Our new research shows that about 800,000 older people had left their home to use public spaces like shopping centres or public transport to keep warm. People should be able to keep warm in their own home. A Government funded social tariff is essential bit.ly/3Fkdp0o

5 UK banks made £37 billion off of higher interest rates in 2022. Consumers have missed out on £23 billion from banks not passing those rates onto savers. Yesterday, we needed Sir Jeremy Hunt MP to #TaxTheBanks. It's not too late to make him change course 👇 x.com/PositiveMoneyU…

Sixth form members out on strike today at King Edward VI College Stourbridge #TeacherStrike

RMT Solidarity with staff @ Stourbridge Jcn. ✊🏻

As thousands of teachers continue their strike, 53,505+ members of the British public say #SaveOurSchools ‼️ Sign + add a message to put pressure on the Govt, so our teachers can get back to giving our next generation the education they deserve: 38d.gs/teachers_tw4 National Education Union

Street trees and urban trees are SO important - for wildlife and wellbeing, for people and the planet. They absorb pollution, help keep us cool, give a boost to biodiversity, and they simply make our towns and cities more beautiful. We believe we need MORE urban trees, not less!

New #BankingOnClimateChaos case study: In 2010, gas was discovered off the coast of northern Mozambique, leading to a boom of LNG expansion projects that have led to displacement, immense violence, & will have massive local & global climate impacts. bankingonclimatechaos.org/case-studies/g…

What difference do voters think Sir Jeremy Hunt MP's #SpringBudget will make to their lives? We asked JL Partners to find out - the result was unenthusiastic, at best. Follow the 🧵(1/14)

The #CostOfLivingCrisis has impacted millions of us. We've collected thousands of personal stories & shocking stats in our interactive map – and we're getting this to places where we know MPs can't avoid seeing it. Here's just one example via The @Spectator

We've learned that just last week, 5 people died self-inflicted deaths in prisons in England. The youngest was only 27. Nobody should be dying in prison. We must urgently divert resources away from the criminal justice system and into communities to prevent future deaths.

One of the oldest photographs of Stourbridge in existence… High Street, 1859…

🚨🚨 Exclusive: NHS hospitals told to share patient data with US ‘spy-tech’ firm. Palantir, whose owner claimed the NHS ‘makes people sick’, will ‘collect and process confidential patient information’. Top scoop from @LucasAm1n (also in The Times) opendemocracy.net/en/palantir-pe…

Are you a family carer in the Black Country with experience raising a child with severe or profound multiple learning disabilities? Would you work with us to support more families to feel confident, able to contribute, & connected? The Challenging Behaviour Foundation @RoMillar19 challengingbehaviour.org.uk/about-us/vacan…

Are you an angry Avanti passenger?🚆 Don’t miss your chance to sign our #MakeWestCoastPublic petition! We will be handing it to Mark Harper this Monday 20 March, 10am as part of our #KickFirstOut Passenger Rally at @TransportGovUK ✊ Sign & join us 👇 📝you.38degrees.org.uk/p/westcoast

#FridayFact 📢🗳️ Millions of soldiers returning from the World War were not eligible to vote due to the property and residential qualifications at the time. This prompted electoral reform in 1918, when the Representation of the People Act 1918 was passed.

Save AutumnWatch - Sign the Petition! chng.it/cPVZHShr via Change.org UK

🚨 Exclusive: Palantir, whose owner claimed the NHS ‘makes people sick’, will ‘collect and process confidential patient information’. Find out more 👇 opendemocracy.net/en/palantir-pe…

The UK Govt now allows 25 times more chemicals in our drinking water than the US does. 🚰 Should we follow their lead and tighten our regulations?

Join us at Stourbridge Library and relax...

OPINION: Once Palantir is inside our health service, it will be hard to get rid of. The NHS should think carefully bit.ly/40iS6V9