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Good news! Ministers have finally given green light to new #NaturalHistory GCSE. We’ve campaigned so long for this! Big hats off to tireless advocate Mary Colwell 🙌 Now our young people will have a chance to get to know & love the natural world, to feel awe & wonder, & gain skills to protect it 🌷🌳🦡

Grateful to @missdunstable.bsky.social pointing out Mayor Andrea Jenkyns has seized Rutland, as if she was not in enough trouble already

Still really disappointed after all that “fly tippers, we will crush your car” rhetoric, we’ve not seen confiscations of the £300k 32 ton tipper trucks that were actually doing the fly tipping.

where are the producers and editors who can make a case for (much needed) content like this being under 10min, if not a tight 5min? Who is dedicating half an hour of their life to it?

A far better investment than crypto, for sure. This'll be there for people to enjoy for ever. The built environment affects our mental well-being. Things like the Lichfield Canal will bring positive changes to the area. Support them if you can!

Volunteers restoring the Lichfield Canal (follow @courtabovethecut.bsky.social). Impressive @lhcrt.org.uk

Best Makerfield vox pop, starting with state failure on flytipping www.youtube.com/watch?v=9EPw...

Our planet's pre-eminent plutocrat got control of twitter, disabled content moderation, then personally radicalised, started cheering on the pogromists giftarticle.ft.com/giftarticle/...

Clearly republicans get to choose the Header pic for this BBC/Press Association report

How short-sighted. Future access Walmley Station, Sutton Coldfield For Sale ...

Bit lazy blaming the downfall of #denby on costs, demand and net zero without mentioning the (at least) £72 million debt loaded onto the company by private equity.

He needs to be recognized as the largest int'l menace there isright now. Most malignant, metastatic 1 of maybe 10 other prominent RW aspiring sociopath Kings He's about to be handed MORE wealth, power, security info, etc. Any leader not being open & loud about that danger shouldn't be in power

Christians in the Holy Land will be overlooked because

Greens Help You Breathe More Easily

The last working ochre mine in the U.K, Clearwell Caves in the Forest of Dean, where colour has been mined for 4,500 years. A beautiful range is still mined & milled there: yellow ochre, red ochre (Terra Rosa d’Inghilterra), brown ochre, & rarer purple ochre, akin to ‘caput mortuum’.

Filton defendants face retrospective terror label for criminal damage

Stagecoach now operating public night buses from the coast and in rural Lincolnshire, quite a network, they all end up at the chicken factory [fares capped in the normal way] ..

Elsecar Heritage Railway, South Yorks, returning to nature, may be a trend? (pic credit: David Coulthard)

Twitter still trending rightwards www.ft.com/content/43f4...

Telly sound and picture has improved so much, cat now captivated by Springwatch

Greens likely to scupper Conservative push for dirty air in North London

Cart before horse, by-election boy.

"...Such is the enthusiasm of Balham's music lovers that they are subscribing to a fund to send Eugene to Italy, or Vienna....... or anywhere..." (Balham: Gateway to the South)

Getting to the point where I dislike Burnham more than I dislike Starmer, tbh. Can't stand the strong whiff of entitlement around him and the assumption that he's going to sail into No 10 and save us all.

By some unreliable memory warp, searching for 'I Was Lord Kitchener's Valet' under 'I was Monty's Batman' and puzzled why no results

That deflating moment when you spot a freash name in Guardian Obituaries and it checks out as the daughter of someone you knew, who themselves one generation on had lived a full and longish life and gone. Survivor guilt must be stalking soon as a useful psychological adaptation

Happy Birthday Network SouthEast. @politicanimal.bsky.social reports visual and audio train announcement reminders today at London Bridge

Burnham will offer Keir "dignified exit" ("We've all clubbed together to buy you a ticket to Zurich") giftarticle.ft.com/giftarticle/...

He's having a good old moan, which he's full entitled, his club and West Midland Metro bringing Digbeth back to life, both making it happen www.expressandstar.com/news/delayed...

200 years rent free deal to occupy the Town Hall

Which? Magazine, UK March 1972

the dusty fallout on top of the boxes is a nice touch

I do want to put the effort in to cover the huge amount of brownfield done on Bath’s western riverside: 5-9 storey modern blocks, because it does seem to be quietly thriving.

When we had a Works Minister* [OK it was Reg Prentice]

I read all the latest on AI. All I can tell you is the jury is out

Far too many folk invoking brownfield as modern magic without being specific, here is what it looks like ..

'Slain' is objectively a hilarious word and makes the rest of the headline very hard to take seriously.

BBC putting 'riles' and 'slain' in their headlines to appeal to US audience

By the time loathsome Tice gets into government [God Forbid] his constituency will be running on the clean energy he so despises (or says he does)

All true of course

Hard to believe that was one of the most vital links between the Midlands and Southampton Docks during World War 2.

"It's already got a soul". Semi-successful brownfield regeneration in Derby

Still some corners of media functioning well

Looking for a non-perfunctory Obituary of Michael Meadowcroft that seeks to explain his inner world

Formidably large renewable energy installation waved through in Richard Tice's Lincolnshire constituency www.lincolnshirelive.co.uk/news/local-n...

Once again, the unofficial emblem of the 2026 World Cup:

Reform UK-controlled Council gives frackers the bum's rush [Yes, you read that correctly] drillordrop.com/2026/06/08/c...

Bloody hell. Things have moved on giftarticle.ft.com/giftarticle/...

Coming up on the ITV News website: Decimalisation is imminent. Will you switch from Pounds, Shillings and Pence?