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Breast Cancer Now @breastcancernow.bsky.social · 14h

Today marks the start of Breast Cancer Awareness Month. Whether you're living with breast cancer, adjusting to life after treatment, supporting someone you love, or remembering someone you've lost, we're here for you.

Sending love to those who... Have recently been diagnosed. Are living with metastatic breast cancer. Are going through treatment. Have lost someone to breast cancer. Are caring for a loved one. Are dealing with life after cancer. Are worried about symptoms. Are waiting on test results. Find Breast cancer awareness month tough.

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Surgeons' Hall Museum @surgeonshall.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Join us this Breast Cancer Awareness Month for an inspiring evening led by breast surgeon Miss Beatrix Elsberger. Explore the history of breast cancer treatment and the advances shaping care today. www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/breast-can...

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Breast Cancer Awareness Month: Past, Present and Future

This Breast Cancer Awareness Month, explore the history of breast cancer treatment and the advances shaping care today

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Blackford Safe Routes @blackfordsaferoutes.co.uk · 16/09/2026

They are doing a survey at the Astley Ainslie today and Saturday, counting the number of people who pass through it. If you want to ensure it stays open to the public now and once developed…then do pop by

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Breast Cancer Now @breastcancernow.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

Will you ask your MP, MSP or MS to Wear It Pink this year? Every year we host Wear It Pink events in Westminster, Holyrood and the Senedd. After 2 elections and a change in Prime Minister, this one will count more than ever. Find your email template for each nation below 👇

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Breast Cancer Now @breastcancernow.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

New research from Dr Isaac Garcia-Murillas at the Institute of Cancer Research, London has shown that a new type of ‘tissue-free’ blood test could provide a cheaper, more accessible way to predict breast cancer recurrence. breastcancernow.org/about-us/res...

New Research

New, cheaper blood test could help detect breast cancer recurrence earlier

What was the aim?

A liquid biopsy is a highly sensitive blood test can spot breast cancer coming back months before it becomes visible on hospital scans.

Right now, these tests aren’t suitable for everyone, because you need detailed information about the tumour to develop a blood test tailored to the person.

In this study, they wanted to find out if a new ‘tissue-free’ liquid biopsy could provide a cheaper, more accessible way to predict breast cancer recurrence earlier.

What did they find?

They found that detecting cancer DNA in the blood was a strong sign that breast cancer was likely to return.

On average, these blood tests picked up signs of recurrence around 8 months before the cancer appeared on a scan.

And the new ‘tissue-free’ test worked just as well as more complex tests that rely on information gathered from tumour biopsies.

What does this mean?

This research could help make blood tests to detect breast cancer recurrence available to more people in the future.

If future studies show that acting on these warning signs can help stop cancer progressing, doctors could give extra treatment earlier, and stop the disease before it spreads.

Bringing us another step closer to personalised follow-up care for people living beyond breast cancer.

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fbosche.bsky.social @fbosche.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

@edinburghcouncil.bsky.social Congratulations for reopening the residential motorway through Cluny. Traffic already shot up! At which point will you wake up???

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🚲 edi.bike | weekly news digest @edi.bike · 19/08/2026

Happy 'backwards steps' day to all those who celebrate... 🙃

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Andy Arthur💃🏰⚓🦌 Threadinburgh 🧵 @threadinburgh.scot · 19/08/2026

To paraphrase Winston Churchill: "'Never in the field of human conflict was so much time and effort needlessly expended to no avail by so many for the benefit of so few"

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Chas Booth (he/him) @chasbooth.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

This is a direct result of council blunders and a shameful decision of Labour, Lib Dem & Tory councillors to rip these protections out. Kids and other vulnerable road users will be in more road danger as a result. Absolutely shameful.

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Blackford Safe Routes @blackfordsaferoutes.co.uk · 12/08/2026

1000s of parents, carers, and kids, across 6 schools, support these “closures” - the silent majority, busy trying to live their lives The “controversy” has largely been manufactured by the media, a handful of agitators, and some councillors with vested interests

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Breast Cancer Now @breastcancernow.bsky.social · 15/07/2026

Our new report, Scotland demands change, outlines how we’ll work with the Scottish Government to help deliver the change that people urgently need. And ultimately, help save more lives from breast cancer. breastcancernow.org/get-involved...

breastcancernow.org

Working with the Scottish parliament to change the future of breast cancer in Scotland

Read how you can help change the future of breast cancer in Scotland.

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Breast Cancer Now @breastcancernow.bsky.social · 01/07/2026

Breast cancer can happen to anyone – no matter your ethnicity, gender or age. So it’s really important to get to know your body and check yourself regularly. It’s as simple as TLC: Touch your breasts or chest Look for changes Check anything unusual with a GP breastcancernow.org/TLC

Illustrations showing the common signs of breast cancer on different black skin. These signs include:
Lump, puckering or dimpling, colour change, inverted nipple. rash / crusting, liquid, change in size.

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Sheena Nimmo @sheenanimmo.bsky.social · 03/07/2026

Meanwhile Edinburgh Council is removing the modal filters that for 5 years have helped keep people safe when using the Greenbank to Meadows Quiet Route. Traffic down 40%, cycling up 160%, ave speeds down to 15mph, lots of people walking, all being risked over a drafting error that they won’t fix!

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Chas Booth (he/him) @chasbooth.bsky.social · 19/06/2026

“Children do not vote, they do not submit objections, […] but they are the people who will be most affected.” Transport committee yesterday failed these kids.

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Councillors vote to remove traffic filters from Edinburgh estate

‘The council has a duty to safeguard its most vulnerable road users’ - parent Ruth Findlay

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Chas Booth (he/him) @chasbooth.bsky.social · 18/06/2026

Extremely disappointed the @edinburghgreens.bsky.social addendum on Greenbank-Meadows Quiet Route, which would have preserved the modal filters in the Braid estate, has been voted down 6-5 at committee. Committee has prioritised 'reducing legal risk' over the safety of our kids. 😔

Screenshot of page 1 of Green amendment to Transport Committee on Greenbank-Meadows Quiet connection.

Screenshot of page 2 of Green amendment to Transport Committee on Greenbank-Meadows Quiet connection.

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Blackford Safe Routes @blackfordsaferoutes.co.uk · 17/06/2026

“[Traffic] filters are not a popularity contest, this is about children’s safety. We don’t want to see children put in danger” www.edinburghnews.scotsman.com/news/edinbur...

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Campaigners claim removing traffic filters will put children's safety at risk

‘To rip these protections out because of a council blunder is not acceptable’ - Cllr Chas Booth

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Breast Cancer Now @breastcancernow.bsky.social · 10/06/2026

We have a bold vision. That by 2050, everyone with breast cancer will live and live well. And world-class research will help us get there.

Right now, we're funding over 300 of the brightest minds in breast cancer research.

We discovered how healthy cells help breast cancer spread around the body. And now we're looking for treatments to stop metastatic breast cancer in its tracks.

We helped discover that drugs called PAROP inhibitors can be used to treat breast cancer. Now, these drugs are changing treatment worldwide.

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Breast Cancer Now @breastcancernow.bsky.social · 22/05/2026

“We don’t get to choose what happens to us—but we can choose how we respond.” - Sir Chris Hoy In this episode of the Breast Cancer Now podcast, 6-time Olympic gold medallist Sir Chris Hoy shares his experience of being diagnosed with metastatic prostate cancer. breastcancernow.org/about-us/pod...

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Sheena Nimmo @sheenanimmo.bsky.social · 12/05/2026

For 5 years the Greenbank to Meadows Quiet Route has been a safe route through residential streets and past several schools, but today the pro-car lobby groups might get their way to be able to rat-run through our streets again due to council errors. www.edinburghnews.scotsman.com/news/edinbur...

edinburghnews.scotsman.com

Another blunder means traffic filter near two schools will have to be ripped out

Sub-committee due to decide future of Quiet Route traffic filters on Tuesday afternoon

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Sarah McArthur @smcarthurreports.bsky.social · 11/05/2026

Tomorrow, Edinburgh council will decide whether to tear up a quiet route for pedestrians, wheelchairs and cyclists which has been in place for five years- why? Read below www.edinburghinquirer.co.uk/p/low-traffi... @edi.bike @spokes.org.uk

edinburghinquirer.co.uk

Low traffic streets: Five years, two censured councillors, and endless uncertainty

Why is the local authority set to tear up traffic filters which councillors voted to keep?

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🚲 edi.bike | weekly news digest @edi.bike · 08/05/2026

Without a doubt, this MUST come back to the Transport Committee and not just be thrown away by TRO Sub. We cannot lose miles of safe route to paperwork incompetence. The south of the city has too little else for safe cycling.

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Walking Scotland @walkingscotland.bsky.social · 01/05/2026

Today is the start of #NationalWalkingMonth 🎉 With every walk and wheel we feel happier, live healthier and help create a greener Scotland. Get inspired at walkingscotland.org.uk

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Blackford Safe Routes @blackfordsaferoutes.co.uk · 04/05/2026

Excellent write-up of the Braid Estate debacle 🧵 Edinburgh’s Transport Ctte calls for permanent Greenbank to Meadows Quiet Route; opponents pressure Council Officers into removing filters anyway Capitulation to loud motoring minority as ‘incorrectly worded’ legal order … edi.bike/articles/202...

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🚲 edi.bike | 🫠 Transport Committee calls for permanent Greenbank to Meadows Quiet Route; opponents pressure Council Officers into removing filters anyway

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🚲 edi.bike | weekly news digest @edi.bike · 04/05/2026

🚲 edi.bike | issue 143 | 4th May '26 Council Officers race to ruin the Greenbank to Meadows ‘quiet’ route before TRO Sub can; Voi marking parking zones; PoP26 manifesto and merch; plus events, infrastructure, route closures & more: buttondown.com/edi.bike/archive/iss…

A set of white and red metal fences form a modal filter to prevent through-traffic and allow cycles to pass, diagonally across a junction between three residential streets; a green sign reads ‘road open to’ and depicts people walking and various wheeled transport methods. It is sunny, with a clear blue sky, and there are cherry trees blossoming.

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Blackford Safe Routes @blackfordsaferoutes.co.uk · 02/05/2026

We’re currently speechless about the likely loss of a safe route for kids in the Braid Estate When the affluent few can pay a lawyer to find the slightest discrepancy in the paperwork, to kill off a scheme put in place through community action, that is NOT DEMOCRACY!

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🚲 edi.bike | weekly news digest @edi.bike · 01/05/2026

Are council officers capitulating to the interests of a minority group that didn't even bother to give deputation at Transport Committee, subverting a democratic decision? Because the minority group seem to think so. @stephenjenkinson.bsky.social @dastonsnp.bsky.social @chasbooth.bsky.social

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Breast Cancer Now @breastcancernow.bsky.social · 25/03/2026

New figures show that almost one million people are living with or beyond breast cancer in the UK. And by 2050 it’s projected to reach over 1.4 million. Behind these figures are too many human lives being touched and ripped apart by this devastating disease.

2026: 920,000 people are living with or beyond breast cancer in the UK.

2050: 1,400,000 people are projected to be living with or beyond breast cancer in the UK.

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Ben Parker @cllrbenparker.bsky.social · 02/04/2026

Today, the transport committee made a big decision about the future of the Quiet Route I’m pleased that we are finally (!) seeing progress which will (hopefully) see the retention of the route with all active travel measures intact 🚲🌳🚶 Read more on my blog 📝: open.substack.com/pub/cllrbenp...

Quiet Route infrastructure in the sunshine outside James Gillespie’s school. There is a cyclist cycling through the filter in the distance and the sun is shining against the blue sky and through the green leaves of the trees.

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🚲 edi.bike | weekly news digest @edi.bike · 02/04/2026

✊ Transport committee votes for Greenbank to Meadows quiet route permanence (‘Option C’) 🥳 Still to be ratified at TRO Sub-committee in June (dare they try it on?) but a significant win for one of the few measures supporting active travel in South Edinburgh. 🚲💕

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Chas Booth (he/him) @chasbooth.bsky.social · 02/04/2026

Powerful deputation at Transport Committee today from a resident of Braids Avenue who is a retired nurse & recently had a stroke so is unable to drive. "The Quiet Route is not a luxury. It's a lifeline." #activetravel

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Sheena Nimmo @sheenanimmo.bsky.social · 29/03/2026

Let’s hope this time the TEC puts the safety of local residents who walk, wheel and cycle in the Braid Estate ahead of the additional 4,000 drivers that were expected to return to our residential streets had the 2024 vote been implemented. It should save £££s too!

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Breast Cancer Now @breastcancernow.bsky.social · 23/03/2026

We're researching relentlessly now. For a future where no one dies of breast cancer. 🔬 We're here with support now. Until the day you no longer need us. ❤️ We're demanding change now. So everyone can get the best treatment. 📢

We’re the UK’s leading breast cancer charity

We’re combining the power of science and support to change breast cancer. Now.

We’re funding world-class science now, so no one died of breast cancer in the future.

We’re here with life-changing support now, so no one has to face breast cancer alone.

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Danny Aston @dastonsnp.bsky.social · 13/03/2026

It's clear it must come back - the integrity of the process has been shown to be completely compromised. Key Q now is will Labour reverse its dreadful position of voting with Tories & Lib Dems to rip out measures protecting kids travelling safely to & from school? If they don't this means nowt.

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Chas Booth (he/him) @chasbooth.bsky.social · 11/03/2026

It's essential that the decision to rip out the quiet route is now revisited. I have written to senior council officers to request this.

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🚲 edi.bike | weekly news digest @edi.bike · 11/03/2026

The controversial and surprising vote to remove highly effective traffic calming measures from a residential area and re-introduce up to 6,000 vehicles daily — on a 'quite route' for walking, wheeling and cycling spanning two primary schools — must surely now be revisited at Transport Committee.

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Danny Aston @dastonsnp.bsky.social · 11/03/2026

This demonstrates that the vote to rip out the modal filters and other active travel measures in the Braid estate was not only unjustifiable, but also arrived at by a tainted process which must now surely be revisited.

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Cath Hodsman @cathhodsman.bsky.social · 21/02/2026

Did u know? I read this week that we shouldn't approach gardening as *gardening*, we should consider it as habitat restoration. Nature desperately needs us to bring back meadows,ponds,wildflowers & shelters for small souls that underpin the world we're lucky to call home. Go, restore. 🌿🌱🇬🇧🌱🌍🪲🦋🐛🪰🐦‍⬛🦔🦎🐸

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🚲 edi.bike | weekly news digest @edi.bike · 22/12/2025

🚲 edi.bike | issue 124 | 22nd Dec '25 TRO Sub pass ‘South area’ travelling safely schemes, make much ado about Rose St; Integrity of vote on Greenbank to Meadows questioned; plus events, infrastructure, route closures & more: buttondown.com/edi.bike/archive/edi…

A large bicycle wheel with a thick, black tyre is being carried along a grey pavement; the top half of the wheel is visible, with a chrome brake disc on the far side, and the hand of the carrier near the top of the image gripping a rubber inner tube that has been wrapped around it to improvise a handle.

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Franca @applefranca.bsky.social · 18/12/2025

The reporting of this is so bad. It's not the closures that are controversial, it's wasting 400k on a bike lane so that cars can be 2 minutes faster, for about a year until a new equilibrium is found and the times go back to what they were, but with added noise, pollution and danger for residents

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Cllr Stephen Jenkinson @stephenjenkinson.bsky.social · 18/12/2025

🚨Braids Estate update - I believe pausing the implementation of this scheme is the right thing to do at this time. We will have to wait until after the Standards Commission hearing in March before deciding what the next steps are. www.edinburghnews.scotsman.com/news/edinbur...

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Traffic changes held up by standards complaints against 2 councillors

Long-awaited work to reverse controversial road closures is expected to be put on hold because two Edinburgh councillors are facing a standards hearing about an alleged conflict of interest over the p...

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Blackford Safe Routes @blackfordsaferoutes.co.uk · 22/09/2025

Braid Estate update: The changes to revert back to rat-running are now not due to be implemented on the ground until Jan 2026 – a full 5 years after they were first implemented. 5 years of quiet streets, that keep children safe, & much loved by residents blackfordsaferoutes.co.uk/braid-estate...

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Braid estate and Whitehouse Loan - Blackford Safe Routes

Update 22 September 2025 The changes to revert the Braid Estate back to rat-running are now not due to be implemented on the ground until January 2026 – a full FIVE years after they were first impleme...

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SpokesLothian @spokes.org.uk · 03/09/2025

“The Travelling Safely schemes have been in place for almost five years, improving safety and enabling more people, notably families, to feel safe to get about by bike . There is no measurable impact on congestion or traffic flow, and no rising toll of injuries to pedestrians, cyclists or drivers."

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Living Streets @livingstreets.bsky.social · 27/08/2025

Walking rates are up, according to today's National Travel Survey data - but the government is failing to meet the target of 55% primary school children walking to school. The problem? Streets are not safe for walking.

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Living Streets Edinburgh @livingstreetsedi.bsky.social · 21/08/2025

So much change is needed to make Scotland a better place for walking/wheeling...great to see this highlighted for the #Holyrood2026 elections! We'll be amplifying this message through our call for various specific measures over the coming months.

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European Commission @ec.europa.eu · 31/07/2025

Have you heard of the 3-30-300 🌳 rule? Everyone should be able to: 🌲 See at least 3 trees from their home 🌳 Have 30% tree canopy cover in their neighbourhood 🍃 Live within 300 meters of a high-quality green space

An infographic illustrating the '3-30-300 Rule' for urban greenery. It features stylized drawings of trees and a bench, accompanied by three key guidelines: having 3 large trees visible from your home or workplace, ensuring 30% tree canopy cover in your neighbourhood, and living within 300 meters of a publicly accessible green space

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ladymelchet.bsky.social @ladymelchet.bsky.social · 30/07/2025

Stage2 Road Safety Audit for Braid Estate Quiet Route flagged 20 safety issues across 5 themes: cycle lane hazards, junction safety, pedestrian crossings, design risks & signage. Worryingly despite the experimental & temporary plans safety recommendations include tree removal & drain readjustment.

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Sheena Nimmo @sheenanimmo.bsky.social · 30/07/2025

If the E in ETRO stands for experimental, surely the council can’t remove the iconic cherry trees to make the new temporary design for Braid Avenue safe? Surely it’s safer and cheaper to keep the current Quiet Route? @stephenjenkinson.bsky.social @chasbooth.bsky.social

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Sheena Nimmo @sheenanimmo.bsky.social · 13/06/2025

Surely it’s time for Edinburgh Council to ditch the plans to remove the successful Quiet Route in the Braid Estate? The Council expects 4,000 more vehicles a day (up 67%) and admits the new designs “don’t have the same level of safety when crossing the road”. @edinburghcouncil.bsky.social

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Sheena Nimmo @sheenanimmo.bsky.social · 23/05/2025

This week residents were told by the Council that the new designs for the Braid Estate “don’t have the same level of safety when crossing the road” as the current design. So why do they still want to spend c£400k making our streets more dangerous by favouring drivers?

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