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[Police Scotland East Lothian @PSOSEastLothian]

We’re looking for your views on proposals to close Dunbar, North Berwick and Prestonpans police stations in East Lothian. The consultations close on 20/09/24. For more info visit our website: https://t.co/Yc67As5t87 and provide your feedback at https://t.co/FUr4WzLDkp

[Mury B @MuryB3]

@judithmknott It used to be our first proper view of the fells as we drove down to Skelwith Fold when Simon was alive. He used to see Blencathra and say “oooh you big bugger!” as he drove down towards Threlkeld and St John’s in the Vale. I always think of him when I drive that road.

[Rich Williams @itsrichwilliams]

Devastating & heartbreaking day. The #RobBurrow Centre for MND is around £1m short of the £6m needed. The last bit of fundraising is always the hardest. So along with tweeting about Rob, please donate, big or small, and hopefully today’s awful news can catapult it over the line.

[That Baratheon Girl 🇪🇺 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 🌹 @baratheongirl]

Imagine someone said you should be killed based on your skin colour & gender.

Imagine this person gives £ to the colleagues who disagree with you.

Then imagine your entire workplace is allowed to discuss this in front of you, but you must remain silent.

https://t.co/LDfPt94cpD

[Mury B @MuryB3]

#shrinkflation

[A Cambridge Diary @acambridgediary]

Tonight's walk home.

[EveryDoctor @EveryDoctorUK]

Do you think that a private commercial property company should be running an NHS ambulance service?

If the answer is no, please RT this. We need everyone to understand that politicians are privatising the NHS
https://t.co/8jiEDCbqG4
#NHSPrivateAmbulances🚨🚑💙

[Massimo @Rainmaker1973]

Did you know that the white and red stripes on a windsock are not for decoration?

They actually indicate precise wind speeds.

Here's how.

[Dr Rachel Clarke @doctor_oxford]

As a palliative care doctor, I find this contempt for human life to be foul.

You can be old & have value. You can be disabled & have value. You can be in the last days of your life & yet you still have value.

No-one is worthless & no-one but no-one deserves to be culled.

[Sara Wahedi @SaraWahedi]

I just experienced one of my first ‘full circle’ moments.

I bought this bottle of water on my train to Dublin and noticed the name - Tipperary.
Almost immediately, I began humming a tune. I searched “Tipperary song” on Google and learned that it was an old wartime song during World War 1.

There’s a backstory to this.

When my mother, brother and I arrived to Canada as refugees from Afghanistan, we didn’t know a word of English. My mother, having to work 3 jobs, entrusted us in the care of a Norwegian-Canadian woman named Marit. Other than her routine 5 am hug, I barely saw my mother throughout my childhood.

Marit was uncommonly kind to everyone she met. She was also dedicated to her church. While my mother focused on ensuring we maintained our Dari and Islamic values as children, Marit would also bring us to church on Sundays, welcoming us to her community. She always told us that Christians are brethren to the Muslim faith - we knew nothing but solidarity and respect as children.

Marit’s husband, Merrill, was Irish. It was a routine practice of his to sit on the porch of his house, staring blankly into the forest behind their suburban home, with a pipe in his mouth. “It’s a long way to Tipperary..” He would hum.

He would raise his arms like a conductor’s baton and usher my brother and I to join in.

Within a few months, you could mistake us for an Irish choir.

Now, at 28, I’m in Northern Ireland heading to Dublin, having just won an award as ‘Entrepreneur of the Year’ for my work dedicated to my country of origin, Afghanistan.

My brother smiled solemnly to himself yesterday while we walked around Belfast. I asked him what he was thinking about.

“Wouldn’t it have been amazing if Merrill was with us right now?” My throat closed tightly.

I guess it really is a long way to Tipperary.

[JoFarrowWx @jofwx]

Looking over the Forth from #eastlothian , do need a phone camera to see all the colours but WOW #aurora

[Chris Packham @ChrisGPackham]

A lot of wildlife owes this lovely lady a beer tonight . . . when I next see her I’ll put one on the bar ! Thank you @GreenJennyJones !

[Dr Francis Young @DrFrancisYoung]

At a Cambridge pizzeria where the tables are meticulously constructed Swiss model railway scenes and it might be the best thing ever

[Dr Julia Grace Patterson💙 @JujuliaGrace]

I sometimes get told by MPs that their patients “don’t mind if private companies deliver their healthcare”.

If you do mind, and want the NHS to stay out of private hands, please RT this. Let’s send MPs a message 💙

[Samantha Smith @SamanthaTaghoy]

Elizabeth was just 18 when she was raped by a colleague of hers at McDonalds, where she worked part-time during sixth form.

She went to the police, but nothing happened.
No charges, no consequences, no justice.
Her rapist walked free and kept his job.

Now, she is speaking out.

Having bravely waived her right to anonymity, Elizabeth (@ElizabethHaighx) wrote:

“No one tells you how much it hurts when a man forces himself into your frozen, shocked body. There is no manual that prepares you for the pain — the sheer, deadening terror — of losing your virginity to a rapist.

I said all the ‘right’ things. I told him I didn’t want to. I begged him, repeatedly, to stop. 

But the man — a longer-serving colleague from McDonald’s where I worked part-time — raped me anyway.

And the chilling fact… is that the prevailing culture at McDonald’s not only failed to check this sort of outrageous behaviour, but turned a blind eye to it.

In short, predatory men were permitted to run amok.

There was no duty of care shown to female employees as young as 16, who had no recourse to help if they were harassed. 
And male staff who flirted, made lewd sexual comments and touched young women inappropriately never faced reprimand from their seniors who were often as culpable of bad behaviour themselves.

An unspoken rule decreed that pretty female employees should be deployed in customer-facing roles. ‘Tits on tills’ was the crude aphorism used.

Nobody, in my experience, ever acknowledged it was a policy, but it happened routinely: attractive women worked front of house; men almost always in the kitchen.

Little wonder then, that the McDonald’s colleague who raped me, would be unlikely to face penalties at work for his crime. 

Actually he felt entitled to abuse me without any fear that his actions would have consequences.”

And Elizabeth is not alone in her experience.

Hundreds of present and former McDonalds staff have recently spoken out about the culture of silence, sexism, sexual harassment within the company.

In a Northern Irish branch, sexual contact between managers and junior staffers (which is prohibited under McDonalds policy) was so rife there was an alleged outbreak of gonorrhoea.

A teenage worker in Devon claimed a senior manager choked and groped her.

Welsh McDonalds managers are alleged to have bet on who could sleep with new hires first.

And the list goes on.

For years, young women and girls working at the world’s largest fast-food chain have been left at the mercy of predatory managers and senior staff, while those in power turned a blind eye.

Why? Because McDonalds cared more about profits than protecting their own employees from harassment and abuse.

Enough is enough.
Change must happen.
Now.

[Shaun Mills @merseamillsy]

Cheeky little iPhone shot on way back to car to dry out.

[Celia Richardson @CeliaRichards0n]

Fabulous cover of @ManchesterEven I have two sons: one born in 26th week of pregnancy, one had a long fight with leukaemia starting at age 6. Both are now well. Thank you #NHS75

[Viewsfromtheomnibus @MrsLScotland]

From FB 😢

Post from a Beekeeper 🐝
“Its late, and maybe in the morning I'll delete this post, but I've just got home and for now I need to write this down.
Earlier this evening I received a message from a home owner to say they had a swarm of bees in their hedge, but they were worried about them because children had been throwing water at them.
By the time my fellow beekeeper and I arrived, what had been a beautiful prime swarm was reduced to a few hundred drenched bees, huddling limply around their queen.
I've already deleted the photos of the puddles of water, the dripping wet hedge, and the many, many dead and dying bees that hadn't been able to escape the attack; sharing those pictures serves no purpose.
We gently placed the bees that had survived into a collection box, and hopefully tomorrow, when they've had chance to dry out and settle, we'll check on them and if necessary feed them; they'll be exhausted and possibly (understandably) defensive. They've been through a lot.
Please, please, help me to educate your children, your grandchildren, your neices and nephews, your neighbours, your colleagues and your friends that a swarm of bees isn't dangerous - they're amazing creatures that are just looking for a new home.
Please don't let anyone harm them.
Just call a beekeeper who will gladly rehome them.
Please help me to spread this message and hopefully save any more bees from being unnecessarily harmed” 😢
Sad and unhappy Beekeeper

[Seb Ate @Mrbaiti]

Bloody hell!! A moment.

Fiona Bruce “ Even though the majority of you voted Conservative…do any of you support the Rwanda policy?”

Not a single hand up…silence 👀

Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall “ Good on you!” #BBCQT