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Taking place each October, Black History Month seeks to acknowledge and celebrate the contributions of Black people to British society and globally
Theatre show, history walk and film premiere to mark Black History Month in Preston – Blog Preston
<p>The theme for 2025 is Standing Firm in Power and Pride</p>
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October 10, 2025 at 5:54 PM
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For the first time ever, London has met legal limits for nitrogen dioxide.

When I became Mayor, we were told it would take 193 years. We did it 184 years earlier than expected.

Cleaner air means a healthier city and big savings for the NHS.
October 1, 2025 at 4:52 PM
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Retrospectively removing indefinite leave to remain would be immoral and economically damaging. It would tear families apart.
Attacking it as ‘potentially illegal’ is completely beside the point.
Argue with the (awful) idea. Don’t try ’well, actually you can’t do that’.
September 22, 2025 at 7:10 AM
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For 56 minutes Sky News and BBC News interrupted everything else and carried a Reform UK feed live, uninterrupted, unchallenged. The stream spluttered, froze, pixelated - dozens of times - still they stuck with it. FOR ONE HOUR.

This is an editorial choice. No other party gets this coverage. ~AA
September 22, 2025 at 11:01 AM
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Bear with me, I anticipate your disagreement. There is a clear pattern to the advice given to those who want to press back against rising racism. What it boils down to is that if you point out that racism is often being dressed up as “legitimate concerns” you will alienate people. /1
September 15, 2025 at 4:33 PM
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Put pressure on PLP, other MPs and media team to stop using X, they really shouldn't be and neither should MPs of any political party.
September 13, 2025 at 9:36 PM
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The top story today from @harryfoxdavies.bsky.social @direthoughts.com and @pippacrerar.bsky.social

How the former prime minister has been profiting from contacts and influence he gained in office in a possible breach of ethics and lobbying rules.

www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
Revealed: how Boris Johnson traded PM contacts for global business deals
Exclusive: Leak exposes how former leader has used publicly subsidised office to manage commercial interests
www.theguardian.com
September 8, 2025 at 6:23 PM
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This is the England that I know and love.
I have to confess, it made me tear up a little.
Timeline cleanse
September 3, 2025 at 10:51 PM
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September 1, 2025 at 6:17 PM
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Via Ronald S. on FB.
September 1, 2025 at 6:12 PM
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Play nice, be well
August 29, 2025 at 8:58 PM
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If your concern is that a white person who pleaded guilty received a sentence within the guidelines maybe you *want* two tier justice.
August 24, 2025 at 7:50 AM
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How has 2025 started for Blog Preston? Each quarter we publish a summary of what's been happening as part of our commitment to being a Community Interest Company. So, it's been a busy start to the year with....

➡️Notching up 16 years covering the city
April 8, 2025 at 10:06 AM
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April 5, 2025 at 8:34 PM
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April 6, 2025 at 5:11 PM
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April 6, 2025 at 5:10 PM
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We took over the giant screen at Farage’s big rally in Birmingham
March 28, 2025 at 9:50 PM
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Steve Witkoff, charged by Trump to negotiate world peace, has had an, um, interesting record as a property developer in NY. But he likes Putin so all should be well. My column www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/world/united...
Steve Witkoff’s record should worry us all
The man tasked with negotiating world peace is an old friend and golfing partner of his presidential boss. But when it comes to the most sensitive neg...
www.prospectmagazine.co.uk
March 28, 2025 at 2:54 PM
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Look I have zero excuses for this, but the idea popped into my head and now it's in your head, sorry
March 20, 2025 at 3:39 PM
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This is not only morally reprehensible, but a breach of the UN Refugee Convention.

No refugee should be discriminated against on the basis of how they entered the country

www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
UK to refuse citizenship to refugees who have ‘made a dangerous journey’
Home Office accused of shutting out refugees, as new guidance says those applicants will ‘normally be refused’
www.theguardian.com
February 12, 2025 at 6:48 AM
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We didn't vote for Reform lite. We don't want Reform lite.
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
UK to refuse citizenship to refugees who have ‘made a dangerous journey’
Home Office accused of shutting out refugees, as new guidance says those applicants will ‘normally be refused’
www.theguardian.com
February 12, 2025 at 7:20 AM