This August is definitely #SmallCopper time in the #chalkgrasslands!
Adore this gem, all 36-40mm of its loveliness. It's normally speedy but today they were either keeping out of wind down on the chalky paths, looking like orange bows among grass ribbons. or feeding in swaying favourite flowers.

#ŚląskaSwifts update: sitting on my balcony after work when who should drop in but one of the parents still feeding young? Am not convinced both are here any more so will have to check the chicks out quickly as one of them might be missing out. Box 3 still has a parent coming to feed its 1 chick.

Brighton bans Boxpark founder for wearing Palestine shirt Roger Wade, the founder of Boxpark, has been banned from Brighton and Hove Albion’s football ground just for wearing a shirt with the word “Palestine” emblazoned across the chest.…

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Only 20% ‘affordable’ in 676 flats proposed for College Green Housing correspondent BARRATT HOLMES on the latest proposals for huge towers providing expensive flats and situated close to East Croydon Station The site next to the Fairfield Halls and Croydon Co…

Only 20% 'affordable' in 676 flats proposed for College Green insidecroydon.com/2025/07/24/o... #Croydon #Tapestry #FairfieldHalls #EastCroydon @kwajo.bsky.social @london.gov.uk

Labour HQ can mock “Your Party” but it is objectively an enormous failure that the Left has felt it necessary to set up an alternative. Even Tony Blair managed to keep Labour a broad church. “Your Party” isn’t just a new party - it’s an indictment of Starmer’s immoral policies and dire leadership.

shame on Defra.

So much suffering, so much pain
Once you look into his eyes
You can never unsee it
Boycott Faroe Islands now

Inspiring encounter with Otter 🦦

You can take Steve Reed to water, but you can’t make him think ANDREW FISHER, pictured right, in his latest column for Inside Croydon, looks at the case for ending the ‘legalised larceny’ that is water privatisation, as the environment secretary si…

You can take Steve Reed to water, but you can’t make him think insidecroydon.com/2025/07/24/y...

Burning wood for heat emits more CO₂ than coal New BirdLife report reveals how bioenergy is accelerating the climate crisis.

Burning wood for heat emits more CO₂ than coal the dirtiest form of fossil fuels
Also destroy vast areas forest and wildlife
Yet its classified as green and gets billions in subsidies
Between 2011 and 2023, use of biomass for heating increased by 16%.
www.birdlife.org/news/2025/07...

Stop the cull!! A so-called "scientific" policy based on cherry-picked data and mass slaughter. Badgers are dying for nothing. 😡

“We’re encouraging the [UK] government to protect existing access & extend access to the countryside, particularly in places like Dorset where there’s a real lack of meaningful access to nearby countryside. This isn’t about a mass trespass; it is about sort of asserting a historic customary right.”

Student nurses left ‘abandoned’ and ‘neglected’ by NHS Trust As government launches its 10-year plan for the NHS, newly qualified nurses are being ‘abandoned’ and ‘neglected’ and turned down for jobs at the hospital where they have sp…

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The government's planned changes to PIP eligibility will now NOT come in to effect next autumn.

Instead the PIP assessment review (which will include consulting disabled people about) will first be conducted.

Changes to eligibility will only be considered after that has concluded.

Well, the #pitcherplants season is just about over for the year. I made two trips to the bogs this year. Both of them were on foggy days. I'll be back out there next year. #photography #landscapephotography #EastCoastKin #bogplants #bogs #sarracenia

Kingfisher in hand, green bushes in back

More bird ringing. Highlight - little jewel🪶

Green-veined White, Pieris napi. In flight, April to October. Adults feed on a wide range of plants including Betony, Bugle, Common Fleabane and Hemp-agrimony.

Cut the Chase coalition exposes increase in racing dog deaths There were more greyhound fatalities at licensed dog tracks in 2024 than in any year since 2020, despite the number of approved race tracks having fallen to just 19. It is the second successive yea…

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They're incompetent.

All talk and no capability.

All of them, absolute twats.

Red kit overhead

Wherry Albion drifted along the River Yare.

Otter cub.

Stormy clouds over the marshes.

Bittern watching distractions.
#norfolkbirds
#wherry
#photography

Vote for these benefit cuts and you deserve to lose your seat More than 22,000 people in Croydon claim PIP or the health element of Universal Credit. So why aren’t Croydon’s MPs opposing the government cuts? ANDREW FISHER, right, looks at the stor…

Vote for these benefit cuts and you deserve to lose your seat insidecroydon.com/2025/06/26/v...

‘Lilac Bumble’ 20x20cm oil on canvas

Little bee looking for a home… ‘Lilac Bumble’ 20x20cm oil on canvas, £210
www.charlottestrawbridge.co.uk/art

Commuters protest at plan to remove East Croydon cycle racks Croydon’s cyclists are protesting over a late-notice and unconsulted decision by Southern Rail to remove their secure bike storage at East Croydon Station, leaving them without a safe place t…

Commuters protest at plan to remove East Croydon cycle racks insidecroydon.com/2025/06/20/c... #Croydon #Cycling #SouthernFail @londoncycling.bsky.social @christianwolmar.bsky.social @willnorman.co.uk

Rachel Reeves Promised Oil Industry ‘Quid Pro Quo’ Over Windfall Tax in Private Meeting Chancellor Rachel Reeves told a fossil fuel giant that the industry would receive a “quid pro quo” in return for higher taxes on its windfall profits, DeSmog can reveal. In a meeting with the Norwegia...

“Rachel Reeves told a fossil fuel giant that the industry would receive a ‘quid pro quo’ in return for higher taxes on its windfall profits”

Is carbon capture a bung for the fossil fuel industry? The Chancellor seems to think of it that way (via @desmog.com):
www.desmog.com/2025/06/19/r...

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A male Chaffinch in prime breeding condition, arrives at the shade of the weedy pond to take some water on board.
When you really look, what a beautiful bird.
#wildlifegardenting #nature #weedypond #ornithology @bto-gbw.bsky.social

Commuters protest at plan to remove East Croydon cycle racks Croydon’s cyclists are protesting over a late-notice and unconsulted decision by Southern Rail to remove their secure bike storage at East Croydon Station, leaving them without a safe place t…

Commuters protest at plan to remove East Croydon cycle racks insidecroydon.com/2025/06/20/c...

Labour deselects Jewish Streatham councillor for Gaza support Councillor Martin Abrams has accused those running Keir Starmer’s party of ‘pursuing their factional obsession against the interests of both the community and the Labour Party’ Ma…

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1/2 #speciesaday no. 611 is Red Star-thistle (Centaurea calcitrapa). Nationally Rare, Endangered and Section 41. National stronghold appears to be the East Sussex Downs. Until two days ago, I have only ever seen one or two plants at a time, then I found a pony paddock covered in it!