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We are looking for fishing gear experts who can help us trace the fishing technique and fleet associated with the types of nets we retrieve in the GPGP.

Can you help? Do you know someone who can?
We'd love to hear from you: theoceancleanup.com/contact/
April 1, 2025 at 1:53 PM
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✍️ Nine months in power: how does Labour’s legislative plan look?

Since the election the government has been busy making new laws, but most people have not noticed. So, here’s a roundup of progress | Stephen McNair

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Nine months in power: how does Labour’s legislative plan look?
Since the election, the government has been busy making new laws, but most people have not noticed. So, here’s a roundup of progress.
eastangliabylines.co.uk
April 27, 2025 at 8:51 AM
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A big moment in tackling the UK’s skills crisis.

@MakeUK_ has published Skills for Success—a blueprint to fix apprenticeships and secure our economic future.

Read the full report: www.makeuk.org/make-uk-indu...
#UKmfg #IndustrialStrategySkills
Make UK Industrial Strategy Skills Commission Report 2025
www.makeuk.org
April 1, 2025 at 8:27 AM
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The Telegraph’s been reproducing versions of this same story for years. Wokeness and a ‘recipe for a crisis’ in membership. But National Trust member retention is higher than comparator organisations despite the cost of living crisis, and visitor numbers have been increasing.
March 9, 2025 at 8:42 AM
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National Trust membership for a family costs £14.05 a month. A Telegraph subscription costs £104 a month. And don’t get me started on the quality of the product.
National Trust raises fees to £3,000 for family life memberships
Charity squeezes an extra 25pc from members over three years
www.telegraph.co.uk
March 5, 2025 at 5:17 PM
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Excellent. Well worth reading this article. Note that there's a big difference when the solar farm is managed with nature in mind. Presumably they all could be.
Think solar farms are bad for nature? Think again. Those designed for nature in East Anglia are teeming with birdlife - including threatened species. A new study reveals why. ⤵️

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New research: birdlife soars on nature-friendly solar farms
Nature-friendly solar farms in East Anglia support more bird species than arable land, boosting biodiversity
eastangliabylines.co.uk
February 19, 2025 at 7:16 AM
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54 countries are currently in debt crisis and we're campaigning to do something about it for #Jubilee2025.

Thanks to @bambosmp.bsky.social for discussing this important issue in Parliament and writing more about it here. ⤵️

parliamentnews.co.uk/25-years-aft...
25 years after the Jubilee 2000 campaign, many low income countries remain trapped in a punishing cycle of debt | Parliament Politics Magazine
Low-income countries are being crippled by unsustainable debt. Many governments now spend more servicing their debt repayments than they do on their
parliamentnews.co.uk
February 19, 2025 at 12:47 PM
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Our in conversation with John Healey, Defence Secretary, is underway.

Watch live and submit your questions
www.instituteforgovernment.org.uk/event/john-h...
February 18, 2025 at 9:41 AM
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Did you hear about these 20 government actions? No? That’s the problem. The media aren’t telling you what’s happening.

@stephenmcnair.bsky.social reports
Government is busy: but the media are not telling you
Despite what the press tells us, the government is very busy, often doing popular things. But you wouldn’t know it from the press coverage
eastangliabylines.co.uk
February 17, 2025 at 6:24 PM
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We're hiring! 🍏https://www.theorchardproject.org.uk/about-us/jobs/communications-and-fundraising-officer/

#CommunityOrchards #PRJobs
February 13, 2025 at 11:36 AM
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Billionaire former New York mayor will fund the UN climate agency after Trump pulls America out
www.france24.com/en/americas/...
Bloomberg to fund UN climate agency after US exit from Paris accord
Billionaire former New York City mayor Michael Bloomberg announced Thursday that his foundation would fund the UN climate change agency after President Donald Trump withdrew the US from the Paris Agre...
www.france24.com
January 23, 2025 at 7:28 PM
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A big read from me:

How England’s growing army of mayors are being deployed in the drive for growth (featuring a fair few unanswered questions)

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Can England’s new breed of mayors help fix its left-behind regions?
[FREE TO READ] Westminster sees local figureheads as a new response to old challenges, but they will need resources and real power in key areas
on.ft.com
December 2, 2024 at 7:20 AM
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A remarkable stat: Heidi Alexander’s appointment as Transport Secretary means the cabinet is now 100% state-educated for the first time in history.
November 29, 2024 at 1:52 PM
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And also, to her credit, her rail nationalisation legislation came into law yesterday. www.parliament.uk/business/new...

She’s achieved more in five months than many MPs in a lifetime!
Passenger rail services bill returns to the Lords
Members consider Commons amendments in 'ping pong'.
www.parliament.uk
November 29, 2024 at 9:38 AM
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Former Labour leader Neil Kinnock has expressed concern for the future of The Observer as “one of the very few rational progressive Sunday newspapers in the UK”.

It comes as a group of former Guardian staff including Gary Younge sign a letter protesting the sale:
pressgazette.co.uk/publishers/n...
Lord Kinnock joins chorus of concern for future of The Observer
Former Labour leader Neil Kinnock fears for the future of liberal journalism if The Observer is sold to Tortoise Media.
pressgazette.co.uk
November 29, 2024 at 10:29 AM
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So here’s the update. The billionaire owner of the Guardian preparing to get rid of a core part of the news org + 100 journalists.
If you’re a Guardian or Observer reader, please share this. The need for a strong, free & independent press couldn’t be greater. Yet, here it is.
November 25, 2024 at 10:30 PM