We're delighted that Saira Ali of Bradford Council has been nominated as a Rising Star of the SuDS World! Saira has championed the mainstreaming of #BGI in urban & investment planning and in the hearts & minds of citizens. Please show your support & vote! 👉susdrain.org/community/SuDS…

First flowerbed done!

If you fancy a drink outside & admire the station planters, visit La Stazione. "Always great coffee, food & service at this #Ilkley institution. The outside tables are in a lovely spot & have brought a real cosmopolitan vibe to this part of town." An Ilkley Diary Lorraine Dowson ❤️🌹🇪🇺

Improving Ilkley delighted to announce fountain restoration project to begin dlvr.it/SZtKzq

Very exciting news for our town. Well done Improving Ilkley and IlkleyBID! #ilkley

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135-year-old message in a bottle found under floorboards bbc.in/3EKOBij

Says a lot about how British politics works that Raab having to resign for bullying had turned into a debate about civil service reform rather than one about ministerial behaviour.

Oof... Speaker Sir Lindsay Hoyle absolutely livid about Kemi Badenoch saying that the "sequencing we chose was not to your satisfaction" on REUL u-turn announcement. Hoyle: "Who do you think you're speaking to Secretary of State?"

My column on the government shutting schools in case they fall down - another last-minute patch in the land of short termism theguardian.com/commentisfree/…

Tell you what it is though: a wretched moral abomination. Acting like a cosplay journalist while doing internal Tory party interviews on a channel that trades in conspiracy theory, division and hatred.

HOT TAKE FROM EXIT POLL: Starmer said he had to scale a mountain to win. He’s just scaled Everest and taken off into orbit. This is an astounding win. He’s gone from the worst result since 1935 and come in with the second ever biggest Labour majority. He’s bettered Attlee in

These mindless riots are doing untold damage to the UK’s reputation right across the world. And yet the secret sympathisers still say ‘Of course I disapprove of what’s happening, but…’ And then they make the racists’ case for them.