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Joe Cook
@JoeCookJ
Politics Producer @skynews. Making films and analysis screens with @SamCoatesSky. DMs open. Views my own.
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    Joe Cook
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    Mar 24
    This investigation took months of arguing with hundreds of councils. Many said they didn't know how much they'd paid to developers in costs. "Unreasonable behaviour" is a high bar intended to encourage good behaviour. It reveals when things have gone wrong - but it's not tracked
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    Sam Coates Sky
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    Mar 24
    EXC Does your council wrongly block projects, and have to pay millions in council tax when the decisions are overturned? We reveal what's going wrong. Investigation by @JoeCookJ and me, interrogating everyone planning council in England
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    Joe Cook
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    Dec 19, 2021
    "Matt Hancock, then health secretary, had given a 5pm press conference urging people to stick to the rules and not take advantage of the good weather over the May weekend to socialise in groups."
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    The Guardian
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    Dec 19, 2021
    Boris Johnson and staff pictured with wine in Downing Street garden in May 2020 theguardian.com/politics/2021/…
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    Joe Cook
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    Nov 2, 2019
    Emotional protest by @xr_cambridge outside the Guildhall today. Grandparents and grandchildren alongside each other. #ExtinctionRebellion
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    Joe Cook
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    Jan 26, 2023
    On the phone: Sir Rod Stewart
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    Joe Cook
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    Jun 2, 2022
    The Honourable Artillery company fire a 146 round gun salute at the Tower of London to mark the Queen's Jubilee. - Joe Cook/@PA
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    Joe Cook
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    Mar 7, 2023
    🚨🚨Very excited that this week I'm starting as a Package Producer with Sky News. I'll be working with our amazing correspondents and graphics team on pieces for our evening news programmes.
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    Joe Cook
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    Nov 27, 2019
    Hundreds turned out to the @CambridgeUCU rally and watch @billybragg on Kings Parade. #UCUstrike
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    Joe Cook
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    Aug 23, 2024
    The image of a man with a knife being widely shared by blue tick accounts claiming it's Solingen is from 2021.
    Wurzburg horror attack: At least 3 dead after violent assault
    From express.co.uk
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    Joe Cook
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    Jul 18, 2022
    🚨🚨 Excited that today is my first shift as a staff Output Producer at @SkyNews. Had a great time freelancing for @PA, @AP and Sky over the last year and looking forward to more days in the very cold Osterley air conditioning!
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    Joe Cook
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    Jan 3, 2021
    Former Brexit Secretary David Davis admits on @LBC he has not yet read the Brexit deal that he voted for last week, but "on balance it is pretty good".
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    Joe Cook
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    Feb 10, 2021
    "Urghh didn't answer the question" @bbclaurak speaking for everyone watching the No10 press conference
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    Joe Cook
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    Jun 4, 2020
    Nobody: Cambridge society: Let's have a debate with Black Lives Matter against All Lives Matter under the title "Whose Lives Matter During A Pandemic?"
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    Joe Cook
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    May 25, 2020
    Someone please correct me if I'm wrong, but in 2012 Mary Wakefield won a Spectator travel essay competition - judged by Boris Johnson(!!) in which she wrote: "I drove for an hour every morning, slaloming past the road-rage wrecks of battered trucks" ?? spectator.co.uk/article/entert…
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    Joe Cook
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    Feb 8, 2021
    Manchester students have told me that police and uni security have been making “random flat checks” for Covid violations, in a move @LevinsLaw have described as “oppressive conduct” and potentially “unlawful". - @LBC
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    LBC
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    Feb 8, 2021
    Manchester students claim police carried out ‘random’ checks at their halls before fining some students £800 after they were found gathering in a common room lbc.co.uk/news/mancheste…