readers, trusted by scientists, scoop after scoop. He broke major stories on human genome, climate change, Higgs boson, Crispr gene-editing during 36 years reporting
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🚨 The brilliant Patrick Cockburn is joining @theipaper editorial staff as Special Correspondent.
A foreign correspondent in Moscow, Washington, Jerusalem, Belfast, Beirut, Baghdad.
Winner of Foreign Correspondent of the Year, @TheOrwellPrize, Foreign Commentator of Year...
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1/ If @nytimes had not published its exposé on Harvey Weinstein four weeks ago, Michael Fallon would still be UK’s defence secretary
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Re @garyyounge @CharlieBCuff @Haroon_Siddique @josephharker @khalafroula @afuahirsch et al. It was ludicrous for SoE to issue blanket defence of all media coverage. No wonder so many editors, journalists (and board members- given no knowledge of statement pre-publication) furious
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🇺🇦 NEW: i Ukraine Appeal w/ @decappeal
🇬🇧 UK Govt will match donations, up to £20m
Donating won't stop Putin. But it will help people in desperate need + shows them, despite forces of hate crippling their country, that strangers care
You can donate here
inews.co.uk/ukraine-appeal
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It has taken precisely 23 hours to create this special edition. (With a 2hr break for sleep) A great way to spend 60p #tomorrowspaperstoday
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More children are going hungry – 2.3 million in the UK this spring/summer. Hunger is the enemy of learning.
For 34p, you can send brain fuel for a hungry mind. Food for thought. Donating £5 gives a child a month of nourishing breakfasts
@magic_breakfast
#fuelforlearning
School closures have affected children from disadvantaged backgrounds the worst, widening the gap between rich and poor | Letter from the Editor @olyduff
#fuelforlearning
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Saudi wealth fund agrees £300m deal to buy @NUFC
#newcastle #NUFCTakeover
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Are you a snivelard or catchfart?
Let @theipaper columnist @susie_dent enlighten you …
The assistants to 17th-century quacks were the first to 'toady up' to their boss. They would swallow a supposedly poisonous toad, only to be 'miraculously' cured by their master's medicine.
A short piece on those who follow to the extreme:
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Important story in @FT tonight via @PickardJE
Implications for the fate of Boris Johnson’s Brexit deal - and for Britain’s future trading relationship with EU on.ft.com/364Dv4d
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🗞️Revealed: at least x66 of David Cameron's ministers and advisers have found private sector jobs linked to their role in government within two years of stepping down
Revolving door 🧐
Investigation by @HugoGye for @theipaper
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There are a lot of bad football team owners with dubious intentions but Leicester chairman Vichai Srivaddhanaprabha was the opposite - a good guy with ambition and imagination who won over the community.
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Front page of @theipaper's iweekend edition
A life of duty: Queen leads tributes to the Duke of Edinburgh
#TomorrowsPapersToday
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Bravo, Deborah Orr. Just named #pressawards Columnist of the Year.
She had so much more fun and fight in her. All those columns we won’t now get to read. Colleagues and friends very proud.
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THE PARALYSED MAN WHO WALKS AGAIN - the extraordinary medical breakthrough. Also on front of Indy, Times +on Panorama
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Many thanks @AST_arsenal. Brilliant work over many years and great to see impact + recognition in the past 10 days. Surge in membership.
Details here Gooners 👉 arsenaltrust.org/
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Shocking result for Boris Johnson
He + UK now trapped in political purgatory. Rebels didn't have the numbers. But PM will struggle to govern
41% Tory MPs tried to remove him
≈ 80% Tory backbenchers
Turbulent times. People desperate for competent govt
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We're just getting started. Thanks to readers, staff and contributors for the first 3,000 editions of i. Lots of hard work ahead - but we like that
'Your encouragement and backing have helped to steer us through the coronavirus pandemic'
@olyduff as i reaches 3,000 editions 📰
trib.al/QI1tv4D
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Congratulations to the team @theipaper, shortlisted at @EditorsUK Press Awards for
🗞️Newspaper of the Year
📱News Website of the Year
📰Front Page of the Year
☎️@stephenkb Political Commentator of the Year
✍️@BJennings90 Cartoonist of the Year
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As @grantshapps knows well, @theipaper has no party political baggage or axe to grind - it’s the reason we have one of the highest trust ratings in UK media (@PAMCo_Ltd)
We hold all politicians to account - PM, Starmer, Sturgeon etc. That is the job of a free press
'You're saying this is just politically motivated?'
@NickFerrariLBC puts Grant Shapps on the spot over reports No 10 is planning to tear up restrictions on City bosses' pay amid the cost of living crisis.
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i shortlisted for National Newspaper of the Year, News Website of the Year and the Grand Prix at #newsawards2019.
Thanks to all i staff and contributors - top team
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🌏 Delighted to say @TomChivers has joined @theipaper as Science Writer
🏆 2021 Science Writer of the Year
🏆🏆 Statistical Excellence in Journalism @RoyalStatSoc
📢 “Far too nice to be a journalist” - Terry Pratchett
You can read his first piece here inews.co.uk/news/science/cov…
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i has been named 2019 Media Brand of the Year @BMAwards #BritishMediaAwards
Judges praised “impactful news coverage, stylish comment, striking design and focus on innovation”, with “agenda-setting stories” and an impressive investigations team
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Front page of iweekend - EXCLUSIVE
🇨🇳🇷🇺 Chinese and Russian hackers break into UK Foreign Office
#TomorrowsPapersToday
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Journalism for @theipaper, inews.co.uk, app editions and newsletters is now being published from 97 locations.
This is our newsroom today, following rollout of our contingency plan over past 11 days. Thanks to i team - and to i readers for their brilliant support.
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🍏1 million school breakfasts!🍏
Food poverty is increasing in the UK. Readers of @theipaper decided to do something about it
They raised £340k to provide healthy breakfasts for children who face going without. Enough for 1m breakfasts @magic_breakfast inews.co.uk/news/christmas-a…
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My mother-in-law, Sally Dugan, has died. A brilliant mind and a generous soul, who did so much for her neighbours, students and strangers inews.co.uk/opinion/editor/t…
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Goodbye and good riddance
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Front page of @theipaper iweekend edition
New PM's message to UK:
- Rebuild Britain, restore trust to public life
- Recognises landslide built on delicate foundations
- Great British Railways in King’s Speech on 17 July, i learns, as Starmer prepares to nationalise network
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i - People's Vote chief executive is being investigated over allegations of harassment towards female members of staff
exclusive by @janemerrick23
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🏳️🌈 Tonight six prime ministers write for @theipaper
Their time in power spans 32 years, from 1990 to present day
@theresa_may 1/ calls on Boris Johnson to stick to his promise and ban trans conversion therapy, 2/ she regrets opposing LGBT equality earlier in her career
I am so PROUD to share the front page of Friday’s @theipaper.
On the 50th anniversary of Britain’s first pride march, every living UK Prime Minister has written about their support for LGBT rights. Including Theresa May, who urges the govt to ban all conversion therapy.
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We’d like to thank our drivers and distribution staff, who have been working through the night in terrible conditions to deliver i. Some of them are still being rescued. Also the retailers, particularly those home delivering @SmithsNews Menzies @NFRN_Online
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However you voted on Brexit, this is an important point - and one missing from much snide criticism of Leave voters inews.co.uk/opinion/chuka-um…
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📱@AasmaDay is appointed Northern Reporter @theipaper. Key hire as we develop our coverage in North of England, home to a lot of i readers. Former investigations bureau chief at JPI Media and another journalist with a hatful of awards recognising their brilliance
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Thanks to readers @theipaper for their brilliant support for i journalism - and to i team for their hard work and creativity over the past year. inews.co.uk growing fast too. Much more to do
National press ABCs: FT and i only newspapers to grow in May year after first lockdown
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Front page of Thursday's @theipaper
Revealed: Russian hackers behind NHS attack are part of cyber army protected by the Kremlin
🕵️@Richard_AHolmes exclusive on what investigators have found out so far
#TomorrowsPapersToday
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🚨NEW: Russian hackers behind the NHS attack are part of a wider cyber army working under the Kremlin’s protection to try to destabilise the UK ahead of the election.
I gained exclusive access to the teams on the frontline against Russian cyber gangs.
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In light of last night’s Rochdale shortlist, @paulwaugh is obviously standing aside from his duties as i’s chief political commentator and on leave until the contest is concluded. He was asked to stand by activists after death last week of @tony4rochdale
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🇺🇸 The war on the dollar 🇨🇳 🇷🇺
If it works, it will change the world.
in-depth @theipaper ⬇️
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