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[Lara - Covid is Airborne @fillthewhole]

And not one of her doctors will be warning her that SARS-CoV2 awakens dormant cancer cells. Maybe some of the journalists @BBCNews could start reporting on it to let the public know 🤷🏼‍♀️

[Sadiq Khan @SadiqKhan]

As we have experienced this week, extreme temperatures are no longer a future threat. They are a present danger.

Today, I’ve launched London’s first ever heat plan: a city-wide plan to adapt our capital, protect communities, and build a climate-resilient city.

[Mayor of London, Sadiq Khan @MayorofLondon]

As we have experienced this week, extreme temperatures are no longer a future threat. They are a present danger.

Today, I’m launching London’s first ever heat plan: a city-wide plan to adapt our capital, protect communities, and build a climate-resilient city.

[Mayor of London, Sadiq Khan @MayorofLondon]

It sets out actions to make our city more resilient, including:

🔴 Retrofitting homes at the highest risk of overheating

🔴 More tree cover and green spaces

🔴 More safe access to blue spaces such as swimming

🔴 Support for our health system

🔴 Strengthening critical infrastructure

[Zack Polanski @ZackPolanski]

It's officially the hottest June day ever.

We know who is to blame. Fossil fuel firms. The billionaire media. Weak politicians.

We know what we must do. Rapid decarbonisation & adaptation for a healthier, wealthier country safe for future generations.

[Steve B @75ThunderRoad]

2/2

If we want our schools to remain open in all conditions and situations, we need them to be places which are as safe as possible, for children and staff, all year round.

Safety is a pre-requisite for thriving.

Our schools need massive investment.
Urgently.

[Candice Holmes @hol40900]

Schools shut. Trains cancelled. Red alert.
Tories did nothing for 14 years. Labour now does the same. Reform just denies it.
40°C heat and no legal protection for your kids or your job.
They failed you. All of them.

[Jon Severs @jon_severs]

A reminder of this from last month: @ASCL_UK and @NEUnion calling for a temperature limit for school operations as we head into this heatwave.

The temps this week look unbearable in classrooms, even if most saying PE kit all week.

https://t.co/V3JBTjAvzO

[Zack Polanski @ZackPolanski]

This isn't normal. While this government is in chaos, its failure to protect people from extreme heat will cost lives.

We need maximum workplace temperatures to protect workers and cool spaces so the vulnerable aren't exposed.

[cathy @csyms72]

@UKHSA Would be great if you could actually shade the correct part of the map red as per the met office warning!

[Vicky James @bowditch71]

For a population with both diagnosed and silent vascular, immunological and metabolic vulnerabilities as a result of constant SARS2 exposure, this should play out well....

[Cat (CovidSolidarity) @CovidSolidarit1]

6 years they could have installed air filters and AC in schools and hospitals, instead of pissing around with their wars and denialism.

What is the point of politicians these days? I don't see any.

[The Yeti of Kananaskis @kananaskinyeti]

Your students have spent the last half decade repeatedly catching a virus that damages their brains, they have probably had it 5 or 6 times on average. It’s affecting everything and it is only going to get worse. Much much worse.

[Laura Miers @LauraMiers]

Excuse me, why are people pretending changes to flu vaccine policy that occurred “weeks ago” is now responsible for a “major flu outbreak” in THE MIDDLE OF THE SUMMER? I’m no Hegseth fan, but this narrative doesn’t make sense. Why is there a June flu outbreak at all? Hello?

[Ruth Brooker @erbrooker]

I don't know why I didn't think of this before! The local paper is automatically delivered free to thousands of people in my community.

Since it landed on everyone's doormats I've had about ten people wave in the street and holler, " hey, saw your article!"
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[Cat (CovidSolidarity) @CovidSolidarit1]

Now do Covid.

[Paul Powlesland @paulpowlesland]

Before & After…

If anyone doubts the power of community action over the @EnvAgency’s spineless inertia, you can walk to the outskirts of Ilford & walk along an ancient lost river to see for yourself.

With 10 days of intense effort by dedicated volunteers, the river River Roding Trust managed to clean up & restore 250 metres of the Aldersbrook (about 1/3 of the brook). This allows a direct comparison between the parts of the brook we restored & those we haven’t got round to yet.

These photos & videos are all from May 2026. The first is on a part of the Aldersbrook still to be restored & shows the old flood defences which are no longer needed & are killing the river but which the EA won’t remove unless we volunteers pay them £50,000 just for surveys. These defences have caused 2-3ft of stinking sludge & silt to build up over 70 years, such that the water in the brook is just a few centimetres deep. Combine with huge amounts of rubbish & and out of control knotweed infestation & the river ecosystem is essentially dead. A river that is older than England destroyed by official indifference.

A hundred metres away, and it’s a different story. The rubbish & the invasive species (I sprayed the knotweed myself last autumn) are gone. The silt that used to clog the river is now spread on the banks & rapidly providing fertile ground for native plants. Instead of sludge, there’s 2-3ft of water, so fish have returned to the brook for the first time in decades, along with dragon flies, herons & a nesting moorhen. We river guardians knew our intervention would make a difference, but have been shocked at quite how quickly nature has come back. The restored Aldersbrook is now a rare jewel: pretty much the last fully natural tidal brook in London.

The EA now has a choice. It can salvage some good from this situation & work with us to restore the remaining sections of the brook, or it can continue to do nothing. If the latter, river guardians *will* be back this winter to finish the job & the EA can see how well prosecuting volunteers for restoring a river without permission goes for them.

[adam.tsuris @AdamTsuris]

Schools are full of COVID all year and are doing nothing to protect kids. Anyone who isn't wearing an N95 has had COVID multiple times. You don't need a study explicitly stating that any more than you need one to claim that people who keep jumping into the ocean keep getting wet.

[Caroline Lucas @CarolineLucas]

Great news - but it’s vital that there’s no more delay so this can be introduced in our schools as soon as possible. We have a crisis of nature depletion in this country - and we have a crisis of nature disconnection too. Done right, this GCSE can help address both 🦡🦅💚

[Anne Marie 💜 @annesmithmcc]

💙So happy to share a BRAND NEW #CleanIndoorAir educational resource! 💙
@twinklresources just published this fabulous resource which highlights how crucial clean air in classrooms is.
Please share! 🙏
@erbrooker @_CatintheHat @Lessnessprimary #EduTwitter
https://t.co/JJ7fvFt8Ac