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Kate Moore

@oscarwoofs.bsky.social

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Ran away to Norfolk seaside. Alll musings of an opinionated dog lover who writes for @BylinesEast about politics, nature & fairness. Pro EU centrist.

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Kate Moore @oscarwoofs.bsky.social · 18d

Hedgerow cutting. There needs to be better education.

It will be a sad day if all the hedgerows recently planted are poorly managed - especially when there is sound advice from Nigel Adams out there

Hedgerows: the skill of balancing growth with need

As autumnal cutting starts debates arise over timing and technique. Is flailing harming wildlife and hedgerow health, or providing care?

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Kiran Stacey @kiranstacey.bsky.social · 21h

EXC: English councils will still be poorer in 2029 than they were in 2010, according to the IfG.

Report finds councils are increasingly providing social care and little else. Libraries, youth services, parks, all falling by the wayside.

www.theguardian.com/society/2025...

English councils to remain poorer than in 2010 despite funding rise, says report

Exclusive: Impact of austerity cannot be undone by end of parliament despite above-inflation funding, analysis finds

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Al Jazeera English @aljazeera.com · 5h

The report also says 10 small, ocean-dependent nations will experience the biggest increase in dangerous heat days.

Climate study finds overheating world will add 57 superhot days a year

The report also says 10 small, ocean-dependent nations will experience the biggest increase in dangerous heat days.

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Alex Hall Hall @alexhh.bsky.social · 1d

Almost no media coverage and very little political attention paid to the treatment of Palestinians in Israeli jails. So much focus only on the Israeli hostages. www.theguardian.com/world/2025/o...

‘Cruelest forms of torture’: freed Palestinians describe horrors of Israeli jail

Men who were held in Nafha prison say they were brutally beaten, bound at the hands and feet, verbally abused, allowed to contract fungal and skin diseases, and assaulted with loud music for up to two...

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Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 12h

AOC: And they are able to radicalize a generation of young boys in particular, away from healthy masculinity and into an insecure masculinity that requires the domination of others who are poorer, browner, darker, or a different gender than them.

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Stay European #RejoinEU 🇪🇺 #FBPE @stayeuropean.bsky.social · 20h

The best way to defeat Reform is for millions of people to hear a version of this message:

"Farage's Brexit made you poorer. Don't let him do it again"

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East Anglia Bylines @eastangliabylines.co.uk · 18h

Some good news...

Part of the RSPB-led Beach Nesting Birds Project, at Eccles, Norfolk has seen 455 Little Terns fledge – up from 319 chicks across East Norfolk in 2019 and the highest number since the colony began in 2002.

RareBirdAlert @rarebirder.bsky.social · 1d

Conservation Pays Off for England's Smallest Seabird

RSPB projects and local volunteers deliver the strongest breeding results for Little Terns in over half a century. @Natures_Voice #seabirds
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Conservation Pays Off for England’s Smallest Seabird

RSPB projects and local volunteers deliver the strongest breeding results for Little Terns in over half a century

www.rarebirdalert.co.uk

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Prem Sikka @premnsikka.bsky.social · 23h

Wonders of privatisation.

Royal Mail fined £21m.

Hasn't t meet the 1st and 2nd class mail delivery targets to years.

No personal fines on execs. Corporate fines will no doubt be passed on to customers.

No incentive to deliver value for money. People fleeced.

Royal Mail fined £21m by Ofcom for missing delivery targets

It is the third-largest fine the communications watchdog has ever issued.

www.bbc.co.uk

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Kate Moore @oscarwoofs.bsky.social · 18h

'Royal Mail was bought by Czech billionaire Daniel Kretinsky for more than £5bn last year. It posted a profit in September, following three years of losses."

Question: is the £21m fine a drop in ocean compared to profits made for delivering a poor service?

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Kate Moore @oscarwoofs.bsky.social · 18h

I'm with @amias.net . The survey will give flawed results.

Many questions I could not answer as my answer would be never but there was no option for this. And I too access via social media only.

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Fionna O’Leary @fascinatorfun.bsky.social · 21h

Donating directly to political parties is so YESTERDAY when you can directly control the news and the organisations that are fed into the news cycle.

Paul Marshall (money man, Brexit backer, GB News - with Legatum Institute Holdings- , Spectator and Unherd and so much more);

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

Letter to the editor | East Anglia Bylines

Letter to the editor: £5bn over ten years isn’t ‘ambitious’ – it’s a fraction of what the EU once gave

Letter to the editor

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Kate Moore @oscarwoofs.bsky.social · 18h

And now we know cycling is the most efficient mode of transportation....

The Most Efficient Traveler Isn’t a Bird or a Fish—It’s You on a Bike

A famous graphic, now updated, compares locomotion in the animal kingdom

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Jonathan Portes @jdportes.bsky.social · 1d

A much needed corrective by @chrisgiles.ft.com to the "welfare is out of control" narrative, drawing on research by my colleague @benbgeiger.bsky.social

www.ft.com/content/ee67...

No need for a moral panic about the welfare system

It’s far from perfect, but the UK’s spending is broadly controlled and employment is high

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Kate Moore @oscarwoofs.bsky.social · 1d

Be interesting to know what the interest payments on the EIB loans were and compared to what is currently lent.

UK debt and interest payments are astronomically high so what is full picture? Does lower lending benefit us in long term or not?

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

Good news for some farmers...

The govt has confirmed that the 5,000+ farmers with agreements under the environmental protection incentives scheme that are soon set to expire will be offered an 1 year extension.

Graham Denny highlighted the issue devastating consequences for environment 👇

Open Letter: is the sun setting on farming conservation?

Decades of habitat restoration will be lost without immediate stewardship funding. Farmers need clarity now, before nature pays the price

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Kate Moore @oscarwoofs.bsky.social · 1d

Interesting... and more so given the concern.... that one can buy bitcoin and other crypto currency at a automatic machine in a Spanish shopping centre.

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

Wild honeybees have been officially listed as endangered in the EU – the first time their decline has been formally recognised.

Dr Arrigo Moro tells us why their survival matters for biodiversity, agriculture, and food security. ⤵️

Wild honeybees now officially listed as endangered in the EU

The wild cousins of beehive honeybees are disappearing – here’s why that matters

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East Anglia Bylines @eastangliabylines.co.uk · 2d

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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Kate Moore @oscarwoofs.bsky.social · 1d

It's good that these areas are benefitting but rural areas need support to keep post offices, pubs and shops. Such places provide community cohesion, are a social hub, and in times of crisis are a godsend.

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East Anglia Bylines @eastangliabylines.co.uk · 4d

Peace requires more than treaties, writes Jacob Ecclestone.

It demands recognition that every life in the region – Arab and Jewish alike – has equal worth.

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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East Anglia Bylines @eastangliabylines.co.uk · 4d

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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East Anglia Bylines @eastangliabylines.co.uk · 4d

These tricks & tips 👇 to managing children & teenagers are inspired...

Some might even work on partners 🤣

The Guardian @theguardian.com · 4d

From getting kids to eat veg to curbing screen time: the parenting hacks that actually work

Tots refusing to brush their teeth? Teenagers ignoring your texts? Siblings squabbling – again? Readers and experts share their tried and tested fixes to parenting nightmares

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East Anglia Bylines @eastangliabylines.co.uk · 10d

With Sustainable Farming Incentive (SFI) funding scrapped, farmers face a stark & unwelcome choice: wildlife or economic survival?

We need policies that reward restoration – not just yield.

Rachel Fulcher reports

#Conservation

From silence to song: saving the farmland birds

Intensive farming silences the land – but a Suffolk farmer shows how she is creating a safe haven for birds

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

A rare moth that mimics the appearance of a wasp has become the 10,000th species of wildlife recorded at Wicken Fen...

Source: BBC
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Rare moth becomes Wicken Fen's 10,000th recorded species

The National Trust believes the site is the

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

Good news from Wicken Fen Nature Reserve, north of Cambridge.

National Trust @nationaltrust.org.uk · 8d

We've got some fantastic nature news to brighten your day 🎉

Wicken Fen has become the first UK nature reserve to record an incredible 10,000 species. A moth that imitates a wasp was the 10,000th species to be recorded. This work is possible thanks to a major grant from The Nature Recovery Project.

A close-up of a glow-worm with a black plated body and a bright green glowing tail clinging to a stem of grass in the dark

A dark grey moth with bright beige splodges on its wings. It sits of a bright green leaf against a black background

A small brown bird with a cream chest and darker brown tail feathers perches on a reed against a background of blurred brown and green reeds

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