Fay Easton

Business & social entrepreneur public/private/community sectors.
Freelance Regeneration Consultant

[Fay Easton @ABusinessMaker]

Great day for the rail industry - and passengers...
All change: The future of British trains arrives as government reforms broken railways
https://t.co/dgxePNBxLM

[The potting shed @GardenerFliss]

We live and breathe this and have done for 20 years and i am happy to say a growing number of farmers are leading a quiet but powerful movement to restore the land they love too. Regenerative farming is about more than growing food; it's about rebuilding healthy soils, welcoming wildlife back into our landscapes, and leaving the land in better heart for the generations that follow. Farmers are not the problem, we are part of the solution ❤️

[Fay Easton @ABusinessMaker]

At last!! This £40billion industry catches up with the 21st century to provide a #7DayRailway

[Chime Whistle Publishing @ChimeWhistle]

Looks as if Greater Anglia and ASLEF are about to agree a deal, bringing Sunday into the working week. A couple of meetings next week to thrash things out. In the meantime, enjoy my photograph of an Anglia class 86. https://t.co/fEV0OG4noR

[Liv @livrobertsphoto]

Happy 80th birthday @frippofficial

[🎸 Rock History 🎸 @historyrock_]

Bob Dylan performing "All Along the Watchtower" Live in Cleveland.

84 years old and rolling back the years. Absolute genius.

[Alastair Hilton @London_W4]

At my local supermarket right now and this is what is wrong with the world. Everyone and I mean everyone, knows that above those entrance doors, once you’ve written ‘nice to see you’ the only possible thing to put above the other doors was ‘to see you nice’.

[Fay Easton @ABusinessMaker]

'Brief Encounter' ❤️ clock restored to Carnforth Railway Station. Lovely to have a Shropshire link to the timeless story.

[Fay Easton @ABusinessMaker]

Time to Pay Up: Government unveils toughest crackdown on late payments in over 25 years https://t.co/QEjKh4uklV

[Zac Goldsmith @ZacGoldsmith]

This was one of the greatest speeches I’ve heard from today’s politicians. It was, as has been said, titanic. Please do listen to it.
It is difficult to understand how anyone could have still felt, after hearing it, that removing a fundamental protection we all have against our often highly politicised State is the right thing to do.
This will be a source of shame and embarrassment for the 304 MPs who chose to do so. But there are many more stages to go before it becomes law, and it is still possible therefore that some of the 304 will see sense and force the govt to yield.

[Joanna Hardy-Susskind @Joanna__Hardy]

This from @Geoffrey_Cox was titanic - a truly beautiful speech.

He outshone those sat opposite. They could only watch. And nervously laugh.

This should be seen by every new MP to understand what they do, & every new barrister to understand what we do.

[Rick Wakeman CBE @GrumpyOldRick]

every time I watch daytime tv these days, every other advert seems to be about being cremated cheaply. Lots of smiling faces saying what a wonderful deal they can get. For me the best deal would be not to be cremated for many years to come. I think most people would feel the same

[Vala Afshar @ValaAfshar]

In South Korea 🇰🇷, the solar panels in the middle of the highway have a bicycle path underneath - cyclists are protected from the sun, isolated from traffic, and the country can produce clean energy.

[Julian Lennon @JulianLennon]

❤️

[Charlie Simpson 🇬🇧 @CharlieSimpsonA]

Rupert Lowe is the leader this country needs as our next Prime Minister. He has my full support, and I urge everyone to join together and unite behind Restore Britain before it is too late.

[Lewis Brackpool @Lewis_Brackpool]

Over 5.1 million views on X alone within 12 hours of launching.

The reaction has been incredible, I have never seen anything like this in British politics.

So proud and grateful to be part of this really important movement.

[Lucy Connolly @LucyTCWife]

Well that’s put a cat amongst the pigeons!

[Robin Boardman @RobinBoardmanUK]

Swifts are disappearing but Scotland has just passed a simple law to revive them. They will install swift bricks on all new buildings.

Tiny cost. Huge ecological impact. Imagine if every country legislated for life like this.

[Fay Easton @ABusinessMaker]

My local town's hero #CharlesDarwin
Born in Shrewsbury 12 February 1809
https://t.co/Y59AGXb2yI

[Alan @A1an_M]

We used to have lots of places in the UK where you could get most of what you needed within 15 minutes walk: school, GP, grocer, butcher, church, pub, children's playground, sports club.

We called them "towns" and "villages".

Then along came central and local government.

They encouraged large chains to build out of town supermarkets, forcing town centre butchers and grocers and fishmongers out of business.

They planted acres of new housing around towns and villages, with no facilities, and too far away from town centres for people to walk there. And they sold off sports grounds and playgrounds for more housing.

They built centralised "superhospitals", moving patient care away from their local neighbourhood, while running down the GP service and replacing it with call centres and "apps".

They raised business rates and car park prices in town centres, and installed lots of bike lanes and "traffic calming", thereby narrowing roads and causing more traffic congestion, reducing footfall, and sending town centre shops out of business.

They closed pubs, playgrounds, sports clubs, churches to save us all from a *checks notes* deadly respiratory virus.

And now what do they want to do?

They want to recreate those 15 minute communities that we used to have in small towns and villages, but in bigger towns and cities instead. Only they're not doing it by encouraging small businesses to open neighbourhood stores, or reducing local business rates, or decentralising the NHS, ensuring we can all live in that same 15 minute paradise.

No, they're doing it by installing traffic filters and CCTV and enforcement infrastructure and fines. All stick and no carrot. Creating new inner city ghettos.

There is seemingly no situation which central and local government cannot make worse.

[Fay Easton @ABusinessMaker]

'Delay Repay' #Railways has long needed reform https://t.co/lIlWBHALDO

[Emma Trimble @Emma_A_Webb]

A little bit of civilisation on Orpington station