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There were over 350,000 total livestream views for today's Metro Bank Women's One Day Cup fixtures. After 31 games, the total of 2.5 million for the season has already surpassed last year's RHF Trophy (2.2m for 58 matches). So far averaging over double the views per match compared with 2024.

JOB KLAXON!!! We're hiring an Editorial Officer starting August 2025, application deadline 8 June 2025. If you're an academic who is passionate about building an exciting career in open access publishing please consider applying. #AcaSky #OpenAccess cis7.bbk.ac.uk/vacancy/edit...

We’ve launched a Grassroots Music Tube Map—celebrating the venues, artists and heritage that define London’s sound. On display now at Outernet London and part of our work to champion grassroots music.

Choose Science. Choose Europe. A new Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions Postdoctoral Fellowships 2025 call is now open. With a budget of €404.3 million, it will support around 1,650 researchers from Europe and beyond. Apply by 10 September → europa.eu/!fBTMgF

This Inter - Barca game is probably in the top ten that I’ve seen in my life. Would recommend joining for extra time if you like football and so on.

Krishnan Guru-Murthy, "The last time people listened to Nigel Farage they got Brexit, Brexit has failed to deliver by his own admission" Gawain Towler (Farage's Press Adviser 2009-24), "We are the opposition"

Some more pics of Birmingham Library from earlier today. I was very brave and went right to the top.

I've got another #buyastrangerabook day offer! @drmcweb.bsky.social is offering to buy someone whatever book they like, up to £20. Yes, anything. They haven't specified a particular book. You can ask for ANYTHING. So if there's something you'd like, get in touch! UK only

In the Beano this week Bananaman’s enemy General Blight becomes the head of DOPE - the Department of Pure Evil.

A momentous day for English women's cricket, as Tier 1 of the Metro Bank One-day Cup gets underway. This is the first time women's county competition has featured fully professional squads. As recently as 2015, no women in England were paid to play any form of domestic cricket.

"The bicentenary of the Stockton & Darlington Railway can give us pause to reflect on what the next 200 years can bring for transport in Teesside. And it can be a bright future."

As the 50th anniversary of his death approaches, we remember that the bearlike film star James Robertson Justice also left an environmental legacy as a founder of the Wildfowl and Wetland Trust at Slimbridge @radiopricey.bluesky.social @westenglandbylines.co.uk

A vacancy has recently opened up at the Big Green Bookshop for a new customer. The ideal candidate will have a regular urge to buy lots of amazing books. Please email [email protected] with a list of books you'd like to buy. The position is available straight away.

🙌 HAPPY 🙌 5th 🙌 BIRTHDAY 🙌 YORKSHIRE 🙌 BYLINES! Please share - and make sure you’re following 💥 @yorkshirebylines.co.uk💥

Word of the day is ‘bugiard’ (17th century): one who distorts the truth beyond all recognition to fit their own agenda.

I would not have predicted that large universities would show more courage than either Big Law or corporate media. Good for them.

🚨🚨 WOW: UK is prepared to retain some regulatory alignment with the EU and accept #CJEU supervision over a deal to cut checks on imports of foods & agricultural products- in a significant a move on the promised EU-UK #reset five years after #Brexit.🧵 www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

PHOTO OF THE DAY. Newspaper boy in London selling newspapers announcing the sinking of the Titanic (1912) 📷 google images

Amazing post!

For some unknown reason, it's been VERY quiet in the shop today. So, to make up for that, I'd like to sell an extra 12 books on the website, please. Here's our 12 bestselling pre-orders to inspire you starting with The Listeners by Maggie Stiefvater bertsbooks.co.uk/product/the-...

Just home from a great trip to #Bradford #BradfordCityofCulture2025 Saw Richard Hawley and Black Dyke Band at St Georges Hall. Amazing.

“we didn’t realise there was this group of people who were here legally but who wouldn’t have the ability to prove it.” says May re Windrush. Well not because nobody told you but because you chose not to listen to people you identified as "the immigration lobby". You are totally responsible

www.mickoxley.com/fresh-paint If you buy any original painting from my website (link above), I will donate 25% to @newcastlefoodbank.org

We're celebrating #WorldHealthDay🎉 LSHTM's alumni & students are making valuable contributions to #maternal & newborn health. Find out how studying #PublicHealth & #Epidemiology has helped them achieve their #GlobalHealth dreams.🌍 Keisuke's blog 👉 www.lshtm.ac.uk/aboutus/alum...

Playing very crazy golf.

When we move I’m looking forward to using this technique. www.rspb.org.uk/helping-natu...

Quirkily set in a corner, this VR #PostboxSaturday is in Berwick upon Tweed

A fancy one in Warwick for #PostboxSaturday. The plaque on the wall could do with some restoration!

Train content 🚂 on.ft.com/3FQTCsx

I may be tired and a little hoarse, but as I said again and again on the Senate floor, this is a moment where we cannot afford to be silent, when we must speak up.

I’m releasing a cup final single, as teams don’t seem to do that any more. #BCFC Out today push.fm/fl/kro

Happy Mother's Day

Of course cutting support for disabled individuals won't "get more people into work" #r4today. PIP is not an out of work benefit, it helps many people access accommodations to be able to work. Cutting it stops them being able to. You cannot "grow the economy" by discarding disabled people.