Plants, Wildlife, @BBCRadio4, Tolkien, Tea. Policy not Politics. Staying until the custard bursts the trousers of Twitter, but also @badgermash.bsky.social
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The BBC has announced it will turn off @BBCRadio4 Long Wave on 27th June. This will mark the end of our BBC as a national broadcaster, as vast areas of the UK will no longer be able to receive any BBC services (via FM,DAB,DVBT or internet) other than with a fixed satellite dish.
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If you can't quite tell amongst all that netting, there's an entangled fox in there...😣
Last Sunday, our team members Vic and Andrew responded to a call about a fox caught in football netting, believed to have been there since the night before. Initially, there had been two foxes trapped, but thankfully one had managed to chew their way free, leaving this poor girl behind.
By the time our team arrived, she was completely engulfed in netting. We can only imagine how frightened and exhausted she must have been after spending so many hours desperately trying to escape.
Thankfully, despite the sheer amount of netting wrapped around her, none of it had tightened dangerously around her body.
Vic and Andrew carefully worked to untangle her, strand by strand, until finally, she was free of the netting. ❤️
But after such a terrifying ordeal, we weren't going to send her straight back out into the wild.
Instead, she was brought back to our hospital for a thorough check, a much-needed meal and some peace and quiet to recover from her ordeal. 🦊
Please, if you have football nets or loose garden netting, take a moment to secure or put them away when they're not in use. A few minutes of your time could save a life.
Make sure you come back tomorrow to see this beautiful fox get her very lucky freedom back! 🦊💕
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Tottenham has the highest level of unemployment in London.
@DavidLammy , what are you doing to combat this?
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On the first day of the Battle of the Somme, 19,000 British soldiers were sent to their deaths - forced to march into a flurry of machine gun fire, and shot by their own officers if they refused.
War reduces humans to cannon-fodder.
Remember that this #RemembranceDay.
The three BBC UK #LongWave transmitters did this far more effectively, reliably, and robustly than the FM proposal offered here, the capabilities of which appear to have been severely misunderstood - unless this proposal is deliberately misleading.
BBC emergency protocol:
“100 people in the BBC will run a emergency radio studio.
“It will have secure lines of communication not dependent on the internet, and fuel, water and food to ensure it can operate without resupply for at least three days.”
bbc.co.uk/news/articles/ck5y…
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‘The evil of charity is that it tends to make the charitable think that he has done his duty by giving away some trifling sum, his conscience is put to sleep, and he takes no trouble to consider the social problem any further’. Clement Attlee, Prime Minister and Social Worker.
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Beavers boost nature even more than was previously understood, a new study shows.
Beavers really are the keystone of all keystone species, and among the most powerful tools we have for breathing new life back into landscapes 🦫
bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c3qj…
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At Thorpeness, 2 miles [from Sizewell C], the sea has advanced more than 25 metres over the past year. "I’m scared for future generations...When the evidence is clear that this is not a good place to build a nuclear power station why are they continuing?”
tasizewellc.org.uk/the-secre…
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Stop Sizzle
At Thorpeness, 2 miles [from Sizewell C], the sea has advanced more than 25 metres over the past year. "I’m scared for future generations...When the evidence is clear that this is not a good place to build a nuclear power station why are they continuing?”
tasizewellc.org.uk/the-secre…
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Today's most original postal address.
Llanfair PG is in LL61 , how could this occur? I am bamboozified.
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Are we all in agreement?? This is, and will always be, Twitter.
Cry into your far emptier pockets Musk….
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Plans to clean up coolant from a Japanese nuclear reactor have been opposed by more than 900 people, a campaigning group has said.
"Why bring this waste over here? It doesn't make any sense whatsoever and it's very dangerous."
bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c6y4…
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Hacked Off is funded by supporters, not newspaper owners.
We're looking for 200 new monthly supporters by 31 January, so we can keep standing up for people harmed by the press.
£10 a month. Cancel any time. Will you be one of the 200?
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Never seen this before. It's difficult to reconcile this painfully awkward, nervous statement with the consumate performer of 15 or so years later. #HaroldWilson
#OTD 1948. Harold Wilson emerges as a national figure as he announces his 'Bonfire of Controls' outlining how clothing rationing will be relaxed.
Rationing on suits, footwear, plastics and knitted bathing costumes abolished.
He admits that he “wishes” he could do more.
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very little known that another machine exactly like this was owned by Chromatius Gov. of Rome in 3rd century, cost 200lb of gold to make, was smashed by St Stephen & St Polycarp as offensive to their God
We called it a tall tale for 2,000 years.
Cicero described a bronze machine by Archimedes that modelled the movements of the sun, moon and planets.
Nobody took it literally.
In 1901 divers recovered exactly that kind of device from a shipwreck off Antikythera. 30 bronze gears, cut by hand.
What else in the ancient texts are we dismissing?
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Psst… did you know you can adopt an animal at Vale? 🦔
We've got a little confession to make…
We've been so busy caring for sick, injured and orphaned wildlife that we haven't done a particularly good job of shouting about something rather special!
You can adopt an animal at Vale Wildlife Hospital! 🥰
And with Christmas just around the corner, we think they make rather wonderful gifts!
Choose from six of our much-loved British wildlife species: 🦊 Fox, 🦡 Badger, 🦔 Hedgehog, 🦉 Owl, 🦢 Swan or 🦌 Deer.
Each adoption comes with a gorgeous cuddly toy, a personalised adoption certificate, a species fact sheet, patient information and more!
Your adoption helps real wild animals get a second chance at life, every body wins, right?!
So whether you're looking for a thoughtful Christmas present, a gift for a wildlife-loving friend, or simply fancy treating yourself (we won't judge!), why not give a gift that really does make a difference?
Adopt a wild animal today: valewildlife.org.uk/adoption…
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Uproot the evil in the fields that [you] know, so that those who live after may have clean earth to till. GANDALF.
