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Hannah Al-Othman

London, Manchester

Correspondent at The Guardian

Journalist @guardian. Northern Powerhouse, running bore 🏃🏽‍♀️, MUFC 👹. Send news: [email protected]. DM for WhatsApp/Signal

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  • 4 days ago | theguardian.com | Hannah Al-Othman

    “Smell it, but don’t stick your nose straight in it,” says Michael O’Shaughnessy, pulling a small white card, sealed twice in ziplock bags, out of a metal chest. “Waft it, close your eyes. Does it remind you of anything?”O’Shaughnessy, an illustrator and senior lecturer at Liverpool John Moores University, first began using smells with art students, asking them “to develop projects and concepts” based on scents “because it’s a leveller”.

  • 1 week ago | theguardian.com | Hannah Al-Othman

    The Doctor Who screenwriter Russell T Davies has said he has no time for “online warriors” who claim the show is too woke. Speaking to BBC Radio 2, the Welsh writer – who was also behind the hit series Queer As Folk and It’s a Sin – said: “What you might call diversity, I just call an open door.”The sci-fi series returned to the BBC last week with Ncuti Gatwa again playing the Doctor and Varada Sethu joining him as his companion.

  • 1 week ago | theguardian.com | Hannah Al-Othman

    A survivor of the Manchester Arena bombing has said that the alleged assault on prison officers by one of the brothers behind the 2017 terrorist attack signified a “catastrophic failure of duty” to protect prison staff.

  • 1 week ago | theguardian.com | Hannah Al-Othman

    The way police responded to the riots that swept the country last summer was “entirely appropriate”, a parliamentary report has found. MPs considered accusations that the riots were policed more strongly than previous protests, but said that claims of “two-tier policing” were “baseless”.

  • 1 week ago | msn.com | Hannah Al-Othman |Jessica Elgot

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Hannah Al-Othman
Hannah Al-Othman @HannahAlOthman
20 Feb 25

Looking to speak to people who live in Greater Manchester and have been burgled in the last four or five years. Please get in touch if this is you.

Hannah Al-Othman
Hannah Al-Othman @HannahAlOthman
14 Nov 24

This Glastonbury ticket buying system is much fairer but much more boring. 🟩🟩🟩🟩

Hannah Al-Othman
Hannah Al-Othman @HannahAlOthman
11 Nov 24

I bumped into Andrew when I was covering a case at court the year before last, and he offered to carry my bag. He told me he had an interesting story that he could tell me one day... Well, here it is! https://t.co/0xsd1BV0xB