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JAM RADIO NEWS @jamradiouk.bsky.social · 14/10/2026
BREAKING: P. Diddy allegedly assaulted in Prison by notorious Jamaican drug lord Christopher 'Dudus' Coke Full Story in comments
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JAM RADIO NEWS @jamradiouk.bsky.social · 14/10/2026
BREAKING: Outrageous: Trump shared footage of a fatal tiger attack, then an AI clip of himself with a tiger. William Chapman’s family has pleaded for distressing material to stop circulating. Where is the compassion? FULL STORY IN COMMENTS
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JAM RADIO NEWS @jamradiouk.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
BREAKING NEWS: 🙄🙄🙄
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JAM RADIO NEWS @jamradiouk.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
Michael Gove’s former girlfriend, Oxford academic Dr Lola Salem, has been charged with possessing indecent images of children. The revelations come just days after their split was publicly reported. Full story in at Jamradio.uk
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JAM RADIO NEWS @jamradiouk.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
BREAKING: Christa Pike's execution in Tennessee has been halted. Pike, 50, was due to become the first woman executed by the state in more than 200 years, for the 1995 murder of Job Corps classmate Colleen Slemmer, 19. #ChristaPike #DeathPenalty
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JAM RADIO NEWS @jamradiouk.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
BARBADOS: PM Mia Mottley has reaffirmed plans to extend citizenship by descent to the grandchildren and great-grandchildren of Bajans overseas. Speaking to the diaspora in Toronto, she said: "My friends, you crossed oceans and helped build nations." Full story at jamradio.uk
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JAM RADIO NEWS @jamradiouk.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
BREAKING: The Mighty Sparrow, one of calypso’s greatest and most influential voices, has died aged 91. A towering figure in Caribbean music, his wit, storytelling and unmistakable voice helped carry calypso from Trinidad and Tobago to audiences around the world. The Calypso King of the World.
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JAM RADIO NEWS @jamradiouk.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
🔥 MIA MOTTLEY AT THE UN: “The mindset that established, justified and sustained slavery is the SAME mindset that sustains the inequities within the power structures of this very institution.” Barbados’ PM links slavery’s legacy to the architecture of global power. #UNGA81 #Barbados #Slavery
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JAM RADIO NEWS @jamradiouk.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
🚨 BREAKING: Jamaica’s reparations case has taken a major step forward. King Charles III has referred Jamaica’s historic petition to the Judicial Committee of the Privy Council, Culture Minister Olivia “Babsy” Grange has told Parliament. “This is major… a really big deal,” Grange told MPs.
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JAM RADIO NEWS @jamradiouk.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Petty: President Trump takes aim at CNN journalist while addressing the Press pool outside the UNGA in New York #UNGA #UN #NEWYORK
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JAM RADIO NEWS @jamradiouk.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Queen Elizabeth I made money. London merchants made money. England’s involvement in the slave trade was documented, right down to a Spanish ambassador writing to his king about the English musceling in on the trade. The profits were counted in 50K gold coins. The human cost lay with those enslaved.
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JAM RADIO NEWS @jamradiouk.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
After Mia Mottley’s call for the Caribbean’s case to be quantified, BBC historian David Olusoga follows the wealth back to Britain — the families and institutions that profited from enslaving African people. Finding Britain’s Slave Traders, BBC Two, 9pm tonigh September 21.
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JAM RADIO NEWS @jamradiouk.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Hundreds of thousands of Enslaved Africans died in the Middle Passage on the voyage into Slavery on British and European plantations in the Caribbean. King Charles has describes it as "An appalling atrocity" For which the CARICOM reparations movement believe he owes a full and formal apology.
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JAM RADIO NEWS @jamradiouk.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
FINDING BRITAIN'S SLAVE TRADERS David Olusoga's documentary series outlining Britain's, brutal centuries long trade in enslaved Africans airs tonight on BBC TWO Follow @jamradiouk.bsky.social as we unpack what this means for the Jamaica and the Caribbean nations of CARICOM's seeking Reparations
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JAM RADIO NEWS @jamradiouk.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
🇧🇿 HAPPY 45TH INDEPENDENCE DAY, BELIZE! 🎉 To Belizeans at home and across the diaspora: raise your flags and turn up the music! Today we celebrate Belize’s history, culture and proud people. ❤️💙 #Belize45 #BelizeIndependence #JamRadio
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JAM RADIO NEWS @jamradiouk.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Prime Minster Mia Mottley told a delegation gathered in Barbados this weekend for the CARICOM reparations conference "We became that first modern experiment in Racism" Mottley says she will appoint a technical committee of historians and economist to quantify Barbado's reparations.
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JAM RADIO NEWS @jamradiouk.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
JOURNALISM — OR INTIMIDATION? A balaclava-clad man claiming to be a journalist confronts a migrant outside his accommodation in Derby, demanding to know where he is from. Is this legitimate reporting—or harassment dressed up as journalism?
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JAM RADIO NEWS @jamradiouk.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
🇰🇳 Happy 43rd Independence Day to the people of Saint Kitts and Nevis — at home and across the diaspora! Two islands, one proud Federation, celebrating 43 years of sovereignty, resilience and nationhood. May the flag continue to fly high! 🎉 #SKN43 #IndependenceDay #SaintKittsAndNevis
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JAM RADIO NEWS @jamradiouk.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
BREAKING: Trump has announced an immediate White House ban on CNN, MS NOW and Politico—and warned other outlets could follow. When power decides which journalists may report, democracy itself is in danger. #PressFreedom #FistAmendment
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JAM RADIO NEWS @jamradiouk.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
BREAKING: Bonnie Greer OBE, the acclaimed playwright, author, critic and broadcaster, has died aged 77 following a brief illness. A formidable voice in British cultural life, she challenged, informed and inspired across the stage, page and screen. #BonnieGreer #rip
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JAM RADIO NEWS @jamradiouk.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
🚨 BREAKING NEWS | PORTSMOUTH A man wearing a full-face veil has been arrested by police in Portsmouth. Images circulating on social media show the individual being detained and led away by officers. Details surrounding the arrest are still emerging. JamRadio will bring you more as we get it.
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JAM RADIO NEWS @jamradiouk.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
🚨 BREAKING: Police are attempting to establish the circumstances surrounding a protester filmed wearing a full-face Muslim veil at a demonstration in Portsmouth this weekend. The man, who identifies himself to officers as “gender fluid” in the footage.
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JAM RADIO NEWS @jamradiouk.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
🚨 BREAKING: Thousands of Protesters have gathered in Dublin as demonstrators take to the streets to protest against Donald Trump’s visit. Crowds have assembled outside, voicing their opposition to the former US President's presence in Ireland. More to follow. 🇮🇪 | #JamRadio
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JAM RADIO NEWS @jamradiouk.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
Jamaica wants its sacred Taíno treasures back. Britain has shown it can put people on planes and send them back across borders. So why is it so difficult to put stolen cultural treasures on a plane and send them home? If Jamaicans can be deported, why can't Jamaica's heritage be repatriated?
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JAM RADIO NEWS @jamradiouk.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
🚨 BREAKING The UK Government says it “does not and will not pay reparations” for Britain's role in the transatlantic slave trade. The remarks were made today by a spokesperson for Prime Minister Andy Burnham as Jamaica steps up its campaign for reparatory justice.
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JAM RADIO NEWS @jamradiouk.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
Was Britain’s enslavement of African people lawful? Jamaica is taking that question directly to King Charles — asking for a Privy Council ruling on the forced transportation and enslavement of Africans, and whether the UK now has a legal obligation to provide a remedy.
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JAM RADIO NEWS @jamradiouk.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
JAM RADIO NEWS UPDATE | Monday, September 7 1. 🇬🇧 Dover & Portsmouth: Anti-migrant protests across the south coast of England 2. 🇯🇲 Jamaica takes reparations to the Crown: A Jamaican delegation is in Britain to present a petition to King Charles 3. 🇺🇸 Miami plane tragedy
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JAM RADIO NEWS @jamradiouk.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
Was Britain’s enslavement of African people lawful? Jamaica is taking that question directly to King Charles — asking for a Privy Council ruling on the forced transportation and enslavement of Africans, and whether the UK now has a legal obligation to provide a remedy.
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JAM RADIO NEWS @jamradiouk.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
Cambridge Vice-Chancellor Professor Deborah Prentice announces an independent review into the university’s treatment of Professor Jason Arday. The review will examine the support, interventions and protections available to him before his death, and what Cambridge “could have done better”.
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JAM RADIO NEWS @jamradiouk.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
🚨 BREAKING: UN General Assembly adopts the African-led resolution to #CorrectTheMap. 164 YES. 6 abstentions. The United States stood alone in voting NO. For centuries, Mercator maps shrank Africa. Today, the world voted to see the continent at its true scale. 🌍 #UN #Africa
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JAM RADIO NEWS @jamradiouk.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
Andy Burnham questions the cost of living. On his first day in Parliament as Prime Minister he promises to bring down the cost of seeking to nationalise energy and water out of the private sector.
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JAM RADIO NEWS @jamradiouk.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
Andy Burnham wasted no time poking fun at Kemi Badenoch on Parliament’s return. She travelled to Italy to meet Giorgia Meloni—only to be told not to do a deal with Reform UK. “I could have told her that myself,” Burnham quipped. #AndyBurnham #KemiBadenoch
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JAM RADIO NEWS @jamradiouk.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
Today on JamRadio News: 🎭 Notting HillCarnival marks 60 years of Caribbean culture and resistance 🎯 The Spectator turns its sights from Jason Arday to Simon Woolley 🏛️ JamRadio challenges Prime Minister Andy Burnham on institutional racism
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JAM RADIO NEWS @jamradiouk.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
Even the Police have fun Notting Hill Carnival, despite what the nay-sayers say.
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JAM RADIO NEWS @jamradiouk.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
WATCH: Arkansas trooper Theodore “Teddy” Henderson smashes an SUV window, pulls passenger Tedrick Washington by his locs and punches him in the face. Washington was not the driver—or Kai Cenat, as viral posts falsely claimed. #PoliceBrutality #Arkansas #JamRadioNews
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JAM RADIO NEWS @jamradiouk.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
FULL LETTER IN COMMENTS Dear Prime Minister, The Sewell Report said Britain is not institutionally racist. Yet last week your Equalities Minister said racism has become “normalised in Britain". Can institutions be immune from the consciousness and prejudices of those who run them?
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JAM RADIO NEWS @jamradiouk.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
🚨 BREAKING: Sir James Cleverly has quit Kemi Badenoch’s shadow cabinet to launch his bid to become Mayor of London in 2028. The former Home and Foreign Secretary says the capital needs “a champion” prepared to fight for its future.
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JAM RADIO NEWS @jamradiouk.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
🚨 BREAKING NEWS 🚨 Chinese Embassy guards in London brandish electric shock batons towards far-right protesters outside the embassy. #BreakingNews #London #ChineseEmbassy #UK #JAMRadio
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JAM RADIO NEWS @jamradiouk.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
🚨 BREAKING NEWS 🚨 Donald Trump has signed an executive order renaming Lake Ontario “Lake America” for official U.S. federal use, in the latest escalation of tensions with Canada. Trump vs Canada: the row over Lake Ontario just got bigger.
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JAM RADIO NEWS @jamradiouk.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
BREAKING NEWS: Police Name Teenager Who Died in Wembley Stabbing The Metropolitan Police has named 17-year-old victim following a fatal stabbing at Brent Civic Centre, Wembley, on 25 August. Police have confirmed that a 15-year-old boy has been charged with murder.
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JAM RADIO NEWS @jamradiouk.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
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JAM RADIO NEWS @jamradiouk.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
BREAKING: A 23-year-old woman found dead in Islington has been named by Police. Police are continuing their investigation into her death as tributes are paid to a young woman described as brilliant and deeply loved. Full story in Comments🔗 #Islington #BreakingNews #London
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JAM RADIO NEWS @jamradiouk.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
VIDEO TRIBUTE: We remember your brilliance. Your courage. The barriers he broke. The lives he touched. The hope and inspiration he gave to countless others. This is our tribute to a remarkable man whose light will not be extinguished. Rest in power, Professor Jason Arday. 🕊️
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JAM RADIO NEWS @jamradiouk.bsky.social · 16/08/2026
💻 ON THIS DAY | 1995 On 16 August 1995, Microsoft released Internet Explorer 1.0 — a browser that would go on to dominate the early web and become one of the most recognisable pieces of software in internet history. 🌐 31 years ago today, the web looked very different.
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JAM RADIO NEWS @jamradiouk.bsky.social · 15/08/2026
🧐 Let's get one thing straight. "Plagiarism"
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JAM RADIO NEWS @jamradiouk.bsky.social · 15/08/2026
Bell Ribeiro-Addy takes aim at the mainstream media over the untimely death of Professor Jason Arday. The MP delivers a damning rebuke of the way sections of the media treated the Cambridge professor in the days before his death — the human cost when a Black academic becomes the story.
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JAM RADIO NEWS @jamradiouk.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
Bel Ribeiro-Addy lays down the law on BBC Newsnight. She explains why an accusation of plagiarism does not land in the same way when the person accused is Black, they forced to fight stereotypes questioning their intelligence, competence and right to belong. @bellribeiroaddy.bsky.social
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JAM RADIO NEWS @jamradiouk.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
Professor Kehinde Andrews speaks to BBC Newsnight following the tragic death of Professor Jason Arday. For days, Andrews had warned that Arday was being subjected to what he described as a “dedicated, coordinated smear campaign”. Tonight, his words carry a devastating weight.
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JAM RADIO NEWS @jamradiouk.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
CONDOLENCES: JamRadio extends its heartfelt condolences to the family, friends, colleagues and loved ones of Professor Jason Arday, who has died at the age of 41. A life and career that inspired many has ended far too soon. May he rest in peace. 🕊️ #JasonArday #RIPJasonArday #JamRadio #rip
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JAM RADIO NEWS @jamradiouk.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
BREAKING: British Government issues emergency alert to mobile phones across the UK
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