The disconnect between right wing lobby media and what is actually happening on the ground (literally)

The New Plotlands. Ireland on course to waive Planning Permission for Beds in Sheds (or slums as we used to call them)

Portishead: the entire world backs rail reopening

Three new Wiltshire train stations planned (Devizes, Corsham, Wilton)

The existing National Forest, a great success, is not how you imagined it

Great arguments on Facebook

Risible competition to found a National Forest in English Midlands or North. Supply your own location and governance model by mid-May. On ONE sheet of paper. find-government-grants.service.gov.uk/grants/new-n...

Lincolnshire Councillors unanimous in favour of solar farm and more sheep

Houses come for closed Potters Bar Golf Course, a story of our times

Well done for putting Matt Spivey in charge of reporting on getting around rationing

Official claims that National Forest tree cover has increased from 6% to 25% since early 1990s sound most impressive

Spuds under panels

Not a spoof, apparently

Robert Skidelsky RIP. A true original, author of influential 'Politicians And The Slump'. Big Keynes fan, lived in his house! Helped to found the renegade SDP and provide it with intellectual heft and later endorses Jeremy Corbyn

Most revealing slur from Camilla Cavendish today, using antisemitic in the sense of hostile to Netanyahu, and conveniently anonymising the people who are surprised the left survives purging from Labour, good to hear of their despair though

Building on a few golf courses (without the fever-imagination claims on land use, this time)

Little details. The Fenland airport is objecting. It comes to something when you are polluting so much, even neighbour airports can't stand it

Denby manufacturing ends after 217 years www.itv.com/news/central...

Why not Angela Rayner? Labour MPs pine for Weathervane Burnham, but not just yet

Sleaford named happiest place in England using some incredibly dodgy survey data. This former resident says why not?

Pentagon options paper suggests ditching the Falklands Islands, expelling Spain from NATO

Chlorine chicken imported from United States or ammonia mega-farm chicken sourced in Lincs or Wye Valley? Neither please. Last night heard testimony from South Lincs residents fighting pollution ..

Credit Max Colbert Byline Times for spotting this Product Placement in Reform local election leaflets

in the olden days, you'd send Wilf Self or Iain Sinclair to wander around with a male-coded take, half vibes and half egotism, but no Padel Courts and Pet Hotels then. Time for a feminist edgelands literary insurgency

French engineer, pataphysician, jazz trumpeter, songwriter & author Boris Vian once designed a series of ramps intended to allow people to roll from one city to another. Boris Vian, come to Leeds

Any truth in this?

Steve Reed's finest face vote rigging charges (no suggestion Steve is in any way responsible for alleged crimes) www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Entrance to the hidden nocturnal Republic

Reform plan for Deportation Camps puts millions at risk

Leeds Metro: opponents break cover (via @thatdocphoenix.com)

London excitement as Greens ahead in four boroughs

Steve Reed's friends face charges

Highly favourable Matlock - Buxton study lands on Transport Minister's desk ready to gather dust

London Borough of Barnet. Green Belt land along A1 all owned by housebuilders (and front companies) who occasionally sculpt/rearrange the countryside, derelict pig farms and all, in order to prepare their Grey Belt for housing ... www.barnetsociety.org.uk/anger-in-ark...

Still going strong Family and Commercial Hotel, Alford Market Place, Lincs reasonable claim to have coined 'United States of America' Thomas Paine worked in the room with oriel window

When your idea of healthy food is based primarily on Neil from The Young Ones

World of Lentils - nichest theme park since Badgerland.

"The world of lentils" Dear God. How pompous and didactic. Is there any other conceivable world to choose from? Lentils are now grown in the UK and are an excellent source of cheap protein and fibre. They can also be made into pasta and be used in sausages, burgers, stews and dahls.

Compass in panic as Ministers mull healthy school meals for the 126th time

Wikipedia has the real goods

Great story - and a timely one, too, considering my thing in the i-Paper at the weekend... inews.co.uk/inews-lifest...

So, in all seriousness, are they doing this for all parties? Not that they should

when I commuted Dublin-Dundalk c.2000 there were a LOT of delays to trains coming down from Belfast for the journey home, so they'd send us to the pub opposite Dundalk station and then ring them when the train was coming - the barman would yell and we'd all dash back just in time 😆

I always mix him up with Johnny Morris, but the Naked Ape guy died. Such career, much zoo, wow.

An astonishing achievement. New network junction built to interoperable standards ... to Bodiam and Tenterden by 2028. Opened by inter alia Suzy (Eddie) Izzard (not in header pic)

The local pride is strong here.

Such a wonderful story. You can buy a Live Departures Board for £300, but British Rail can't afford one for Barton-on-Humber Lincolnshire, so there's now one in The White Swan opposite

🧐 fact-check: that's a chameleon Chamaeleonidae vs. Iguanidae RIP a lovely man, who helped to inspire me and many others 😻

Desmond Morris RIP .. when our relationship with animals seemed a lot less complicated

'I had that Peter Mandelson in the back of my cab, but honestly what a diabolical liberty, guv. I kept the screen shut and just drove'