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Chris Burn

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Head of Business and Features at The Yorkshire Post, Stoke City fan.

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Philippe Auclair @philippeauclair.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Reading the independent report into Man City's financial "arrangements" now, stopping after every paragraph, saying "Jesus"..."JESUS!"..."Holy fuck!" and again. This is beyond anything anyone imagined. Also started to wonder whether criminal proceedings are in the picture now.
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Reece Dinsdale @reecedinsdale.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
If you could take a minute to read this and, if it takes your fancy, then re-post it… I’d be so grateful. 🙏🏻 I’m doing my utmost to #SaveSquareChapelArts for the good people of Halifax & far beyond, and I need all the help you lovely lot can give me. Thank you! x www.canncomms.co.uk/post/actor-a...
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Actor and long-standing Patron, Reece Dinsdale fronts new campaign to save Halifax’s Square Chapel Arts Centre
Photo credit: Reece Dinsdale in the cinema/studio space at Square Chapel (photo by Ant Robling)Reece Dinsdale leads Square Chapel rescue mission: “It’s time to bring it home”Award-Winning Actor, Write...
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Chris Burn @chrisburn.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
An 80-acre ex-private school near Sheffield has an unexpected new owner - a Nigerian religious group whose founder attended Donald Trump's inauguration: www.yorkshirepost.co.uk/business/mou...
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Mount St Mary's: 'Delighted' Nigerian religious group pays £3m to purchase former private school near Sheffield
A Nigerian religious group which is one of the world's biggest churches paid over £3m to purchase a former private school on the Yorkshire border which closed after falling into administration last ye...
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Chris Burn @chrisburn.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
As well as being cryptocurrency billionaires who support Nigel Farage’s party, Ben Delo and Christopher Harborne share another unexpected connection – they are both from Yorkshire having been born and spent their early years in Sheffield: www.yorkshirepost.co.uk/business/ben...
yorkshirepost.co.uk
Ben Delo and Christopher Harborne: Who are the Sheffield-born crypto-billionaires who have donated £72m to Reform?
Ben Delo and Christopher Harborne have hit the headlines this weekend for donating a combined £72m to Reform.
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Chris Burn @chrisburn.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
New: Data of 8.7m airport passengers stolen by hackers in cyber attack affecting Manchester, East Midlands and Stansted airports: www.yorkshirepost.co.uk/business/man...
yorkshirepost.co.uk
Manchester, East Midlands and Stansted airport cyber attack: Data of 9m passengers 'obtained' by hackers as warning issued
A cyber attack has resulted in the data of millions of passengers – including email addresses, phone numbers, postcodes and car registrations - using three of the country’s busiest airports being obta...
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Chris Burn @chrisburn.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
The bloody lads #fpl
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John Saward @rbuas.bsky.social · 07/08/2026
Wrote about James Gandolfini for The Small Bow www.thesmallbow.com/p/eulogy-jam...
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Eulogy: James Gandolfini
“He’s drinking more, not just some rowdy nights but something closer to gone, way out there, disappearing for longer and longer.”
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Glum Rock @jimblower.bsky.social · 19/07/2026
Paredes congratulating the Spanish players. #SPAARG #ESPARG
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Scott @scottydo16.bsky.social · 19/07/2026
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Scott Innes @flyinginside.bsky.social · 19/07/2026
The 2026 World Cup is over
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Chris Burn @chrisburn.bsky.social · 19/07/2026
Parades should have been sent off about three times, no surprise at his actions at the final whistle.
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Neil Norman And His Cosmic Orchestra @fubsyshabaroon.bsky.social · 19/07/2026
#WorldCup #ESPARG #ARGESP
RIGHT NOW, ENZO FERNANDEZ IS IN THE DRESSING ROOM CRYING LIKE A LITTLE GIRL.
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Chris Burn @chrisburn.bsky.social · 19/07/2026
Get Enzo Fernandez out of the dressing room so we can all see him cry at full time.
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Oli @oliaworth96.bsky.social · 19/07/2026
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Chris Burn @chrisburn.bsky.social · 18/07/2026
🎶 Football’s coming third, it’s coming third 🎶
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Chris Burn @chrisburn.bsky.social · 15/07/2026
Growing up is going from being the kid crying at the heartbreaking England defeat to being the adult comforting your kids crying about the heartbreaking England defeat (then staring into middle distance for about an hour afterwards).
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 13/07/2026
Trump: "The USA will be, from this point forward, known as 'THE GUARDIAN OF THE HORMUZ STRAIT,' but as such, and as a matter of FAIRNESS, will be reimbursed, at the rate of 20% on all cargo shipped, for costs necessary to do the job of providing safety and security ... "
The Hormuz Strait is OPEN, and will remain OPEN, with or without Iran. We are reinstating the THE IRANIAN BLOCKADE, so named because it is only stopping Iran’s ships or customers from entering or leaving. All other countries will have fair and open use of the Strait. The U.S.A. will be, from this point forward, known as “THE GUARDIAN OF THE HORMUZ STRAIT,” but as such, and as a matter of FAIRNESS, will be reimbursed, at the rate of 20% on all cargo shipped, for any and all costs necessary to do the job of providing safety and security to this very volatile section of the World. The process and formation will begin immediately. Thank you for your attention to this matter! President DONALD J. TRUMP
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Chris Burn @chrisburn.bsky.social · 06/07/2026
Think I’ve done about 20,000 steps around the living room in that last 20 minutes. What a win.
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Chris Burn @chrisburn.bsky.social · 05/07/2026
Haaland doesn’t just have Gabriel’s number, he’s got his postcode, National Insurance details and FaceID.
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Harry Harrison @hharrisonjourno.bsky.social · 02/07/2026
NEW: Council officials are against the clock to renegotiate the Doncaster Sheffield Airport lease as the reopening project could "run out of money" in September, sources tell the LDRS It comes after an airport update briefing for elected members yesterday
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Airport reopening could 'run out of money' by September, councillors told
The City of Doncaster Council is working to reopen Doncaster Sheffield Airport after it closed in 2022.
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Chris Burn @chrisburn.bsky.social · 22/06/2026
Intruiging to see Rachel Reeves wasn't there for Keir Starmer's resignation speech but turned up for Andy Burnham's photo call. Wrote last month that is far from impossible she stays as Chancellor: www.yorkshirepost.co.uk/business/the...
yorkshirepost.co.uk
The case for Andy Burnham keeping Rachel Reeves as Chancellor: Chris Burn
The political fortunes of Keir Starmer and Rachel Reeves have become so intertwined in recent years there is an understandably widespread assumption that a change of Prime Minister would also lead to ...
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David KC @davidmuttering.bsky.social · 22/06/2026
Now I'm going to have to learn to spell Adny
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Chris Burn @chrisburn.bsky.social · 17/06/2026
SpaceX (revenue $19bn, net loss $5bn in last accounts) now a 'more valuable' company than Amazon (revenue $717bn, profit $78bn) - bananas: www.ft.com/content/1715...
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SpaceX leapfrogs Amazon to become world’s fifth-most valuable company
Elon Musk’s AI, rocket and satellite group also announces $60bn deal for AI coding app Cursor
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Ryan Mac 🙃 @rmac.bsky.social · 12/06/2026
I've reported on Musk for around 8 years. I've co-authored a book on him. I don't think folks understand the rate of his wealth accumulation. Shortly after he helped elect Donald Trump in Nov 2024, his net worth was around $350 billion. That net worth has nearly tripled in less than two years.
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Chris Burn @chrisburn.bsky.social · 11/06/2026
Think any slim hope Starmer may have had of surviving as Labour leader has disappeared as a result of this shock resignation and the reasons set out for it by John Healey.
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Chris Burn @chrisburn.bsky.social · 06/06/2026
Exc: The Government rejected an unsolicited “offer of help” from Prince Andrew to find investors in Sheffield Forgemasters weeks after convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein had been contacted about potential involvement with the steel company.
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Chris Burn @chrisburn.bsky.social · 03/06/2026
Keir Starmer says of Nigel Farage’s “appeal for rage” in response to Henry Nowak's death: "Exploiting this tragedy to create grievance and division would be wrong in any circumstances, but to do it when the family are expressly saying ‘please don’t’ is unforgivable. It shows exactly who he is.”
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Alison Killing @alisonkilling.bsky.social · 29/05/2026
NEW: China's campaign of oppression in Xinjiang has entered a pernicious new phase - and FT analysis shows that the region still has the highest detention capacity in the world, relative to its population. as.ft.com/r/a4b72955-5...
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How China is breaking apart a people and its culture
The campaign of repression against the Uyghurs has entered a new phase
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Chris Burn @chrisburn.bsky.social · 23/05/2026
Chair of Government’s GB Energy calls for end to use of ‘net zero’ terminology and says phrase has become too politicised. Exclusive story from @michaelcrossland.bsky.social: www.yorkshirepost.co.uk/news/environ...
yorkshirepost.co.uk
GB Energy chair calls for phrase ‘net zero’ to be scrapped claiming it is too ‘politicised’
The chairman of Great British Energy (GBE) has said the phrase ‘net zero’ should be “scrapped” as he called for major change in the language around decarbonisation and green energy.
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Chris Burn @chrisburn.bsky.social · 20/05/2026
Pleasure to speak to Dave Rowntree about Blur's early days, their long road to success and his concerns about the state of the music industry as he brings his book tour to Yorkshire this week: www.yorkshirepost.co.uk/whats-on/art...
yorkshirepost.co.uk
Blur's Dave Rowntree: It's virtually impossible for young bands - Brexit has been an absolute disaster
As Dave Rowntree heads to Yorkshire to discuss Blur’s early days and his pictures which documented them, he tells Chris Burn their long road to global success couldn’t be repeated today.
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Chris Burn @chrisburn.bsky.social · 18/05/2026
Nigel Farage’s claim that he paid for a £1.4mn house with his fee from a reality TV show "has been challenged by corporate accounts that appear to show that the income remained on his company’s balance sheet after the property purchase"... www.ft.com/content/88ce...
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Nigel Farage’s accounts challenge claim that he paid for £1.4mn house with TV fee
Reform UK leader has said he did not use £5mn gift from crypto billionaire to buy Surrey property
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Chris Burn @chrisburn.bsky.social · 15/05/2026
New: Christopher Harborne - the crypto tycoon who gave Nigel Farage an undeclared £5m gift - may be "significantly wealthier" then the extraordinary £18bn valuation that the Sunday Times Rich List has just estimated.
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Andy Bruce (Reuters) @bruceandy.bsky.social · 13/05/2026
This is the photo
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Chris Burn @chrisburn.bsky.social · 12/05/2026
In the circumstances, good day for Keir Starmer so far - 110 MPs in support, a handful of junior ministers resigning with the only one anyone has ever heard of being Jess Phillips and Streeting not looking like he has sufficient support.
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Chris Burn @chrisburn.bsky.social · 11/05/2026
Reform spent a reported £8m on local elections (10x the usual amount, according to Kemi Badenoch) with the core aim of throwing the kitchen sink at getting Keir Starmer deposed. Labour MPs now seem to be delivering on that aim for them.
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Chris Burn @chrisburn.bsky.social · 11/05/2026
Can’t wait for the Keir Starmer v Wes Streeting battle royale to be Prime Minister based on their shared sole ideological conviction that they’d quite like to be PM.
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Spider-Man Pointing at Spider-Man Meme
ALT: Spider-Man Pointing at Spider-Man Meme
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Chris Burn @chrisburn.bsky.social · 10/05/2026
Exclusive: Reform WON'T cancel a £57m loan for Doncaster Sheffield Airport tomorrow - but are set to impose a series of "safeguards" on the release of the funding and the wider reopening scheme. Details here: www.yorkshirepost.co.uk/business/don...
yorkshirepost.co.uk
Doncaster Sheffield Airport: Reform won't cancel £57m loan tomorrow
Reform councillors will not cancel a £57m loan for the Doncaster Sheffield Airport project tomorrow – but are set to impose a series of “safeguards” on the release of the funding and the wider reopeni...
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Chris Burn @chrisburn.bsky.social · 10/05/2026
This article needs pinning up everywhere in Westminster: www.thetimes.com/article/01fa...
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Staffordians are great — their Reform UK vote is a cry of despair
In these balkanised communities, where the main parties collapsed in the local election, people know their hard work is no longer rewarded
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Chris Burn @chrisburn.bsky.social · 08/05/2026
Reform candidate Nathanial Menday who admitting 'flirting with far-right ideology' after being accused of praising Nazis has been elected in Sheffield: www.yorkshirepost.co.uk/news/politic...
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Chris Burn @chrisburn.bsky.social · 04/05/2026
Absolutely fantastic final in the snooker playing out between Shaun Murphy and Wu Yize. Last two frames have been something else.
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Luke Tryl @luketryl.bsky.social · 03/05/2026
In today’s @observeruk.bsky.social five focus groups in different areas with voters opting for different parties there was, almost to a word one common theme “doing the right thing, working hard, isn’t rewarded, and is often penalised”and a sense something has to give observer.co.uk/news/politic...
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Chris Burn @chrisburn.bsky.social · 01/05/2026
Changes to the controversial Doncaster Sheffield Airport lease are currently “on hold” - with no agreement over whether millions in taxpayer funding can be excluded from payments to landowner Peel. www.yorkshirepost.co.uk/business/don...
yorkshirepost.co.uk
Doncaster Sheffield Airport: Lease changes 'on hold' - as sticking point revealed
Negotiations to change Doncaster Sheffield Airport’s lease are yet to be resolved – as the clock ticks towards a crunch meeting which could cancel the project. Chris Burn and Ralph Blackburn report.
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Chris Burn @chrisburn.bsky.social · 30/04/2026
Exc: Reform has rejected a Labour offer to accelerate the search for private sector investors in Doncaster Sheffield Airport as a crunch vote on the project's funding looms www.yorkshirepost.co.uk/business/don...
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Doncaster Sheffield Airport: Richard Tice rejects Ros Jones's offer to accelerate search for private investors
An offer by Mayor of Doncaster Ros Jones to speed up the search for private investors in Doncaster Sheffield Airport in an attempt to head off a £57m loan for the project being cancelled has been reje...
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Chris Burn @chrisburn.bsky.social · 29/04/2026
Big update on the Doncaster Sheffield Airport saga - days after Nigel Farage said a 'private sector solution' is needed and criticised council attempts to reopen DSA itself, Richard Tice now says Reform would seek a compulsory purchase of the site: www.yorkshirepost.co.uk/news/politic...
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Reform government would try to acquire Doncaster Sheffield Airport land with CPO
This appears to mark a change in policy for Reform UK, as in Barnsley Nigel Farage told reporters he wanted a “private sector solution” for DSA.
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Chris Burn @chrisburn.bsky.social · 27/04/2026
Labour, Reform and the Conservatives all say they want Doncaster Sheffield Airport to reopen. So why are there growing doubts about whether it will actually happen? Taken a crack at explaining a complex - and increasingly bitter - situation: www.yorkshirepost.co.uk/business/don...
yorkshirepost.co.uk
The £57m row that could 'kill' Doncaster Sheffield Airport - explained
Reform and Conservative councillors are to press ahead with efforts to rescind a £57m borrowing agreement for the reopening of Doncaster Sheffield Airport.
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Chris Burn @chrisburn.bsky.social · 26/04/2026
Photograph for the ages as Sabastian Sawe becomes the first person to run a marathon in under two hours. Picture by John Walton of PA.
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Chris Burn @chrisburn.bsky.social · 25/04/2026
Extraordinary development in the Doncaster Sheffield Airport reopening saga - Council chief executive Damian Allen has threatened legal action against leading Reform councillors. The council has said it is a ‘personal matter’. Details here: www.yorkshirepost.co.uk/business/don...
yorkshirepost.co.uk
Doncaster Sheffield Airport: Council boss threatens legal action against top Reform councillors
The chief executive of Doncaster Council has threatened legal action against leading Reform councillors in connection with the £193m Doncaster Sheffield Airport reopening project, The Yorkshire Post c...
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Stephen Bush @stephenkb.bsky.social · 21/04/2026
The 'Starmer appointed Mandelson because he needed someone to manage Trump' - not true. What happened was: 1) From the general election there was a desire in Downing Street for a political appointee 2) There was no question that the US embassy had good Trumpworld links as it was
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Harry Harrison @hharrisonjourno.bsky.social · 20/04/2026
Another story in the developing saga over the ongoing sale of DBIC in Doncaster... @chrisburn.bsky.social is also able to reveal the 'former Labour cabinet member' in his questions, which I covered for the LDRS recently, was Cllr Joe Blackham
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Doncaster Council lodged rival claim on £630,000 building during VAT sale dispute
City of Doncaster Council intervened during a disputed sale of a £630,000 property by its subsidiary to a private buyer by lodging its own ‘intended purchase’ of the building.
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Chris Burn @chrisburn.bsky.social · 20/04/2026
Doncaster Council refused to comment for this story and have previously edited a councillor's question about the matter out of a YouTube recording of a meeting. Fair to file this one under 'more to come out': www.yorkshirepost.co.uk/business/don...
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Doncaster Council lodged rival claim on £630,000 building during VAT sale dispute
City of Doncaster Council intervened during a disputed sale of a £630,000 property by its subsidiary to a private buyer by lodging its own ‘intended purchase’ of the building.
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