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We're volunteers working to protect/enhance Nursery Row Park with events, campaigning, & collaboration. New friends welcome. Designated parkland: SINC and BOL
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🚨I promised I'd say more on the Royal Society and Elon Musk, so here it is. 🚨 I've resigned my position as Associate Editor at Royal Society's journal Open Science in protest at their lack of action over Elon Musk. My op-ed in @theguardian.com www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Burgess Park looking good in the sun today

Good morning all! 🇺🇦 Please share everywhere. 🙏🏻

Majestic #Yew at Great Bedwyn, glimpsed from the train

Relief map of Surrey Docks by Michael Rizzello (1989), rainwater filling the former dock areas

Bank in the City of London looking good at sunset today

#Popocatépetl seen from near Tlamacas, México, and #Penstemon flower shorturl.at/DYFhb

Crocuses looking good in Surrey Square park today between showers

There’s now a cafe on platforms 2 and 3 at Elephant & Castle mainline station

Great tour of the newly-restored Walworth Town Hall this morning

As an immigrant who chose to make my home in the UK—but also as someone who is a migration historian and researches the impact of dog-whistle politics—there is no way for me to overstate how wrong and disgusting these ads by the UK Labour Party are. www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

Endangered: Victoria Tower Gardens in London is threatened by the proposed construction of a national Holocaust Memorial, which would dominate the whole southern half of the gardens @savevtg.bsky.social 7mostendangered.eu/sites/victor...

Clear sky over the park - Mars bottom right, with Castor and Pollux

Write to @ofcom.bsky.social đź”— www.ofcom.org.uk/make-a-compl... Show: tomorrow's papers tonight Date of broadcast: 30/01/2025 Time of broadcast (24 hour clock): 22:40 Channel / station: GB News

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Nice article www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle...

Phone snap of a frosty Hyde Park for #sharemondays2025

Clarkson hates the British

Fire-damaged Walworth Town Hall reopens to the public following years of restoration work ianvisits.co.uk/articles/fir... A decade after it was badly damaged in a fire, Walworth Town Hall has reopened following extensive refurbishment and upgrade works.

Since the Panama Canal has been in the news, here is a 1918 map of the Canal and its impact on commercial shipping from a Merchant Maritime Atlas from the UK. This was just four years after the opening of the Canal.

Trafalgar Square

Over 9,000 residents told us they want more trees and green space, more accessible pavements, less traffic, better lighting, and pedestrian crossings. Our new #StreetsforPeople plan sets out how we will transform streets and communities. Watch our video to find out more.

Black Down, #Haslemere www.nationaltrust.org.uk/visit/sussex...

Looking directly into the sun at nearly midday over the River #Arun at Bury, West #Sussex, near Arundel

It's good to see the pavements by Nursery Row Park on Brandon St renewed - but why is one side done in tarmac @lb-southwark.bsky.social? And still no ramps to help people with mobility impairments?

A half a kilometre of lights burn in memory of our lost loved ones. They run from Westminster Bridge to Lambeth Bridge. ♥️

This new non-compliant zebra (without Belisha beacons) has popped up 100m from Department for Transport HQ, meaning ministers & civil servants will use it daily. Some councils are frustrated with the time it has taken Government to consider a change in regs, so have seemingly done it anyway.

Good to see that scaffolding has at last been removed from the Walworth Town Hall "community space" wthcommunityspace.com after so many years

@lccmunicipal.bsky.social Something relevant to your interests from 1978. See also references to K&C & Hillingdon

@lb-southwark.bsky.social are consulting on how safe women and girls feel in Southwark in five locations disproportionately impacted by #VAWG (Violence Against Women and Girls). The Women & Girls #Safety Survey closes 20/02/25. Survey forms are here: engage.southwark.gov.uk/en-GB/folder...

Organised Chaos at Elephant and Castle.

#ChihuahuaPacifico #Chepe train at #Divisadero station in 1990 #CopperCanyon #railway

11am-7pm - consultation exhibition on the future of the Bricklayers Arms junction Details: https://www.se1.news/whatson/#wednesday-11-december-2024