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Vanessa Rowlands

@vanessarowlands.bsky.social
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Focus local with actions that positively impact on nature, climate & communities Be kind to yourself💚 🌱Chair of South Downs National Park Authority 🌱Chair National Parks England🌱Cuckmere Valley all views my own, obvs #BeCurious #Connection

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Rich Tea @richtea1982.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
"I've told everyone I'm a Traitor by mistake!" #celebritytraitors
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Gregory Norminton @gregorynorminton.bsky.social · 22/06/2026
On Wednesday, Parliament will vote on the UK's 7th Carbon Budget, aligned with the scientific advice from the Climate Change Committee. Kemi Badenoch will lead her party in voting against it. The temperature in London on Wednesday:
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Ben Ansell @benansell.bsky.social · 19/06/2026
Awful night for Reform. Smashed in Makerfield and Tories took Aberdeen South. Two party politics reasserting itself and they might not even be one of them. Time for the press to stop accepting inevitability of PM Farage. After Makerfield that will be tough.
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Vanessa Rowlands @vanessarowlands.bsky.social · 12/05/2026
civics lessons - we’re not taught how local government even works in this Country. Or the Law etc etc
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Simon Parker @simonparker.bsky.social · 12/05/2026
Fund. Local. Government. Everything will get a bit better. More good local jobs. Better high streets. Cleaner neighbourhoods. Less pressure on the NHS. Visible signs of renewal. For buttons.
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Emma Jacobs @emmavj.bsky.social · 11/05/2026
Anyway Starmer can’t resign as we’ve got too many podcasters already
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Vanessa Rowlands @vanessarowlands.bsky.social · 11/05/2026
www.maptap.gg May 11 99🎯 98🔥 95🏅 97🔥 79🫢 Final score: 915
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🎯MapTap Daily Geography Game
Play MapTap - the daily geography game! Find 5 world locations on a 3D globe with historical stories. Free browser-based daily game for geography lovers.
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Vanessa Rowlands @vanessarowlands.bsky.social · 10/05/2026
Cuckmere Valley looking 👌🧡 @southdownsnp.bsky.social #SouthDowns
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Siôn McGeever @sionmcgeever.bsky.social · 10/05/2026
River Medway with setting sun reflected on a calm early May evening. Two cuckoos calling (no sound, imagine it yourself). One fish rising next to the sun's  reflection.
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Vanessa Rowlands @vanessarowlands.bsky.social · 19/04/2026
you’re right - they had spotted leaves which is what made me say spotted - thank you do correction 😊
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Vanessa Rowlands @vanessarowlands.bsky.social · 19/04/2026
Spotted Orchid on woodland edge #WildflowerHour
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Vanessa Rowlands @vanessarowlands.bsky.social · 12/04/2026
Cowslips in Cuckmere Valley today 💛 #WildflowerHour
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Alan Rusbridger @arusbridger.bsky.social · 12/04/2026
Was it only four days ago The Telegraph comment pages were gazing into their tea leaves ?
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The Guardian @theguardian.com · 01/03/2026
Labour must stop channelling Reform and unite with progressives. That’s the lesson from Gorton and Denton | Sadiq Khan
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Labour must stop channelling Reform and unite with progressives. That’s the lesson from Gorton and Denton | Sadiq Khan
The threat to the party in some parts of our country is now existential. But we can progress, as we have in London, by being bold and strong in our core beliefs, says London mayor Sadiq Khan
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Liam Thorp @liamthorp.bsky.social · 01/03/2026
As journalists working today many of us are taught to recognise disinformation when we see it and fight back against it. Unfortunately there are some who willingly seek it out and put it on their front pages. A disgrace to the profession.
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Vanessa Rowlands @vanessarowlands.bsky.social · 01/03/2026
they got in with a set of voters they don’t like , tacked right and legitimised Reform’s arguments. Woefully bad politics 😞
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Jonathan Portes @jdportes.bsky.social · 26/02/2026
The migration doom loop at work: does anyone in government seriously think that a strategy designed to keep out skilled workers and students makes either economic or political sense? ://www.ft.com/content/7408ad00-e4eb-41c7-8849-36061bc0eac1
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Fall in UK net migration threatens to carve deep hole in public finances
Issue is expected to come under the spotlight in chancellor Rachel Reeves’ Spring Statement
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Vanessa Rowlands @vanessarowlands.bsky.social · 22/01/2026
noooooooooo #TheTraitors #TheTraitorsUK
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Kate Ashbrook @campaignerkate.bsky.social · 30/12/2025
Great event in parliament to celebrate success of @campaign4parks.bsky.social New Perspectives, & now we have a cohort of young leaders & campaigners @tarynnixon.bsky.social @roseoneill.bsky.social @andrewmccloy.bsky.social @vanessarowlands.bsky.social campaignerkate.wordpress.com/2025/12/30/t...
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There’s hope for the future
On 16 December, the 76th anniversary of the 1949 National Parks and Access to the Countryside Act, the Campaign for National Parks (CNP) culminated its brilliant New Perspectives project with a cel…
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Danny Chambers MP 🔶 @dannychambers.bsky.social · 13/12/2025
🐟🌲💧- Our environment is under attack! The government is getting rid of the biodiversity net gain promises they previously made. That means precious habitats like our chalk streams in Hampshire are all under threat. This is not acceptable. We have to protect our environment.
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Vanessa Rowlands @vanessarowlands.bsky.social · 15/12/2025
thanks Danny 🙏🏻
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John Marsham @johnmarsham.bsky.social · 16/11/2025
And this is begorw longer-term threat from sea level rise. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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Flooded and forgotten: the UK’s waters are rising and we’re being kept in the dark | John Harris
Rescue operations in Wales, submerged railway lines in Cornwall – these events are ever more common. So why have we utterly failed to prepare, asks Guardian columnist John Harris
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Vanessa Rowlands @vanessarowlands.bsky.social · 16/11/2025
this 💯. We need to have a national conversation about what this is going to mean. Landscapes will need to adapt and hold a lot more water for starters
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John Harris @johnharris1969.bsky.social · 16/11/2025
Latest from me: on Floods, Storm Claudia & the ones that are ignored, and why. We really have no idea what's about to hit us www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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Flooded and forgotten: the UK’s waters are rising and we’re being kept in the dark | John Harris
Rescue operations in Wales, submerged railway lines in Cornwall – these events are ever more common. So why have we utterly failed to prepare, asks Guardian columnist John Harris
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Vanessa Rowlands @vanessarowlands.bsky.social · 06/11/2025
absolutely - once Joe was banished by nick - Alan to win all the way!
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Vanessa Rowlands @vanessarowlands.bsky.social · 06/11/2025
you muppets!!!! #CelebrityTraitors
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Vanessa Rowlands @vanessarowlands.bsky.social · 06/11/2025
David has been so bad the whole way through this - Alan to win! #celebrityTraitors
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Vanessa Rowlands @vanessarowlands.bsky.social · 06/11/2025
Nick you were Joe’s hundy !!!
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Vanessa Rowlands @vanessarowlands.bsky.social · 06/11/2025
you idiots!!!! #celebritytraitors
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Not Often Heard @notoftenheard.bsky.social · 06/11/2025
I’ve found my new Doctor #celebritytraitors
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Campaign for National Parks @campaign4parks.bsky.social · 22/10/2025
🌿A full house for the launch of the new APPG for National Parks & National Landscapes yesterday! 🌿 The new APPG will provide a powerful voice in Parliament 💪 A huge thank you to all the MPs, Peers & partners who joined us to make this such an energising start
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Campaign for National Parks @campaign4parks.bsky.social · 14/10/2025
It's now clear that the gov't are NOT proposing to repeal the Protected Landscapes duty 🙌 A huge thank you to the more than 200 charities, businesses & organisations who joined us in writing to Keir Starmer 💚 Now to focus on improving our Protected Landscapes... www.cnp.org.uk/news/plans-t...
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Plans to weaken Protected Landscapes Duty quietly dropped
Westminster government published its list of amendments for the Planning and Infrastructure Bill and there are no proposals to weaken protections for National Parks.
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Vanessa Rowlands @vanessarowlands.bsky.social · 14/10/2025
Huge well done to your team 👏🏻💚 Thank you 🙏🏻
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Vanessa Rowlands @vanessarowlands.bsky.social · 14/10/2025
Really good news and great campaigning but Rose & the team. 👏🏻💚
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Vanessa Rowlands @vanessarowlands.bsky.social · 07/09/2025
this x 100. Utterly ridiculous commentary, just inflating the Reform agenda
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Vanessa Rowlands @vanessarowlands.bsky.social · 07/09/2025
really pleased to see @marycreagh.bsky.social staying where she is for Nature. Let’s keep momentum now 💚
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Vanessa Rowlands @vanessarowlands.bsky.social · 07/09/2025
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Vanessa Rowlands @vanessarowlands.bsky.social · 14/07/2025
this 💯. So pleased to see this today 💚
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James Murray @james-bg.bsky.social · 14/07/2025
Ed Miliband is entirely right here. www.theguardian.com/environment/...
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Ian Dunt @iandunt.bsky.social · 12/05/2025
Incredibly depressing day. I've spent my entire life being told by British governments how dreadful immigration is. New Labour did it. The Coalition. The Brexiters. Now Starmer. All of them accusing the ones who came before them of failing to clamp down. The same old vacant mean-spirited bollocks.
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Vanessa Rowlands @vanessarowlands.bsky.social · 26/04/2025
thank you John. I actually had to say a sudden goodbye to my dog of 13 years last friday. So sad 💔
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Julian Hughes @penrhynbirder.bsky.social · 23/04/2025
"Areas where peatland was restored and rewetted were notably more resilient to the fires".
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Vanessa Rowlands @vanessarowlands.bsky.social · 23/04/2025
Badge of honour . Thanks for all you do 😊
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Vanessa Rowlands @vanessarowlands.bsky.social · 20/04/2025
Stork’s Bill 🩷 #WildflowerHour @wildflowerhour.bsky.social
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Vanessa Rowlands @vanessarowlands.bsky.social · 18/04/2025
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Caught by the River @caughtbytheriver.bsky.social · 18/04/2025
We have 2 copies of Kim Taplin's 'The English Path' to give away on this afternoon's newsletter, courtesy of @littletollerbooks.bsky.social. Make sure you're signed up to our mailing list!
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Vanessa Rowlands @vanessarowlands.bsky.social · 17/04/2025
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Vanessa Rowlands @vanessarowlands.bsky.social · 14/04/2025
this !!!
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Prospect Magazine @prospectmagazine.co.uk · 14/04/2025
Politicians like Kemi Badenoch say the clean energy transition is impossible—but the private sector understands it’s the only way to lower prices, writes @nixonsimon.bsky.social. www.prospectmagazine...
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Business is not against net zero
Politicians like Kemi Badenoch say the clean energy transition is impossible—but the private sector understands it’s the only way to lower prices
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