Not only are orchestra & chorus to be made part-time at Welsh National Opera & two touring venues cut next spring, but now voluntary redundancy has been offered across the rest of the company. How on earth can Arts Council England & Cyngor Celfyddydau Cymru | Arts Council of Wales defend their cuts? And how bad does the… 🧵1/3

Give #Bees a chance
Let your garden grow wild
'Adding plant species - that flower between March and April, like ground ivy, red dead-nettle, maple, cherry, hawthorn or willow, improved survival rate of bee populations from 35% to 100% over 10 years' theconversation.com/early-spring-b…

2019: Theresa May, 'After Brexit our environmental standards will not fall'

2024: Oxford rower Leonard Jenkins, 'A few guys got e.coli.. I was throwing up this morning.. It would have been ideal not to have so much poo in the water'

World famous #TheBoatRace2024 The Boat Race

Sensational from Ebou Adams! 🤤

#DCFC

Stage set for the second performance of my 'You Had It All' with Bath Philharmonia King Edward's School, Bath The Forum, Bath #newmusic #ClimateEmergency

YESSSSSSSSS!!!!!

A 𝐁𝐈𝐆 WIN!!!! 🖤🤍🖤🤍🖤🤍

#DCFC #dcfcfans

Huge thanks to everyone who supported Unite last night & helped raise so much for MovingMountainsTrust. Special thanks to everyone in KES Soul for their excellent premiere of my 'You Had It All' songs King Edward's School, Bath. Next performance Weds 20/03 The Forum, Bath #newmusic #ClimateEmergency

From the edge of extinction Spain and Portugal were able to save the world's most endangered cat from the brink.

We have the solutions. Implement them.

#ActOnClimate #climate #energy #nature #rewilding #GreenNewDeal

This is the River Misbourne, a chalk stream, one of only 225 in the entire world and Thames Water 💧 is filling it with sewage.

And the Environment Agency does what exactly? 🤬🤬 🤬

Since 2010, Anglian Water sanctioned 74 times, £6.2m fine.

Thames Water 98 times, £175m fine.

Yorkshire Water 94 times, £109m fine

Severn Trent 82 times, £5.8m fine.

United Utilities 215 times, £6.6m fine.

Abuses continue. Puny fines don't deter.
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BBC News - World's first year-long breach of key 1.5C warming limit
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The Environment Agency and Defra don’t bother testing England’s rivers for pollution properly. So the anglers have done it. 600 volunteers found our rivers are in a sorry state theguardian.com/environment/20…

Brexit: New report suggests UK £311bn worse off by 2035 due to leaving EU trib.al/bnrKIBR

BBC News - 2023 confirmed as world's hottest year on record
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Huge thanks to all the instrumentalists and singers who premiered my 'Light out of Darkness' so beautifully Bath Abbey yesterday evening #newmusic #choral #Christmas2023 #CarolService

Glorious Bath Abbey looking absolutely stunning during rehearsals of my 'Light Out of Darkness' which premieres this evening #newmusic #carolservice #choral #Christmas2023

Our Christmas concert is tomorrow:
7.30pm, Sunday 10 December at MRMC St Albans
A fab collection of Christmas music including pieces by Mark Boden and James Francis Brown, readings and carols for all – with mince pies after!
Christmas begins here!
Book now: tinyurl.com/yjacmk2a

Six performances in six days including two world premieres:

06/12-09/12 - #worldpremiere Treasure Island, Wroughton Theatre, Bath

10/12 - Dormi Jesu St Albans Choral

12/12 - #worldpremiere Light Out of Darkness Bath Abbey King Edward's School, Bath

#newmusic

Huge thanks BBC Radio 3 for opening Afternoon Concert with the Resonus Classics recording of my #ClarinetConcerto with Robert Plane @bbcphilharmonic #newmusic 😊
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Not long until our Christmas Celebration –
7.30pm on Sunday 10 December at MRMC St Albans
A super collection of Christmas music including recent carols by Mark Boden and James Francis Brown, readings and carols for all. Christmas begins here!
Book now: tinyurl.com/bdev3yz6