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🚨BREAKING: The Met Office has announced the UK experienced its HOTTEST summer on record this year.

How many more records need to be BROKEN before we ditch fossil fuels?

Open Letter to Rachel Reeves: Water lobbyists have no place in the Treasury Dear Chancellor of the Exchequer Rachel Reeves MP, Open letter: tell Jenny Scott to step down from the Treasury Board In the 2024 Labour Manifesto, this government promised to ensure ‘...

Shocking: Thames Water connected lobbyist hired as Treasury advisor 😠

As my colleague @sophieconquest.bsky.social just told @boycottthameswater.bsky.social "If that's not corruption I don't know what is"

Our letter to Rachel Reeves demanding Jenny Scott step down 👇
weownit.org.uk/news/water-l...

The BBC need to get better at challenging Farage's lies.

Picture of Angela Rayner superimposed over a green colour washed image of an allotment. With a small 'We Own It' logo in the bottom left corner. The main text reads: Angela Rayner hands off our allotments

Hey @angelarayner - hands off our allotments! No more sell-offs of these precious green spaces. Take 1 minute to sign our petition today. 👇#HandsOffOurAllotments

Online Safety Act: "a little inconvenience is a small price to protect our children"

Asking people to drive responsibly where there are children: *tumbleweeds*

£80K BILL after latest historic canal bridge vehicle strike | Towpath Talk DRIVERS have been urged to take care after the bridge located on the Staffordshire & Worcestershire Canal between Dimmingsdale Lock and Wightwick Lock w ...

In England we have a canal bridge that's been hit 5 times in 14 years and our response is to politely ask people to slow down 🤦‍♂️ www.towpathtalk.co.uk/80k-bill-aft...

Blast from the past: why I was arguing, over 9 years ago, the electric cars aren't the answer to most of our problems www.theguardian.com/sustainable-...

Bring back the ancient woodlands smothered beneath your timber plantations Ancient woodlands are vanishing – and with them, some of our most loved and endangered wildlife. Forestry England manages over 100,000 acres of land that used to be ancient woodland - that’s bigger th...

🌳 We need the return of ancient woodlands. Petition to help restore the Ghost Woods and protect our green spaces for future generations: you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/br...

Type of bag is important. Use pannier bags instead of backpacks. Because backpacks result in a seriously sweaty back 😬

A picture of the statement signed by Metro Mayors Tracy Brabin, Paul Bristow, Andy Burnham, Luke Campbell, Oliver Coppard, Helen Godwin, Kim McGuinness, Richard Parker, Steve Rotherham, David Skaith and Claire Ward. It also includes supportive signatures from Transport Secretary Heidi Alexander, National Active Travel Commissioner Chris Boardman, and Mayor of London Sir Sadiq Khan. The statement reads: We, the Mayors of England’s Combined Authorities, will work together to improve our streets for everyone, for the benefit of the health, wellbeing and connectedness of our communities. This commitment to walking, wheeling and cycling, with a first focus on the school run, will help get 20 million people more active daily and create more than 3,500 miles of safer routes connecting schools with local neighbourhoods, high streets and transport hubs. We are doing this as part of wider plans to fully integrate our transport networks, to deliver new housing and to further cement local economic growth. We commit to: - Work with the Department for Transport, Active Travel England and our local authorities to create a country-wide national walking, wheeling and cycling network, comprising of local networks that are safe and easy to use. This will give millions of people across England the choice to use high quality, safe routes in their communities. - Transform the school run by delivering high-quality, safer routes in neighbourhoods nationwide. - Deliver region-wide integrated transport networks by giving people easy walking, wheeling and cycling access to buses, trams and trains which will in turn help deliver new housing and support local economic growth. Together, we can transform our regions and deliver increased transport choice, sustainable public transport, boost local economies and give our younger generation access to opportunity.

You can read the unprecedented joint statement signed by 12 metro mayors to create a 3,500 mile national active travel network here

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Council boss defies Reform over trans flag Warwickshire chief executive accused of ‘subverting democracy’ by party’s Zia Yusuf

This says plenty already. www.telegraph.co.uk/politics/202...

Swifts raise their chicks high in eaves or nestboxes, returning to the same site year after year.

When the young fledge, they launch into open air... & just keep going!

They’ll remain airborne for the next two or three years, until it’s time to breed themselves.

#SpringStories

Two rainbows in the sky close to each other.

Very cool seeing two rainbows so close to each other. One is rather lovely with how bright it is! #relaxingrain #nature

Bicycle with dark blue frame and amber tan wall tyres.

Changed my bike tyres for the first time ever (I'm in my mid-thirties) and I popped two inner tubes in the process. Yeahhhh 🤦‍♂️. But the bike feels noticeably nicer to ride so that's a victory. #cycling

Sir John Major at the Institute for Govt conference just now: "Britain [once] enjoyed a very good global reputation for being as free of corruption and bad practice as any nation in the world.

"I think that's a little less true today, and so it's in our national interest to regain that reputation."

Cyclists submit record number of close pass videos, as road safety charities warn over half of drivers still don’t know the Highway Code’s minimum passing distance Operation Snap submissions have more than doubled in two years, with more than 15,000 incidents reported in 2024 and over half of reported drivers receiving notices of intended prosecution

Operation Snap submissions have more than doubled in two years, with more than 15,000 incidents reported in 2024 and over half of the reported drivers receiving notices of intended prosecution

UK government pledges further £590m for delayed Lower Thames Crossing Rachel Reeves calls Britain’s biggest road-building project a ‘turning point for our national infrastructure’

We do not need new roads; we need better transport options. Think of what could be done with £9.2bn, which is to be spent on just 14 miles of road! It could transform bus services and/or cycling and pedestrian infrastructure across Britain. www.theguardian.com/business/202...

We are celebrating #VolunteersWeek 🎉

In this video, volunteer Nicole shares her experience of volunteering on the Lias Line (Route 41 on the National Cycle Network) linking Rugby and Leamington Spa.

So so true!

Written questions and answers - Written questions, answers and statements - UK Parliament Information from UK Parliament on written questions & answers, written statements and daily reports.

So that's just £154m/year, less than £200m cut in 2023 (revealed in judgement for @transportaction.bsky.social yesterday transportactionnetwork.org.uk/treasury-cut...) & *well* below £246m funding for 2025/26 as @simonlightwood.org.uk stated in Feb questions-statements.parliament.uk/written-ques...

Reeves is correct in what she is saying right now. Her reform of the fiscal rules to differentiate investment from current spending was crucial. There's much to criticise her for, but she gets nowhere near enough recognition for this.

Treasury cuts to cycling and walking budget unlawful, rules Court of Appeal Treasury cuts to cycling and walking budget unlawful, rules Court of Appeal FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: 10 June 2025 In a historic judgment, the Court of Appeal has today ruled in Transport Action Network’...

Treasury cuts to cycling and walking budget UNLAWFUL, rules Court of Appeal
transportactionnetwork.org.uk/treasury-cut...

News Sites Are Getting Crushed by Google’s New AI Tools Chatbots are replacing Google’s traditional search, devastating traffic for some publishers.

This WSJ story about the decline in search traffic because of AI summaries is so grim. Every single outlet spent 15+ years contorting their coverage to cover the same things as everyone else trying to grab SEO, only for Google to rugpull them, just like social networks did.
tinyurl.com/bdpzc399

Large van parked in a cycle path.

This is a screenshot from Google Maps - highlighting nicely why the decision by @warwickshirecc.bsky.social to put in a mixed use path on the main road instead of a high-quality separated cycleway was a properly smelly decision. And now we're stuck with this low-grade infrastructure for decades.

'Gaslighting' comes from the title of a 1938 play and the movies based on that play.

The plots of which involve a man attempting to make his wife believe that she is going insane.

A ‘snafu’ is a situation marked by errors or confusion.

‘Snafu’ comes from WW2 and is an acronym for “Situation Normal, All F*cked Up.”

Yes, really.

It was only a low target, but I still cycled my target miles for the #LoveToRide Bike Month 2025. And I enjoyed all 6 rides, lovely stuff.

Cuts to England’s canal network could put lives at risk, experts say Ageing assets and lack of funding could mean entire towns and villages vulnerable to flooding, investigation shows

The climate crisis plus a lack of funding means ageing waterways assets could be a risk to life, finds parliamentary magazine The House. We were pleased to give comment. The story has gone national and has been picked up by ‪@theguardian.com‬ www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Coverage of idiots claiming ‘betrayal’ or ‘surrender’ isn’t just bad journalism, it’s a dereliction of our duty to explain things. I’d actually forgotten just how bad it got but here we are, straight back to treating liars & spivs like authorities of equal weight to experts & honest brokers.

YouTube video by Russell England "Brexit five years on - It has been a disaster" GB News interview with fisherman Andy Dixon

GB News : "Brexit is a good thing?"

Brexit Fisherman : "It's been a disaster"

"But exports?"

"Red tape is 100 fold, our main market is the EU"

"But EU fisherman?"

"They didn't come here"

"But charge more?"

"They can buy in the EU"

"How would you vote?"

"I'd vote for Remain in a heart beat"