Petition: Pause plans for Bedford - Cambridge rail link pending a full, independent review petition.parliament.uk/petitions/7015โฆ
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Elizabeth Calvert ๐๐๐
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Elizabeth Calvert ๐๐๐
@ea_calvert
Geographer, choir member, supporter of charities such as NSPCC and CPRE (the Countryside Charity), dog owner and follower of local issues.
Bedfordshire Se uniรณ Aralฤฑk 2021
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I'm supporting @whichuk's #StampOutScams campaign. It's time for banks to get serious about scams and protect innocent victims who are losing millions every year. campaigns.which.co.uk/scams/
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Elizabeth Calvert ๐๐๐ retuiteado
Hey @eastwestrail @ewmlpartnership @ProgressEast and you are putting a railway through Clapham Bedford ? Todays flooded area #flooding
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Ask a teacher what they are paid per hour. It was always depressing to work out what it was when you did t just include time in school. Coaching etc earned more but I would ask some doctors how they work out their pay.
Dr Dolittle@DocDoLi
@AbbieTBee What is this obsession with โdoctors should just be happy with helping peopleโ? Lawyers help people and Iโm pretty sure theyโre not paid ยฃ15 an hour.
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Beth didnโt want to listen or answer questions in a helpful way
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Not underwater trains - ๐๐ซ I thought they were flying trains over a huge raised structure which will obviously need piles for the arches to go down miles.
BFARe @BFARe.org.uk@BFARE2
Clapham Bedford! @eastwestrail @ewmlpartnership @ProgressEast have you ordered those underwater trains yet ?
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Elizabeth Calvert ๐๐๐ retuiteado
Anyone else think @Feargal_Sharkey should be awarded a knighthood for his relentless campaigning to expose the water pollution scandal?
Like & share if you agree
(A sainthood may be more appropriateโฆ you need the patience of one to put up with this ๐ฉ)
express.co.uk/news/nature/18โฆ
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And looking at London etc how many will be second homes or investments?! @luhc @michaelgove
Andy Wilson@AndyWilson459
@CommunityPlann1 A lack of financial viability I guess. Itโs happening everywhere on brownfield sites. These developments are exactly where affordable homes are most needed!
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Elizabeth Calvert ๐๐๐ retuiteado
So out of touch. No property in the Rhondda would take a couple over the threshold. This is a tax cut for a tiny proportion of the richest people in the country. Yet more irresponsible Rish!nomics.
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If only it was the last piece - #beds #cambs could heave a sigh of relief that EWR have given up on the other halfโน๏ธ๐๏ธ๐ Amazing that MK hardly existed 50 years ago - now they want to build it again in bits all over the route.
Diana Blamires@diana_blamires
Final piece of East West Rail track to be laid in New Year connecting Milton Keynes, Bletchley, Winslow, Bicester & Oxford for the 1st time in 50 years railtechnologymagazine.com/articles/trackโฆ
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Has anyone been damaged by said wasps? Yes, they drip and attract wasps (experience) - bet no one ever picked them. Replace with less worrying fruit!
Bonkers Busway Cambs News@BonkersBusway
Soon the only โorchardsโ left will be a collection of letters on signage marking developments devoid of wildlife. Words that are empty & meaningless, much like the promises of โbiodiversity net gainโ as concrete is poured #SaveOurOrchards #SaveCotonOrchard ๐ณ๐๐๐๐ช change.org/p/save-the-greโฆ
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Whatever the โnicetiesโ not long ago @michaelgove and @luhc were supporting the views of local government!! So ..?
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So so true! But many of us are praying that they wonโt be delivered - meanwhile householders and farmers and nature lovers are in limbo at best and under blight at worst. @luhc @transportgovuk @RishiSunak Itโs enough to make you not vote!
Edward Leigh@EdwardALeigh
Instead, ยฃ75m has purchased a stack of reports for projects that may never be delivered. The other ยฃ100m has paid for projects that have been or are being delivered, most of which are of dubious benefit and poor to very poor value for public money. /END
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Elizabeth Calvert ๐๐๐ retuiteado
Wow, just wow; Have you seen this @cllrbridget @LNethsingha @pippaheylings.? Do take a good look because @SCLibDems voted to put the C2C busway through the orchard and it may soon be entombed in concrete and tarmac. And no @CambsLabour itโs not a monoculture than can be offset
Bonkers Busway Cambs News@BonkersBusway
Help us send a message to @CambsCC. Join @CambridgePPF in the fight to #SaveCotonOrchard change.org/p/save-the-greโฆ ๐ณ๐๐โ
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Elizabeth Calvert ๐๐๐ retuiteado
A very positive approach to town development, thank you @johnharris1969
The problem:
In countless British suburbs and towns, cookie-cutter developments, poor building standards, not meeting local needs for either genuinely affordable flats and houses or homes for social rent
John Harris@johnharris1969
Latest from me - on why towns need more than housing, and local economies made up of more than shops & estate agents. Something visionary is going on in #Frome, as often happens theguardian.com/commentisfree/โฆ
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Elizabeth Calvert ๐๐๐ retuiteado
Why this unnecessary road will be a catalyst for urbanisation far beyond the wildest dreams of those who are determined to ruin our precious countryside.
This road needs to be stopped. Please lobby @NorfolkCC and your local MP
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Elizabeth Calvert ๐๐๐ retuiteado
Once again a massive round of applause to @joe_crowley and everyone at @BBCPanorama for exposing the lies, deceit and corruption of the water industry and the utter inability and incompetence of the regulatory system to deal with it.
It's what @BBCPanorama was built for. ๐๐๐
BBC Panorama@BBCPanorama
Water firm wrongly downgraded pollution events, documents suggest BBC Panorama's The Water Pollution Cover-Up is on @BBCiPlayer now and @BBCOne at 8pm bbc.in/46Glbww
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Stats without any supporting detail. A way to get around the true meaning of Leveling Up @luhc @michaelgove In the name of the forgotten but for the benefit of those with ยฃ and influence. #gov #unis #developers #housebuilders & to the detriment of all of us by envir distruction.
Mark Williamson@markrwilliamson
ยฃ1m funding earmarked to address โstark inequalitiesโ in Greater Cambridge - to โshare the benefits of the growth driven by the cityโs knowledge economyโ. According to @Cambridge_Uni, Cambridge has 5,500 โknowledge-Intensiveโ businesses generating more than ยฃ20bn annually.
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Yes - when I asked Beth West questions at one of the
Consultationsโ she just came out with techdigoop over and over! This is surely not what @transportgovuk @luhc mean by โconsidering local concerns? Or is it?
BFARe @BFARe.org.uk@BFARE2
The Conservative mayor replied: โI have challenged Beth West chief executive as vigorously as I possibly can. Itโs very difficult to challenge somebody who doesnโt want to be challenged, or sits in a room and smiles at you & wonโt answer questions.
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Elizabeth Calvert ๐๐๐ retuiteado
โItโs a slippery slope & there isnโt much slope leftโ in Bristol itโs Yew Tree Farm. In Cambridge itโs Paradise Nature Reserve & Coton Orchard. If councils donโt protect these spaces, donโt heed experts @WildlifeTrusts, what hope is there for stoping the free fallโ#DefendNature
Avon Wildlife Trust@avonwt
If we cannot protect this SNCI then what is stopping development on others across the city? It is a slippery slope and with wildlife in rapid freefall, there isnโt much slope left. (9/9) #YewTreeFarm #Bristol
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