EC&W

Essex Countryside & Wildlife Adult Education Course, social & natural history of Essex, based at Moulsham Mill, Chelmsford

[EC&W @ECWcourse]

Discover #Essex #wildlife & #Essex #history @ECWcourse see: https://t.co/9Y8twHeDsN Autumn 2017 @MoulshamMill #Chelmsford

[Bsea Blessing Waters @BlessWatersBsea]

Today #Brightlingsea’s Blessing of the Waters was a fantastic event beating the bounds in boats!! Brilliant historic tradition!!

[Bsea Blessing Waters @BlessWatersBsea]

On Sunday #Brightlingsea Blessing of the Waters #Essex times see: https://t.co/DbS9B7HPTZ Brill fun historic event

[Bsea Blessing Waters @BlessWatersBsea]

This Sunday it’s #BRIGHTLINGSEA’s BLESSING OF THE WATERS #Essex https://t.co/6jUDfH7a1x
Brilliant colourful historic coastal event! Come along & join in!

[Wildlife and Countryside Link @WCL_News]

Our report has made quite a splash in the media today, hopefully reaching people far and wide helping more people understand the silent crisis beneath the waves.

If you haven't already, give the report a read to find out the true extent of bycatch and what Government needs to do to take action 👇

[Bird Aware Essex Coast @BirdAwareEssex]

June's Bird of the Month is the Little Tern!
Stay tuned as we share more interesting facts every week about these fascinating birds!

Fact 1:
The Little Tern is the UK's smallest tern, weighing only 40-60g, not far from the weight of a tennis ball

#littleterns #birdofthemonth

[Your Southend @YourSouthend]

👏 This boy deserves a thank you.

After school, he heads to a Southend beach with a litter picker and sack, spending his free time clearing rubbish from the shoreline.

Every bag helps keep beaches cleaner and prevents rubbish ending up in the sea.

Southend BeachCare Group said: “Thank you to him for making a difference for our wonderful local beaches, keeping them litter free and stopping the rubbish going out into our precious seas.

“Please support him with likes and comments.”

[University of Essex @Uni_of_Essex]

Double success for @WivenhoeHouse.

The iconic hotel and home of Essex’s @EdgeHotelSchool has scooped the AA 4-Star Silver Award and AA Rosette Award for Culinary Excellence, recognising its commitment to outstanding hospitality and guest experience.

https://t.co/QIyVpQiBti

[Thames Path National Trail @ThamesPathNT]

Just one more sleep....to the start of the Thames Path Relay celebrating 30th anniversary of the opening of the National Trail in 1996. Big 'Thank Yous' to all the walk leaders on this 24-day relay to Woolwich.
Join us ⏬
https://t.co/LCRFQzJWb5 #thamespath30

[Thurrock Council @thurrockcouncil]

Did you know, Grangewaters is now open afterschool during the week and on Saturdays with great outdoor activities, from kayaking 🛶 to bushcraft and 🏹 archery? Discover your next adventure: https://t.co/TOtQAoTZwa

[BBC News (UK) @BBCNews]

Bob Harris to step down from Radio 2 after 56 years on air https://t.co/oQZfFc5mGP

[Thurrock Council @thurrockcouncil]

We need volunteers to help maintain one of our most important historic landmarks, the Coalhouse Fort.

As part of the Reanimating Coalhouse Fort project, you will help maintain the fort and its surrounding grounds, and help run public events.
https://t.co/tShUG5j8z1

[James Wright @JPBWFarm]

Natural England wants to remove 90% of Dartmoor’s ponies.

Our Exmoor ponies are next. These animals have been here for thousands of years.

A government quango, destroying the countryside and its heritage.

[Artur Nadolny @ArturNadol7566]

BBC PAID A WOMAN HALF A MAN SALARY FOR THE SAME JOB AND THOUGHT NO ONE WOULD NOTICE

Carrie Gracie spoke fluent Mandarin. Ran the @BBC Beijing bureau. Thirty years of service. One of four international editors at Britain's most prestigious broadcaster.

Then the BBC was legally forced to publish salary data in 2017. Gracie looked at the list. Her male counterpart covering North America was on up to £249,000. She was below £150,000. Not even on the published list. Neither was Europe editor Katya Adler. The two women. Funny that.

She had explicitly made equal pay a condition of taking the China role. The BBC said yes. Then paid her nearly half anyway and apparently hoped she'd never check.

She checked.

She asked for equal pay. The BBC, with the confidence of an institution that had been getting away with this for decades, offered her a raise that still left her short.

She turned it down. Resigned from the post. Published an open letter to the licence fee payers explaining exactly what their public broadcaster was doing with their money.

The BBC's response was to put her through nearly a year of their own internal grievance process. Run by the same institution she was complaining about. Investigating itself. Shockingly, it went nowhere.

It took three separate meetings with the Director-General and the concrete threat of an employment tribunal before the BBC caved, issued a public apology, and paid her £361,000 in backdated wages.

She gave every single penny to the Fawcett Society (@fawcettsociety).

A publicly funded broadcaster. Breaking equality law. Caught red-handed. Dragging a 30-year employee through a year of institutional theatre. Paying up only when a judge became a realistic possibility.

[Friends of Southend @FriendsSouthend]

Leigh-on-Sea, captured on iPhone.

📷: Steven Harper

[Mop & Bucket 💚 @AdeneRichard]

@RosieP4 Hill Group (contractor) markets itself as an award-winning five-star housebuilder with a commitment to quality and sustainability. Carrying out demolition during the nesting season without demonstrable ecological safeguards is incompatible with that reputation @Clarion_Group

[Rosie P 🦇 🦎 🕷️ 🦭 🐌 🍃🌳🚲💧 @RosieP4]

This is utterly heartbreaking- what is wrong with developers?
The swifts are seen trying to return to their nests and the nests are no longer there

https://t.co/f3pRJMJM3T

[Wildlife and Countryside Link @WCL_News]

🚨 England's poorest communities risk losing out on the trees, green spaces and wildlife they need most.

New research for Wildlife & Countryside Link shows that proposed Biodiversity Net Gain exemptions could disproportionately affect deprived communities, where access to nature is already limited.

From de minimis loopholes to proposed 0.2ha and brownfield exemptions, the areas with the least greenery stand to lose the most.

This is not the route to good, sustainable development or proud, thriving communities. People deserve homes surrounded by trees, nature and healthy green spaces.

The Government should strengthen Biodiversity Net Gain, not weaken it.

Read the report: https://t.co/S451CMdu1h

[Chas Holt 🌍🇺🇦 @chas_holt]

Joy at Abberton Reservoir where for the third spring out of four we’ve caught this Nightingale that was originally ringed in The Gambia in January 2020. Now 7 years old and still going strong. Just brilliant! 🇬🇲🇬🇧

[Essex100Publications @EssexHundred]

The pier train 'Sir William Heygate' en-route to the end of the Pier. Still in service after 40 years. Named after Sir William Heygate one of the promoters of building the Pier.
More,
'The Struggle to Build Southend's First Pier'
https://t.co/IIz6HKRh5h

[Stephen P. Nunn 💙 @Maeldune_991]

That's Job 2 completed - gave a talk to the Propeller Club @StowAero Job 3 next!