Steph Spyro
@stephspyro.bsky.social
Politics and environment at the Daily Express. steph.spyro@reachplc.com
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It's utterly unacceptable that penguins are kept in a cramped, windowless room at London’s Sea Life Aquarium. Denied fresh air, natural light and the space they need to thrive. I spoke on @lbc.co.uk about how their conditions are a world away from their Antarctic home.
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MP demands release of penguins kept in basement of London aquarium
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November 11, 2025 at 4:34 PM
It's utterly unacceptable that penguins are kept in a cramped, windowless room at London’s Sea Life Aquarium. Denied fresh air, natural light and the space they need to thrive. I spoke on @lbc.co.uk about how their conditions are a world away from their Antarctic home.
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Looking forward to this!
@stephspyro.bsky.social, @tonyjuniper.bsky.social, @hugotagholm.bsky.social & more - the programme for #WildSummitUK features leading voices from environmental groups, media, politics & more🌱
Dive into the agenda to find out more & grab your tickets now👇
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Dive into the agenda to find out more & grab your tickets now👇
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July 3, 2025 at 8:40 PM
Looking forward to this!
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Last summer saw up to 100,000 people march to #RestoreNatureNow & big nature promises made by politicians 📢
A year later, people are losing faith in Government’s ability to meet nature targets 🥀
We need action to turn things round🌱
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A year later, people are losing faith in Government’s ability to meet nature targets 🥀
We need action to turn things round🌱
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July 1, 2025 at 8:38 AM
Last summer saw up to 100,000 people march to #RestoreNatureNow & big nature promises made by politicians 📢
A year later, people are losing faith in Government’s ability to meet nature targets 🥀
We need action to turn things round🌱
By @stephspyro.bsky.social 👇
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A year later, people are losing faith in Government’s ability to meet nature targets 🥀
We need action to turn things round🌱
By @stephspyro.bsky.social 👇
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Labour is set to “bulldoze” vital environmental protections which could put Britain’s ancient woodlands in line for the chopping block, experts fear.
Nature groups, such as the Woodland Trust, have slammed the Government’s Planning and Infrastructure Bill.
Nature groups, such as the Woodland Trust, have slammed the Government’s Planning and Infrastructure Bill.
June 2, 2025 at 9:09 AM
Labour is set to “bulldoze” vital environmental protections which could put Britain’s ancient woodlands in line for the chopping block, experts fear.
Nature groups, such as the Woodland Trust, have slammed the Government’s Planning and Infrastructure Bill.
Nature groups, such as the Woodland Trust, have slammed the Government’s Planning and Infrastructure Bill.
Feargal Sharkey has revealed that he was diagnosed with prostate cancer following a visit to his doctor for a sore throat.
The Undertones singer is doing “very well” after the cancer was “resolved” a year ago.
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The Undertones singer is doing “very well” after the cancer was “resolved” a year ago.
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Feargal Sharkey reveals shock cancer diagnosis | EXCLUSIVE
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May 23, 2025 at 5:19 PM
Feargal Sharkey has revealed that he was diagnosed with prostate cancer following a visit to his doctor for a sore throat.
The Undertones singer is doing “very well” after the cancer was “resolved” a year ago.
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The Undertones singer is doing “very well” after the cancer was “resolved” a year ago.
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Chris Packham has led a demonstration of 150 scientists demanding politicians “bring science to politics”.
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May 13, 2025 at 1:46 PM
Chris Packham has led a demonstration of 150 scientists demanding politicians “bring science to politics”.
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We’re proud to stand alongside dozens of nature & climate groups calling for Government to increase rather than cut the nature-friendly farming budget🧑🌾
This is key for boosting nature & supporting farmers🌱
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This is key for boosting nature & supporting farmers🌱
Read more via @stephspyro.bsky.social 👇
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March 25, 2025 at 10:50 AM
We’re proud to stand alongside dozens of nature & climate groups calling for Government to increase rather than cut the nature-friendly farming budget🧑🌾
This is key for boosting nature & supporting farmers🌱
Read more via @stephspyro.bsky.social 👇
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This is key for boosting nature & supporting farmers🌱
Read more via @stephspyro.bsky.social 👇
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Just over 9 weeks to the London Marathon and I’m halfway to raising £2k for Anthony Nolan - they’re a great charity, and I’m personally grateful to them after they helped find a donor for my dad, so if you haven’t donated yet, now’s a great time 2025tcslondonmarathon.enthuse.com/pf/christoph...
February 20, 2025 at 12:31 PM
Just over 9 weeks to the London Marathon and I’m halfway to raising £2k for Anthony Nolan - they’re a great charity, and I’m personally grateful to them after they helped find a donor for my dad, so if you haven’t donated yet, now’s a great time 2025tcslondonmarathon.enthuse.com/pf/christoph...
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🚨 Scientists are calling out UK govt for failing to protect our seas from bottom trawling! 20 top marine scientists are demanding a ban in protected areas. Ocean havens MUST be more that just lines on a map. 🌊
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Keir Starmer told to use Brexit freedoms to shut down 'destructive' fishing
Prime Minister is being urged to make good on his pre-election promise for a total ban on bottom trawling in the UK's marine protected areas.
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February 18, 2025 at 7:09 PM
🚨 Scientists are calling out UK govt for failing to protect our seas from bottom trawling! 20 top marine scientists are demanding a ban in protected areas. Ocean havens MUST be more that just lines on a map. 🌊
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Happy Valentine's Day - wasn't quite expecting to be interviewed for it this year, but here we are.
Who doesn't love a good love story?
We were thrilled to hear about @sianelvin.bsky.social and @cjmckeon.bsky.social's recent engagement at Hampton Court Palace, where they first met during the NCTJ awards ceremony in 2017 ❤️
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We were thrilled to hear about @sianelvin.bsky.social and @cjmckeon.bsky.social's recent engagement at Hampton Court Palace, where they first met during the NCTJ awards ceremony in 2017 ❤️
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Mr. Right could be sitting to your left: how NCTJ awards sparked a love story
A chance seating arrangement at the 2017 NCTJ Awards for Excellence ceremony at Hampton Court Palace turned into the beginning of a lasting connection for journalists Chris McKeon and Sian Elvin.
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February 14, 2025 at 11:11 AM
Happy Valentine's Day - wasn't quite expecting to be interviewed for it this year, but here we are.
Free the 15!
Protesters will gather outside London Aquarium on Saturday from 1pm-3pm to demonstrate against their penguin enclosure.
🐧 15 gentoos are held in a basement habitat with no fresh air or day light.
Protesters will gather outside London Aquarium on Saturday from 1pm-3pm to demonstrate against their penguin enclosure.
🐧 15 gentoos are held in a basement habitat with no fresh air or day light.
February 12, 2025 at 5:59 PM
Free the 15!
Protesters will gather outside London Aquarium on Saturday from 1pm-3pm to demonstrate against their penguin enclosure.
🐧 15 gentoos are held in a basement habitat with no fresh air or day light.
Protesters will gather outside London Aquarium on Saturday from 1pm-3pm to demonstrate against their penguin enclosure.
🐧 15 gentoos are held in a basement habitat with no fresh air or day light.
Delighted to be shortlisted for environment journalist of the year at the Press Awards - and alongside hugely talented and hard working colleagues! 🌎👊
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Shortlist
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February 12, 2025 at 5:58 PM
Delighted to be shortlisted for environment journalist of the year at the Press Awards - and alongside hugely talented and hard working colleagues! 🌎👊
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🚜 The Daily Express will be at farmers' inheritance tax raid protest later today in Westminster.
👩🌾 Our coverage kicked off at 7am and will continue into this evening.
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👩🌾 Our coverage kicked off at 7am and will continue into this evening.
✏️ Visit our live blog for the latest: www.express.co.uk/news/politic...
February 10, 2025 at 12:09 PM
🚜 The Daily Express will be at farmers' inheritance tax raid protest later today in Westminster.
👩🌾 Our coverage kicked off at 7am and will continue into this evening.
✏️ Visit our live blog for the latest: www.express.co.uk/news/politic...
👩🌾 Our coverage kicked off at 7am and will continue into this evening.
✏️ Visit our live blog for the latest: www.express.co.uk/news/politic...
Campaigners have slammed London aquarium’s “disingenuous” claim that its “captive” gentoo penguins (with a stable population in the wild) are raising awareness of the critically endangered Africa Penguin.
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London Aquarium's claims of penguin protection slammed with demands for release
Sea Life London Aquarium's penguin enclosure has repeatedly come under fire by campaigners.
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February 3, 2025 at 11:26 AM
Campaigners have slammed London aquarium’s “disingenuous” claim that its “captive” gentoo penguins (with a stable population in the wild) are raising awareness of the critically endangered Africa Penguin.
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A worried farmer has pleaded for Rachel Reeves to reverse her “brutal” inheritance raid.
Dairy farmer Ro Collingborn, 74, warned the future of her children and grandchildren is at risk because of the policy which is causing “great distress”.
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Dairy farmer Ro Collingborn, 74, warned the future of her children and grandchildren is at risk because of the policy which is causing “great distress”.
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January 14, 2025 at 7:00 AM
A worried farmer has pleaded for Rachel Reeves to reverse her “brutal” inheritance raid.
Dairy farmer Ro Collingborn, 74, warned the future of her children and grandchildren is at risk because of the policy which is causing “great distress”.
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Dairy farmer Ro Collingborn, 74, warned the future of her children and grandchildren is at risk because of the policy which is causing “great distress”.
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🚨 Excited to share that I'm now the Deputy Political Editor at the Express.
I will continue to champion the environment from Westminster and beyond 🌍👊
I will continue to champion the environment from Westminster and beyond 🌍👊
January 6, 2025 at 4:45 PM
🚨 Excited to share that I'm now the Deputy Political Editor at the Express.
I will continue to champion the environment from Westminster and beyond 🌍👊
I will continue to champion the environment from Westminster and beyond 🌍👊
Wildlife presenter @chrisgpackham.bsky.social has accused Labour of being "complicit" in the slaughter of thousands of dolphins in the Faroe Islands.
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Chris Packham accuses Labour of being 'complicit' in slaughter of dolphins
Locals on the Faroe Islands kill hundreds of dolphins each year - and much of the whale meat and blubber is thrown away because of health concerns.
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December 29, 2024 at 10:51 AM
Wildlife presenter @chrisgpackham.bsky.social has accused Labour of being "complicit" in the slaughter of thousands of dolphins in the Faroe Islands.
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An average water bill for Southern Water customers is £420. This will rocket to £642 over the next five years. That's a steep 53% rise - the highest increase of all water companies.
December 19, 2024 at 7:21 AM
An average water bill for Southern Water customers is £420. This will rocket to £642 over the next five years. That's a steep 53% rise - the highest increase of all water companies.
There Labour MPs, who have posed with WASPI placards, have so far been silent on the Government's confirmation that the 1950s-born women would not receive a penny for the way they were impacted by changes to the state pension age.
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Full list of the 79 Labour MPs who have broken WASPI promise
At least 79 Labour MPs have previously pledged their support with WASPI campaigners by holding placards have been silent since the Government's announced no compensation for the 1950s-botn women.
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December 18, 2024 at 12:01 PM
There Labour MPs, who have posed with WASPI placards, have so far been silent on the Government's confirmation that the 1950s-born women would not receive a penny for the way they were impacted by changes to the state pension age.
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How have drinking rates changed for different generations?
Among men, it's a predictable pattern: almost every birth cohort is drinking less than the one before it was at the same age.
And today, '50s kids are drinking 2/3 more than those born in the 90s...
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Among men, it's a predictable pattern: almost every birth cohort is drinking less than the one before it was at the same age.
And today, '50s kids are drinking 2/3 more than those born in the 90s...
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December 9, 2024 at 1:09 PM
How have drinking rates changed for different generations?
Among men, it's a predictable pattern: almost every birth cohort is drinking less than the one before it was at the same age.
And today, '50s kids are drinking 2/3 more than those born in the 90s...
1/2
Among men, it's a predictable pattern: almost every birth cohort is drinking less than the one before it was at the same age.
And today, '50s kids are drinking 2/3 more than those born in the 90s...
1/2
Are civil servants working from home more under Labour?
Officials at the Department for Business and Trade bought 199 computer screen monitors between July and November at £31,898
Compares to 127 monitors in the 5 months before the election for £21,667.
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Officials at the Department for Business and Trade bought 199 computer screen monitors between July and November at £31,898
Compares to 127 monitors in the 5 months before the election for £21,667.
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Keir Starmer accused of creating 'two-tier economy' as more civil servants WFH
More computer screen monitors have been purchased by one department for home working after July than before the general election, figures show.
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December 9, 2024 at 8:52 PM
Are civil servants working from home more under Labour?
Officials at the Department for Business and Trade bought 199 computer screen monitors between July and November at £31,898
Compares to 127 monitors in the 5 months before the election for £21,667.
www.express.co.uk/news/politic...
Officials at the Department for Business and Trade bought 199 computer screen monitors between July and November at £31,898
Compares to 127 monitors in the 5 months before the election for £21,667.
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Farmers could choke off food supplies across the country if Sir Keir Starmer’s Government continues its attack on their livelihoods.
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December 7, 2024 at 9:08 AM
Farmers could choke off food supplies across the country if Sir Keir Starmer’s Government continues its attack on their livelihoods.
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Florence Harris, 8, was pictured on our front page brandishing a placard that read “When I grow I up I WANTED to be a FARMER” during the mass protest outside Westminster last month.
Now she has spoken out powerfully on behalf of farming families up and down the country.
Now she has spoken out powerfully on behalf of farming families up and down the country.
December 5, 2024 at 7:38 AM
Florence Harris, 8, was pictured on our front page brandishing a placard that read “When I grow I up I WANTED to be a FARMER” during the mass protest outside Westminster last month.
Now she has spoken out powerfully on behalf of farming families up and down the country.
Now she has spoken out powerfully on behalf of farming families up and down the country.
Three Labour MPs have more than 1,000 farms in their constituencies and that another 47 Labour MPs have between 60 and 994 farms.
Labour MPs must stand up for farmers today when Kemi Badenoch forces a Commons vote to try and save family farms, the Tories have urged.
Shadow environment Secretary Victoria Atkins said the inheritance tax raid risks farm closures and the destruction of rural communities.
Shadow environment Secretary Victoria Atkins said the inheritance tax raid risks farm closures and the destruction of rural communities.
December 4, 2024 at 7:09 AM
Three Labour MPs have more than 1,000 farms in their constituencies and that another 47 Labour MPs have between 60 and 994 farms.