Sophie
@sophieaj.bsky.social
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I'd be enthusiastic for a community-led takeover of the Forest of Bowland (Lancaster & Lancashire) - it should be the country's flagship rewilding / peat restoration project.
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Fed up of choking on smoke from nearby grouse moors, Sheffield residents have set up @reclaimourmoors.bsky.social, to push for a community buyout of the Duke of Rutland's Moscar Moor - & use new powers under forthcoming ‘Community Right to Buy’ legislation 1/
www.thestar.co.uk/news/environ...
www.thestar.co.uk/news/environ...
Duke urged to sell 'trashed' grouse moor 'to people of Sheffield'
Conservation campaigners are set to bid for a “trashed” grouse moor near Sheffield to “restore it to its former glory.”
www.thestar.co.uk
June 18, 2025 at 2:09 PM
I'd be enthusiastic for a community-led takeover of the Forest of Bowland (Lancaster & Lancashire) - it should be the country's flagship rewilding / peat restoration project.
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"Win or lose in the Supreme Court, we now want the government to step up and pass a right to roam act, to protect and extend public rights of access to nature across England.”
@lewis-winks.bsky.social ahead of this morning’s verdict on wild camping on Dartmoor:
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
@lewis-winks.bsky.social ahead of this morning’s verdict on wild camping on Dartmoor:
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Dartmoor case set to decide future of wild camping
Hikers can pitch a tent under the stars on the moor without permission, but for how much longer?
www.bbc.co.uk
May 21, 2025 at 6:38 AM
"Win or lose in the Supreme Court, we now want the government to step up and pass a right to roam act, to protect and extend public rights of access to nature across England.”
@lewis-winks.bsky.social ahead of this morning’s verdict on wild camping on Dartmoor:
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
@lewis-winks.bsky.social ahead of this morning’s verdict on wild camping on Dartmoor:
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
This flower has appeared between the cracks in the paving in my garden. Anyone know what it is??
May 19, 2025 at 5:46 PM
This flower has appeared between the cracks in the paving in my garden. Anyone know what it is??
I’m very very close now to giving up my labour membership, what is going on!!
Absolutely disgusting.
What an insult to the thousands of dedicated care workers who come here to help our elderly population and those most in need.
Brexit bollocks.
What an insult to the thousands of dedicated care workers who come here to help our elderly population and those most in need.
Brexit bollocks.
BREAKING: “We will be closing the care worker visa for overseas recruitment” - Home Secretary Yvette Cooper
Don’t we have a desperate shortage of care workers?
Don’t we have a desperate shortage of care workers?
May 11, 2025 at 11:06 AM
I’m very very close now to giving up my labour membership, what is going on!!
When the train is due in 3 mins, and the station is at the top of an unforgiving hill, with traffic lights.
HR 200
Made it!!!
HR 200
Made it!!!
May 11, 2025 at 11:00 AM
When the train is due in 3 mins, and the station is at the top of an unforgiving hill, with traffic lights.
HR 200
Made it!!!
HR 200
Made it!!!
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Whenever you're feeling overwhelmed by it all, nature can always be relied on to provide profound hope, beauty, meaning, and joy.
If you're actively helping nature through rewilding, those benefits are right off the charts. 🌍
If you're actively helping nature through rewilding, those benefits are right off the charts. 🌍
#maddow
Science break.
This kayaker gets approached by an otter every time he visits a lake. The otter was orphaned after the mother was in an accident, and the man helped it throughout it's rehabilitation process to later release it back into the wild. Volume up.🔊
Science break.
This kayaker gets approached by an otter every time he visits a lake. The otter was orphaned after the mother was in an accident, and the man helped it throughout it's rehabilitation process to later release it back into the wild. Volume up.🔊
April 29, 2025 at 5:37 PM
Whenever you're feeling overwhelmed by it all, nature can always be relied on to provide profound hope, beauty, meaning, and joy.
If you're actively helping nature through rewilding, those benefits are right off the charts. 🌍
If you're actively helping nature through rewilding, those benefits are right off the charts. 🌍
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This is exactly why Surfers Against Sewage was formed over 30 years ago in the South West. How depressing is it nothing has changed and SAS is now a national organisation ?
www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home...
www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home...
Surge in swimmers hospitalised from polluted UK waters
Diseases such as dysentry and Weil’s disease have led to swimmers and surfers becoming seriously unwell
www.independent.co.uk
April 25, 2025 at 9:07 AM
This is exactly why Surfers Against Sewage was formed over 30 years ago in the South West. How depressing is it nothing has changed and SAS is now a national organisation ?
www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home...
www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home...
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Eye-opening graph. The biggest wildfire incidents in the UK don't occur when it's hottest, in high summer: they take place in April - *when landowners set fire to their grouse moors & lose control of burns.*
Time to ban moorland burning.
Source:
www.iucn-uk-peatlandprogramme.org/sites/defaul...
Time to ban moorland burning.
Source:
www.iucn-uk-peatlandprogramme.org/sites/defaul...
April 17, 2025 at 2:33 PM
Eye-opening graph. The biggest wildfire incidents in the UK don't occur when it's hottest, in high summer: they take place in April - *when landowners set fire to their grouse moors & lose control of burns.*
Time to ban moorland burning.
Source:
www.iucn-uk-peatlandprogramme.org/sites/defaul...
Time to ban moorland burning.
Source:
www.iucn-uk-peatlandprogramme.org/sites/defaul...
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That's 95k!
We're 95% of the way to 100,000 signatures on our petition, which means we get a ban on driven grouse shooting debated in parliament.
Only 5k to go! Please share & sign: petition.parliament.uk/petitions/70...
We're 95% of the way to 100,000 signatures on our petition, which means we get a ban on driven grouse shooting debated in parliament.
Only 5k to go! Please share & sign: petition.parliament.uk/petitions/70...
April 17, 2025 at 2:24 PM
That's 95k!
We're 95% of the way to 100,000 signatures on our petition, which means we get a ban on driven grouse shooting debated in parliament.
Only 5k to go! Please share & sign: petition.parliament.uk/petitions/70...
We're 95% of the way to 100,000 signatures on our petition, which means we get a ban on driven grouse shooting debated in parliament.
Only 5k to go! Please share & sign: petition.parliament.uk/petitions/70...
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On the anniversary of the sinking of the Titanic, we thought we'd answer a question that's often asked,
"If they raised the Mary Rose, why not raise the Titanic?"
Allow our scaled diagram to explain...
"If they raised the Mary Rose, why not raise the Titanic?"
Allow our scaled diagram to explain...
April 15, 2025 at 8:21 AM
On the anniversary of the sinking of the Titanic, we thought we'd answer a question that's often asked,
"If they raised the Mary Rose, why not raise the Titanic?"
Allow our scaled diagram to explain...
"If they raised the Mary Rose, why not raise the Titanic?"
Allow our scaled diagram to explain...
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“If a car generates more potholes in our roads, takes up more parking space and poses more danger to pedestrians, cyclists and other car occupants compared with smaller vehicles, then it is only fair that its owner pays more for driving that vehicle”
The Observer view on SUVs: they are too dangerous and too big, their drivers should be made to pay
If a car generates more potholes, takes up more space and poses more risk, it is only fair that its owner pays more
www.theguardian.com
April 6, 2025 at 5:54 AM
“If a car generates more potholes in our roads, takes up more parking space and poses more danger to pedestrians, cyclists and other car occupants compared with smaller vehicles, then it is only fair that its owner pays more for driving that vehicle”
In the many rubbish things I lived through in 2024, my cat and dog both passed on. This weekend lovely, though damp with rain, tail-less but v handsome cat befriended me in the Groove Bar Shipley and I was happy to host
February 20, 2025 at 7:13 PM
In the many rubbish things I lived through in 2024, my cat and dog both passed on. This weekend lovely, though damp with rain, tail-less but v handsome cat befriended me in the Groove Bar Shipley and I was happy to host
Oh this is sad 😢 just finished the chapter on seals in the brilliant book ‘Black ops and Beaver Bombing’ by @fionamathews.bsky.social and @timkendall70.bsky.social
Bird flu found in two dead grey seals on the north Norfolk coast
Bird flu found in dead grey seals on north Norfolk coast
The government says wild birds in the area have also tested positive.
www.bbc.co.uk
February 20, 2025 at 7:08 PM
Oh this is sad 😢 just finished the chapter on seals in the brilliant book ‘Black ops and Beaver Bombing’ by @fionamathews.bsky.social and @timkendall70.bsky.social
Exciting this will be in Leeds!
"Everybody engages with poetry. They might not know it, but it’s there."
Poet Laureate Simon Armitage talks to Andrew Misra about the National Poetry Centre in Leeds.
Read and watch:
www.channel4.com/news/poet-la...
Poet Laureate Simon Armitage talks to Andrew Misra about the National Poetry Centre in Leeds.
Read and watch:
www.channel4.com/news/poet-la...
Poet laureate Armitage on opening first-ever poetry centre in UK
Poet Laureate and Yorkshireman Simon Armitage has determined that the discipline of verse composition should have a proper place to call home - and that it should be in Leeds.
www.channel4.com
February 20, 2025 at 7:03 PM
Exciting this will be in Leeds!
Some happy news in amongst the not
We are delighted to let you know that – thanks to your fantastic support - we were successful in our bid to Biffa Award and are now in the process of buying the land on the edge of Rainton Meadows Nature Reserve.
Read more 👉 www.durhamwt.com/news/wildlif...
#TheLCF
Read more 👉 www.durhamwt.com/news/wildlif...
#TheLCF
February 17, 2025 at 6:05 PM
Some happy news in amongst the not
Drinks at the Record Club. Curry at the International. Feathers McGraw at the Media Museum. Then event #rise for Bradford City Culture. Brilliant!
January 11, 2025 at 8:24 PM
Drinks at the Record Club. Curry at the International. Feathers McGraw at the Media Museum. Then event #rise for Bradford City Culture. Brilliant!
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The English badger cull is such a huge wildlife tragedy it is now being covered in @newyorker.com. The killing needs to stop.. www.newyorker.com/culture/drin...
Britain’s Badger Wars
The animals are being killed in droves. Are they pests or political pawns?
www.newyorker.com
January 10, 2025 at 6:19 PM
The English badger cull is such a huge wildlife tragedy it is now being covered in @newyorker.com. The killing needs to stop.. www.newyorker.com/culture/drin...
So much in this incredible photograph, I love it. Stunning colours
Photo: @linda2.bsky.social
Photo: @linda2.bsky.social
The view of the Isle of Jura from Tayvallich Peninsula. The colour blue was everywhere. Scotland is an incredibly friendly country. Do visit 🏴
#Scotland #mountains #landscape #photography #ThePhotoHour
#Scotland #mountains #landscape #photography #ThePhotoHour
January 5, 2025 at 8:18 PM
So much in this incredible photograph, I love it. Stunning colours
Photo: @linda2.bsky.social
Photo: @linda2.bsky.social
A walk between the rain yesterday and there was a rainbow right from the Damart tower in Bingley
January 2, 2025 at 7:03 PM
A walk between the rain yesterday and there was a rainbow right from the Damart tower in Bingley
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Ban foreign nationals from making political donations in the UK via their corporate empires
Or risk billionaires like this piece of shit having even more influence on UK politics
www.theguardian.com/technology/2...
Or risk billionaires like this piece of shit having even more influence on UK politics
www.theguardian.com/technology/2...
Elon Musk’s calls for Tommy Robinson release anger Labour MPs
Billionaire ally of Donald Trump also accuses Keir Starmer on X of failing to prosecute child rapists in Oldham
www.theguardian.com
January 2, 2025 at 6:40 PM
Ban foreign nationals from making political donations in the UK via their corporate empires
Or risk billionaires like this piece of shit having even more influence on UK politics
www.theguardian.com/technology/2...
Or risk billionaires like this piece of shit having even more influence on UK politics
www.theguardian.com/technology/2...
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Too many people can't walk to the pub, shops, school, doctors or to see friends of family because there is no safe way to go.
7 in 10 agree we should be able to use field margins if there's no safe alternative
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
buildstories.slowways.org/life-or-deat...
7 in 10 agree we should be able to use field margins if there's no safe alternative
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
buildstories.slowways.org/life-or-deat...
Campaigners call for right to roam on edges of private farmland in England
Group says people in rural areas have to walk on roads without pavement, which can be very dangerous
www.theguardian.com
December 26, 2024 at 1:52 PM
Too many people can't walk to the pub, shops, school, doctors or to see friends of family because there is no safe way to go.
7 in 10 agree we should be able to use field margins if there's no safe alternative
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
buildstories.slowways.org/life-or-deat...
7 in 10 agree we should be able to use field margins if there's no safe alternative
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
buildstories.slowways.org/life-or-deat...
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Great news!
Thousands of miles of footpaths that faced being lost forever could now be saved after the government committed to lifting a deadline for all rights of ways in England to be mapped.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Thousands of miles of footpaths that faced being lost forever could now be saved after the government committed to lifting a deadline for all rights of ways in England to be mapped.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Deadline to record historic footpaths to be scrapped
Walking campaigners welcome the move, which the government says will help prevent paths from being lost.
www.bbc.co.uk
December 26, 2024 at 7:25 AM
Great news!
Thousands of miles of footpaths that faced being lost forever could now be saved after the government committed to lifting a deadline for all rights of ways in England to be mapped.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Thousands of miles of footpaths that faced being lost forever could now be saved after the government committed to lifting a deadline for all rights of ways in England to be mapped.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
I really like it too. 4 episodes in and it’s now laugh out loud funny. Judge Marianne on Walter Presents
Only two episodes so far, but I’m warming to Judge Marianne, the new series on C4’s Walter Presents. The characterisation and humour are more important than the crimes solved.
December 23, 2024 at 7:19 PM
I really like it too. 4 episodes in and it’s now laugh out loud funny. Judge Marianne on Walter Presents
55mph gusts of wind made for a lively parkrun. A blowy walk after along the towpath and a beautiful rainbow.
December 21, 2024 at 2:32 PM
55mph gusts of wind made for a lively parkrun. A blowy walk after along the towpath and a beautiful rainbow.
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“When you’re raped there is shame, and it’s not for us to have shame, it’s for them. It’s true that I hear lots of women, and men, who say you’re very brave. I say it’s not bravery, it’s a will and determination to change society”
- Gisèle.
What a woman.
- Gisèle.
What a woman.
December 19, 2024 at 6:09 PM
“When you’re raped there is shame, and it’s not for us to have shame, it’s for them. It’s true that I hear lots of women, and men, who say you’re very brave. I say it’s not bravery, it’s a will and determination to change society”
- Gisèle.
What a woman.
- Gisèle.
What a woman.