A group of Puffins on Skomer at sunset with the sea in the background.

Positive Puffin news!

We’re thrilled to announce another record-breaking year on Skomer Island with 52,019 Puffins recorded this spring.

If you’d like to support our seabird monitoring work, you can donate to our Big Give appeal this April: champ.ly/mqNUNCQg

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Reform and Tory tax cuts 'would require deep cuts in public services and favour higher earners' Martin Shipton Tax cuts proposed by Reform UK and the Welsh Conservatives would require deep cuts in public services and would disproportionately benefit better off earners, according to an analysis o...

Tax cuts proposed by Reform and the Welsh Conservatives would require deep cuts in public services and would disproportionately benefit better off earners, according to an analysis undertaken by Cardiff University academics ✍️Martin Shipton

NEW POLLING FOR WALES

- Reform are forecast 1 more seat than Plaid
- Labour well down in 3rd place
- Plaid still best placed to form the next Welsh Gov
- First Minister Eluned Morgan would lose her seat
- Tories would be on just 3 seats and lose leader.

Full analysis here:

Meta just paid the lowest effective federal tax rate in its history.

Thanks to tax breaks and loopholes, it avoided $13.7B in 2025 federal income taxes.

But now it's planning to lay off 10% of its global workforce (8,000 people) by May 20 — with more job cuts later this year.

Trickle down hoax.

Reform to tell Welsh museums how to present history, manifesto says Election pledges say Reform would ask museums to present history chronologically.

In case there haven't been quite enough red flags and alarm bells, here's another clear warning about Reform 🚨

"Reform UK will tell Welsh museums how to present history, manifesto says."

www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Petition: Nationalise water companies to make water a non profit publicly owned asset To make water a non profit making national asset that ensures we have a secure water infrastructure that ensures our water security for future generations.

Non-profits are still private companies. Dwr Cymru is in as much trouble as Severn Trent, Thames, South West and all the rest.

Please sign the petition! Make water a publicly owned utility again.

#DirtyBusiness

petition.parliament.uk/petitions/75...

Will Hayward "Who cares about Wales?" hosted by Jude Rogers Wales for Europe presents Will Hayward (Welsh Political Journalist of the Year) "Who cares about Wales?" Hosted by journalist Jude Rogers

You're invited to Swansea for Europe's upcoming in-person event, with Will Hayward and Jude Rogers! Tickets are just £2 each! RSVP below 👇🇪🇺 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿
🗓️ June 25th at 7:00 pm.
🎦 Volcano Theatre, Swansea.

www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/will-haywa...

Video of Muslim women calling for Brighton beach to be dog-free is AI – Full Fact A fake video that appears to show two women wearing niqabs saying “the UK has too many dogs” has been viewed over 1.7 million times, with many people seemingly thinking it is genuine.

A video viewed over 1.7 million times appears to show an interview with two Muslim women saying people shouldn’t bring dogs to the beach.

It’s generated a huge amount of negative engagement and comments, but it’s fake. It’s been created with AI.

Voting Reform is the equivalent of voting twice for Trump.
It is an act of pure ignorance, or racism, or both.
And, as we all know, it leads nowhere good.

Please god UK. Do not let that happen. Learn from our mistakes. Learn from America’s mistakes.
Just get your shit together.

This evening, residents of Kyiv spotted an object in the sky and, thinking it was another Russian missile, wondered why there were no air raid sirens.

It turned out to be a comet burning up in the atmosphere.

More than 600 migrants cross English Channel in single day On Saturday, 602 people arrived on nine boats, marking the second busiest day so far this year.

600 migrants crossed Channel in a single day BBC screams

Yet not a word on the £600,000 Reforms Richard Tice avoided paying or nearly £100,000 he underpaid from a company that donates money to Reform

Which is corrupt as hell and as an MP far more newsworthy than migrants but its Reform 🤷🏼‍♂️😡

Good Morning Blue Sky

Nightingale on a branch, which is covered with lichen. It's in a tree, and singing. It has mid-brown wings and back, and a pale smooth chest with a slightly darker and rougher bib. the bright orange beak is wide open.

The first nightingales have returned to Fingringhoe Wick after their epic flight from Africa.

There’s no sound quite like it—come and hear the season’s first songs.

eastangliabylines.co.uk/environment/...

Does dim eisiau '?' ...chi'n iawn 😊.

Good morning & welcome to #Caturday

Today is full of possibility…
Not the loud, overwhelming kind but the quiet kind that whispers,
“try again… you might surprise yourself

Take one small step. That’s enough.

Hungary's new PM urges Starmer to rejoin EU amid push to unwind Brexit Péter Magyar, who defeated Viktor Orbán in a stunning result overnight, said he 'hoped' the UK would become a member state again.

And still it grows.
The Mail poll now at 86% for rejoining and just 10% for staying out.
Are you taking note Labour, @greenparty.org.uk @libdems.org.uk @zackpolanski.bsky.social @eddavey.libdems.org.uk
@labourlewis.bsky.social @sarahhall-labour.bsky.social

www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article...

Man made the first extant sundial 3,500 years ago. Then came water clocks and calibrated incense and hourglasses. Then the mechanical clock. Then quartz crystals (which I still don’t get) and the atomic clock, perfectly accurate for 300 billion years.
But ChatGPT can’t match my old kitchen timer.

Caroline Lucas explains why more drilling in the North Sea wouldn't bring our energy prices down & it would take years to come on line, but what will bring prices down is more renewables & energy efficiency, its quicker to achieve and it doesn't drive climate change #GMB

#voteplaid

Exterior view of BBC New Broadcasting House

A BBC story appears to exaggerate asylum seeker fraud

Published during an election where Reform UK is campaigning hard on the issue

That overlap is hard to ignore, comments Stephen McNair.

eastangliabylines.co.uk/immigration/...

Another wonderful #buyastrangerabook day offer.

@humanaqvi.bsky.social is offering to buy one lucky person the book of their choice, up to £20!

So, if there's a particular book that you'd like, get in touch.

UK only

James Bembridge on X: Hate is too weak a word for what I feel towards the NHS. I'd tear it down and salt the earth upon which it stood.

Lovely people, these Reform UK candidates for the upcoming election, and great to know they're on our side.

NEWS: Huge first win for Mayor Mamdani’s tax-the-rich plans in NYC.

Mamdani just secured a deal with Gov. Hochul to create the state’s first-ever tax on $5 million+ second homes owned by ultrawealthy out-of-state residents.

Want positive news?

Though social media & certain politicians act like the public don't care about climate change, the evidence is most people in Wales totally get that this is a serious issue.

Polling found supporters of all parties in Wales (except Reform) were concerned about global warming.

Da iawn Cymru!! 👏⚽🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿

Good morning , and thank you to Martin Yelland for this beauty , snapped on his camera trap in Cornwall ! #FoxOfTheDay

The Voice of the Forest: Why Penrhos Must Be Saved Ness Owen As the decade-long battle over the future of Penrhos Nature Reserve near Holyhead, being developed into a holiday complex, reaches a critical turning point in April 2026, why should this anc...

As the decade-long battle over the future of Penrhos Nature Reserve reaches a critical turning point in April 2026, why should this ancient woodland be saved, and can a community-led buyout protect it? ✍️ Ness Owen

Nothing to see here..

Just orthopaedic surgeon Zsolt Hegedus who is tipped to be Hungary's new Health Minister

Grooving on stage, after Viktor Orban was voted out

So happy for the people of Hungary ☺️

Bute park, Cardiff

Richard Tice tax row is 'minor administrative error', party claims A property company owned by the Reform UK deputy leader failed to pay £91,000 in tax on dividends, according to the Sunday Times.

Odd how the minor administrative errors always seem to produce the same results.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...