Stage with backdrop saying 'Fairport's Cropredy Convention' in Fairport conventions' signature cursive font. (Wikimedia commons)
Children at Cropredy Primary School will sing to 6,000 people at the Fairport Convention in Cropredy next month, after the school overhauled the curriculum to have the children learn about local history and folk music, plus geography and art via the waterways round Fairport this year.
25.07.2025 06:53 — 👍 15 🔁 5 💬 1 📌 0
I lived with a dog who developed an obsession with tomatoes. This led to a multi- year, ever-escalating arms race where I found ever more elaborate ways to protect the fruit and she found ever more cunning ways to defeat them.
Current dogs supremely uninterested.
23.07.2025 12:52 — 👍 5 🔁 1 💬 1 📌 0
Guess who's back
Back again. Tell your friends.
Guess who's back fairwarning.substack.com/p/guess-whos... (It's the welcome return of the Fair Warning newsletter from @thatsoph.bsky.social )
23.07.2025 10:47 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
A Common Blue butterfly is perched on heather against a pink background. Text overlay reads "Get out for the count" with Butterfly Conservation's Big Butterfly Count logo above it. In the bottom right corner, the text reads 'exclusive media partner' with BBC Countryfile Magazine logo. Photo credit Matt Berry
The Big Butterfly Count 2025 is here and butterflies need our help 🦋🚨
This isn't just a survey, it's a rescue mission, and we need everyone to get involved.
No lab coats. No science degrees. Just 15 minutes of your time. ⏱️
Get out for the count 👉 bigbutterflycount.org
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We believe there may be an opportunity for the LGA to support the sector, by exploring the possibility of improving the quality and management of some key data and then making it available commercially as a national dataset. This model already exists for addressing and streets data, in the form of GeoPlace, a company owned by the LGA (jointly with Ordnance Survey). Such an endeavour would require a sustainable model, in which councils receive some income from their data (and the use of the data is strictly controlled), while the LGA also receives income for its role.
We are keen to understand what data held by (all) councils might form part of such a model; and what data, if any, councils are already offering commercially.
This research will provide valuable insights into whether this is a feasible business proposition.
Supplier opportunity if you hate #opendata:
The Local Government Association is looking to monetise more council data, on the model of the GeoPlace arrangements that restrict public re-use of address and street data www.contractsfinder.service.gov.uk/notice/4f4be... (England)
#localgov #datapolicy
17.07.2025 18:02 — 👍 2 🔁 3 💬 2 📌 2
NEW
What the Afghan ‘super-injunction’ tells us about the UK polity
Parliament and regulators are shrugging off a decision that freed the government from accountability
By me, (back) at @financialtimes.com
www.ft.com/content/1f1c...
16.07.2025 16:08 — 👍 187 🔁 64 💬 5 📌 0
Ah yes. The best article title ever
15.07.2025 10:27 — 👍 592 🔁 213 💬 10 📌 15
🦆 community notices
🎲 a game about Quality for data ✨
An interesting looking game about data quality joelbth.codeberg.page/community-no... HT Nick Hill
14.07.2025 17:06 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
I didn't live in Birmingham but I did have a, somewhat inexplicable, obsession with BRMB, a station that was so broadcast from a location so distant it was mostly static on my transistor radio.
14.07.2025 09:47 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
This has reminded me of completing the BRMB Walkathon in my teens. It followed the No11 route (roughly). I cannot say it led to spiritual awakening though.
14.07.2025 08:13 — 👍 7 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 1
It’s a great read. Ideal for by the pool…
11.07.2025 17:25 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
I agree. It's solely fish on the label for me from now on
11.07.2025 13:05 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
@stewartnoble.bsky.social
11.07.2025 07:00 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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