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[Eastreadingcommunity @Eastreadingcom]

time for @HomesEngland to inform #landlords & property developers to turn down gas combi boilers to 50 deg C to be condensing mode, that should keep everyone warm and give you enough hot water saving 9% (£100) off your tenants gas bill https://t.co/hdtLqvtumH

[Cllr Rob White (Green Party, Park Ward) @cllrrobwhite]

☕ Great to see Green councillors Louise Keane and Jacqueline Dominguez at the launch of the new Sanctuary Café (formerly the Global Café) on London Street.

Best of luck to everyone involved! 💚

📍Details to follow...

[Eastreadingcommunity @Eastreadingcom]

@AndyRoden1 @SW_Help Needs redoubling and fast trains inter city trains followed by slow stoping trains west of Salisbury?

[Eastreadingcommunity @Eastreadingcom]

@Cam4ThePeakLine @AndyRoden1 @SW_Help 200 million was wasted on the Stonehenge tunnel for a few hounded metres of road how far would that go to redouble the line?

[Eastreadingcommunity @Eastreadingcom]

@AndyRoden1 @AndrewBrazier1 Workers pay twice for their own care and everyone who does not work and get it free, the tax base is not unlimited?

[Network Rail Western @networkrailwest]

⏰It's almost time for the newest station in the West to open to the public!

🚉Okehampton Interchange, on the Dartmoor Line in Devon, will welcome passengers from Saturday 1 August

@GWRHelp @DevonCC @WestDevon_BC @transportgovuk

[NRLA - National Residential Landlords Association @NRLAssociation]

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[Age UK Campaigns @ageukcampaigns]

Online banking is just one form of digital exclusion that causes real difficulty for many older people.

Our Head of Policy, Chris Brooks, recently spoke to the House of Lords about the barriers many older people face managing money, and what must be done to support them.

[Reading Chronicle @rdgchronicle]

Crosfields School to open new Sixth Form in September 2027 https://t.co/tA18z5yUfM

[Peter Bill @peterproperty]

Estates Gazette (£) GSK is to invest £400m into its new research and development centre in Cambridge. The pharma giant has snapped up all three remaining buildings in the £500m second-phase expansion of the campus, which is being delivered by Prologis https://t.co/rg7P9bHPHK

[The Nag's Head Reading @NagsHeadReading]

@KeyKeg How do we get rid of our empty KeyKegs now that you have stopped picking up from @SirenCraftBrew and @ElusiveBrew? We go through around 10-15 KK’s a week and have no other way of getting rid of them so have no choice but to not order any more beer in KeyKegs? Green? My ar

[Eastreadingcommunity @Eastreadingcom]

@paullewismoney The cost is huge, surely one option is an governemnet backed insuarance policy for the ones who have to pay, which everyone can opt into if they need to pay? the cost to the state would be huge as currently they pay all their socal care costs?

[Eastreadingcommunity @Eastreadingcom]

@paullewismoney the issue is social care is free for the huge majority, as it paid by the state is you have less than 23k saving, they are not going to pay more, so only the ones who are already pay will have to pay more for the ones who get it free?

[Eastreadingcommunity @Eastreadingcom]

GWR’s new Family Day Out ticket provides same-day return travel for up to two adults and four children for either £49 or £59 – depending on the journey – for the whole group. https://t.co/e80PWubQpJ

[Railfuture EAnglia @RailfutureEA]

GSK announces a move to Cambridge South / Bio Medical Campus

[Tom Waters @TomWatersEcon]

There is a genuine issue here. If your parents get UC, and you get into work at 16 (vs. stay in school), your parents lose the child element of UC (£3.6k) + child benefit (£0.9k) = benefits⬇️£4.6k per year

Losses can be even bigger if you are the youngest child

[TfL @TfL]

Introducing the Weekend Hopper Fare 🐸

Get unlimited bus + tram travel across London for £1.75 per day on Saturday and Sunday from 25 July to 31 August (inc. Bank Holiday Monday).

Use the same card or device all day - pay once, travel free after your first fare.

Find out more: https://t.co/Qhnm2ZnQmb

[Whitley CDA @Whitley_CDA]

We have changed how we run the table. All users will need to bring identification to use the surplus. Please refer to the poster below for more details.

[IanM @IanM1871]

Mad Ed Miliband, Foreign Secretary. I assume he’s going to be walking, cycling or rowing a boat to all his international meetings and conferences? Well, he wouldn’t be flying, would he? Or does he think Net Zero was a SCAM after all?

[Reading Buses @reading_buses]

School holidays may just be starting, but we have already sorted school buses for your child for the next academic year! There are a few changes, including some withdrawn buses due to school closures and funding changes. https://t.co/lEddfUdjE8

[Reading Chronicle @rdgchronicle]

Hundreds of thousands of pounds needed to preserve Reading Cemetery Junction Arch https://t.co/ogqMAXjx4c