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sanchia7.bsky.social
BBC Correspondent -Today Programme TV News - Family Courts -Archives- Investigations
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Son loses case against parents over move to Africa

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With a new hit film, Netflix has reduced disabled lives to feelgood fodder – and got the facts shockingly wrong | Archie Bland and Ruth Spencer

Robert de Niro talks to @samiraahmeduk.bsky.social tonight 7.15 then at #BBCSounds. Also #Gladiators exhibition, #Festen: Mark Anthony Turnage and Lee Hall's new #opera

Here is a Transparency thing I’m taking part in next week with @joshuarozenberg.bsky.social Gregory Jones KC (Alderman & Sheriff) @sanchia7.bsky.social HH Joseph KC & Melissa Davis. www.pinktape.co.uk/rants/transp...

We now have over 100,000+ followers on @bsky.app. Thank you all for preserving the memory of Auschwitz with us.

Thankyou to The Stage for printing my letter about the erasure of Sylvia Anderson from her own work..

Press now allowed to report from family courts..my piece today. Over the last two years I’ve shown how the transparency Pilot can work covering stories- without identifying families.

..note that “Ella” is with her baby and there will be further family court hearing next month. @oliverconway.bsky.social

I’ve been reporting on this issue since 2014…so depressing that it is getting worse. www.theguardian.com/society/2025...

Very clear summary of Court of Appeal decision today from Transparency Project transparencyproject.org.uk/court-of-app...

Today the Court of Appeal ruled that the Family Court Judges involved in Sara Sharif case should be named, overturning the High Court decision in December. Appeal brought by @louisetickle.bsky.social and @hansummers.bsky.social joined by BBCNews Helena W & @danielsandford.bsky.social

£20,000 offered in search for parents of three abandoned babies

When I was BBC Correspondent in Poland back in the 1990s I met the family living in the Auschwitz Camp Commandant’s House …it was obvious then it should have been part of the Museum…

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Queen not officially told for years about Palace spy, MI5 papers reveal

So impressed that 50 Survivors will return to Auschwitz after 80 years. It is so bleak and can be very cold: I have covered past anniversaries.

www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/... My colleague Mike Thomson, caught in a terrible cyclone as a 17 year old backpacker…

Thrilled that "Failed State" has been shortlisted for the Westminster Books Awards (formerly known as the Parliamentary Book Awards). www.publishers.org.uk/westminster-...

Lawyers! We’re now getting ++ emails a week asking us to attend & report on family court hearings (as legal bloggers). We’re a v small team of lawyers who do this work in our own time. We can’t meet demand alongside our other personal/professional commitments. Please get in touch if you can help!

Landmark new rules will bring more transparency to reporting family courts from Jan in England & Wales. Sanchia Berg @sanchia7.bsky.social told me how Transparency Orders have revealed stories of significant public interest while maintaining the privacy of families. www.youtube.com/watch?v=qnhc...

Landmark new rules to bring transparency to family courts- my piece this morning

Inexperienced social worker did not identify Sara Sharif’s father as posing any risk

My piece from earlier this week

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Exciting to hear @frankcottrellboyce.bsky.social will be guest editing Today this Christmas.

#BBCNews - 'Exploitative' children's home profits to be curbed in England www.bbc.com/news/article... By @sanchia7.bsky.social