We need to start asking for legislation to curb #pollution from wood burning. Everyone knows particulate matter (PM) in the air kills. Not everyone knows that domestic burning accounts for ~1/3 of total UK PM₂.₅ emissions, & of that 75–80% comes from #WoodBurning alone

‘Something as ordinary as driving a car can contribute to pollution that reaches far beyond the road, all the way to the sea floor, and to the microscopic organisms that help keep our planet breathing’ - Henry Obanya, Institute of Marine Sciences airqualitynews.com/health/toxic-t…

"Please make no mistake. Climate change is the biggest threat to global security that modern humans have ever faced." Sir David Attenborough. No time to wait. #ActOnClimate #climate #energy #stopfossilfuels #go100re

Great to see this from Lisa Nandy MP & Department for Culture, Media and Sport.👏🏻👏🏻 Youth services have been decimated by 15 years of cuts/austerity, this £88m investment is desperately needed for our children & young people! Look forward to exploring how Salford’s youth services providers can collaborate here!👍🏻

BREAKING: Arctic hits 25-30°C or more every day for 4 weeks as scientists suspect conditions extreme enough to wipe out ¼ to ½ of all species are just a couple of decades away

80 years since Nagasaki was devastated by an atomic bomb, we remember the tens of thousands who perished in an instant. Today, the shadow of nuclear weapons looms once again. Remembering the catastrophic past must move us to build a peaceful today & tomorrow. Let's work

Britain is being sued in a corporate court, for stopping the Cumbria coal mine We’ve been saying for years that corporate courts (ISDS) are an obstacle to climate action and democratic politics The government still won’t accept this. Let’s hope this 👇 changes their mind

The trains in the Netherlands are 100% #windpowered. Over 5,500 trips a day 100% #renewable. We have the solutions. Implement them. #ActOnClimate #climateemergency #climateaction #climate #energy #renewableenergy #renewables #GreenNewDeal

When us in Preston Labour wanted to expand worker and employee ownership so more people can control their working lives it was labelled by some as "pie in the sky". Now, the UK's biggest toy chain The Entertainer moves to employee ownership with a branch right here in #Preston.

Tiny urban forests can help #rewild urban settings and help fight #climatechange. The brainchild of the Japanese botanist Miyawaki is taking his idea global. We have so many solutions. Implement them. #ActOnClimate #climate #forests #nature #biodiversity

“I'm here to endorse the Labour for a New Democracy call for a National Commission in this parliament - and a manifesto commitment to a system of Proportional Representation to be introduced into Westminster elections in the next Parliament.” 🌹 Andy Burnham

Liz from Manchester Mums for Lungs telling the fringe meeting about the 30% increase in child admissions for respiratory illness in GM due to illegal levels of air pollution...

"That was Mussolini. That was Hitler. That was Goebbels. That is Farage." Yanis Varoufakis on how Nigel Farage mimes the fascist playbook.

Congratulations Lucy Powell, elected as Deputy Leader of the Labour Party.

My January salary donation to our A Bed Every Night scheme. This year, I will be calling on the Government to make this a national approach. GM can’t fix rough sleeping on its own. Newly-arrived or otherwise, no one should have to spend one night on Britain’s streets in 2026.

Children in temporary accommodation often travel many miles to school. We were pressed by Manchester News MEN - rightly - to do more to help them. So today we’re confirming that we will bring forward free bus travel for them starting later this year. 🐝 1/2

Royal College of Physicians estimates 30,000 deaths a year caused by pollution. 🤯 bbc.co.uk/news/articles/…

What if I told you we could make crossing the road easier, more comfortable, and make walking more attractive for short journeys? What if I told you this could be done at a fraction of the cost of the usual way, by using "simplified" or "side road" zebra crossings? What if I

Luxembourg has become the first country in the world to make all standard public transport completely free, covering buses, trams, and trains nationwide. Funded through taxes instead of fares, the policy aims to ease heavy traffic and cut emissions by encouraging people to leave

“If you invite more cars, you get more cars...If you invite people to walk more and use public spaces more, you get more life in the city. You get what you invite.” - Jan Gehl