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Long Lane in Brundall called
Long Lane in Brundall called a death trap due to speeders
“I’m afraid to go out of my own front driveway to walk the dog because of how dangerous it is.
“I don’t even use the front rooms in my house for fear of a speeding driver coming flying through the walls.”
https://www.edp24.co.uk/news/24470808.long-lane-brundall-called-death-trap-due-speeders/
I can’t access this story –
I can’t access this story –
A carbrain writes…
A carbrain writes…
Action is needed to prevent danger in Herefordshire street
https://www.herefordtimes.com/news/24490495.action-needed-prevent-danger-herefordshire-street/
A couple here that I thought
A couple here that I thought were worth sharing if people hadn’t seen them. They’re not humorous.
2. A Short History of Traffic Engineering
A couple here that I thought
A couple here that I thought were worth sharing if people hadn’t seen them. They’re not humorous.
1. Two contrasting styles of development
Although I had no part in the counter protest in Bristol last night (which easily outnumbered the EDL idiots), I was encouraged by their chant “We are many, you are few. We are bristol, who are you?”The far right may be very vocal and they get a lot of media attention (Farage on the BBC all the time?), but there’s far more of us that enjoy having a multi-cultural society and welcome refugees despite the narrative that the mainstream media is pushing.
And on Twitter/ X. I hope you’re right.
Apparently, Keir Starmer is carrying on with his August holiday, and maybe that’s the right attitude to take – let the police deal with a few rioters – as we find out the meaning of “we’re coming for Labour, make no mistake”.
I guess all the things
I guess all the things fomenting away for years under the Tories didn’t all just drop away on 5 July. It’s quite the inheritance for Labour now. That’s all the rhetoric against for example “the boats” and migrants in general that have seeped into a few people’s minds with the help of a few agitators – “you’d better do what we say, or things will only get worse”. I thought Newsthump covered it very well – “I’m so disillusioned with multi-culturalism I needed to steal some new trainers from Shoezone.”
White Van Man looks like a significant demographic when you look at the pictures. Although they initially act as a crowd, when you look, for the most part individuals don’t help each other, in fact it’s often more about capturing the action on your ‘phone.
I find myself bothered more by the individual acts of bullying of black and brown people than I do the larger confrontations with the police. White thugs been given permission to do this by certain political leaders. Bravo to the places big enough to mount a sizeable counter-protest.
The cost of living crisis, the cutting back of the public services that help ease the passage in all our lives in recent years is really starting to tell. We went into the election with all the privations (and increasingly vague memories of promises of better things) from Brexit, and they are with us still. That said, I tend away from ideas that actual poverty (as opposed to perceived) is a significant factor here.
Brexit didn’t solve anything, stopping the boats won’t do a lot, leaving the ECHR won’t solve anything: a cycle of worsening and more extreme ideas that don’t satisfy then follows, one after the other – see 1930s Germany. There’s some nasty stuff on X that have all this charted. The position is “everything that’s happened since the 1950s is universally bad – let’s go back 70 years. Here’s how.”
A minor point – yeah, thanks for all the car-free pictures of ye olde Britain and the sly (and not so sly) references to it being a better world, etc.
If you’ve just tuned in and are wondering what any of this has to do with cycling, go back to the Reform plc’s “draft contract” and look up what it says about transport. Being a cyclist is the nearest (and my nationality and skin colour make this pretty distant) I get to being one of their target / out groups – worst case, they simply want you not to exist.
As I write, it feels like it’s gone pretty quiet from the political classes on most sides in recent days – perhaps they hope that the onset of cooler weather and the start of the football season will ease things. After all, it’s only a few hundred people – young guys who are by no means full-time criminals or all that interested in politics, but are the opportunists, bored with their lives, who perpetrate if they believe no-one is looking, the pal who will look the other way in support of another fella. As someone said on X/Twitter today, for every one of them there’s family who are glad that at least the little shit is out the house for a while.
Behind the scenes, the govt need to severely disrupt the means by which the agitating is given legs, which I hope is happening. More publicly, Labour seriously need to stay on top of this issue. I’m not in possession of all the facts by any means but if this nonsense continues, Starmer and Co will need in my view to act decisively, comprehensively and robustly – which may explain the current quiet.
It doesn’t even have to be done as satire, which is the scary thing.As far as I can see, you have a bunch of self-described patriots who demonstrate their patriotism by looting shops, burning buildings and throwing bricks at policemen.
that is what unfortunately happens with protests, they almost always turn violent.
wrong on a couple of counts – virtually none of this is in any sense protest – there’s a “cause” put up to rally people to (could be almost anything) and then because it is aimless thuggery it soon turns violent and to looting and vandalism.
second point is that JSO protests for example are pretty peaceful by comparison – a bit of orange liquid, a disruptive sit-in – very little about singling out members of ethnic minorities and harassing, bullying and assaulting them.
Wow, pompous or what?!
Wow, pompous or what?!
No actual legal advice, just be another whining driver in a load of people’s inboxes, which after 2 years she’s likely to have tried.
I suppose you could be “charged with assisting [someone] pro bono”, but given what pro bono means (you volunteer your services), it seems an unlikely circumstance.
Tort is a another term not many people outside legal practice understand, so why use it here, other than to try to show off? Tort usually refers to seeking damages for a loss caused to person A by the acts (deeds or omissions where a duty of care is owed) of person B; proceedings like this are for breach of contract, i.e. of the conditions of use and consequences for breach the driver is deemed to have accepted by entering / remaining in the car park/ private land. Perhaps it has a secondary meaning – I’ll bow to his superior knowledge.
I see there is a reply to the piece by someone calling themselves a lawyer. If this person is a lawyer then Heaven help anyone who takes legal advice from them.which story?
The way I’m reading it, she
The way I’m reading it, she went in to the shop, he was still in the car with the child. It’s not clear why he was unaware of the ticket – maybe he was asleep as well as the child…
Although she’s desperate to minimise it (3 minutes 2 seconds) the moral of the tale is that you use the parent & child space (only) because you’re heaving the aforementioned child into the shop with you. Perhaps the whole driving thing is getting a bit much now.
Also see car (lorry) must
Also see car (lorry) must have crashed into bridge:
Road closure for ‘urgent’ Lower Stoke bridge repair
https://www.wiltshiretimes.co.uk/news/24493086.road-closure-urgent-lower-stoke-bridge-repair/
Man suffers significant
Man suffers significant injuries after crashing into wall in Westbury
A car is understood to have ploughed into a wall near Jefferies Car Centre on Headquarters Road.
A man, aged in his 30s, was taken by land ambulance to the Major Trauma Centre at Southmead Hospital in Bristol for further treatment.
The man sustained significant injuries, described as “potentially life changing” by Wiltshire Police.
https://www.wiltshire999s.co.uk/man-significant-injuries-crash-wall/
https://www.wiltshiretimes.co.uk/news/24486357.driver-seriously-injured-crashing-wall-westbury/
Well you couldn’t reasonably expect them to park somewhere else and then walk to the location, could you.Where’s PC Plod ?
getting ready to take on some bunch of brick-wielding numpties near a mosque or a cenotaph
You can’t have somewhere to
You can’t have somewhere to live because I want to park my car. No, Civic Society, you fucked it, you stood by and let your amazing regency town become yet another race track for cars.
Fears 147 homes bid will worsen traffic and parking woes in Cheltenham town centre
‘Where on earth are all the cars that currently park in the Black and White going to park? The car park is full most days’
https://www.gloucestershirelive.co.uk/news/cheltenham-news/fears-147-homes-bid-worsen-9450483