Anne Cottringer @cantilupe.bsky.social · 27/01/2026Join the Hereford City Branch of the Herefordshire Wildlife Trust with an online talk to take you into Spring with Butterfly Conservation’s advice and info about creating wild spaces for wildlife. 010
Anne Cottringer @cantilupe.bsky.social · 07/09/2025Spike in phosphate level to 0.97 at our FOUW site 029 on Eign/Yazor brook. Brook has taken a beating - 2.5 weeks of no water flow. We are in Hereford city & usually notimmediately affected by agricultural run off from rain which pushes up levels. @savethewye.bsky.social @herefordshirewt.bsky.social 231
Anne Cottringer @cantilupe.bsky.social · 31/08/2025Lots of activities for children and adults alike - discover some of the creatures that lurk beneath the surface of the river Wye and see coracles in action. @riverflies.bsky.social @riveractionuk.bsky.social @yourherefordshire.co.uk @hfdsgreennetwork.bsky.social 052
Reposted by Anne CottringerMike Galsworthy @mikegalsworthy.bsky.social · 31/08/2025YES! Thank you... Say it again, and again, and again. They are not "illegal immigrants". - seeking asylum is legal and has been since 1951.northeastbylines.co.ukSilencing the drumbeat again: seeking asylum is legalHundreds protested in Ashington against so-called "illegal immigrants" - though seeking asylum has been legal since 1951 361677738
Reposted by Anne CottringerSave The Wye Coalition @savethewye.bsky.social · 29/08/2025This report highlights once again the disastrous impact of unchecked intensive chicken farming on the Wye. With 80 chickens for every person in the catchment, the Wye is at the sharp end of this appalling story of pollution for profit. www.wildlifetrusts.org/news/huge-im...wildlifetrusts.orgHuge impacts of UK pig and poultry farming revealed for first time | The Wildlife TrustsNew report shows sector’s pollution harms rivers and wider countryside 164
Anne Cottringer @cantilupe.bsky.social · 28/08/2025Lots of activities for children and adults alike - discover some of the creatures that lurk beneath the surface of the river Wye and see coracles in action. 041
Anne Cottringer @cantilupe.bsky.social · 26/06/2025A great afternoon in Hereford this Saturday. Just turn up! @herefordshirewt.bsky.social @yourherefordshire.co.uk @hfdsgreennetwork.bsky.social @here 031
Reposted by Anne CottringerMolly Scott Cato @greenpartymolly.bsky.social · 23/06/2025Shocking to hear David Lammy refuse to answer the question about whether the US attack on Iran is legal or not This cowardice in the face of US tyranny will not serve our country or the world well We need a government that will defend the international legal order #BBCR4Today 1424269
Reposted by Anne CottringerWATERSHED Investigations @watershed-i.bsky.social · 22/05/2025Outstanding news 🦪🐙🦀🦞🦐 A massive step forward in protecting ocean wildlife 👏👏👏 115662
Anne Cottringer @cantilupe.bsky.social · 21/05/2025A good news story about farmers and clean water courses www.nytimes.com/2025/05/20/c...nytimes.comHow a Water Conservation Idea Won Over Oklahoma Farmers 010
Anne Cottringer @cantilupe.bsky.social · 18/05/2025Another disappointing government move. What is this Labour government thinking? Who are they trying to please? www.theguardian.com/technology/2...theguardian.comMinisters block Lords bid to make AI firms declare use of copyrighted contentGovernment uses arcane procedure to strip amendment passed by House of Lords from its data bill 000
Anne Cottringer @cantilupe.bsky.social · 09/05/2025This event is now sold out online but tickets are available at the door. www.herefordshirewt.org/events/ceilidh. @savethewye.bsky.social @herefordshirewt.bsky.social @friendsriverwye.bsky.socialherefordshirewt.orgCeilidh with ‘Cradle to Grave’ | Herefordshire Wildlife TrustJoin us for a knees-up wildlife fundraiser with a really great local band and their amazing caller all the way from Cumbria. 030
Reposted by Anne CottringerWe Own It @weownit.org.uk · 07/05/2025❓How do you get Steve Reed the Environment Secretary to listen to your concerns about the private water industry? ❗⚽Meet him on his home turf.⚽❗ Lois is inviting Steve Reed to the football - fat cat water bosses can do it, so why shouldn't she? #Loisatthepalace 20305318
Anne Cottringer @cantilupe.bsky.social · 04/05/2025At our Yazor brook testing site -Naturally formed croy just upstream from site forced brook flow into narrow channel, speeding it up, scouring & having an effect down to our site where we now have a faster, rippling flow-less silt & sludge on substrate & aquatic plants. @friendsriverwye.bsky.social 010
Reposted by Anne CottringerSave The Wye Coalition @savethewye.bsky.social · 30/04/2025This morning at Cardiff Civil Justice Centre 👇 To coincide with the hearing, campaigners gathered outside the court in a peaceful protest, joined by the Goddess of the Wye and Lady Wye (Vey Straker) with water brought from the River Severn 💦 💚💦 riveractionuk.com/cluck-off-ri...riveractionuk.comCluck off! River campaigners take Shropshire Council to High Court over chicken factory farm chaos - River Action UKRiver campaigners are in the High Court today, taking on Shropshire Council to stop the expansion of an industrial-scale poultry unit in the River Severn catchment. The legal challenge targets a propo... 041
Reposted by Anne CottringerSave The Wye Coalition @savethewye.bsky.social · 29/04/2025Grim news - this excellent investigation by @tbij.bsky.social finds that millions in taxpayer's money is subsidising megafarms (and their attendant pollution). Deeply depressing. 001
Anne Cottringer @cantilupe.bsky.social · 24/03/2025Today we we were excited to find this stonefly larva while doing a riverfly survey in the Yazor Brook in the middle of Hereford. First time we have seen one in 6 years of surveys. They thrive in clean, fast-flowing, upland streams and rivers, and are sensitive to pollution. Is our brook improving? 010
Reposted by Anne CottringerPrem Sikka @premnsikka.bsky.social · 08/03/2025England's NHS leaders ordered to make £7bn cut to healthcare. 6.24m people awaiting 7.46m hospital appointments. 300,000 a year die waiting. Due to delays 2.8m chronically ill, unable to work. Govt cutting benefits, rolling back spending. Misery is a political choice. archive.ph/0NDSVthetimes.comNHS leaders ordered to propose £7bn cuts to servicesSir Jim Mackey, the interim chief executive of the NHS, has demanded that trust leaders make decisions on how they will cut the spending deficit 30479271
Anne Cottringer @cantilupe.bsky.social · 06/03/2025What is stopping the UK from following this example? We need housing so let’s provide a wonderful healthy place for people to live. 000
Reposted by Anne CottringerMike Galsworthy @mikegalsworthy.bsky.social · 05/03/2025🍁 Calling all Canadians! BIG NEWS - we’ve just launched European Movement Canada 🇨🇦 🇪🇺 …to rapidly build much closer relations between Canada & Europe on all fronts. Sign up interest here —> europeanmovement.eu/publication-... My TikTok video on it here —> vm.tiktok.com/ZNdeRmhEa/ Please share! 14332101108
Anne Cottringer @cantilupe.bsky.social · 04/03/2025Don’t miss The Stimming Pool’ at Borderlines FilmFestival - this evening at 8 at the Courtyard. Shot by Gregory Oke, from Herefordshire , who also shot award winning Aftersun. borderlinesfilmfestival.co.uk/film/stimmin...borderlinesfilmfestival.co.ukSTIMMING POOL, THE | BORDERLINES FILM FESTIVALDevised by a group of five neurodiverse artists alongside filmmaker Steven Eastwood, The Stimming Pool invites you to see the world from a neurodiverse perspective. 010
Reposted by Anne CottringerEuropeanPowell @europeanpowell.bsky.social · 03/03/2025When the imagination is discarded the results are people like dead-eyed Keir Starmer and robotic Rachel Reeves. "Worse than the Tories": cultural figures question Labour plans for arts in schools. www.theguardian.com/education/20...theguardian.com‘Worse than the Tories’: cultural figures question Labour plans for arts in schoolsGovernment must scrap English baccalaureate to make arts more accessible to working-class children, critics say 47825
Reposted by Anne CottringerRobert Macfarlane @robgmacfarlane.bsky.social · 26/02/2025"Daylighting" is the practice in urban design of restoring buried rivers to the surface. The River Sheaf been unburied in Sheffield city centre, after 100 yrs in the dark. Fabulous. A small light in the great gloom. “It is starting to make its own meandering path…” www.bbc.com/news/article...bbc.comRiver Sheaf opened up next to Sheffield Castle site - BBC NewsThe River Sheaf has been exposed at Castlegate for the first time in over 100 years 7455121
Anne Cottringer @cantilupe.bsky.social · 25/02/2025Recently discovered treasures in Herefordshire's Local Wildlife Sites. Join us to learm of unexpected sightings and discoveries... @yourherefordshire.co.uk @savethewye.bsky.social @herefordshirewt.bsky.social @nicolacutcher.bsky.social 053
Reposted by Anne CottringerSarah McIntyre @sarahmcintyre.bsky.social · 25/02/2025A message to the UK government: please respect our copyright 🙏 #MakeItFair #HandsOffOurCopyright 1/2 312451
Reposted by Anne CottringerBORDERLINES FILM FESTIVAL @borderlinesff.bsky.social · 22/02/2025Nearly dressed for #borderlines2025 in Hereford, Malvern and Ludlow. 075
Reposted by Anne CottringerLed By Donkeys @ledbydonkeys.org · 14/02/2025Stand with Ukrainians as Trump prepares to sell them out (Location: Russian embassy, London, Feb ‘23) 712741854
Reposted by Anne CottringerCarole Cadwalladr @carolecadwalla.bsky.social · 12/02/2025This is amazing. Via @nytimes.com 6525201278
Reposted by Anne CottringerIan Dunt @iandunt.bsky.social · 13/02/2025So @chrischirp.bsky.social is logging Trump's actions under data categories derived from the typical behaviour of authoritarian states as part of an ongoing project. The conclusions are naturally alarming. open.substack.com/pub/christin...open.substack.com"So this is how liberty dies… " Making sense of Trump's first three weeksWhere I categorise 69 Trump administration actions from the last 3 weeks and show how they align with the authoritarian playbook 12487191
Anne Cottringer @cantilupe.bsky.social · 10/02/2025Join us tomorrow evening - Tuesday February 11 at 7pm, upstairs at the Koffee Pot. Animal rescue plays an important role in helping to improve our biodiversity...and with many heartwarming stories. 020
Reposted by Anne CottringerCinema Rediscovered @cineredis.bsky.social · 02/02/2025Make sure you check out the @borderlinesff.bsky.social line-up and fill up your cinema boots! We’re particularly hyped that El Cine Soy Yo (1977) and Aventurera (1950) starring Ninón Sevilla are screening 🤩👇 073
Reposted by Anne CottringerBritish Ecological Society @britishecologicalsociety.org · 06/02/2025In its first year, the Biodiversity Net Gain (BNG) scheme has failed to deliver even half the of the Government’s minimum expected habitat creation, finds new @wclnews.bsky.social research. In 2025, BNG must start delivering on its nature boosting potential🌍 www.independent.co.uk/climate-chan...independent.co.ukScheme for developers to boost nature ‘failing’ in first year, campaigners warnThe amount of land delivering ‘biodiversity net gain’ linked to developments is falling well short of expectations, research suggests. 67949
Reposted by Anne CottringerChris Boardman CBE @chrisboardman.bsky.social · 03/02/2025Well done Greater Manchester! Now reaping the rewards of your consistent investment in 🐝 network: walking up from 52% to 57% & short car trips down from 41% to 36% in the last 5 years. Residents confirm the 🐝 network is enabling them to walk or cycle as part of daily lives. 👏 211619
Anne Cottringer @cantilupe.bsky.social · 02/02/2025Can we dare to be hopeful for or waterways? www.theguardian.com/science/2025...theguardian.comUK scientist wins prize for invention that could help avert ‘phosphogeddon’Phosphate, key to food production, is choking waterways, but a new sponge-like material returns it to the soil for crops 000
Reposted by Anne CottringerBORDERLINES FILM FESTIVAL @borderlinesff.bsky.social · 01/02/2025Our website is now LIVE! Complete with new, sleek search facility. borderlinesfilmfestival.co.uk/films As well as searching by title you can filter by Theme, Date, Venue. Booking links for all screenings are now in place 093
Reposted by Anne CottringerLed By Donkeys @ledbydonkeys.org · 30/01/2025It’s all beginning to feel a bit 1984. We’re in a battle against autocrats and oligarchs who are using money and misinformation to dismantle democracies. That’s why we’re looking for 1,984 new monthly supporters to make our biggest and boldest plans a reality (see link in bio) 572367997
Reposted by Anne CottringerSave The Wye Coalition @savethewye.bsky.social · 30/01/2025“..everything must be sacrificed to the god of GDP. For example, though chicken factories (huge steel sheds containing 10s of 1000s of birds) are killing the Wye and many other rivers, Steve Reed, the environment secretary, insists that planning permission for them should become easier to obtain.” 171
Reposted by Anne CottringerSoil Association @thesoilassociation.bsky.social · 28/01/2025Huge thanks to @elliechowns.bsky.social for presenting our #StopKillingOurRivers petition to parliament The issues raised in the petition prompted Ellie to set up an All-Party Parliamentary Group on water pollution. Only 14% of our rivers meet good ecological status: this is an emergency 🌊 03412
Reposted by Anne CottringerBORDERLINES FILM FESTIVAL @borderlinesff.bsky.social · 28/01/2025The 2025 Borderlines brochure is now available to download from our website: borderlinesfilmfestival.co.uk/sites/www.bo... Rural cinema a-plenty within. Lots more besides. Tickets scheduled to go on sale from Friday 31 at 1.00pm. 152
Reposted by Anne CottringerEuropeanPowell @europeanpowell.bsky.social · 28/01/2025The only way forward is by uniting communities around the UK to stand up and demand that the Govt's free zones align with EU laws on State aid which protects workers rights, and the environment from the predatory claws of malign foreign and domestic corporations. www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/plymouth-a...eventbrite.co.ukPlymouth and Dartmoor Special Economic Zone - Opportunity or Risk?The Plymouth and South Devon Freeport promises jobs and investment, but critics fear special economic zones could undermine democracy. 16027
Anne Cottringer @cantilupe.bsky.social · 27/01/2025This is very good news. @herefordshirewt.bsky.social @savethewye.bsky.social @yourherefordshire.co.uk www.herefordshirewt.org/news/funding...herefordshirewt.orgFunding for Natural Flood Management along Herefordshire’s Yazor Brook | Herefordshire Wildlife TrustHerefordshire Wildlife Trust have received funding of £100,000 from the Welsh Water Environment Fund to support their work on Natural Flood Management in the Yazor Brook catchment. 132
Anne Cottringer @cantilupe.bsky.social · 26/01/2025At every turn, this government continues to disappoint… 064
Reposted by Anne CottringerCaroline Lucas @carolinelucas.bsky.social · 24/01/2025If true, what Labour front bench is doing is unforgivable. The #CANBill is essential & has backing of huge number of experts, scientists, unions & enjoys cross-party support. If backbench Labour MPs ever consider rebelling against leadership on anything, let it be this - a liveable future for all 👇theguardian.comLabour MPs ordered to sink landmark climate and environment billExclusive: Supporters of bill say Labour has already insisted on removal of clauses requiring UK to meet targets agreed at Cop and other summits 991836851
Reposted by Anne CottringerNicola Cutcher @nicolacutcher.bsky.social · 03/01/2025Saw this beautiful card and had to buy it. A few titles that I haven’t read and will seek out. What are your favourite books about rivers? Please share your recommendations. 362
Anne Cottringer @cantilupe.bsky.social · 25/01/2025‘On Tuesday it (Labour Govt) sacked the CMA’s chair, Marcus Bokkerink, after complaints from big-business lobbies – and instead appointed Doug Gurr, a former country manager of Amazon UK and president of Amazon China.’theguardian.comLabour’s decision to muzzle regulators in the name of ‘growth’ will backfire horribly | Nicolas ShaxsonThe Competition and Markets Authority is the strongest line of defence against monopolies, so its change in leadership really matters, writes the journalist Nicholas Shaxson 010