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Sanchia Berg

@sanchia7.bsky.social
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Former staff now freelance BBC Correspondent -Today Programme TV News - Family Courts -Archives- Investigations

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Sanchia Berg @sanchia7.bsky.social · 26/05/2026
Having my own hair tested as part of our Radio 4 Documentary- on at 8pm and available now on Sounds
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Sanchia Berg @sanchia7.bsky.social · 19/03/2026
Lovely piece by John Sweeney -Paul Conroy: 'The Funniest, Most Beautiful Man To Be In Hell With' – Byline Times bylinetimes.com/2026/03/02/p...
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Paul Conroy: 'The Funniest, Most Beautiful Man To Be In Hell With'
John Sweeney remembers his friend and colleague, the celebrated war photographer, Paul Conroy
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Sanchia Berg @sanchia7.bsky.social · 05/02/2026
When the transparency pilot began in early 2023, we covered a contested adoption case... but there's been little press reporting of such cases since.
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Sanchia Berg @sanchia7.bsky.social · 05/02/2026
Some of the most controversial hearings in Family Court are contested adoption - where parents are trying to keep their child. Here the law professor @juliedoughty.bsky.social follows a case in Cardiff - which she found 'disturbing' at times. transparencyproject.org.uk/much-loved-t...
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‘Much loved’ two-year-old to be adopted following contested court proceedings
‘Tomas’ is a two year old boy who was removed from his parents to live in foster care under an interim care order in January 2025. (None of the parties’ r
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Sanchia Berg @sanchia7.bsky.social · 31/01/2026
Excellent long read on the battle of the Heath Lido cafe:The City of London is pitted against cannabis experts and Benedict Cumberbatch. Who will win?
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Sanchia Berg @sanchia7.bsky.social · 25/01/2026
Watching America Unravel in Minneapolis www.nytimes.com/2026/01/25/m...
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Watching America Unravel in Minneapolis
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Sanchia Berg @sanchia7.bsky.social · 25/01/2026
Superb long read Watching America Unravel in Minneapolis www.nytimes.com/2026/01/25/m...
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Watching America Unravel in Minneapolis
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Sanchia Berg @sanchia7.bsky.social · 19/01/2026
@theguardian.com piece argues family court process is too adversarial- praises the “problem solving” Pathfinder approach.
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Sanchia Berg @sanchia7.bsky.social · 19/01/2026
Asked about this by @theguardian.com just now Keir Starmer sidestepped and talked about tariff statements over the weekend…
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Paul Lewis @paullewismoney.bsky.social · 16/01/2026
Unsigned WhatsApp messages are not contracts judge rules in denying divorced wife the house her ex appeared to promise her bit.ly/3LPX89V so creditors get his half and she must move.
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WhatsApp texts are not contracts, judge rules in £1.5m divorce row
Artist fails in her High Court attempt to keep her north London house after messages with her ex-husband were deemed not to constitute signed documents
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The Guardian @theguardian.com · 15/01/2026
Amol Rajan to leave BBC Radio 4’s Today show to start own company
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Amol Rajan to leave BBC Radio 4’s Today show to start own company
Presenter wants to ‘unleash my inner entrepreneur’ in creator economy but will still host University Challenge The presenter Amol Rajan is to leave BBC Radio 4’s Today programme, revealing he will “unleash my inner entrepreneur” by creating a company focusing on the creator economy. In a surprise announcement, he said he would continue to host the BBC’s University Challenge quizshow and make his Radical podcast with the corporation. Continue reading...
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Terry Stiastny @terrystiastny.bsky.social · 15/01/2026
Who needs the Traitors?
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Sanchia Berg @sanchia7.bsky.social · 15/01/2026
Good article that really sums up why so many people are angry that Corp of London decided to hand over the Heath cafes to avocado toast selling chain www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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I’m sick of avocado toast – I just want to keep my local, untrendy cafe | Rhiannon Lucy Cosslett
With its pasties, decent brews and staff who are happy to chat, it’s a vital community space. So why are its days numbered, asks Guardian columnist Rhiannon Lucy Cosslett
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Sanchia Berg @sanchia7.bsky.social · 13/01/2026
Six Prosecutors Quit Over Push to Investigate ICE Shooting Victim’s Widow www.nytimes.com/2026/01/13/u...
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Six Prosecutors Quit Over Push to Investigate ICE Shooting Victim’s Widow
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Sanchia Berg @sanchia7.bsky.social · 09/01/2026
www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/... Great interview about Baby Elsa with David McBride- himself a foundling. He only discovered in recent years that - like Elsa- he has two full siblings.
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The World Tonight - Anger in Minnesota over ICE killing of Renee Good - BBC Sounds
Protests take place in the city where a federal officer shot dead the mother of three
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Sanchia Berg @sanchia7.bsky.social · 04/01/2026
Trump’s Attack on Venezuela Is Illegal and Unwise www.nytimes.com/2026/01/03/o...
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Opinion | Trump’s Attack on Venezuela Is Illegal and Unwise
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Sanchia Berg @sanchia7.bsky.social · 22/12/2025
Hampstead Heath cafe where you can buy kids lunch for £5.50. That’s thanks to d’Auria family who’ve run it for 44 years. They also serve great pasta for adults- from about £10. The chain that is due to take over doesn’t offer a kids menu…and charge £5.90 just for a portion of chips.
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Sanchia Berg @sanchia7.bsky.social · 21/12/2025
Good Family Court reporting by @thetimes - who obtained Transparency Order to report and to name family. “I had to battle my daughter’s killer boyfriend to care for my grandchild” www.thetimes.com/uk/law/artic...
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I had to battle my daughter’s killer boyfriend to care for my grandchild
After a legal fight to look after her daughter’s baby, Linda Westcarr is urging ministers to implement Jade’s Law to restrict parental rights after killings
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Sanchia Berg @sanchia7.bsky.social · 21/12/2025
www.camdennewjournal.co.uk/article/city...
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City of London kick out independent Heath cafes – and hand them to Daisy Green chain
MP Tulip Siddiq says decision must be reversed as decisions sparks instant backlash
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Sanchia Berg @sanchia7.bsky.social · 21/12/2025
Anger as Hampstead Heath cafés handed to Australian-themed chain www.thetimes.com/uk/london/ar...
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Anger as Hampstead Heath cafés handed to Australian-themed chain
Four ‘community hubs’ are set to be taken over by Daisy Green in spring, prompting outrage from locals and celebrities
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Sanchia Berg @sanchia7.bsky.social · 09/12/2025
Great that @bigissue.com has highlighted this
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Sanchia Berg @sanchia7.bsky.social · 09/12/2025
www.bigissue.com/news/childho... It’s hard to overstate how important this is. Care records are someone’s personal history: who their family are, why they were taken into care..what actually happened. Shocking that it can take care leavers years to get these (sometimes incomplete) records.
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Councils told to give care leavers better access to childhood records
Thousands who grew up in the care system still can’t access their childhood records. The ICO’s new campaign aims to change that.
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Sanchia Berg @sanchia7.bsky.social · 04/12/2025
www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m... And here we go again-
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BBC Two - University Challenge, Christmas 2025, Exeter College, Oxford v Trinity Hall, Cambridge
The first round continues as Exeter College, Oxford faces Trinity Hall, Cambridge.
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Sanchia Berg @sanchia7.bsky.social · 10/11/2025
Thinking of all my friends & former colleagues inside the BBC & sharing this from James Landale in Kyiv.
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Sanchia Berg @sanchia7.bsky.social · 10/11/2025
x.com/bbcjlandale/...
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James Landale on X: "Amid all the guff, just this: I am proud to work for BBC News & even prouder to work alongside so many outstanding colleagues. We are not perfect; we must always strive to be better. But in a darkening world, we remain a shaft of light. Worth mulling. All best from Kyiv." / X
Amid all the guff, just this: I am proud to work for BBC News & even prouder to work alongside so many outstanding colleagues. We are not perfect; we must always strive to be better. But in a darkening world, we remain a shaft of light. Worth mulling. All best from Kyiv.
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Catherine Baksi @legalhackette.bsky.social · 03/11/2025
Barrister @drproudman.bsky.social opens an SRA-regulated 'trauma-informed' law firm -- in the @lawsocgazette. www.lawgazette.co.uk/news/charlot...
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Charlotte Proudman opens SRA-regulated 'trauma-informed' law firm
Alternative business structure will offer a 'one-stop shop' family law service.
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Sanchia Berg @sanchia7.bsky.social · 20/10/2025
@mediacomgold.bsky.social Looking forward to speaking at Goldsmiths media forum tomorrow.
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Sanchia Berg @sanchia7.bsky.social · 29/09/2025
Great piece by Mark Urban on finding the secret file on his 1992 book…How the secret state tried to ban my book on the Troubles www.thetimes.co.uk/article/mark...
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Mark Urban: How the secret state tried to ban my book on the Troubles
Declassified files show that my exposé of SAS tactics against the IRA frayed nerves in Whitehall. But it was an ally’s betrayal that really surprised me
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The Transparency Project @seethrujustice.transparencyproject.org.uk · 28/08/2025
we hope @sanchia7.bsky.social will continue her excellent work on reporting family courts
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Sanchia Berg @sanchia7.bsky.social · 28/08/2025
Yesterday was my last day on BBC staff after 32 years’ continuous service. I’ve spent most of the time as a reporter on the Today Programme- but this was my first full time reporting job, as BBC Warsaw Correspondent- 1996! I’ll continue reporting freelance for the BBC and I have other projects too.
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Sanchia Berg @sanchia7.bsky.social · 08/07/2025
Especially my recent work on the Family Courts which I plan to continue. I’ve changed policy, law, revealed secrets from the past…and helped open up a powerful section of our courts which has been largely hidden til now.
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Sanchia Berg @sanchia7.bsky.social · 08/07/2025
Personal announcement: I’m leaving bbc staff at the end of August. I’m working on a book proposal and I plan to work freelance for the bbc & others in future. I’m very proud of all the original & investigative work I’ve done over so many years for @bbcnews and the Today Programme…
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Sanchia Berg @sanchia7.bsky.social · 12/06/2025
Legal win for son tricked into moving to Africa by parents
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Sanchia Berg @sanchia7.bsky.social · 03/06/2025
www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/... on the front page of BBC News today- our documentary- so sharing once more
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Currently - The Three Babies Mystery - BBC Sounds
The search for the parents of three babies abandoned in shopping bags in East London.
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The Transparency Project @seethrujustice.transparencyproject.org.uk · 26/05/2025
includes interviews with the women who found baby Roman six yrs ago & the effect on them; also an interview with HHJ Reardon about the role of the family court in protecting these children. Police sound v concerned about the mother's situation
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Sanchia Berg @sanchia7.bsky.social · 26/05/2025
@fulelo.bsky.social @ikrassi.bsky.social @labailey.bsky.social
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Sanchia Berg @sanchia7.bsky.social · 26/05/2025
Now on bbc sounds: my documentary on baby Elsa and her siblings
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Sanchia Berg @sanchia7.bsky.social · 26/05/2025
www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...
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Currently - The Three Babies Mystery - BBC Sounds
The search for the parents of three babies abandoned in shopping bags in East London.
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Sanchia Berg @sanchia7.bsky.social · 25/05/2025
www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m... At 130 today on Radio 4 my Documentary on Baby Elsa and her siblings produced by the brilliant Lucy Proctor
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BBC Radio 4 - Currently, The Three Babies Mystery
The search for the parents of three babies abandoned in shopping bags in East London.
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Sanchia Berg @sanchia7.bsky.social · 22/05/2025
I really enjoyed taking part in this @warmovietheatre.bsky.social podcast. Great to discuss a rare “flop” for Powell and Pressburger which is now acclaimed…and mention my father’s oldest friend who played a small part in making it.
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Alex MacLaren @alexmaclaren.bsky.social · 22/05/2025
So enjoyed this podcast responding to a favourite film of mine. I recognise that it divides audiences, and the puzzlement it inspires can relegate it in the eyes of even very sympathetic viewers (such as my best mate, who was completely stumped. ‘Don’t get it’)/THREAD
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Sanchia Berg @sanchia7.bsky.social · 21/03/2025
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q0aL... An up and coming band I know…this is their second single
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MAYA - NURSING (Music Video)
YouTube video by MAYA
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Sanchia Berg @sanchia7.bsky.social · 10/03/2025
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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Anna Foster replaces Mishal Husain on BBC Radio 4's Today programme
Foster was previously a Middle East correspondent and presented on BBC Radio 1 and Radio 5 Live.
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Sanchia Berg @sanchia7.bsky.social · 27/02/2025
Son loses case against parents over move to Africa
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Sanchia Berg @sanchia7.bsky.social · 25/02/2025
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Baby Elsa: Abandoned girl's progress 'astonishing', court hears
In January 2024, Baby Elsa was left in a carrier bag by a footpath shortly after she was born.
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The Guardian @theguardian.com · 11/02/2025
With a new hit film, Netflix has reduced disabled lives to feelgood fodder – and got the facts shockingly wrong | Archie Bland and Ruth Spencer
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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
This story about a child with cerebral palsy is badly misleading – and a slap in the face for families like ours Amazing news from Netflix: there is an extraordinary treatment available for children with very severe neurological disabilities, one that,…
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Laura Phillips @lauraphillips.bsky.social · 10/02/2025
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
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BBC Radio 4 - Front Row, Robert de Niro, Gladiators exhibition, Festen: Mark Anthony Turnage and Lee Hall's new opera
Live magazine programme on the worlds of arts, literature, film, media and music.
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Familoo (Lucy Reed) @familoo.pinktape.co.uk · 04/02/2025
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...
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Transparency and the Courts – Event
It is a principle of law that justice must be seen to be done – but sometimes for various reasons the court will order reporting restrictions on the proceedings as well as keeping certain mat…
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Auschwitz Memorial @auschwitzmemorial.bsky.social · 29/01/2025
We now have over 100,000+ followers on @bsky.app. Thank you all for preserving the memory of Auschwitz with us.
Black and white photo of the Arbeit macht frei gate at the Auschwitz Memorial at night. Bright lamps are visible. The gate is lit with a torchlight from a watchtower on the top-left.
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Samira Ahmed @samiraahmeduk.bsky.social · 28/01/2025
Thankyou to The Stage for printing my letter about the erasure of Sylvia Anderson from her own work..
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