As the economy grows by 0.6%, Rishi Sunak says it'll take time for people to 'really feel better' – but surely there must be one thing he can do right now, that'll make a lot of people really feel a lot better?

🦉We’ve made an egg-citing discovery near Dawlish – a nesting tawny owl!

🦺She set up home beside our team who are drilling nails into the cliff to improve resilience of the railway.

🐣We’ve stopped work close by – and two owlets have hatched. (1/2)

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The cat I planted last year has come up upside down…

It’s hard to believe the living nightmare children have endured for seven months could get worse.

But right now, that’s what’s happening.

Rafah was pounded by air strikes on Monday from Israeli forces.

Families from other parts of #Gaza were originally told to come to #Rafah …

How it started vs How it ended

After 'bitterly disappointing' local election losses, Rishi Sunak declares 'There is work to do' – probably as CEO of an IT consultancy or Californian hedge-fund group in a few months' time

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30 years later, and we can't even connect with Manchester...

Another Conservative leadership contest at this stage of the electoral cycle might not address any of the party's underlying problems, but it would - and I beg Tory MPs not to forget this - be very funny.

I guess you could say it’s past its prime.

You. Don’t. Shovel. While. In. A. Hole.

The A1/A1X 'Terrier' class were designed to haul trains on heavily congested lines, as well as operating through the Thames Tunnel.

Check out the decoration samples of the Isle of Wight No. 10 with its Crimson Lake type of livery!

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#Hornby

That sound you can hear is Londoners breathing a collective sigh of relief.

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🧵'A touch of interest and humanity to the rather severe efficiency of the platform' : the ceramic tile motifs that adorn #London #Underground 's Victoria line stations as seen in the opening brochure from 1969. Unger and Bawden here NUL Transportation

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A gloriously sunny evening and a railway yard full of 1950's Class 101 DMUs. Obviously this called for a photo line up!
Weybourne looking like a BR depot in the mid 60's tonight, with M51188, M51192 and E51228 posed together in the golden evening light. Lovely-jubbly!

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41313 is the service loco today on the IW Steam Railway. Seen here approaching Havenstreet

Boris Johnson, who made the law requiring ID to vote in elections, gets turned away from his polling station for not bringing ID (2024)

Voters at Milton Road Library get to experience the rare sight of voting from the back of a car as we've had problems getting into the building … hopefully we'll be in soon but for now our polling staff are doing a great job ensuring early voters can still cast their vote!