Earlier today I was carrying out water testing in the River Roding in Ilford & became increasingly annoyed by the insistent buzzing of a helicopter directly overhead. It was only when I saw the police approaching from both sides of the river that I realised it was for me! I

The green economy is the place to make money - businesses see that. Politicians that oppose green economic policies do so for purely selfish reasons.

We'd love your help with the #SlowWays #NationalParksTrail! We're trying to collectively walk and check the trail before the end of the month. Pink bits are done! Could you help with a gap? 41 of 277 routes completed, 15% checked Join in here > buildstories.slowways.org/national-parks…

Favourite Dad quotes anybody?

Greninka Rosie P 🦇 🦎 🕷️ 🦭 🍃🌳🚲💧 Duncan Stott 🏗️🔰🇺🇦 CommunityPlanningAlliance 🦇🦎 Homes for everyone will lead to housing in places people actually live unlike letting private developers build luxury homes in car dependent greenbelt that we will never afford. You should read it and get on board unless you hate the greenbelt more than you want housing?

And so we need nowhere near the 380,000 homes a year + new towns the government is intent on building . We only need 120,000 homes per annum. (And not one of those needs to be on greenfield. We have 3.5m alternatives homesforeveryone.org) From telegraph.co.uk/news/2025/06/2…

Shocking, disgusting, disgraceful. I am beyond words at the shameful way this village is being treated by big money theguardian.com/commentisfree/…

I’ve been worried about this for years. Finally officialdom seems to be catching up theguardian.com/environment/20…

Government needs to wake up and help the Beeb before even more of our lives are run by Silicon Valley giants theguardian.com/media/2025/jul…

Mark Gatiss: "I'm not a fascist... but I'm terrified that we're drifting towards it... & it's coming as the village bobby with a smile... It's Mr Toad in a pair of pink corduroys."

A glorious and eloquent stitch-up, thank you

Not good enough. Allowing developers to build estates without infrastructure is a recipe for disaster ⁦Rosie P 🦇 🦎 🕷️ 🦭 🍃🌳🚲💧⁩ ⁦Dorset CPRE⁩ ⁦⁦Angela Rayner⁩ theguardian.com/politics/2025/…

People have enjoyed swimming rafts at Greenhill in Weymouth for decades but now the Town Council has scrapped them after the RNLI says lifeguards can’t cover them. Cafe trade has slumped and the beach is empty. Now lifeguards themselves may be under threat chng.it/2jMLyFRhGs

Housing targets always trump everything else. Great that CommunityPlanningAlliance 🦇🦎 supporters were able to get their views across for this story. ‘No shops, no schools’: homes in England built without basic amenities theguardian.com/politics/2025/…

Still time to enter Ruthie Hayes 🌱🇺🇦🇵🇸🇪🇺 The Wright Rebecca

Oooof, plastics. So good at keeping our lunch fresh, so good at keeping our dodgy hearts working, but so bad in our lungs, brains, and the placentas of our unborn children. Time to shop plastic free. communityclothing.co.uk/collections/pl…

The sound of hedgehogs drinking is my new favourite sound (sounds just like a cat)

What a beauty - saved by a caring runner

Children of World War Two, drama series about childhood in Dorset during the war, based on true stories, made by children in 4 schools with artists from ScreenPLAY now on Amazon Music. Please retweet. The National Lottery Heritage Fund Dorset Council UK Amazon Music UK music.amazon.co.uk/podcasts/db1b5…

Degration of nature will cost us all hugely theguardian.com/environment/20…