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Council still using controversial weedkiller despite pledge to stop Last year, EAB wrote of an Essex council still using glyphosate, despite promises to phase it out. Now we find they are still using it

Southend Council is still using the controversial weedkiller glyphosate despite a pledge to phase it out.

Read which places it’s still used: ⬇️

Christine Sexton reports.

Feeling let down by Labour?

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Great work @andyredwood.com I’m adding you to my Go To list of people who can make a difference.

@zackpolanski.bsky.social Truth telling at its finest.

If we the voting system were to be changed from FPTP, maybe it would be appropriate to consider mandatory voting.

Here’s my latest article for @eastangliabylines.co.uk - a piece on Conrad Noel of Thaxted, a super interesting character.

The Byline Team is looking forward to running the 2025 Byline Festival at Keele University 11-13 July

It will have an amazing array of speakers, authors, musicians & comedians

Don’t miss the festival that could change your life

Programme & tickets

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Pecksniff: Greens Ipswich action day means they eye Suffolk seat In which Mr Pecksniff lays before his readers for their approval certain observations and speculations reflecting on the political life

Our Mr Pecksniff is rather Old Testament -

People should be held accountable for their actions, & that includes voters.

Your actions in electing an ignorant old fool have repercussions for you & everyone else in your shire.

Try & get a grip.

Yes it's @pecksniffsdiary.bsky.social

The sun is shining! Have you got your tickets?

If you’re undocumented, don’t march tomorrow. Stay home. Let the rest of us get this one.

Solidarity ✊🏿✊🏾✊🏽✊🏼

I’m going to visit on Sunday. I’m looking forward to a Marmite & Parmesan sausage!

I wonder what my grandmother would have thought 27 January 2025 marked the 80th anniversary of the liberation of the Nazi death camp at Auschwitz in Poland. A surviving relative ponders

New contributor
@riotgrandma.bsky.social
writes a powerful letter to her grandmother, who perished at Auschwitz—reflecting on the past, and the haunting echoes of history in today’s world.

Trump's threats of ethnic cleansing in Gaza are abhorrent and the UK government must stand firmly against them

I asked the Deputy Prime Minister if she would impose huge, remote unitary County Councils if that is against the wishes of local residents & how she can justify having County Councillors last elected in 2021, leading negotiations on the biggest shake-up of local government in the last half-century.

'Donald Trump’s Gaza Ethnic Cleansing Plan Is a Call for War Crimes And the UK Must Condemn It' It's time for Keir Starmer's Government to finally recognise Palestinian statehood and resist the US President's catastrophic agenda, argues Green MP Ellie Chowns

🔴‘Donald Trump’s Gaza Ethnic Cleansing Plan Is a Call for War Crimes And the UK Must Condemn It’

It’s time Keir Starmer’s Government finally recognises Palestinian statehood and resist the US President’s catastrophic agenda, argues Green MP @elliechowns.bsky.social

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Hedgerows: the skill of balancing growth with need As autumnal cutting starts debates arise over timing and technique. Is flailing harming wildlife and hedgerow health, or providing care?

As you travel around enjoying the sun and snowdrops, you may notice the many very manicured hedgerows. Sadly this is the way to weaken & kill them.
Its time landowners, farmers & councils cut 1 in 3 years - side, side, top.
Good for hedge & nature .

After a month off due to a sore back, I’m booked in for a gym class and am going to cycle there and back. 😇

Challenge the will

‘My Son Was Murdered or Sex-Trafficked and the Police Don’t Care’ - Julie Davis Part Four of a five-part special investigation by Dan Evans and Tom Latchem into a missing person’s case with dark criminal undertones

🔴‘My Son Was Murdered or Sex-Trafficked and the Police Don’t Care’ - Julie Davis

Part Four of a five-part special investigation by
@danevanswrites.bsky.social, @tomlatchem.bsky.social
& Nuria Villa into a missing person’s case with dark criminal undertones

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Pecksniff: Tories: ‘We’re going to do politics differently: we’re going to tell the truth’ In which Mr Pecksniff lays before his readers for their approval certain observations and speculations reflecting on the political life

For the Tories, left or right of them there is a party who can do it better, with better credentials. There is a clear danger here of a transmigration of souls.

(Note to self: do Tories have souls?)

#PecksniffsDiary

Pecksniff: Tories: ‘We’re going to do politics differently: we’re going to tell the truth’ In which Mr Pecksniff lays before his readers for their approval certain observations and speculations reflecting on the political life

This week, the Tories declared: “We’re going to do politics differently: we’re going to tell the truth.” So is the old Tory party dead? Or is it still alive? Is this Schrodinger's Tories?

#PecksniffsDiary
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WE NEED SAFE AND LEGAL ROUTES NOW Green Party Promoted by Chris Williams on behalf of The Green Party, both at PO Box 78066, London SE16 9GQ

Labour's new Borders Bill retains Conservative plans to detain child migrants and scrap slavery protections despite previously opposing them.

More cruelty is not the way to stop trafficking.

Only safe and legal routes will stop the people-smugglers and save lives.

Very good. Dick M falls into the category of inspirational people: if they can earn a living when they’re that bad at their job, then there’s hope for anyone who is unemployed or unhappy in their job.

The idea that we have to choose between economic prosperity and safeguarding our children’s future is absolute nonsense - Reeves is chasing headlines with her Heathrow announcement but it will trash her Govt’s own emissions targets and won’t do anything to make people’s lives better

When maximum sentence for chaining yourself to railings is over twice maximum sentence for racially aggravated assault, anyone who cares about justice should be appalled. This is a dangerous, undemocratic & disproportionate attack on longstanding right to peaceful protest in UK #DefendOurJuries

More than 100 MPs, including me, voted for Government to set up a compensation scheme for #WASPI women. This could be a hollow victory if the Bill is put at the end of a very long list

The Govt should step up & ensure WASPI women get what they are owed

Crime and punishment need rehabilitation Part 2 of our examination of the justice system in the East examines the current state of HM Prison and Probation service

Rehabilitation begins at release. Yet prisoners leave jail without housing, jobs, or support, breaching release terms and risking reoffending. Resettlement services must be funded to prevent this cycle.

JJ Jackson reports.

Crime and punishment need rehabilitation Part 2 of our examination of the justice system in the East examines the current state of HM Prison and Probation service

"You come to prison as punishment, not for punishment." Yet filthy conditions at HMP Bedford and self-harm rates at HMP Chelmsford show the reality. Overcrowding and neglect harm both inmates and society.

JJ Jackson reports.

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