"Why should you put up with falling living standards year on year, forever?
"You’re not just consigning your own people now to finding it hard in the cost of living crisis
"This is about our children. This is about what type of country we have."
@RMTunion's Eddie Dempsey
We are living in a primary school playground which has been invaded by posh kids and we’ve given them the keys to the tuck shop and they’ve drunk all the fizzy pop and now they’re laughing at us and the prefects are letting them get away it when anyone else would be expelled .
Appalled by the lack of service/empathy from @GOoutdoors who left my sister, bro in law, and 8 week old niece in the lurch after selling them an incomplete tent. Offered no practical resolution and forced them to seek last minute accommodation after a 4 hour drive to Exmoor!
This Thames mudlarking find is linked to the smallpox epidemic in 1881. It would have been worn by someone who worked on the Metropolitan River Ambulance which ferried smallpox patients along the Thames to Longreach where isolation hospital ships were moored #mudlark#mudlarking
If people ignore Govt. advice & go out unnecessarily this weekend because 'the weather's nice', then they are traitors to every nurse & doctor who has died this week & to all NHS workers continuing to risk their lives for us. STAY HOME.
NEWS! #CallTheMidwife cast send a moving video message of thanks and support for Queen’s Nurses on the front line in UK communities during the Coronavirus crisis ❤️@TheQNI
FULL STORY: https://t.co/zavu27BhRW
Opening disused lines is great. Consider the case for the Fawley branch. But let’s not kid ourselves: £500m only reopens a tiny handful of miles of the thousands cut in the Beeching era, and much of this budget is earmarked for stations instead.
#OTD 21 Nov the "Parliament (Qualification of Women Act) 1918" gave women over 21 the right to stand for election as an MP. Its the shortest ever UK statute @ 27 words. 17 women stood as MPs in December 1918 elections but only Constance Markievicz elected https://t.co/cRRmR2dxJc
A star is born - They say 'cometh the hour cometh the man' - listen to this brilliant Bishop Auckland farmer...
"On referendum night we went to bed as Great Britain and woke up as Little Britain"
Catchcold Tower was built in the early 1400s and was originally a gun emplacement.
On top there’s a concrete reminder of a Second World War anti-aircraft gun. This was the last time Southampton's medieval walls were used for their intended purpose, which was to defend the town.