This wildfire started on the common across the valley from me in July. It was windy, but I got a bit of footage from my drone.
It's amazing how fast the fire spread on dry grass.
The fire service arrived moments later. How easily it could have been considerably more serious.
![Anyone following the way this debate has
developed at Westminster over the past year may think that a social media ban for under 16s is inevitable.
Within months, the government has gone from saying a ban would be unworkable to sounding on the verge of implementing one.
But, in interviews this morning, Liz Kendall, the technology secretary, stressed that this was nota done deal. She told the Today Programme:
"We do think it's right to have a consultation on whether or not to ban social media for the under-16s Lots of people have made up their minds, Lord
Nash (the Tory peer who tabled the amendment that led to the government defeat in January) included.
But let me just say this. There are
organisations, including the NSPCC and the Molly Rose Foundation and the Internet Watch Foundation, who are worried that a ban wouldn't solve the problem because it would just force some of this stuff deeper [into the dark web], that the children would try and get around it, that it would create a cliff edge at 16. So I think it is the right and responsible thing to do to have a consultation."](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:z6axozx6vwnnp64rn4ebjaqk/bafkreid5nbxrud4tsjdzxzdygxwiqokc66ado3dg5654rgjyjxkwam54ra)
