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[Paul Powlesland @paulpowlesland]

A developer wants to destroy one of the last remaining riverside meadows beside the Roding in London. 11 acres of rapidly rewilding meadow, a haven for nature in an urban area, where kingfishers nest, kestrels & bats take flight & all manner of insects, butterflies & amphibians live, is proposed to be bulldozed to create a crazy golf course. This despite the fact that there are already *two* existing golf courses within a few hundred metres of this site!

The meadows used to be a publicly accessible playing field, but the person behind the development appears to have locked it up & allowed rubbish & flytipping to proliferate to make this site look ugly & unused; & thereby justify its destruction. I have been helping local residents to organise a campaign to ‘Save the Roding Meadows’ & they’ve done so much in a short space of time. Last weekend, they showed the power of community & organised a work day to do the landowners job for them and clean up the large amount of rubbish in the meadows.

You can help them in their efforts by taking a moment to share this post and sign and share their petition:

https://t.co/TgT2nK1Rk1

If you live anywhere locally (in LB Redbridge or along the Roding) any additional objections to the local authority would be really helpful. The application is below, & you can use this link to log objections via the portal. The deadline is this Friday (4th October):

https://t.co/x3Ya63ZC7G

Residents have compiled an example letter setting out the key objections at this link. Feel free to use, but personalised letters are preferable if at all possible:

https://t.co/kP1Nce4Gt1

Fingers crossed that the depth of care felt by local people for nature can save this irreplaceable meadow from destruction.

[JT 🌹 @JaneToner]

@ToryVote_ Pathetic, laughable, shameful. There’s still time to delete this!

[Stephen Barlow @SteB777]

I've been meaning to address this most crucial thing about the climate and ecological emergency, but I was not sure I could explain it right. I'm still not sure.

It is about a way of thinking, of seeing things. When you see things properly, this is all that matters.
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[JT 🌹 @JaneToner]

Marvin Gaye in 1971

[george @StokeyyG2]

Someone crashed into a Maccies in Edenthorpe, Doncaster today…

[JT 🌹 @JaneToner]

@Telegraph There’s still time to delete this

[Abby Martin @AbbyMartin]

No Palestinian rocket can cause the carnage & mass death we saw in that hospital. Israel warned evacuation before bombing it. Officials gloated about it before denying. Shame on all media stenographers repeating Israel’s lies to deflect the perpetrator of this egregious war crime

[United Nations @UN]

Schools are #NotATarget.

Hospitals are #NotATarget.

Children are #NotATarget.

Civilians are #NotATarget.

Humanitarians are #NotATarget.

[BladeoftheSun @BladeoftheS]

Richard Madeley can't stop his racism.

He accused British MP Layla Moran of knowing about the Hamas attack simply because she is Palestinian.

Why is this disgrace on TV?

RT if ITV need to fire him NOW.

[Mehdi Hasan @mehdirhasan]

"Who wakes up & thinks, 'I'm going to kill a kid today, I'm gonna stab a kid to death'? It's not hate you're born with, it's hate you're taught."

Me on the alleged killer of 6-year-old Wadea Al-Fayoume, "an avid listener of conservative talk radio":

[Lowkey @Lowkey0nline]

The BBC admits that it misled the public about pro-Palestinian demonstrations in the UK.

[Ava-Santina @AvaSantina]

you see how they’re a child when they’re voting but an adult when they’re consenting to sex

[JT 🌹 @JaneToner]

Trying out Canva’s new AI generated image tool with the prompt ‘lots of hands’. The longer you look at this, the weirder it gets 🫣

[JT 🌹 @JaneToner]

@Wilkins33 These are class how did you do this??

[JT 🌹 @JaneToner]

@bethrdb Should we make this a feature in our next newsletter

[JT 🌹 @JaneToner]

No Nadine Coyle please

[popular loner🚶🏼‍♀️🤷‍♀️ @milkyy_tweets]

i need to hear an australian person say “sauerkraut” or i’ll kill myself.

[JT 🌹 @JaneToner]

The boomers clinging onto their summer of 76 anecdotes are so embarrassing

[JT 🌹 @JaneToner]

@ultragold_ Best of luck 🙏xx

[JT 🌹 @JaneToner]

I thought nothing could be worse but I was wrong

[JT 🌹 @JaneToner]

Turkish style dining table and chairs

[JT 🌹 @JaneToner]

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