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River guardians do not want bribes that allow Thames Water to keep breaking the law. We want one simple thing: for Thames Water to put spades in the ground & fix every single illegal outfall within the next 5-10 years. A little story to illustrate: 5 years ago I... found an illegal outfall spewing raw sewage (with visible turds) into the Aldersbrook (a tributary of the Roding). The EA refused to prosecute, but I created so much fuss locally about it that eventually I got a visit from Richard Aylard, Thames Water’s ‘Sustainability Director’ who had an unflattering appearance in the recent ‘Dirty Business’ programme. Instead of setting forth a timetable to fix the outfall, Aylard offered the River Roding Trust (the entirely volunteer run charity I founded) £50,000 for “river restoration”. I refused this offer, saying there was no point restoring a brook that still had raw shit going into it. I continued campaigning for another three years: taking numerous journalists to the outfall, getting Thames Water hauled before the local council scrutiny committee & relentlessly calling them out on social media. Eventually, after 4 years, Thames spent £1 million fixing the outfall & the brook is now clean for the first time in decades. I have no doubt that if I hadn’t discovered the outfall in the first place, or if I had taken the £50,000, the outfall would still be putting raw turds into the Aldersbrook, a stone’s throw from Ilford town centre. It’s obvious for Thames that’s it cheaper to pay their critics to keep quiet than to do the work needed to fix the problem, but this is not what our rivers need.show more

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When I smelt the unmistakable smell of sewage whilst out canvassing today, I pulled on my trusty waders & took my testing kit to the suspicious outfall. There, I found the shocking result: off the scale levels of ammonia, meaning that raw sewage was illegally entering the river right next to people’s homes. Just an hour earlier, I had seen literally dozens of Labour Councillors from Barking and Dagenham Council pushing leaflets through doors, none of whom have done anything to try & stop the sewage scandal locally. And local councils have a big role to play in stopping the sewage & protecting the people in their Borough. If elected as a Green councillor in Thames View, Barking, I would walk every river in the Borough & test every suspicious outfall for sewage. I would then bring Thames Water before the council & demand a clear plan to fix every illegal outfall in years, not decades & if they refuse to do so use the council’s powers to prosecute for every single illegal sewage spill in the Borough. Sewage in our rivers is a political choice & the people of Barking & Dagenham shouldn’t have to put up with it any longer.

When I smelt the unmistakable smell of sewage whilst out canvassing today, I pulled on my trusty waders & took my testing kit to the suspicious outfall. There, I found the shocking result: off the scale levels of ammonia, meaning that raw sewage was illegally entering the river right next to people’s homes. Just an hour earlier, I had seen literally dozens of Labour Councillors from Barking and Dagenham Council pushing leaflets through doors, none of whom have done anything to try & stop the sewage scandal locally. And local councils have a big role to play in stopping the sewage & protecting the people in their Borough. If elected as a Green councillor in Thames View, Barking, I would walk every river in the Borough & test every suspicious outfall for sewage. I would then bring Thames Water before the council & demand a clear plan to fix every illegal outfall in years, not decades & if they refuse to do so use the council’s powers to prosecute for every single illegal sewage spill in the Borough. Sewage in our rivers is a political choice & the people of Barking & Dagenham shouldn’t have to put up with it any longer.

Paul Powlesland

32,536 görüntüleme • 1 yıl önce

The sewage crisis laid bare As we’ve been having a wet winter, sewage has been cascading into the River Roding from outfalls everywhere. But one has been discharging for so long (550 hours, or over three weeks) that I thought it was an error with the sensor. I decided to spend my free time on a Saturday night checking it out. It was not hard to find, as the loud noise of rushing water instantly drew me towards the right part of the site. Climbing a fence, I found that the outfall was covered in brambles & fallen trees and hadn’t been inspected in years. There was clearly a fault in the storm tanks which was causing them to spill huge amounts of sewage, even when it wasn’t raining. Even worse, the outfall itself had become clogged with years of debris, so the whole site had been flooded & become a lake of sewage, literally acres in extent. The flow was so intense that it was not possible to fully measure it, but I would estimate it was at least 100 litres a second, likely more. I checked the ammonia levels & it maxed out my checker, so I used a higher range checker which gave an ammonia reading of 27ppm: ie very concentrated sewage. Doing some quick calculations, I discovered that this one spill had poured at least 180,000,000 million litres of concentrated raw sewage straight into the River Roding, putting the health of local people at risk and causing huge ecological damage to the river. It frankly beggars belief that I, as a volunteer in my spare time, was able to discover this serious illegal sewage spill, but at no point has anyone from either Thames Water or the Environment Agency thought to go and investigate the outfall that has apparently been flowing for weeks. The time for talking has ended: we now need change and real action.

The sewage crisis laid bare As we’ve been having a wet winter, sewage has been cascading into the River Roding from outfalls everywhere. But one has been discharging for so long (550 hours, or over three weeks) that I thought it was an error with the sensor. I decided to spend my free time on a Saturday night checking it out. It was not hard to find, as the loud noise of rushing water instantly drew me towards the right part of the site. Climbing a fence, I found that the outfall was covered in brambles & fallen trees and hadn’t been inspected in years. There was clearly a fault in the storm tanks which was causing them to spill huge amounts of sewage, even when it wasn’t raining. Even worse, the outfall itself had become clogged with years of debris, so the whole site had been flooded & become a lake of sewage, literally acres in extent. The flow was so intense that it was not possible to fully measure it, but I would estimate it was at least 100 litres a second, likely more. I checked the ammonia levels & it maxed out my checker, so I used a higher range checker which gave an ammonia reading of 27ppm: ie very concentrated sewage. Doing some quick calculations, I discovered that this one spill had poured at least 180,000,000 million litres of concentrated raw sewage straight into the River Roding, putting the health of local people at risk and causing huge ecological damage to the river. It frankly beggars belief that I, as a volunteer in my spare time, was able to discover this serious illegal sewage spill, but at no point has anyone from either Thames Water or the Environment Agency thought to go and investigate the outfall that has apparently been flowing for weeks. The time for talking has ended: we now need change and real action.

Paul Powlesland

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Hi Wes Streeting. The video below is the Cran Brook, probably the most polluted river in London. It’s a river of raw shit & landfill leachate flowing through *your* constituency. It’s 100% illegal, it goes through a public park and then straight into the River Roding above Ilford town centre. Labour promised to stop the sewage scandal & yet right now this one outfall in your constituency is pouring nearly a billion litres of sewage a year, illegally, into the river. There has been zero prosecutions for illegal sewage dumps on the Roding this century, and Labour has no plan of when this outfall, and the many others like it, are due to be fixed. You are now in power and have free rein to solve this scandal by the end of this Parliament. Are you going to take action, or let the sewage keep flowing?

Hi Wes Streeting. The video below is the Cran Brook, probably the most polluted river in London. It’s a river of raw shit & landfill leachate flowing through your constituency. It’s 100% illegal, it goes through a public park and then straight into the River Roding above Ilford town centre. Labour promised to stop the sewage scandal & yet right now this one outfall in your constituency is pouring nearly a billion litres of sewage a year, illegally, into the river. There has been zero prosecutions for illegal sewage dumps on the Roding this century, and Labour has no plan of when this outfall, and the many others like it, are due to be fixed. You are now in power and have free rein to solve this scandal by the end of this Parliament. Are you going to take action, or let the sewage keep flowing?

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It is almost unbelievable that the government is on the brink of allowing the water companies to scam the British people *once again* by letting them get away with serious criminal offences without any actual plan & commitments for fixing illegal outfalls. I will use one of the most polluting outfalls on the Roding to illustrate why this is a terrible idea. The aptly named ‘Cascades’ combined sewer overflow (CSO) discharges almost every time it rains (even lightly) for more than a few hours. It discharges more than 400 hours per year, the majority of which hours of spilling are completely illegal. Worst of all, my testing of the outfall over the past year has shown that the volume (over 80 litres a second) and concentration (up to 50ppm ammonia) means this CSO is highly damaging, effectively turning the whole river into a sewer for over half a mile downstream. What will be the effect of letting Thames Water off fines for this illegal outfall? 🧵

It is almost unbelievable that the government is on the brink of allowing the water companies to scam the British people once again by letting them get away with serious criminal offences without any actual plan & commitments for fixing illegal outfalls. I will use one of the most polluting outfalls on the Roding to illustrate why this is a terrible idea. The aptly named ‘Cascades’ combined sewer overflow (CSO) discharges almost every time it rains (even lightly) for more than a few hours. It discharges more than 400 hours per year, the majority of which hours of spilling are completely illegal. Worst of all, my testing of the outfall over the past year has shown that the volume (over 80 litres a second) and concentration (up to 50ppm ammonia) means this CSO is highly damaging, effectively turning the whole river into a sewer for over half a mile downstream. What will be the effect of letting Thames Water off fines for this illegal outfall? 🧵

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Charlie Maynard, "Of the £1.4 billion going to Thames Water, £900 million is going out in interest expenses and advisors fees" "So little of this will fix the problem, it's just a fees fest" "Thames Water should be put in special administration, bankruptcy to you and I, so we can drop that debt, and address the real problems in our sewage network"

Charlie Maynard, "Of the £1.4 billion going to Thames Water, £900 million is going out in interest expenses and advisors fees" "So little of this will fix the problem, it's just a fees fest" "Thames Water should be put in special administration, bankruptcy to you and I, so we can drop that debt, and address the real problems in our sewage network"

Farrukh

106,117 görüntüleme • 1 yıl önce

Before & After… If anyone doubts the power of community action over the Environment Agency’s spineless inertia, you can walk to the outskirts of Ilford & walk along an ancient lost river to see for yourself. With 10 days of intense effort by dedicated volunteers, the river River Roding Trust managed to clean up & restore 250 metres of the Aldersbrook (about 1/3 of the brook). This allows a direct comparison between the parts of the brook we restored & those we haven’t got round to yet. These photos & videos are all from May 2026. The first is on a part of the Aldersbrook still to be restored & shows the old flood defences which are no longer needed & are killing the river but which the EA won’t remove unless we volunteers pay them £50,000 just for surveys. These defences have caused 2-3ft of stinking sludge & silt to build up over 70 years, such that the water in the brook is just a few centimetres deep. Combine with huge amounts of rubbish & and out of control knotweed infestation & the river ecosystem is essentially dead. A river that is older than England destroyed by official indifference. A hundred metres away, and it’s a different story. The rubbish & the invasive species (I sprayed the knotweed myself last autumn) are gone. The silt that used to clog the river is now spread on the banks & rapidly providing fertile ground for native plants. Instead of sludge, there’s 2-3ft of water, so fish have returned to the brook for the first time in decades, along with dragon flies, herons & a nesting moorhen. We river guardians knew our intervention would make a difference, but have been shocked at quite how quickly nature has come back. The restored Aldersbrook is now a rare jewel: pretty much the last fully natural tidal brook in London. The EA now has a choice. It can salvage some good from this situation & work with us to restore the remaining sections of the brook, or it can continue to do nothing. If the latter, river guardians *will* be back this winter to finish the job & the EA can see how well prosecuting volunteers for restoring a river without permission goes for them.

Before & After… If anyone doubts the power of community action over the Environment Agency’s spineless inertia, you can walk to the outskirts of Ilford & walk along an ancient lost river to see for yourself. With 10 days of intense effort by dedicated volunteers, the river River Roding Trust managed to clean up & restore 250 metres of the Aldersbrook (about 1/3 of the brook). This allows a direct comparison between the parts of the brook we restored & those we haven’t got round to yet. These photos & videos are all from May 2026. The first is on a part of the Aldersbrook still to be restored & shows the old flood defences which are no longer needed & are killing the river but which the EA won’t remove unless we volunteers pay them £50,000 just for surveys. These defences have caused 2-3ft of stinking sludge & silt to build up over 70 years, such that the water in the brook is just a few centimetres deep. Combine with huge amounts of rubbish & and out of control knotweed infestation & the river ecosystem is essentially dead. A river that is older than England destroyed by official indifference. A hundred metres away, and it’s a different story. The rubbish & the invasive species (I sprayed the knotweed myself last autumn) are gone. The silt that used to clog the river is now spread on the banks & rapidly providing fertile ground for native plants. Instead of sludge, there’s 2-3ft of water, so fish have returned to the brook for the first time in decades, along with dragon flies, herons & a nesting moorhen. We river guardians knew our intervention would make a difference, but have been shocked at quite how quickly nature has come back. The restored Aldersbrook is now a rare jewel: pretty much the last fully natural tidal brook in London. The EA now has a choice. It can salvage some good from this situation & work with us to restore the remaining sections of the brook, or it can continue to do nothing. If the latter, river guardians will be back this winter to finish the job & the EA can see how well prosecuting volunteers for restoring a river without permission goes for them.

Paul Powlesland

450,385 görüntüleme • 1 ay önce

When I first saw the Thames, I remember standing still for a moment. London felt like a city that held centuries of ambition in its walls. When I heard this story about the University of Greenwich, I couldn’t believe it. Until, I stood here. I would say I get why the Queen was upset. Have you been to The Thames? If not, put it on your bucket list for this year.

When I first saw the Thames, I remember standing still for a moment. London felt like a city that held centuries of ambition in its walls. When I heard this story about the University of Greenwich, I couldn’t believe it. Until, I stood here. I would say I get why the Queen was upset. Have you been to The Thames? If not, put it on your bucket list for this year.

Ritesh Agarwal

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Dear Humans… A Letter from the River Roding On the eve of the March for Clean Water, I recorded (with Letters to the Earth ) a letter from the river I love to the human world, imagining what this ancient river would say to us if it could speak. “The most important thing you need to do is to take my voice & intereses into account in all the decisions you make about me. And you need to do this not just because I have an inherent right to exist, and not just because you rely on me for your own existence, but because I believe fundamentally you miss me, the connection we used to have, and the river I used to be.” Looking forward to seeing lots of you who already speak for our rivers at the march tomorrow to make our voices heard.

Dear Humans… A Letter from the River Roding On the eve of the March for Clean Water, I recorded (with Letters to the Earth ) a letter from the river I love to the human world, imagining what this ancient river would say to us if it could speak. “The most important thing you need to do is to take my voice & intereses into account in all the decisions you make about me. And you need to do this not just because I have an inherent right to exist, and not just because you rely on me for your own existence, but because I believe fundamentally you miss me, the connection we used to have, and the river I used to be.” Looking forward to seeing lots of you who already speak for our rivers at the march tomorrow to make our voices heard.

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Britain had a wonder of the world. ⚔️🇬🇧 For 600 years, London Bridge wasn't a bridge. It was a street. A town. A city floating on the Thames. Construction began in 1176 and took 33 years. When it was finished it had 19 stone arches, a drawbridge to let ships through, and a chapel dedicated to Saint Thomas Becket at its heart. The starting point for every pilgrim walking to Canterbury. Then people started building on it. At its peak: 200 buildings. 500 residents. 🏘️ Haberdashers, booksellers, apothecaries, taverns and alehouses open from dawn. The longest inhabited bridge in Europe. You could walk halfway across and never know you were over a river. In 1212, three years after completion, a fire killed thousands on the bridge itself. 🔥 In 1282, five arches collapsed under winter ice. The arches slowed the Thames so much that in hard winters the river froze solid. Londoners held frost fairs on the ice. Bull-baiting. Pop-up taverns. A printing press operating on a frozen river. 🧊 Every time something went wrong, they rebuilt. London Bridge stood for 622 years. Then in 1831 they demolished it. The Victorian replacement lasted barely a century. By the 1960s it was sinking into the Thames. So the City of London sold it to an American for $2.46 million. 💰 He had it dismantled stone by stone and shipped to the Arizona desert. Where it still stands today. 🏜️ Britain had a wonder of the world on the Thames for six hundred years. We sold what replaced it to Arizona. Did they teach you that? We will. 🇬🇧 Proud Of Us is a community of ordinary British people keeping extraordinary British history alive. No ads. No sponsors. Just us. If that matters to you, join us at 🙏 Be part of us. Be Proud Of Us. 🇬🇧

Britain had a wonder of the world. ⚔️🇬🇧 For 600 years, London Bridge wasn't a bridge. It was a street. A town. A city floating on the Thames. Construction began in 1176 and took 33 years. When it was finished it had 19 stone arches, a drawbridge to let ships through, and a chapel dedicated to Saint Thomas Becket at its heart. The starting point for every pilgrim walking to Canterbury. Then people started building on it. At its peak: 200 buildings. 500 residents. 🏘️ Haberdashers, booksellers, apothecaries, taverns and alehouses open from dawn. The longest inhabited bridge in Europe. You could walk halfway across and never know you were over a river. In 1212, three years after completion, a fire killed thousands on the bridge itself. 🔥 In 1282, five arches collapsed under winter ice. The arches slowed the Thames so much that in hard winters the river froze solid. Londoners held frost fairs on the ice. Bull-baiting. Pop-up taverns. A printing press operating on a frozen river. 🧊 Every time something went wrong, they rebuilt. London Bridge stood for 622 years. Then in 1831 they demolished it. The Victorian replacement lasted barely a century. By the 1960s it was sinking into the Thames. So the City of London sold it to an American for $2.46 million. 💰 He had it dismantled stone by stone and shipped to the Arizona desert. Where it still stands today. 🏜️ Britain had a wonder of the world on the Thames for six hundred years. We sold what replaced it to Arizona. Did they teach you that? We will. 🇬🇧 Proud Of Us is a community of ordinary British people keeping extraordinary British history alive. No ads. No sponsors. Just us. If that matters to you, join us at 🙏 Be part of us. Be Proud Of Us. 🇬🇧

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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 CHANEL J12 Boat Race between Oxford and Cambridge affected by raw sewage dumped into the River Thames after the Conservative party promised our environmental standards would not fall after Brexit. Yet it has been the Conservative party who have repeatedly voted to allow water companies to continue to dump raw sewage in our rivers and seas - shame on them, and on anyone who continues to vote for them

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 CHANEL J12 Boat Race between Oxford and Cambridge affected by raw sewage dumped into the River Thames after the Conservative party promised our environmental standards would not fall after Brexit. Yet it has been the Conservative party who have repeatedly voted to allow water companies to continue to dump raw sewage in our rivers and seas - shame on them, and on anyone who continues to vote for them

Farrukh

745,788 görüntüleme • 2 yıl önce

🚨 Thames Water calls it an "isolated spill". We call it what it smells like. 💩💩 Last week, water testing at Fulham Reach Boat Club found E. coli levels more than 58 TIMES higher than the Environment Agency's threshold for safe bathing water. 🤢 Water companies are only supposed to discharge untreated sewage during periods of heavy rainfall. Yet the spills highlighted in this investigation happened during dry weather - raising serious questions about whether the law has been broken. Londoners deserve to enjoy their river without risking their health. Instead, we're seeing the consequences of years of regulatory failure, underinvestment, and a water company that continues to put financial interests ahead of people and the environment. Thames Water is no longer fit to run this essential public service. It's time to place the company into Special Administration so it can be restructured to serve the public interest, protect our rivers, and end the cycle of pollution before profit. #SewageScandal

🚨 Thames Water calls it an "isolated spill". We call it what it smells like. 💩💩 Last week, water testing at Fulham Reach Boat Club found E. coli levels more than 58 TIMES higher than the Environment Agency's threshold for safe bathing water. 🤢 Water companies are only supposed to discharge untreated sewage during periods of heavy rainfall. Yet the spills highlighted in this investigation happened during dry weather - raising serious questions about whether the law has been broken. Londoners deserve to enjoy their river without risking their health. Instead, we're seeing the consequences of years of regulatory failure, underinvestment, and a water company that continues to put financial interests ahead of people and the environment. Thames Water is no longer fit to run this essential public service. It's time to place the company into Special Administration so it can be restructured to serve the public interest, protect our rivers, and end the cycle of pollution before profit. #SewageScandal

RiverActionUK

35,854 görüntüleme • 1 ay önce

Michael Vick says he had $13,000,000 in the bank but still had the hood in him when he got involved in dog fighting “I had $13 million in the bank when I was 25 or 26 years old and didn't know what to do with it” “I went to Arther Blank, I said ‘I don't know what to do with this money. I got everything I want, every car, every house, and there's more coming. I got to protect this now. Introduce me to some people and help me grow this’” “We had a sit down, but it was just a little too late. They took everything from me. That came from my play. I saved everything. I might have spent maybe liquid $2 million” “That had nothing to do with any of my friends. I grew up under that. I grew up seeing that, grew up watching it. I still had the hood in me” “Nobody ever went to prison though. I didn't go to prison for that. I went to prison for interstate commerce. That’s water under the bridge”

Michael Vick says he had $13,000,000 in the bank but still had the hood in him when he got involved in dog fighting “I had $13 million in the bank when I was 25 or 26 years old and didn't know what to do with it” “I went to Arther Blank, I said ‘I don't know what to do with this money. I got everything I want, every car, every house, and there's more coming. I got to protect this now. Introduce me to some people and help me grow this’” “We had a sit down, but it was just a little too late. They took everything from me. That came from my play. I saved everything. I might have spent maybe liquid $2 million” “That had nothing to do with any of my friends. I grew up under that. I grew up seeing that, grew up watching it. I still had the hood in me” “Nobody ever went to prison though. I didn't go to prison for that. I went to prison for interstate commerce. That’s water under the bridge”

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Christopher Nolan reveals the exact shot he had to wait two decades to film after being rejected from the original Troy movie "That's an image that I had had in my head for about 20 years" "I'd been briefly attached to direct Troy, which was David Benioff's script based on the Iliad, and he had included the Trojan horse in that script" "I came up with this idea of the horse kind of sinking into the sand, about to be destroyed by the waves" "sort of the last thing you would imagine was intended to be, you know, dragged into the city" "to see it there, sort of fully realized, the way I... very much the way I'd imagined it all those years ago, and finally get to do that... yeah, that was a special moment" "I felt that sense of privilege as I drove in the morning over the sand dunes on the beach in Morocco for the first day shoot"

Christopher Nolan reveals the exact shot he had to wait two decades to film after being rejected from the original Troy movie "That's an image that I had had in my head for about 20 years" "I'd been briefly attached to direct Troy, which was David Benioff's script based on the Iliad, and he had included the Trojan horse in that script" "I came up with this idea of the horse kind of sinking into the sand, about to be destroyed by the waves" "sort of the last thing you would imagine was intended to be, you know, dragged into the city" "to see it there, sort of fully realized, the way I... very much the way I'd imagined it all those years ago, and finally get to do that... yeah, that was a special moment" "I felt that sense of privilege as I drove in the morning over the sand dunes on the beach in Morocco for the first day shoot"

Rixlerr

879,018 görüntüleme • 22 gün önce

🐱really long ago when i was little, i had memorized piano & then stopped & forgot it, so for about 10 years? i hadn't played. but i still have the muscle memory of playing from long ago, so if i want to play i can memorize. so with that mindset, i was able to do this from the production to the concept. & i thought about what concept would suit this song. & there was a piano, so i also thought i must play the piano, that way it will be cool

🐱really long ago when i was little, i had memorized piano & then stopped & forgot it, so for about 10 years? i hadn't played. but i still have the muscle memory of playing from long ago, so if i want to play i can memorize. so with that mindset, i was able to do this from the production to the concept. & i thought about what concept would suit this song. & there was a piano, so i also thought i must play the piano, that way it will be cool

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Monday morning update: the EA crew last night removed the barrels of oil from the river & installed a boom, which is good. However, the boom appears to be less effective at holding back oil than my home made one, with the current seemingly just pushing the oil underneath & out onto the Roding. Most importantly, I have no idea if the EA have, or intend to, tracked the spill upstream to find the source. And I have no direct way of contacting anyone to find out. So I don’t know if it’s in hand, or if I need to take time off work to do it myself. This shows yet again the need for cooperation & liaising between the EA & local river guardians.

Monday morning update: the EA crew last night removed the barrels of oil from the river & installed a boom, which is good. However, the boom appears to be less effective at holding back oil than my home made one, with the current seemingly just pushing the oil underneath & out onto the Roding. Most importantly, I have no idea if the EA have, or intend to, tracked the spill upstream to find the source. And I have no direct way of contacting anyone to find out. So I don’t know if it’s in hand, or if I need to take time off work to do it myself. This shows yet again the need for cooperation & liaising between the EA & local river guardians.

Paul Powlesland

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Tony Gwynn shares what it took to become one of the greatest hitters of all time and how to master the mental game. "It took me a while to figure it out, but after about 4 or 5 years, I started to realize that this thing was more mental than it was physical." He didn't figure it out alone. "Those first 5 years, I had great conversations with a lot of great players. Pete Rose, Willie Stargell, Henry Aaron, Mike Schmidt. I had a chance to sit down and talk to 'em - pick their brain, find out how they do what they do." The greats learn from the greats. They never stop learning. They never stop wanting to get better. "After about 4 years, I started to realize that this is more mental than physical. So what I need to do is get an approach that I think will work and then just trust the approach. Trust what you practice on. Trust it." That's the key. Create the plan then work the plan. And when it's not working, you still trust yourself. "During the winter, I can hit in a cage and be mechanically sound. But the first time I hit live in spring training, I'll be lucky if I get a ball out of the cage." "For younger guys, that's a sign of, 'Oh, I'm not getting out of the cage,' so they try to speed things up, do things quicker." Trust your approach and stay under control. Don't let frustration change who you are. The game is mental. The greats know that and they learn how to build a process that works for them. They adapt as needed, but they learn the art of focus. Focusing on how to master and trust the process. (🎥Special Collections )

Tony Gwynn shares what it took to become one of the greatest hitters of all time and how to master the mental game. "It took me a while to figure it out, but after about 4 or 5 years, I started to realize that this thing was more mental than it was physical." He didn't figure it out alone. "Those first 5 years, I had great conversations with a lot of great players. Pete Rose, Willie Stargell, Henry Aaron, Mike Schmidt. I had a chance to sit down and talk to 'em - pick their brain, find out how they do what they do." The greats learn from the greats. They never stop learning. They never stop wanting to get better. "After about 4 years, I started to realize that this is more mental than physical. So what I need to do is get an approach that I think will work and then just trust the approach. Trust what you practice on. Trust it." That's the key. Create the plan then work the plan. And when it's not working, you still trust yourself. "During the winter, I can hit in a cage and be mechanically sound. But the first time I hit live in spring training, I'll be lucky if I get a ball out of the cage." "For younger guys, that's a sign of, 'Oh, I'm not getting out of the cage,' so they try to speed things up, do things quicker." Trust your approach and stay under control. Don't let frustration change who you are. The game is mental. The greats know that and they learn how to build a process that works for them. They adapt as needed, but they learn the art of focus. Focusing on how to master and trust the process. (🎥Special Collections )

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🚨 Raw sewage pumped into the Thames. During a record-breaking heatwave. 🤢💩 People should be able to enjoy our rivers without risking their health. Instead testing at Fulham Reach Boat Club this week found 58,000 E. coli per 100ml of river water - 58 times higher than Defra's safe threshold‼️ This is the consequence of years of neglect, broken promises and a water company that has prioritised debt and shareholder returns over protecting people and nature. Our rivers are paying the price. So are all of us. The Government must act NOW: place Thames Water into Special Administration and take this essential public service out of private hands.

🚨 Raw sewage pumped into the Thames. During a record-breaking heatwave. 🤢💩 People should be able to enjoy our rivers without risking their health. Instead testing at Fulham Reach Boat Club this week found 58,000 E. coli per 100ml of river water - 58 times higher than Defra's safe threshold‼️ This is the consequence of years of neglect, broken promises and a water company that has prioritised debt and shareholder returns over protecting people and nature. Our rivers are paying the price. So are all of us. The Government must act NOW: place Thames Water into Special Administration and take this essential public service out of private hands.

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George Lucas on how he had to reluctantly write the screenplay for 'American Graffiti' (1973) & the confidence he gained from the movie's success: "When I was doing 'American Graffiti' (1973) I was still struggling with my ‘I don’t want to be a writer’ syndrome. I had some good friends of mine that I wanted to write the screenplay, but it took me like two years just to get the money to do a screenplay. And I got a little tiny amount of money and—which I had to go actually to the Cannes Film Festival to get on my own. So finally I got this money. I called back and I said, you know, “I got the money. We can start working on the screenplay.” And they said, “Oh, we don’t want to do that now. We’ve got our own low-budget picture off the ground and we can’t write it.” I said, “Oh no.” I said, “What am I going to do? I am in Europe and I’m not going to be back for like three months and I want to get this thing off the ground.” So they recommended another student from school that I knew pretty well. I had a story treatment that laid out the entire story scene by scene, so I called him over the phone from London and I said, “Do you want to do this?” And he said, “Okay.” The person I was working with at that time as a producer made a deal with him for the whole money because there wasn’t very much. It was so tiny that he could only get him to do it for the whole amount of money. When I came back from England, the screenplay was a completely different screenplay from the story treatment. It was more like 'Hot Rods to Hell' (1967). It was very fantasy-like, with playing chicken and things that kids didn’t really do. I wanted something that was more like the way I grew up. So I took that and I said, “Okay. Now here I am. I’ve got a deal to turn in a screenplay. I’ve got a screenplay that is just not the kind of screenplay I want at all and I have no money.” And, I spent the very last money I had saved up to go to Europe to make the deal, so I had nothing. That was a very dark period for me so I sat down myself and wrote the screenplay. After I did 'American Graffiti', and it was successful, it was a big moment for me because I really did sit down with myself and say, “Okay, now I am a director. Now I know I can get a job. I can work in this industry, and apply my trade, and express my ideas on things and be creative in a way that I enjoy. Even if I end up doing TV commercials or something, or I fall back into what I really love is documentaries. I’ll be able to do it. I know I can get a job somewhere. I know I can raise money somewhere. I know I can do what I want to do.” That was a very good feeling. At that point, I’d made it. There wasn’t anything in my life that was going to stop me from making movies." ('‘American Graffiti’ at 52: A Sentimentally Affectionate Look at America Before the Collective Loss of Innocence', Sven Mikulec, Cinephilia & Beyond)

George Lucas on how he had to reluctantly write the screenplay for 'American Graffiti' (1973) & the confidence he gained from the movie's success: "When I was doing 'American Graffiti' (1973) I was still struggling with my ‘I don’t want to be a writer’ syndrome. I had some good friends of mine that I wanted to write the screenplay, but it took me like two years just to get the money to do a screenplay. And I got a little tiny amount of money and—which I had to go actually to the Cannes Film Festival to get on my own. So finally I got this money. I called back and I said, you know, “I got the money. We can start working on the screenplay.” And they said, “Oh, we don’t want to do that now. We’ve got our own low-budget picture off the ground and we can’t write it.” I said, “Oh no.” I said, “What am I going to do? I am in Europe and I’m not going to be back for like three months and I want to get this thing off the ground.” So they recommended another student from school that I knew pretty well. I had a story treatment that laid out the entire story scene by scene, so I called him over the phone from London and I said, “Do you want to do this?” And he said, “Okay.” The person I was working with at that time as a producer made a deal with him for the whole money because there wasn’t very much. It was so tiny that he could only get him to do it for the whole amount of money. When I came back from England, the screenplay was a completely different screenplay from the story treatment. It was more like 'Hot Rods to Hell' (1967). It was very fantasy-like, with playing chicken and things that kids didn’t really do. I wanted something that was more like the way I grew up. So I took that and I said, “Okay. Now here I am. I’ve got a deal to turn in a screenplay. I’ve got a screenplay that is just not the kind of screenplay I want at all and I have no money.” And, I spent the very last money I had saved up to go to Europe to make the deal, so I had nothing. That was a very dark period for me so I sat down myself and wrote the screenplay. After I did 'American Graffiti', and it was successful, it was a big moment for me because I really did sit down with myself and say, “Okay, now I am a director. Now I know I can get a job. I can work in this industry, and apply my trade, and express my ideas on things and be creative in a way that I enjoy. Even if I end up doing TV commercials or something, or I fall back into what I really love is documentaries. I’ll be able to do it. I know I can get a job somewhere. I know I can raise money somewhere. I know I can do what I want to do.” That was a very good feeling. At that point, I’d made it. There wasn’t anything in my life that was going to stop me from making movies." ('‘American Graffiti’ at 52: A Sentimentally Affectionate Look at America Before the Collective Loss of Innocence', Sven Mikulec, Cinephilia & Beyond)

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