Nick

The bare foot on the broken bottle...still shudder with that one

Final Destination had nothing on British public information films.

The Guardian view on Labour targeting nature: the problem isn’t snails, but a broken housing model | Editorial Editorial: Rachel Reeves’s drive to speed up development is beginning to treat wildlife and the environment as expendable. Voters want homes built, but not at any cost

"The Treasury....plans to gut green rules with amendments to its planning and infrastructure bill – ditching the precautionary principle, slashing species protections and curbing legal challenges"

Indefensible

This must be fought tooth and nail

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Thank you!!

Doh!! Didn't read any of that before I put my entry in!!

Put us out of our misery with the answers Sean 😄

😄 Thank God!

Stiffkey/Stookey is interesting too.
Incidentally very disappointed on my first visit to Happisburgh church not to have seen the three crowns then found they were just glued on for the filming

Thanks for that, fascinating

One for the occasional series of #ornithology papers you need in your life but might not have read - Common/Spotted Sandpiper flight style as an antipredator behaviour.
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Magnificent!

Former Observer big-hitters launch new title with redundancy payouts Five former Observer journalists including Carole Cadwalladr have launched their own culture publication using their redundancy money.

Really excited about this! New media launching next week❤️💪🔥 pressgazette.co.uk/news/former-...

Light Emerald on neighbours' fig tree #TeamMoth #moths

Can't even find this on the BBC website Dan, shameful how far BBC news has fallen

Reform UK’s ex-leader in Wales Nathan Gill pleads guilty to bribery charges Gill admits to eight counts of bribery relating to pro-Russia statements made in the European parliament and articles

Nathan Gill, Reform's leader in Wales at the last Welsh parliament election, has pled guilty to 8 bribery charges, taking Russian cash while he was one of Nigel Farage’s MEPs to speak in favour of Putin's Russia in that parliament
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Ten things you can do to help defeat Farage, Musk, and rightwing populism I’m mad as hell, and I’m not going to take it anymore.

I'm mad as hell, and I'm not going to take it anymore.

So I wrote a blog about ten things you can do *right now* to help defeat Farage, Musk, and rightwing populism.

From scrutinising Reform councillors to demanding the UK Govt leave X - get involved:

guyshrubsole.substack.com/p/ten-things...

Probably be Mr Smug Amol Rajan, he's on everything else

We have this one, beautiful tree and great for winter thrushes after the first frosts. Absolutely loaded with fruit this year, to the point where we are pruning great bunches to stop the branches cracking.

And what about this? Jon Lord circa 1974?
Pale Prominent, North Yorkshire August 2025

New post: Fascism, Rivers of Blood, and today’s political and media elite
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Spreading disinformation about minority groups is as old as civilisation itself. Once our political and media elite would call this out for what it was, but not any more.

Only 55 days until the big Trigger Happy TV 25th Anniversary LIVE shows #london #manchester #Birmingham #Glasgow #Southampton

We set our friends daughter's hair on fire at a Christingle. Quite a challenging conversation when we took her home...

I’m guessing there wasn’t much happening in the penalty box then.

Interesting nest material! (in the Yorkshire dales) #ukbirding #ukwildlife

His covers and illustrations for Radio Times are outstanding

Marcus Stewart: Former striker who has MND says things 'getting difficult' Former striker Marcus Stewart says he left his Yeovil coaching role this summer as he felt unable to

My teenage hero. Stewie the King. In my head he'll always be the slightly awkward kid with magic in his boots who scored 30 in 1995/96 when all we had to do was get him the ball and it was in.
I hope as many Rovers fans as possible get to Yeovil on Saturday week for his game. I can't cos of work.

Juvenile presumably? 😂

Broad-bodied Chaser in Ainderby. First village record was only 2023 but now the most regularly seen chaser species. @bladetail.bsky.social @britishdragonflies.bsky.social

I have to keep a photo of it on my phone!

Welcome to post-growth Europe – can anyone accept this new political reality? An expert in public policy asks if it will ever be possible for political parties in Europe to be honest about the limits of growth – and still get elected.

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