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[Time Detectives @timedetectives]

Wow! @Brad_Argent @Voltage_TV @Michala_Hulme DNA Journey trumps the competition https://t.co/Ub8rC3SiZF

[Time Detectives @timedetectives]

@London_W4 Nice article. And strangely no one knows who complained (once there's public outcry) who'd have thought it.

[Alastair Hilton @London_W4]

Ohhh look! I’m quoted in The Telegraph. That’s a proper grown up paper for intellectuals such as myself. I was interviewed inside a pub in Chiswick, you’ll be surprised to hear, by a very pleasant journalist. So here’s the article.
https://t.co/Btr56u1czl

[Alastair Hilton @London_W4]

Watch this! I’m sat outside the Bell and Crown at Strand on the Green in Chiswick right now watching a dolphin! Yes, seriously! A dolphin in the Thames in Chiswick while I sip my wine. Life cannot get any better. Incredibly, this is the second time I’ve stood here and watched a dolphin.

[Time Detectives @timedetectives]

@London_W4 'What's that Flipper? - "So long, and thanks for all the fish." ?

[Time Detectives @timedetectives]

Echoes of the Past - Great show I researched and appeared in a Deaf Family filmed with a Deaf Crew, who showed great fortitude in "seeing" my Cockney accent, highly enjoyable to be part of the filming, as a Cockney I love the fact that one of the production companies was called "Mutt and Jeff"! https://t.co/wmGqlEkOYd

[Hampshire Chronicle @hantschronicle]

Winchester sommeliers celebrate English Wine Week with al fresco collaboration https://t.co/dob2FY7XwE

[HBO Max @hbomax]

House of the Dragon is now streaming on HBO Max.

[Time Detectives @timedetectives]

@Anglo_Warrior yep got one in my garden, packed with life all year round

[Anglo-Celtic Warrior @Anglo_Warrior]

Chalk streams are considered to be the rarest freshwater habitat on earth. Filtering through chalk bedrock for years, the water is pure, mineral-rich and stable in temperature.

With 200 of them in the world, England has almost all, making them almost a solely English feature 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿

[Time Detectives @timedetectives]

Want to see a great show, and have a laugh tonight? Then tune in to DNA Journey tonight on ITV at 10.50. Rob Beckett Romesh Ranganathan and featuring me, on a journey into a decidedly dodgy past! #DNAJourney

[Time Detectives @timedetectives]

Want to see a great show, and have a laugh tonight? Then tune in to DNA Journey tonight on ITV at 10.50. Rob Beckett Romesh Ranganathan and featuring me, on a journey into a decidedly dodgy past! #DNAJourney

[Paul Powlesland @paulpowlesland]

A stunning reminder of why we cannot give up on our rivers yesterday, as I stumbled across an adult eel on the Roding for the first time, lounging in the shallows in the shade of a council tower block & within earshot of the North Circular.

This now rare & magical sight used to be common, until eel populations crashed on the Roding in the 1980’s & have not recovered. Seeking to understand & reverse this population crash should surely be a key role for the governments environmental regulator, but as usual they have done nothing to improve water quality or remove barriers to eel migration. Worse, they are actively blocking my efforts to help the eel population recover.

Ordinarily, baby eels (elvers) for restocking are expensive to buy. However, I managed to secure a kind donation of elvers from fishermen on the River Severn (where the elvers often get stuck behind barriers on the river). I applied for my @EnvAgency restocking permit like a good boy & all they had to do to help recover eel populations on the Roding was to say yes. Perhaps predictably, my application was rejected, because there was no positive evidence that reintroducing eels to the Roding would be a good thing. Perhaps most annoyingly, my application to restock eels on the Roding was rejected because reintroducing them would interfere with the EA’s monitoring of their continued decline.

I asked what would happen if I went ahead & released the elvers anyway & was told that the EA would fine me up to £50,000. Yet another example of the malevolent uselessness of the EA: obsessed with procedure, but will do absolutely sod all to actually reverse the decline in our rivers.

[Time Detectives @timedetectives]

@omid9 you've got my vote

[Proudofus.uk @ProudofusUK]

The oldest human footprints outside Africa are on a beach in Norfolk. 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿🇬🇧

In May 2013, a rough tide stripped the sand off a slab of ancient estuary mud at Happisburgh, and uncovered footprints. Human ones. Pressed there between 850,000 and 950,000 years ago.

About 5 people, adults and children, walking south beside an ancient river, back when a fertile plain still joined Britain to the continent. No bones were found, only the trace they left in the mud, so nobody can say who they were. Only that they were here, nearly a million years before the Romans.

The same sea that revealed the prints was already destroying them. The team had a fortnight. They recorded every print between the tides, then the sea took the page back. The prints are gone. The record survives.

History like this is washing off our shores faster than we can save it. We read these pages before the tide does, and give them back, free, to everyone.

Want to learn more? https://t.co/kfMKMUQrmn

If you can afford to, help us save the next one: https://t.co/rih7iKwnvf

Be part of us. ☝️🇬🇧

Be Proud Of Us. 🙏🇬🇧

[Paul Powlesland @paulpowlesland]

Dear @EnvAgency.

In February this year, after 4 years of asking you to look after the Aldersbrook, I led a team of volunteers to do your job for you & clean out tonnes of silt & leaves, as well as hundreds of bags of rubbish. Through the effort of community volunteers & donations, & at zero cost to the taxpayer, we turned a forgotten silted up ditch back into a river again.

Last nights intense rain storm showed why our actions are the very definition of “strengthening water resilience”. A huge amount of rain fell in a short time, but the restored section of the Aldersbrook has been able to hold 100’s of thousands of litres more water, stopping this water running into the Roding, & thereby *reducing* local flood risk. The first photograph below is of the Aldersbrook after the rains this morning- a big contrast to the area before we did the work.

Perhaps more importantly, this water, instead of running straight off into the Roding & hence the sea is now being held in the Aldersbrook & gradually released so it can be used by nature. It is feeding marshes, trees & wildlife, topping up groundwater & helping to reduce our flood/drought cycle. If you want to strengthen water resilience, we need thousands more projects like the Aldersbrook around the country.

So the question I ask you, Environment Agency, is why you are threatening me with two years imprisonment, rather than offering to meet & discuss how we can work together to restore the Roding & its tributaries, which could become a blueprint for you cooperating with local river guardians nationwide?

[Feargal Sharkey @Feargal_Sharkey]

“Louise Beardmore pocketed £2.5million, up 79 per cent on the previous year, and including a bonus of £830,000.”

Worth every penny I’m sure.

https://t.co/nWZyTCdCA7

[Time Detectives @timedetectives]

@London_W4 What's caused that? Opening sluices somewhere upriver? Or just the thunderstorm?

[Chris Rose @ArchRose90]

Do you still believe this @DavidLammy?

[Feargal Sharkey @Feargal_Sharkey]

Now remind me what was all that bonus ban nonsense all about?

[Stonehenge U.K @ST0NEHENGE]

Stonehenge summer Solstice Celebration 2026 🙏❤️