# uks (blogs) — RSS Amplifier Recent posts from the 5 feeds in the RSS Amplifier directory that cover uks. Page: Feed: --- ## ['Beautiful' walk 1 hour from Surrey has castles, charming towns, and idyllic countryside](https://www.getsurrey.co.uk/whats-on/whats-on-news/beautiful-walk-1-hour-surrey-34489900) _2026-08-20 · surreylive@reachplc.com (Zahna Eklund) · Surrey Live - What's On_ One of the South of England's most 'beautiful' walks has been named as a route through a town an hour from Surrey that has castle views and loops through the countryside ## [I found a wonderful garden centre near Surrey with farm shop, café, pond and children's activities](https://www.getsurrey.co.uk/whats-on/family-kids-news/found-wonderful-garden-centre-near-34481079) _2026-08-20 · surreylive@reachplc.com (Laura Nightingale) · Surrey Live - What's On_ You'll also find free parking, a play area and baby changing facilities there ## [Gardeners urged to do simple task to help hedgehogs and birds this month](https://www.getsurrey.co.uk/lifestyle/garden-hedgehogs-birds-august-34484878) _2026-08-20 · surreylive@reachplc.com (Isobel Pankhurst, Emilia Randall) · Surrey Live - What's On_ Wildlife charities are urging gardeners to take one simple daily action to help hedgehogs and garden birds stay safe and well ## [Rare chance to step inside striking Surrey burial monuments normally closed to the public](https://www.getsurrey.co.uk/whats-on/family-kids-news/rare-chance-step-inside-striking-34480984) _2026-08-20 · surreylive@reachplc.com (Laura Nightingale) · Surrey Live - What's On_ They are hidden away at the UK's largest cemetery - and are free to enter ## [Alan Titchmarsh shares 'simplest way' for 'every home' to get around hosepipe ban](https://www.getsurrey.co.uk/lifestyle/how-water-garden-hosepipe-ban-34483474) _2026-08-19 · surreylive@reachplc.com (Mia O'Hare) · Surrey Live - What's On_ Millions of UK homes are currently under a hosepipe ban as the country faces drought ## [I took £10 to a quaint farm shop 14 minutes from Surrey and the bill left me gobsmacked](https://www.getsurrey.co.uk/whats-on/food-drink-news/took-10-quaint-farm-shop-34478006) _2026-08-19 · surreylive@reachplc.com (Laura Nightingale) · Surrey Live - What's On_ I was left speechless at the checkout ## [Chic new wine bar opens in former village pizzeria in Surrey](https://www.getsurrey.co.uk/whats-on/food-drink-news/chic-new-wine-bar-opens-34469996) _2026-08-19 · surreylive@reachplc.com (Laura Nightingale) · Surrey Live - What's On_ Customers can sip on wines from around the world, alongside artisan cheeses and charcuterie ## [Boux Avenue reopens in Guildford's Friary centre following three week refurbishment](https://www.getsurrey.co.uk/whats-on/shopping/boux-avenue-reopens-guildfords-friary-34474831) _2026-08-18 · surreylive@reachplc.com (Laura Nightingale) · Surrey Live - What's On_ The launch day will see complimentary embroidery, expert bra fittings and goody bags for customers ## [Indian restaurant in a little Surrey village named among UK's best in English Curry Awards](https://www.getsurrey.co.uk/whats-on/food-drink-news/indian-restaurant-little-surrey-village-34469062) _2026-08-18 · surreylive@reachplc.com (Laura Nightingale) · Surrey Live - What's On_ The takeaway has been dubbed 'Curry Expert of the Year' ## [New Godalming nursery offers parents 'radically flexible approach to childcare'](https://www.getsurrey.co.uk/whats-on/family-kids-news/new-godalming-nursery-offers-parents-34468912) _2026-08-17 · surreylive@reachplc.com (Laura Nightingale) · Surrey Live - What's On_ The Crèche launches Surrey’s first pay-as-you-go childcare with no minimum commitment, no deposit and no registration fee ## [Trade Smarter With IBKR (Sponsored)](https://crawlproof.com/a/hqaKI2fBvSby) _2026-08-17 · **Sponsored**_ Join Interactive Brokers through a referral and access low-cost global trading. ## [The Week in Energy — 15 August 2026](https://richardlyon.substack.com/p/the-week-in-energy-15-august-2026) _2026-08-15 · Richard Lyon · The State of Britain by Richard Lyon_ The week the state found three new places to put the price of its energy policy — and none of them is a cut. ## [Letters XI: UK AI Edition](https://sotaletters.substack.com/p/letters-xi-uk-ai-edition) _2026-08-14 · SoTA Letters · SoTA Letters_ Frontier UK LLMs; scaling inference; photonic networking; AI research factories; mission-based maths; commercial fusion; biomolecular foundation models. ## [Sovereign AI Starts with Sovereign Infrastructure](https://sotaletters.substack.com/p/sovereign-ai-starts-with-sovereign) _2026-08-14 · SoTA Letters · SoTA Letters_ Why compute, networking, and power — not models alone — will determine which nations can deploy and sustain AI at scale. ## [There Is No AI Race Without an Energy Race Underneath It](https://sotaletters.substack.com/p/there-is-no-ai-race-without-an-energy) _2026-08-14 · SoTA Letters · SoTA Letters_ A frontier GPU cluster is a machine for converting electricity into intelligence—the UK is feeding it some of the most expensive electrons in the developed world. ## [Training a Frontier Sovereign Model on British Soil](https://sotaletters.substack.com/p/training-a-frontier-sovereign-model) _2026-08-14 · SoTA Letters · SoTA Letters_ The UK's critical institutions need frontier models they can run, inspect, and rely on inside their own secure environments. ## [X](https://sotaletters.substack.com/p/dont-build-for-britain) _2026-08-14 · SoTA Letters · SoTA Letters_ Read more ## [The Challenge of Digital Sovereignty](https://sotaletters.substack.com/p/the-challenge-of-digital-sovereignty) _2026-08-12 · SoTA Letters · SoTA Letters_ Optionality and control determine whether an organisation truly commands its own infrastructure. ## [Britain’s Industrial AI Opportunity](https://sotaletters.substack.com/p/britains-industrial-ai-opportunity) _2026-08-12 · SoTA Letters · SoTA Letters_ Capturing, interpreting, and compounding industrial knowledge to restore competitiveness across the UK's diverse manufacturing base ## [Sovereignty on the Next Frontier](https://sotaletters.substack.com/p/sovereignty-on-the-next-frontier) _2026-08-12 · SoTA Letters · SoTA Letters_ The UK can and should lead the coming age of AI-driven scientific discovery. ## [Britain's Sovereign AI Edge Is Scientific](https://sotaletters.substack.com/p/britains-sovereign-ai-edge-is-scientific) _2026-08-12 · SoTA Letters · SoTA Letters_ What moving from policy to Boltz taught me about sovereign AI ## [Countdown to Getting Paid (Sponsored)](https://crawlproof.com/a/L6dgeAGcM587) _2026-08-12 · **Sponsored**_ Create a shareable wallet timer — deposits buy back time and pay debt down ## [Slow, Not Scarce](https://sotaletters.substack.com/p/slow-not-scarce) _2026-08-12 · SoTA Letters · SoTA Letters_ A test for what to build, what to hold, and what to leave alone. ## [Doing your bit in the dark](https://richardlyon.substack.com/p/doing-your-bit-in-the-dark) _2026-08-12 · Richard Lyon · The State of Britain by Richard Lyon_ The moon is now a load-management event. ## [The Week in Energy — 8 August 2026](https://richardlyon.substack.com/p/the-week-in-energy-8-august-2026) _2026-08-08 · Richard Lyon · The State of Britain by Richard Lyon_ The week ‘consumer-led flexibility’ came to mean a licence to switch your appliances off. ## [Flying Blind](https://richardlyon.substack.com/p/flying-blind) _2026-07-29 · Richard Lyon · The State of Britain by Richard Lyon_ Britain’s 2050 electricity system has been modelled, costed and legislated around. Nobody has tested whether it runs. It doesn't. ## [The Week in Energy — 25 July 2026](https://richardlyon.substack.com/p/the-week-in-energy-25-july-2026) _2026-07-25 · Richard Lyon · The State of Britain by Richard Lyon_ £45 off your bill. Nothing off the cost. — A VAT cut that moves money from your bill to your taxes, a storage programme still 'being demonstrated', and a flexibility case DESNZ admits it can't price. ## [Who Investigates the Investigators?](https://richardlyon.substack.com/p/who-investigates-the-investigators) _2026-07-20 · Richard Lyon · The State of Britain by Richard Lyon_ On 23 June, the grid ran hotter than any official statement has admitted. The body now investigating itself is the one that ran it. ## [The £92 Billion Scheme Nobody Remembers](https://richardlyon.substack.com/p/the-92-billion-scheme-nobody-remembers) _2026-07-15 · Richard Lyon · The State of Britain by Richard Lyon_ Part three of a weekly series taking the UK’s energy subsidies apart, one scheme at a time, using the Subsidy Clock. This week: the Renewables Obligation — the biggest bill of all. ## [‘Cheaper Than Gas’, Until You Build It](https://richardlyon.substack.com/p/cheaper-than-gas-until-you-build) _2026-07-08 · Richard Lyon · The State of Britain by Richard Lyon_ Part two of a weekly series taking the UK’s energy subsidies apart, one scheme at a time, using the Subsidy Clock. This week: Contracts for Difference. ## [The end of "studies show"](https://richardlyon.substack.com/p/the-end-of-studies-show) _2026-07-05 · Richard Lyon · The State of Britain by Richard Lyon_ I've built a deterministic simulator of the British electricity system. It replays the last forty years of real weather, half-hour by half-hour, against any grid you care to describe. ## [Why Britain Switches Off Its Wind Farms](https://richardlyon.substack.com/p/why-britain-switches-off-its-wind) _2026-07-01 · Richard Lyon · The State of Britain by Richard Lyon_ Part one of a weekly series taking the UK's energy subsidies apart, one scheme at a time, using the Subsidy Clock. We begin with the strangest of them: the money we pay wind farms to stop generating. ## [Open directory of blogs for agents (Sponsored)](https://crawlproof.com/a/hpLl6HDfjQJE) _2026-07-01 · **Sponsored**_ Submit URLs or OPML; receive feed pages with summaries, plus JSON/OPML/plain text ## [Construction finishes on IN Site's new hub](https://insitemag.substack.com/p/in-site-construction-new-website) _2026-03-06 · Industrial News - Editor · IN Site | Building & Construction magazine_ A new website for a rapidly growing brand. ## [What the UK Net Zero Buildings pilot changes](https://insitemag.substack.com/p/what-uk-net-zero-buildings-standard-pilot-version-1-changes) _2025-12-12 · Industrial News - Editor · IN Site | Building & Construction magazine_ A new findings report from the UK Net Zero Carbon Buildings Standard Pilot sets out how Version 1 will work in practice. ## [Deconstructed: November 2025](https://insitemag.substack.com/p/deconstructed-construction-building-news-analysis-november-2025) _2025-12-05 · Industrial News - Editor · IN Site | Building & Construction magazine_ Policy is leaning hard on construction to carry growth, while the work itself is still going missing. ## [Dogger Bank substations test heavy transport capacity](https://insitemag.substack.com/p/dogger-bank-substations-test-heavy-transport-capacity-mammoet) _2025-12-04 · Industrial News - Editor · IN Site | Building & Construction magazine_ Offshore wind’s rapid expansion is putting pressure on heavy-transport capacity. Mammoet’s handling of Dogger Bank’s 9,000-tonne substations shows how complex these multi-yard moves have become. ## [Autumn Budget turns the screw on UK construction](https://insitemag.substack.com/p/autumn-budget-turns-the-screw-on-uk-construction) _2025-11-27 · Industrial News - Editor · IN Site | Building & Construction magazine_ Tax, wage, and planning changes leave the industry paying more for less. ## [Construction braces for another tight UK Budget](https://insitemag.substack.com/p/uk-construction-braces-for-another-tight-autumn-budget) _2025-11-24 · Industrial News - Editor · IN Site | Building & Construction magazine_ With workloads flat, margins tight, and regulation rising, UK contractors are heading into the Autumn Budget low on confidence. ## [FAQs: Being an American Academic in the UK](https://www.heatherflowe.com/post/faqs-being-an-american-academic-in-the-uk) _2025-11-19 · Heather D. Flowe, PhD · Prof Heather Flowe_ ( From my perspective as an American experimental psychologist who has lived in the UK for 16 years and worked for 3 different universities, researching memory, justice, and humanitarian protection ) I was recently invited by Tiffany Shao, a PhD student at Claremont Graduate University, to take part in a conference symposium at the APS Global Psychological Science Summit 2025, on a panel called… ## [Georgia pilot targets insulation packaging waste](https://insitemag.substack.com/p/georgia-pilot-targets-insulation-packaging-waste) _2025-11-19 · Industrial News - Editor · IN Site | Building & Construction magazine_ A Georgia pilot is testing whether jobsite insulation film can be pulled into a viable take-back and recycling loop before EPR rules force the issue. ## [NZCBS pre-launch update tightens green claims](https://insitemag.substack.com/p/nzcbs-pre-launch-update-tightens-uk-green-building-claims) _2025-11-11 · Industrial News - Editor · IN Site | Building & Construction magazine_ The Standard’s pre-launch update details verification mechanics and timelines. It also positions NZCBS as a route to evidence under the UK’s expanding anti-greenwashing rules. ## [DfT’s £2.7bn write-offs and the pivot to maintenance](https://insitemag.substack.com/p/dfts-27bn-write-offs-and-the-maintenance-pivot) _2025-11-06 · Industrial News - Editor · IN Site | Building & Construction magazine_ A new NAO overview lays out billions sunk into cancelled schemes and a roads strategy that now majors on maintenance and renewals rather than new capacity. ## [Deconstructed: October 2025](https://insitemag.substack.com/p/deconstructed-october-2025-construction-building-news-analysis) _2025-10-31 · Industrial News - Editor · IN Site | Building & Construction magazine_ Big projects stall, rules tighten, and the power race heats up