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A good afternoon at the #UKChampionship #Snooker. Great win for Zizins against Carter. Heathcote also looked great against a typically casual Lisowski. Hats off also to Slessor who toughed it out, winning by a point in the last frame.
November 25, 2025 at 7:42 PM
What haven't @rspb.bsky.social and @the-wildlifetrusts.bsky.social done more to oppose the Planning and Infrastructure Bill? It's too late to write to whipped MPs. Their million plus members should be on the streets!
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
Housing secretary tells Labour MPs to vote down planning bill amendment
Amendment restricts protection for animals to allow faster house building
www.theguardian.com
November 18, 2025 at 7:45 AM
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Two great cask ales on @onefortheroadbl.bsky.social at #BoltonMarket there are 4 on regularly & you can check them out on @realalefinder.com all at great prices (cash prefered) #supportSmallBuisnesses go say hi to John he's a great guy 👦 @boltoncamra.bsky.social #RealAle #GoToThePub #BskyBeer
October 30, 2025 at 11:42 AM
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It's Prime Day so here's your regular reminder that:

- Amazon has been exposed for throwing away millions of unused products each year
- Amazon emits MORE CO2 than Hong Kong & Denmark
- Jeff Bezos earns more in 1 MINUTE than many of his workers do in a year

Overconsumption is KILLING our planet
October 7, 2025 at 11:27 AM
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"We can have a world of peace. We can move toward a world where we live in harmony with nature. Where we live in harmony with each other. No matter what nation we come from. No matter what our religion. No matter what our culture."
❤️🌿
~ Dr. Jane Goodall
October 1, 2025 at 11:22 PM
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In other news, Kemi Badenoch's party has taken at least £7 million in donations from funders and directors of climate change denial lobby groups bylinetimes.com/2025/03/18/k...
October 2, 2025 at 6:01 AM
Gonna do this. #roofofenglandwalk
October 2, 2025 at 4:22 PM
Big wins for the youngsters Stan Moody and Aaron Hill over top seeds in the Wuhan Open #snooker. And another 147 for Thepchaiya! Good tournament this one.
August 25, 2025 at 3:09 PM
UK Treasury reportedly drawing up a new bill to tear up European environmental protections. In the name of more unsustainable 'growth'. Like the PIB was never the end game. www.endsreport.com/article/1929...
‘Abolish the precautionary principle’: What we know so far about the ‘new planning bill’
The Treasury is reported to be drawing up a new bill seeking “much more contentious” planning reforms and “tearing up key parts of European environmental rules”. Here’s what we know.
www.endsreport.com
August 20, 2025 at 8:26 AM
Even the environment secretary is now pushing through damaging developments.
www.theguardian.com/politics/liv...
Environment secretary will take direct oversight of major infrastructure projects to stop delays – UK politics live
Ministers plan to step in earlier on developments, such as the expansion of Heathrow airport in London, to resolve issues
www.theguardian.com
August 19, 2025 at 8:09 AM
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~5% of fossil gas & 15% of oil go into “non-energy producing purposes”: raw material for plastics, fertilizers, industrial chemicals etc.

A global plastics treaty has just been nixed.

These are not unrelated. The petrochemicals industry is fighting for their backup plan in a clean energy world.
Plastic pollution talks fail as negotiators in Geneva reject draft treaties
NGOs say deadlock over legally binding deal to curb production and toxic chemicals is ‘blow to multilateralism’
www.theguardian.com
August 17, 2025 at 1:05 PM
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Fellow Earthlings: tomorrow (July 3), is #aphelion! That's the point in Earth's year-long orbit when it's at its most distant from the sun.
(The closest approach to the sun is called perihelion.)
The average difference between aphelion and perihelion is about 3.1 million miles.
July 2, 2025 at 11:46 AM
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If you don't measure it, it can't be real... Trump tries to kill off the 'Keeling Curve' by closing the Mauna Loa observatory which has been measuring CO2 from a Hawaii mountaintop since 1958.
edition.cnn.com/2025/07/01/c...
July 2, 2025 at 11:52 AM
Phew, thank goodness we can just carry on with our heads in the clouds. #climate
July 1, 2025 at 9:47 PM
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Blackedge Brewery Tour Friday 4th July 4pm for Bolton Beer & Cider Week #CAMRA #BBCW25.

Book through the webshop
www.blackedgebrewery.co.uk/webshop
Just saying. See the Blackedge postings on FB and Neo-Twitter @thebrewerybar.bsky.social
June 23, 2025 at 5:31 PM
My emergent wildflower border enjoying the late sun #garden
June 19, 2025 at 7:32 PM
You gotta love Kylie!
June 6, 2025 at 11:49 PM
This opinion piece tries to present the positives but only suceeds to lay bare the problems with the bill.

www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
England’s planning bill has many naysayers. I'm not one of them | Nick WIlliams
The legislation is a product of joined-up environmental thinking – aiming to create housing while preventing nature loss, says Nick Williams, a former adviser to Keir Starmer
www.theguardian.com
June 4, 2025 at 9:43 PM
Let's hope we see a serious rework of the Planning and Infrastructure Bill. Some irretrievable wildlife losses in the pipeline if not.
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
Revealed: 5,000 English nature sites at risk under Labour’s planning proposals
Exclusive: Planning bill includes mechanism for developers to ‘pay to pollute’ valuable ecosystems, experts warn
www.theguardian.com
June 3, 2025 at 10:08 PM
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It's 3 years today since Shell was given the go-ahead to drill for new gas at Jackdaw field. It was later ruled unlawful, but self-styled "green" chancellor Rachel Reeves made clear she doesn't care 👇

Repost if you agree Govt should make a break with fossil fuel polluters to make a safer future
June 1, 2025 at 1:11 PM
Labour promised to restore nature. Less than a year in, and the new Chancellor is leading a charge against the natural world
Email your MP to remove Part 3 of the Bill AND ask THEM to call out the Chancellor for her attack on nature wtru.st/fix-the-bill action.wildlifetrusts.org/page/171483/...
Fix the Planning Bill NOW!
Before the General Election Labour promised to restore nature. Less than a year in, and the new Chancellor is leading a charge against the natural world Email your MP to remove Part 3 of the Bill AND ...
wtru.st
May 29, 2025 at 10:04 PM
The beauty of elderflowers, bistort and hemlock water dropwort aka 'Britains most dangerous plant'. Cheered me up on my walk this morning! 😊
May 26, 2025 at 11:51 AM
The beautiful green of oak trees at the moment is one of the few things giving me cheer
May 13, 2025 at 10:02 PM
Great work this - a comprehensive peat map of England. I really hope this doesn't just result in better targeting restoration (though this is needed) but also in a shift in how we manage and use all peat soils.
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
Eighty percent of England’s peatlands are dry and degraded, mapping shows
Healthy peatlands can help tackle the climate crisis but degraded peat emits carbon and contributes to global heating
www.theguardian.com
May 12, 2025 at 7:10 AM
How long before their products are quietly back on the shelves? www.theguardian.com/environment/...
UK supermarkets suspend supplies from Lincolnshire pig farm over cruelty claims
Workers at farm owned by UK’s biggest pig meat producer Cranswick filmed killing piglets by banned ‘blunt force trauma’
www.theguardian.com
May 11, 2025 at 5:31 PM