Wife, Mama of 3, work in FinTech, Trustee, Environmentalist, love talking Nature, Rugby, D,E & I, Mental Health & Well-being + suicide prevention🇬🇧 🇳🇿🏉
Kingston upon Thames, London
Joined August 2011
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No matter how they try to divide us. #WeStandTogether. We have been here before sadly. #London is beautifully diverse & Londoners are strong
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Huge numbers of geese at the Eden estuary by St Andrews, Fife. What a glorious sight. Hundreds of thousands of migratory geese arrive in Scotland each autumn from the Arctic, Iceland, Greenland and Norway. And they don’t need a taxpayer funded hotel to accommodate them.
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#thicktrunktuesday- Two of the ancient Oaks of High Wood in Richmond Park- these amazing veterans are probably older than the Park itself, so more than 400 years old. #treetuesday
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The Knowledge, London's original navigation system.
It's in the driver's head.
#TheKnowledge #SafeTaxis #TravelSafely
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The most beautiful, long lasting, cost effective, temperature reducing, flood protecting, photosynthesis producing, wildlife sheltering, oxygen providing, carbon capturing machine of them all. 🌳
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It’s simple. Put solar panels on car parks rather than on thousands of acres of prime farmland.
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Keanu Reeves a fêté ses 62 ans le 2 septembre 2026.
Sandra Bullock, sa partenaire dans le film Speed, dit de lui :
« Son père l’a abandonné lorsqu’il avait trois ans, sa fille est morte à l’âge de huit mois, sa compagne est décédée dans un accident de voiture, son meilleur ami a succombé à une overdose… Et malgré tout cela, il n’a jamais perdu sa lumière, son monde ne s’est jamais effondré.
Lors du tournage de The Lake House, il a surpris une conversation entre deux assistants : une femme en pleurs expliquait qu’elle risquait de perdre sa maison si elle ne payait pas 20 000 dollars. Keanu a aussitôt transféré l’argent sur son compte.
Avec les gains de la trilogie Matrix, il a offert plusieurs millions de dollars à l’équipe des effets spéciaux, qu’il considérait comme les véritables héros du film.
Refusant de recourir aux cascadeurs sauf pour les scènes les plus dangereuses, il a remercié chacun de ces “héros” en leur offrant une moto Harley-Davidson.
Aujourd’hui encore, il se déplace en métro ou en bus quand c’est plus pratique, sans jamais éprouver de honte.
De nombreux hôpitaux affirment avoir reçu des dizaines de millions de dollars de sa part. Pour certains films, il a accepté de renoncer à 90 % de son salaire afin de permettre à la production d’embaucher d’autres acteurs.
En 1997, un paparazzi l’a surpris assis dans la rue à côté d’un sans-abri, partageant son petit-déjeuner et écoutant son histoire.
Tout ce que nous savons de Keanu Reeves, ce n’est pas lui qui nous l’a dit, mais les personnes qui ont bénéficié de son aide et de sa générosité. Il n’a jamais cherché à en parler.
Malgré toutes les épreuves qu’il a traversées, il aurait pu adopter une vision sombre et désespérée de la vie. Mais non : il a choisi de rester un homme bon, dans un monde qui ne l’est pas toujours. »
Plus qu’un acteur talentueux, Keanu Reeves est un véritable modèle d’humilité et de générosité ❤️🙏
Animals feel way more than obvious physical symptoms. How lucky he is to have Luna 🐾
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Today in The Times I’ve spoken about something deeply personal.
In 2018 my brother Tariq took his own life. He never told anyone, not his closest family and friends, what he was going through. Looking back, we believe stigma was a large part of it.
He isn’t alone. More than 7,000 people die by suicide every year in the UK, and over 70% were not in contact with the mental health services that might have saved them. It remains one of the biggest killers of young people.
I’m supporting this campaign because of Philip Pirie, who lost his son Tom in 2020 and has since rallied experts and politicians around the country to push for change. When he approached me, I was very happy to join forces with him.
Together we’re calling – alongside psychiatrists, charities and MPs from across the political spectrum – for a national public health campaign to reduce the stigma around suicidal thoughts and encourage more people to reach out for help.
Public health campaigns work: we’ve seen it with drink-driving and HIV/AIDS. And the evidence suggests this one would more than pay for itself. Every life saved spares a family unimaginable grief and the country real cost.
Giving people permission to speak saves lives.
If you’re struggling, or worried about someone who is, the Samaritans are there free, day or night, on 116 123.
thetimes.com/article/11bef78…
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EXCLUSIVE:
Andy Burnham has been warned by a senior ally that increasing taxes on wealth in the budget would be “stupid” because it would encourage entrepreneurs to leave the country and damage economic growth
The prime minister spent more than a month attempting to convince Lord O’Neill of Gatley to join his government as either a minister or an economic adviser, but was unable to do so
In an interview with The Times, O’Neill said that if the government raised taxes in the budget on October 28 it would demonstrate that ministers were not “thinking about growth as sincerely as they claim they are”
He said it would also show that they were being “scared and lazy and constrained” in failing to take on “sacred cows” such as the pension triple lock and welfare reform
I do think it would be stupid,” he said. “At a time where a lot of business still struggles from Brexit and struggles from the changes in national insurance and the Labour market changes to zero hours — to have that and inheritance tax, it’s just like it would be yet more, and obviously at a time where the country’s growth rate has been so weak.”
He added: “I think there is some evidence that if you push it up too much you end up losing money. Because it’s such a deterrent to ongoing activities of business owners that they just don’t sell anything. So the revenues go down.
“I am myself somebody that’s now had close to 20 years’ experience as a venture capital investor and it’s hugely risky. The thing that Andy’s done so well is create this spirit of ‘I’m going to be a happier kind of positive person’. It’s against that.”
He argued that unless there was a significant increase in public spending there was no justification for tax rises at all. “I don’t get why they would raise tax,” he said. “Because all that’s telling you is that they’re not thinking about growth as sincerely as they claim they are. They’re just being scared and lazy and constrained in dealing with the sacred cows.”
thetimes.com/article/6b88555…
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Remembering the late, great Dolly, who brought joy, comfort and inspiration to so many - including the millions of children given free books through her Imagination Library. We will always ❤️ you.
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🚨 BREAKING: All police chief constables in the UK have called for Andy Burnham to ensure PC Andrew Harper's killers are not released early
"We make this request in memory of PC Andrew Harper, in support of his family, friends, colleagues and the communities he served"
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I didn’t know PC Andrew Harper.
But the night he died, we were working the same shift, in different locations, in different forces, doing the same job; emergency response.
He made a choice I couldn’t. He was on the way back in for handover and he took the last emergency call, like so many of us have.
I couldn’t, I had a prisoner on board.
When I got home, I read what had happened.
The best of us, taken, just for doing his job.
That’s why you get this to One Million.
Thank you.
#ThinBlueLine 🚨
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Andy Burnham has shamefully decided to let out two of PC Andrew Harper’s killers early
PC Harper’s widow has decide this as a “betrayal”
She’s right. These criminals who killed a police officer should not be let out of jail early. They shoud stay in prison. Andy Burnham has badly let down Andrew’s family but also let down the police officers up and down the country who take risks every day to keep us safe. Burnham has got this wrong, and should think again
BREAKING: Widow of PC slams government 'betrayal' as husband's killers remain eligible for early prison release
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This makes no sense at all - I can’t understand why a killer is considered less dangerous than a rapist or paedophile? news.sky.com/story/andy-burn…
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Thank you to the brave fire fighters and civil guards saving the lives of dogs and cats from the terrible fires sweeping France Spain & Italy
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Scotland has just done something quietly brilliant for its birds 🐦
New buildings across the country will now have to include "swift bricks", hollow bricks built straight into the walls that give birds a safe place to nest.
It sounds like a small thing but it isn't. Swift numbers in the UK have fallen by around 60% since the mid-1990s, and one of the biggest reasons is heartbreakingly simple: modern buildings have nowhere for them to go. Swifts have always nested in the nooks and gaps of our houses, and as those disappeared, so did they.
The birds themselves make it worse by being loyal to a fault. Swifts return to the exact same nest site year after year, having flown thousands of miles from Africa to get there.
When they arrive to find it sealed up, some will keep flying at the spot again and again, sometimes injuring themselves in the process.
The bricks cost about £30 each. They need no maintenance, they don't affect insulation, and once they're in the wall, you'd never know they were there. Sparrows, starlings and house martins use them too, all species in trouble for the same reason.
One RSPB conservationist put it starkly. In his part of Glasgow, not a single swift bred in 2025, the first time in his 30 years there. He called it "nothing short of heartbreaking."
Scotland is the first country in the UK to write this into law. Campaigners are now hoping the rest follows.
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Some of the 55,000 tennis balls used during Wimbledon are upcycled into tiny homes for harvest mice.
After the tournament, the used tennis balls, made of rubber and felt, are collected and transformed into cozy shelters by organizations like the British Wildlife Centre.
Readers added context they thought people might want to know
Although some Wimbledon tennis balls were turned into homes for harvest mice in the early 2000s this is no longer the case. The tournament now sells most used balls to spectators with proceeds benefiting the Wimbledon Foundation.
snopes.com/fact-check/har… news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/1…
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In a very troubled world something very soothing about watching a Beaver eat lettuce
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Arthur Fery, Wimbledon semi-finalist.
An incredible achievement - the first British wild card to reach the final four at The Championships 🇬🇧
#Wimbledon
