Arthur Fery keeps Britain alive at #Wimbledon.
Wins a five-set thriller to beat Grigor Dimitrov and become the first British wildcard ever to reach a grand slam quarterfinal.
Electric.
@QueenMother1976 I worked in a GP surgery for 20 years. I didn’t realise that so many people were illiterate. It doesn’t get much attention! Younger family members were critical to help navigate the healthcare system, ordering of prescriptions etc. Sometimes, people hide it for decades.
Telegram founder Pavel Durov has accused Western governments of using child protection as a pretext to expand control over online speech and private communications.
Durov claims that measures such as the UK’s Online Safety Act and the EU’s proposed Chat Control initiative are being promoted publicly as efforts to protect children, while privately serving a broader political purpose.
He pointed to a UK government submission to the High Court, which he said stated that the main part of the Online Safety Act was aimed at “capturing large platforms with significant influence over public discourse.”
“They used protection of children as a pretext,” Durov said, arguing that the real goal was greater control over political speech online. Durov added that the appeal to child protection “bypasses logic” and has historically been used by authoritarian regimes to smuggle repressive legislation into law.
@florianederer Dear FIFA,
When you’re in a hole, stop digging. Blaming empty seats during the match on ticket holders wandering around the stadium footprint ain’t gonna wash, I’m afraid.
It’ll be interesting to see how Lenny Henry’s tour dates pan out, starting 23rd June. Plenty of seat availability - only 28/6 Soho Theatre, Walthamstow is sold out currently. He’s coming to my city but I wouldn’t spend that much to see him.
Sonny had been left behind by his family and was extremely sick. He was also an older gentleman.
I put a tie on him when he came in and told him it would all be ok.
Look at him now with his new family. He is aging backwards ❤️
@JohnSwinney Smokescreen‼️Understandable, given the questions you face. Much more to come too, me thinks. As for the claim that Sturgeon might not have noticed the camper van parked in the drive of her MIL’s house 😂👇🏼
@ArturNadol7566 “Sacked former Sea Lord Sir Ben Key loses rank but not pension” - July 2025. Allegedly had an affair with a female officer under his command. Does he get to keep his knighthood?
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.
@saniyafatma1278 It looks beautiful on you and fits you like a glove. I think it compliments your figure and enhances your nicely defined arms. The lace detail is stunning.
This is the best preserved medieval street in Europe.
Recorded in the Domesday Book of 1086, The Shambles in York, England has had shops trading on it for nearly a thousand years. It's older than the Crusades.
@AlRoberts1980@Artemisfornow There’s talk of exemptions, Royal Family & Cabinet on “security grounds”, but nothing’s been announced yet. I think there’ll be exemptions. Don’t you?