Gary O'Donoghue - Gary O'Donoghue on BBC News - has just provided one of the finest live, on the buzzer dissections of a major story I've ever seen on any medium. Quite exceptional on-the-spot reporting and analysis. Brilliant.

It was my huge privilege to work for 6 years with Steve McCabe & Robin Walker, two incredible supportive constituency MPs for the Acorns Children's Hospice sites in Selly Oak and Worcester respectively. Both have confirmed they will not be standing at the next election. Thank you both

Hospice care for all who need it, for now and forever.

That's our vision as today we unveil a new five year strategy and refreshed brand.

With rising demand, funding pressures and staff shortages, our bold plan aims to meet the challenges head-on.

Fantastic group -

We’re delighted to be the lucky recipient of this incredible garden from the RHS Chelsea Flower Show which will come to Glasgow to benefit our patients, their families and our local communities. Thanks to Muscular Dystrophy UK for choosing to relocate the garden to #glasgowshospice

Yesterday in Westminster,many wonderful conversations around the manifesto for Palliative & EoLC, we need to commit to more equitable funding for all hospice services, great to meet Toby Porter Andy Fletcher Together for Short Lives Marie Curie Paul Perkins Sue Ryder Leckhampton Court Treetops Education

8 out of 8 PMs…thank you all…to be auctioned this week to raise money for Sarcoma UK in memory of civil servant, Chris Martin.

The infected blood scandal is the greatest failure of the British state of my lifetime. The cruelty and arrogance of doctors, civil servants, administrators and ministers, all of whom thought they knew best both in the lethal treatments they gave to vulnerable people but then in

6 years ago yesterday, we took Thomas on his final journey. There is nothing in the world that can prepare you for putting the lid on your child’s casket, knowing that you’ll never see them again.

Yesterday, I worked a night shift on the paeds intensive care unit. The last

Fantastic to see this hopeful change. It would have undoubtedly helped me age 15 when my dad died, if we all learnt and spoke about grief at school (including the teachers). Fingers crossed it makes it into the final curriculum.

St Gemma's Hospice was featured in an article the The Yorkshire Post on Saturday, in which our Chief Executive Kerry Jackson explained how we have to rely heavily on our supporters to keep our services running.

🗞️ Read more at - st-gemma.co.uk/kerry-jackson-…

A huge thank you to the 114 hospices who took part in this year's Dying Matters Awareness Week!

We've loved seeing all the brilliant and informative events that have taken place across the UK. We're so glad to see awareness being raised of #TheWayWeTalkAboutDyingMatters 💛

This beautiful poem has been popular with our community this week, we hope it helps 🧡

‘I stood by your bed last night; I came to have a peep.
I could see that you were crying you found it hard to sleep.
I spoke to you softly as you brushed away a tear,
'It's me, I haven't left

In Kyiv, Secretary Antony Blinken plays “Rockin’ in the Free World” in a basement club with a Ukrainian band

Thank you 💙Rachael Maskell MP for calling out the government's failure to adequately fund hospices.

With a looming £77m deficit threatening UK hospices, we urgently need a sustainable funding solution so hospices can continue their vital work.

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Lovely to chat with BBC Radio WM this morning sharing the news that £6m has been raised for @teenagecancer in memory of #StephenSutton - enabling us to honour his legacy and 'keep doing what you're doing' to make sure young people don't face cancer alone.

Happy Thank You Week! 🎉

This week is all about us saying thank you to the incredible supporters and volunteers, who ensure we can continue to deliver our vital care 24/7, 365 days a year.

Thank you so much for everything you do to support our hospices ♥

Durdle Door with the Northern lights

This may be my favourite photo I’ve ever taken! 😮

The flowers, the Milky Way, the Aurora Borealis and Durdle Door in the early hours of this morning, with the symmetry of the colours in the sky and the curve of the clifftop & beach

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As you watch the Aurora this evening, it’s worth reflecting that you’re getting a rare direct glimpse of the power of Nature. Those charged particles causing the atmosphere to glow came from a sunspot complex 17 times the diameter of Earth and traveled across 90 million miles at