Arsenal, one of England’s big football clubs, just donated a pile of their players’ old socks to a horse and donkey sanctuary, and the rescued animals are now wearing them. It works because modern football socks are footless. Players wear separate grip socks on their feet, so the long sleeves get thrown out. That shape turns out to be perfect for sliding onto an animal’s leg, where they keep flies off sore skin, hold bandages in place, and cover the leg while hooves are trimmed. The sanctuary, the biggest of its kind in Britain, says the bright red socks have already cut down on vet visits. The donkeys have also decided they make good toys, and have taken to pulling bananas out of them.

Afghanistan: Two dead after women take part in Herat protest - BBC News bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c992…

Utterly disgusted to see Croudace Homes wilfully clearing mature trees and hedgerows in Shenfield during the height of the breeding season. Century old oaks hosting nesting birds and other wildlife have been felled. We need to place more value on our natural environment.

Starmer's back out moaning about 'blockers' again. So we're going to help councils to get blocking. There is simply no need to build on an inch of green space... Keep an eye out here for our NEW councillor toolkit, coming very soon! @CommunityPlann1

Clarion Housing destroyed an active swift colony by demolishing a building early, breaching the Wildlife and Countryside Act. Tell the Surrey Police crime commissioner to enforce the law 👉surrey-pcc.gov.uk/contact-us… It’s #worldswiftday but no one gives a monkeys.

Natural England wants to remove 90% of Dartmoor’s ponies. Our Exmoor ponies are next. These animals have been here for thousands of years. A government quango, destroying the countryside and its heritage.

This is utterly heartbreaking- what is wrong with developers? The swifts are seen trying to return to their nests and the nests are no longer there theguardian.com/environment/…

My heart is full of love for this. The UK’s first rooftop ICU at King’s College Hospital allows critically ill patients to receive life support outdoors, giving them fresh air, sunlight, and nature to support recovery and wellbeing. Patients reported a 20 percent reduction in pain relief meds required.

Incredibly brave of this woman to give this (anonymous) account of the horrific erosion of women’s’ rights in Iraq ..just appalling ‘My 15-year-old relative was killed for refusing to marry her cousin. My family celebrated by dancing in the street’ theguardian.com/global-devel…

I have to say that when ‘my manor’ parties, we do it in (multicultural) style 😄💕

Chelsea in Bloom!!!🌸🌺🌸

About bloody time! 🦡 bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c172…

Utterly ecocide/ vandalism. When did the U.K. come to hate our nature and wildlife so much? it seems every day brings another horror story of the sort of destruction of historic natural living assets which would have caused outraged newspaper articles just a few short years ago.

Now the plenary session - from a powerful panel of community organisations #DrLouiseHumphries @GyrosOrg and academics - @elenavacchelli & @ChantalRadley3 chaired by #ProfEleonoreKofman of @MiddlesexUni - all partners on @migrefhealth - reflecting on learning from #umignet26

Now we have a fascinating paper from @RimaSaini3105 discussing the ‘racialised right’ ethnic minority centre-> far right politicians. Bordering of perceptions of good/bad Minoritised communities and political elites of migrant heritage. #umignet26 has been so thought provoking

Final panel today before we move to the plenary then working groups/collaboration building activities@ at #umignet26 - great to hear a legal paper from another @migrefhealth colleague @EgleDagilyte wearing a different hat in collaboration with fellow lawyer #sohini_preet

This is important. Our colleague #catherinekennelly of @migrefhealth giving a paper on the experiences of volunteers working to support asylum seekers in the community near large-scale sites/how the hostile environment impacts services & volunteers’ sense of security #umignet26

Next up in the final panel before lunch at #umignet26 our friend and colleague @SueLukes of @migrationwork and @migrefhealth talking about her wealth of experience in local authority politics and setting up the #migrantchampionsnetwork and the breadth of potential activities

Interesting next paper on economic participation of refugees by colleague #drtabishzaman @AngliaRuskin excellent to have a new colleague join our network and present at #umignet26 forte first time

Our own @SMTsegay from @AngliaRuskin presenting at #umignet26 on his important research on migrant led (Eritrean) community organising to support refugees and asylum seekers. Tragically suicides of young asylum seekers in the U.K. increased the urgency for such support activities