Today I saw a kingfisher in the wild for the first time, which is great. Unfortunately I'm a terrible photographer. So here's a really bad picture of a kingfisher.

Comparing his two descriptions is, er, interesting

Not according to him, he later said it was a local support network for black families whose children had additional needs

Jason Arday resigns. Regardless of everything, hard not to feel like he has been repeatedly failed by serial institutions, which failed to instruct him or guide him into reputable academic work, and traded off his story without checking it.

We also found a claim in a webinar that one of his research participants took their own life. This doesn't appear in his studies. He said he could not include everything in the paper, and told us:

Here are some of the research inconsistencies we found, in addition to quote & citation issues found by @retractionwatch.com. Inaccurate participant labelling appears 25+ times in 3 papers. Arday: "It’s more likely that I’ve made a mistake, there’s a clerical error. It’s not that I’ve fabricated.”

He also talked about some of the alleged 'lies' and the issues with his research. He argues that if anyone was subject to such intense, close scrutiny, issues would emerge.

First, the PhD. We've seen the results of Liverpool John Moores' investigation. Arday does not dispute the allegations of plagiarism, but argues there were mitigating circumstances - namely, attacks on black academics and a severe lack of supervision by LJMU. They accept this and clear him.

The exemption list includes basically every normal use for a hosepipe, so you're probably fine www.thameswater.co.uk/help/tempora...

As much as I love a Mediterranean holiday, British seaside parks are not meant to look like southern Italy. One hour of 10% rain forecast tomorrow, then another week of hot sun.

These are the settings I've been using for the date of your image, while the heat signature is interesting it really doesn't capture the dry ground and burn scar as well!

Fires are burning larger, hotter and fiercer. The Peak District blaze has set into the peat, meaning it can smoulder underground and flare up again easily. Severity indexes are off the charts.

Large fires in the Peak District, Cairngorms and north Wales are now effectively competing for limited firefighting helicopter resources. On Saturday, Welsh farmers said they felt abandoned - while authorities had approved helicopter use, they were still waiting for one to be available.

For something to be technically a wildfire, it must reach 1 hectare in size. We counted grass/heath/crop/forest fires that might narrowly miss that distinction but still take huge resources to tackle. This is two weeks of Britain burning:

I'm so glad someone else has found this manifesto. I somehow got recommended their Instagram, which is run by a sex therapist and I guess that explains some of their policies

Lol

How sad. Lord Tony Christopher, an RAF pilot from 1944-1948, lifelong trade unionist and at one point the oldest sitting Parliamentarian, dies age 101.

Signs pointing to a "yes" for question 1

Rachel gives a fantastic summary of what graduates are up against here:

Insane reactions, such as "It's the government's job to make it so I never have to feel tired if I choose to stay up late on a work night"

The kind of analysis all news stories need. Can we get a child to explain this? How about a labrador?

I don't know the Labour PLP well enough, but the angle here makes it look like someone has a floating head

Oil tanker Progress is no longer making any. Stopped of Denmark, no sign on AIS of anyone trying to stop it though...?

Somebody is getting fired at Wowcher www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news...

All of their quotes are superb. I particularly enjoyed Alan insisting it was merely "unusual" and "just one of those things", but that they'd rung up the coastguard to report being shot at/near as a navigational hazard.

"We thought: ‘Well, we better … get on to the coastguard because it’s a hazard of navigation, people shooting people in the Channel.” Yeah, you could probably describe that as a navigational hazard.

NEW: Sailor Alan Kelvey has accused the UK of siding with Russia over the warning shots fired near his boat yesterday. He says: no radio calls, no flares, just a foghorn blast which he responded to by giving them more clearance, and then warning shots. www.thetimes.com/uk/defence/a...

Wow - British couple sailing their yacht Bright Future say they were actively pulling away from the warship when Russia fired on them, and that they had no radio warning, only the foghorn: Great interview: inews.co.uk/news/retired...

Begging all the people outraged about this to read the article, it's nuanced and loving, and includes both mum and daughter's perspective