What can we (all) do?

Appealing for urgent military aid for Ukraine, Mr Tusk warned the next two years of the war would decide everything, adding: "We are living in the most critical moment since the end of the Second World War."

Mr Halfon's resignation as skills, apprenticeships and higher education minister, was unexpected but his letter to the prime minister was warm, saying he believed there was "quiet admiration" for Mr Sunak across the country.

The firm is currently trying to buy Virgin Money in a £2.9bn deal which would create the UK's second largest mortgage and savings group.

imo since the split of the GPO into 3 separate organisations, greed & incompetence

Right, that's two of them, what's the name of the third?

Safety is our number one priority.
A temporary 40mph limit was introduced due to ongoing surface water flooding.
Transport for London

TfL has said the 50mph sign was put up by a third party - it has since been replaced with the correct signage and TfL is investigating how the unauthorised sign was put up.

The company was paid £850,000 a year to provide data used for prosecutions and further funds for the provision of witnesses.

The chief executive of the Post Office, Nick Read, admitted it is possible some of the victims' money which vanished from the accounts of branch managers could have ended up in the 'hefty numeration packages for executives'

Now he's pulling the same stunt with pensioners. Another 650,000 retirees will be at the sharp end of this in April. I wonder who they'll be voting for at the upcoming election. Nine million tax-paying pensioners spells double trouble for the Tories.

I will add one more: it is high-time HMRC was brought to heel. It is a wild west government department that is laughing in the face of Ministers, its arrogant incompetence wre
aking havoc across the country, whilst enjoying absolute impunity. Enough is enough.

The Post Office may have underpaid more than £100m in tax by deducting payments to victims of the Horizon scandal from its profits, say tax experts.
Claiming tax relief in this way could count as a breach of the law and could mean it is at risk of insolvency, said Dan Neidle, of Tax Policy Associates.
The company also may have overpaid senior executives, he says.
The Post Office said its financial information was "appropriate and accurate".

We are now hearing Jason Beer KC reading from a part of Jackson's witness statement.

It says: "Historic data governance problems, many of which were embedded in the Post Office's data landscape over many years, have risen to the surface under the scrutiny of the inquiry and Post Office's internal and external Inquiry teams."
Jackson says this refers to a 25-year period for the company where, as in other industries, IT was rapidly developing.
He's asked what he means by data governance and Jackson says it means "knowing what is where".
Beer suggest it's about internal standards, policies, how data is stored, processed and retained and should include accountability.
He then presses Jackson to explain the particular data governance problems identified in the Post Office.
Jackson says it can be "summarised as not a full map of systems, and what is where, and how it has evolved over time."

Talk has turned to Mimecast - a company specialising in cloud-based email management - and whether there was a complete repository of Post Office emails between 2012 and 2016.

Inquiry lawyer Jason Beer KC refers to a letter sent in November 2023 from Post Office lawyers Burges Salmon about the migration of Post Office data from email gateway platform Proofpoint to Mimecast prior to January 2016.

That letter states that the Post Office has been unable to establish why the transfer of email data from one platform to the other was not complete - after some emails were found to exist in Microsoft Exchange but not in Mimecast.

The inquiry previously revealed the Post Office had identified more than 300,000 emails from after 2012 that had previously been missed.

The Daily Telegraph reports that the architect of Horizon, the faulty software that caused the scandal, has demanded immunity before agreeing to appear at the public inquiry. The paper says Gareth Jenkins's testimony has been delayed twice, and that his request for immunity has been refused twice. It also claims Mr Jenkins told forensic accountants as long ago as 2012 that the IT system could be accessed remotely by developers Fujitsu, despite one of the prosecution's key arguments being that it was tamper-proof. When approached by the Telegraph, Mr Jenkins said: "I don't have anything to say to you".

The Financial Times reports that, since 2019, when the Court of Appeal ruled that it's software had been at fault in the scandal, Fujitsu has been the joint or sole recipient of £4.9bn worth of government contracts, including £3.6bn during Rishi Sunak's time as chancellor or prime minister. A spokesperson for Mr Sunak tells the paper: "Once the full facts have been established by the inquiry we will make further judgments but it's important that we allow that process to take place."

Since 2013, the UK government has awarded Fujitsu 191 contracts worth more than £6.5bn, according to the procurement analysts Tussell, including:

£1.1bn with HMRC
£581m with the Ministry of Defence
£476m with the Home Office

Even after the Horizon scandal, its products are deeply entrenched in the government's IT infrastructure.
"Its mainframes have been used for decades at HM Revenue and Customs and the largest department of all, the Department for Work and Pensions, has been pretty reliant on Fujitsu equipment," IT journalist Tony Collins, who has covered the industry for decades, told the BBC in 2022.

YES. Or perhaps put the shareholder's wallet at risk if they don't choose safety first.

Jason Coyne, who worked for Preston-based Best Practice Plc at the time, was instructed to examine the computer system called Horizon in 2003.

He said he notified the Post Office the data was "unreliable" but he was ignored, sacked, and then discredited.

What happened to test, certification, and Quality Control?

While the scandal has been public knowledge for some time, an ITV drama which aired last week has thrust the issue back into the spotlight.
Speaking to the Today programme, Sir David Davis said the drama had galvanised the response to the scandal. "There are now tens of millions of people who care about this - care a lot. They're furious in many cases."

So far, nobody at the Post Office or Fujitsu has been held accountable, although the High Court judge said he would refer Fujitsu to the Director of Public Prosecutions for possible further action because he had "grave concerns" about the evidence of the company's employees.

Many elite sports teams use their own chefs, though it is uncommon in cricket. Some players – including India’s Virat Kohli and Hardik Pandya – have been known to pay for personal chefs to come on tour, including in the 2023 tour of Australia.

Last month, the FAA urged airlines to inspect Max models for a possible loose bolt in rudder control systems.

Japan Airlines experienced its own catastrophe in August 1985, when Osaka-bound Flight 123 crashed into a mountain shortly after take-off from Tokyo Haneda. It was later attributed to faulty repair work by Boeing, the aircraft manufacturer.Only four out of 524 people on board survived the crash.

But there were also signs the aircraft's design was working to give those on board the best chance of escape. Prof Graham Braithwaite, director of transport systems at Cranfield University in the UK, told the BBC it looked like it "has done what it is designed to do, which is protect the occupants and allow a fast evacuation".

Reforms were announced in November's Autumn Statement, with the hope of removing barriers in the planning system and making grid connections quicker.

But the Home Office said it needed more evidence that she had lived in the UK continuously for five years.

"She's receiving a state pension, so she's paid into the system," he said. "She's paid her taxes. She's paying council tax. There's lots of proof."

"They were hiding behind their lack of policies whilst knowing that the regulations they did have set up were meant to protect profits, not victims," says Kira.

He was initially sentenced to 60 hours of unpaid work and fined £1,384.

The Metropolitan Police, supported by the club, approached the UK Football Policing Unit to seek an appeal against the sentence and, as a direct result, the court issued the supporter with a three-year football banning order," Tottenham said in a statement on Wednesday.

We thank the police for their cooperation on the matter. We should like to reiterate that the club does not tolerate discrimination of any kind and will always seek for the strongest possible action to be taken against those found responsible.

Somehow, we forget about this simple truth somewhere in the 1990's. We should change that, immediately.

"We must consider the fairest way to maintain a stable energy market and we will do this in consultation with all our partners to ensure we are protecting the most vulnerable households," said Mr Jarvis.

At least the Qantas flame-out is keeping everyone else off the front page.

Why should an individual do their "bit" for the climate, when they constantly see crap like this giving them "the Bird"?
Climate Change? What Climate Change?

Our statutory guidance is that cost and value for money for parents should be the most important consideration by schools when deciding how to source uniform and we expect schools to follow this.

Delivery vehicles arriving at HMP Wandsworth first pass through a public deliveries gate, then stop in an "airlock" before a second gate.
This means they are in a secure pen between the outside world and the prison. That is the first location where there can be a thorough security check.
Security teams are trained to search under a vehicle with mirrors and should also check the top of the vehicle and, of course, inside too.

Ahead of the expansion, HMRC confirmed that tradesmen could choose to claim back the cost of the low-emission charge on their tax returns as travel expenses instead.

{edit to add} You do ask some very good questions, and those were two that many wouldn't even think about - great questions :-)

The wear on the rotor bearing was also found to have built up over a period of time and could not have been predicted, according to the inspectors.
Examination of the bearing was only required once it had been used for 400 hours, but the helicopter had only been flown for 331 hours when the crash occurred.
One of the "contributory factors" was that regulations do not require maintenance checks to review the condition of used bearings against their original design, the AAIB said.

Recently I have seen several traffic signals ripped out and every one of them was a hit and run. In a couple cases I don't even think the driver noticed he hit anything.

This morning, Rishi Sunak said it was "utterly wrong" to blame him for failing to fix crumbling concrete in England's schools
Earlier, a former senior civil servant said the government halved the budget for school repairs in England in 2021
Jonathan Slater said the government agreed to fund work on 100 schools a year to fix concrete and other problems
But after a review by then-Chancellor Sunak, the budget was cut to 50 schools a year.

Things today ain't made like we used to....

"It changed the speed of life in this country so quickly, and Henry saw things going by the wayside that he wanted to preserve," said Mr Johnson.

"In common with most rural parishes, Chedworth suffers from a scarcity of houses, new ones are so costly to build as to put them beyond the reach of the ordinary man," the paper wrote.

RAAC is a lightweight "bubbly" form of concrete used widely between the 1950s and mid-1990s - usually in the form of panels on flat roofs, as well as occasionally in pitched roofs, floors and walls. It has a lifespan of about 30 years.
The government says it has been aware of RAAC in public sector buildings, including schools, since 1994.

A wide range of public buildings have been constructed using a cheap version of concrete that could now be at risk of collapse, experts say.

“While Putin has eliminated this most recent challenge to his rule, his quagmire in Ukraine continues and other challengers are sure to follow. The next one might not miss.”

The Pyxis Ocean will take an estimated six weeks to reach its destination.

The innovation has come from the UK but the wings themselves are manufactured in China. Mr Cooper says a lack of government support in reducing the cost of imported steel prevents the company from making them here.
"It's a shame, I'd love to build in the UK," he told the BBC.

Bare faced thieves

We understand that you're wondering about the Payment reserve that was recently placed on your account.
As part of our efforts to keep Etsy secure, Etsy Support isn't able to give you the specific reason a reserve was placed on your account.

What a load of B/S.
It seems anything goes in Yankee Doodle Dandy land.

We understand that you're wondering about the Payment reserve that was recently placed on your account.
As part of our efforts to keep Etsy secure, Etsy Support isn't able to give you the specific reason a reserve was placed on your account.

Media lawyer Mark Stephens told BBC Breakfast the investigation has a "long way to go" yet, and "it does appear that even the police don't think that there was an obvious criminal offence having been committed".

Route learning is vital - not just learning the usual, expected, route, "snip"

The original driver had joined the company in 2020 and was on their 22nd run on this route.
He was breathalysed and screened by British Transport Police (BTP) for alcohol and drugs, but both came back negative.
The investigation ruled the immediate cause of the incident was that the driver had expected to be using another, faster, line through the area as he had done previously.

A number of causal factors were also identified. The report noted: ‘The driver did not react appropriately to the junction indicator at P468 signal.
According to investigators, this was a result of ‘insufficient’ training by the train company.

Dr Chandran denied negligence and causation and argued that the incident was caused by the girl stepping out into the road when the “traffic light was green for vehicles to proceed”.

Also brought ashore were what appeared to be the titanium flanges. These are the metal rings glued to either end of the Titan's carbon fibre cylindrical hull. The flanges would then have made contact with the end caps.

When the Ukrainian war started, I confess I had doubts about Zelensky. Not about the man, I knew nothing about him. But I did wonder about his background, a former tv actor and all that. How would he perform as leader of the Ukrainian nation at a time of crisis? As it turned out, he's been brilliant. He never pretended to be a "war leader" and trusted his army and its commanders, but, at the same time, left no doubt that he was in charge. He's earned the respect of all Ukrainians as well as NATO leaders, even those who didn't really want to get too "involved," for various reason. Turkey's Erdogan is one of those. But from the day Joe Biden wanted to fly Zelensky out to safety during the first week of Putin's ill-fated run for Kyiv, but was rebuffed by Zelensky's now famous retort "I don't want a ride out, I need ammunition!" I knew Ukraine had just the man it needed. He's become a familiar sight, always wearing simple military-green t-shirts and pants, showing up in front-line locations as well as capitals around the world advocating Ukraine's case, pleading for material support. There's no doubt in my mind that if Ukraine can be thankful for one thing it's Zelensky being in the right place at the right time!

Unfortunately a visa cancellation letter was issued to Dr Stuijfzand in error. We have issued a retraction, and we apologise for any inconvenience this has caused him and his family.

snip - but too, too slowly and too, too late.

Driscoll told the BBC that the day after the convictions, his superior officer Cressida Dick suggested he shouldn't bother going after the other suspects, even though the trial judge had urged police to pursue them.

In 2013 Driscoll arrested White, who refused to answer questions. The detective was unable to complete the investigation as he was asked to retire weeks later.

Deputy Assistant Commissioner Matt Ward said: "Unfortunately, too many mistakes were made in the initial investigation and the impact of them continues to be seen.

"From our initial investigation, this incident was unrelated to Unifi's operational processes, safety procedures and policies," the company said.

"When it comes to public sector pay, I'm going to do what I think is affordable, what I think is responsible," he said.

After his son also raised fears about the sub, Jay Bloom declined Mr Rush's invitation.

"We have heard the baseless cries of 'you are going to kill someone' way too often," he wrote. "I take this as a serious personal insult."

Cameron also suggested that there was a "terrible irony" in the loss of Titan and its crew, likening it to the loss of the Titanic itself back in 1912.
"We now have another wreck that is based on unfortunately the same principles of not heeding warnings," he said. "OceanGate were warned."

More details are emerging about the complaints made by David Lochridge, OceanGate's former director of marine operations who said he was fired after raising safety concerns about the Titan.
Lochridge argued in 2018 that the method OceanGate had devised to ensure the hull's integrity — acoustic monitoring that could detect the sound of cracks and pops as the hull strained under pressure — could "subject passengers to potential extreme danger".

"This type of acoustic analysis would only show when a component is about to fail — often milliseconds before an implosion — and would not detect any existing flaws prior to putting pressure onto the hull," Lochridge's attorneys wrote in a wrongful termination claim.

OceanGate sued Lochridge, who is not an engineer, for breach of contract, arguing that he had refused to accept the lead engineer's assurances and accusing him of improperly sharing confidential information.
The two sides settled their cases in November 2018.

Reporting by AP

The motorist remains in hospital & is not charged

Apparently, this company knew from previous litigation, from employees making complaints, that there were significant issues with the hull of this vessel and the equipment. So that’s going to be the number one issue to be litigated.
Just like in Deepwater Horizon, there were apparently numerous warnings in this instance that the vessel was not capable of performing its mission safely. They had other runs that had to be abandoned because of problems. And there were whistleblowers talking about the lack of equipment or the insufficiency of equipment — especially in the hull and the window not being of sufficient strength.

According to the FTC, Amazon attempted to make it difficult for users to opt out of auto-enrolment because "those changes would also negatively affect Amazon's bottom line".

Since the initial MOVEit disclosure, however, researchers have found multiple security issues within the software which means it's possible that the data was stolen in a different way by a different group.

In the US, all 19 convictions for interest rate rigging are being overturned at the request of the DoJ - the same body that originally declared conduct like Johnson's to be illegal - following a US appeal court ruling that the prosecution case was misconceived.
The trader requests that Johnson was jailed for, it found, were not illegal - and didn't even break any rules. Many of those convictions arose from guilty pleas, made under the threat of prosecution in the US, which the DoJ no longer views as sound.

Asked who they are, his reply is simple: "The board of Barclays Bank, the Bank of England and the government of the UK."

The federal government has been aware of the problem for at least five decades.

The MBTA, which oversees the nation’s oldest subway system as well as commuter rail, bus and ferry service, has come under intense scrutiny in recent years for a series of safety issues that led to a federal review and orders to fix the problem. It has recently been plagued by slow zones, the delayed delivery of new vehicles and understaffing.

“That is certainly much clearer today than when it was first planned,” Mr. Weil said. “Since the Russian invasion of Ukraine, we know that the European security architecture, as we have assumed it for decades, no longer functions, and that national defense must therefore have a much greater significance.”

Child and public health researcher Professor Fiona Stanley says: "It is deeply concerning that medical and scientific evidence has been ignored, in preference of circumstantial evidence.

Moreover, the technology is expensive. In Europe, importers or producers of solar panels are responsible for disposing of them when they become expendable. And many favour crushing or shredding the waste - which is far cheaper.

She said it seemed the street's postcode had been used for the bookings on the travel website, and her house was beneath the pin drop.
Users had booked accommodation which listed the address as a flat in Greenwich.

Lee Sergent, in mitigation, said O'Garro had apologised to the family.
He said his client was raised by a single parent and had a difficult upbringing.
"He is an intelligent young man and a young man with some potential" Mr Sergent told the court.

Too many miles and hours breeds too much complacency...

A company spokesperson said: "We are working closely with the emergency services at the scene and our thoughts are with those involved in the incident."

...spokesperson Alistair Carmichael accusing Mr Sunak of putting politicians into his cabinet who "think they are above the rules" and who "have taken the British people for fools".

She claims that soon after joining the trust, Mr Haythornthwaite - a former BBC accountant - sought to "intervene and influence, and ultimately to control, many operational matters" beyond the scope of his job.

Describing how officers eventually questioned her after half a day in custody, Ms Chambers said: "They asked me, 'What were you doing on the Mall?' I explained everything and they looked at each other in shock."

The DfT said the new lorries will be able to move the same volume of goods as current trailers in 8% fewer journeys, meaning they will "make the world of difference" for businesses such as bakery chain Greggs.
The policy is expected to generate £1.4billion in economic benefits and take one standard-size trailer off the road for every 12 trips.
Longer lorries will be subject to the same 44-tonne weight limit as those using standard trailers.

If I was asked to 'tip' on a self checkout machine I would walk out, not pay & leave my products/order behind.
They should PAY ME FOR DOING THE JOB THAT WAS TAKEN AWAY BY THE MACHINE.

The Republican Texas governor, Greg Abbott, who has signed laws easing firearms restrictions after past mass shootings, called it an “unspeakable tragedy”.

Texas allows its residents to legally carry guns without a licence or training.

Valid ID includes passports, driving licences, older or disabled person's bus passes, and Oyster 60+ cards. Out-of-date ID is permitted as long as the person looks the same.

“People like this should not be in positions of power,” said another.

A 2021 report into Collingwood club - one of the league's wealthiest - found a culture of "systemic racism".

A similar investigation into another club last year - Hawthorn - unearthed alhttps://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-australia-65261716legations Aboriginal players were bullied by senior coaching staff.

The report notes that in 1972, on his appointment as commissioner of the force, Sir Robert Mark said he had "never experienced…blindness, arrogance and prejudice on anything like the scale accepted as routine in the Met".
The report immediately adds that the Met is a very different organisation today. But five decades on, Louise Casey says: "We have found those cultures alive and well".

He said: "In a place like mine, where the majority of people don't live in the towns, why should we be running 26-tonne diesel vehicles all over the countryside to pick up Mrs Miggins's jam jar, or a bit of peeling from her potatoes?

Sir Mark also previously announced all 45,000 Met officers and staff would be rechecked for previously missed offending.

The homes, which included two residential special schools, charged local authorities £250,000 a year to care for each young person.

(or, in light of this bit of news, are they really "presidents of vice")

Note that this is an ongoing story from many years ago...

Research conducted by Network Rail found that lack of knowledge was the most common cause of bridge strikes in the UK.

32% of drivers don’t know their vehicle height.
8% of drivers don’t believe road signage.
9% of drivers report inadequate signage.
1% of drivers reported poor information about low bridges when planning a route.
22% of drivers reported poor route planning.
15% didn’t understand signage.
3% other.

Cambridgeshire Police said it sent Ms Lovejoy letters but never received a reply.
Ms Lovejoy said she did not receive any correspondence from the police.

we allowed a legal disrepair process, widely used in the housing sector, to get in the way of promptly tackling the mould."

According to Fire and Fury, Murdoch once ended a phone call with the-then commander-in-chief by hanging up and referring to him as an idiot, adding an obscenity.

He told the politician: "I would expect you to set a good example for the rest of us."

And location services help Google generate $200bn in annual advertising revenue.

"We take our obligations under the Data Protection Act very seriously."

"something big"

For years they have viewed Mr Putin as a master strategist, as someone who always manages to come out on top… as a winner. They have looked on him as the lynchpin of the system of which they are part and which has been built around him.

At the time of the victim's autopsy, semen was detected in an oral swab. Mr Hastings had maintained his innocence from the moment he was arrested, but a request for DNA testing of the swab in 2000 was denied by the district attorney.

"I don't believe Sunak has the answers to this crisis... he helped cause it," Ashworth adds.

Could not find a direct reference to the 10.note but found this >
(as) bent as a nine-bob note
[quote](as) bent as a nine-bob note
1. Completely and obviously false, fake, or illegitimate; not genuine or authentic in the slightest. ("Bob" was an informal word for a shilling prior to decimalization in 1971. There has never been a nine-shilling note in circulation in the UK.) Primarily heard in UK.

The Bank of England 10 shilling note (notation: 10/–), colloquially known as the 10 bob note was a sterling banknote. Ten shillings in £sd (written 10s or 10/–) was half of one pound.
Value: 10/– sterling
Years of printing: 1928–1969

(simile, UK, slang) Extremely dishonest or criminally-minded.

Asked if Putin will survive if Ukraine wins the war, Zelensky responds: "I don't care".

"That doesn't make it right and it doesn't make it palatable in any way, but in their minds they were focused on trying to prove that Ruth Neave was responsible for the murder of Rikki."

The company had proposed to build a new 3.6 GW gas-fired power plant at Selby which was expected to produce 75% of the UK's power sector emissions once the plant was underway.]A protest took place outside the company's offices in London in July 2019 and further protests took place in Yorkshire in August 2020. Protesters claimed that the company was asking for substantial subsidies to operate the new plant "in addition to the £2.36 million a day it already receives for burning biomass." After ministers overruled objections from the planning authority and decided to approve the plant, a legal challenge was brought against the ministerial decision but failed in the courts in January 2021. However, the company announced in February 2021 that the plans for the new plant had been abandoned.

It's not whether they are strong, whether they have a view of their own, if they fundamentally don't seem to like their electorate very much, or don't think they are worth considering it's very hard to vote for them.

"The way audiences are accessing news and content is changing and the challenge of reaching and engaging people around the world with quality, trusted journalism is growing," she added.

Burns was held in jail for three months, despite having a high-risk pregnancy and sleeping on the floor due to overcrowding, according to the National Advocates for Pregnant Women (NAPW), who represented Burns and the four other women.

What I would like to know is whether Putin is deranged enough to use nuclear weapons and possibly start WWIII.

It isn't PooTin that matters, it is the officers that control them.

Mr Putin's personnel changes come amid reports that the Russian leader has taken personal charge of the war effort and has started issuing orders to generals in Ukraine himself.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-63007219

A young man during the mobilization at the recruiting office. Question to the recruiting officer:
"I would like to know who am I actually fighting with when I'm in Ukraine ?"
"With Nazis."
"Yes, that's clear. And against whom?"

Our history isn't as clean as we like to think it is.

what exactly is your point besides "big Nvidia bad"?

As for the Russians, this was a rout. Not a fighting retreat or a redeployment. Military intelligence failed and soldiers with catastrophically poor morale abandoned large amounts of equipment.

The Ukrainians know what they're fighting for - it is not clear that the Russians do.

PooTin loving Sucker gets blasted as PooTin's war criminals make a run for it.

"The Russian army is rushing to get famous as the fastest army in the world," wrote Andriy Yermak - chief of staff for President Volodymyr Zelensky - on Twitter. "Keep running".

But the focus now is on finding a European solution. And not a few EU figures, French President Emmanuel Macron included, have said they'd love the UK to be part of a plan.

Earlier, Liz Truss faced her first Prime Minister's Questions as leader.
Among the questions she received was from former Prime Minister Theresa May, who asked why the three female PMs had all been Conservatives, in a dig at Labour's record in failing to ever have a woman leader.
To big cheers, Truss asked why Labour could not find a female leader or anyone not from north London.

Because word has gone out that there's inflation about? Store buyers are expecting it, so wholesalers can charge what they like. Pure psychology.

In a statement, Lancashire Police said: "When there is no ongoing risk or threat, or crime in action, we will arrange to visit people at a time convenient to them so we can investigate and solve crime and deliver the best outcomes for all."

We rang 999 while she was on the phone. We begged them. Nobody appeared. The [police] never arrived for 48 hours.

... Sadly killing the rear passenger upon impact with the train platform.

They have set up a blue tent in the Tesla car park, not on the tracks, so maybe the woman fell out before.

The wider point here is that at a time of war, the international price of energy is forcing a massive transfer of wealth from every household to energy producers in the private sector, and those owned by foreign governments.

There have been reports that recruiters have even been visiting prisons, promising inmates freedom and money.

You'd have thought that they could afford to keep a basic passenger train, with seats and room for hand luggage, at each end for planned emergencies like this. But British customer care and customer service seem to have gone out of the window in recent years.

Despite new Government guidelines in the pipeline designed to curb costs, schools could continue to recommend apparel carrying their logos

But she said on an online site raising funds for a recount that she had “seen data” about the election.

Someone has to call them er who did they report it to? The neighborhood chat group? The council? I doubt the gas company or police/fire.

Residents say they had reported a strong gas smell two weeks ago and had felt dizzy in recent days.

Households will see a discount of £66 applied to their energy bills in October and November, and £67 a month from December to March 2023.

That's 2 x £66 and 4 x £67.

New figures reported this year show that, for the first time ever, the Premier League will receive more revenue from international broadcasters than it will from domestic channels in its UK home market. Asia alone is expected to account for $1.4bn between next season and 2025.

Man, so many moronic sickos abound these days. :-(

Block Management Ltd, which manages the property, says the wrap is not its responsibility and a construction company has been appointed to carry out the work.

It says: "Residents have been regularly informed about this and Block Management, as property manager, has provided updates on progress of the works when these have been provided by the project manager and contractor."

So, it's our first look at Erik ten Hag's Manchester United today.
It's a pretty familiar looking first line up for the Red Devils in Bangkok, but the style of play is going to be very interesting to see. Many of the players haven't had too long to adapt to the former Ajax manager's new demands, so it remains to be seen how quickly they can implement his plan...

Sunak pledged to grow the economy by first tackling inflation and later lowering taxes
He paid tribute to Boris Johnson, saying he is one of the most remarkable people he has ever met
He was endorsed by Justice Secretary Dominic Raab

Chelsea are due to play three pre-season friendlies in the United States.
They face Mexico's Club America in Las Vegas on 17 July, Charlotte FC at their Bank of America Stadium on 21 July and London rivals Arsenal in Florida on 23 July.

Whatever I think of Boris, it's light years above what I think of Vlad. Come get me, Vlad.

President Putin's spokesman Dmitry Peskov said Mr Johnson "really does not like us - and we [do not like] him either".
He said he hoped "more professional people" who could "make decisions through dialogue" would take over in London.

A lot of the code for handling communications was apparently copied from an open source messaging app.

Tut tut indeed :-)
So we get:
Bozo Barking Boris Bonking Blonde Bimbo

Any advance on 5 "B"s?????

Or the driver was in a bit of a hurry to get home.

And, when asked how many people it would take to fly this gigantic plane, he said: “All this technology and you still want pilots?

The building, which has a controversial so-called ‘poor door’ for residents living in social housing, has no fire alarms in communal areas, as official government guidance says the devices are “unnecessary and undesirable” in buildings designed for ‘stay put’ policies.
But a fire safety expert has warned this is “contentious”, calling it a “misplaced belief” that fire alarms lead to overcrowded staircases in residential buildings during evacuations.

Wellington pled guilty to a string of charges including culpable and reckless conduct to the danger of lives.
Wellington also pled guilty to assaulting Ms Cassidy in Edinburgh, breaching bail, threatening behaviour and spitting at a police officer.

Have we not learned how Baz-ball works? England concede a big number of runs. They collapse in the second innings, take quick wickets in the third and gallop home three down in the fourth innings. Easy.

Nelson strikes again. Pant's innings lasted 111 balls and the partnership 222 runs.

Russia will invade Ukraine, probably within the next few weeks. They will annex the Crimea. From there, if they meet no resistance from the West, they will take more of the country, all the way to the Dnieper River. Once this is achieved, I believe Volodin will set his eyes on making beneficial alliances from a position of power, both in the other border countries and in the former nations of the Warsaw Pact. He believes he can return the entire region to the central control of the Kremlin. Poland, Czech Republic, Hungary, Bulgaria, Romania. They will be the next dominoes to fall.

According to the AP, after the warrant was first filed, the sheriff in Leflore County told reporters he didn't want to "bother" Donham, noting she had two young children to care for.

A British documentary maker who filmed Donald Trump and his family in the weeks following his 2020 election defeat told the BBC he has been accused of being a British or US spy, and now has two armed guards who follow him everywhere.
Alex Holder has been ordered to give evidence to an investigation in Georgia which is looking at whether Trump pressured state officials to influence the 2020 election in the state.