Pippa Reece BA (Hons) FLI

And what a shocking world we live Ian when, as Lord Sikka explains, as members of the pubic we can't trust the regulators.

The story of modern Manchester is a story of the power of music. It was the catalyst for the city’s turn-around in the 80s, filling the empty warehouses and bringing back belief. It’s why it’s so fitting that the UK’s music capital tonight hosts the first @Brits outside London.

When she was in government, Angela Rayner gave the go-ahead for the Marks and Spencer Art Deco building on Oxford Street, London to be demolished & turned into a characterless rebuild. Elegant buildings like this should be adapted, not destroyed. We are aesthetically regressing.

Thames Water's reply to a customer @robJGray82 about sewage spewing into the street. "Hydraulic overload", they say. That of course translates as we spanked all the money we should have invested in the sewage system, paid it all to shareholders and managers, inflated salaries, bonuses etc and that's why the company is now £20 billion in debt which you'll have to pay for, again. "Hydraulic overload". Really!

By the way did I mention that Mandelson's company Global Counsel lobbies govt on behalf of the water industry. Think about it, WCs using bill payers money to pay Mandelson to lobby govt acting not in customers best interests but purely and solely the interest of shareholders. I'll just leave that thought there shall I.

Well, well, well, govt has finally realised that their big crack down on water industry bonuses was a hoax. It's so badly worded it's next to meaningless. What a waste of time, what a waste of parliamentary process, what a waste of the public's trust. 👇

"South East Water’s excuses have run dry." At what point I wonder does govt finally put its hands up. The water industry is in desperate need of reform, restructuring and refinancing, playing around the edges simply isn't going to cut it. cityam.com/mark-kleinman-…

Wow- it's rained every day for the past 37 days in the UK. But reservoir storage in the East of England is still at around 60% meaning that drought is STILL more than possible for some areas this year despite the relentless rain

#WinterOlympics opening ceremony absolutely brilliant. Well done @Azzurri for show casing your heritage and culture so beautifully.

💷£10 million upgrade. Zero improvement.😡 Last week, #citizenscientist Angela Jones recorded the highest pollution levels ever at the Usk sewage treatment works: ❌ Phosphate: 30 - the maximum the reader can measure ❌ Nitrates: 50 - the highest level recorded 👉 Healthy rivers should have phosphate levels of 0.09 - 0.15. Her readings were HUNDREDS of times higher. Despite the £10m investment at the sewage treatment works: ❌ No phosphate stripping technology was installed ➡️ Effluent quality remains unchanged This is why citizen science matters. An “upgrade” that entrenches pollution is not progress. #EndSewagePollution

Dorset and Wiltshire fire service plans to cut eight on-call stations and 96 firefighter posts. This comes less than a year after the Holt Heath wildfire, which called in crews from as far as Merseyside to respond. Axing posts and closing stations puts lives and homes at risk.

This is shocking. New @jrf_uk report has found ‘very deep poverty’ in Britain has hit its worst level in 30 years. Why is this not on every UK news show this morning?

Water privatisation has failed. South East Water has spent more on shareholder dividends than on infrastructure and now the taps aren't working in Kent and Sussex. Govt must bring South East Water into public ownership immediately Pl sign the petition 👇 weownit.org.uk/act-now/south-…

Water privatisation has failed. South East Water has spent more on shareholder dividends than on infrastructure. Now the taps aren't working in Kent and Sussex. The Govt must bring South East Water into public ownership immediately Pl sign the petition 👇 weownit.org.uk/act-now/south-…

David Hinton, the boss of South East Water, earns a base salary of £400,000 & received a £115,000 bonus last year Alas, despite previously promising to take our water back into public ownership Starmer is now siding with the profiteering private companies that are ripping us off

It's a scandal that there are tens of thousands of metal frames, signs, cones and sandbags needlessly discarded by @NationalHways and their unaccountable contractors. Tens of millions of pounds being left, abandoned, by the side of the road... @NatashaLeake

"Perhaps the worst moment for South East Water was when it opened a bottled water station in the wrong town." Oh yes they did. 24,000 properties in TunBridge Wells are without water, what do South East Water do? Set up a bottled water station in Tonbridge 5 miles away. thetimes.com/uk/environment….

Britain is decaying. Blocked road drains. Potholes. Rubbish strewn streets. Dirty buildings. Road signs covered in muck. We are paying increased taxes, yet local and national governments and authorities aren’t doing the basics. It’s time for a Great British Clean Up.

🚜🪧 Tractors outside Tesco’s Hinckley depot earlier this morning. Farmers are demanding higher farmgate prices — fair pay for those who produce our food