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charliemac2204.bsky.social @charliemac2204.bsky.social · 17/03/2026
www.theguardian.com/environment/... The Solar Revolution is being led from the bottom up.
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How Pakistan’s people-led solar boom is easing impact of Middle East energy crisis
Falling costs and government incentives make solar an attractive option for many, reducing need for gas
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charliemac2204.bsky.social @charliemac2204.bsky.social · 14/03/2026
This is a national emergency and a disgrace. www.theguardian.com/environment/...
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‘Drinking from a fetid pond’: superbug-creating genes found in UK’s largest lake
Exclusive: Lough Neagh, which supplies drinking water for 40% of NI, contains genes resistant to last-resort antibiotics
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charliemac2204.bsky.social @charliemac2204.bsky.social · 25/02/2026
Scotland needs to invest in itself bylines.scot/news/economi...
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Scotland needs to invest in itself
In Scotland we need our own pension funds to invest in Scotland; in our infrastructure and our local communities
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charliemac2204.bsky.social @charliemac2204.bsky.social · 24/02/2026
www.theguardian.com/environment/... Nationalise this industry now. Let’s get our money back from the privateers who have polluted our rivers!
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Channel 4’s Dirty Business is a clarion call to nationalise the water industry
As the drama shows, private firms no longer able to pollute the coast of England of Wales just switched to rivers instead
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charliemac2204.bsky.social @charliemac2204.bsky.social · 19/02/2026
Grassroots campaigns overtake party politics in Scottish election year bylines.scot/politics/hol...
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Grassroots campaigns overtake party politics in Scottish election year
Press Release: Two campaign groups – Yes United and Independence Forum Scotland – have taken the lead in ‘putting the band back together’
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charliemac2204.bsky.social @charliemac2204.bsky.social · 15/02/2026
bylines.scot/opinion/the-... Scotland’s Greens poise the big question.
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The future of the monarchy in Scotland - Bylines Scotland
What relevant role does the monarchy play today, with or without the present scandal?
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charliemac2204.bsky.social @charliemac2204.bsky.social · 12/02/2026
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Sutton Trust Summer Schools
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charliemac2204.bsky.social @charliemac2204.bsky.social · 12/02/2026
m.facebook.com/story.php?st... Scotland needs more afffordable housing.
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charliemac2204.bsky.social @charliemac2204.bsky.social · 12/02/2026
www.theguardian.com/society/2026... No sign of levelling up in Knowsley. ‘Must do better’ message to the Westminster government.
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Youth work ‘black holes’ in half of all council areas in England, study finds
First mapping of youth centres in decades shows poorer areas in north worst affected by cuts since 2010
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charliemac2204.bsky.social @charliemac2204.bsky.social · 16/01/2026
Make Britain Great Again? How about holding the people who misused our resources to account ?
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charliemac2204.bsky.social @charliemac2204.bsky.social · 26/09/2025
Share this article from Bylines bylines.scot/politics/tha...
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Thatcherism, privatisation and corporate profiteering from UK energy bills
A study conducted by the think tank Common Wealth found that private energy bills were funding corporate profits
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charliemac2204.bsky.social @charliemac2204.bsky.social · 12/06/2025
How Labour’s new energy company could transform the UK bylines.scot/environment/...
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How Labour’s new energy company could transform the UK
Labour’s publicly owned GB Energy aims to cut bills, boost jobs, and give power back to communities
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Ronnie Barbour @ronniebarbour.bsky.social · 10/06/2025
Nuclear Energy – outdated technology at a price too high to pay?
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Nuclear Energy – outdated technology at a price too high to pay?
Martin Roche interviews Dr. Paul Dorfman, and they discuss why nuclear energy generation has reached its end
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Bylines Network @bylinesnetwork.co.uk · 16/05/2025
Ocean is a compelling and challenging documentary about the natural world and man’s affect on it | Charlie McCarthy @charliemac2204.bsky.social Via @bylines.scot
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Ocean – a David Attenborough documentary
Ocean is a compelling and challenging documentary about the natural world and man’s affect on it
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Bylines Scotland @bylines.scot · 16/05/2025
Ocean is a compelling and challenging documentary about the natural world and man’s affect on it | Charlie McCarthy @charliemac2204.bsky.social
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Ocean – a David Attenborough documentary
Ocean is a compelling and challenging documentary about the natural world and man’s affect on it
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Bylines Scotland @bylines.scot · 25/04/2025
The proportion of adults stepping forward for volunteering has slumped since 2010 | Trevor Russel
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Volunteering in crisis
The proportion of adults stepping forward for volunteering has slumped since 2010
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Bylines Scotland @bylines.scot · 07/04/2025
#CitizenJournalism
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Mark Carney @mark-carney.bsky.social · 05/04/2025
I want workers like Dennis to know that they can have a good, fulfilling career in the trades — one that lasts decades.
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Bylines Scotland @bylines.scot · 03/04/2025
We're doing a bit of fundraising for Bylines Scotland🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿. We're all volunteers who want to tell Scotland's story to the World! If you think you can chip in that would be great, but no bother if you can't, we'll still be here! #CitizenJournalism
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Support powerful citizen journalism - we need it now, more than ever
At a time when billionaires and oligarchs own the majority of our press, when local journalism is in decline, and social media is rife with misinformation and abuse, there has never been a greater nee...
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Bylines Scotland @bylines.scot · 31/03/2025
If it feels like deja vu, it’s because we’ve changed energy types before | Charlie McCarthy @charliemac2204.bsky.social
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Experience of energy transitions – a historical view from the tenements of Glasgow
If it feels like deja vu, it’s because we’ve changed energy types before
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Bylines Scotland @bylines.scot · 21/03/2025
The Dùn Collich team celebrates Scottish Apprenticeship Week with new rural skills hires | Charlie McCarthy @charliemac2204.bsky.social
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Dùn Coillich partners welcome first apprentices!
The Dùn Collich team celebrates Scottish Apprenticeship Week with new rural skills hires
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Bylines Network @bylinesnetwork.co.uk · 28/03/2025
As the rising problem of misogyny in schools is explored in the harrowing Netflix show, Adolescence, a recent survey reveals that 9 out of 10 female teachers in Norfolk had either experienced violence against them, or witnessed it happen to colleagues. @eastangliabylines.co.uk
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New Netflix show sparks debate around misogyny in schools
Parents must confront the growing influence of online misogyny and abuse towards women and girls, experts warn
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Bylines Scotland @bylines.scot · 21/03/2025
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Bylines Scotland @bylines.scot · 21/03/2025
This is such a great piece of writing.❤️ #Grief #MentalHealth #Music
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The beat goes on
Music can soothe the soul when grief hits us unexpectedly. The songs of our lives are a musical tie that binds us together
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charliemac2204.bsky.social @charliemac2204.bsky.social · 10/03/2025
A cartoonist take on the world as it is.
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charliemac2204.bsky.social @charliemac2204.bsky.social · 08/03/2025
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Flamingo Land’s Loch Lomond development application is back
Flamingo Land’s £40M “Lomond Banks” resort plan promised hotels, lodges, a waterpark & jobs—but faced backlash over Loch Lomond’s future
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Bylines Scotland @bylines.scot · 04/03/2025
School roles are falling across Scotland, this brings with it the need for politicians to make important decisions | Charlie McCarthy @charliemac2204.bsky.social
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The decline in pupil numbers heralds challenging times for Scottish schools
School roles are falling across Scotland, this brings with it the need for politicians to make important decisions
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charliemac2204.bsky.social @charliemac2204.bsky.social · 06/02/2025
Please read this if you are concerned about the Radio Teleswitch deadline. bylines.scot/society/the-...
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The Radio Teleswitch demise – you need to check your electricity meter!
Time to act if you want to stay warm with your electric meter
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charliemac2204.bsky.social @charliemac2204.bsky.social · 07/02/2025
The Labour Government’s Rosebank problem. Will it split the Party? Share this article from Bylines bylines.scot/environment/...
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Rosebank no more?
Ronnie Barbour interviews Lauren MacDonald from Uplift and Mark Ruskell, Scottish Green MSP for Mid Scotland and Fife about the Rosebank oilfield
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charliemac2204.bsky.social @charliemac2204.bsky.social · 07/02/2025
The Labour Government’s Rosebank problem. Will it split the Party? Share this article from Bylines bylines.scot/environment/...
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Rosebank no more?
Ronnie Barbour interviews Lauren MacDonald from Uplift and Mark Ruskell, Scottish Green MSP for Mid Scotland and Fife about the Rosebank oilfield
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charliemac2204.bsky.social @charliemac2204.bsky.social · 06/02/2025
Please read this if you are concerned about the Radio Teleswitch deadline. bylines.scot/society/the-...
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The Radio Teleswitch demise – you need to check your electricity meter!
Time to act if you want to stay warm with your electric meter
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Bylines Scotland @bylines.scot · 16/01/2025
We want your news and your views! Write for us! Business, Arts, Science, Technology, Politics, Economics, Health, Lifestyle! Come and join us to tell Scotland's story! #volunteers #writers #editors
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charliemac2204.bsky.social @charliemac2204.bsky.social · 06/01/2025
New voices are giving us new and better ideas for the future. bylines.scot/opinion/a-po...
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A popular manifesto, not a manifesto for populists
The Scottish public purse should get 2% of all profits from renewable energy
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Pam Jarvis @drpam.bsky.social · 02/01/2025
So. It’s 2025. Labour have been in power for five months. When are they going to do something substantive about this curriculum in England? #EduSky @yorksbylines.bsky.social @bylinetimes.bsky.social @bylinesnetwork.bsky.social yorkshirebylines.co.uk/news/educati...
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Educating ‘dirty northerners’ and ‘fettered foreigners’ in Gove’s curriculum of ‘hard facts’
Recordings of Gove making derogatory comments, raise questions about his values and the curriculum that he instilled in England’s schools
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Natalie Bennett @nataliegreenpeer.bsky.social · 02/01/2025
Demands reflection on what hideous abuse whaling was (and is) - and on how many individual whales right now are beneath the waves thinking about humans: "if only that annoying species would shut up" #NoisePollution #Biodiversity www.theguardian.com/environment/...
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‘Extraordinary longevity’: great whales can live a lot longer than we thought – if we leave them alone
Bowhead whales may not be the only species that can live to 200 years old. Researchers have found that the industrial hunting of great whales has masked the ability of these underwater giants to also ...
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charliemac2204.bsky.social @charliemac2204.bsky.social · 01/01/2025
If you are interested in the future at a time of a climate emergency have a look at this organisation to give you ideas of how you can get involved in your community climatemajorityproject.com
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Homepage - Climate Majority Project
Alone, we may feel small, but a majority is a powerful force. Let’s stand up and show that people across Britain want proper action on climate.Most people sense that we're in deep trouble with climate...
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Harry Eccles @harryeccles.bsky.social · 27/12/2024
I seem to have upset the Nigel Farage fan club - so let me be clear. This man sows hate, lies and division. He is a grifter and a conman. He does not represent the vast majority of Britons. Repost if you agree P.s. multiculturalism is great.
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Yorkshire Bylines @yorkshirebylines.co.uk · 25/12/2024
Happy Christmas! 🎄⛄🐈‍⬛
Black cat in the branches of a Christmas tree surrounded by baubles
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Bylines Network @bylinesnetwork.co.uk · 24/12/2024
Well here's a thing, looks like our friends over at West England Bylines are about to hit 10,000 followers. Can they do it this Christmas? WEB always looking for new writers, editors etc email editor@westenglandbylines.co.uk if you wish to volunteer and get involved. @webylines.bsky.social
Screenshot of WEB on 9.7k followers.
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charliemac2204.bsky.social @charliemac2204.bsky.social · 23/12/2024
‘The worst it’s ever been’: teachers decry Send crisis in England’s schools’ This has the makings of a national emergency
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charliemac2204.bsky.social @charliemac2204.bsky.social · 19/12/2024
youtube.com/shorts/BtJ9O... Saw these beauties out on the moor today. Great sight.
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Exmoor ponies
YouTube video by Charlie McCarthy
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charliemac2204.bsky.social @charliemac2204.bsky.social · 17/12/2024
Treat yourself in the New Year. Go see this movie. youtube.com/watch?v=FiXG...
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YouTube
Share your videos with friends, family, and the world
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Bylines Scotland @bylines.scot · 15/12/2024
A shameful period in recent Scottish history that still reverberates in our Traveller communities today | Charlie McCarthy @charliemac2204.bsky.social
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The Tinker experiment - Bylines Scotland
A shameful period in recent Scottish history that still reverberates in our Traveller communities today.
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Bylines Scotland @bylines.scot · 13/12/2024
Wood-burning stoves are currently very fashionable, but are environmentally very dubious | Dr Jill Belch @jillbelch.bsky.social #environment #health
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No fire without smoke: is it time to ditch burning wood in the home? - Bylines Scotland
Wood-burning stoves are currently very fashionable, but are environmentally very dubious
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charliemac2204.bsky.social @charliemac2204.bsky.social · 13/12/2024
Note the comments from Scotland on the way forward. This is an issue that we ignore at our peril. www.theguardian.com/environment/...
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Wood heating could be worse than thought for rural air, study suggests
Research at Slovenian village finds particle pollution once air settles in valley reaches levels of most polluted cities
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charliemac2204.bsky.social @charliemac2204.bsky.social · 11/12/2024
-10 last night. -5 in the daytime. This is what it looks like.
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Brian Moore @brianmoore666.bsky.social · 07/12/2024
During Covid lockdown, if you had family round on Christmas Day the police could force their way into your home and make them return to their own homes. Does anybody know if this service is still available and, if so, do you have to book it?
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charliemac2204.bsky.social @charliemac2204.bsky.social · 06/12/2024
‘Lochaber no mower, Linwood no mower’. All together now!
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Bylines Network @bylinesnetwork.co.uk · 06/12/2024
With Nigel Farage back on Question Time and with around 300,000 reads in over 144 countries but still with no response from Question Time Here's @docrussjackson.bsky.social's open letter to the BBC about widely held concerns about why bias on #bbcqt is not going away @yorksbylines.bsky.social
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An open letter to the BBC
Dr Russell Jackson, senior lecturer in communication and public relations at Sheffield Hallam University, writes to the BBC about Question Time
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