Will this be the last year of the primary school grammar test? This is the horror of this year's grammar test for 10 and 11 year olds in England - and its effects on the curriculum. michaelrosenblog.blogspot.com/2025/05/this-y…

🔴We should be absolutely outraged by today's Afghan data leak revelations. We should be incensed. My reflections on another Afghanistan scandal, a source of national shame. open.substack.com/pub/notanother…

Public community open space in an area where there isn't any, and no replacement green area possible, to be sacrificed to build only 5 houses?

Delighted to see that #PathExtinguishmentDay has been repealed in Wales. Special thanks to Hugh and the Open Spaces Society for addressing the Committee to persuade them to include repeal in The Legislation (Procedure, Publication and Repeals) (Wales) Act. Royal Assent was on 10 July.

For #mondaymaps an extract from Plate-V of Robert Baugh's 1808 map of Shropshire showing the various Tub Boat Canals and the Incline Planes & Tunnels of what is now Telford Not showing is the Newport Canal - this wasn't constructed until 1835 See ALT for some more details

Osborne House is a just a few hundred metres from A roads. A Coast Path walker, would need to walk miles to get to the beach in the Ist place & then a longer 1km+ walk to get to the House. Most NT & EH properties have public paths much closer than this.

We urge English Heritage to rethink its stance on a 300-metre stretch of the #NationalCoastPath 🤞

The danger to walkers from increased vehicle usage along the access track was one of the major reasons for refusing the application. shropshirestar.com/news/property/…

One recommendation is to improve public transport access to important green areas. Pity we don't have a shuttle bus to the The Wrekin. Instead we're getting a new huge private car park at the foot of this iconic National Landscape hill visible from the The Ercall viewpoint

📢 "New access to nature legislation is the only way to overcome the persistent barriers people face getting outdoors.” Well said Stephen! Wonderful to see the new access to nature report covered in the Guardian ⬇️ bit.ly/4prZRp4

Fantastic to see the Liberal Democrats announce a new policy with paths at its heart. It's a step in the right direction 🌳 🥾 We'll be keeping an eye on the Conservatives and The Labour Party conferences to see if they follow suit… #AccessToNature bit.ly/4gI5w6v

Suicide. I'm choosing to be deliberately blunt and provocative in this post because it's necessary. Government, charities, football clubs are all pushing water up a hill in highlighting what is undoubtedly a major health crisis. You take a rope. You put it up in a garage or a

Please read and repost urgently. We need to protect our public open spaces.

Kate Ashbrook BBC Oxfordshire Open Spaces Society RamblersGB Campaign for National Parks Well done Kate and the Open Spaces Society.

Each advent day, a perfect treat of laughter. Enjoy!

Walking across one of our local open, green, wooded spaces in Telford, got talking to an army veteran. Told me he had PTS, tried to visit each day just to wander, enjoy peace & listen to the birds, said it kept him sane. Each area to walk is precious to someone in their own way.

2°C Point of no return to Hothouse Earth Multiple Earth system amplifying feedbacks triggered by 2°C 2°C runaway heated uninhabitable Hothouse Earth Trajectories on the Anthropocene, 2018 Will Steffen et al file:///Users/admin/Downloads/pnas.1810141115.sapp.pdf #globalwarming.

I’m scared as hell - for my friends kids - and also for myself.

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So depressing. Another case of 'protected land' only being protected untill the Sec of State decides otherwise on 'economic grounds' as in The Wrekin Forest