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    BBC Breaking News‏Verified account @BBCBreaking 10 Dec 2016

    Sunday Times restaurant critic AA Gill dies aged 62, three weeks after revealing he had cancerhttp://bbc.in/2gM9U5B 

    7:29 AM - 10 Dec 2016
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      2. SouthYorksAmbassacat‏ @BlossomxCat 10 Dec 2016
        Replying to @Everblue1969 @BBCBreaking @BBCNews

        Just knew him through his written word.. he was good at it. Sad. RIP

        1 reply 0 retweets 2 likes
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      4. SouthYorksAmbassacat‏ @BlossomxCat 10 Dec 2016
        Replying to @Everblue1969

        Too many bloody Snowflakes in this world ready to take offence at just 'cos they don't like. Needs to be stamped out.

        2 replies 0 retweets 3 likes
      5. robert‏ @rob22_re 10 Dec 2016
        Replying to @BlossomxCat

        so when someone says a few choice words about him to his wife and children that will fine.

        1 reply 0 retweets 1 like
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      7. robert‏ @rob22_re 10 Dec 2016
        Replying to @Everblue1969 @BlossomxCat

        well "being of the tweet" has lost me -I'm sorry about that

        1 reply 0 retweets 1 like
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      2. Mark J Doran‏ @kammersymphonie 10 Dec 2016
        Replying to @BBCBreaking

        .@BBCBreaking #AAGill died quickly? Not as quickly as the baboon he shot in 2009 "to get a sense of what it might be like to kill someone".

        1 reply 1 retweet 6 likes
      3. Graham D‏ @Mustard655 10 Dec 2016
        Replying to @kammersymphonie @BBCBreaking

        "Quickly" Where does it use the word?

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      4. Mark J Doran‏ @kammersymphonie 10 Dec 2016
        Replying to @Mustard655

        .@Mustard655 @BBCBreaking Where did I say it did, fuckface?

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      6. Mark J Doran‏ @kammersymphonie 10 Dec 2016
        Replying to @James_Verghese

        .@James_Verghese @Mustard655 @BBCBreaking Sorry; your poor reading skills aren't my problem.

        1 reply 0 retweets 0 likes
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      1. John caillard‏ @nyard1 10 Dec 2016
        Replying to @BBCBreaking @BBCNews

        Gutted...bugger....damn.

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      1. LushLife‏ @GentlemanLondon 10 Dec 2016
        Replying to @BBCBreaking @BBCNews

        I can't lie,i'm finding it very hard to feel sympathy for a man who,purely for fun,brutally shot and killed a baboon.

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      1. Alan Davidson‏ @Atticus_F_inch 10 Dec 2016
        Replying to @BBCBreaking @BBCNews

        hope the Baboon and all his mates are waiting for him.

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      1. Debs (D J Kirkland)‏ @X1DJD 10 Dec 2016
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        #AAGill #cancersucks @CR_UK such sad news.

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