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Helen Back @helenback1.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Hard agree. Restaurants and pubs need to employ lighting designers and watch their profits soar

Helen Back @helenback1.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Totally. There are perhaps heightened safety issues for women but ultimately and dark unsurveilled paths are off putting and not safe for anyone. NEPN perhaps an exception as it’s so heavily used. Perhaps the group most at risk is actually teenage boys

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Helen Back @helenback1.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

I am a woman or girl who uses the off road networks at night but not without considerable trepidation. After the spate of attacks on the NEPN which were against people of all genders and ages, we should want safety for everyone

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Helen Back @helenback1.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Or Broughton Street. So many now calling it Braw-ton street

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Helen Back @helenback1.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Fair point but I can’t see it

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Helen Back @helenback1.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Is this relevant when they are a million miles away from being capable of winning an election?

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Helen Back @helenback1.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

No privacy blanket. No curtain. West london circa 1999. 19 years old

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Cold War Steve @coldwarsteve.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Cable Street 1936-2026: Not Then Not Now roughtradebooks.com/products/cab...

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Helen Back @helenback1.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

I’m sorry to hear that another person has experienced exactly what I did. I didn’t even have a curtain round me

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Helen Back @helenback1.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Hilarious. I’ve met you 1000 times before

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Helen Back @helenback1.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

I’m Scottish and live in Scotland but people with aggressive and excessive pride in Scotland like this ⬆️ are so tedious and make me want to leave

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Cold War Steve @coldwarsteve.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

According to Suella Braverman not one of these ENGLAND players are English. FUCK HER 🖕🖕🏾🖕🏿🖕🏽🖕🏼

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Helen Back @helenback1.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

At least he can be of no influence or consequence as an MP rather than being a destructive negative vibe merchant at the council. It’s probably for the best

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Helen Back @helenback1.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

That’s bloody horrible. Have they painted over stone?

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Helen Back @helenback1.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

It’s amazing that we can put a man on the moon yet we never thought to make that man Boris Johnson

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Helen Back @helenback1.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Had the worst nights sleep *ever* on that ferry. Never. Again! Woken up every 10 mins with the motion

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Sian Berry MP @sianberry.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Are the Royal Family public servants or not? And if they are, then why do they have a blanket exemption on rules that others have to follow? In July I introduced a Bill to end outrageous Royal exemptions in the Freedom of Information Act. You can read it here: bills.parliament.uk/bills/4267

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Helen Back @helenback1.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

It’s kind of irrelevant when my kids will graduate in Scotland with £34k of debt and all their friends going to England will be £47k in debt. Not that different. They will all be paying the same 9% tax from their salary for the rest of their lives and the total amount owed doesn’t matter

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Helen Back @helenback1.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Yes they are all underfunded but universities in Scotland get paid £2000 less per student so you can see why things are particularly acute here

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Helen Back @helenback1.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Minimal difference to the total if you look at cost to the student over 3 versus 4 years. And because so many don’t pay off the ‘debt’ it just sits there acting as a graduate tax on earnings for the rest of their life whether the original amount was the Scottish 35k or the English 50k

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Helen Back @helenback1.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

True. But tuition fees being paid by the government makes that even worse here (universities get much less per student in Scotland), and is little benefit to students as well 🤷‍♀️

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Helen Back @helenback1.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

It’s not free though. Every Scottish student I know gets a maintenance loan for 4 years, ending up at least £34k in debt. Those going to England to study don’t have much more debt despite tuition fees because of shorter 3 year degrees. And scotish universities are on their knees because of it

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Helen Back @helenback1.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Also, what about sick people who don’t have a car and have to take a taxi? Should we pay for them too?

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Helen Back @helenback1.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Another SNP shibboleth that was done for the headlines despite the results. Like tuition fees

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road.cc @roadcc.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

“In the last decade, about three people every week have been killed by drivers on your roads. In that time, the only people you’ve asked to be courteous are cyclists. Make it make sense”

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Anger as “tone-deaf” Traffic Scotland tells cycling groups “courtesy goes a long way” and to “be mindful of traffic behind you”, days after cyclist killed by driver during club ride; The most stylish ...

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Helen Back @helenback1.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Resurfacing of something opened only 2 years ago (and was also closed for two weeks for resurfacing just a year ago) is also so Edinburgh

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Helen Back @helenback1.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Why on earth aren’t there bollards preventing lorries mounting the pavement? People are wringing their hands about crossing the bike lane and the threat of potentially being hit by 80kg of bike and human and nobody panicking about actual HGVs are driving on and off the pavement! 🤯b

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Helen Back @helenback1.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

And with the Harrison road closure still ongoing, this means big diversions for many on foot

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Helen Back @helenback1.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Oh wow. When you see it like that, it cannot be unseen. It’s actually two bridges as well

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Helen Back @helenback1.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Has anyone at the council given a thought to those who live there and the fact that it’s a busy walking and cycling route to 4 schools? Or are they just afraid of slowing down Mr West Lothian commuter on his way to a free workplace parking space?

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Helen Back @helenback1.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

That road at rush hour is *horrendous* and there are wall to wall parked cars both sides.The residents must be so disappointed at this missed opportunity

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Helen Back @helenback1.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Was supposed to be open to pedestrians in August 🤦‍♀️ Oh, ffs Edinburgh

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Helen Back @helenback1.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

This whole project is a lesson in How Not To Do Things

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Helen Back @helenback1.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

No pedestrian access until December?! It was meant to be August!

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Helen Back @helenback1.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Newhaven and Granton are right next to each other. The tram journey would be 3-4 minutes

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Helen Back @helenback1.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Compared to buses only, it’s looking enticing. It would be well used. They could extend it to Silverknowes!

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Helen Back @helenback1.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

If it’s that or nothing (as it is currently) and the newhaven to Granton extension should be done anyway, I dont see why they don’t crack on with that option

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Helen Back @helenback1.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

😮 We’ve got an easy bolt on from newhaven to Granton and we’re not choosing that? If it’s currently good enough for the people of newhaven then I’m sure an extra 2 mins on the journey would be fine for those of Granton

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Helen Back @helenback1.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

But it would only be one or two stops from newhaven and Newhaven seems to work for journey time and revenue? Surely that’s a much quicker and cheaper option that would be widely supported

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Helen Back @helenback1.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

@nigelbagshaw.bsky.social you may know. Is there a reason the newhaven leg can’t be extended to Granton?

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Helen Back @helenback1.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

It does highlight the massive loss of the path for so many people who’d have to take a worse, inconvenient detour as that’s all we’d be left with

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Helen Back @helenback1.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

It never gets mentioned how hilly the on road alternative is. It is not a straight replacement that would be used by the same people

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Pete Fraser @petefrasermusic.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

In the movie version of this, after Piddington runs out of food water and money as a result of leaving the UK, the residents apply for asylum and end up housed in a military base, with HILARIOUS consequences. www.bbc.com/news/article...

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Piddington in Oxfordshire votes to leave UK over asylum plans

Piddington residents voted over proposals to house up to 1,256 male asylum seekers nearby

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Helen Back @helenback1.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

I’d love to understand how many of these consultations are legally required? Anyone know thhow answer? What’s the threshold for a consultation?

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Helen Back @helenback1.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

It seems that across the city people are crying out for basic and cheap safety infrastructure. What’s your opinion @gavincorbett.bsky.social on why the council are seemingly utterly incapable of providing the simplest thing?

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Helen Back @helenback1.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Patrick Harvey said the Scottish gov made up ludicrously convoluted processes that have to be followed by councils. If this is the case, why aren’t they undoing their own rules to speed things up? London just cracks on but we are mired in easily derailed process for years

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Helen Back @helenback1.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Now many people use it as a shared use path but get abuse for doing so

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