#WaxcapWatch is back! 🎉🍄 This autumn, help us find Britain’s most colourful and important fungi - waxcaps! 🔍How to take part? All you need is to download the app, visit a site and tell us what you find! Find out more 👉 bit.ly/3RlkF2W 📷 Sarah Shuttleworth

The UK summer has been cool compared to ones from the last 10 years, but it would have been the warmest summer in the 1960s, the third warmest in the 1970s and the 4th warmest of the 1980s. This #dataviz shows the summer versus other summers since 1884. #globalwarming

I pressed the govt again this week to drive up new build housing standards: * solar panels on roofs as standard; * high insulation so that all new homes can be warm and affordable to heat. I’m deeply disappointed by the govt’s failure to make any commitments so far.

Has the West Midlands Combined Authority made any developments on the proposed cross city bus lines? The immediate chaos occuring on public transport as soon as term starts is a strong indicator of the need for increased service.

We cannot separate the economy and climate change. Today I tabled an amendment to the Budget Responsibility Bill that would require the OBR to consider the impact of fiscally significant Government decisions on its statutory net zero target.

Britain has only two native oaks. In the San Francisco area of California alone there are nine 😯🌳

Legalise (most) recreational drugs. Regulate them properly. Tax them. Raise money, decimate the criminal gangs, save lives.

Every year Britain's elite flood the countryside with pheasant, breeding around *50 million* of them. Their aggregate biomass is larger than the country's wild birds combined. Many are killed & just left to rot - they aren't even eaten. But don't you dare use a plastic straw!

Next Tuesday, our councillors will debate the road safety emergency. Get in touch with your councillor(s) today, asking them to back the motion - birmingham.gov.uk/wardlookup. Share your experience of the road safety emergency and any feedback about the motion's contents.

We're having a Mass ride for Car free day next Sunday. Collaborating with Better Streets for Birmingham Joining their event at Highgate. 13;00hrs meet on York rd 22nd September For people also on FB here is the link facebook.com/share/udmiahok…

So much cruelty to nature happens not for food or for profit, but because of the amount of land - from private gardens to school grounds to smallholdings - controlled by people who think that scrub is untidy, that invasive rhododendron ponticum is beautiful, that streams should

The Kings Hall Cinema, Corporation St, Birmingham Built in 1897. Became a full time cinema in 1911. Demolished in 1963. 🤦‍♂️ 22,950+ Brummies want The Electric, the UK's oldest cinema, saved from the same dunderheaded obsession with knocking great stuff down for concrete & glass.

Trees bring the seasons into our streets 🏘️🍂🌳 🌄A low Autumnal sun illuminates the mature trees lining this suburban street. Step outside into this glowing cathedral of leaves. Let's celebrate our street trees.

I'm not at at all surprised that so many Londoners back Low Traffic Neighbourhoods. They make our streets safer and more pleasant, and better for pedestrians and cyclists. localgov.co.uk/Londoners-back…

Sometimes as a reporter my job is to talk about what is in plain view but which many don't see. So here's what I saw walking through Birmingham today. The city has a car problem. Thread 1/5

🍂 It's beginning to look a lot like autumn!🍂 Come on an early autumn walk with us to spot nature's first signs of the changing seasons👀 👉 bit.ly/3ztj4kT

Businesses using public land (including parking on footpaths & verges) should be charged rent by the local authority.