Strong line up

UK government pledges further £590m for delayed Lower Thames Crossing Rachel Reeves calls Britain’s biggest road-building project a ‘turning point for our national infrastructure’

We do not need new roads; we need better transport options. Think of what could be done with £9.2bn, which is to be spent on just 14 miles of road! It could transform bus services and/or cycling and pedestrian infrastructure across Britain. www.theguardian.com/business/202...

#AMR #AntiobioticResistance - #FactoryFarming has to end

Is an ex social media in my view

‘The high point of TV as a medium’: David Lynch’s Twin Peaks may never be bettered The surreal murder mystery’s impact is so profound that its fingerprints are on every show made during TV’s golden age. What a legacy In the coming days and weeks, much will be made about David Lynch’s gargantuan contribution to cinema. This will be…

‘The high point of TV as a medium’: David Lynch’s Twin Peaks may never be bettered

Otters among UK wildlife carrying toxic ‘forever chemicals’, analysis shows Some wildlife species have accumulated many times more than safe amount of PFAS in their tissue and organs * Revealed: drinking water sources in England polluted with forever chemicals * Revealed: scale of ‘forever chemical’ pollution across UK and…

Otters among UK wildlife carrying toxic ‘forever chemicals’, analysis shows

Tom Lockyer smiling while being cuddled by Mick Harford during training, with our new senior analyst Ben Cirne smiling in the foreground.

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Matt Bloomfield during his first Luton Town training session at The Brache on Tuesday.

Day one ✅

Matt Bloomfield holding a Luton Town home shirt and smiling.

The beginning of a new era 🧡

Hospital admissions for lack of vitamins soaring in England, NHS figures show Admissions for vitamin or iron deficiencies up by more than 10% year on year and as much as tenfold on 1998-99 The number of people admitted to hospital in England because of a lack of vitamins or minerals is soaring, according to analysis of NHS…

Hospital admissions for lack of vitamins soaring in England, NHS figures show

Graph showing changes in bus usage since deregulation Thx to Hetan Shah

So many things could be said about this graph

But perhaps the most important is that if you want people to use buses you have to invest in them

The climate crisis demands more money for public transport outside the cities

600,000 go bankrupt paying medical bills in the USA every year.

The majority of these people die within weeks or months and leave crippling debts that are inherited by their family members.

All for care that is provided free from profit in the other 32 developed countries.

When I drive it takes longer

Top quarter: Mick Harford with the Littlewoods Cup trophy at Wembley Stadium in 1988. Second quarter: Mick Harford lifting the Johnstone's Paint Trophy at Wembley Stadium in 2009. Third quarter: Mick Harford lifting the League One title with Alan Sheehan at Kenilworth Road in 2019. Bottom quarter: Mick Harford pointing to the skies at Wembley Stadium following promotion to the Premier League in 2023.

40 years and many memories made 🫶

The magic touch 🪄

Picture an all-seeing eye scanning the dying Earth – and then lighting on our ‘solutions’ at Cop29 | George Monbiot What would it witness in Azerbaijan? A species that knows it is destroying itself but is too greedy to change course, says Guardian columnist George Monbiot

Here's my column this week, about the astonishing moment in which we find ourselves: facing the greatest predicament humankind has ever confronted, and doing sweet FA about it. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

What a chart.
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It is concerning,that Labour leadership have bought into deregulation and doing nothing to improve our standard of living.

Cop summits ‘no longer fit for purpose’, say leading climate policy experts Future UN conferences should only be held in countries that show support for climate action, urge influential group

Tragic but realistic condemnation of #COP process by some big climate hitters

One can only shake one's head and sadly agree

The sight of fossil fuel lobbyists in a petrostate being given responsibility for saving the world's climate is farcical and horrifying

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