Rakes progress
@Rakes_progress
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The art of gardens, plants and flowers. Issue 12 available, issue 13 on pre order - we also publish @RakesSENSE, the Jasmine award winning fragrance magazine.💙
London, UK
Joined March 2016
Chioma Nnadi to replace Edward Enninful as head of British Vogue
theguardian.com
Exclusive: London-born editor of Vogue’s US website to become first Black female head of the fashion title
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Big 4 bank profits were up 700% in first half of this year compared to 2020, so I’ve just asked the Chancellor to introduce a windfall tax on banks’ excess profits, to fund support for households struggling with energy & housing costs If you agree he should please RT! 🙏
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Quite an extra ordinary exchange on Thursday between the MP for Bridgwater and West Somerset @IanLG_MP and @PennyMordaunt Leader of the House of Commons. It's claimed the owners of @SouthWestWater have hired lawyers to "threaten the press and parliamentarians". Oh dear me.🤔
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When you want to go for a Boxing Day swim... but there’s sewage in the water! 😧 💩 🏊 We’ve launched legal action against the Government to make sure water companies clean up their act – and clean up our rivers and coastal waters. Support the cleanup:
crowdjustice.com
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#instagramdown our accounts down on both IG and FB, no way of accessing it. Disappeared completely. Any clues to if it’ll be restored @instagram @Facebook?
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🇨🇳 We’re in Zhoushan! Find us at One Half In (爿旧店), in the evening sun with @pinup_magazine, @zweikommasieben, @Rakes_progress, Present, apartamento, @FjordReview, and more 📚
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.@Rakes_progress is in one sense a gardening magazine, but its approach to flowers is more artistic than practical > https://t.co/Tnh0iDdG7H
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If you like salmon, don't read this: the art duo exposing a booming £1bn market
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Farmed salmon can end up deformed, blind, riddled with sea lice and driven to eat each other. Eco art activists Cooking Sections are highlighting their plight – and getting Tate to change its menus
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We managed to tweet, RT, get everyone talking, looking for #SarahEverard We need to find this young man, his health & safety. For his family. I don't have connections for major RT but let's try. This is my 2nd tweet @metpoliceuk @NHSMillion
@sbattrawden
https://t.co/YRPM7kxaGj
bbc.co.uk
Richard Okorogheye was last seen leaving his family home in west London a week ago.
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Cambridge moonflower: Wait over for 'UK's first' bloom - BBC News
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Government breaks promise to maintain ban on bee-harming pesticide
theguardian.com
Farmers ‘relieved’ as chemical sanctioned for emergency use, despite EU prohibition backed by UK on using it outoors
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Having lived here as a child. This beautiful country is close to my heart. A paradise with an environmental disaster on its hands.Pushing back against the tide: Vanuatu’s climate fight: https://t.co/UL49NZBUmw (@newhumanitarian)
thenewhumanitarian.org
Vanuatu drafts a blueprint for how battered countries might bypass climate inaction, and recoup soaring disaster costs in a warming world.
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I have no idea why anyone who’s give anyone flack unless they were telling an uncomfortable truth. We need to stop using peat in horticulture and then we need the horticulture industry to focus on becoming truly green, sustainable and ecologically responsible
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The next #gmgawards shortlist is for the Beth Chatto environmental award sponsored by @BethChattoGdns
@ITVLaurenHall
@kazzymurphs for @GardenNewsmag
@TheGreenJeanie for @Telegraph
@MarianBoswall for @TEDTalks
@victoriagaiger for @Rakes_progress Good luck everyone
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"In the haptic power of skilfully-crafted objects, there is great knowledge to be found. And with this intelligence comes extraordinary happiness and satisfaction." @TristramHuntVA describes how craft is fundamental to human happiness. Read more here:
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So whilst 30% of land is being promised for nature.........
A 27-acre Kent field being turned into a vast 1,700-space Brexit lorry park. One of many across the UK. Brexit: “They paved paradise and put up a parking lot” Joni Mitchell
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