This is the status quo Mr Streeting is defending.👇🏼 Make it make sense… Full pay restoration, and realigning London Weighting with other public sector workers are more than reasonable asks. #JoinStrikeWin ✊🏼

30th July 2025: in the fading evening light, a female Bullfinch is feeding on the ripe Honeysuckle berries in my garden, and soon flies off with one... but I'm sure it will be back, they can't resist those bright shiny red berries! SuffolkWildlifeTrust RSPB RSPB England

Keir Starmer used a private jet to watch the Lionesses win the Euros. £75,000 of taxpayers’ money spent on jetting between London and Zurich in the luxury Airbus A321 with his wife, despite him previously pledging to crack down on the unnecessary use of the government’s plane.

These carers don’t clock off. They don’t get paid. They hold up a care system that no longer functions. The government calls it love. In any other context, it would be called forced labour. #UnpaidCarers #JusticeForCarers

Leaving Prague on the 09:16 RegioJet, due into Budapest at 16:14. This business class 4-seater works beautifully for the family, €46 each. Regiojet has excellent at-seat service (it’s complimentary and has bubbles, so morning consumption is OK - I don’t make the rules).

Resident doctors pay hundreds of thousands of pounds for six years of medical school and then get below-inflation pay rises. Then television presenters on six-figure salaries tell them they're 'greedy'.

“Labour 2024 election manifesto committed to championing “the rights of disabled people and to the principle of working with them”. Instead they introduced biggest cuts to welfare in history and are introducing a tick box exercise re Timms review. apple.news/AkwmWvh2iTIGqn…

Last of The Waverley videos from yesterday as it arrives on Loch Long in Argyll Scotland heading to Blairmore Pier for the piers 170th birthday 🎈 Hope everyone has a great Thursday 💙

Covid inquiry hears of ‘huge rollback’ in rights and support since pandemic @DisabilityNI @Joanne_Sansome disabilitynewsservice.com/covid-inquiry-…

A pretty pastel sky this evening. Met Office #loveukweather #sunset #viewfrommybalcony #twickenham #thames #clouds

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On 1st August, Lammas is kept as the loaf-mass, when the first bread from new grain is blessed in thanks for harvest. The field poppy (Papaver rhoeas), an August birth flower, is sacred to Demeter, Greek goddess of harvest, symbolising enduring love, remembrance, and consolation.

Sunrise at Stonehenge today (1st August) was at 5.32am, sunset is at 8.53pm 🌤️

Oh July, you’ve passed us by in a blur of warm mornings, swallows swooping and gathered corn. Please, 2025, stop spinning so fast?! Happy August everyone!

Carpenter by day, homeless at night. Daniel's story shows the older generation is no longer safe from the housing crisis. Figures show the number of people living on the streets in London is up 26% on last year, and has doubled in the past 10 years. news.sky.com/story/the-tale…

British Farming was hijacked. Hijacked by those who cheerlead for a U.S. takeover of Britain: 🚨 to distract the public, break the connection to land, and stop people caring about their food. They are trying to sell us out to junk imports, deregulated chemicals, and corporate

The barn swallow chicks are getting ready for their first flights🪶 These chicks could fledge anytime. Don't miss their first flights! 🎥👉Watch the live cam robertefuller.com/pages/live-fro…

A special Ireland edition of the Hall of Shame. We present Fine Gael Senator John Cummins

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