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Absolutely Nothing But Very Bad News.

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mae13 Sun 06-Oct-24 02:01:37

The BBC News webpage after midnight: war, conflict, explosions, Channel crossing deaths, Donald Trump with his de-ranged ally Elon Musk.

That's it.

Nothing remotely positive, nothing to suggest hope.

Lisaangel10 Thu 10-Oct-24 16:03:18

growstuff

Freya5

growstuff

Lisaangel10

GB News readers and viewers have just raised nearly £200,000 for Friends of The Elderly as their way of supporting pensioners who have lost their WFA.

Their presenter Patrick Christys kicked off the campaign and it went mad.

I don’t think any other News channel has done anything like this. I say Well done to all concerned.

How are they going to decide how to distribute it?

Why dont you ask them? Don't worry ofcom will be keeping their biased eyes on them .

I found out, thanks. It won't necessarily go to pensioners who have lost their WFA.

It’s now over £240,000 and will go to pensioners who really need a bit extra. I thought it was a decent gesture anyway and presumably listeners and viewers did too as the donations flew up within hours of launching it.

Lisaangel10 Thu 10-Oct-24 16:09:07

The payments to pensioners will be in the form of grants.
I imagine there will be plenty of people who will be delighted to receive any amount of grant, possibly including some people on here.

www.fote.org.uk/our-charity-work/grants-2/