Rebecka Torvik @rebeckatorvik.bsky.social ☆ Photographer
☆ UK/Norway
☆ linktr.ee/rebeckatorvik
Marc Settle @marcsettle.bsky.social BBC trainer, not journalist — I train BBC staff (& others) how to use phones for newsgathering.
Posts are on mobile journalism, apps, kit, The Wedding Present & Arsenal.
My views ≠ BBC. RT = worth reading. Like = read later. Sharing apps ≠ endorse.
Chris Callow @chriscallow.bsky.social Medievalist at the University of Birmingham, fan of Iceland, Vikings, running and other things
John Schofield Trust @johnschofieldtrust.bsky.social We help aspiring & early-career journalists access & navigate the profession by providing world-class mentoring & training.
https://johnschofieldtrust.org.uk/ 
University of Reading Special Collections @uorspeccoll.bsky.social Sharing treasures from our Special Collections, Rare Books and Archives.
Website: https://collections.reading.ac.uk/special-collections/
Enquiries: specialcollections@reading.ac.uk
Linktree: https://linktr.ee/unirdg_collections
Angry People in Local Newspapers @apiln.bsky.social Angry People in Local Newspapers - Weird news - Bizarre headlines - Wild animals and ghosts which are actually cats - Bonkers billboards. Regret to report that people are still taking this account seriously. Avatar image by @tpneenan.bsky.social.
Mark Savage @mrdiscopop.bsky.social BBC Music correspondent, occasional songwriter. Lady Gaga once told me a story about blueberry coffee that’s unprintable anywhere. 
Alex Taylor @alexjjtaylor.bsky.social Journalist, filmmaker, tortoise-owner.
Director of Michael Rosen Doc
Featured in the Birmingham Dispatch, the Mill, the Fence Magazine
Worked with The Sunday Times
Community Foundation for Shropshire @cfshropshire.bsky.social We are the official community foundation for Staffordshire & Shropshire. This is the Shropshire branch.
Simon Calder @simoncalder.bsky.social Travel news and advice shared here, on TikTok @caldertravel and answering questions at weekends with my 5.30pm UK Instagram Live: http://instagram.com/simon_calder/
I read all relevant posts but cannot reply to everyone.
Nic Wilson @nicwilson.bsky.social Writer, Editor, Guardian Country Diarist. Author of LAND BENEATH THE WAVES (one of BBC Wildlife Best Books of 2025): https://shorturl.at/PFJPF
MA, PGCE, FBNA, Patron #JohnClare Countryside, Trustee of British Naturalists' Assoc. Rep: Joanna Swainson
Dorian Lynskey @dorianlynskey.bsky.social Journalist, podcaster (Origin Story) and author (33 Revolutions Per Minute, The Ministry of Truth, Everything Must Go, Origin Story books). Anti-doomer despite everything. www.dorianlynskey.com
The Shropshire Witches Podcast 🦇 @shropwitchespod.bsky.social History, witches, folklore, hauntings, and all things superstitious, Shropshire and beyond 🔮
Alix Chidley-Uttley and Amy Boucher. 🐸🐈⬛🦇
Nigella Lawson @nigella.bsky.social Just to let you know, there are many, many recipes waiting for you on www.nigella.com
Radio Lento @radiolento.bsky.social #Podcast. Landscape sound postcards in 3D immersive sound. Best with earphones. Listen while reading, resting or being mindful. Launched 2020. #SlowRadio
Listen here > https://radiolento.podbean.com
Support here > https://ko-fi.com/radiolento
Shrewsbury Town OSC @shrewsburytownosc.org This is the Official Bluesky Account of the Shrewsbury Town FC Official Supporters Club http://shrewsburytownosc.org email info@shrewsburytownosc.org
Shrewsbury BID @shrewsburybid.bsky.social We work with local businesses & partners to promote, support & enhance Shrewsbury Town Centre // @OriginalShrews
Ludlow English Song Weekend @ludlowenglishsong.bsky.social A 3 day celebration of art song in English, held every April in the beautiful town of Ludlow in the Shropshire Hills. Artistic Director
@iainburnside.bsky.social
Alex Postlethwaite @alexpostlethwaite.bsky.social Violinist, theremin owner, curry eater, beer drinker and occasional brewer, v amateur astronomer, Atari ST enthusiast, Genesis fan and head of household. Sort of. When the cats are sleeping.🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️
Shropshire Hills Discovery Centre @sh-discoverycentre.bsky.social The perfect place to begin your exploration, or rediscovery, of the Shropshire Hills. We'll give you ideas for places and things to do and see.
Craven Arms, Shropshire, UK
shropshirehillsdiscoverycentre.co.uk
North Shropshire Beekeepers' Association @nsbka.org The North Shropshire Beekeepers' Association was founded on the 23rd August 1945 as a fully affiliated member of the British Beekeepers' Association (BBKA). The aims of the association are, "to encourage and develop the art and science of bee keeping"
Helen Morgan MP @helenmorganlibdem.bsky.social Proud to be the MP for North Shropshire and Lib Dem spokesperson for Health and Care. Promoted by North Shropshire Liberal Democrats at Flat B, The Fighting Cocks, SY11 1QE.
Cllr Rob Wilson 🔶 @robwilson.bsky.social Lib Dem Councillor for Copthorne in Shrewsbury. Shropshire Council Portfolio Holder for Transport & Economic Growth. Leader of Shrewsbury Town Council. Views my own.
Andy Boddington @andybodders.bsky.social Shropshire Councillor for Ludlow North and Liberal Democrat. I'm writing a couple of history books. History so good you don't need fiction. That's a contrast to my councillor life where I am apt to scream "You couldn't make this up!" 
Matthew Green @matthew-green.bsky.social Former LibDem MP for Ludlow, & 2024 General Election candidate for South Shropshire
Director, Green Planning Studio Ltd.
Peter Reavill @peterreavill.bsky.social Landscape archaeologist, prehistorian, and small finds specialist. At home in the Bronze Age, but living in the deep Welsh Marches. HERO for Herefordshire Archaeology.
All views my own
Expert is Reavillnomicism
MᴀᴛᴛA @shropshirematt.bsky.social Ow bist mon? Proud Salopian. Comedy, nature & real ale lover. Oh and I love photography, especially nature, light, and buildings. Keeper of useless facts.
#Shropshire #Salop
Norman Fry, PhD @normfry.bsky.social Rtd Clin Sci UKHSA #PublicHealth #microbiologist #vaccines #diphtheria #pertussis #pneumo Ex-coEiC J Med Microbiol (MicroSoc) Now Co-editor & Director Stretton Focus, Country Escapee #DIY #veg #birds #walking #flautist #Shropshire #QuizzyMonday 💙
Bearwood Parish Council @bearwoodcouncil.bsky.social Official account for Bearwood Parish Council. Not in Birmingham.
Andy Marshall @fotofacade.bsky.social Architectural Photographer on a camper-van-camino. 📸🚐🏛️ 🎨
Architecture, Art, Travel, History, Place, Material Culture, Genius Loci Digest.
Links: https://www.digest.andymarshall.co/andy-marshall-bio/
Digest: https://www.digest.andymarshall.co
Jen Allerton @jenallerton.bsky.social Science and environment communicator, Wildlife Trust youth engagement officer.
Rugby, community, books, coffee, cats, and lesbians 🏉📚☕🐱🏳️🌈
Mark Bolton @clunfarm.bsky.social Small farm and holiday lets in Shropshire. Tokyo resident 2002-2011. Wine-lover, gastronome, architecture/design fan, and sometime London insurance accountant.
Trustee Treasurer at Acton Scott Heritage Farm, home of BBC’s Victorian Farm.
Views all my own.
Kath’s Travels @kathstravels.bsky.social Happiest exploring & travelling (budget not luxury). Love big skies, mountains, sea, sunsets & singing Willie Nelson’s “On the road again”
Normally in #Shrewsbury #Shropshire, if not then you’ll probably find me on a #roadtrip somewhere.
📸 Photos my own.
Phil Pickin @philpickin.co.uk Photographer, features writer & journalist. Working with The BTO, Alamy, Vine House Farm and Bird Watching magazine.
Mel Roxby-Mackey @archaeoborders.bsky.social Archaeologist of borders, working on the Anglo-Cymric borderland and its folklore, digital humanist. Trustee, Offa's Dyke Association. All ops very much my own. archaeoborders.wordpress.com
ShropshireGreenMan @shropshiregreenman.bsky.social Retired manager, now seller of old stuff. Living in Shropshire with a Welsh dragon. Formerly Shropshire Green Man on Twitter. Once a Tory voter but never going back there. Now politically homeless but left leaning.
Rejoin 🇪🇺 Nature🦋 Vegan-ish 🌿 WWFC ⚽️
Jim Hawkins @jimallthetime.bsky.social I’m a good listener. I make Hello You the Shropshire podcast: intelligent, progressive, quirky conversation for Shropshire and the wider world. Ex BBC radio. Event/panel host, photographer, musician, empath, folk festival MC.
Celia Richardson @celiarichardson.bsky.social Tea, scones, independent institutions and why they need looking after. Director of Communications @NationalTrust.bsky.social Trustee, City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra. The posts are just mine.
Cristina Maza @cmaza.bsky.social Journalist. Covering foreign policy & defence. Editing @ Euractiv.
www.cristinamaza.com
Write: https://lazoletters.substack.com/welcome
email:
c.maza@protonmail.com
cristina.maza@euractiv.com
Signal: Cmaza.12
Settled @settled.bsky.social A positive future for EU citizens in the UK. Free multilingual advice for EUSS & Ukrainian visa schemes. New Citizenship Service now available. Visit settled.org.uk now.
Lipotidae (Extinct) @lipotidae.bsky.social Dog slave,ex cat slave to up to 6 at a time. Always tries to be kind except to those who really don't deserve kindness. North Shropshire, England (just).
Helen O'Connor @helenoco.bsky.social Development at Shropshire Wildlife Trust.
Mum. Wife. Happiest outside.
Reading Museum @readingmuseum.bsky.social Posts from Reading Museum. We share stories from the history of the town of Reading, its people, its wildlife, and our collections.
www.readingmuseum.org.uk
NearlyKnowledgeable @g0blinegg.bsky.social Amy
𖦹 Folklorist & Writer 𖦹
Ghostlore ● Witchcraft ● Devil Folklore
Rooted in Shropshire History & Lore 💀
Writer of 'The Best Of Men' -A Shropshire folk horror 🦇
Martin George @jannerbirder.bsky.social Bird nerd, patch worker and BTO surveyor. MSc Ornithology (mostly a seabirds thing). Proud Devonian currently exiled to North Shropshire. I also run the #Shropshirebirds feed.
National Science and Media Museum @mediamuseum.bsky.social Exploring the science and culture of image and sound technologies. Home to @picturevillecinema.bsky.social. Based in Bradford. 🎥
Plan your next visit: scienceandmediamuseum.org.uk
Carl Jones @carljones1.bsky.social Media man - event host, PR consultant, film fan. Editor of www.shropshirebiz.com, presenter on Shropshire Live and BBC Shropshire radio, and occasional broomstick rider.
Jon Bounds - we need action for Palestine 🇵🇸 @bounder.info Marxist with ‘70s sitcom fixation. I once wrote a Twitter panto.
Birmingham: paradisecircus.com BSky: @paradisecircus.com
HHGTTG: btlpodcast.com
Books, other stuff: jonbounds.co.uk
Made @birminghamcity.bsky.social, @11bus.bsky.social
The Museum of English Rural Life (MERL) @themerl.bsky.social We explore the history of the English countryside and its people. Chaotic Good.
https://merl.reading.ac.uk/
Ed Davey @eddavey.libdems.org.uk Leader of @LibDems.org.uk, husband, father, carer, and MP for Kingston & Surbiton.
Promoted by Liberal Democrats, 66 Buckingham Gate, SW1E 6AU.
Jess Phillips @jessphillipsmp.bsky.social MP for Birmingham Yardley
@hookland.bsky.social @hookland.bsky.social Phoenix Guide to Strange England: #Hookland. Run by David Southwell
#Hauntology Re-wilding #Folklore #FolkHorror #Psychogeography #LandscapePunk Re-enchantment Is Resistance https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/1068598123
Kate Innes @kateinnes.bsky.social Writer, trained in Archaeology. Author of Medieval 'Arrowsmith Trilogy’ for adults,& historical fantasy/paranormal adventures for young people.
If it's old, I'm interested.
https://linktr.ee/MindforestBooks
Shrewsbury Morris Dancers @shrewsmorris.bsky.social A friendly #Morris dance team from Shrewsbury, England. We’re fun and we follow positive, hopeful people. 👉No DMs or Llamas please👈 (well, maybe Llamas) 😊 Also still at the other place. Posts by Graydon. We’re 50 this year! shrewsburymorris.co.uk
MOD LANG SHOP LUDLOW / Paul Bradshaw @modlangshop.bsky.social Vinyl Records,cds,books,posters and music memorabilia .
Buying and Selling from an old brick building in Ludlow Shropshire
Modlanguk.com
Nigel Bishop @ashroplad.bsky.social Chief Officer @ Working Together Ludlow - charity supporting people with learning difficulties & disabilities. Views my own.
www.droversloft.co.uk
Profile by @drawnalism.bsky.social
Rhodri Marsden @rhodri.biz Vapid Response Unit. Tired dad. Writer, not always about tech. Gadget editor at ft.com/htsi
Also, multi-faceted musical human. Perform with Scritti Politti, Cardiacs, Lost Crowns, Sweet Billy Pilgrim, Spearmint, others. More info at rhodri.biz
Shroppiemon @shroppiemon.bsky.social A mon in Shropshire. Alus happy to promote our sebunctious county. Chunnerins may induce drowsiness.
Www.Memoriesofshropshire.Co.uk
Jen Heard @jen-heard.bsky.social Nature lover, outdoor enthusiast, hiker, sailor and Mum, supervised by a border collie and three chickens.
Based in N.Shropshire, UK
Sail out of Conwy, N.Wales
Shropshire Wildlife Trust @shropshirewildlife.bsky.social 🌱 The leading charity protecting Shropshire’s wildlife and wild spaces for all.
👇 Join our mission for a wilder Shropshire!
Evan DeSimone @mediaevan.bsky.social Media Writer/Complainer
Previously: Digiday, IntegralAds, Tubefilter, DCNorg
Currently: https://mediahappyhour.substack.com/
@jaguardog.bsky.social @jaguardog.bsky.social Board games, photography, astronomy, running, baking, DIY, 3d printing. The Guardian, Private Eye, New European, Byline Times, Rebecca Watson & Freakonomics. Wild Justice, Greenpeace, Practical Action, National Trust & Family of Hope. Oh and board games.
Vanessa Pearce @nesky999.bsky.social BBC Midlands Today producer by day, Online features writer by night... MoC of WM News Online NUJ chapel. Coffee, cats and Coventry mainly, with a few gigs thrown in.
https://muckrack.com/vanessa-pearce- A Andrew Fusek Peters @andrewfusekpeters.bsky.social Wildlife photographer. OMSYSTEM Ambassador 600 photos in national media including cover shots for the Guardian, the Times, BBC Wildlife magazine and Amateur Photographer. Garden Safari ‘Andrew makes the ordinary look extraordinary.’ Iolo Williams
Megan Stanley @ohitsonlymegan.bsky.social Digital Audience and Content Editor @ Hampshire Chronicle, Basingstoke Gazette, Salisbury Journal and more | Ex HampshireLive
and MyLondon | #CardiffTrained JDF recipient | she/her
emma sherry @emmamegansherry.bsky.social Times Radio
Tim Aviss @timaviss.bsky.social BBC Producer, Long-suffering LUFC fan, Dad
Tom Leaman @tomleaman.bsky.social Press officer, former journalist, runner, Exeter City supporter, Devonian in Salisbury
Kris Tatum @itskristatum.bsky.social Digital Training Manager at Newsquest Media Group 💻 📰 • Love travel 🌍🗺️✈️ • Former Digital Content Editor • Personal account • Views my own
Deb Fielden @debfielden.bsky.social Wildlife rehabilitator and student/volunteer coordinator at Cuan Wildlife Rescue in Shropshire. Previously an early years teacher, consultant, lecturer. Bit of a Wolves fan 🐺
Gemma Parry @gemmaparry4.bsky.social Freelance Journalist and Qualified Mental Health Nurse | Ex BBCWales & WalesOnline NPT reporter | Wales Media Awards Winner | Words MailOnline, Nursing Times & others | #cardifftrained
Swansea via Merthyr Tydfil
Andy Martindale @andymartindale.bsky.social Morning show producer at BBC Radio Shropshire. Spend the majority of my time drinking coffee. Cheering on Portsmouth FC at weekends.
Jon Sopel @jonsopel1.bsky.social Host of daily podcast The News Agents. And author of Strangeland. Available at all good bookshops….
George Herd @georgeherd.bsky.social Journalist living in sight of Yr Wyddfa, post-punk, failed runner, video gaming, tech-tendencies, MW7GEH, and still waiting to grow-up
Matt Chorley @mattchorley.bsky.social 📻BBC Radio 5 Live weekdays 2pm-4pm
🇺🇸Americanswers Mondays BBC Sounds
🎤Stand-up shows coming in 2025
✍️Subscribe to mailing list mattchorley.com
Joshua Stokes @joshuastokes.bsky.social 🇮🇲 Isle of Man Reporter
📺 ITV News
🏆 RTS Emerging Talent 2024
📽 Self-shooter
📧 joshua.stokes@itv.com
Guy Stock @guystock.bsky.social BBC Television Director. Owner of Irish terriers. All my own views. Instagram @GuyStock
🏳️🌈🇬🇧
BJTC Journalism Skills, Training & Standards @bjtc.bsky.social Industry accredited UK journalism courses, skills, HE qualifications & grants. Supported by ITV, BBC, ITN, AP, Global, Bauer, C4, Reuters, Sky & NUJ.
45 years maintaining #journalism standards & training in the UK.
BROADCAST.DIGITAL.ONLINE
bjtc.org.uk
Sam Coates @samcoatessky.bsky.social Deputy Political Editor, Sky News
Co-host Politics at Jack and Sam’s Podcast
Jono Read @jonoread.co.uk 📺 Social media manager | Technology reviewer
👶 Millennial dad | Engaged | Norfolk guy in Yorkshire
📧: jono.read@bbc.co.uk
Amanda Akass @amandaakass.bsky.social Political Correspondent at Sky News 
Simon Blake @simonblake.bsky.social Keeping Hearts pumping for more years than I can remember - but as a radio engineer and not a surgeon!
Hannah Woodward @hannahwoodward.bsky.social Political News Editor @ Sky News| Story? Hannah.Woodward@sky.uk | Cymraes 🏴
Amelia Beckett @ameliabeckett.bsky.social Reporter/presenter @itvcalendar. Former @itvnews trainee. Email: amelia.beckett@itv.com
Leah Boleto @leahboleto.bsky.social Sky News
TVNewsCaps @tvnewscaps100.bsky.social Caps/Tweets of UKTV Newsreaders/Weather/Sports Presenters (Male/Female), Equality Campaigner, Also does Throwbacks! All Caps My Own Unless Stated. #TVNews #KTFC
Lauren McGaun @lauren-mcgaun.bsky.social Producer - BBC Newsnight, Sunday with Laura Kuenssberg & Radio 4. 📺📻
Greg Jenner (Historian) @gregjenner.bsky.social ~Public Historian 📜🤓
~Host & creator BBC YOU’RE DEAD TO ME podcast😆🧐🎙️📻📜🏛️
~ Author of 8 funny books for kids & adults ✍️📚
~ BBC HORRIBLE HISTORIES (2008-19)
📺🤣
~Hon. Dr & Fellow, University of York IPUP 🧑🎓
~Spurs fan #COYS ⚽️
www.gregjenner.com 🧑💻
Jess Jones @jessjoness.bsky.social Rhaenyra Targaryen apologist
Cllr Robert Jones 🔶 @salopianrob.bsky.social Lib Dem Shropshire Councillor for Ruyton and Baschurch, Deputy Portfolio Holder for Transport and Economic Growth. ESL tutor. All views are my own.
Neil Henderson @hendopolis.bsky.social Cat slave and journalist 
Dave Spencer-Barnes 🏳️🌈 @davespenceruk.bsky.social Happily retired maths academic.
Trustee of @baysar.bsky.social in Cumbria.
Made in Lancashire.
Married to @johnbarnes.org
Rory Symon @rorysymonsays.bsky.social I work for The News Agents
Eyebrowstim @eyebrowstim.bsky.social Radio producer who sometimes dabbles in comedy writing. Mostly found at BBC Radio Shropshire.
Lewis Warner @lewiswarner.bsky.social Political Reporter, ITV News Central
Read more: https://www.itv.com/news/meet-the-team/lewis-warner
James Bovill @james-bovill.bsky.social Senior reporter and presenter for the BBC in the Midlands. Proud Brummie. Fan of quizzes, karaoke, tennis, comedy. LGBT+. Send stories to James.bovill@bbc.co.uk
David Gregory-Kumar @drdavidgk.bsky.social Dad. Husband. Reporter. I work for the BBC based out of Birmingham. Focused on Environment/Science & Rural Affairs. Cargo bike rider. PhD/DSc. RTS reporter of the year.
www.bbc.co.uk/davidgregorykumar
Al Jazeera English @aljazeera.com Your story. Your platform. Follow our live coverage on aljazeera.com
Jonathan Vernon-Smith @theofficialjvs.bsky.social Jonathan Vernon-Smith
Broadcaster - BBC 3 Counties Radio & co-host of 'The Luxury Podcast'.
Agent - MPC Entertainment
Instagram: jonathanvernonsmith