Really enjoyed it!

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The money already given to the Rwandan govt is £10m more than the combined annual spend of English councils on #museums - that is £189m

Well worth reading theguardian.com/environment/20…

Such a wonderful film

'What is the countryside for?' The more I think about it the more incredibly complicated my thoughts become. Come along and join in the discussion with Julian Glover . @visitdulverton @exmoornationalpark #dulvertonliteraryfestival #Exmoor
visitdulverton.com/dulverton-exmo…

Lots of fun last night at BioFest SheffUniWhatsOn with Tori Herridge - go and visit! player.sheffield.ac.uk/series/biofest

I’m so upset by this graffiti attack on my grandfather’s library. Alfred Wiener had a PhD in Islamic studies and cared deeply about Arab people. To see his Holocaust archive vandalised in this way suggests an attack on Jews not a critique of Israel. It’s dismaying.

Great day out with ⁦Julian Glover⁩ in #Sudbury #Suffolk to see the wonderful ⁦National Lottery Heritage Fund Midlands & East⁩ funded projects ⁦Sudbury Arts Centre⁩ ⁦Churches Conservation Trust⁩ St Peter’s church with a visit to ⁦Gainsborough's House⁩ in the morning. Go visit! ⁦

Exactly right.

Sunak reckons he can cancel HS2 north of Birmingham with a conference speech. The Midland Railway obtained an act to build the Settle and Carlisle line, then changed its mind but was forced to build the line anyway.

This 100per cent. Derbyshire CC leaves a hideous trail of forgotten temporary signs and cones everywhere. Why not recover them?

For anyone trying to decode NPR, TRU, HS3 and more here is a longish read I did on transpennine tunnels and trains prospectmagazine.co.uk/politics/uk/61…

. Buckinghamshire Council approved planning permission today for Motorway Services on land owned by the Council. Mansfield Farm, next to #Iver Environment Centre was brought into public ownership in 1938 to preserve it for the future

A thing of nature, beauty and history destroyed, and with it, the memories of thousands of people who loved that tree and everything it stood for. Shame on whoever did it. National Trust

The sycamore tree on Hadrian’s Wall is as close as our culture got to a sacred tree - venerated, visited, endlessly represented - anachronistic in age weaving Robin Hood and St Oswald and the frontier forts and tribes of the Roman wall - and now felled like the druids’ groves

Today we’re announcing £12.2million to help save the UK's historic buildings! From the only thatched ice house of its kind to the oldest picture house in Northern Ireland, 12 heritage buildings have been awarded a share.

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heritagefund.org.uk/news/ps122mill… (1/7)

But the astonishing, daring variety of 'classical music'. It's like saying someone hates books.