Here at our Middleport Campus, one of our talented students, Aston, has been working incredibly hard to create a stunning digital replica using Pro create, of David Hockney's famous 'Garrowby Hill'. It's absolutely brilliant, huge well done Aston 👏🏻 #creative #art #neurodiverse

Do you have any recommendations as to who might take their place?

You can be assured that tendentious memo by Michael Prescott, and the co-ordinated combination of the Telegraph, Mail, Boris Johnson, Nigel Farage and the White House means that the BBC hit job has been long in the planning, and has some insider help

Robert de Niro, whisky bar arrives, leaf-blowing referendum, The Mill gets it wrong about the BBC familiarisation trips plus a fine sculpture recommended confidentials.com/manchester/thi… SimpsonHaugh Manchester City Council BBC Ricky Gervais Roy Keane

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It's November, & you know what that means! Yup. Time to start thinking about ordering your holiday eels! Henry III knew. In November of 1256 the king ordered up 5,000 small eels from Ely, to be sent to him for the Jan. 6 feast of St. Edward. Only the best for the Confessor.

Sure, monks loved their eels. But so did the nuns! In 1235 Henry III granted a charter to the nuns of Godstow Abbey that included the rights to local eel-rents. Or, rather, some rights. Turns out, the nuns couldn't get eels all year round...just in the autumn. 1/2

The River Wheelock has burst its banks again and flooded the surrounding fields. Pic1. Sunset this evening over the old sandstone and brick bridge. Pic2. Looking east from the same viewpoint at the same moment in time.

“he changed his Facebook profile picture to an AI-generated photo of himself with Williams and Minogue – and his supporters found it all quite funny” A snapshot of a familiar culture from Dave Proudlove

“I dont want to be taught by Chat GPT” theguardian.com/education/2025…

A product of working-class Manchester and its second-generation Irish culture, Stone Roses bassist Mani — who has died aged 63 — was the ultimate team player, and an embodiment of socialist values in his life and art. tribunemag.co.uk/2025/11/mani-w…

Galileo explaining the cosmos to the muses. The frontispiece from the first edition of his collected works, printed in Bologna 1655-6.

I heard this in the car a few weeks ago. The producer end up talking to Nathan Gill quite by chance. And today Gill has been sent down for 10 years. bbc.co.uk/news/videos/c2… bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/m0…

ICYMI: My latest for Tribune on how Reform is dominating towns like #Biddulph

Did you catch our Chief Impact Officer?⬇️⬇️ A voice for young people with SEND and education Nationally (and in Stoke!) Stoke-on-Trent CC #SEND #Education

Pinc College. Stoke-on-Trent CC A great interview series. Do have a listen if you are interested in SEND, Innovation in Education… and Stoke!

We should never forget the plain obvious: those who died during the height of the pandemic have no voice. They can't speak of how they died, and their medical notes are mostly confidential. Our narrative is dominated by survivors and legislators.

Michael Rosen 💙💙🎓🎓 NICE 爷爷 Yes. Which is also why the voices of the NHS and care staff who were with them matter - & come under such vicious attack. (Lost count of how many Nuremberg threats I’ve had long ago.) They can’t bear our testimony because it gives the cast iron lie to their rubbish about

“You destroyed the love in teaching and learning“