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Today marks Metastatic (Secondary) Breast Cancer Awareness Day. And while most breast cancers don’t come back after treatment, it’s important to know the signs and symptoms in case they do.

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Silence from the MP… So strange to be unable to say anything on the increased level of harm to children… Is it #MotorNormativity ?

We’re delighted to announce that we’ve been chosen as the first charity partner to help deliver the Renewed Women’s Health Strategy, working with the Department of Health and Social Care (DHSC).

A small number of angry drivers / pandering politicians had enough incentive to get the council to remove a years-old quiet neighbourhood scheme. The same concentration of power doesn’t exist in the diffuse body of local people who would like not to have overturning SUVs in their street

Today marks the start of Breast Cancer Awareness Month. Whether you're living with breast cancer, adjusting to life after treatment, supporting someone you love, or remembering someone you've lost, we're here for you.

Join us this Breast Cancer Awareness Month for an inspiring evening led by breast surgeon Miss Beatrix Elsberger. Explore the history of breast cancer treatment and the advances shaping care today. www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/breast-can...

They are doing a survey at the Astley Ainslie today and Saturday, counting the number of people who pass through it. If you want to ensure it stays open to the public now and once developed…then do pop by

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New research from Dr Isaac Garcia-Murillas at the Institute of Cancer Research, London has shown that a new type of ‘tissue-free’ blood test could provide a cheaper, more accessible way to predict breast cancer recurrence. breastcancernow.org/about-us/res...

@edinburghcouncil.bsky.social Congratulations for reopening the residential motorway through Cluny. Traffic already shot up! At which point will you wake up???

Happy 'backwards steps' day to all those who celebrate... 🙃

To paraphrase Winston Churchill: "'Never in the field of human conflict was so much time and effort needlessly expended to no avail by so many for the benefit of so few"

This is a direct result of council blunders and a shameful decision of Labour, Lib Dem & Tory councillors to rip these protections out. Kids and other vulnerable road users will be in more road danger as a result. Absolutely shameful.

1000s of parents, carers, and kids, across 6 schools, support these “closures” - the silent majority, busy trying to live their lives The “controversy” has largely been manufactured by the media, a handful of agitators, and some councillors with vested interests

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Meanwhile Edinburgh Council is removing the modal filters that for 5 years have helped keep people safe when using the Greenbank to Meadows Quiet Route. Traffic down 40%, cycling up 160%, ave speeds down to 15mph, lots of people walking, all being risked over a drafting error that they won’t fix!

“Children do not vote, they do not submit objections, […] but they are the people who will be most affected.” Transport committee yesterday failed these kids.

Extremely disappointed the @edinburghgreens.bsky.social addendum on Greenbank-Meadows Quiet Route, which would have preserved the modal filters in the Braid estate, has been voted down 6-5 at committee. Committee has prioritised 'reducing legal risk' over the safety of our kids. 😔

“[Traffic] filters are not a popularity contest, this is about children’s safety. We don’t want to see children put in danger” www.edinburghnews.scotsman.com/news/edinbur...

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For 5 years the Greenbank to Meadows Quiet Route has been a safe route through residential streets and past several schools, but today the pro-car lobby groups might get their way to be able to rat-run through our streets again due to council errors. www.edinburghnews.scotsman.com/news/edinbur...

Tomorrow, Edinburgh council will decide whether to tear up a quiet route for pedestrians, wheelchairs and cyclists which has been in place for five years- why? Read below www.edinburghinquirer.co.uk/p/low-traffi... @edi.bike @spokes.org.uk

Without a doubt, this MUST come back to the Transport Committee and not just be thrown away by TRO Sub. We cannot lose miles of safe route to paperwork incompetence. The south of the city has too little else for safe cycling.

Today is the start of #NationalWalkingMonth 🎉 With every walk and wheel we feel happier, live healthier and help create a greener Scotland. Get inspired at walkingscotland.org.uk

Excellent write-up of the Braid Estate debacle 🧵 Edinburgh’s Transport Ctte calls for permanent Greenbank to Meadows Quiet Route; opponents pressure Council Officers into removing filters anyway Capitulation to loud motoring minority as ‘incorrectly worded’ legal order … edi.bike/articles/202...

🚲 edi.bike | issue 143 | 4th May '26 Council Officers race to ruin the Greenbank to Meadows ‘quiet’ route before TRO Sub can; Voi marking parking zones; PoP26 manifesto and merch; plus events, infrastructure, route closures & more: https://buttondown.com/edi.bike/archive/issue-143-4th-may-26/

We’re currently speechless about the likely loss of a safe route for kids in the Braid Estate When the affluent few can pay a lawyer to find the slightest discrepancy in the paperwork, to kill off a scheme put in place through community action, that is NOT DEMOCRACY!

Are council officers capitulating to the interests of a minority group that didn't even bother to give deputation at Transport Committee, subverting a democratic decision? Because the minority group seem to think so. @stephenjenkinson.bsky.social @dastonsnp.bsky.social @chasbooth.bsky.social

New figures show that almost one million people are living with or beyond breast cancer in the UK. And by 2050 it’s projected to reach over 1.4 million. Behind these figures are too many human lives being touched and ripped apart by this devastating disease.

Today, the transport committee made a big decision about the future of the Quiet Route I’m pleased that we are finally (!) seeing progress which will (hopefully) see the retention of the route with all active travel measures intact 🚲🌳🚶 Read more on my blog 📝: open.substack.com/pub/cllrbenp...

✊ Transport committee votes for Greenbank to Meadows quiet route permanence (‘Option C’) 🥳 Still to be ratified at TRO Sub-committee in June (dare they try it on?) but a significant win for one of the few measures supporting active travel in South Edinburgh. 🚲💕

Powerful deputation at Transport Committee today from a resident of Braids Avenue who is a retired nurse & recently had a stroke so is unable to drive. "The Quiet Route is not a luxury. It's a lifeline." #activetravel

Let’s hope this time the TEC puts the safety of local residents who walk, wheel and cycle in the Braid Estate ahead of the additional 4,000 drivers that were expected to return to our residential streets had the 2024 vote been implemented. It should save £££s too!

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It's clear it must come back - the integrity of the process has been shown to be completely compromised. Key Q now is will Labour reverse its dreadful position of voting with Tories & Lib Dems to rip out measures protecting kids travelling safely to & from school? If they don't this means nowt.

In light of this decision my Transport & Environment Committee will now have to revisit the vote taken on the Braids Estate LTN. www.edinburghnews.scotsman.com/news/two-edi...

It's essential that the decision to rip out the quiet route is now revisited. I have written to senior council officers to request this.

The controversial and surprising vote to remove highly effective traffic calming measures from a residential area and re-introduce up to 6,000 vehicles daily — on a 'quite route' for walking, wheeling and cycling spanning two primary schools — must surely now be revisited at Transport Committee.

This demonstrates that the vote to rip out the modal filters and other active travel measures in the Braid estate was not only unjustifiable, but also arrived at by a tainted process which must now surely be revisited.

Did u know? I read this week that we shouldn't approach gardening as *gardening*, we should consider it as habitat restoration. Nature desperately needs us to bring back meadows,ponds,wildflowers & shelters for small souls that underpin the world we're lucky to call home. Go, restore. 🌿🌱🇬🇧🌱🌍🪲🦋🐛🪰🐦‍⬛🦔🦎🐸

🚲 edi.bike | issue 124 | 22nd Dec '25 TRO Sub pass ‘South area’ travelling safely schemes, make much ado about Rose St; Integrity of vote on Greenbank to Meadows questioned; plus events, infrastructure, route closures & more: https://buttondown.com/edi.bike/archive/edibike-issue-124-22nd-dec-25/

The reporting of this is so bad. It's not the closures that are controversial, it's wasting 400k on a bike lane so that cars can be 2 minutes faster, for about a year until a new equilibrium is found and the times go back to what they were, but with added noise, pollution and danger for residents

🚨Braids Estate update - I believe pausing the implementation of this scheme is the right thing to do at this time. We will have to wait until after the Standards Commission hearing in March before deciding what the next steps are. www.edinburghnews.scotsman.com/news/edinbur...