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3 of the BWR team are off to Calais on 20 March with @RefYouMe @care4calais.org taking as many donations as they can fit in the cars Items needed inc. clean waterproof coats, sleeping bags, jogging bottoms, hats and gloves, lemons, paprika, chocolate, herbs For more info contact Amanda 07805 459760

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Your regular reminder student accommodation DOES NOT COUNT towards the huge new housing target B&NES has to meet: loss of green space elsewhere to house-building is a direct consequence.

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The Government has announced beavers can be reintroduced to England’s rivers. That’s great, but ironically hilarious old news for the 50+ beavers already living and thriving in the catchment of the Bristol Avon. Read all about it here: www.bristolpost.co.uk/news/bristol...

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⬇️The misinfo just keeps on coming. FACT CHECK: -Bath Rugby's Safety Cert is literally concealed from public view on the local Licensing records. -Nearby residents aren't even allowed to see info directly relevant to their own safety in spite of extreme proximity/impacts on their own escape routes.

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Go figure... www.reuters.com/world/us/tru...

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Exclusive: The government is cutting all funding from the Islamophobia reporting service Tell Mama, leaving it facing closure weeks after revealing a record number of anti-Muslim hate incidents in Britain www.theguardian.com/news/2025/ma...

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Afghan women who fled Taliban to study abroad face return after USAID freeze www.bbc.com/news/article...

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Today, for #InternationalWomensDay2025, we will be unveiling a plaque to the Suffragettes' Arboretum originally planted at Batheaston. We commemorated the arboretum by planting Suffragettes trees in Bath and at @BathSpaUni in 2011 on the centenary of IWD. www.walkingforest.co.uk/suffragettes...

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Huge win! Government announces plans to open up the Land Registry. If delivered, will finally reveal more about who owns land in England and Wales. Read my blog post for more details & how you can write to the Minister to make sure this now happens: whoownsengland.org/2025/03/06/h... 🧵1/

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Shocking story emerging from Avon Valley Railway… they reported an employee for a £50,000 fraud & were told he was already a wanted man with a different name. The full story here👇🏼 www.bristolpost.co.uk/news/bristol...

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The 2025 Jane Austen anniversary calendar's going to be v full!

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Interesting idea. But with the sole remaining emergency vehicle access to this location of frequent previous river incidents (some fatal/serious injuries) so fragile, narrow & sometimes obstructed, there's a lot to do before it's realistic. (There used to be emergency access across the Rec 🙈🙉🙊)

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Who needs the high numbers of tourists we get from our nearest neighbour countries? Unless I've misunderstood the UK Gov's own instructions it seems European tourists are unwelcome from April if they dont have a mobile phone or computer. #DigitalExclusion www.tagesschau.de/ausland/euro...

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"When dictators and tyrants seek to destroy the freedoms of men, their first target is the legal profession and through it the rule of law." [Leon Jaworski]

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Coming to a city near you - the 'co-living' scam designed to condemn young people to languish in barely disguised student accommodation for years.

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Your regular reminder the British Library remains unable to give access to the vast majority of its priceless & irreplaceable digital collection nearly 18 months after the cyberattack. And it suits our politicians & media to look the other way even as they spout nonsense about UK prowess in tech.

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🧪 @royalsociety.org speaks out. "Scientific evidence & those who advocate for it are under attack by those who wish to undermine rational debate... The Royal Society will use its voice and the expertise of our Fellows to resist the various challenges to science." royalsociety.org/news/2025/02...

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Just so we're clear was it not a crisis when it was the other way around?

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UWE student Seb has gone missing in his home town, Chippenham. www.bristolpost.co.uk/news/bristol...

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Two years ago, investigative journalist Donal MacIntyre began examining how the PSNI handled the death of a 14-year-old schoolboy Noah Donohoe. Then, it is alleged, the PSNI began spying on that journalist using unusually intrusive methods.

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Beloved of locals and visitors to Bath for 250 uninterrupted years: the view from @nationaltrust.bsky.social Bathwick Fields to Bath's beautiful Pulteney Bridge (built 1774).

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Belittling folk asking for a safe stadium? -Lucky the tree was small. Since Bath Rugby blocked the large crane access route, sole emergency access is a narrow tunnel thru an 18th C bridge arch. -The weir's Bath's worst river accident blackspot. Since 2000, ppl died, injured & a tour boat sank here.

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Incredibly shocking development which ought to be a source of shame for everyone responsible, journalists and politicians alike

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New migration statistics out today show a 4000% rise in asylum refusals for Afghans from Qtr4 ‘23 compared to Qtr 4 ‘24. Have the Taliban been replaced with a feminist, human rights respecting democracy? Nope. Government are ‘clearing the backlog’ by refusing refugees status.

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"Is enough being done at the moment to keep our public venues safe?" "No." And our community's experience is that nobody wants to listen.

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My statement on today's game 👇 Text available here: www.toniaantoniazzi.co.uk/updates/stat...

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Question: What's coming up this Saturday and will be great fun? Answer: The BWR quiz night at Batheaston New Village Hall. Hurry and get the last few tickets remaining!

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Three long years. To be marked with our Ukrainian friends and neighbours in this event at Bath Abbey tonight. bathboxoffice.org.uk/whats-on/282...

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1/2 Despite all the denialism from right wing polemicists, Lyndall Ryan kept going, patiently gathering the evidence proving that Australia’s colonisation entailed hundreds of massacres. www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...

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I wonder if we'll hear more about young female voters or young male voters.

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The prioritisation of court cases must be changed to stop victims of horrific crimes facing years-long waits for trials as less serious crimes are bumped ahead in queue, barristers and victims’ advocates have said A listing review is set to report back next week www.theguardian.com/law/2025/feb...

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Sad to see a Bathwick local pub is to be lost for good.

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It appears that Afghans who fought side by side with U.K. special forces have been blanket vetoed for immigration to the UK - because they could probably then be called as witnesses to British war crimes. In case you were still under the illusion that the U.K. are automatically the good guys.

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92 months since our 72 loved ones were killed at Grenfell, 18 of them children. 92 months, still no justice. We await the Government’s response to the Phase 2 Recommendations. Every single one must be implemented as a legacy to those who died and to prevent another Grenfell.

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⬇️ Important reminder of disturbing realities! From the millions evacuated in the Balkans nearly 30 yrs ago who haven't yet been able to go home. To kids who've lost their startle reflex after hearing bombs dropping for so long (what will the longterm consequences of that be as they grow up?)

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This should worry all creatives: A consultation on changes to UK copyright law is “fixed” in favour of artificial intelligence companies and will lead to a “wholesale” transfer of wealth from the creative industries to the tech tells The Guardian.

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Brave New World. The US sliding down into an authoritarian oligarchy.

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Performative cruelty in action.

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Incredible that an entire article (an exclusive, the Guardian says) can be written about air pollution and only mention one cause in passing (airport expansion) and not two key others: vehicle emissions and wood-burning stoves www.theguardian.com/society/2025...

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"One of only four bridges worldwide with shops along both sides; if only they would allow traffic it would be as fantastic as Pulteney Bridge"....says absolutely nobody in Florence.

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We've all been there, squeezing past a vehicle that feels unthinkably huge for city streets. Without action, SUVs will soon take over our roads, making them more dangerous and polluted. The SUV Alliance manifesto details what can be done 👇 . https://buff.ly/4aSmaxm #SaferStreets #WithoutSUVs

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You couldn't make it up. Bath Rugby to supporters: "It's all about rugby." Bath Rugby to planners: "We're happy to harm the quality of life of the local community with relentless noisy events nothing to do with rugby."

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