You had one job.

Council apologises after ‘unfortunate’ placement of Dead End sign near cemetery

It was originally thought to be the doing of a local prankster

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National Highways have a deeply flawed ‘performance indicator’ for measuring the safety of people travelling along or across the road corridors they manage on foot, by cycle or on horseback transportactionnetwork.org.uk/national-hig...

National Highways must come clean on pedestrian and cycle safety

We recently highlighted National Highways' serious failure to meet its road casualty reduction targets - despite their claim that "safety is our most important commitment”. Worse still is their failur...

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I'm sure everyone knows this is where 'The Prisoner' was filmed. I'm already sketching out a plan to visit it next summer. Along with about half a million other fans marking the 60th anniversary, no doubt.

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Jon Gower tastes the delightful architectural confection of Portmeirion, an Italianate holiday resort in the heart of Meirionnydd wp.me/p8Mk4U-1qgq

Ever get the feeling you're living through the intro sequence to a disaster movie?

Financial Times@financialtimes.com · 8h ago

Breaking news: Scientists in the US have for the first time used artificial intelligence to create viruses unknown in nature, a milestone that promises advances in healthcare but also raises important biosafety and biosecurity concerns. ft.trib.al/Uk6VCRG

For any of my author friends who've ever fretted over a bad review on Goodreads, it could have been a lot worse. While walking through the churchyard in Aberdare this afternoon, I found out that someone really didn't like Turgenev.

What a great show! I'm trying to round up some pals for a trip to Avebury. I haven't been there for years.

British Fantasy Society@britfantasysoc.bsky.social · 13h ago

In his semi-regular column on the classic TV that made us SFFH fans, Gary Couzens revisits a well-loved Folk Horror classic from the seventies (and, incidentally, one of our most-requested shows to revisit in this column!). britishfantasysociety.org/the-tv-that-...

It’s the 88th anniversary today of this immensely enjoyable headline 🧵

'Vertical pints,' eh? And yet the moment you lie on the floor for a horizontal pint they do nothing but complain...

Council wants pubs in London’s Soho and West End to ban standing

Sadiq Khan criticises Westminster council’s ‘anti-growth policies’ after it recommends stopping ‘vertical drinking’

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Fake C, by the sound of it (7)

Oddly enough, when I was a Plaid Cymru member I had to raise concerns about a couple of local election candidates who were sharing inflammatory and *provenly untrue* far-right clickbait via their social media accounts. The then leader didn't have the courtesy to reply. I didn't renew my membership.

NationCymru@nation.cymru · yesterday

NationCymru has found that Reform politicians in Wales are regularly interacting with far-right social media accounts, including amplifying disturbing content and posts that target a prominent female Plaid Cymru figure with abuse✍️ Emily Price

It was always a risk, having Biggins on the show… Natalie Haynes Stands Up for the Classics: Nero, tomorrow at 9am on BBC Radio 4. Behind the scenes of I, Claudius and more… Catch up afterwards on BBC Sounds.

*Schwarzenegger voice* I'll be Vac

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Was talking to spouse last night about how idea of having a relatively stable, decent-paying job was actually a fairly low bar for us to attain, growing up. Now you get one of those and you feel wildly lucky, like you've won the Life Lottery.

I'm enjoying Jason Burke's book 'The Revolutionists', about the radical political activists who were rarely out of the news when I was growing up. Jac, the young lad from Barry who found my phone a few weeks ago, was amazed when I told him aeroplane hijacks weren't something that began with 9/11.

Llanwonno is on fire. Look at how close it is to these houses! Fuck me.

Water is returning to the African Sahel. After the catastrophic droughts of the late 20th century, aquifers from Senegal to Ethiopia are refilling, water tables in Niger have risen four metres, and Lake Chad has swollen to ten times its mid-1980s size. Yale E360 buff.ly/SUrDAnL #ShareGoodNewsToo

After Decades of Drought, Water Is Rising in the African Sahel

Warming has brought extreme rain to the parched Sahel, which is seeing aquifers refill as monsoons grow stronger. But heavier downpours alone cannot explain the groundwater revival, say hydrologists,…

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Today is the 60th anniversary of Revolver's release. The album I grew up with, of course, had the US tracklist and so was missing two of my very favorite Beatles tracks (And Your Bird Can Sing and I'm Only Sleeping). But both versions had this iconic offering, so that's what I'll post:

The Beatles - The Beatles - Eleanor Rigby (From "Yellow Submarine") [Official Music Video]

YouTube video by TheBeatlesVEVO

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When words aren't enough...

Unsolicited writing advice, no. 245: Read outside your comfort zone. If you're writing fiction, try also reading non-fiction: science books, medical journals, political biographies, psychology texts. The more you read outside your genre, the better you'll be within it.

This is a fascinating book. I'm hoping to make it to the signing session in Cardiff next month.

Jonn Elledge@jonnelledge.bsky.social · yesterday

FOR ONE DAY ONLY: A History of the World in 47 Borders is 99p on Kindle and thus, also, elsewhere. Is this a good thing? Shouldn't two years of my life cost more than that? Who can say! Get it while it's cheap! www.amazon.co.uk/History-Worl...

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Young people and students are being urged to take up the offer of a meningitis B vaccination at walk-in clinics being held across Cardiff and the Vale of Glamorgan this month

Walk-in meningitis B vaccination clinics open for young people

Nation.Cymru staff Young people and students are being urged to take up the offer of a meningitis B vaccination at walk-in clinics being held across Cardiff and the Vale of Glamorgan this month. The c...

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This photo was taken 100 yrs ago in August 1926 during the coal strike following the General Strike We see the Quaker Boot Repairing Centre, Rhondda The centre was set up by a group of Quakers in response to the strike, leading to the establishment of the Maes-yr-Haf Settlement at Trealaw in 1927.

Why not enjoy a road trip through southern France? From the new Private Eye, in shops now.

Today, shamefully, government guidance comes into force that trans people should be segregated or forced to use facilities that don't match their lived gender. It's important for businesses and organisations to understand that this is guidance, not a requirement. So don't obey.

The replies to this make for fascinating reading.

BeijingPalmer@beijingpalmer.bsky.social · 2d ago

honestly, the fact that we have made it through the atomic age *without* another use of nuclear weapons since 1945 is a miracle we don't fully appreciate

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Murderous heat, an endangered food supply, decimated landscapes: embrace the Mediterranean life | George Monbiot

As climate disaster stares us in the face, the radical right says ‘Embrace the Mediterranean life’. Embrace death, more like it, says Guardian columnist George Monbiot

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Rainbow over Lindisfarne Castle, Holy Island, Northumberland, photo by Emma Rothera.