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🚨Is anyone from Thames Water going to be PROSECUTED for breaking the law❓ - Feargal Sharkey @Thameswater *diverted* ‘cash for clean-ups’ to help pay bonuses In 2023 @Thameswater underspent their environmental obligation to Environment Agency by £1.1bn. Now we know why. They used

'Who Would Have Thought It' - an intriquing place-name on the 1851 edition 6 inch OS map [sheet 206] for #Stillington, for our last #MapMonday of 2024... #HappyNewYear 🎆

There were 1,218,000 migrants to the UK last year. Irregular migrants made up 36,704 of this number, so roughly 2.9% of the overall numbers. So yes, the vast majority of migrants to the UK arrived here on visas.

So 'new' they are not - been at it for several years....

Another eye-opener. Don't want to think what'd happen if this came before Supreme Court today.

Creating energy by burning imported wood from across the sea - an interesting take on green energy?

Woman of the Day WW2 Air Transport Auxiliary pilot Winifred Crossley Fair who was appointed as a Second Officer OTD in 1940, just eight days before her 24th birthday. The first woman to fly the single-seater Hawker Hurricane, a frontline RAF fighter plane, she executed a perfect

#HappyNewYear2025 We looking forward to our next event #Chartism #IVW25

In September, a member of Hamas's negotiating team told me that they needed 3 to 5 days of a complete ceasefire to locate all the hostages, to know who is holding them, and to know their condition. Now they are saying a week. I believe them because they do not control most of the

"Children are freezing to death because they don't have enough shelter items," says Louise Wateridge, a Senior Emergency Officer at UNRWA who has just returned from Gaza.

Among those currying favour with Elon Musk, it has become an article of faith that the “mainstream media” ignored the UK’s grooming gangs scandal until the brave truth-tellers of X uncovered it, er, last week. Give over. Feminist writer Julie Bindel first wrote about the

#Halifax Central Library and Archives has got a fantastic display about "Champion" Jack Dupree up at the moment - if you don't know anything about the man then come to the library to learn more. This display will run for the entire month of January.

Woman of the Day journalist Dolores Alexander (1931-2008) of New Jersey, National Organisation for Women executive director, co-founder of Women Against Pornography, co-owner of a feminist restaurant. She introduced herself to a NOW meeting as “your local neighborhood lesbian”.

Woman of the Day Ellen Fraser born in 1764 in Yorkshire, one of the 192 women transported as convicts by the First Fleet who set foot on dry land at Botany Bay OTD in 1788 after a gruelling 252 day voyage from Portsmouth sailing west to Rio de Janeiro and then cutting east to

An exciting selection of events coming up over the next few months with guided walks from #Saddleworth to #Scarborough and a timely explore of 19th century industrial development in #Bradford while the city celebrates UK #CityofCulture2025. ➡️victoriansociety.org.uk/regional-group…

Women of the Day are Jessie Ace (1860-1936) and Margaret Wright (1854-1933) of Mumbles, Wales. It’s their day because OTD in 1883, they pulled two drowning lifeboatmen out of the sea at Mumbles Head during a raging storm, but you wouldn’t know that if you’d read the RNLI report.

Gaza poem for HMD

Exciting young folk trio The Hope Captives added to Steve Tilston benefit gig in 4 weeks time not to be missed #calderdale #hebdenbridge WeGotTickets #livemusic #folk

'Vernacular Architecture of the South Pennines' - a day school on Sat 15 March in Halifax looking at how the landscape, social and economic aspects are reflected in the fascinating buildings of the area. All welcome - for full details and booking form see yvbsg.org.uk/events.html.