How is your NHS hospital doing on waiting times? - BBC News
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BBC Verify is recruiting for a journalism researcher specialising in the environment, based in Birmingham UK. It's a fixed term contract. More here:

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In England, the government wants to add 1.5m new homes by the end of the current parliament. But data out today confirms 2024 was a record low for planning permissions for housing. You can also use our interactive tool to see how many homes are required where you live
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It's like you were never here #NICAR25 but thanks for a fantastic conference, the learning and the great chats

Starting at 9am at #NICAR25, we will show you how to make a map with your data in QGIS. Then at 10:15 we'll move on to geographic analysis including buffer zones. We're in Deer Lake schedules.ire.org/nicar-2025/i...

If you're at #NICAR25 and would like to learn how to make maps with your data - spatial analysis for absolute beginners - come to the sessions we're teaching Friday on QGIS. We'll go through the whole process from how to find your way around the software and the data through to making some maps.

I'm going to try to start using this app a bit more so here's a scrolly piece we did a few weeks back that I think looks visually fantastic thanks to the maps by my colleague @erwanrivault.bsky.social - looking at the level of Chinese involvement around the Panama Canal www.bbc.co.uk/news/resourc...

I'll be heading to #NICAR25 this week where I'm looking forward to learning some skills and getting some ideas from some talented data journalist. If you fancy getting an introduction to mapping data with QGIS, I'm part of a team doing a couple of sessions on that too.

The UK government has a target to deliver 1.5m new homes in England by the next general election. Tracking progress is difficult but we can use Energy Performance Certificates to give us an early indicator. In the first six months, new homes fell again year on year
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Met John Prescott a few times as a young reporter (hence the Simon from Inbetweeners hair and tenth Doctor sideburns). He looked at my shorthand notes and said: "What you doing with that lot, writing a novel?"

I'm properly chuffed with this today

Different water companies have their own rules and criteria for helping people who might struggle to pay their bills. That means the level of support you can receive depends on where you live.
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I'm old enough to remember the early days of Twitter when lots of posts were all about Twitter and social media (felt very meta, arf). This is a lousy first post, sorry, but may as well get started.