Helen de B

Hey 👋🏼
I'm Helen de B
I tweet things here, there, green, and always clean.
LOVE comes first, middle & last.
Here to inspire, change & get shit done.

[Helen de B @helsdeb]

@ChelmsCouncil the bin next to the Avenue bus stop near Tesco Express in Dambury is currently overflowing & scattering litter around.

[Helen de B @helsdeb]

Lifting the Curse of Luigi da Porto: On the Life and Legacy of a 15th-Century Italian Poet https://t.co/JQsJtBgNYU via @lithub

[Jane Symons @JaneSymons1]

If it weren't for a supermarket security guard persuading a woman to make a complaint against Pelicot for up-skirting, his horrific crimes would not have come to light.

While we celebrate the courage of Gisele Pelicot, let's also rethink our approach to 'minor' sex crimes.

[Supertanskiii @supertanskiii]

“When you’re raped there is shame, and it’s not for us to have shame, it’s for them. It’s true that I hear lots of women, and men, who say you’re very brave. I say it’s not bravery, it’s will and determination to change society”

- Gisèle.

What an incredible woman.

[Vittoria @vitt2tsnoc]

"They tell me I am brave. It's not bravery. It's will and determination to change society."

THIS WOMAN, finding the strength to walk in to court every day and face all her rapists, is an absolute ICON.

I've never seen anything like it. Articulate, determined, dignified. ❤️

[Age UK London @ageuklondon]

We’re proud to be a member of the London Loo Alliance. We want to hear form Londoners about their experiences of finding a public toilet when they are out and about this festive season. Please help us by completing this short survey https://t.co/J2ejZvuyYi #LondonLooSurvey

[BBC Radio 4 Today @BBCr4today]

"Losing a loved one in a preventable way, it certainly compounds your grief... But if nobody learns for it... It makes you feel as if their life meant nothing to the people who let them down."

Merope Mills reflects on campaigning for Martha's Rule after her daughter's death.

[Ver Valley Society @VerValleySoc]

Barely a drop of rain in the past week rain and yet Markyate sewage works is still discharging sewage into the #RiverVer - 122 hours since last Thursday and 3000 hours in 2024. Surely the type of incident @OfficeforEP is demanding action over.

[Jason Reid @JasonReidx]

Gisèle Pelicot is the person of the year.

[Flic Everett @fliceverett]

As she should be.

[Tim Dunn @MrTimDunn]

I’m on the 7am train to Newcastle, then to a destination missing from normal passenger timetables for *60 years*: Ashington, on the 18 mile Northumberland Line. Passenger services were axed in 1964: following much hard work, it reopens this Sunday! There’s still work to do on some of the intermediate stations for a variety of reasons: and it’s taken lobbying, reports, debates, and hard graft since the first attempts to get this line reopened to passengers in the 1990s.

But we are where we are: and today, a preview trip, is about saying chuffing well done to all those who have made this first phase happen and to see what’s due to be sorted in the next phase. How I see it is that the folk of Ashington in a few days’ time will be reconnected to a network that enables travel to the rest of us, to friends and families, work opportunities, days out and trips under the sea to the rest of the world. Those stations aren’t just platforms: they’re portals.

And for the rest of us - get ready to add Ashington and the intermediates along this scenic 18 mile line to your radar: ‘cos a whole new chunk of Britain is about to be connected and open to me and to you – by those parallel, transformational, twin strips of steel.

[Jill Foster @JournalistJill]

A friend recently visited her GP complaining of abdominal pain. They dismissed her concerns for many months.
Eventually she was diagnosed with ovarian cancer. Stage 4.
The GP apologised. Thankfully friend survived. Not the point.

https://t.co/LxbgcyMepf

[SAVE Britain's Heritage @SAVEtoReuse]

🚨BREAKING NEWS// Government green lights M&S Oxford Street demolition proposals. SAVE early comment:
🗣️What a missed opportunity! The government has chosen the easy option – business as usual - when it had a real chance to show leadership and ambition on this urgent issue.
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[lozzyloz @lozzylozboz]

Be careful everyone, this happened in greystones. The lady's daughter was scammed out of €1000, using a QR code that she scanned to pay for parking.

[Brett Spencer @brettsr]

Delighted to see @thehappysalmon win for @WeirdInTheWade. Best History podcast. Was a judge on this category and it’s great that an independent podcaster can still win up against the big names and huge companies #britishpodcastawards

[Helen de B @helsdeb]

https://t.co/ptBwMjmmsv

[Caitlin Moran @caitlinmoran]

That crush at Euston station? I'm not surprised. I tried to go from Euston to Birmingham last week and it was such an appalling journey I took notes on the way. This country is fucked: https://t.co/x2l1SOnSr6

[Natalie Doig @thehappysalmon]

Look how happy death is in this picture by Edward Rowlandson an 18th century artist!
Monday’s episode of Weird in the Wade is all about resurrection men, like these pictured stealing a body from its grave.
You can listen wherever you get your podcasts: https://t.co/fpENlBRcgv

[Helen de B @helsdeb]

@thehappysalmon Amazing!!! 👏👏