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Will Vernon @willvernon.bsky.social · 16/08/2026

🦈 Why are scientists warning against the spread of influencers touching, and even riding, sharks in viral videos? Content creaters say they're promoting conservation. Many experts say it doesn't help 📰 Read more in my article! www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

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The influencers getting bitten chasing the perfect shark shot

Tayane Dalazen was on a shark-diving trip in Brazil when she was attacked.

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Will Vernon @willvernon.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

"This is an earthquake" "We hope never to see this man in the chess world again" The world of international chess ♟️ is in turmoil after federation boss steps aside over EU sanctions ...but Arkady Dvorkovich tells the BBC "I have not resigned" More: www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

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Dvorkovich faces endgame after EU agrees new Russia war sanctions

Arkady Dvorkovich, a former Russian deputy prime minister, now faces an EU travel ban and asset freeze.

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Will Vernon @willvernon.bsky.social · 19/05/2026

Exclusive: I’ve been exchanging letters with a British man imprisoned in Russia after being captured while fighting in Ukraine - he says UK govt have abandoned him, they haven’t even spoken to his lawyer (FCDO says they're providing consular support) www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

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Hayden Davies: Ex-British soldier imprisoned by Russia says he feels abandoned in occupied Ukraine

In letters sent to the BBC from prison, Hayden Davies says he has had no contact with British authorities.

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Will Vernon @willvernon.bsky.social · 07/05/2026

A British man convicted of being a mercenary after fighting in Ukraine has had his prison sentence extended by 2 years by a Russian court. Hayden Davies was captured by Russian forces in 2024 while serving in the Ukrainian Army’s Foreign Legion.

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Will Vernon @willvernon.bsky.social · 03/03/2026

It was a pleasure to meet Ambassador Suzuki at the Japanese Embassy last week! Unfortunately Paddington was too shy to be in the photo…

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Will Vernon @willvernon.bsky.social · 13/02/2026

The WSJ: NATO has been shown to be *utterly* unprepared for modern warfare after TWO battalions were "wiped out" in one day during a recent exercise in Estonia by a Ukrainian unit of just ten men armed with drones (It was just a simulation, of course) www.wsj.com/opinion/nato...

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Opinion | NATO Has Seen the Future and Is Unprepared

A simulation of drone warfare shows how far the alliance has to go to learn the lessons of Ukraine.

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Will Vernon @willvernon.bsky.social · 10/02/2026

Missed this from a few days ago - Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban says "Ukraine is our enemy" This comes as the EU attempts to fast-track membership for Kyiv - which could require unanimous approval of members www.pravda.com.ua/eng/news/202...

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Orbán calls Ukraine Hungary's enemy

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Will Vernon @willvernon.bsky.social · 04/02/2026

A ten-foot bull shark mauled British man Peter Smith in Tobago in 2024, in waist-deep water Miraculously, he fought the shark & survived Read his incredible story in an exclusive interview Thanks: Myranda Mowafi, Sarah Jackson www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

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British man tells BBC of horror shark attack on Caribbean holiday

Peter Smith and his wife were on holiday from Hertfordshire in the Caribbean when a beautiful swim suddenly changed.

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Will Vernon @willvernon.bsky.social · 21/01/2026

There’s already an enormous queue (in the ☔️) snaking around several streets to get into Phonica Records in Soho, London for the advance play of Harry Styles’s new single. People at the front say they guessed which shop it would be before the announcement!

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Will Vernon @willvernon.bsky.social · 20/01/2026

Vladimir Putin doing cartwheels round the Kremlin Parts One & Two

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Will Vernon @willvernon.bsky.social · 15/01/2026

Utility workers remove giant icicles from a building in Moscow. When I lived in St Petersburg in the mid-2000s, every winter there'd be a few stories of falling icicles killing pedestrians...

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Will Vernon @willvernon.bsky.social · 11/01/2026

More on the Tories' policy of banning social media among under 16s...

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Will Vernon @willvernon.bsky.social · 09/01/2026

Buxton, Peak District, this morning

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Will Vernon @willvernon.bsky.social · 08/01/2026

Latest snow news from Trentham Monkey Forest, Staffordshire...

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Will Vernon @willvernon.bsky.social · 08/01/2026

At a gritting depot in Nottingham this morning with all the latest on the preparations for storm Goretti - for @BBCBreakfast, @BBCNews channel 📺 and all updates Online 💻

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Will Vernon @willvernon.bsky.social · 05/01/2026

Important part of moving back to the UK: getting a library card! 📚

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Will Vernon @willvernon.bsky.social · 02/01/2026

Gen-Z are increasingly switching off the phones and going back to 'real life' dating - singles nights built around rock-climbing, karaoke and even saunas. If you missed my radio report - listen again here 📻👇 soundcloud.com/will-vernon-...

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BBC: Would you go sauna dating?

During the COVID pandemic, dating apps exploded in popularity — and recent research suggests that up to half of all UK couples met online. But now a growing number of *young* singles are turning away

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Will Vernon @willvernon.bsky.social · 28/12/2025

A bit of fun for Christmas...my report on sauna dating!

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Will Vernon @willvernon.bsky.social · 17/12/2025

It’s been a difficult year for the BBC, but there are also lots of things to be proud of:

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Will Vernon @willvernon.bsky.social · 13/12/2025

More than one hundred people gathered outside St Martin-in-the-Fields Church in central London today as a counter-protest in response to far-right activist Stephen Yaxley-Lennon’s ‘Christmas’ rally later in the capital.

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Will Vernon @willvernon.bsky.social · 03/12/2025

The Witkoff-Putin talks lasted for 5 hours but failed to achieve anything tangible. But they could claim to be the longest so far: Feb: 3.5 hrs, according to SW Mar: Putin reportedly kept SW waiting for 8 hrs, talks rumoured to be short 11 Apr: 4.5 hrs 25 Apr: 3 hrs Aug: <3 hrs

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Will Vernon @willvernon.bsky.social · 25/11/2025

The High Court has refused an injunction to force two London homeowners to allow the family of Muriel McKay, who was kidnapped fifty-five years ago, to conduct a “ground-penetrating radar survey” of their shared back garden in a bid to find her body.

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Will Vernon @willvernon.bsky.social · 25/11/2025

The temperature in the village of Oymyakon, in the Siberian region of Yakutia in Russia, has reached -50 degrees Celsius, according to local metereological officials. Oymyakon is often dubbed "the coldest place on Earth".

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Will Vernon @willvernon.bsky.social · 22/11/2025

I chatted to the BBC Global News podcast about money laundering! 👀📽️Watch it below www.youtube.com/watch?v=4C3C...

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Billion-dollar money-laundering gang helping fund Russia's war effort | Global News Podcast

YouTube video by BBC News

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Will Vernon @willvernon.bsky.social · 19/11/2025

UK Defence Secretary John Healey says Britain has "military options" to respond with if the ship heads south... www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

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Russian spy ship pointed lasers at RAF pilots tracking it, says UK

John Healey says he has updated the Navy's rules for tracking the vessel after the

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Will Vernon @willvernon.bsky.social · 18/11/2025

What's in store for fans under the expected ban on profit-making ticket resale? youtu.be/7zQ8ySGWhx0

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BBC: Will concert tickets get cheaper?

YouTube video by Will Vernon

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Will Vernon @willvernon.bsky.social · 17/11/2025

A man from the Russian city of Voronezh has been fined 50,000 rubles (£470, $615) for playing a song in his car by Ukrainian singer Verka Serduchka, who is blacklisted in Russia. ('Gulyanka', which is one of Serduchka's best, IMHO). The charge: 'discrediting the Russian military'

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Will Vernon @willvernon.bsky.social · 16/11/2025

The clean up in Monmouth has begun...our report for BBC News at 10 Camera/edit: Alex Shaw youtu.be/19j-XHySpRw

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Will Vernon @willvernon.bsky.social · 11/11/2025

As Ulyanovsk becomes the first region to admit switching off mobile internet in areas, was the Russian communications agency preparing the public for more shutdowns? This is what they posted on social media on 8 November: the joys of living without wi-fi (on intnl wifi-free day)

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Will Vernon @willvernon.bsky.social · 11/11/2025

Authorities Russia's Ulyanovsk Region say mobile internet in large parts of the province will stay switched off until the end of the war in Ukraine. Officials claim the restrictions were imposed by Moscow, & will only be in place near strategic sites but could include whole towns

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Will Vernon @willvernon.bsky.social · 07/11/2025

The governor of Russia's Transbaikal Territory, in the far east of the country, has appealed to officials in Moscow for help solving fuel shortages. Alexander Osipov reportedly wrote to the Russian Prime Minister and Energy Ministry after petrol stations ran dry in several towns.

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Will Vernon @willvernon.bsky.social · 06/11/2025

Chinese astronauts say they've held the first ever barbecue in space. The crew of the Tiangong space station are seen cooking and eating chicken wings using a specially-adapted space oven that enables smoke-free baking in a microgravity environment.

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Will Vernon @willvernon.bsky.social · 02/11/2025

Russian authorities say Ukrainian drones caused damage to an oil-exporting facility at Tuapse, one of the largest oil terminals on the Black Sea. Officials in the Krasnodar Region said drone fragments hit a tanker & damaged port buildings. Videos posted online showed big fires

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Will Vernon @willvernon.bsky.social · 01/11/2025

When I tried to pronounce the longest word in Russian on the BBC News channel... Тетрагидропиранилциклопентилтетрагидропиридопиридиновые

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Will Vernon @willvernon.bsky.social · 01/11/2025

The state institute that studies the Russian language says it's discovered the longest word in Russian. The Pushkin Institute says a chemical compound described in an academic paper has 55 letters. In English, the word is tetrahydropyranylcyclopentyltetrahydropyridopyridine.

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Will Vernon @willvernon.bsky.social · 28/10/2025

An eighteen-year-old musician from the Russian city of St Petersburg has been fined for "discrediting the armed forces" for playing a song by a blacklisted popstar. Diana Loginova was taken to court immediately after being released from a thirteen-day jail sentence for...

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