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@GMB Newcastle council cut the budget for the lollipop person right outside my children's school. It's a blind corner and hundreds of children cross there every morning and evening. For the last 5 years the community has raised the funds to pay for the lollipop lady.

Bristol City Council is proposing to get rid of all lollipop men and women from April as part of its annual budget, as it could reportedly save £314,000 a year. But should councils scrap lollipop patrols to save money?

@BreadSauceGuy @NewcastleCC Could not agree more! The joke of it all is the council funded lollipop person works on a pelican crossing . . . But the blind corner outside the school gates with no crossing other than a small island isn't deserving of their funding 🤦🏼‍♀️

@NewcastleCC So you, the local authority, by sharing this Just Giving page, agree that the crossing is dangerous for children. If only there was something that you could do about it...

It certainly wasn’t hard to spot these Gosforth pupils on their way to school yesterday. They took part in a Be Bright Be Seen non-uniform day to raise money for their lollipop lady Katie as part of a community crowd funder. Find a link to their Just Giving page in the comments.

The production company who get @JamesBlunt and @LewisCapaldi together will have the funniest show ever, and they might sing too so that's always a bonus 😜 just an idea!

@KeznAl @asda Depends which Asda! The big one at Hollywood ace is horrific, staff are so rude! But the small one on wansbeck rd staff are lovely!

What’s the worst supermarket in the UK and why is it @asda ??

@ArchRose90 I just don't get how they expect to achieve anything when they don't have the support of the general public, they are never going to get that support with the way they are protesting! The aim of their cause is overshadowed by their ridiculous methods of attention seeking

Just Stop Oil fanatics attempting to block Gatwick departure gates. Ordinary people who have saved up for a well deserved holiday whilst these selfish, privileged, out of touch morons are trying to stop them. I hope they join their mates in prison.

Wishing the production company for #The1PercentClub would leave the bloody question large on the screen so those of us playing at home can bloody read it! Playing against the hubby here 🤷🏼‍♀️

@DaveDraws_ @GosforthPark1st It's awesome, I was lucky enough to have a good look on Friday morning last week! Great piece of art work so fitting for the community room

A snap of me with the #Gosforth doodle map mural that I finished last week at @GosforthPark1st! This was my first time doodling the area and I really enjoyed doodling all the new buildings and seeing the piece come together. Let me know what you think to the piece!

@GosforthPark1st Best behaved school there!!

What a brilliant experience! Gosforth Park had an amazing time at the Big Gig #mpnbiggig

@KirstieMAllsopp 3 C-sections here. Not for lack of wanting to have a natural birth but it wasn't on the cards for me. 2 were emergency sections for fetal distress and 1 was planned for 4 days after due date with a large baby boy in no mood to exit voluntarily.

C-Sections save lives, no expectant Mother should head towards labour thinking they should fight a C-Section. It is not the enemy, it is the safety net. We would all like to fly through the air on the trapeze, but if you fall, Thank F*** for the net. ❤️

@ThebestFigen Would love to see @BrunoMars reaction to this! It's excellent

@GosforthPark1st @MrPatterson2019 That's awesome!

And the best present award 2022-23, goes to… @MrPatterson2019

@KeznAl Same!

Europe is in the middle of a mega heatwave and I’m contemplating my Nana PJ’s in July coz I’m freezing 🙄

@RogersHistory Having worked with disengaged children it's clear this woman has no idea of the many complex reasons why more and more children are missing from education! I agree the education minister should be someone with experience in the sector.

Gillian Keegan has said Headteachers "have a duty" to drive to the homes of absent pupils and bring them into school, she said she would "pick them up myself" when asked how best to engage with missing pupils. I refer back to my big idea - Everyone in the Department for Education should have to teach full-time for at least 1 term in a state school (and complete it) to qualify to be there. This would mean no one would ever make suggestions like the one above, you’d hope.

@minxtheminnie @SoEnergyUK @MartinSLewis @BritishGas Thanks, it's been longer than that now so I think that will be our next step.

@Jenhig2 @SoEnergyUK @MartinSLewis Go to the energy ombudsman…made @BritishGas respond, gotta complain first though and wait 8 weeks.

WHY ARE ENERGY STANDING CHARGES SO HIGH? The high energy standing (daily) charges are a moral hazard and should be reduced. It is outrageous that people have to pay £300/yr just for the facility of having gas & electricity even if they use none. While energy price cap & bills drop an avg 17% this Sat, that ISN'T equal for all:- - Standing charges remain unchanged - Elec unit rate is dropping roughly 10% - Gas unit rate is dropping roughly 25% So higher users, especially with gas will see a bigger than 17% drop. Lower users, especially electricity only, will see a lower than 17% drop. Keeping the standing charge high means lower users can save proportionately less and less by reducing usage - that disempowers them. I have long campaigned for lower standing charges. MSE is submitting a consultation on this about shifting some of the cost the the unit rates. The reason Ofgem mandates firms to have high standing charges in the price cap is because they use it to pay for the 'fixed costs' of energy (distribution, transmission etc) - which it believes should be mostly shared equally. It is especially loaded onto the electricity standing charge as that is 'more universal'. I think a more progressive split would be better, by putting a bigger proportion of the cost on the unit rate. And in past polls I've done on here the huge majority agree. One stumbling block is the argument from Citizens Advice, an organisation I have great respect for. Its concern is that if you shift the burden, some vulnerable people with disabilities and medical issues that make them high users will suffer. Of course the correct solution to that is lower the standing charge but give them separate support. Yet that would involve an energy market that wasn't broken and the regulator and government to operate in concert. So we're in a chicken and egg situation. Still on balance I think the fair thing to do is lower the standing charge (and campaign for help for the high using vulnerable at the same time). Yet I wanted to bash this out quickly as I saw much debate on it after my earlier tweets, and I wanted to explain some of the bigger picture.

@SoEnergyUK @MartinSLewis Done now. We look forward to hearing from you regarding the matter

@Jenhig2 @MartinSLewis Good morning, I'm sorry to hear of this matter, please send a DM with your account details for me to further investigate this matter ~ Will

@KeznAl I can't stand them either, the lead singer has an ego as bad as Liam Gallagher

Unpopular opinion but I was never a fan of the Arctic Monkeys, thought they were overrated, but I like watching #glastonbury coverage so thought I’d give them a chance… turns out I was right all along 😴

@GosEastMiddle Thank you for giving the kids such a wonderful experience, Oliver hasn't shut up about it since he got home 😁

What a wonderful 3 days Yr5 had at Lockerbie! It was action packed and we bet there’ll be lots of sleepyheads tonight!

@GosEastMiddle @KeznAl one happy chap! Still hoping they'll do at least a proof of life photo of my boy before the trip is over 😜 clearly having too much fun to get a photo!

@NewcastleCC Hope they do a better job there than the ones on gosforth high street! My 7yr old could have done a better job designing then!

People in Newcastle's West End can look forward to new and safer cycling routes thanks to a £3.85m investment from Active Travel England. The funding will be used for improvements on Elswick Road and new cycle parking facilities at local shops and schools. orlo.uk/ELXUi