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The corpse at every wedding, the bride at every funeral.

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  1. 6 hours ago

    Precisely. It’s about ensuring that other people don’t experience what happened to me.

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    It’s not all about you George
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  2. 7 hours ago

    I'm more or less completely better now, with a very occasional bout of breathlessness. I improved about 2 weeks after my first vaccination, which seems to be the case for quite a few people. But many others don't improve. Post-viral conditions can be lifelong, and devastating.

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    7 hours ago
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    This was the colour of the Usk at Newbridge on Usk on Friday. Algae sucking the life out of it. The river is dying in front of our eyes.

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  4. 7 hours ago

    To those demanding "freedom" from all restrictions: I had Long Covid. For 14 weeks I was more or less housebound, scarcely able to walk. I often felt I was suffocating. I feared it would never end. For some people it doesn't. It's not freedom. It's the opposite.

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    9 hours ago

    “Revealed: The nauseating underbelly of Scotland’s £1 billion salmon farms”

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    Jul 24

    Finally catching up with ’s - as a swimmer and campaigner for I don’t feel safe in our waters anymore. We need urgent action to save and restore our rivers. I implore you all to watch Rivercide if you are not aware of the issues we face.

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  7. 9 hours ago

    The bigger the idiot, the greater the airtime.

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  8. Jul 24

    No, we're not "cowering". Unlike you, we're seeking to take responsibility: not to catch it, not to spread it, not to end up with a Long Covid epidemic for which you have made no plans. But you - you cower before the Tory donors who insist on ripping down our protections.

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    Jul 24

    The Brighton is doing a spot of trespass litter picking. These bits of plastic are spent cartridges - this area of publicly-owned but inaccessible downland is used for a big pheasant shoot. 50 million pheasants are released into the countryside each year.

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  10. Jul 24

    It's also distressing that this can happen in a complete vacuum of accountability. Because it takes place beneath the surface, we'll never know who did this terrible thing, how or why. All fishing vessels should be fitted with remote monitoring equipment.

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    Jul 24

    The 300-strong ⁦⁩ reaches its destination: land owned by the public - by Brighton Council - but completely off-limits to the public!

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  12. Retweeted
    Jul 24

    Sad news was passed on to us today of a major pollution incident on the River Kent. Numbers of dead fish were estimated to be in the thousands. This is called progress, it is becoming a weekly occurrence

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  13. Jul 24

    So what do we do about it all? and me try to chart a way through the almighty mess we're in. Do watch or listen when you have a chance.

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    Jul 24

    Were you inspired by Use these resources to engage your students with ideas of "How humans affect rivers" and carry out some

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  15. Jul 24

    I see it as a kind of ecological philistinism. If we did this to our ancient buildings or works of art, people would be up in arms. But governments and the industry shrug at the mass destruction of nature's wonders, and we let it pass.

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  16. Jul 24

    Our governments allow the fishing industry to treat our seas as a free-for-all. The result is cascading ecological collapse, as ancient biological structures on the seabed and big, slow-growing species are destroyed en masse. It's heartbreaking.

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  17. Jul 24

    The ratio of destruction to production of some of these fishing operations is off the scale. It's possible that the person who killed all those sharks didn't even fill a fish box with their target species, or take home any fish at all.

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  18. Jul 24

    Why is this legal? It sounds like the work of a trammel netter, knocking out the long-lived species crucial to marine foodwebs. The fishing industry's mass destruction of our beautiful ecosystems has to stop.

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  19. Jul 23

    This is important and, frankly, terrifying. It suggests that severe covid infection can cause major and probably permanent cognitive impairment. You really want to avoid this illness.

    LONG COVID THREAD: The people running the BBC Horizon "Great British Intelligence Test" challenge on over 80,000 people took the opportunity to see if they could detect any differences by whether people had had covid or not...
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    Jul 23

    In our latest podcast, and discuss their innovative live documentary and with a panel of other experts explain how we, as a community, can help restore our rivers

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