BBC News reporter Sean Dilley says he tackled and apprehended a thief following an attempted phone robbery.
Dilley is congenitally blind and uses a guide dog, but was able to “instinctively” leap on the alleged perpetrator after his phone was snatched from his hand.
According to Dilley, the assailant was riding a bike when he grabbed his phone.
“A man on a bike just Snatched and stole my iPhone from my hand,” Dilley wrote on Twitter on Tuesday afternoon (27 December). “Wrong blind person wrong day.
“Jumped on him, safely detained and got my phone back. Quite a few cuts and bruises but tweeting on the phone he stole (and I recovered).”
In a series of follow-up tweets, Dilley provided further details about the incident, assuring followers that he was Ok but admitting that the manoeuvre was “risky”.
“I took a running jump and dive on the thief and knocked him...
Dilley is congenitally blind and uses a guide dog, but was able to “instinctively” leap on the alleged perpetrator after his phone was snatched from his hand.
According to Dilley, the assailant was riding a bike when he grabbed his phone.
“A man on a bike just Snatched and stole my iPhone from my hand,” Dilley wrote on Twitter on Tuesday afternoon (27 December). “Wrong blind person wrong day.
“Jumped on him, safely detained and got my phone back. Quite a few cuts and bruises but tweeting on the phone he stole (and I recovered).”
In a series of follow-up tweets, Dilley provided further details about the incident, assuring followers that he was Ok but admitting that the manoeuvre was “risky”.
“I took a running jump and dive on the thief and knocked him...
- 12/27/2022
- by Louis Chilton
- The Independent - TV
Good Morning Britain is welcoming a new host this week, with broadcaster Gordon Smart joining the show this Thursday (29 December).
Smart, 42, is one of a roster of presenters who are taking over hosting duties while regulars Kate Garraway, Ben Shephard and Susanna Reid are having time off over Christmas.
The journalist, editor and broadcaster will present alongside Charlotte Hawkins on Thursday 29 and Friday 30 December.
“I’m thrilled to be joining the amazing stable of talent, in front and behind the camera, on Good Morning Britain,” he said.
“So many of the issues facing the country right now are close to home and I’m relishing the chance to join the debate.”
Smart’s background includes being the youngest editor of The Sun’s Bizarre Showbiz column, when he was 26. He later edited The Scottish Sun and was deputy editor at the National Edition in 2016.
He has also hosted shows on talkSPORT,...
Smart, 42, is one of a roster of presenters who are taking over hosting duties while regulars Kate Garraway, Ben Shephard and Susanna Reid are having time off over Christmas.
The journalist, editor and broadcaster will present alongside Charlotte Hawkins on Thursday 29 and Friday 30 December.
“I’m thrilled to be joining the amazing stable of talent, in front and behind the camera, on Good Morning Britain,” he said.
“So many of the issues facing the country right now are close to home and I’m relishing the chance to join the debate.”
Smart’s background includes being the youngest editor of The Sun’s Bizarre Showbiz column, when he was 26. He later edited The Scottish Sun and was deputy editor at the National Edition in 2016.
He has also hosted shows on talkSPORT,...
- 12/27/2022
- by Ellie Harrison
- The Independent - TV
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We're celebrating 50 brilliant UK independent bookshops. If your favourite is missing, please add it to the list below...
In Neil Gaiman’s preface to Shelf Life: Fantastic Stories Celebrating Bookstores, he describes four bookshops from his childhood. One was a travelling school shop, one a local store staffed by a helpful hippy where he’d pick up 25p Tom Disch novels, another was a bus ride away and owned by a Grinch who’d glower at schoolchildren customers, and the last was a now-defunct Soho sci-fi and fantasy treasure trove. Four individual shops run by booksellers with distinct personalities and idiosyncratic tastes. All of which made Gaiman what he is.
That’s the joy of independent bookshops. Their personalities shape those of the people who visit them. They’re not homogenous. Their stock tends to reflect their passions rather than the year's best-performing unit-shifters. And their...
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- Den of Geek
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