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East Anglia Bylines @eastangliabylines.co.uk · 09/10/2026
Olive oil prices are rising again – and it's not just inflation. Droughts and wildfires across the Mediterranean are destroying groves and threatening your heart health. How else might your diet suffer? Sophie Perry and Leila Fathi offer some prior information.
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Five foods that could cost even more this winter – and why
What will the costs be to producers, to consumers and to the health of the nation?
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East Anglia Bylines @eastangliabylines.co.uk · 09/10/2026
£233 million. Gone in six hours. That's how quickly the latest farming support was allocated. Farmers need long-term certainty, writes Martin Lines. Not funding schemes that operate like ticket sales for Glastonbury.
A close-up shot of golden wheat stalks ready for harvest in the foreground, with a combine harvester blurred in the background driving through a vast field under a hazy sky.
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Sussex Bylines @sussexbylines.co.uk · 10/10/2026
The quaint village of Lyminster holds ancient tales of dragons - an introduction to Knucker Hole | Oak Bear
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The tale of the knucker
The quaint village of Lyminster holds ancient tales of dragons - an introduction to Knucker Hole
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Bylines Cymru @bylines.cymru · 10/10/2026
As economic power shifts, businesses must navigate new alliances, trade routes and risks while ensuring prosperity benefits communities | Martha Garcia
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Going global, growing local: Wales in a multipolar economy 
As economic power shifts, businesses must navigate new alliances, trade routes and risks while ensuring prosperity benefits communities
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East Anglia Bylines @eastangliabylines.co.uk · 10/10/2026
Many birds undertake unbelievable journeys, flying thousands of miles to their summer or winter home. Today, World Migratory Bird Day emphasizes that migratory bird conservation is a shared responsibility across countries & flyways to ensure migratory birds continue to thrive into future. #Birds
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The truth about migratory birds and the climate emergency
Both the warming climate and wilder weather systems are disrupting birds’ natural migration patterns
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East Anglia Bylines @eastangliabylines.co.uk · 10/10/2026
Pupils at 25 schools across the East of England will become climate investigators – gathering evidence on issues including flooding, air quality, biodiversity, energy, food and waste. Kit Marie Rackley reports.
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‘ClimateReady Schools’: putting young people at the heart of climate action
Pupils across the East of England will investigate climate challenges in their own schools and help shape practical responses
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Yorkshire Bylines @yorkshirebylines.co.uk · 10/10/2026
The Dutch baby of Yorkshire puddings What do a Yorkshire pudding, a German pancake and a Seattle café have in common? The answer is a rather delicious Dutch Baby By Meryl White
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The Dutch baby of Yorkshire puddings
What do a Yorkshire pudding, a German pancake and a Seattle café have in common? The answer is a rather delicious Dutch Baby
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East Anglia Bylines @eastangliabylines.co.uk · 10/10/2026
Farmers can't plan for the next decade when government support barely survives the next funding round. After another difficult harvest, Britain's food security needs something more substantial than short-term grants and crossed fingers. Martin Lines reports.
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Food security and resilience vital after extreme summer drought
After this summer, the climate crisis is impossible to ignore. We need major changes to how we farm if our food system is to remain resilient
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North East Bylines @northeastbylines.co.uk · 10/10/2026
As the UK took centre stage at one of Europe’s biggest music showcases, access to the Schengen area and the 90/180 day rule is constantly hampering British artists’ and crews’ ability to tour the EU. There is a simple fix – and it is already on the Prime Minister’s desk | Tim Brennan
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Britain was Guest of Honour at Waves Vienna. Its touring creatives still can’t work freely in Europe
As the UK took centre stage at one of Europe’s biggest music showcases, access to the Schengen area and the 90/180 day rule is constantly hampering British artists’ and crews’ ability to tour the EU. There is a simple fix – and it is already on the Prime Minister’s desk
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East Anglia Bylines @eastangliabylines.co.uk · 10/10/2026
Climate action doesn’t always begin with grand solutions, writes Kit Marie Rackley. Sometimes it starts with a simple question: why does this corner of the school always flood after heavy rain? #EduSky
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‘ClimateReady Schools’: putting young people at the heart of climate action
Pupils across the East of England will investigate climate challenges in their own schools and help shape practical responses
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Alison Murray @alisonkmurray.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Absolutely agree..... and all those greedy rich gits who fled the country (taking jobs with them) to avoid Brexit should not be given any tax advantages to move back or trade here.
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Richard Corbett CBE @richardcorbett.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
‘Imaginary and real obstacles to Britain resuming its membership of the EU’ Follow up to my piece yesterday in @LabourList about Britain’s options labourlist.org/2026/10/imag...
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'Imaginary and real obstacles to Britain resuming its membership of the EU' - LabourList
Former EPLP leader Richard Corbett looks at the myths and real objects that arise in any conversation about rejoining the EU.
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East Anglia Bylines @eastangliabylines.co.uk · 06/10/2026
Disinformation. Austerity. Vaccine fatigue. Measles is back and the consequences are landing on the smallest shoulders. Liz Crosbie explains how and why.
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Tots, bots, measles and the surging distrust in vaccines
How does the decline in take-up of the measles vaccination tell a tale of our times?
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North East Bylines @northeastbylines.co.uk · 06/10/2026
“Urban planning does not exist as an autonomous science. There is no neutral technical knowledge that draws the city from above and hands it over to its inhabitants" | Peter Morris
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Planners, politicians and the making of modern Newcastle: book review
“Urban planning does not exist as an autonomous science. There is no neutral technical knowledge that draws the city from above and hands it over to its inhabitants"
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East Anglia Bylines @eastangliabylines.co.uk · 06/10/2026
Want closer ties with Europe? Start by understanding the relationship as it actually is. Britain won’t be merging with the EU or jointly writing its rules. As Niall Ó Conghaile puts it: the UK will be the demandeur.
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Britain still hasn’t learnt what being outside the EU means
Closer ties with Europe require Britain to abandon exceptionalism and understand what being outside the EU means
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North West Bylines @northwestbylines.co.uk · 06/10/2026
Postgraduate students using their accounting skills to help organisations across the city tackle practical financial challenges | Manchester University
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Accounting students put their skills to work helping Manchester charities
Postgraduate students using their accounting skills to help organisations across the city tackle practical financial challenges
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Central Bylines @centralbylines.co.uk · 06/10/2026
Millionaires, comedians, footballers and content creators are taking to the football pitch to call for a fairer tax system ahead of the Budget | Central Bylines Reports
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Millionaires and stars line up at Super-Rich Tax Match to tell Chancellor: “Tax extreme wealth”
Millionaires, comedians, footballers and content creators are taking to the football pitch to call for a fairer tax system ahead of the Budget
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East Anglia Bylines @eastangliabylines.co.uk · 06/10/2026
Britain left the institutions in which EU decisions are made. It cannot then expect to retain the privileges and influence of membership from outside, argues Niall Ó Conghaile.
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Britain still hasn’t learnt what being outside the EU means
Closer ties with Europe require Britain to abandon exceptionalism and understand what being outside the EU means
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East Anglia Bylines @eastangliabylines.co.uk · 06/10/2026
24 hour green energy from the sun. It could be done, wrires Onur Çelik. Read on.
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Could space reflectors help solar farm productivity?
Orbiting reflectors could help provide clean energy when demand peaks near dawn and dusk by 'making the day longer'
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Alison Murray @alisonkmurray.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Anyone else watching Cosi Fan Tutti at the Vue? For me, there's an added bonus that I can have Lavazza whilst enjoying it!
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Bylines Network @bylinesnetwork.co.uk · 05/10/2026
A free press matters. So does an accountable one. Join Nafeez Ahmed, Lexie Kirkconnell-Kawana and Priyamvada Gopal, chaired by Mike Galsworthy, to ask what a better British media could look like. 📅 21 Oct, 7pm 🎟️ bit.ly/bettermedia
A free press matters. So does an accountable one.

Join Nafeez Ahmed, Lexie Kirkconnell-Kawana and Priyamvada Gopal, chaired by Mike Galsworthy, to ask what a better British media could look like.
📅 21 Oct, 7pm
🎟️ bit.ly/bettermedia
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Sussex Bylines @sussexbylines.co.uk · 04/10/2026
Hate has no place within society, let alone in the corridors of power | Tom Serpell
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Hate lets us all down
Hate has no place within society, let alone in the corridors of power
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East Anglia Bylines @eastangliabylines.co.uk · 04/10/2026
It’s October. Time to start thinking about Christmas cake. 🎄 Kate Viscardi has been perfecting hers for years. Here’s her recipe, from spice-infused milk to the all-important regular dose of your chosen tipple.
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The traditional Christmas fruitcake raised to new heights
Time to deck the halls with … fruitcake. Whether you are making it for Christmas or a wedding, here is the perfect recipe
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East Anglia Bylines @eastangliabylines.co.uk · 04/10/2026
“With climate change increasing the likelihood of milder winters and hotter summers, pests and pathogens that were once unable to survive here can now make their home. This will profoundly impact not only farmers, but the wider public” Via The Guardian
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Worst ever outbreak of bluetongue hits British farms
Climate crisis blamed as virus that originated in Africa spreads to livestock as far north as Aberdeenshire
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Bylines Scotland @bylines.scot · 04/10/2026
In the Highlands, work is being done to protect the fragile ecosystem of the peatlands; one of the world’s most important stores of carbon | Naz Saad
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Restoring peatlands in Scotland’s Flow Country
In the Highlands, work is being done to protect the fragile ecosystem of the peatlands; one of the world’s most important stores of carbon
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East Anglia Bylines @eastangliabylines.co.uk · 04/10/2026
The best Christmas cakes aren’t made on Christmas Eve. 🎄 Now’s the time to get the fruit, spices and mixing bowl out. Kate Viscardi shares her recipe for a rich fruitcake you can make now and mature for the big day.
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The traditional Christmas fruitcake raised to new heights
Time to deck the halls with … fruitcake. Whether you are making it for Christmas or a wedding, here is the perfect recipe
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Alison Murray @alisonkmurray.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Don't ever say I don't post great stuff to read... #weekend centralbylines.co.uk/opinion/ms-c...
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M&S Custard Cream Spread: Britain has completed food
One jar of M&S Custard Cream Spread has caused us to question civilisation, breakfast, mashed potato and the limits of human restraint
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North West Bylines @northwestbylines.co.uk · 01/10/2026
Eileen Jones previews a remarkable new book about the Lake District, called Forty Fells | Eileen Jones
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Forty fells: Life in high places
Eileen Jones previews a remarkable new book about the Lake District, called Forty Fells
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East Anglia Bylines @eastangliabylines.co.uk · 01/10/2026
Increasingly the world is online - banking, shopping apps, govt form filling, utility correspondence and for oh so much more. On International Day for Older Persons we reflect on the challenges faced dealing with an online world.
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Stay young – the online world isn’t designed for the old
Technology should empower, not exclude. For many, ageing means lost independence in a digital online world built without them in mind
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Central Bylines @centralbylines.co.uk · 01/10/2026
So this just came up in conversation. So we thought why not share it again! Hanged, buried, and back from the dead – Half-Hangit Maggie lived to tell the tale that baffled a nation and changed the law
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Crime Chronicles part 3: The Tale of Half-Hangit Maggie – the woman they couldn’t hang
Hanged, buried, and back from the dead – Half-Hangit Maggie lived to tell the tale that baffled a nation and changed the law
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Central Bylines @centralbylines.co.uk · 01/10/2026
He certainly did. Rowan Finch covered his tale too 👇🏻 The strange case of John 'Babbacombe' Lee, the man they couldn’t hang. Accused of murder, defies belief with his miraculous escape from the gallows centralbylines.co.uk/lifestyle/hi...
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Crime Chronicles part 9: John ‘Babbacombe’ Lee, the man they couldn’t hang
The strange case of John 'Babbacombe' Lee, accused of murder, defies belief with his miraculous escape from the gallows
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East Anglia Bylines @eastangliabylines.co.uk · 01/10/2026
Letter to the editor: Why choose between solar power and farming when the same land can provide both? A reader asks why agrivoltaics isn’t getting more attention in water-stressed East Anglia.
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Letter: Why aren’t we considering agrivoltaics?
Letter to the editor
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Bylines Scotland @bylines.scot · 28/09/2026
For an MSP or MSPs to walk out of Holyrood is for them to abandon the democratic duty that their constituents elected them to perform | James Jobson
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Do not walk out on democratic duties
For an MSP or MSPs to walk out of Holyrood is for them to abandon the democratic duty that their constituents elected them to perform
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North East Bylines @northeastbylines.co.uk · 27/09/2026
September is proving to be another busy month for those dedicated to stopping scammers | Peter Sagar
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Scams to watch out for in September
September is proving to be another busy month for those dedicated to stopping scammers
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North East Bylines @northeastbylines.co.uk · 27/09/2026
Under a new system, the North East could offer children the homes they need | James Waterson
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No room in the care system: how the North East could bring children’s homes back under public control
Under a new system, the North East could offer children the homes they need
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Yorkshire Bylines @yorkshirebylines.co.uk · 25/09/2026
None of us knows what is around the corner A personal testimonial of the life-saving benefits of a social security system that supports the people, and the dangers of villainising those who find need of it By John Heywood
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None of us knows what is around the corner
A personal testimonial of the life-saving benefits of a social security system that supports the people, and the dangers of villainising those who find need of it
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Sussex Bylines @sussexbylines.co.uk · 26/09/2026
Let's try to notice what we take, waste less of it, keep things longer, and thank the earth for its generosity | Oak Bear
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Nothing comes from nothing
Let's try to notice what we take, waste less of it, keep things longer, and thank the earth for its generosity
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Alison Murray @alisonkmurray.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Think things are bad??? it could be far worse
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East Anglia Bylines @eastangliabylines.co.uk · 23/09/2026
A showing of the People's Emergency Briefing is scheduled for Friday, September 25, at Sheringham Community Centre.. The film at 7.30pm highlights the climate and nature crisis and its potential impact on communities.
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New emergency briefing warns UK climate risks are accelerating
The National Emergency Briefing warns the UK is facing climate impacts far sooner and more severely than expected
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North East Bylines @northeastbylines.co.uk · 23/09/2026
Black Europeans brought together representatives from partner organisations, EU institutions, embassies and youth organisations for an event at the University of Westminster northeastbylines.co.uk/news/europe-...
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Bright Future: Racialised European Diaspora Youth Event
Black Europeans brought together representatives from partner organisations, EU institutions, embassies and youth organisations for an event at the University of Westminster
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East Anglia Bylines @eastangliabylines.co.uk · 21/09/2026
Civics at school. Proper political standards. Less big money. Peter Thurlow has a few modest suggestions for fixing our democracy.
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To clean up politics we have to start with the voters
It’s the voters who put the politicians where they are, so shouldn’t we begin there?
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East Anglia Bylines @eastangliabylines.co.uk · 21/09/2026
Who controls Britain’s digital infrastructure? Much of the cloud supporting our businesses and public services is owned by US tech giants. That has implications for tax revenues – and sovereignty.
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Datacentres: are we frogs in a digital pot?
Is your phone in your hand? You’re using a datacentre. Yes, datacentres also host AI, but we can’t live without them
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Sussex Bylines @sussexbylines.co.uk · 22/09/2026
Reform's claim to be anti-establishment is not backed up with evidence | James Joyce
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The Establishment–in–waiting: Reform UK’s possible impact on British democracy
Reform's claim to be anti-establishment is not backed up with evidence
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Bylines Scotland @bylines.scot · 23/09/2026
Top Palestinian talents offered opportunities in Scotland can't secure funding – will John Swinney keep his promise? | Jennie Kermode
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Students from Gaza risk losing life-changing university places
Top Palestinian talents offered opportunities in Scotland can't secure funding – will John Swinney keep his promise?
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East Anglia Bylines @eastangliabylines.co.uk · 23/09/2026
What happens when you stop paying people to do something healthy? That may be the crucial question for the NHS’s new walking rewards scheme, writes Prof Joan Costa-i-Font. The evidence on incentives offers some important lessons.
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Can the NHS pay people to get healthy?
A new NHS scheme will reward people for walking, but can incentives really turn short-term activity into lasting healthy habits?
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North West Bylines @northwestbylines.co.uk · 23/09/2026
Sober film buff says we need more complex depictions of addiction in film ahead of Stockport screening 29 September | Sara Teiger
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Films need to show all aspects of addiction
Sober film buff says we need more complex depictions of addiction in film ahead of Stockport screening 29 September
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East Anglia Bylines @eastangliabylines.co.uk · 23/09/2026
More frequency. Faster speeds. Fewer cars. The Cambridgeshire Sustainable Travel Alliance says now is the time to act – before riders abandon the bus forever. That would be disastrous – for them and for the environment. Rebecca Turner reports.
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Cambs busway: popular, reliable, but overcrowded
A recent survey by Cambridgeshire Sustainable Travel Alliance has exposed bus overcrowding in Northstowe
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North East Bylines @northeastbylines.co.uk · 20/09/2026
Poem by Harry Gallagher | Harry Gallagher
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In defence of hope
Poem by Harry Gallagher
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North West Bylines @northwestbylines.co.uk · 20/09/2026
11,000 campaigners call on the PM to “stop fanning the flames of the climate crisis” in petition stunt outside No. 10 North | North West Bylines Reports
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Stop fanning the flames of the climate crisis, Mr PM!
11,000 campaigners call on the PM to “stop fanning the flames of the climate crisis” in petition stunt outside No. 10 North
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East Anglia Bylines @eastangliabylines.co.uk · 20/09/2026
We demand better politicians. Perhaps we should demand more of ourselves too. Peter Thurlow on voters, responsibility and cleaning up politics.
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To clean up politics we have to start with the voters
It’s the voters who put the politicians where they are, so shouldn’t we begin there?
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