NEW: Wheelchair Provision Over 7,000 patients did not receive their required NHS wheelchair within four months this year, a 21% increase on last year. Muscular Dystrophy UK said people in dire need are being denied "life-changing equipment" 🔗: app.radarai.com

Ever wondered how things work here at RADAR? Editor @l-a-kelly.bsky.social and data journalist @claramargotin.bsky.social recently hosted a group of media executives from Germany to talk about it. You can read all about it here: newsmachines.substack.com/p/radar-ai-n...

NEW: Football-Related Arrests Home Office figures reveal there were over 1,900 football-related arrests in the 2024-25 season Meanwhile, there were 2,400 active banning orders in force last month – preventing fans from attending matches 🔗: app.radarai.com

Manchester. Very good.

Enjoyed the new artwork on the Chisholm Trail bridge this morning

Cricket!

Research data management at its finest outside a building in Cambridge! #RDM #research #librarians

Duck Gang

Today in 'Adam belatedly catches up with things everyone else knew years ago', Dear England is really good

My very first job in journalism was at the Wiltshire Times, which was great - but now I'm devastated I never got to go behind the scenes of the Shredded Wheat factory www.wiltshiretimes.co.uk/news/2502884...

Nice to see Iain Duncan Smith has done so well for himself

New ONS data shows there were some 282,000 first-time buyer mortgage sales in 2023 ⬇️ It was down 22% on the number of sales in 2022 ⬇️ It was the lowest number of sales since 2013 🔗: app.radarai.com

It's been a long time, but being in the room when The Hold Steady do their thing is still every bit as good as it used to be #UnifiedScene

Want to be my boss? We're now on the hunt for a new editor at @radar-ai.bsky.social - someone with excellent data skills who can apply them to help explain the world around us to local news audiences. Happy to answer any questions via DM www.linkedin.com/jobs/view/41...

Resurrecting an old thread from the Other Place: every musical @lucywoolhouse.bsky.social has brought me to in 2025: 1. Sondheim's Road Show at @gatehouselondon.bsky.social

Seated at Twickenham for the best Care family Christmas tradition #BigGame16

Latest piece for RADAR/PA - a look into arrests following the disorder after Southport: www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/sout...

Spotted in Cambridge this morning

The Mill Road Winter Fair this weekend has been cancelled due to bad weather forecast - a massive blow to all involved (and anyone due to be entertaining their in-laws in Cambridge this weekend...) www.millroadwinterfair.org

The number of people accessing drug and alcohol treatment services in England last year reached its highest level since 2010, at over 310,800 adults. ▶️ 44% of those in treatment were struggling with opiates ▶️ 30% of people had issues with alcohol alone 🔗: app.radarai.com

Leading experts have warned the NHS is facing a 'gynaecology care crisis', with treatment waiting lists more than doubling in England since the pandemic Here's what I found in my latest for @radar-ai.bsky.social www.mylondon.news/news/health/...

At the Cambridge Ice Arena for my first ever ice hockey experience tonight, as Cambridge Kodiaks pretty ruthlessly take apart Coventry Phoenix

Look who it is... 👀 @radar-ai.bsky.social has made the transition over here - we'll be sharing some of our work using national-level data to tell local stories on this new account. First off, do you live in a dental dessert?

'No dumping'

All square at halftime at the Abbey today, hoping Cambridge can finish better than the last time I was here...

Still unsure quite how much work posting I'm going to be doing here, but before I slink off for a three-day weekend, here's a very quick rundown of everything the team at RADAR have done this week:

🔌I spent my time this week looking at public electric chargers across the UK. Here is what we found:

I've only found a fairly small set of Cambridge councillors here so far, please do point out any I've missed. bsky.app/profile/did:...

This is exactly what I've been looking for on here - seems like there's been a mass migration of national journos on here, but so far, much less of a community for regional news

Achieved a personal record of four cinema outings in a single day today - saw three great films, and also Venom. But did achieve an unexpected double helping of Stephen Graham, which is always nice