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A report thatโs been a while in the making. Serious allegations of neglect at one care home, that shine a light on how the adult social care system at large is letting down dementia patients.
Shingi Mararike
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Shingi Mararike
@ShingiMararike
North of England Correspondent @SkyNews, formerly of @thetimes. Sometimes ๐บ other times ๐or โ๏ธ. Views mine. Iโm on [email protected]
Leeds, England
Joined April 2012
- My Grandma watches Sky News a lotโฆ Mainly because we have a clock on screen and also because Iโm on it. Sometimes she texts with very precise thoughts after sheโs seen me. Like when I was talking about the weather earlier
- Today, on my way home from work, I was stopped on the DLR because apparently I matched the description of someone who has โpersistentlyโ dodged the train fare at Shadwell station in east London, including yesterday.
- Replying to @ShingiMararikeIโll be complaining to @TfL formally, but I just wanted to put this on here to say this sort of thing happens and when it does, it is exhausting and unfair. 4/4
- I went to cover a court case. The clerk thought I was the defendant. That defendant happened to be the minister Tom Tugendhat, appearing for a driving offence. I think this quote: โI donโt wear glasses,โ is only half of what I said. I also stated the glaringly obviousโฆ ๐คทโโ๏ธ๐
- Replying to @ShingiMararikeSo not only did he profile me, but he chose to presume I was guilty. After he checked my ticket, he simply walked off and said โitโs valid this time.โ 3/4
- Today, Richard Okorogheyeโs mother launched a foundation in his name, little over two months after his death. I spoke to her for a piece running on @SkyNews tonight
- Replying to @ShingiMararikeI wasnโt there yesterday and Iโve been through this station maybe once this year. Yet, a ticket inspector jumped on the train, and stopped it from leaving to check my ticket in front of lots of other people. He told me Iโd been caught on CCTV dodging the fare more than once. 2/4
- Some personal news: After three years at @TheSundayTimes, I will be swapping newspapers for TV, joining @SkyNews as a correspondent next month. Itโs a move from one dream job to another and Iโm chuffed
- ๐จ๐จ Some personal news: In the New Year Iโm moving to Leeds to become a North of England Correspondent for @SkyNews, focusing on Yorkshire and the North East. Canโt wait to get started!
- A really special show of support from the community in Southport this evening, sending โbubbles up to heaven,โ for Bebe, Elsie Dot and Alice, who lost their lives here last week
00:00 - This week, I wrote a column about it's like to be a black in Britain for myself and other people I know. This why I believe the #BlackLivesMatter movement is just as important here as it is anywhere else
- Some live reporting from the scene in Rotherham today, were a hotel housing asylum seekers has been targeted by rioters. Filmed on an iPhone at a distance as the trouble continues'The Police are now targets' Close to the Holiday Inn that was broken into earlier today, rioters have started a fire in the road and crowds have begun to gather. Sky's Shingi Mararike reports live from Rotherham. trib.al/WNHdBwB ๐บ Sky 501 and YouTube
00:00 - Yesterday, I covered the funeral of Jermaine Cools, a 14-year old who was the youngest victim in a record year for teen stabbings in London. His family wanted media there to show people the human cost of knife crime. It was devastating.
