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United Kingdom News Beep @[email protected] · 2026-09-13 · 03:00 UTC

Thousands of e-bikes seized in the last year as anger grows over dockless bikes – standard.co.uk

Thousands of e-bikes seized in the last year as anger grows over dockless bikes standard.co.ukThousands of ebikes seized by…
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https://www.newsbeep.com/uk/768923/

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UK @[email protected] · 2026-09-13 · 02:46 UTC

https://www.europesays.com/uk/1201286/ Thousands of e-bikes seized in the last year as anger grows over dockless bikes – standard.co.uk #Business #Campaigners #Councils #eBikes #FreedomOfInformation #Lime #Regulation #RoyalNationalInstituteOfBlindPeople #UK #UnitedKingdom

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Africa @[email protected] · 2026-07-18 · 01:04 UTC

https://www.europesays.com/africa/336310/ Parliament grills Treasury over R13.5bn municipal funding freeze as 27 councils get money back #cogta #councils #DuncanPieterse #EnochGodongwana #eskom #EskomR3 #FinancialAndFiscalCommission #iol #mfma #MPs #MunicipalFinanceManagementAct #MusiMaimane #NationalTreasury #Parliament #R121bn #r110bn #R11813bn #R14521bn #R465bn #R4014bn #r97 #SaLocalGovernmentAssociation #SaRevenueService #SALGA #SongezoZibi #SouthAfrica #VelenkosiniHlabisa #ZweliMkhize

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BellingenNSW @[email protected] · 2026-04-09 · 01:51 UTC

This could happen anywhere in Australia:
Biodiversity conservation going to the dogs

Somewhere in crowded suburbia is a small creek with a bit of bush left behind by accident. It is a refuge for swamp wallabies, blue wrens and many other species of the biodiversity kin.

‘User groups’, that is locals and their dogs demand that the last bit of green is for their ‘recreation’ and not Australian flora and fauna. Pet owners allow that their roaming dogs destroy the last small fragmented refuges where native wildlife can survive.

Recently a council voted to fence dogs out of the park "to manage the growing dog population in the municipality." There are “problems with dog behaviour…They (swamp wallabies) are threatened and chased and killed by dogs.”

Anger and vandalism followed. Local pet owners demand to "make the park off-leash for dogs.” The dispute requires 'conflict experts’ from outside to get involved.

In a place where everything is 'dog friendly’ and where half of Australian households own at least one dog, they implicitly ‘voted with their paws’ to be 'wildlife unfriendly'.

* Conflict experts called in following a dispute over a dog fence in Coburg >>
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2026-04-09/merribek-calls-in-conflict-experts-about-coburg-dog-fence/106541266

* A 'balancing act' as council votes to fence dogs out of park, sparking safety concerns >>
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2025-08-21/merri-creek-dog-fence-swamp-wallaby-coburg-victoria/105675854
#biodiversity #wildlife #conservation #UserGroups #dogs #pets #roaming #DogOwners #TheBush #recreation #parks #FOMC #fences #UrbanEcology #extinction #councils #WildlifeUnfriendly

#biodiversity #wildlife #conservation #usergroups #dogs #pets

Alex@rtnVFRmedia Suffolk UK @[email protected] · 2026-01-11 · 16:53 UTC

As someone who regularly drives in both #Suffolk and #Essex I was surprised at the results as the #roads are little better across the Stour, but I think one reason for the govt allegedly using outdated figures in the case of Suffolk is their systems are from about 25 years ago and give near 0 feedback to any citizen who does report a #pothole (and both #Councils take months or even years to fix them.

Suffolk has got slightly better in recent times (since about 2024) , but they have only just got round to fixing road defects I reported in my local area not long after getting my #driving licence in 2019, so thats 5 years delay!

#RoadSafety #infrastructure #UK

https://www.itv.com/news/anglia/2026-01-11/highways-bosses-question-damning-new-pothole-rating-system

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