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[Paul Powlesland @paulpowlesland]

Dear @EnvAgency.

In February this year, after 4 years of asking you to look after the Aldersbrook, I led a team of volunteers to do your job for you & clean out tonnes of silt & leaves, as well as hundreds of bags of rubbish. Through the effort of community volunteers & donations, & at zero cost to the taxpayer, we turned a forgotten silted up ditch back into a river again.

Last nights intense rain storm showed why our actions are the very definition of “strengthening water resilience”. A huge amount of rain fell in a short time, but the restored section of the Aldersbrook has been able to hold 100’s of thousands of litres more water, stopping this water running into the Roding, & thereby *reducing* local flood risk. The first photograph below is of the Aldersbrook after the rains this morning- a big contrast to the area before we did the work.

Perhaps more importantly, this water, instead of running straight off into the Roding & hence the sea is now being held in the Aldersbrook & gradually released so it can be used by nature. It is feeding marshes, trees & wildlife, topping up groundwater & helping to reduce our flood/drought cycle. If you want to strengthen water resilience, we need thousands more projects like the Aldersbrook around the country.

So the question I ask you, Environment Agency, is why you are threatening me with two years imprisonment, rather than offering to meet & discuss how we can work together to restore the Roding & its tributaries, which could become a blueprint for you cooperating with local river guardians nationwide?

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@MartinSLewis Rocket up feather down as usual.

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@NotFarLeftAtAll Will Charles 1 ask him to form a Govt?

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@Glinner It beggars belief that this trial is even being considered. These people are monsters.

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@elonmusk I'm sat quite comfortably in S England on what the BBC were telling us would be the hottest June day on record. It was prob 88. Took the dog for a run this morning and we have the windows open. This is as hot as it gets. Three weeks ago we needed the heating on. A/C in car.

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@JeremyClarkson Englishman gets off the Plane in Logan jumps into a taxi and says 'Take me somewhere I can get Scrod.' Driver says 'Gee. I never heard the pluperfect subjunctive used before.'

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@TheSimonEvansX Argentina have a handball exemption from FIFA during World Cups.

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@InTheTrenchesUK @EyesOnThePriz12 I misread that as 'The Dosser.' I think it was association.

[Lembit Öpik @lembitopik]

The BBC keeps saying “trust us,” but keeps lying that man-made carbon dioxide causes heatwaves. This is scientifically impossible. Each time the BBC makes this climate claim, it betrays its duty to the truth and ruins trust

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@JFV92 Gibraltar

[Electroverse @Electroversenet]

Electric cars are sold as clean. Yes, EVs cut tailpipe pollution, but if the goal is CO2 reduction, the full chain tells a different story.

The production of an EV requires more mining, refining, battery production and power generation over a standard petrol or diesel car.

Battery minerals are dug up and processed. Across the full chain, EVs cut CO2 by only 20%. But on top of that, batteries degrade. Over an EV's life, one battery replacement will collapse any CO2 advantage.

EVs also add major electricity demand.
They do not erase the old energy system.
They load more pressure onto it.

If you want to charge your EV at night or when the wind isn't blowing, then it will be 100% fossil fuel powering that.

EVs are not green.
They are virtue signaling on wheels.

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@MacroCRG Plus they are all international socialists.

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@ClareCraigPath I read a theory that it may have been poisoning from uncontrolled use of toxic chemicals in large scale de- lousing.

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@triffic_stuff_ She meant 'for the EU.'

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@ClarksonsFarm1 More of Lisa.

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@SamaHoole It may not be the best for making cloth but surely there is a use in insulation for it? I'll bet UK regulation and very high fuel prices are the root causes of this stupidity.

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@MorganBarrettX There is a TB vaccine.

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@tomhfh @LoftusSteve If he's committing a crime arrest him, if he's a public nuisance move him on.

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@LiamHalligan @afneil @metpoliceuk If you don't want to be criticised by members of the public don't make statements in public spaces. He is an idiot but if he's not breaking any laws the fault is not his.

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@Peston Nobody else is.