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Bylines Network @bylinesnetwork.co.uk · 12h

After years of record punctuality and investment, Greater Anglia enters public ownership today, having being named Rail Operator of the Year just days ago. Can public ownership match that success?

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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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Bylines Network @bylinesnetwork.co.uk · 6h

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Central Bylines @centralbylines.co.uk · 1d

Exposing Reform’s Oil Ties Significantly Reduces Party Support, New Research Finds

Voters recoil at Farage’s fossil fuel funding.
Via @desmog.com @writesbright.bsky.social

Exposing Reform’s Oil Ties Significantly Reduces Party Support, New Research Finds

Reform UK’s oil industry interests are a major turn-off for voters, new research reveals. The think tank Persuasion UK tested five anti-Reform messages on 6,000 adults. According to the research, “by ...

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North West Bylines @northwestbylines.co.uk · 21h

How diversity of faith happened slowly in Tullamore, Ireland, with the Jehovah’s Witness community being the pioneers
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The arrival of a Jehovah’s Witness community started a change at Tullamore

How diversity of faith happened slowly in Tullamore, Ireland, with the Jehovah’s Witness community being the pioneers

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North West Bylines @northwestbylines.co.uk · 13h

Lancashire County Council has insisted that the futures of 10 elderly care facilities have not yet been decided
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DOGE style cuts to adult care facilities considered in Lancashire

Lancashire County Council has insisted that the futures of 10 elderly care facilities have not yet been decided

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Bylines Network @bylinesnetwork.co.uk · 1d

* Badenoch puts a brave face on Tory oblivion
* Reform faces scrutiny over Russian “friends”
* Greens, ignored by the BBC
* Labour Deputy race could split the party

Read the latest from Pecksniff’s Diary

@eastangliabylines.co.uk @pecksniffsdiary.bsky.social

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

eastangliabylines.co.uk

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Bylines Network @bylinesnetwork.co.uk · 9h

Six of the best: Yorkshire’s cultural highlights

In proud celebration of Yorkshire’s cultural heritage, we reach the grand finale of our current series

By Ian Richardson

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Six of the best: Yorkshire’s cultural highlights

In proud celebration of Yorkshire’s cultural heritage, we reach the grand finale of our current series

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Yorkshire Bylines @yorkshirebylines.co.uk · 11h

Sally Wainwright’s latest tv series is an uncompromising celebration of women in all their messy, middle-aged glory

By Su O'Brien

Move over, coffee mornings: it’s Riot Women

Sally Wainwright’s latest tv series is an uncompromising celebration of women in all their messy, middle-aged glory

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

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.

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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Bylines Network @bylinesnetwork.co.uk · 11h

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Bylines Network @bylinesnetwork.co.uk · 12h

After years of record punctuality and investment, Greater Anglia enters public ownership today, having being named Rail Operator of the Year just days ago. Can public ownership match that success?

@eastangliabylines.co.uk

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

eastangliabylines.co.uk

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Bylines Network @bylinesnetwork.co.uk · 14h

Political journalists didn’t set out to become clients of power – they just slipped into it. Half-truths, soft questions and silence bought with access. Read this analysis on how deference has turned to complicity ⤵️

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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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Bylines Network @bylinesnetwork.co.uk · 16h

The Lincolnshire Fens desperately need new flood defences

The iconic landscape of the Fens faces an uncertain future unless funding is urgently secured to protect them
@cliftop.bsky.social @centralbylines.co.uk

The Lincolnshire Fens desperately need new flood defences

The iconic landscape of the Fens faces an uncertain future unless funding is urgently secured to protect them

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East Anglia Bylines @eastangliabylines.co.uk · 21h

British journalism has been through a shameful era – bending the knee to Downing Street.

Can it ever recover its dignity? Peter Thurlow wonders.

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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Bylines Network @bylinesnetwork.co.uk · 19h

Making a mockery of the law: judicial treatment of non-volent direct action
Judicial refusal to allow people to say why they are protesting is both illegal and immoral

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Making a mockery of the law: judicial treatment of non-volent direct action

Judicial refusal to allow people to say why they are protesting is both illegal and immoral

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Yorkshire Bylines @yorkshirebylines.co.uk · 20h

✍️ Six of the best: Yorkshire’s cultural highlights

In proud celebration of Yorkshire’s cultural heritage, we reach the grand finale of our current series

By Ian Richardson

@ricojosh.bsky.social

Six of the best: Yorkshire’s cultural highlights

In proud celebration of Yorkshire’s cultural heritage, we reach the grand finale of our current series

yorkshirebylines.co.uk

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

Greater Anglia is renationalised: “The first service in public ownership will be the 4.10am Stansted Express from London Liverpool Street on Sunday morning.”

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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North West Bylines @northwestbylines.co.uk · 1d

A mother pleaded with her MP to help her 15-year-old suicidal daughter who said she ‘wanted to take her own life’
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MP fails to support suicidal constituent

A mother pleaded with her MP to help her suicidal15-year-old daughter who said she ‘wanted to take her own life’

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North West Bylines @northwestbylines.co.uk · 1d

She was just number 46 in foster care, and now Nichola Anne fights to change people's perceptions of children in care
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Foster care: I was just known as number 46

She was just number 46 in foster care, and now Nichola Anna fights to change people's perceptions of children in care

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Bylines Network @bylinesnetwork.co.uk · 1d

* Badenoch puts a brave face on Tory oblivion
* Reform faces scrutiny over Russian “friends”
* Greens, ignored by the BBC
* Labour Deputy race could split the party

Read the latest from Pecksniff’s Diary

@eastangliabylines.co.uk @pecksniffsdiary.bsky.social

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

eastangliabylines.co.uk

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Central Bylines @centralbylines.co.uk · 2d

Great news.....

Great Britain has run on 100% clean power for record 87 hours in 2025 so far

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Great Britain has run on 100% clean power for record 87 hours in 2025 so far

Clean-energy sources have powered Great Britain entirely for a record 87 hours this year — a milestone toward 2030 targets

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Central Bylines @centralbylines.co.uk · 1d

The death of truth and accuracy in the mainstream media

Politicians and the media are distorting the truth; how can we avoid being duped?
@garygilligan.bsky.social

The death of truth and accuracy in the mainstream media

Politicians and the media are distorting the truth; how can we avoid being duped?

centralbylines.co.uk

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Bylines Network @bylinesnetwork.co.uk · 1d

Reform UK intends to withdraw our human rights

They want us to join Russia and Belarus as the only European states not signed up to the ECHR

@janiceheppenstall.bsky.social @sussexbylines.co.uk

Reform UK intends to withdraw our human rights

They want us to join Russia and Belarus as the only European states not signed up to the ECHR

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Lizzie Vee @lizzievee1951.bsky.social · 1d

If they are to have any hope of achieving a lasting peace, there must be a fundamental recognition that all 14 million or so Arab and Jewish people in the region have an equal right to live full and fruitful lives in peace

Bylines Network @bylinesnetwork.co.uk · 2d

When history speaks, it’s often too late. The story of Palestine and Israel is filled with lessons the world chose not to hear. Here’s a reminder ⤵️

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Warnings from history: Lessons unheeded in the search for peace

As peace talks begin, three historic warnings about Zionism and statehood remind us how fragile peace remains

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Bylines Network @bylinesnetwork.co.uk · 2d

When history speaks, it’s often too late. The story of Palestine and Israel is filled with lessons the world chose not to hear. Here’s a reminder ⤵️

@eastangliabylines.co.uk

Warnings from history: Lessons unheeded in the search for peace

As peace talks begin, three historic warnings about Zionism and statehood remind us how fragile peace remains

eastangliabylines.co.uk

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