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Alison Rodger
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Britain’s AI Growth Zone Gamble: How Government is Selling Out Communities From Oxford to Wales to Dorset
The Great Data Center Land Grab: 200+ Bids and Counting While Communities Are Left in the Dark
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Britain’s AI Growth Zone Gamble: How Government is Selling Out Communities From Oxford to Wales to Dorset
The Great Data Center Land Grab: 200+ Bids and Counting While Communities Are Left in the Dark
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The news story that reveals Wes Streeting’s puberty-blocker ban to be nothing to do with “protecting children” and everything to do with Wes Streeting and Keir Starmer being deeply transphobic bigots…

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Hannan and Frost in the Telegraph.
Sunak in the Times.
Kwasi Kwarteng in the iPaper.
Johnson in the Mail.
Gove editing the Spectator.
Farage everywhere.
All of them shamelessly honking out their ‘Listen to me!’ garbage, as the country flails around in the unbelievable mess they’ve made.
Nauseating.
A Brexiter writes...
Fondant filled tree decorations, why did they disappear?
#Christmas 2000: Confectionery from Woolworths

(+Cadbury's Dairy Milk 1.7kg; Galaxy 1kg; Cadbury's fondant filled tree decorations; Terry's Chocolate Orange Snowball 170g; Christmas Dime Box 250g; Chocolate Lovers Selection Box; Cadbury's Dairy Milk 650g; Cadbury's Whole Nut 650g, and more)
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Your first look at tomorrow's Sunday National 📰

Firm with Scottish headquarters 'helps Israel extract gas' from Palestine's waters
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[Thread] Beltalowda! The Expanse will soon be celebrating its 10th anniversary on TV, and I'm starting to accumulate quite a few long-form resources on the creation of this show. For the Cant!

Here is the list below. 1/8
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My husband @mjowen174.bsky.social is very down.
He’s struggling to find any work at the moment.
He’s a brilliant writer and has written for Dangermouse, Private Eye and many more…

If you need a writer have a look at his website and please repost.
www.mathew-owen.co.uk
Thank you
Home | Matt Owen | Freelance Writer
I offer a broad and diverse range of writing services. Get in touch!
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The Scale is Staggering:
The UK now has 86 designated zones (12 Freeports, 74 Special Economic Zones/Investment Zones), now being consolidated into "Industrial Strategy Zones", plus AI Growth Zones launched by Starmer in January 2025 with over 200 bids submitted so far.
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Just over a week to go until my talk at the Mitchell Library in Glasgow as part of the brilliant Aye Write festival - if you fancy hearing about my adventures in search of Scotland's ancient past, come along! Tickets available here: www.glasgowlife.org.uk/event/1/the-...
#RomanSiteSaturday #AyeWrite
The Road to Mons Gaupius: Alan Montgomery - Glasgow Life
Aye Write 2025 presents The Road to Mons Gaupius: Alan Montgomery
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“Individuals on the ground sent a message that reached us Monday morning that 1,200 were dead,” Nathaniel Raymond, the lab’s executive director, said. “By that evening, they said 10,000. By Tuesday, we couldn’t reach them anymore. We assume our ground contacts are dead.”
Yale lab reports mass killings in Sudan, calls for student activism
The Humanitarian Research Lab was told this week that over 10,000 people in Sudan were killed within three days.
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Here’s a disturbing video from Evanston of a federal agent hitting a man on the ground as people yell that he can’t breathe.
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Hours left & a struggle for last bits of Nov's rent. 185 Cad It's worrying. Your support helps keep me housed & continuing work I began with my Dad. Harry Leslie Smith-6 books so far & now done His Green & Pleasant Land Etrans [email protected] ko-fi.com/harryslastst...
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Video taken by Jay Shefsky at 12:20 p.m. after the crash happened, Oakton Street/Asbury Avenue in Evanston, IL
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On the left, the refurbished Lincoln bathroom. On the right, picture I took in Saddam Hussein's palace in Basra in 2005.
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*Friday October 31st 15:15

Pretty much as forecast with heavy rain and strong winds sweeping through the country in a NE direction

Should clear about 6 o’clock ish if yer heading out Guising
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OCTOBER UPDATE Who Owns Scotland now published with total of 4850 landholdings (76.55% rural Scotland). The project is financed solely by subscription income which is not rising as fast as expansion expenditure so may have to slow the project down. Subscriptions start at £5 whoownsscotland.org.uk
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