#england
Nurse Lucy Letby deliberately misled jury, prosecutor says
Lucy Letby is a "calculating woman" who lied "to try and get sympathy", a prosecutor tells her trial.
Shame I can't convey the heady fragrance of the wild garlic I photographed here, in woodland at Bowlees, Upper Teesdale in Co Durham.
Great swathes of Ramsons (allium ursinum), just a short distance from the Low Force waterfalls and the Wynch Bridge.
📍: Bridge 141C Reedyford Br. Scotland Road
ℹ️: road bridge
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📸: Photo by Andrew Batram on Flickr https://www.flickr.com/photos/10335112@N05/24344495919
#canal #river #narrowboat #barge #gongoozler #england #uk #flickr #holiday #birds #animals #geese #leedsliverpoolcanal
My selection of #delivery of #organic #Chardonnay wines in #England: http://frenchscout.com/chardonnay?q=England #naturalWine #naturalWines
High levels of drugs found in sea off south #England coast
Study says #MarineLife being harmed by prescription and recreational drugs in #wastewater
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2023/jun/09/high-levels-drugs-water-pollution-study-england-south-coast
#ToryPoliciesInAction #ToryPollutionParty #Sewage #SewageScandal #Environment #Sustainability #Wildlife
Ministers accused of neglecting ‘tidal wave’ of child mental ill health in #England
Exclusive: Research reveals only a quarter of primaries will have vital school-based support by end of 2024
https://www.theguardian.com/society/2023/jun/09/ministers-accused-neglecting-tidal-wave-child-mental-ill-health-england
#MentalHealth #ChildMentalHealth #ToryPoliciesInAction #ToryFailure
#Education
Two boys seriously injured at private school in Devon
Two boys at Blundell's School in Devon have been seriously injured in a "serious incident".
Oldest carved piece of wood to be found in Britain dates back 6,000 years. The meter-long piece of timber was found in trench dug for workshop at property in Boxford, Berkshire. #Archaeology #England #Boxford #Carving #Workshop
https://www.theguardian.com/science/2023/jun/07/oldest-carved-piece-of-wood-to-be-found-in-britain-dates-back-6000-years
Salford e-bike rider, 15, killed in ambulance crash named
The boy, who had been followed by police shortly before he crashed, is named locally as Saul Cookson.
📍: Bridge 2, Bratts Bridge
ℹ️: track bridge
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#canal #river #narrowboat #barge #gongoozler #england #uk #mapbox #aerialphoto #aerialphotography #satelliteview
Nice country there
#landscape #nature #travel #summer #photo #photographie #photography #lakedistrict #cumbria #uk #britain #england
Morris Minor 1100 Traveller
#Morris #MorrisMinor #MorrisMinor1100Traveller #British #England #ClassicCars #VintageCars #Cars
#FensterFreitag - Warkworth Castle, #england #Northumberland
Harthacnut, King of Denmark and King of #England, died suddenly OTD in 1042; he was succeeded by Edward the Confessor in England, making Harthacnut the last Scandinavian ruler of England https://cromwell-intl.com/travel/uk/glastonbury/king-arthur.html?s=mb #travel #history
Richard le Scrope, the Archbishop of York, and Thomas Mowbray, Earl of Norfolk, were executed OTD in 1405 in York on Henry IV's orders https://cromwell-intl.com/travel/uk/stonehenge/?s=mb #travel #England
#JoeLycett's 13-word #message that inspired #mum to create 'first-of-its-kind' #Pride #event.
#JenniferCorcoran came away from the #MoreMoreMore! #Show determined to bring an #event to her own #hometown of #southport
#Women #Transgender #LGBTQ #LGBTQIA #UK #England Merseyside #Pride #PrideMonth #Representation #Culture
https://www.lancs.live/news/lancashire-news/joe-lycetts-13-word-message-27078050
How cool is this?? Verified copy of Thomas Cromwell's Book of Hours https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cv2k1nzpkl1o.amp
And it's in a PORTRAIT!! Well done, staff at Hever! Another win for them!
Record numbers of #teachers in #England quitting profession, figures show
#DepartmentForEducation survey finds that 40,000 – almost 9% of workforce – left state schools in 2021-22 before retirement
https://www.theguardian.com/education/2023/jun/08/teachers-england-schools-figures-department-education-survey #ToryPoliciesInAction
Tarn Hows is always a good bet for a lovely summer evening's walk.
It's all looking a bit dry now though.
More photos are ready for you here -> https://www.iancylkowski.com/blog/2023/6/8/tarn-hows-lake-district-summer 👍
#landscape #nature #travel #summer #photo #photographie #photography #lakedistrict #cumbria #uk #britain #england
Sgt Matiu Ratana: Jury fires gun allegedly used to kill Met sergeant
Jurors are allowed to fire in court an antique revolver used to allegedly murder Sgt Matiu Ratana.
#NHS chiefs blame staff shortages for record 7.4m people on waiting lists in #England
Leaders urge government to publish long-awaited workforce plan as figures reveal unsustainable pressure on NHS
https://www.theguardian.com/society/2023/jun/08/nhs-chiefs-blame-staff-shortages-record-74m-people-waiting-lists-england
#NHSEngland #ToryPoliciesInAction
How prehistoric timber ‘totem pole’ discovery may shed new light on Stonehenge origins. #Archaeology #England #Stonehenge #Timber
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/science/archaeology/stonehenge-origins-prehistoric-discovery-timber-b2352560.html
Edward the Confessor became King of #England OTD in 1042, one of the last Anglo-Saxon kings of England https://cromwell-intl.com/travel/uk/avebury/?s=mb #travel #history
Amber heat alert for middle, east and south of England. BBC News.
📍: Weir 23, Bedwyn Mill
ℹ️: weir
🗺: https://www.openstreetmap.org/?mlat=51.3719975119354&mlon=-1.60488031409871#map=17/51.3719975119354/-1.60488031409871
📸: Photo by AppleTV.1488 on Flickr https://www.flickr.com/photos/82692938@N07/41536066045
#canal #river #narrowboat #barge #gongoozler #england #uk #flickr #bedwyn #europe #gbr #greatbedwyn #greatbritain #unitedkingdom #marlborough #wiltshire #croftonroad #gb #appletv1488 #2018 #may #15052018 #15may2018 #15 #panasonicdcgx800 #lumixgvario1232f3556 #66mmfocallength35mm #pm #noflash #portraitapectratio #f11 #¹⁄₁₃secatf11
Record numbers of #teachers in #England quitting profession
Survey finds 40,000, almost 9% of workforce, left state schools in 2021-22 before retirement
Thirteen years of a #Conservative government has decimated and degraded #education and #NHS
Lucy Letby: Babies died within 72 hours of nurse's text, jury told
The nurse denies attacking a baby to gain the attention of a doctor she allegedly "had a crush on".
#England raw #sewage taskforce has only met once in last year, FoI request reveals https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2023/jun/08/england-raw-sewage-taskforce-met-once-in-last-year-storm-overflows
EXCERPT from Wednesday’s POLITICRAT (https://bit.ly/3J54yBx). Clip: Dr. Stephanie Myers, author of “Invisible Queen”, on the British royal family’s Black Queen, Sophia Charlotte. This clip: Queen Sophia Charlotte’s Black features. Buy the book here: https://bit.ly/3Cdh2Dv #BlackMastodon #Mastodon #history #England #UK #QueenSophiaCharlotte
Edward, the Black Prince, son of Edward III of #England, was born OTD in 1376 https://cromwell-intl.com/travel/uk/dover/?s=mb #travel #history
Dezeen : Recycled railway sleepers clad creative centre beside Camden's Roundhouse https://www.dezeen.com/2023/06/08/recycled-railway-sleepers-roundhouse-works-camden/ #ReedWattsArchitects #Woodenarchitecture #AlliesandMorrison #Publicandleisure #Architecture #England #London #all
At this time of the year the 'Laburnum Tunnel' at Seaton Delaval Hall, Northumberland is probably reason in itself to pay a visit.
The stunning feature can be found in the grounds of the National Trust Grade I listed country house, which is situated near the coast, not far from Whitley Bay.
#England raw #sewage taskforce has only met once in last year, FoI request reveals
Storm overflows group has been promoted by ministers as evidence they are taking issue seriously
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2023/jun/08/england-raw-sewage-taskforce-met-once-in-last-year-storm-overflows
#ToryPoliciesInAction #ToryPollutionParty
📍: Bridge 21A
ℹ️: pipe bridge
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📸: Photo by amandabhslater on Flickr https://www.flickr.com/photos/15181848@N02/50183984288
#canal #river #narrowboat #barge #gongoozler #england #uk #flickr #towpath #coventrycanal #nuneaton
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Tom Spring defeats Jack Langan to retain the Championship of #England in 76rds & 1hr48min in front of 12,000 spectators at Birdham Bridge, #Chichester. The Grandstand from #EpsomRaces was purchased by Jack Martin, deconstructed, transported & erected in the field for the occasion.
#HarryHolt #Holt #Genealogy #Bareknuckle #Boxing #Pugilist #Regency #Georgian #C18th #C19th #History
#OnThisDay in #history - in 1394, Anne of Bohemia, #queen of #england died at age 28. She had been very happily married to Richard II for 12 years, and though was initially unpopular as consort, she earned the esteem of her adopted realm through her kindness and intercessions (where she begged for pardons and mercy for individuals and groups).
When she died at Sheen Palace (likely of plague), her husband had the palace dismantled.
English writer John Aubrey, who died OTD in 1697, was a pioneer archaeologist, who recorded (often for the first time) numerous megalithic and other field monuments in southern #England, especially #Avebury https://cromwell-intl.com/travel/uk/avebury/?s=mb #travel #prehistory
#Woking #council declares #bankruptcy with £1.2bn deficit | Local politics | The Guardian
But the #Tories are the party of fiscal responsibility. [sarc.]
Walden Beck pictured dropping over a rocky outcrop to form a small but lovely waterfall, near Leyburn, North Yorkshire.
'West Burton Falls' were sketched by the famous artist JMW Turner, who visited the location in 1816 when he was on a 'grand tour' of Yorkshire.
I've never visited the waterfall after heavy rain, but I believe that when the falls are in full force, visitors can walk behind.
EXCERPT from Wednesday’s episode of THE POLITICRAT daily #podcast (https://bit.ly/3J54yBx). Clip: Dr. Stephanie Myers, author of “Invisible Queen”, on the British royal family’s Black Queen, Sophia Charlotte, who was Queen of Britain and Ireland for 57 years. Buy the fascinating must-read book here: https://bit.ly/3Cdh2Dv #books #BlackMastodon #Mastodon #England #UK #QueenSophiaCharlotte
🚨 Attn #UK #Conservation, #History, #Geology, #StoneMason, #Architecture, & #Surveyor peeps!
Together w #BritishGeologicalSurvey, #HistoricEngland has launched a #BuildingStones #database for #England, the country's first online searchable tool featuring over 4,000 types of building stone, their uses & sources, with 45 illustrated guides to the distinctive stone buildings, geology, & #quarries that define local areas.
#BGS #GIS #England #Heritage #Lithology #Histodon
https://historicengland.org.uk/advice/technical-advice/buildings/building-stones-england
Very pleased to announce what I was working towards... I've started Fine City Social, a new instance running on #Calckey for people in #Norwich and #Norfolk, #England! Please do feel free to recommend to anyone in the area or with a connection, the more the merrier!
https://finecity.social
#Fediadmin #Fediverse #Fedi #introduction #uk
#England #geology #buildings #architecture #construction #stone
'Users can browse the geological map, search by postcode, address or place name. Or they can look for a specific building stone and representative buildings or structures made with each stone type.'
For those people who don't think British cops are ever armed, AND like Tina Turner... Here's a wee gift:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LmMDYFePBbA
There's also an old guy in a red frock, for #PrideMonth
#England #UK #Music #TinaTurner #SimplyTheBest #Royals #BrassBand @grimethorpeband
The English in summer. Care of #NoContextBrits
#Summer #England #Humour
[EDIT] I thought the lad was supporting the victims when I read this first. Jesus,how much of a shit would you have to be to wear something like that?!
[Original below]
This is absolutely insane.
Folks aren't allowed share an opinion now? Lord knows what some of the shirts of my youth would lead to these days....
"As long as a hundred of us remain alive, never will we on any conditions be subjected to the lordship of the English. It is in truth not for glory, nor riches, nor honours that we are fighting, but for #freedom alone, which no honest man gives up but with life itself." The Declaration of #Arbroath- a 1320 letter from Scottish nobles to the #pope asserting #Scotland's #independence from #England- has gone on display in #Edinburgh
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-tayside-central-65780375
Grade II listed Prebends Cottage, dating from circa 1771, in Durham, North East England and when I last photographed it, a few days before the Winter Solstice last December, the snow lay round about, crisp and even.
Well, this is how this lovely little cottage looks in late spring as summer approaches.
Triumph Spitfire
#Triumph #TriumphSpitfire #British #England #ClassicCars #VintageCars #Cars
'Magniloquence' (Jurassic, 2015) -- Tree on the Outskirts of Blea Tarn, Lake District National Park, UK
#bleatarn #lakedistrict #cumbria #england #uk #landscape #trees #landscapephotography #photography #fotografie #fotographie #fotografia #nature #naturephotography #bw #bwphotography #blackandwhitephotography #monochrome #jayceecrawford #mastoart #fediart #ayearofart #bipocart
Killer-Kaninchen und Trinkexzesse, aus dem Repertoire eines Barden
@glynmoody von Clausewitz, in "On War" wrote something like:
"In war everything is simple. But in war even simple things are difficult. The friction added to operations is something that cannot be appreciated by those who have not been there."
Thinking back over the last 13, or perhaps very slightly less, years, my experience has been of the steady addition of friction to ordinary civil society.
...
Looking Back
Prints available here - https://bit.ly/3MKRFOh
#redbubble #narrowboat #england #grandunioncanal #canallife #narrowboatlife #towpath #photography #iphone14pro #iphoneography
I went on a mini-hike today with an old friend from uni, along part of the #Ridgeway, walking North from Swyncombe Church. It was glorious! The church was lovely, too, but I didn’t snap any photos inside. #hiking #walking #TheRidgeway #oxfordshire #england #countryside #nature
It was time to capture the last of this year’s bluebells.
Barkbooth Lot is always a solid local favourite for photographing glorious bluebell displays.
You can see more photos waiting for you here -> https://www.iancylkowski.com/blog/2023/5/29/barkbooth-lot-cumbria-spring 👍
#landscape #nature #travel #spring #uk #britain #england #bluebells #photography #photo #photographie
Ridiculous that #Ukraine, who are in the middle of a war, has built more onshore wind turbines that the #England has in the last year. #Conservatives may say they care about energy security, but the truth is they don’t.
Crina Bottom is a 400-year farmstead in the Yorkshire Dales, situated above Ingleton and below the peak of Ingleborough.
Around here you can also enjoy some fantastic limestone rock formations, known in local dialect as "clints" and "grikes".
More photos are awaiting your eyeballs, here -> https://www.iancylkowski.com/blog/2023/5/22crina-bottom-yorkshire-dales-spring 👍
#landscape #nature #travel #photography #photo #photographie #spring #yorkshiredales #yorkshire #uk #britain #england
📍: Lock No.6
ℹ️: lock
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📸: Photo by letscommunicate on Flickr https://www.flickr.com/photos/75711708@N00/8392492359
#canal #river #narrowboat #barge #gongoozler #england #uk #flickr #green #boat #dock #lancashire #lancaster #condor #glasson
🎧 My wee mind's in 80s Britain this morning—the movies and music.
The (English) Beat's "Sooner or Later" (1982) got a "meh" reception on release, but is probably the band's most-remembered and loved song.
Here's the official lyric video with #HQ sound.
> Clip Plays Within This Toot <
#TheBeat #TheEnglishBeat #music #ska #80s #British #UK #England
Originally, this building was the grammar school for the town of Bampton, in the Cotswolds, England. Today it houses the Bampton archives. You may recognize it as the hospital for the popular tv series, Downton Abbey.
ART - https://deborah-league.pixels.com/featured/downton-abbey-hospital-building-deborah-league.html
#AYearForArt #England #photography #digitalart #mixedmedia #mastodon #mastoart #artwork #artist #art #travel #architecture #painting #buyintoart
Eels had a surprisingly important role in medieval England. They were essentially currency, used to pay rent and make other transactions. Here's a look at their historical significance and sad decline — these days, they're a Critically Endangered Species.
https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/medieval-eel-rent-map-england
I might not have made it there in person, but my mug was shown in #London last night as Panos: My Life, My Odyssey received its Highly Commended prize at the Business Book Awards. #BusinessBookAwards #England #UK
@GottaLaff
(1/3)
"...why we got perm residency status in #Canada,..."
A #Canadian, Dr. Stephen #Marche, thought of #TheNextCivilWar a couple of years ago and published his opinion in his book, released Jan. 2022:
And we all know that the makers of the #Netflix series, #TheHandmaidsTale, moved the #Canadian (!) author Margaret #Atwood's original 1985 setting in a near-future #England to a...
Exclusive: Users were directed to “crisis pregnancy centres” affiliated with anti-abortion networks for antenatal, carer and mental health support.
https://www.vice.com/en/article/wxjnqx/nhs-website-crisis-pregnancy-centres
#reproductiverights #abortion #CrisisPregnancyCentre #UnitedKingdom #england #NHS
I've made the choice that I'm going to put myself on the #GIDS waiting list. Its pointless, its very long and I probably wont get anywhere anytime soon, given the state of the NHS rn... But I need to do something.
Only thing is, im an enby transfemme... Anyone got any advice or good resources on talking to your doctor about this? #UnitedKingdom #england #nhs #trans #lgbt #transgender
Mushrooms, bluebells, moss and snails. From my time in soaking wet woods this morning.
#Mosstodon #moss #nature #naturephotography #naturelovers #snail #bluebells #englishcountryside #england #woods #woodland #pagan #prayer #bloomscrolling #fungi #mushrooms #mushtodon
Well I'd choose #snp or #alba or #green - whichever is most likely to win certainly in #holyrood elections which are not just #fptp. I think #scots are nuts sticking with a dominating partner like #england
In #2024GE I'd vote whoever might displace a sitting #toriesOut MP - if sitting MP is not a tory I'd vote my preferred candidate - Tories are unlikely to win new seats in #scotland any election soon
But #labour will likely win some seats from SNP - see polls
British Pakistani heroin users tell VICE News they've been shunned by their families and are too afraid to get help.
https://www.vice.com/en/article/wxjdyn/heroin-bradford-british-pakistani
#Drugs #HEROIN #england #bradford #britishpakistanis #addiction
Dear #BBCNews, #WestminsterAbbey has not “hosted every British coronation since 1066”. They hosted most but not all #English coronations from 1066, and none of the #Scottish coronations. Even after the Union of the Crowns in 1603 Scotland continued separate coronations until Charles II, not least because of the #EnglishCivilWar resulting in Charles II being crowned King of #Scotland in 1649 at Scone Abbey, and didn’t become King of #England until the restoration of the monarchy in 1660.
@Broadcastscot
The #ScotlandAt7 #news, with presenter Saoirse Healey, tonight at 7pm UTC+1.
#Scotland #BroadcastingScotland #Ukraine #LocalElections #England #MP #property #shell #RecordProfits #WindfallTax #FundingTransparency #BufferZones #Sudan #StrathclydeUniversity
https://www.broadcastingscotland.scot/scotland-at-7-04-05-2023/
#LocalElections in #England live: campaigners claim ‘countless examples’ of would-be #voters being turned away over #ID issue -
With polls closing at 10pm, more than 8,000 council seats in England are up for grabs but Electoral Reform Society calls for change to rules on IDs https://www.theguardian.com/politics/live/2023/may/04/england-local-elections-2023-voter-id-conservatives-labour-rishi-sunak-uk-politics-latest
This painting, a celebration of the English language, was created by a British painter Ford Madox Brown in 1847-1851. Chaucer, the ‘father of English literature’, is reading lines from The Canterbury Tales to King Edward III, who first championed the English language over the French.
#art #arthistory #England #history #English #MastoArt #Chaucer
@Broadcastscot
#ScotlandAt7 #news tonight at 7pm UTC+1. Donald C. Stewart presents, with guest Maureen Watt.
#BroadcastingScotland #Scotland #Ukraine #UKGov #AsylumSeekers #BP #profits #FoodPrices #inflation #ScottishChildPayment #TuitionFees #England #CostOfLivingCrisis #Hollywood #WritersStrike #ScotGov #FuelInsecurityFund #ferries
https://www.broadcastingscotland.scot/scotland-at-7-02-05-2023/