REVEALED: Tory operatives are running a network of closed anti-Ulez Facebook groups. We got into 6 groups and found dozens of racist, Islamophobic and violent messages, including virulent abuse of Sadiq Khan.
As we sign off for the year, here’s a thread of our reporting in 2022 🔍
With @TBIJ, we discovered that soya sold in the UK and touted as free-from-deforestation under the landmark Amazon Soy Moratorium was grown on farms that were still tearing down rainforest for cattle and other crops
'The operator is seeking an increase of the regulatory threshold on seismicity before commencing further drilling' — and there you have it, the largest shareholder in the UK's only fracking company has said it will not drill without weaker tremor rules 1/
Last year @UE reported on a letter from the UK's energy minister which said the government were looking to relax the standards after drilling had started 2/ bit.ly/2C6HEIb
Mar 11, 2019 • 6 tweets • 3 min read
Today, at the UK’s High Court, the legal challenges to Heathrow expansion are beginning
It could be a major threat to UK climate targets, so here’s a little tour of our greatest hits on what is already one of the world’s busiest airports...
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First up, the budget for upgrading transport links around the airport. We started digging into it three years ago after the Airports Commission put the price tag at £4.2bn.
But internal docs from TFL revealed they estimated it could cost up to £18bn.
Hey there. 👋 We just spent five months trying to find out who owns the UK's fishing quota. And we found out some pretty wild stuff. This is going to be a thread. 1/
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So it turns out that more than a quarter of the UK’s fishing quota is owned or controlled by five families on the Sunday Times Rich List. 2/
