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This is what happens when someone unblocks a road drain. The flood water disappears. It’s a shame that so many local councils can’t be arsed to do this. UK councils have received over 1 million reports of blocked drains since 2013
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‘Pure arrogance’: anger in Finland as Google illegally fells 250,000 trees for datacentre @guardian
“Behind a wire fence lies a vast gaping wound of earth. Before Google’s arrival a few months ago, an estimated quarter of a million trees occupied the 330 hectares (815 acres) of forest near the town of Muhos in rural northern Finland. Now they are all gone”
Yet again our Natural world pays the price for humankind’s commercial drive, this time to continue expansion of the booming artificial intelligence & data industry
Will we ever stop plundering our beautiful planets natural resources?
theguardian.com/environment/…
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.@Neal_Compass: "I couldn't live on the meagre benefits people are getting. To suggest that we have to cut those.. actually that's where the engine of growth is, that's the people who spend.. how do you get people out spending.. not by cutting benefits of people at the bottom"
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Let us continue to pray together for peace. The day after tomorrow, on 27 October, let us join in spirit with the heads of churches and religious leaders who will gather in Assisi to mark the 40th anniversary of the meeting convened by Saint John Paul II. Never before has it been so clear that wars, as well as sowing death and destruction, impoverish and harm the world. May the Lord inspire choices of dialogue and peace! #PrayTogether
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📰 My new report “Truth under the Rubble: Media in the Time of Genocide” is out
🔗 Available in all official UN Languages: ohchr.org/en/documents/count…
🇺🇳 FOLLOW THE PRESENTATION
@ the UN General Assembly, New York
>Monday 26 October
2pm EST/ 7pm CET
Livestream details will follow.
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Go for a walk on almost any farm in Britain and ask yourself where a hedgehog might find food, water or shelter there. The rough edges, pockets of scrub, areas of unkempt long grass, piles of dead wood, marshy wet areas and ponds, all tidied away. There’s nowhere left for them.
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Disabled people have spoken in a new report of their “constant fear” and worry that being physically active could put their disability benefits at risk.
#PIP #ActivityTrap #DWP
disabilitynewsservice.com/di…
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Huge victory for wildlife in Lebanon! 🚨
Our teams have dismantled over 63,000 m² of illegal bird nets this autumn, saving an estimated 60,000 migratory birds as a result.
200+ birds rescued + 165 mist-nets dismantled on our latest mission alone!
Huge thanks to @LebISF 🫡 🕊️
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Airbnb hosts can no longer make guests strip beds and wash dishes under new rules bbc.in/4z4PyM4
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CONVICTED: On 31 May 2026, Beryl Pyke, 84, was beaten and stabbed to death at the home she shared with her husband in Aldwick, West Sussex. Her husband Michael Pyke, 78, has pleaded guilty to murder and is awaiting his sentence.
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Literally a Year ago @andyburnham sat with @MassiveAttackUK and signed the Fossil Fuel non-proliferation treaty "to end, coal, oil and gas and hold polluters accountable"
Today he has just signed off a brand new Gas-field in the North Sea.
Shameful
#Jackdaw
fossilfueltreaty.org/massive…
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The UK ‘wealth exodus’ was manufactured by the press. The press complaints body IPSO must investigate or step aside.
The story started with one study which now admits it has no evidence.
Media owned by corporations and the super rich lapped it up.
taxjustice.net/2026/10/19/th…
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The HE sector is being cut by millions. They're doing it by salami cutting each institution one by one, as if it's that institution's problem alone. If staff don't respond nationally, the HE sector will shrink, and thousands will lose their jobs. So?
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Semi-regular reminder of how many jobs there actually are for disabled people in the UK on the DWP site
Total jobs: 106,741
Of which are
remote: 509
+ Disability confident: 31
+ Part-time: 8
+ Not actually working in someone else's home: 5
FIVE WHOLE JOBS
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Meta fined $25bn for 'lies' over user data privacy bbc.in/3UJHmBT
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Pope Leo XIV’s doctors have confirmed that the tumor removed on October 13 was a lung adenocarcinoma and that the disease was localized.
Dr. Luigi Carbone and Professor Stefano Margaritora said on Wednesday evening that a subsequent oncological assessment has confirmed that “no further treatment is necessary.”
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As a GP practice we lost a third of Nursing home residents in the first wave due to the decisions made by leaders to discharge infected patients to homes
It’s hugely concerning that this was done without mitigation of the risks
#BREATHTAKING