Keely Taylor

Genealogist at Taylor-Made Trees: helping you build a family tree to treasure. Freelance PA & virtual credit controller.

[The Morecambe & Wise Archive 👓🌞♥️ @eric_ernie_col]

God Speed Dame Penelope…

A Fine Actress

#RIPPenelopeKeith
#StillBringingSunshine 👓☀️❤️

[Keely Taylor @keelyktss]

@archivetvmus71 Thanks for the reminder - I have that on dvd, and will watch it at the weekend.

[Tim (still totally unremarkable) @forwardnotback]

I could spend hours watching clips of Margo

[Rob Osborne @mrrobosborne]

While Penelope Keith will be remembered for far greater work than this, it’s a reminder of times gone by.

When adverts were played into national sense of humour.

[Animal Adoptions UK 🐕‍🦺🐈🐎❤️ @AdoptionsUk]

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[Royal Mail @RoyalMail]

Moving home?

Remember to redirect your mail ✉️ https://t.co/DgDFRfZ1Hk

[Maxi @AllForProgress_]

On a stretch of the River Roding in Barking strewn with waste and detritus, a barrister named Paul Powlesland did something the British state has spent decades failing to do: he cleaned it and made it look like a river again. He now faces legal action.

Yep. He and a group of volunteers hired a digger for £1,000 of their own money and hauled more than 200 bags of filth out of the water - packaging, broken appliances, used needles, even weapons. By any sane reckoning it was a small act of public good, civic spirit at its most potent and wholesome.

For his trouble, he received a letter from the Environment Agency informing him that he is under investigation for working without a permit, an offence that carries up to two years in prison.

The same Environment Agency that found the will to come after a volunteer for cleaning a river without the right paperwork has not, on that same river, prosecuted a single one of the illegal sewage spills that have fouled it for years. Not one. It's too fat, scrofulous, and indolent to fight the sort of people who'd do this. But it has energy to spare for the man with the digger and the bin bags because they expect he's likely to be a reasonable sort of Englishman who pays his taxes and honours procedure, however unreasonable it may be, when levied upon him.

Protecting rivers? They have no interest in that.

This is the thing about our institutions that the public grasps in its bones and the people who run them never will. Our institutions fail, and the manner of their failing is the worst part of it - the bloodless, box-ticking, permission-withholding callousness of bodies that have forgotten they exist to achieve anything at all.

They should all be cleared out; every decision-making body in the building responsible for the dereliction of duty, and for daring to persecute a member of the public, must be hollowed out. The whole thing started from scratch.

Better yet, I'll tell you what an outfit like Progress will do once it gains power; we'll put people like @paulpowlesland in charge of the very body now threatening to jail him. The institutions meant to look after this country - the Environment Agency and a dozen like it - are dying of exactly the defensive, do-nothing culture that sent that letter. They need to be run by people like him who actually give a toss. People with the brains to understand the problem and the plain human instinct to go and fix it themselves, while the rest stand on the bank writing their little sociopathic missives to the ones who already did.

I don't know the first thing about Paul. I've never met him. I don't know what his political preferences are, the shape of his beliefs, what else we would agree or disagree on. None of that means a thing to me. He's a good man, and the right kind of man to make things work; and Progress is an attempt to make the country work, not a club made to serve a certain type or belief profile. A country is made to work by the people who, whatever their politics, cannot walk past a problem without trying to solve it. There are such people everywhere in Britain - on the rivers, in the schools, the wards, the workshops - and almost none of them are running anything, because the institutions have been built to keep that exact kind of person out.

Drop the case against him. Then go further: find the hundred other Paul Powleslands the country is currently ignoring or threatening, and give them the keys. Put the responsibility and the authority, together, in their hands. Britain will be cleaned up - its rivers, and a great deal besides - in no time. It will be done by the people willing to get in the water, not by the ones writing letters about permits from the bank.

[🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 The Tartan Army 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 @TartanArmyGroup]

🚨 Missing Wheelchair

At the Scotland v Morocco game at @GilletteStadium Mary and John were in section 303 for wheelchair users.

John’s wheelchair was stowed for the game and unfortunately someone removed it from the storage area insisting he needed it for his father.

We can only presume he thought John's wheelchair belonged to the stadium.

If it was you, can you DM us to let us know where exactly you left it so it can be located and returned to John.

#TartanArmy

[Missing Pets GB @MissingPetsGB]

🐱🐱 Please share to help find ZURI & ZEPHYR

Both #missing from same home in #Shrewsbury #Shropshire

Zuri has missing since August 2023
Zephyr missing since May 2026
Has anyone seen either of these beautiful cats?
@rebecca_1612

[Orla Minihane @orlaminihane]

This is Lucy Stemp from Tonbridge in Kent. She is missing in Paris. No one has heard from her in a week. Her family are desperate to locate her. The police and interpol are involved. Please share. @pinkladies_uk

[Julia Gasper @Castafi0re]

Be warned about a scam website called https://t.co/GXTZh170Q5 .
It offers music scores to be downloaded for a small charge but they charge you for a hefty subscription (£45-60) without your permission. This to me looks like fraud. Also the score was inaccurate.
#music

[chris towers @millypod1]

🆘1 JUNE 2026 #Lost Lily & Galaxy #ScanMe
2 Husky Cross BOTH Female
#Nordelph #PE38
County #DownhamMarket East #Cambridgeshire
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[Give A Shit About Nature @giveashitnature]

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.

[Laila Cunningham @policylaila]

Urgent!

[Keely Taylor @keelyktss]

@SFHS1975 The image says her name was Elizabeth, the parish is St Margaret's in Ipswich.

[FarmingUK @FarmingUK]

“As we drive around our farm picking up these paper lanterns - that our cows try to eat - we ask you to find something better to do to support your causes.

“There is wire inside the paper that will get on their stomach and kill them

“Donate money directly to your cause please, instead of lanterns or balloons!”

📸 Karen McCartin Foster

[Jess Westwood-Molland Ridge Stud @JessWestwood]

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[Keely Taylor @keelyktss]

@RadioTimes I could have done with less 'comedy' from the people presenting the awards!

[Keely Taylor @keelyktss]

@LibertyLydia @tonyaddison They spelt Cubitt wrong...