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Tricia Ayrton
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Writing about Emily Brontë’s manuscripts.
Labour and Co-operative Councillor and Deputy Leader of Rochdale Council - Climate Change and Environment
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These beautiful pollinator attracting wildflowers are not on College Bank but why shouldn't they bee🐝🐞🦋
So much potential for wildlife and wellbeing

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June 28, 2025 at 5:06 PM
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Lovely that some areas of grass on College Bank seem to have been left to allow the flowers & wildlife to thrive.
Hope this is the start of a #NoMowSummer
It's good to have a mix of lawn & mini-meadow #Mowsaic
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May 26, 2025 at 9:43 AM
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Safe #ActiveTravel infrastructure is an equality measure #MyRideOurRight @walkridegm.org.uk @triciaayr.bsky.social
📣 The gender gap in cycling barriers is widening, a new survey shows.

Great to see @thelondonstandard.bsky.social spotlighting how women still face disproportionate challenges.

That’s why we launched #MyRideOurRight – campaigning for safer cycling for women.
Gender gap in barriers to cycling are widening – survey
Charity Cycling UK said since 2018 the perception of cycling appears to have improved for men but not women.
www.standard.co.uk
March 31, 2025 at 1:22 PM
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just imagine working at microsofft and thinking “let’s spend billions, steal a load of intellectual property, and destroy the planet to make an interface to write bad essays” rather than “let’s update MS Word so users can comment on footnotes”
March 28, 2025 at 6:36 AM
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College Bank Campaign Meeting
Seven Sisters doing it in style with Afternoon Tea 🍵 🍰
Great vibe
Going strong

#FindtheFunds
#SavetheSevenSisters

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March 24, 2025 at 12:34 PM
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BREAKING: 'You have full backing across the United Kingdom'

Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer tells Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy, 'We stand with you and Ukraine for as long as it may take' 👏
March 1, 2025 at 6:21 PM
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Keir Starmer embraces President Zelensky as he arrives at Downing St.
March 1, 2025 at 5:33 PM
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#Phase2 is go! Because this uses a lot of existing quiet roads, building across the Silk St junction will give a usable route from New Barn La to Castleton even before the rest is complete. @triciaayr.bsky.social @walkridegm.org.uk
Work on controversial cycle lane in Greater Manchester town to start next month
The cycle lane installation through Castleton sparked fury in the local community the first time around
www.manchestereveningnews.co.uk
March 1, 2025 at 7:56 AM
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CALL FOR PAPERS: The Oxford Faculties of English & History are delighted to host the 25th anniversary conference of the British Association for #Victorian Studies on 23–25 July.

Papers on any aspect of long-nineteenth-century studies are welcome (submit by 17 March). #BAVS #Victorianstudies #19thC
British Association for Victorian Studies (BAVS) 25th Anniversary Conference
www.english.ox.ac.uk
February 19, 2025 at 10:17 AM
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Some of you know I've been on the HE Committee of the National Association for Writers in Education since 2010. I'm now spearheading with NAWE and @kitdewaal.bsky.social a movement to bring back the Creative Writing A Level. Interested? Just fill out this form: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
Let's bring back the Creative Writing A Level!
Expression of Interest in Restoring the Creative Writing A Level in the UK with NAWE
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February 15, 2025 at 4:42 PM
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Brent Kiser's talk this morning at Texas A&M explained the history of the marvelous Carlyle Letters Online project, highlighting how its survival has depended on constant upgrading, collaboration, and lots of luck. carlyleletters.dukeupress.edu
Carlyle Letters Online – The Carlyle Letters Online: A Victorian Cultural Reference
carlyleletters.dukeupress.edu
February 15, 2025 at 4:42 PM
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Here's a brief round-up of the online accessiblity of 19th-c. letters. With a few bright exceptions (Darwin, Carlyles, Brownings, Collins) the situation is not good. In fact it's a real mess. www.victorianresearch.org/other.html#l...
VRW Guide to Exploring Victorian Resources
www.victorianresearch.org
February 15, 2025 at 4:42 PM
A sad day today but we will never forget the difference that Tony made to the world and we will treasure his friendship forever ❤️
January 17, 2025 at 5:41 PM
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Occasional reminder that there’s no, “it’s too late, its over” for anthropogenic climate change. Every molecule of CO2 that doesn’t go into the atmosphere makes a difference. Preventing 0.1 degree of warming makes a difference. Every bit of climate resilience we build together makes a difference.
January 9, 2025 at 1:18 AM
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Sad news.
I am very sad to say, David Lodge died on January 1st.
He was a wonderful man and hugely influential writer.
I was lucky to be his agent and he taught me so much.
His campus novels will be read for years to come.
A great loss.
www.penguin.co.uk/articles/202...
January 3, 2025 at 12:47 PM
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Celebrate the public domain with us on January 22!

10am PT: ONLINE
🎟️ www.eventbrite.com/e/singin-in-...

6pm PT: IN-PERSON
Internet Archive
300 Funston, San Francisco
🎟️ www.eventbrite.com/e/celebrate-...
January 1, 2025 at 5:48 PM
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My cartoon for this week’s @theguardian.com Books
December 29, 2024 at 2:50 PM
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We're very grateful for all the support we're receiving in our fight to save much needed Rochdale #Homes
#SeasonsGreetings 🧑‍🎄
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@triciaayr.bsky.social
& Rochdale Council
@paulwaughmp.bsky.social
@andyburnham.bsky.social
Plus All our supporters
You know who you are 🙏
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December 22, 2024 at 5:08 PM
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It's not just about greenhouse gas (though in a #ClimateEmergency that is important) - swapping your car for a bike for short journeys also makes your local area quieter, and helps with air quality @roadcc.bsky.social @triciaayr.bsky.social @walkridegm.org.uk
Cycling short distances instead of driving could save million tonnes of greenhouse gas emissions every year, transport charity says
New figures from the Department for Transport have revealed that domestic transport emissions accounted for 28 per cent of the UK’s total in 2022, and have fallen by only 12 per cent since 1990
road.cc
December 16, 2024 at 2:13 PM
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Strike day 4: A big day, in which a lot happened, but this was the absolute highlight. If there is a conscience of the Guardian, it may be Gary Younge. He made this speech, off the bat & nailed it. We are the true spirit of the Guardian & Obs. And we are here fighting to save our news org.
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December 13, 2024 at 9:14 PM
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Reminder that the Guardian staff are on a 48 hour strike against the sale of Observer. If you wouldn’t cross a picket line in real life, don’t do it virtually.
December 4, 2024 at 7:00 AM
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I’m off to catch the tram to Rochdale, see ya www.theguardian.com/food/2024/no...
The Martlet, Rochdale: ‘A victory of professionalism’ – restaurant review
Civic pride meets glorious cooking at a remarkably fair price
www.theguardian.com
November 24, 2024 at 7:51 AM
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Optimist: The cup is half full.

Pessimist: The cup is half empty.

Hercule Poirot: The cup was poisoned, mon ami.
Optimist: The cup is half full.

Pessimist: The cup is half empty.

Literary critic: Difficulty and Opportunity: Liminality and the Cup in the Cultural Imaginary, 1789-1914
Optimist: The cup is half full.

Pessimist: The cup is half empty.

Historian: The cup, 1789-1914
November 24, 2024 at 7:38 PM