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East Anglia Bylines @eastangliabylines.co.uk · 1h

After years of cuts and neglect, many communities feel powerless.

The new Pride in Place programme aims to change that —£20 million over 10 years, led locally, decided locally.

Report by Stephen McNair

Restoring pride to Britain’s most deprived neighbourhoods

'Pride in Place' is an ambitious government plan to hand power and funding to local people to rebuild community pride. How will it work?

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East Anglia Bylines @eastangliabylines.co.uk · 6m

For generations, families in Norfolk built their lives by the sea.

Now the sea is reclaiming what was theirs.

Owen Sennitt reports

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East Anglia Bylines @eastangliabylines.co.uk · 9m

Letter to the editor:

If Germany stripped British residents of healthcare, the UK would be outraged.

So why tolerate such proposals here?

From Camilla Cucinotta

Letter to the editor: A civilised society does not withhold care based on citizenship

Letter to the editor

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East Anglia Bylines @eastangliabylines.co.uk · 11m

A really interesting point of view. Would you be interested in writing up your thread as a ‘letter to the editor’ in response to this article?
Do consider it.
Write to: [email protected]

East Anglia Bylines @eastangliabylines.co.uk · 1h

How will the new 50-metre pylons change your view?

Detailed visualisations are out, showing exactly how this massive transmission project will dominate the Essex landscape.

Take a look. ⤵️
Piers Meyler reports

Visual impact of new Essex pylons is modelled

Visual simulations reveal how new 50-metre pylons could reshape Essex’s countryside – and spark growing local resistance

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East Anglia Bylines @eastangliabylines.co.uk · 1h

Restoring pride to Britain’s most deprived neighbourhoods

'Pride in Place' is an ambitious government plan to hand power and funding to local people to rebuild community pride. How will it work?

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East Anglia Bylines @eastangliabylines.co.uk · 5h

Norfolk’s disappearing cliffs are not just a local story.

They’re a glimpse of Britain’s future as sea levels rise.

Owen Sennitt reports

Norfolk’s vanishing coast and the limits of protection

Norfolk’s crumbling coastline exposes the human cost of climate change – and the painful limits of what councils can do

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East Anglia Bylines @eastangliabylines.co.uk · 5h

This week’s letter to the editor reminds us: a civilised society is measured by how fairly it treats those who live within it.

From Camilla Cucinotta

Letter to the editor: A civilised society does not withhold care based on citizenship

Letter to the editor

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East Anglia Bylines @eastangliabylines.co.uk · 5h

The true cost of the new pylons is now visible.

These models show the scale of 50-metre structures that will cut through Essex.

Have a look here ⤵️

Report by Piers Meyler, LDRS

Visual impact of new Essex pylons is modelled

Visual simulations reveal how new 50-metre pylons could reshape Essex’s countryside – and spark growing local resistance

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East Anglia Bylines @eastangliabylines.co.uk · 6h

Pride in Place is the government’s new £5 billion plan to rebuild local pride — by giving power and funding directly to communities.

Safer streets. Better high streets. Local control. How will it work?

Stephen McNair reports

Restoring pride to Britain’s most deprived neighbourhoods

'Pride in Place' is an ambitious government plan to hand power and funding to local people to rebuild community pride. How will it work?

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East Anglia Bylines @eastangliabylines.co.uk · 7h

Letter to the editor: EU citizens with Settled Status have a legal right to equal treatment.

Politicians cannot simply wish away international law.

From Camilla Cucinotta

Letter to the editor: A civilised society does not withhold care based on citizenship

Letter to the editor

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East Anglia Bylines @eastangliabylines.co.uk · 1d

Parties at No.10?

Of course the hacks knew. They just didn’t want to lose their invites.

That’s how deference turns to complicity.

Peter Thurlow reports

How deference becomes client journalism in plain sight

We have come through a period of often shameful journalism, bending the knee to Downing Street. Can our journalism recover?

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As Greater Anglia is taken into public ownership, we look at what that means for passengers across the East of England.

Greater Anglia joins public ownership after record year of performance

Passengers in East Anglia will travel on a publicly owned railway from Sunday, as Greater Anglia transfers to government control

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East Anglia Bylines @eastangliabylines.co.uk · 19h

In today’s letter to the editor, a reader warns that proposals to deny welfare to EU citizens with Settled Status are not only morally wrong – they’re legally indefensible.

From Camilla Cucinotta

Letter to the editor: A civilised society does not withhold care based on citizenship

Letter to the editor

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East Anglia Bylines @eastangliabylines.co.uk · 8h

'Pride in Place' is an ambitious government plan to hand power and funding to local people to rebuild community pride. How will it work? | Stephen McNair

Restoring pride to Britain’s most deprived neighbourhoods

'Pride in Place' is an ambitious government plan to hand power and funding to local people to rebuild community pride. How will it work?

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East Anglia Bylines @eastangliabylines.co.uk · 15h

New visualisations reveal the serious impact of huge 50-metre pylons across the Essex countryside.

See pictures that show how the landscape will be permanently altered by the Norwich to Tilbury transmission line.

Piers Meyler reports

Visual impact of new Essex pylons is modelled

Visual simulations reveal how new 50-metre pylons could reshape Essex’s countryside – and spark growing local resistance

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East Anglia Bylines @eastangliabylines.co.uk · 15h

£20 million to protect a single stretch of Norfolk coast – or accept that nature will take its course.

There are no easy answers.

Owen Sennitt reports

Norfolk’s vanishing coast and the limits of protection

Norfolk’s crumbling coastline exposes the human cost of climate change – and the painful limits of what councils can do

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East Anglia Bylines @eastangliabylines.co.uk · 1d

How will the new 50-metre pylons change your view? These pylons are much bigger than in the past.

Detailed visualisations are out, showing exactly how this massive project will dominate the Essex landscape.

Take a look ⤵️

Piers Meyler reports

Visual impact of new Essex pylons is modelled

Visual simulations reveal how new 50-metre pylons could reshape Essex’s countryside – and spark growing local resistance

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Norfolk’s crumbling coastline exposes the human cost of climate change – and the painful limits of what councils can do.

By Owen Sennitt, Local Democracy Reporter

Norfolk’s vanishing coast and the limits of protection

Norfolk’s crumbling coastline exposes the human cost of climate change – and the painful limits of what councils can do

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New outlets like East Anglia Bylines show another way, writes Peter Thurlow: no allegiance; no favours; no need to kiss the ring.

Journalism can still fight back.

How deference becomes client journalism in plain sight

We have come through a period of often shameful journalism, bending the knee to Downing Street. Can our journalism recover?

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Letter to the editor | East Anglia Bylines

Letter to the editor: A civilised society does not withhold care based on citizenship

Letter to the editor

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National Grid have published visualisations of how the Essex landscape will appear with the addition of 50-metre pylons.

Local councils say the plans are ‘unacceptable’.

See the article for ‘before and after’ pictures ⬇️

Report by Piers Meyler.

Visual impact of new Essex pylons is modelled

Visual simulations reveal how new 50-metre pylons could reshape Essex’s countryside – and spark growing local resistance

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The Conservative Party which has been the dominant thread in British politics for nearly two hundred years is no more.

This week the One Nation caucus was dissolved.

Pecksniff writes.

Pecksniff: Badenoch brazens out the Tories’ 14 years of failure

In which Mr Pecksniff lays before his readers for their approval certain observations and speculations reflecting on the political life

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Greater Anglia enters public ownership this Sunday, after being named Rail Operator of the Year just days ago.

Can public ownership match that success?

Greater Anglia joins public ownership after record year of performance

Passengers in East Anglia will travel on a publicly owned railway from Sunday, as Greater Anglia transfers to government control

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Boris Johnson broke the news model – smirking as he lied on camera, knowing no journalist would dare call him out.

The joke was on us.

Peter Thurlow reports

How deference becomes client journalism in plain sight

We have come through a period of often shameful journalism, bending the knee to Downing Street. Can our journalism recover?

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Norfolk’s coast is crumbling. As erosion accelerates, local authorities face impossible choices: protect a few homes short-term at great cost, or accept the sea’s advance.

Owen Sennitt reports

Norfolk’s vanishing coast and the limits of protection

Norfolk’s crumbling coastline exposes the human cost of climate change – and the painful limits of what councils can do

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