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•Iran conflict. You may want to check your nearest best ‘fuel prices’. Also you can use ‘PetrolPrices’ online or via their App.

• Quick Note – November 2025 Budget changes – https://www.bishopfleming.co.uk/insights/autumn-budget-2025-summary-what-you-need-know

•Heat in Work rights in News Feed

•Mossley Farmers Market last Sunday of month, see Events

•Unpaid Carer Workers Rights in News feed

•Record Report Protect in News feed

•Heat at work information in News feed

•Pension pot warning

•Pay Negotiations Update in News feed.

•Welcome Leigh Cleary our full time regional organiser

• Stealth Tax Petition

• GMB PPE Campaign

• Bank Cards Contactless Limit Lifted 19/3

• Social – Stalybridge Street Food Festival April to Nov

• Costco membership staff benefits

• Branch union membership handout/poster Handout v5

• Work cars tax reimbursement change

• Campaign Unsafe School Nursing

• Blue Light Card staff discount

• Eye safety

• Free Death Cover
• 1950’s WASP loss for their campaign continues.
• Report Fraud replaces Action Fraud-See Warnings
• Jess’s Rule for you at your GP practice
• Estate Planning
• Safety-Free full winter car checks at KwikFit
• Your Trade union legal firm UnionLine & Vauxhall Law Centre
• Pay-&-Conditions 26/27
• Health
• Raising Funds- for a Good Cause
• Employment Rights Act
• Schools – Funding & Nursing
• Praised Tameside Employees
• Retiring – Remain a union member one annual payment

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• Warnings – Deep Fakes AND EV car insurance AND Palantir access MHS Data AND Booking.com breach AND Dopamine Agonists drugs behaviour changes AND Gmail auto opt in AI function privacy issue AND 2026 Arsink Malware virus in Apps AND Email checker
• Events – Your vote on Pay AND Branch members meeting 27th May

Some Thoughts This Month For Us All:

Happy August –

The Haze and the Heather

August is the vibrant green of early summer, now deepened into a rich canvas

There is a distinct temperature to August. While it brings the year’s highest sea temperatures and the lingering possibility of sudden, intense heatwaves, the nights begin to pull in just a fraction earlier. You’ll notice the dawn coming a little later, and by mid-month, the evening air carries a faint coolness that wasn’t there in July.

​In the countryside, the landscape begin a spectacular final transformation with the moorlands displaying blankets of purple heather.

Because school is out for the summer, the country throws open its doors. Surrendering to outdoor life, knowing how fleeting it can be. Towns and cities burst into bloom with cultural giants as Edinburgh becoming the undisputed arts capital of the world, while London hosts the vibrant Notting Hill Carnival.

​If our bustling coastlines and attractive locations feel overwhelming, the UK in August also offers areas of tranquility. Across the country, people can take refuge in the shade of ancient woodlands, find quiet riverbanks for late-afternoon picnics, or head to the less-trodden paths all around you, to breathe in that freedom without the crowds.

Formula One Ends Dec

•Summer Bank Holiday 31st. Last one before Christmas •Edinburgh Festival Fringe 7-31st •Notting Hill Carnival: starts 29th

•Southport Airshow 29th-30th •Care of Police Survivors National Arboretum 9th •Commonwealth Games ends 2nd •Formula One through to Dec. 21-23rd •National Eisteddfod (Welsh) Day 1-8th •Sister day 2nd •International Youth Day 12th •V J Day (end of WWII)15th

•Makaton (visual communication) International Awareness Day 28th •National Dog Month •International Peace Month •National Wellness Month •Solar Eclipse