Beautiful everyday Ladybird things. The best seat on the bus (1964) Artist: Harry Wingfield

Progress on the new Archive centre : thechesterblog.com/2025/06/05/pro…

📽️ Learn about our huge collection of railway history this #InternationalArchivesWeek. 📜 Discover how we use documents and drawings from hundreds of years ago to look after our railway today: ➡️ networkrail.co.uk/stories/discov… #RailwayHistory #IAW2025 #Railway200 railway200

DMA statement on the Durham Miners' Gala and Reform UK. Reform chose to criticise us publicly for not inviting them to the #DurhamMinersGala. They obviously don’t understand how this works, so we will explain... Read more: durhamminers.org/statement_durh…

mid-year status report

Our national broadcaster should be reflective the whole country, not a mouthpiece for Nigel Farage. The BBC must provide fair, balanced and representative journalism.

So Southern Water’s toxic plastic beads have now made it all the way across the English Channel. Can someone explain to me, exactly what the hell does a water company have to do to loose their operating licence?

Ladybird wisdom, 1975 “With so much noise in the world, we have to listen carefully to the things that are worth hearing” (‘Sounds’, Artist: BH Robinson)

🚨BOOM! The Petition calling for a public inquiry into Russian influence on UK politics & democracy has now rocketed past 70,000 signatures! Let’s get it to 100,000 this week. If a petition is what it’s going to take let’s get this done! petition.parliament.uk/petitions/7442…

Nigel Farage has spent £1m taking out adverts in the papers to distract from the Nathan Gill Russian bribe scandal. We can't let him buy himself out of this. We need an investigation into Russian influence in our politics.

tell me the lore behind your mother's maiden name, your first pet's name, and the street you grew up on

Happy birthday to Ivor The Engine, the little Welsh railway engine from the Merioneth and Llantisilly Rail Traction Company, who first appeared on our screens today in 1959. Toot-toot! #onthisday #otd #wales

I for one am absolutely ASTONISHED that privatising our public services in order to make shareholders rich didn't result in better, cheaper, more efficient public services.

The cardboard tubes in toilet rolls should have jokes printed on them like lolly sticks used to.

University degrees are not all about salaries. They are about learning to think differently and more carefully. Dispiriting discussion on bbc politics live which focussed entirely on earnings. Ok the financing is v important but the aim is not just a high paid job.

The world has changed, and Britain must change with it. A stronger Europe means a safer Britain. That’s what we will deliver.

Utter folly. Creative industries employ 1.4 million people, £145billion of value to the economy and saw 5% growth last year. They’re our future.

Britain leads the world in film, TV, music and the arts. The idea that only some of us can be part of that is disgraceful. For 14 years Tory Ministers choked off chances and choices for young people. Don’t let them do it again - whether they now sit in the Tories or Reform.