Congratulations to Herefordshire Archives, London Metropolitan University Special Collections & National Waterways Archives for achieving Archive Service Accreditation for the first time! Read more: www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/news/three-a... 📷 National Waterways Archives (1/2)

Three archives gain accredited status for the first time

The Archive Service Accreditation Committee has awarded the coveted accredited status to 3 archives.

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Sometimes, I think perhaps more often with men, there can be a big change from foolish (and sometimes nasty and criminal) young man to responsible mature man. There is often a kind of step change in the 20s. Not saying happened here, no idea either way. #c4news

Oh. What we all love to call a U-turn by Badenoch. #c4news Now, according to her it's all about her judgement.

Cuckoos have had another good breeding season on Barra with at least 18 juveniles recorded so far. #birdingscotland

Ukraine hasn't run out of interceptors, Trump has stopped providing them and, despite his promises, refuses to let Ukraine build them. #c4news

4 players, £11 each an hour. Not exactly extortionate. #c4news

Reference to squash is interesting as in early 80s everyone was building squash courts. #c4news

'Too posh for squash'. Not bad. #c4news chyron for story on padel.

“The true number of sick people in the multistate outbreak is probably higher than the number reported, and the outbreak may not be limited to the states with known illnesses, the CDC has said.” “The sources of other outbreaks have not been identified or tied to Taylor Farms.”

CDC expands largest known cyclosporiasis outbreak to 15 states — The Washington Post

Missouri’s cases jumped dramatically in the past week. It is among six states newly added to an outbreak linked to lettuce from central Mexico, sources say.

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One of those myths about Trump is that he is some sort of free market capitalist. He's cronyist, extortionist interventionist. #c4news

Not surprised about the early, awful harvest. Everything is so dry. #c4news

'Even though a ceasefire supposedly came into force last October, Israel still regularly bombs Gaza... Gazans still live with the presence, not just the memory of war. Another 8,000 people are believed to remain under the rubble.' Lindsey Hilsum #c4news

More Putin's war crimes. #c4news

I have never been to a music festival. #c4news (Just stating as fact, no implication.)

May not be popular: What's the point in locking up sad, inadequate man who is never going to do that again and poses no risk to anyone? And doing so costs even more money. #c4news

These absolute records for heat, sun and rainfall are amazing. #c4news

Farage and his acolytes get aroused at a chance to talk about WW2 and complete when they can talk about using the armed forces as well. #c4news

I have nothing good to say about the wife-beater who mocked #MEcfs patients, so I won't say anything.

Harvard study estimated that there were fewer tongues spoken at the end of that Ice Age than there are today. Number of languages peaked between 1,000 & 3,000 years ago, when the world may have supported tens of thousands of languages (£) www.thetimes.com/uk/science/a... By @kayaburgess.bsky.social

Tens of thousands of languages spoken in ancient times before collapse

A new Harvard study contradicts the previous assumption that languages peaked much earlier, after the last Ice Age

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In pharma, it’s preposterous not to test. In policy, perversely, it’s the reverse. However we do a social media ban, we are experimenting on kids. Surely the least we owe them is to design an experiment that gives results. (£) www.thetimes.com/comment/colu... By @whippletom.bsky.social

Social media ban is an experiment on children: we need results

Imagine if we introduced statins without a trial to see if they worked — or even without defining what ‘worked’ means

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Forty years ago, John Arlott narrated a beautiful short film about village cricket. Specifically, about one village cricket club, Chardstock, in Devon. Its tone was, at once, celebratory and elegiac. (£) www.thetimes.com/sport/cricke... Great article

Retracing Arlott’s footsteps to club that is still village’s beating heart

Chardstock featured in a film by the legendary broadcaster 40 years ago and the same cricket-loving families are keeping its spirit alive amid bucolic splendour

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@maryanabhak.bsky.social Hi, how's it going? May be of interest, concerns a certain football club. justpaste.it/b2hvy

(£) www.thetimes.com/article//art... Thieves. Note as well that the serving staff lose out on any service charge or tip.

Dine and dashers flee seafood restaurant, dodging £600 bill

A group of six ordered lobsters and platters before allegedly leaving the Oyster Shack and refusing to return calls from staff

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Study, in Primates, compiled 427 cases involving 88 primate species & 127 “partner species”. Most common: play and grooming, tho also recorded primates holding, carrying, huddling with and sharing food with animals from other species. (£) www.thetimes.com/uk/science/a... By @rhysblakely.bsky.social

How monkeys offer hand of friendship to other species

There are hundreds of examples of primates playing with, grooming or adopting ‘partner’ animals in its review of friendly social behaviour, a study has found

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How drought records rely on work of pandemic volunteers www.thetimes.com/comment/regi...

From: Kim Jong-un’s shadow looms as missile destroys family in Ukraine (£) www.thetimes.com/world/russia... By @scribblercat.bsky.social Murdered by a perverse alliance of Putin, Kim Jong-un and Trump.

"Scientists discovered and developed the COVID vaccines that brought the pandemic to an end. It’s the anti-vaxxers, not the scientific community, who should stand indicted in the light of 2026." www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...

Anthony Fauci Is Not the Villain in This Story

The doctor was thrust into his pandemic-leadership role because of Trump’s deadly dereliction of duty.

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I remember watching this in the seventies. I was too young to understand properly but it made such an impression on me. Play for Today Series 4: The Cheviot, the Stag and the Black, Black Oil www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/epis... On this evening at 10:20pm BBC 4

Play for Today - Series 4: The Cheviot, the Stag and the Black, Black Oil

The 1974 TV adaptation of John McGrath's iconic 7:84 play about the exploitation of the Scottish people through history, from the aftermath of Culloden to the oil boom.

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I haven't seen the film or read the text, but as someone who visited Greece once, here is my take on The Odyssey: 1/394

Brilliant. World Dog Surfing Championships. #c4news And @jordanjarrettbryan.bsky.social competing to see how many puns he can get in a report.