Sam Jackson

Senior Account Manager at the @PLMRMidlands team. Former senior reporter at the @leamcourier and @Kenilworth_news.

[Keep Welfare on Track @welfareontrack]

Myth Busting Greyhound Racing 🏁🐾

Let’s set the record straight on some common misconceptions!

❌ Myth: Greyhounds are forced to race
✅ Reality: They have a natural instinct to run and chase

❌ Myth: Retired greyhounds are forgotten
✅ Reality: 93% are rehomed through dedicated welfare schemes

❌ Myth: They struggle to adapt to home life
✅ Reality: Most greyhounds become affectionate, lazy couch potatoes 🐶

❌ Myth: Racing is dangerous and cruel
✅ Reality: Tracks follow strict safety and welfare regulations

❌ Myth: Greyhounds are overbred
✅ Reality: Breeding is highly regulated and has declined by 46% since 2014

❌ Myth: They’re kept in cruel conditions
✅ Reality: Kennels meet strict welfare standards, with warm beds and daily care to the highest standard

Reality: Greyhound racing prioritises welfare, from their racing careers to happy retirements. 💙

Consistent and protected funding is vital to maintain welfare standards. Without it, key programmes and the sport are at risk.

📝 Sign the petition: https://t.co/Nk3LYXRc26

[Keep Welfare on Track @welfareontrack]

Thank you @GBNEWS for reporting on the importance of a statutory levy on bookmakers to secure sustainable funding for greyhound welfare. Together we can #KeepWelfareOnTrack. Sign the petition here ✍️ https://t.co/X24Pd8wapm

[GB News @GBNEWS]

GB News' @_Jack_Carson reports on a petition which calls for all betting companies to pay a minimum percentage of turnover from greyhound racing towards greyhound welfare – replacing a voluntary levy that sees bookmakers pay 0.6 per cent if they opt into the scheme.

[Star Pelaw Greyhounds @Star_Pelaw]

✍️ SIGN THE PETITION

⭐️ Star Pelaw Racing Manager Dave Gray out in full force showing his support for the statutory levy to support greyhound welfare

✅ Sign here:
https://t.co/daiwBIJpoL.

[Great Yarmouth Mercury @GYMercury]

Petition launched to protect greyhounds https://t.co/MctqspZ5IN

[GBGB @GreyhoundBoard]

Thank you to the team at @OwlertonStadium for speaking to @BBCLookNorth and @BBCSheffield about our #KeepWelfareOnTrack campaign👏

✍️ If you haven't already, please sign and share the petition here: https://t.co/M3snyvxTqm and follow @welfareontrack for updates

[@RPGreyhounds @RPGreyhounds]

𝗞𝗲𝗲𝗽 𝗪𝗲𝗹𝗳𝗮𝗿𝗲 𝗢𝗻 𝗧𝗿𝗮𝗰𝗸 🐾

GBGB (@GreyhoundBoard) today launched its campaign for a compulsory statutory levy, full story in tomorrow’s Racing Post 🗞️

🎥 @welfareontrack

[Keep Welfare on Track @welfareontrack]

Today @GreyhoundBoard launch #KeepWelfareonTrack at our parliamentary event in Westminster. We’re asking the government to encourage bookmakers to pay compulsory funding rather than the current voluntary contributions. 🐾

Help us make an impact—share this post to spread the word and learn how you can support the campaign!

🔗 https://t.co/7oLtnUTXr6 #KeepWelfareOnTrack

[Trung Phan @TrungTPhan]

Explainer video on science of why the 400m sprint is considered the most painful track & field event.

And why “no person on the planet can run the 400m all out from start to finish".

The race pushes the way the body creates energy to the limit:

▫️0-50 meters: ATP-CP (energy system for very short and explosive movements; used up after 5-10 seconds)

▫️50-200 meters: Anaerobic glycolysis (burns glucose without oxygen, leading to lactic acid buildup and muscle fatigue)

▫️200-300 meters: Aerobic energy (uses oxygen to break down glucose, but cannot keep up with the demand)

▫️300-400 meters: Anaerobic energy reserves tapped while aerobic energy is too slow to fill the gaps (lactic acid buildup is going HAM)

Track athletes can pace for longer distances and shorter ones are just over quicker (obvs).

The Olympic record is a blazing 43:03, set by South African runner Wayde van Niekerk in 2016 (and 2024 Final race is tomorrow).

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Full video from Outperform: https://t.co/MHSvRY6xWr

[Sam Jackson @srjackson7]

Ah, local papers. Never change. Hope Elizabeth hasn't encountered any children today

[Sam Jackson @srjackson7]

Big win for Labour's Rachel Taylor in North Warwickshire & Bedworth - Reform took a lot of Tory incumbent's vote. Story for so many seats across the country #GE2024

[Sam Jackson @srjackson7]

Lots of 'doubtful votes' being checked so no closer to declaring... Time for a Red Bull! You'd think putting a cross in a box would be fairly simple... #GE24

[Sam Jackson @srjackson7]

@rfh21 Have a word Rich!

[Sam Jackson @srjackson7]

Coleshill Leisure Centre have unexpectedly provided biscuits - a superb development #GeneralElection2024

[Sam Jackson @srjackson7]

Not pictured - the biscuits I've already eaten 🍪

[Sam Jackson @srjackson7]

Can't keep me away from a General Election count! #GeneralElection2024

[PLMR Midlands @PLMRMidlands]

1/3 PLMR Advent is shortlisted in this evening’s CIPR Excellence Awards in the Sport or Entertainment Campaign category, for the agency’s work on @IBSAGames2023

[Sam Jackson @srjackson7]

Obviously I'm at a much lower level than elites, but I wouldn't have got anywhere near as fit as I am now without training with my club. Every word of this is spot on

[RoriDunk @FitzDunk]

Unpopular Opinion: Track & Field is NOT an individual sport.

I mean, yeah, we compete individually, but that's about all we do by ourselves.

Let me explain 🧵

[Sam Jackson @srjackson7]

A brilliant interview of the @CWGC's Director of Horticulture David Richardson on the @GWmag podcast around how he ensures sites are spick and span for #DDay80, and how climate change might affect the ways in which graves are maintained in the future 👇

[BBC Gardeners' World Mag @GWmag]

Can you imagine being responsible as a gardener for thousands of important graveyard sites across six continents? That’s the inspiring challenge that Commonwealth War Graves Commission Head of Horticulture @gardentheworld takes on every day.

[Sam Jackson @srjackson7]

This fair-weather Villa fan is crawling out of the woodwork! #UTV