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Harry Potter actor in peril,
Harry Potter actor in peril, drivers might be fined £5000 and Jeremy Clarkson sneezes seem to be the clickbaits de nos jours.
In case you hadn’t heard, shock revelation that all publicity is good publicity:
Despite his colourful lament that the “fun police in their beige offices” had stifled his magnum opus — an ad featuring a choir of 34 farmers belting “F*** me, it’s good” to the tune of Delibes’ Flower Duet — the Advertising Standards Authority and Clearcast have both stated that they never received the ad in the first place.
Would love to know if the 34 who took part were paid. I’d be feeling a bit deflated if I hadn’t been and it was all a stunt.
Finally, I’m confused, is it now etiquette to take a drink and say “fuck me, that’s good”?
https://www.gloucestershirelive.co.uk/news/celebs-tv/jeremy-clarkson-slams-braying-yobbos-10342005
Union Jack dress girl: I
Union Jack dress girl: I think there’s more to come out about what has gone on here. For sure, the grifters have not been slow to try to make both revenue and capital out of it:
The Gofundme seems to have been pretty short-lived. I did catch a guy on a Facebook reel reading out the whole of the letter, second stanza of which was getting into All Lives Matter territory. At a practical level, I’m not sure what the indigenous white pupils are meant to do on a day like this; a bit like bringing in an example of British cuisine.
The rabbit hole also led me to this patch of historical illiteracy and present day confusion – tolerant, pluralistic, etc but you’re doing your darndest to take a wrecking ball to that:
“It doesn’t matter how many polls show the United Kingdom to be one of the most pluralistic, tolerant societies on the planet and far less racist than its European neighbours who somehow still summon the balls to sneer at Britons as bigoted retrogrades to be crushed under their metropolitan heels.”
We’re also OK because we got rid of slavery; not wishing to come over all Guardian reading metropolitan elite or anything, but out of a centuries long history “Prolific c18th slave trading nation takes decades to end the practice” would be a better headline.
https://www.itv.com/news/2020-06-11/what-was-britains-involvement-in-the-slave-trade
I was only, I was simply ✅
I was only, I was simply ✅
I had no choice ✅
I’m a victim, I’m being punished ✅
it’s all someone else’s fault ✅
Devon man ‘punished’ for trying to park at train station
Rail passengers at Tiverton Parkway say they’re being unfairly fined after being forced to park outside bays due to full car parks—sparking a growing backlash over rail-side infrastructure failures
Chris said: “It seems to me that GWR’s failure to provide adequate parking at a major rural railway hub and APOCA’s habit of regularly issuing parking fines to travellers for simply trying to catch their train might be a newsworthy story.”
https://www.devonlive.com/news/devon-news/devon-man-punished-trying-park-10349992?int_source=nba
Visiting Yorkshire :
Visiting Yorkshire : expectation vs reality
Watch as car careers across
Watch as car careers across Stoke-on-Trent junction before smashing into wall
Paramedics assessed the driver and passenger
https://www.stokesentinel.co.uk/news/stoke-on-trent-news/watch-car-careers-across-stoke-10345137
chrisonabike wrote:
Looks like it would probably carry almost as much as a “light truck” SUV in a much more compact package also! And the forward / side viewing angles look excellent also.On the plus side, what an excellent little runabout it is – other drivers please copy, if you really do insist on 4 wheels and an engine.
was hoping it might come in a bit cheaper than this https://huntforest.com/machinery/john-deere-xuv-865m-gator/
On the plus side, what an
On the plus side, what an excellent little runabout it is – other drivers please copy, if you really do insist on 4 wheels and an engine.
OTOH, what do you reckon the scam is? Like is there maybe a stables, a smallholding or a landscaping business to provide some kind of fig leaf? It would be interesting to know what journeys he makes. Red diesel?
A round-up of why police
A round-up of why police should clamp down on illegal e bikes and scooters for a hot sunny afternoon
Watch: Car smashes into bus stop outside pub on busy route into Wolverhampton
A car has smashed through a bus stop outside a pub near Wolverhampton.
Car ploughs into Doncaster bar in second smash in less than two years
2023- As the car approaches the corner at the junction with High Street near to The Olive restaurant and cafe and cocktail bar, the vehicle fails to take the bend and crashes through traffic bollards and flips across a wooden picnic table outside the premises.
Two men taken to hospital after Mirfield pub crash
The pub has confirmed on social media that it is still open, although the incident has left them with no dedicated gents’ toilets “for the foreseeable.”
Owner ‘devastated’ after car crashes into shop (picture)
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cr4n7zd7zw2o
Car crashes into Petersfield shop front
phttps://www.petersfieldpost.co.uk/news/car-crashes-into-petersfield-shop-front-791500
DRIVER CRASHES RANGE ROVER INTO HOUNSLOW SHOP
https://hounslowherald.com/driver-crashes-range-rover-into-hounslow-shop-p27128-95.htm
the usual depressing stuff
the usual depressing stuff from local retailers. The home and garden shop is the one with the cones outside it on the right.
Fears grow as Brecon traders question town centre revamp’s impact
“The proposed changes to make it look pretty and everything are great – everyone agrees the pavements need attention and we need to smarten up the town – but taking away convenient parking used mainly by locals is terrible for business,” he said.
One of the most contentious aspects of the scheme is the removal of free roadside parking on High Street and the Bulwark, alongside a re-routing and narrowing of the carriageway.
Local traders say this could deter customers, especially those making quick visits or purchasing heavy items.
“My big issue is access for customers. Are they going to be prepared to walk from a car park to where we are?” he said.
“If you want to pop into town for a pot of paint or buy a large product, there will be nowhere to park just outside the stores, so people just won’t bother coming in.”
Arguing about a one hour
Arguing about a one hour tariff and of course people will go “elsewhere” if it’s too expensive to park.
Said a town traders assoc spokesman “after 2 years’ hard work, we managed to obtain a concession from Powys council that drivers can pay £1.50 to park for an hour instead of a minimum £2.50 for two hours. Now we look forward to a new era of prosperity as customers roll in, ready to buy” Another trader added “let’s hope we can now put behind us the era of paying £2.50 to park, which has done so much to stifle trade – the one hour tariff can’t come soon enough”
Bitter parking row ends with one-hour tickets being brought back
It took almost two years for the car park proposals to be agreed
https://www.walesonline.co.uk/news/wales-news/bitter-parking-row-ends-one-31930144
see also https://www.brecon-radnor.co.uk/news/ombudsman-dismisses-complaint-against-powys-opposition-leaders-after-no-confidence-motion-738901 (a search on “parking” brings up a series of stories)
Emergency response as car
Emergency response as car crashes into home on Tunnel Hill
https://www.worcesternews.co.uk/news/25308577.emergency-response-car-crashes-home-tunnel-hill/
There’s too many e-bikes and
There’s too many e-bikes and e scooters for the police to go after to worry about guys like this,
Not bad for a 10 year old
Not bad for a 10 year old vehicle
its as though there’s a gap
its as though there’s a gap in the law, and one that any conscientious government would want to set aside Parliamentry time to address. The law and HC are a bit vague on the point, of “I’m in my seventies, feeling a bit odd, the best thing to do right now is drive home 2 hours/ 80 miles.”
I guess drivers wanting to add to the list of why no action should be taken will be running the “surely what’s happened punishment enough?” argument. So yet another one-up for the idea of the consequence-free medical episode (see also: mechanical defect) driver free pass / it was unavoidable bank.
DVLA can of course revoke a licence on medical grounds, but you’d have to hope he gave it up voluntarily.
Tragedy as two women die
Tragedy as two women die after BMW being chased by police crashes into Sunderland care home
Two residents, a woman in her 90s and a woman in her 80s, sadly passed away after the incident at Highcliffe Care Home
https://www.chroniclelive.co.uk/news/north-east-news/women-die-care-home-crash-32040230