[David9694]

A new catch-all Tea Shop thread for those miscellaneous new stories that don’t quite fit with parking, crashing into buildings or trapped/prisoners in their homes. 

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[Steve K]

David9694 wrote:

Lord Montagu issues climate change warning at estate dinner

https://www.dailyecho.co.uk/news/24696530.lord-montagu-issues-climate-change-warning-estate-dinner/

Maybe he’s about to dump the 2025 programme of car-fests.

Given I took this picture Beaulieu House, I wouldn’t expect any consistency.

[David9694]

chrisonabike wrote:

Have addicts been reduced to baartering for drugs?

they got fleeced ?

[chrisonabike]

Have addicts been reduced to

Have addicts been reduced to baartering for drugs?

[chrisonabike]

OnYerBike wrote:

Two stories spotted on BBC News website this morning:

Police watchdog warning amid rise in road casualties https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c245912pedjo

More injuries and fatalities on Scotland’s roads, despite fewer recorded road traffic offences. Emphasis on recorded offences.

Never mind all that – you missed the real story!

BBC wrote:

A lamb was found in a car on the M74 motorway last April along with Class A drugs and a bag of chips

This is worthy of Chris Morris!  What is going on?!  Is this the dark side of Deliver-ewe?  A new way of camoflaging drugs mules?  Has all the cotton wool been used up (for filtering brick dust out of smack)?  We need answers!

(Presumably police are now trying to get the lamb to bleat them out).

[OnYerBike]

Two stories spotted on BBC

Two stories spotted on BBC News website this morning:

Family blame parked cars for delayed ambulance https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cj6k7n734jgo

Basically as per the headline – an ambulance was delayed in attending a person who had suffered a cardiac arrest due to bad parking in a residential area. Nary a bike lane in sight.

Police watchdog warning amid rise in road casualties https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c245912pedjo

More injuries and fatalities on Scotland’s roads, despite fewer recorded road traffic offences. Emphasis on recorded offences. 

 

 

[hawkinspeter]

David9694 wrote:

Lord Montagu issues climate change warning at estate dinner

https://www.dailyecho.co.uk/news/24696530.lord-montagu-issues-climate-change-warning-estate-dinner/

Maybe he’s about to dump the 2025 programme of car-fests.

To be fair, if we were to shove all the cars into museums and only drive them on occasional days out, then there’d be a lot less emissions.

[David9694]

The sound of the UK roads

The sound of the UK roads grinding a halt at the drop of a temporary traffic light:

Motorists angry at ‘bumper to bumper’ traffic in BCP

https://www.bournemouthecho.co.uk/news/24694581.motorists-angry-bumper-bumper-traffic-bcp/

Update on Trowbridge road closure after ‘traffic chaos’

https://www.wiltshiretimes.co.uk/news/24698984.update-trowbridge-road-closure-traffic-chaos/

Issues on A249 Southbound in Stockbury, M2 between Chatham and Gillingham and M25 J1A entry slip at Swanscombe

https://www.kentonline.co.uk/kent/news/traffic-chaos-after-incidents-on-motorways-and-a-roads-315403/

London Road traffic queues caused by roadworks

https://www.worcesternews.co.uk/news/24697699.london-road-traffic-queues-caused-roadworks/

[David9694]

Lord Montagu issues climate

Lord Montagu issues climate change warning at estate dinner

https://www.dailyecho.co.uk/news/24696530.lord-montagu-issues-climate-change-warning-estate-dinner/

Maybe he’s about to dump the 2025 programme of car-fests.

[David9694]

hey Siri show me two news

hey Siri show me two news stories that illustrate driver privilege: 

Residents will ‘lose access to friends and activities’ if town centre car park closes

The car park is one of 22 sites on the council’s chopping block

https://www.somersetlive.co.uk/news/somerset-news/residents-lose-access-friends-activities-9685850

Fears Stagecoach bus service cuts in Dover district will see people miss hospital appointments and become isolated

https://www.kentonline.co.uk/dover/news/disgraceful-bus-cuts-will-mean-people-can-t-make-hospital-a-315395/

[Spangly Shiny]

Sorry, no idea what you are

Sorry, no idea what you are on about.

[Spangly Shiny]

Judging by the responses I

Judging by the responses I get from drivers who think that undertaking is OK, I think so.

[pockstone]

Maybe time for a new thread..
Maybe time for a new thread…’Cruelly mistreated business owners sacrificed at the altar of the war on motorists’

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cj4v5v52lk8o

[David9694]

Resident wins case against

Resident wins case against Medway Council over battle to park in Florence Street, Strood

https://www.kentonline.co.uk/medway/news/council-humbled-as-driver-wins-battle-over-parking-permit-315296/

I’m still struggling with the idea of a parking permit for a private road. 

[David9694]

Turn your Java script off.

Turn your Javascript off.

[hawkinspeter]

David9694 wrote:

Turn your Java script off.

Sorry to be nit-picking, but it’s javascript which has nothing to do with the language Java. The two are commonly confused and it appears that Netscape intended the confusion for marketing purposes when they released javascript.

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