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🚨📝 New blog post alert 📝🚨

Wondering what happens after you submit your PyCon UK 2025 proposal? 👀

Our latest blog post shares how we review proposals, shortlist talks, and build a diverse and exciting schedule 🎤🧠✨

With so many brilliant ideas to choose from, it’s a tough job! You can read all about our process, from initial review to building the final programme, here: 2025.pyconuk.org/2025/04/propo

🗓️ Reminder: CfP closes on 11th May ⌛

2025.pyconuk.orgSo you've submitted your proposal, what happens next? – PyCon UK 2025PyCon UK Friday 19th September to Monday 22nd September 2025, CONTACT Manchester

Before organizations like the NHS were established after World War Two, back in 1919, the pioneering founders of Combat Stress revolutionized Britain’s approach to mental health care and changed public attitudes along the way.

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Peoples World Book ClubConfronting PTSD with Combat StressIt’s incredible to think, that 2025 marks 106 years since Combat Stress, the UK’s leading charity for veterans’ mental health was founded, ...

#Salford Central station will reopen on Wednesday 23 April following the first phase of a £10m upgrade led by #Transport for Greater #Manchester (TfGM) to improve accessibility and passenger experience. Originally due to reopen on 21 April, the delay allows Northern to complete final safety checks. Closed since 10 February, the station now features a new roof, wider platform 2, upgraded ticket office, improved signage, and information points, with further enhancements—such as accessible toilets and braille maps—planned. Until reopening, valid rail tickets can be used on #BeeNetwork buses between Salford Crescent, Salford Central, and key city centre stations. Additional closures are scheduled for Sunday 27 April and Sunday 4 May, and passengers are advised to plan ahead.
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Platform 2 at Salford Central station has been substantially widened as part of modernisation and improvement works.
Transport for Greater ManchesterPASSENGER UPDATE: Salford Central to re-open on Wednesday, 23 April following completion of first phase of £10m upgrade