Journalist/Filmaker/ Trainer. Lives in Greenwich. From up North. Biological Scientist. Trees, Birds and averting climate crisis my thing. Ebike on quiet roads.
@UKLabour
Did no one at U.K. Labour read the IPCC report last week? "Climate activists are sometimes depicted as dangerous radicals. But the truly dangerous radicals are the countries increasing the production of fossil fuels." - U.N. Secretary-General António Guterres, April 2022
One of many drivers on Vanbrugh hill this morning using their mobile while driving on a residential street where 300+ children are walking to school and nursery. Most noticed me filming (waiting for bus delayed by ratrunners shortcutting) this woman was so distracted she didn’t
One of many, many distracted drivers on his mobile on Trafalgar Rd East Greenwich. I, waiting to cross a side road (therefore have right of way …if they understood highway code) am not even seen by drivers tho ostentatiously filming. It is a hostile environment for pedestrians
@BartiSkip
@LouHaigh
Very wise. A few years ago we got our cat Max a toy best described as Road Kill Turkey.. he and our cat Scout fought over, kidnapped and hid Road Kill from each other for 3 solid years until we found the identical toy and gave it to Scout. Both Turkeys untouched ever since
Vanbrugh hill east greenwich 8am today. 300+ children walking to schools/ nurseries.
Lethal fumes, stressed, angry drivers, stationary traffic, buses with essential health /care workers delayed by endless cars. Impatient motorists driving dangerously endangering pedestrians.
‘In the same way the tobacco companies lied to us that tobacco was safe, the scrum of fossil fuel companies and corrupt politicians have been lying to us. They are keeping us addicted to fossil fuels, ‘ Dr Patrick Hart GP who invade the pitch at Twickenham today for
#JustStopOil
💬 Dr Patrick Hart, 37, a GP from Bristol, who took part in the action, said:
“I am doing this because it’s my duty as a doctor. The climate crisis is the greatest health crisis humanity has ever faced. People are dying now and more will die every day unless we stop new oil, gas
Apparently solar panels being fitted at Charlton Lido and along with new eco pumps etc they are aiming to be first carbon neutral Pool in the U.K. plan is to stay fully open this winter with temp set at 22 degrees . Yay
Several more vehicles travelling down Vanburgh hill Greenwich on the wrong side of the road at a blind bend including a taxi a private ambulance and a man who gets out of his car and calls me a C*** several times. Nb my neighbour’s with small children are also filming
Total joke - today physically threatened by a driver who i filmed -he was driving downhill while texting. I approached met police officers (in van) as i was chased by the man who threatened me … their initial reaction - you should not approach or film driver they might be armed
Today we are launching A New Met for London.
It’s our commitment to put communities back at the heart of policing through three priorities:
➡️ Community crime-fighting
➡️ Culture change
➡️ Fixing our foundations
Our mission is to deliver more trust, less crime and high
Drivers ignoring 20mph limit, new keep left signs and island (this one ignored 2 islands) and new highway code regarding pedestrians crossing -when turning right into Hawthorne Crescent.
@averil_lekau
@mtpennycook
@EastGCllrs
@Royal_Greenwich
Shocking disregard for pedestrian safety by ratrunners on Vanbrugh hill this evening. Blocked pedestrian crossing, ignored red lights, overtook into cycle box and as pedestrians tried to weave through them to cross I spotted this guy using both hands to text while moving forward
Vanbrugh hill 7.45 this morning. Children walking to breakfast club. An air pollution hotspot with a secondary school at the top and primaries/nurseries at bottom. Ratrunning traffic queues for the lights from 6.30 am -10.30am. Some disregard safety and are too entitled to queue
Oh we did have one police intervention this morning on Vanburgh Hill Greenwich - I chatted to 2 officers in a police car in the traffic queue but they said road safety not a priority - nothing they could do - too stretched - went on their way ..and then this happened …
@jdpoc
Interesting he was bailed - many environmental and immigration raid protestors have been remanded for really minor offences such as wilful obstruction of highway and for walking slowly with placards …
Black cab taxi driving down Vanbrugh hill this morning while holding his mobile and texting. Caught up with him lower down hill and he argued that he could use his phone while queueing and started to film me - drove off still holding the phone. NB Longer clips have school kids.
#CEEbill
banner in Greenwich ... the bill should have had it’s second reading in parliament today but hey it appears MPs have time to debate outlawing protest and trespass but not tackling the climate and ecological emergency that is happening right now .
@BladeoftheS
If they were a group of peaceful women with placards obstructing no one and expressing concern for their small children’s future …3 van loads of police , arrested under Suella Braverman’s law and bailed prohibiting any protest - 3 court appearances before found not guilty
@UKLabour
Increasing the production of fossil fuels by issuing new licences is exactly what the U.K. government is proposing . Stopping all NEW fossil fuel exploitation (leave it in the ground) is
@JustStop_Oil
s clear demand
Black cab driver really should know better - he’s driving down a densely populated residential area of Greenwich (Vanbrugh hill) where 100s of children live. The road is officially too narrow for a full sized bus - and too narrow for a pedestrian crossing to the station.Reported
Blimey the state of driving on Trafalgar rd East Greenwich. Sat outside a cafe, saw huge numbers of drivers holding and using their mobiles while driving, clearly distracted , on this very busy pedestrian shopping street. This guy is one of about 40 we noticed
@EastGCllrs
Another driver holding and using their mobile on Vanbrugh hill East Greenwich this morning. Van behind was beeping to warn him he was being filmed. Then shouted at me to ‘go to work’ …like people waiting for buses don’t work? Most locals here travel on public transport.
@MPSGreenwich
one of 6 drivers holding mobiles and texting while driving, Vanbrugh hill this morning. The last half dozen i reported to MET ignored - saw this woman driving erratically and as you can see she’s oblivious to me filming - Advice?
@MikeyCycling
The police arrived in numbers today at Vanbrugh Hill, Calvert rd, Annandale. Even though they wore hiviz (great for deterring drivers) they caught lots of drivers -wrong side of the road at speed around blind bends. Residents thrilled to be able to cross the road.
I counted more than 20 drivers texting on mobiles, in slow to medium moving traffic, just while travelling into Greenwich and back to Vanbrugh hill on thursday morning via foot/bus - eg this women was travelling down Trafalgar rd starting and stopping-oblivious of pedestrians
@EveningStandard
Someone should have snitched on this maniac and then maybe my club mate might still be alive, his wife still has a husband and kids a father & his mate not needing round the clock care and treatment for life…But hey, cyclists get your house in order.
@darrengrimes_
Where did Lineker argue ‘border enforcement is like 30s Germany’ that is absolutely NOT what he said. Like holocaust survivor Joan Salter re Braverman he criticised the LANGUAGE the government use as ‘not dissimilar to that used by Germany in the '30s’.. which it clearly is !
@EastGCllrs
@Royal_Greenwich
@mtpennycook
@averil_lekau
What is happening re no overtaking road markings etc on Vanbrugh Hill? Current situation- pedestrians more at risk because vehicles ignoring the new islands cannot see pedestrians crossing
Vanbrugh Hill this morning 8am. The usual idling queueing traffic (15-20 minute wait). The usual buses held up. As usual Dozens of impatient drivers happy to risk pedestrian’s lives to queue jump. West Greenwich LTN removed but ratrunners and pollution as usual here
@DanLThorpe
dangerous driving at bottom of Vanbrugh hill and streets east. Ratrunners, inc trucks, on wrong side of the road are avoiding the lights and pedestrian crossing . They turn right into Hawthorn (do not give way to pedestrians on ice) then push into woolwich rd traffic going west
Condemned trees - 7 large London plane trees near the cycling bridge over the A102, Greenwich peninsula bearing the white cross that means they are soon to be felled to accommodate Silvertown tunnel construction. Trees not mega trucks
#NoToxicTunnel
. Saw 50+ doomed trees today
Vanbrugh Hill East Greenwich this morning - ratrunners short cutting through residential streets where 300+ children walk to school and local people cross to get to maze hill station - despite keep left signs drivers speed down wrong side of the road to do another cut though
@markandcharlie
This crossing in
@Royal_Greenwich
in a 20mph zone between schools has dozens and dozens of drivers every morning approach on wrong side of the road and continue to plough through crossing children and commuters. If you point out they are out of line they swear/vicious threats
One of many many drivers coming down Vanbrugh hill East Greenwich at lunchtime today holding and playing with their phones . As always i’d guessed this one was looking at phone because he was all over the road
@JCDC1988
@ShehabKhan
ECHR has nothing to do with the EU. Conceived by UK, including Churchill who was proud of his work on initial draft, 1st President British, UK 1st to ratify in 1951. If we pulled out and decided brits have no rights we’d be joining Putin’s Russia which was expelled over Ukraine
I went by the recently felled mature trees that have been chopped down for the road expansion on Greenwich peninsula for Silvertown truck tunnel construction . My foot gives you an idea of the scale of these beautiful old trees that were built around for the millennium . Ecocide
Vanbrugh Hill
@Royal_Greenwich
at 8.40 this morning . There were 40+ pedestrians , mainly school children and people with pushchairs and the first 14 vehicles in this queue each had 1 occupant
another selfish nutter today driving a metal killing machine on the wrong side of the road in a 20 mph residential street - Vanburgh hill - they cannot possibly see oncoming vehicles let alone pedestrians and wheelchair users crossing from between cars
@Royal_Greenwich
@carcassone81452
@THEJamesWhale
@metpoliceuk
Bray has been there day in , day out for years - how could Sunak and advisors be so out of touch that they didn’t think of that when they selected the venue ( or checked weather app) NB if you don’t like peaceful protest maybe you should move to a dictatorship ?
Vanbrugh Hill area no better at 5pm on a Saturday - 100s of residents and local shops bombarded by constant ratrunners revving engines , idling for 20min because sat nav misguided them. The ones on wrong side of keep left signs include a BMW well well in excess of 20 speed limit
Counting heavy trucks at Millennium Primary/Nursery and St Mary Magdalene schools this morning. More than 240 large HGVs close passed children between 8-9am. How can we allow this to continue?
@mtpennycook
@SadiqKhan
@Royal_Greenwich
@SilvertownTn
Some drivers on Vanbrugh hill still ignoring keep left islands and pedestrian/wheelchair crossing points. Nb while i was filming far, far more people, including lots of children and teens, were walking than all the occupants of the mainly single occupancy vehicles in the queue
@jonburkeUK
@metpoliceuk
filming Just Stop Oil marches (with press badge) recently, I was horrified at level of aggression from men who felt entitled to commit violent assault on the protestors or those filming. My camera was punched twice (ie my face) in an hour. This guy came out of an office block
Is this what our community is meant to accept…? Ask yourself Who is benefiting from maintaining the car-choked status quo? Why should the health welfare,safety of vast majority of residents and children who are walking or getting public transport to work /school …
Do people really think that this guy, massively speeding and killed a pedestrian on a crossing, deserves just eight months suspended jail - while James Brown an environmental activist and Paralympian got sentenced to 1year in jail for delaying a plane ?
Vanburgh hill Greenwich this morning - I filmed more than 30 vehicles driving down wrong side of the road from a blind bend in a 20mph limit . Lots of aggression today- apparently cars pay road tax (wtf it doesn’t exist) so pedestrians and cyclists have no right to use the road
I spent just a few minutes in Greenwich today and saw 6 cyclists resort to this to get to the N4 cycle route . Still no signs whatsoever for pedestrians or cyclists . Taxi rank still cut off . Come on
@Royal_Greenwich
@DanLThorpe
40% of residents don’t have a car
Vanburgh hill - a fatal accident waiting to happen. Crossing is terrifying due to drivers coming around the blind bend at speed or using the wrong side of the road- like this guy who told me it was allowed because they are
@Royal_Greenwich
security.
@DanLThorpe
in February I photographed the oaks and other trees that were planted on Greenwich peninsula to celebrate the millennium - they bore crosses because the developer wanted to fell them to build an LA style road network to the Silvertown tunnel . Now they are gone
#ScrapSilvertown
Lots of drivers treat slow sections of Trafalgar rd as an opportunity to catch up on texts etc - it is so dangerous. This guy was oblivious to a cyclist and moped plus a pedestrian crossing in front of him . I tried to attract his attention - but he was oblivious so I filmed him
The ‘right to drive’ is treated in British law as the most fundamental right and trumps all else such as the safety and rights of vulnerable road users. Using a car as a weapon is treated with less severity than damaging property. The state of this sentencing ⬇️
Vanbrugh Hill
@Royal_Greenwich
at 8.25 am. This guy’s behaviour is dangerous to other vehicles - keep in mind that there were around 50 children walking to John Roan school at top of the hill. What are you doing to protect us?
@DanLThorpe
@cllrsarahmerril
Vanbrugh hill this morning as 300+ children are making their way to schools at top and bottom of hill on the pavements
@Royal_Greenwich
vehicle on the wrong side of the road having pulled out blind at the already dangerous station wheelchair access.
@DanLThorpe
@MPSPeninsula
@DanLThorpe
@Chris_C_Lloyd
sorry to bang on about this but it is unacceptable that in a pollution hot spot in
@Royal_Greenwich
this is the idling and reckless dangerous driving that 300+ greenwich children face as they walk to school
Blinking heck - most ( yes MOST) drivers on Trafalgar rd and Vanbrugh hill this evening holding and using mobile phones - like the driver of this Mercedes .
@GreenwichMps
@EastGCllrs
@GreenJennyJones
I was there Jenny and they were peaceful… local coffee shop giving free coffee , people offering use of toilets- the whole police response is totally disproportionate . The decision to do this on election day a stunt by the government
He didn’t actually look up until I filmed right around his car and knocked on the window.
@MPSPeninsula
you really need to get your act together and work on preventing a serious accident and allow us to be able to cycle, wheelchair, access public transport above driver privilege
Vanbrugh Hill at 8.50 am
@DanLThorpe
@Chris_C_Lloyd
@Royal_Greenwich
Urgent action is required - you have had months to ‘review’ since 200+ residents wrote to you. The traffic lights at bottom of the hill have been extended so now we are main ratrun
@BladeoftheS
There is also a lot of whooping cough around according to a GP friend - patients not treating it with the complete rest required and expecting to be better in a few days - it can take months
7.5ton+ trucks regularly use Romney rd /trafalgar rd - thee’s been a 7.5ton+ ban for more than 20 years. hard won by local doctors and parents - a public inquiry and a judicial review - due to appalling rates of lung disease in east greenwich children
@Royal_Greenwich
Vanbrugh Hill and the school streets of East Greenwich continue be dominated by ratrunners queueing for hours a day. Nobody benefits from this. 386 bus with hospital /care home workers is delayed. 300+ school /nursery children have to walk or be pushed through this every day.
@Carolyn69816106
@KateEMcCann
Do you live in the UK ?- do you not have neighbours out of work and in danger of losing their homes? - know kids unable to access basic mental health services? - have sick relatives ? Care about the environment and our natural world? Etc
Work started on the Silvertown road tunnel. Residents of Greenwich and Blackheath who are unaware of the location..here it is. Remember that unlike it’s very near neighbour,Blackwall tunnel, this toxic tunnel will take huge trucks. Ask yourself how will they get to the tunnel?
@ChedEfc
@JustStop_Oil
Jailed for breaching an injunction (not one you are necessarily named on) … no funding to fight the fairness or legality of the injunction - these are issued ex parti. No jury or magistrates get to hear your side. I today witnessed the might of Esso against a homeless man at RCJ
Traffic continues worsen week by week on Vanbrugh Hill-a shocking number of drivers now text while driving through streets where 100s of children are walking to and from school and live. This woman didn’t even see me filming
@EastGCllrs
@mtpennycook
@averil_lekau
Vanbrugh hill /Calvert Rd junction at 8am. No problems with the mini but the white Audi has come at speed on the wrong side of the road from a blind bend. Dozens of children were walking to school and nursery. Why is
@Royal_Greenwich
doing nothing
@DanLThorpe
?
@MetroUK
Or he could cancel the £2.2 billion polluting silvertown truck tunnel -that is a Boris Johnson conceived hangover from another age when heavy road freight was a priority and pre findings of Ella Kissi Debrah inquest on impact of air pollution on children
@DJ3370178658
@GreenJennyJones
These people weren’t there to make views known. They were there to stop local asylum seekers, who go to local schools and colleges, from being taken to the Bibby Stockholm and then onto Rwanda flights. They were protecting friends and neighbours from a traumatic government stunt
By 9am, walking away from my destination- Maze hill station - a 4 min detour to avoid being killed by speeding Vanburgh hill traffic if I crossed below the blind bend. This woman decided to avoid the (moving) traffic queue and speeded down the wrong side of the road.
Immigration raid Peckham Police and home office security say the Peckham coach to Bibby Stockholm has been cancelled - but they won’t provide any proof/confirmation. 100s of People are holding the coach here in Peckham until confirmation.
Black Cab ignoring the keep left signage and driving around the wrong side of the pedestrian island. Parents warning kids not to use islands (with dropped curbs) due to drivers behaving dangerously. There is a large secondary school at top of hill and primary/nurseries at bottom
Only photos remain ... it really is scandalous . 100s of semi mature trees were planted at great expense on Greenwich peninsula to celebrate the millennium just 21 years ago. It was supposed to be a mainly traffic free zone. Now a series of LA style highways being constructed
@GiulioFerrini
We haven’t even got safe pedestrian / wheelchair routes in much of Greenwich let alone safe cycling - police warned us cycling not safe around This hill ⬇️ in the east. Ratrunners dominate school streets and neighbourhoods -hours of idling traffic every morning on Vanbrugh Hill
queues of ratrunning traffic on Vanbrugh hill east Greenwich early today. 386 bus delayed at back of queue. Air quality vile. vehicles ignoring keep left signs and cutting into and delaying buses on Woolwich rd. Another driver said she she didn’t see/understand keep left sign
A statement:
The Home Secretary attended an event last night and took questions, including on immigration policy.
Footage of a conversation with a holocaust survivor is circulating online. The video has been heavily edited and doesn’t reflect the full exchange.
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Condemned mature elm by the southbound Blackwall tunnel traffic. This tree is due to be felled to facilitate construction site and building of a flyover as part of the 5 year build of the Silvertown road tunnel which will funnel juggernauts through our community
#TreesNotTrucks