Train door negotiator. Croydonian in Nottingham. Usually found geocaching, in a kayak or a tent with @mrdannyp. Amateur naturalist. Views = own 🏳️🌈 🏳️⚧️🏕️
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Not over the fact I won't see these at work on Monday- will miss them so much. Had the pleasure of dispatching & split/ attaching them at LBG, the latter of which was SO fun 🥰 They're some of the most prominent trains from my childhood, and S London won't be the same without em. – at Camden Town, London
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Mornin’. I thought you might like to know that there’s a qualified driver on every DLR train.
They’re also @RMTunion members.
Mornin’. As the tube drivers are striking again today, as they do pretty much weekly since the dawn of time, I thought @tfl might like to know that the DLR doesn’t have drivers. It’s been running for about forty years and is safe and reliable. Tube trains are the same as DLR trains, so it might help @tfl in their negotiations with the tube drivers to tell them they’re all sacked and a computer is now going to drive the trains. Right, that’s that sorted. Later on I shall sort out the problems with the Strait of Hormuz. But first; coffee.
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Huntingdon is a useful corrective for those who think a train driver "just sits in a cab and pushes a lever", or that the role of train guard can be abolished without consequence.
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🌿 Biodiversity Net Gain (BNG) means developers must leave nature better than they found it.
Now @GOVUK wants to drop this rule for small sites- that could mean big losses for wildlife.
🦋 Small green spaces matter.
📣 Say no to weaker protections.
wtru.st/4lqxG7w
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Some scary truths about non-professional use of herbicide & pesticide chemical use in domestic gardens. My latest video on exactly why we need to stop these toxic chemicals entering the hands of “amateurs.” Next steps coming soon and how you can help 👍👇
youtu.be/8oEAQhjvrRM?si=RA3l…
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Bats and newts aren’t the problem ❌ we’re tired of hearing the Chancellor pin the blame for slow development on wildlife! After promising to protect nature, UK Government is now doing the opposite. This has to stop. Take our simple action today 👇
action.wildlifetrusts.org/pa…
ALT A cut out of a bat and a newt on a teal coloured background, text reads 'Nature isn't the blocker to house building'
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With record temperatures and very little rain before Summer has even begun, we need to start taking better care of our natural world for wildlife and climate. An easy start, is to ban lifeless plastic gardens 📝
petition.parliament.uk/petit…
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Does it make a person odd if they get excited by long grass?! 😆 Do yourselves a favour people, ditch mowing the majority of your lawn & just mow a few paths. The #wildlife will benefit, you will save time AND money & it looks great too! Oh, & not just for MAY! #NoMowSummer
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It really would be so nice when walking/cycling/driving through the country-side, that people wouldn't be subjected to this appalling sight. Just who thinks this improves the look of the place? So detrimental to all life.
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As anger over the unnecessary destruction of the 500 year old Whitewebbs Oak in Enfield by the philistines @tobycarvery grows, attention is turning to the failures in our current Tree Preservation Order (TPO) regime that allowed it to happen.
I set out in greater detail on this article some of the problems with the TPO regime. In short though, the thing speaks for itself: any legal regime that allows a tree of this age & importance to be felled is necessarily flawed.
standard.co.uk/comment/oak-t…
In order to fully protect trees, we really need proper Rights of Nature laws & nature guardians. These laws would ensure that all mature trees would be protected from unnecessary destruction, there would be a proper process & guardians to speak for the trees in this process. Such laws are unlikely to be passed immediately however & as a starting point we should at least be giving our heritage trees the same protections as heritage buildings. I have helped draft a Parliamentary Bill for the Woodland Trust & a version of this Bill (as per the photos attached to this tweet) was introduced into the House of Lords by Baroness Young last year.
We really need public support to persuade the government to support this this Bill in Parliament. So if you’re angry about the outrageous & unnecessary felling of the Whitewebbs Oak, please do sign the petition below, consider writing to your MP saying you support the bill & campaign for it in your communities (online & locally to you). If more people hear that heritage trees are less protected than heritage buildings, they are likely to support equalising the protections, which would be a significant step forward for legal tree protections in the UK.
campaigns.woodlandtrust.org.….
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Imagine just half the energy campaigning against trans rights had been put into
- Fighting the underfunding of women’s refuges
- Fighting for single mums
- Fighting for low-paid women
Compared to fighting trans rights, which would have had most impact on women’s lives?
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At times like these of worry, its worth looking at the positives that exist now, and the positives that could exist moving forward.
1) No new laws have been introduced, and NO old laws have been removed.
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It’s now confirmed that Toby Carvery did indeed fell the Whitewebbs Oak, on the same day that evidence is emerging the tree may have been 500 years old. The lame excuse they gave that the tree was “dead” is not only false (ecologists have found green buds on the felled branches) but in any case inadequate: ancient oaks host many unique species in their dying phase, which can take a century or more.
@tobycarvery now need to apologise for this desecration of our natural heritage & reassure us all that trees elsewhere on their estate are safe; if not, customers should boycott them as a company.
The fact that a company like Tony Carvery can apparently just decide to fell a tree older than the United Kingdom without consulting the authorities, arboriculturalists or ecologists shows that our current tree protection regime is clearly inadequate. In this comment piece for the Evening Standard, I look deeper at the problems with legal tree protections, & some potential solutions.
standard.co.uk/comment/oak-t…
Very disturbing reports today that a nationally significant ancient oak (over 6 metres in circumference) was felled in Whitewebbs Park in Tottenham. The facts are still not clear about who did it & why, but it appears to be on land owned by LB Enfield who did not give permission, so has been reported to the police as criminal damage.
Despite its age & size the tree did not have a Tree Protection Order (TPO) on it because the Council does not consider that trees on land it owns do not need TPO protection too. They have now put a TPO on the remains of the tree, but it’s too soon to say whether the tree might produce fresh pollard growth or be killed by the shock.
This shows the desperate need for better protections for our veteran and ancient trees. A building the same age as this tree would almost certainly be listed (council owned or not), & we should have an equivalent system for trees, with equivalent enforcement & punishment.
In the meantime, @EnfieldCouncil need to:
- Properly investigate who felled this tree & demand prosecution.
- Practically & legally protect the remains of this ancient tree.
-Put TPO’s on all remaining trees at Whitewebbs Park to stop anything like this happening again.
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You only have to look at the impact of their strike to understand how important their work is
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Disgraceful.
"We are reducing the environmental requirements placed on developers when they pay into a nature restoration fund... they can focus on getting things built and stop worrying about the bats and the newts," Chancellor Rachel Reeves says
Follow live bbc.in/3EdL6TE
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“You’re 29, you’re not ‘eepy’”
I own a home, pay taxes, and experience the horrors every day of my life, if I wanna say ‘eepy’ when I’m tired, I will
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Nature belongs to no one and everyone. The British countryside isn’t being 'taken over'—it’s being celebrated. Prayer doesn’t claim land; it leaves it untouched, just like we found it. How about we focus on what unites us, like the beauty of this shared land?
📍Longshaw
Yikes this is a bad take from someone who should know better and has tweeted in support of the RMT before...well, these are the same frontline workers whose lives you make more difficult by being deliberately antagonistic. Not a good look
Just to add to this, the vast majority of us who hold ticket checking responsibilities despise conflict. I thrive off having nice conversations and helping people with their journeys. Often conflict finds us, ticketing related or not, and when it does, we don't have any backup. – at East Midlands, England