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First day of Tees sediment sampling with Durham University, Newcastle University and York Uni. Onboard the Sarah Lynn. Thanks to all donors and supporters for helping us get to this point. Wish us luck 🌊

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When your parents have a party & let you stay up really late, but you can’t hack it past midnight & take yourself off to bed

This is intriguing. Why is there just 1 Council out of 230 outstanding? Redcar Council👇🏻 says that they’ve agreed to delay a *third* recount of Longbeck ward until Tuesday morning According to Teeside Live, Longbeck ward is where CURRENT Cleveland Police and Crime Commissioner

Stephen Turner & the Redcar election Tuesday recount gets murkier ⁦Private Eye Magazine⁩ has been digging around🤍 Seems £110m of land sold off by local gov for just £110 to developers in Dec. GET A JOURNO up there filming Tues ⁦Byline Times⁩ northeastbylines.co.uk/teesworks-houc…

Is the Redcar recount and the local Tory mayor Ben Houchen perhaps linked to sell offs at Teesside Freeport? Answers seem difficult to come by. To give locals yr support maybe sign this petition ⏬⏬ Ben Houchen: A full investigation into his accounts change.org/p/ben-houchen-…

*THREAD * Daniel Morgan was born in Singapore on 3 November 1949 He worked as a salesman and travel guide, settling in Norwood, London, in his late 20s, married with a wife and two children. #DanielMorgan

Do watch: By @TomLarkinSky Ella Griffith

I've come across A LOT of good 17th- and 18th-century Quaker names over the past 3.5 years, as I've worked on my thesis. Now that my thesis is done and submission is near, it's time to share the more than 90 wildest early Quaker names I've found (in alphabetical order):

Noel Edmonds: a thread of horror. Carrie (Dir: Brian De Palma, 1976)

Primal Scream really don’t come out well from this. dafts.co.uk/louieduffystat…

Wow: all 750,000 Germans turning 18 this year get 200 euro to spend on any cultural good: concerts, theater, movies, musical instruments, books, records etc. It'll cost 100 million euro and is given in recognition of what young people lost during pandemic. dw.com/en/free-money-…

Monday was another damning day for the government at the Covid Inquiry. It is becoming clearer what the recommendations from the Inquiry are likely to be… But there is also a bigger question raised about criminality… 1/n

Latest occasional short thread about “getting information out of a mayoral development corporation”. The South Tees one, ie the country’s biggest, in Redcar, was set up in 2017. They have no meeting paperwork published on their website prior to 2020 so I FOId for it

Ever feel like you’ve been mugged Michael Gove? #teesworks #nothingtoseehere #nocorruption #justbadgovernance

On last nights #ITVDebate Rishi Sunak told everyone to judge him by his actions. "You saw what I did during the pandemic" he said. Well, here's what we know he got up to during the biggest crisis our country has faced since the second world war. 🧵

🧵 about #class #privilege and #privateeducation. Watching the Olympic swimming last night and Clare Balding said something in such an incredulous tone which summed up the establishment perspective and how their experience differs. 1/

Everything you've missed on the economy and what'll happen in 2025.