Geographer, choir member, supporter of charities such as NSPCC and CPRE (the Countryside Charity), dog owner and follower of local issues.
Bedfordshire
Joined December 2021
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Petition: Pause plans for Bedford - Cambridge rail link pending a full, independent review petition.parliament.uk/petit…
I'm supporting @whichuk's #StampOutScams campaign. It's time for banks to get serious about scams and protect innocent victims who are losing millions every year. campaigns.which.co.uk/scams/
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Hey @eastwestrail @ewmlpartnership @ProgressEast and you are putting a railway through Clapham Bedford ? Todays flooded area #flooding
Ask a teacher what they are paid per hour. It was always depressing to work out what it was when you did t just include time in school. Coaching etc earned more but I would ask some doctors how they work out their pay.
Beth didn’t want to listen or answer questions in a helpful way
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Not underwater trains - 🚆🛫 I thought they were flying trains over a huge raised structure which will obviously need piles for the arches to go down miles.
Clapham Bedford! @eastwestrail @ewmlpartnership @ProgressEast have you ordered those underwater trains yet ?
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Anyone else think @Feargal_Sharkey should be awarded a knighthood for his relentless campaigning to expose the water pollution scandal?
Like & share if you agree
(A sainthood may be more appropriate… you need the patience of one to put up with this 💩)
express.co.uk/news/nature/18… – at South West, England
And looking at London etc how many will be second homes or investments?! @luhc @michaelgove
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So out of touch. No property in the Rhondda would take a couple over the threshold. This is a tax cut for a tiny proportion of the richest people in the country. Yet more irresponsible Rish!nomics.
If only it was the last piece - #beds #cambs could heave a sigh of relief that EWR have given up on the other half☹️🏘️🚆 Amazing that MK hardly existed 50 years ago - now they want to build it again in bits all over the route.
Final piece of East West Rail track to be laid in New Year connecting Milton Keynes, Bletchley, Winslow, Bicester & Oxford for the 1st time in 50 years
railtechnologymagazine.com/a…
Has anyone been damaged by said wasps? Yes, they drip and attract wasps (experience) - bet no one ever picked them. Replace with less worrying fruit!
Soon the only ‘orchards’ left will be a collection of letters on signage marking developments devoid of wildlife. Words that are empty & meaningless, much like the promises of “biodiversity net gain” as concrete is poured #SaveOurOrchards #SaveCotonOrchard 🌳🍎🍐🐝🪓 change.org/p/save-the-green-…
Whatever the ‘niceties’ not long ago @michaelgove and @luhc were supporting the views of local government!! So ..?
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So so true! But many of us are praying that they won’t be delivered - meanwhile householders and farmers and nature lovers are in limbo at best and under blight at worst. @luhc @transportgovuk @RishiSunak It’s enough to make you not vote!
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Wow, just wow; Have you seen this @cllrbridget @LNethsingha @pippaheylings.? Do take a good look because @SCLibDems voted to put the C2C busway through the orchard and it may soon be entombed in concrete and tarmac. And no @CambsLabour it’s not a monoculture than can be offset
Help us send a message to @CambsCC. Join @CambridgePPF in the fight to #SaveCotonOrchard change.org/p/save-the-green-… 🌳🍎🚌❌
Elizabeth Calvert 🍃💚🍃 retweeted
A very positive approach to town development, thank you @johnharris1969
The problem:
In countless British suburbs and towns, cookie-cutter developments, poor building standards, not meeting local needs for either genuinely affordable flats and houses or homes for social rent
Latest from me - on why towns need more than housing, and local economies made up of more than shops & estate agents. Something visionary is going on in #Frome, as often happens theguardian.com/commentisfre…
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Why this unnecessary road will be a catalyst for urbanisation far beyond the wildest dreams of those who are determined to ruin our precious countryside.
This road needs to be stopped. Please lobby @NorfolkCC and your local MP
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Once again a massive round of applause to @joe_crowley and everyone at @BBCPanorama for exposing the lies, deceit and corruption of the water industry and the utter inability and incompetence of the regulatory system to deal with it.
It's what @BBCPanorama was built for. 👏👏👏
Water firm wrongly downgraded pollution events, documents suggest
BBC Panorama's The Water Pollution Cover-Up is on @BBCiPlayer now and @BBCOne at 8pm
bbc.in/46Glbww
Stats without any supporting detail. A way to get around the true meaning of Leveling Up @luhc @michaelgove In the name of the forgotten but for the benefit of those with £ and influence. #gov #unis #developers #housebuilders & to the detriment of all of us by envir distruction.
£1m funding earmarked to address ‘stark inequalities’ in Greater Cambridge - to ‘share the benefits of the growth driven by the city’s knowledge economy’.
According to @Cambridge_Uni, Cambridge has 5,500 ‘knowledge-Intensive’ businesses generating more than £20bn annually.
Yes - when I asked Beth West questions at one of the
Consultations’ she just came out with techdigoop over and over! This is surely not what @transportgovuk @luhc mean by ‘considering local concerns? Or is it?
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“It’s a slippery slope & there isn’t much slope left” in Bristol it’s Yew Tree Farm. In Cambridge it’s Paradise Nature Reserve & Coton Orchard. If councils don’t protect these spaces, don’t heed experts @WildlifeTrusts, what hope is there for stoping the free fall❓#DefendNature
If we cannot protect this SNCI then what is stopping development on others across the city?
It is a slippery slope and with wildlife in rapid freefall, there isn’t much slope left.
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#YewTreeFarm #Bristol