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East Anglia Bylines @eastangliabylines.co.uk · 7h

New visualisations reveal the serious impact of huge 50-metre pylons across the Essex countryside.

See pictures that show how the landscape will be permanently altered by the Norwich to Tilbury transmission line.

Piers Meyler reports

Visual impact of new Essex pylons is modelled

Visual simulations reveal how new 50-metre pylons could reshape Essex’s countryside – and spark growing local resistance

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East Anglia Bylines @eastangliabylines.co.uk · 7h

£20 million to protect a single stretch of Norfolk coast – or accept that nature will take its course.

There are no easy answers.

Owen Sennitt reports

Norfolk’s vanishing coast and the limits of protection

Norfolk’s crumbling coastline exposes the human cost of climate change – and the painful limits of what councils can do

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East Anglia Bylines @eastangliabylines.co.uk · 15h

How will the new 50-metre pylons change your view? These pylons are much bigger than in the past.

Detailed visualisations are out, showing exactly how this massive project will dominate the Essex landscape.

Take a look ⤵️

Piers Meyler reports

Visual impact of new Essex pylons is modelled

Visual simulations reveal how new 50-metre pylons could reshape Essex’s countryside – and spark growing local resistance

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Norfolk’s crumbling coastline exposes the human cost of climate change – and the painful limits of what councils can do.

By Owen Sennitt, Local Democracy Reporter

Norfolk’s vanishing coast and the limits of protection

Norfolk’s crumbling coastline exposes the human cost of climate change – and the painful limits of what councils can do

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East Anglia Bylines @eastangliabylines.co.uk · 11h

New outlets like East Anglia Bylines show another way, writes Peter Thurlow: no allegiance; no favours; no need to kiss the ring.

Journalism can still fight back.

How deference becomes client journalism in plain sight

We have come through a period of often shameful journalism, bending the knee to Downing Street. Can our journalism recover?

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East Anglia Bylines @eastangliabylines.co.uk · 12h

Letter to the editor | East Anglia Bylines

Letter to the editor: A civilised society does not withhold care based on citizenship

Letter to the editor

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East Anglia Bylines @eastangliabylines.co.uk · 18h

National Grid have published visualisations of how the Essex landscape will appear with the addition of 50-metre pylons.

Local councils say the plans are ‘unacceptable’.

See the article for ‘before and after’ pictures ⬇️

Report by Piers Meyler.

Visual impact of new Essex pylons is modelled

Visual simulations reveal how new 50-metre pylons could reshape Essex’s countryside – and spark growing local resistance

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East Anglia Bylines @eastangliabylines.co.uk · 2d

The Conservative Party which has been the dominant thread in British politics for nearly two hundred years is no more.

This week the One Nation caucus was dissolved.

Pecksniff writes.

Pecksniff: Badenoch brazens out the Tories’ 14 years of failure

In which Mr Pecksniff lays before his readers for their approval certain observations and speculations reflecting on the political life

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Greater Anglia enters public ownership this Sunday, after being named Rail Operator of the Year just days ago.

Can public ownership match that success?

Greater Anglia joins public ownership after record year of performance

Passengers in East Anglia will travel on a publicly owned railway from Sunday, as Greater Anglia transfers to government control

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East Anglia Bylines @eastangliabylines.co.uk · 1d

Boris Johnson broke the news model – smirking as he lied on camera, knowing no journalist would dare call him out.

The joke was on us.

Peter Thurlow reports

How deference becomes client journalism in plain sight

We have come through a period of often shameful journalism, bending the knee to Downing Street. Can our journalism recover?

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East Anglia Bylines @eastangliabylines.co.uk · 1d

Norfolk’s coast is crumbling. As erosion accelerates, local authorities face impossible choices: protect a few homes short-term at great cost, or accept the sea’s advance.

Owen Sennitt reports

Norfolk’s vanishing coast and the limits of protection

Norfolk’s crumbling coastline exposes the human cost of climate change – and the painful limits of what councils can do

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East Anglia Bylines @eastangliabylines.co.uk · 22h

See before-and-after pictures here ⬇️

New visuals show stark impact of 50-metre pylons cutting across Essex countryside for the Norwich-Tilbury pylon line.

The plan faces opposition over landscape damage.

Piers Meyler reports #NationalGrid

Visual impact of new Essex pylons is modelled

Visual simulations reveal how new 50-metre pylons could reshape Essex’s countryside – and spark growing local resistance

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East Anglia Bylines @eastangliabylines.co.uk · 16h

Journalists didn’t set out to become clients of power – they just slipped into it.

Half-truths, soft questions, and silence bought with access.

Peter Thurlow reports

How deference becomes client journalism in plain sight

We have come through a period of often shameful journalism, bending the knee to Downing Street. Can our journalism recover?

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East Anglia Bylines @eastangliabylines.co.uk · 22h

New visuals show the stark impact of 50-metre pylons cutting across the Essex countryside for the Norwich-Tilbury transmission line.

The scheme faces strong opposition over landscape damage.

Piers Meyler reports #NationalGrid

Visual impact of new Essex pylons is modelled

Visual simulations reveal how new 50-metre pylons could reshape Essex’s countryside – and spark growing local resistance

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East Anglia Bylines @eastangliabylines.co.uk · 22h

From Beaulieu Park to Cambridge South, new stations, new trains and now public ownership –

Greater Anglia’s transformation continues.

Greater Anglia joins public ownership after record year of performance

Passengers in East Anglia will travel on a publicly owned railway from Sunday, as Greater Anglia transfers to government control

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East Anglia Bylines @eastangliabylines.co.uk · 21h

Sea defences meant to protect Norfolk’s coast are being dismantled – too dangerous, too costly, and too easily overwhelmed.

Owen Sennitt el at reports

Norfolk’s vanishing coast and the limits of protection

Norfolk’s crumbling coastline exposes the human cost of climate change – and the painful limits of what councils can do

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East Anglia Bylines @eastangliabylines.co.uk · 1d

At last, a step towards peace in Gaza. History shows how fragile such moments can be – and how vital it is not to waste them.

Jacob Ecclestone reflects on the lessons

Warnings from history: Lessons unheeded in the search for peace

As peace talks begin, three historic warnings about Zionism and statehood remind us how fragile peace remains

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* Kemi Badenoch shrugs off 14 years of Tory chaos at conference – where the party’s chocolate can’t spell “Britain”.
* Mel Stride plays to an empty hall.
* The One Nation caucus quietly dies, taking 200 years of pragmatism with it.

Pecksniff reviews the week

Pecksniff: Badenoch brazens out the Tories’ 14 years of failure

In which Mr Pecksniff lays before his readers for their approval certain observations and speculations reflecting on the political life

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East Anglia Bylines @eastangliabylines.co.uk · 1d

Norfolk’s coast is crumbling. As erosion accelerates, local authorities face impossible choices: protect a few homes short-term at great cost, or accept the sea’s advance.

Norfolk’s vanishing coast and the limits of protection

Norfolk’s crumbling coastline exposes the human cost of climate change – and the painful limits of what councils can do

eastangliabylines.co.uk

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East Anglia Bylines @eastangliabylines.co.uk · 10h

In today’s letter to the editor, a reader warns that proposals to deny welfare to EU citizens with Settled Status are not only morally wrong – they’re legally indefensible.

From Camilla Cucinotta

Letter to the editor: A civilised society does not withhold care based on citizenship

Letter to the editor

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East Anglia Bylines @eastangliabylines.co.uk · 11h

National Grid says the 183km pylon route is vital to carry renewable power from offshore wind and solar to London.

But critics argue the effect to Essex’s landscape and heritage is severe.

By Piers Meyler, LDRS

Visual impact of new Essex pylons is modelled

Visual simulations reveal how new 50-metre pylons could reshape Essex’s countryside – and spark growing local resistance

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East Anglia Bylines @eastangliabylines.co.uk · 11h

New outlets like East Anglia Bylines show another way, writes Peter Thurlow: no allegiance; no favours; no need to kiss the ring.

Journalism can still fight back.

How deference becomes client journalism in plain sight

We have come through a period of often shameful journalism, bending the knee to Downing Street. Can our journalism recover?

eastangliabylines.co.uk

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East Anglia Bylines @eastangliabylines.co.uk · 11h

The Shoreline Management Plan sets out which parts of Norfolk will be defended and which will be surrendered to the sea.

Few realise what that really means.

Owen Sennitt reports

Norfolk’s vanishing coast and the limits of protection

Norfolk’s crumbling coastline exposes the human cost of climate change – and the painful limits of what councils can do

eastangliabylines.co.uk

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East Anglia Bylines @eastangliabylines.co.uk · 12h

Letter to the editor | East Anglia Bylines

Letter to the editor: A civilised society does not withhold care based on citizenship

Letter to the editor

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East Anglia Bylines @eastangliabylines.co.uk · 1d

“Auntie BBC” still sees her job as reassurance, not challenge.

But when the news becomes comfort food, who’s left to hold power to account?

Peter Thurlow reports

How deference becomes client journalism in plain sight

We have come through a period of often shameful journalism, bending the knee to Downing Street. Can our journalism recover?

eastangliabylines.co.uk

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