Sarah Rowe

Q3 profits:  BP = £1.7 billion Shell = £4.6 billion £6.3 billion profits made from the destruction of the planet in THREE MONTHS.  Enough is enough. @10DowningStreet it’s time to #MakePollutersPay for the damage they have caused.

I can confirm that we plan to stick with a £2 cap on single bus fares for the whole of 2025. More detail here.👇🏻

The barbarity, horror & terror in this from the aftermath of an Israeli attack on a school in Gaza, filmed by brave, incredible Palestinian journalists working for @Channel4News. Our silence is complicity in genocide @SecKermani @YousefHammash @Freddie_G7

The targeting of maternity hospitals and the blockade that limits essential medical supplies, such as anaesthetics and maternity kits, from entering Gaza have turned pregnancy into a life-threatening condition for thousands of women thelancet.com/journals/lance…

My @Channel4News report on Israel’s relentless pounding of northern Gaza. It took a remarkably brave and persistent cameraman to get these pictures out to us. The world cannot say that it didn’t see. Or know. channel4.com/news/israels-r…

@evefrancisholt @greatermcr Congratulations Eve! Sounds like a great fit.

I’m absolutely delighted to have joined the Strategy Team this week at @greatermcr as Head of Policy and Implementation this week. Joining the dots and making stuff happen, with a focus on galvanising the system around the four mayoral missions: Bee Network, Live Well, MBACC and Housing First. Together we are laying the foundations for good lives for all. With tackling inequalities, environmental sustainability, community health, wealth and power, running through the core. Grateful to @AndyBurnhamGM and @GMCA_CEO for the vote of confidence. Two brilliant leaders and people to call boss! Loving meeting my new team and gathering views on what will make the boat move faster. Can’t think of a better place to be in this moment. Here’s to strong winds and realising the future that is possible. Anyone who knows me will know how much I’ve loved my job and team at @GMMoving. It took something special to temp me away. Good news is it’s not goodbye, I’m still dancing alongside them all, albeit in a different corner of the dance floor! See you there.

Israeli NGOs warn international community it will be complicit if Israel forcibly transfers the population of Northern Gaza Human rights NGOs based in Israel today called on the international community to take action now to prevent Israel from forcibly transferring hundreds of thousands of Palestinians who have remained in the Northern Gaza Strip outside of the area, including by denying entry of essential humanitarian aid and fuel. The Israeli ceasefire coalition, the groups Gisha, B’Tselem, PHR-I and Yesh Din, said that there are alarming signs that the Israeli military is beginning to quietly implement the Generals’ Plan, also referred to as the Eiland Plan, which calls for complete forcible transfer of the civilians of the northern Gaza Strip through tightening the siege on the area and starving the population. The NGOs reiterated the warning that states have an obligation to prevent the crimes of starvation and forcible transfer, and that if the continuation of the “wait and see” approach will enable Israel to liquidate northern Gaza, they will be complicit. All states and relevant international institutions should act now and use all tools at their disposal - legal, diplomatic and economic - to prevent this.

Trauma upon trauma upon trauma. I have no adequate words.

Great to finally see a concrete commitment to £ for #SchoolStreets in GM. As Tom Ross says, demand is clearly there. Important that it's used *quickly* to support the volunteer-led schemes that exist to make them viable & prioritise new schools that need these changes the most

Good to see @AndyBurnhamGM in this video appreciating that “there is more we can do here”. Properly enforced #SchoolStreets yes - and also much more action on #AirPollution at source, both from #Transport & #WoodBurning. No child should be tasting pollution.

On the eve of October 7, here is Naomi Klein’s profound and troubling long essay reflection on the ways in which commemorating grief can re-traumatise and entrench fear and hatred. Very much worth taking the time to read. It’s not about not remembering. theguardian.com/us-news/ng-int…

@MumsForLungs @cities_clean Thanks @MumsForLungs but it's tomorrow!

Excited to work with @PLANT_MCR to turn a little piece of Manchester green on Friday in our pop up urban garden. Come see us and enjoy the space!

A message for #ClimateWeek2024 #MakePollutersPay

@foemcr @cities_clean @WalkRideGM @MumsForLungs @asthmalunguk

So the headline is in fact, too kind - it's not just the 64 sites that are breaching the legal limits where air pollution is too high. There is not a single monitoring site on that map that is measuring levels of NO2 under the recommended WHO guidelines.

Yesterday GM announced an update to its Clean Air Plan, effectively pushing back the date when it thinks it can meet compliance with the UK *legal* limits on NO2 (one of the most harmful pollutants) for another year. manchestereveningnews.co.uk/news/greater-m…