Good story from the FT.

Given all but two companies do have maps of their sewerage infrastructure, it’s not clear to me how Southern Water can suggest it was just too expensive to map?!

Two UK water companies lack complete maps of sewage networks ft.com/content/cdda3b… via @ft

Tonight on BBC The One Show we’re talking treasure with the British Museum. And I get to meet prolific mudlark Caroline Nunneley (check out her IG profile - carolinenunneleymudlark - and you’ll see what I mean!)

Even BBC Countryfile presenters can’t resist a trip to Adam Henson’s Cotswold Farm Park when passing by. Thanks Adam - kids loved it! Your piglets def win the cutest prize. We’ve taken two and left you our boys…

On BBC Countryfile this week we’re looking at the government’s controversial decision to authorise sugar beet farmers to use a banned neonicotinoid pesticide as an ‘emergency’ for the 4th year in a row. This year there’s no such emergency authorisation in the EU. BBC1 shortly…

We’ve all moaned about our wet winter but for many farmers it’s been a disaster - the worst they’ve known. Tonight on BBC The One Show I’m with farmer Tim Scott whose fields have been too wet to sow. Harvests will be down significantly, but what will that mean for us all? 7pm BBC1

On tonight’s @bbctheoneshow we’re talking sewage after a day of shocking headlines. While sewage dumping is all too common, the EA’s monitoring of water quality has massively declined. Which is why rowers & even Olympians are now getting involved! BBC1, 7pm this evening…

IRONIC that poet Simon Armitage has just published a book called #blossimise when the Banksy tree is so blossom-less!
Here are 3 photos - check how full of blossom it was in April 2021 & in 2022. Then now.
This is like clipping a bird's wings. Bad tree practice.
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Interesting piece by Phoebe Cooke. Seems California is next on the list in Drax's push to secure more access to wood to either burn at its power plant in Yorkshire or ship to its customers in Asia...

Shite springs eternal…

Drax admits it's burned 'old-growth' wood at its power station & does not dispute that it's STILL taking logs from old-growth forest in British Columbia. This old-growth in the interior of B.C. (where Drax operates) is primary forest according to the British Columbian government.

The Freshwater Biological Association stands down from the Love Windermere Partnership.
Read our statement here 👇
fba.org.uk/fba-voice/the-…

Join us this Christmas Eve for a BBC Countryfile Cumbrian Christmas. Samantha Kinghorn and I are with #youngfarmer Katie and her lovely family on their farm to get the festivities in full swing… tonight 6pm on BBC1

And after a soggy day of filming pylons in the rain for the One Show (how festive!) that’s a wrap for Christmas. Happy holidays all… 🎄 🎅 🔔 ⛄️

Well played Kings! And particularly Chibundu who cleaned up on the bonus rounds. It was lots of fun (perhaps we were a tad too relaxed?!) as were the drinks on the train after! Thanks for having us Amol Rajan Roger Tilling #XmasUniversityChallenge
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