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[Save Lea Marshes 🍃💚🍃 @SaveLeaMarshes]

RSPB Rye Meads is the closest RSPB reserve for many in North/ East London and one of the few accessible by public transport.

Sign the petition against the site being disposed of by the charity handed back to Thames Water: https://t.co/7AyVspNast

#RSPB #RyeMeads #ThamesWater

[Give A Shit About Nature @giveashitnature]

A bricklayer in East Yorkshire has spent 35 years putting up barn owl nest boxes on weekends. This year, the region saw 308 owlets hatch.

His name is Robert Salter. He's 56 and does bricklaying full time. In 1990, he saw a piece on the news about a man in Lincolnshire installing barn owl boxes, and decided he'd do the same. He started with five.

He now has more than 350 boxes scattered across fields, farms, outbuildings, and trees in East Yorkshire. Every June, he takes four weeks off from bricklaying and visits them with his wife Sue. Scrambling up ladders, ringing chicks, cleaning boxes, repairing the ones the weather got to. He's a licensed bird ringer for the British Trust for Ornithology.

In 2024, the region ringed 95 owlets. In 2025, the count was 308. The Barn Owl Trust says that nationally, this year was "pretty poor" for barn owl breeding, but east Yorkshire is the exception, and it's the exception because of one man with a ladder.

The barn owl population in the UK was estimated at 4,000 pairs in the mid-2000s and crashed to roughly 1,000 by the early 2010s. The species is still recovering.

Most of conservation is one person who refuses to give up.

[Met Office @metoffice]

Today has been the hottest day in May on record with Kew Gardens provisionally reaching 34.8°C - exceeding the previous highest May temperature in the UK by a full 2 degrees Celsius🌡️

This heat would be exceptional in the UK even in mid summer, let alone in May📈

[Jane Darling @janeydarling1]

Here's a crazy idea: maybe they're not being paid enough to aquire savings

[Cllr Lee Scordis @LScordis]

Hi Russell, considering I am the only Labour Councillor on the authority and I was not at the induction (as I have been here 9 years), this is a complete lie and a breach of standards @reformexposed

[Austin E Gray @AustinEGray]

How important are various straits and maritime chokepoints?

This metric tells us:

[BBC World Service @bbcworldservice]

The BBC has found a pattern of spikes in trades on financial markets ahead of public announcements by President Trump, including during the Iran war. 🎧 #GlobalNewsPod https://t.co/FaEezJpcNL

[BBC News (UK) @BBCNews]

Golden eagles' return to English skies gets government backing https://t.co/f4P19ZMXq7

[NASA Artemis @NASAArtemis]

Earthset.

The Artemis II crew captured this view of an Earthset on April 6, 2026, as they flew around the Moon. The image is reminiscent of the iconic Earthrise image taken by astronaut Bill Anders 58 years earlier as the Apollo 8 crew flew around the Moon.

[NASA @NASA]

1972 ➡️2026
Apollo 17 ➡️ Artemis II

[NASA @NASA]

We see our home planet as a whole, lit up in spectacular blues and browns. A green aurora even lights up the atmosphere. That's us, together, watching as our astronauts make their journey to the Moon.

[BBC London @BBCLondonNews]

John Rocque's 'An Exact Survey of the Cities of London and Westminster, and the Borough of Southwark' provided an unprecedented, detailed bird's-eye view of the capital for the first time.

https://t.co/FugkDgTT3I

[JD Vance @JDVance]

Remember when we learned that our wealthiest and most powerful people were connected to a guy who ran a literal child sex trafficking ring? And then that guy died mysteriously in a jail? And now we just don't talk about it.

[Matt Lismore @MattLismore]

Student loans are a barrier to growth, having a family & making sufficient pension contributions.

The interest rates are so extortionate that most will never pay them back, interest must be removed.

Further, if we don’t give people the ability to invest in their personal pension today, we will be looking after them in their old age as they have no pension & no kids.

It’s short sighted beyond belief.

[Nigel Warburton 🇺🇦 #FreeUkraine @philosophybites]

‘…social mobility charity UpReach said that Russell Group graduates from working class backgrounds with a first class degree were less likely to secure an elite job than more privileged students with a 2:2 degree classification.’ This is shocking and depressing.

[Oli Dugmore @OliDugmore]

Who should pay an extra 9% of income tax?

1. Someone earning £125,000+
2. A young graduate on £25,000

The British government’s answer will shock you!

[Martin Lewis @MartinSLewis]

On a Plan 2 Student loan? Why freezing the repayment threshold from 2027 to 2030 is, in my view, a breach of natural justice. A brief audio explainer

[Helena Horton @horton_official]

It is extremely immoral for Rachel Reeves to effectively raise tax on people aged 21-31. I was under the impression my student loan was to pay for my education, not to fund the NHS. Why is it OK to change the terms of the loan after it was signed?

https://t.co/08lGJDtxri

[Tom Howard @TomHowardASD]

Here's a useful letter template, if anybody is interested in emailing their MP regarding Student Loans.

It takes less than a minute to complete.. 👇
https://t.co/UyzSUARmrt

[Dr Luke Craddock @DrLukeCraddock]

If you have a plan 2 student loan, pay income tax, and national insurance these are your marginal tax rates.

After £28k -> 41%,
After £50k -> 51%,
After £100k -> 71%,

That is not including the loss of child related benefits.

What incentive is there to work more?