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[Rita_Poon]

British Steel: Government aims to take control with emergency law

Parliament will be recalled on Saturday in a bid to save the firm's Scunthorpe plant.

www.bbc.co.uk

got to ask the question, how have thames water avoided intervention.

 

[summerisle]

"The English people appeared to become a little more human as long as they were drinking,” he noted not long after his arrival. “They spoke with great animation and their movements appeared almost spontaneous. Some of them even roared with laughter, like people do.”

‘Deep down, all Englishmen are policemen’: a Spanish correspondent’s view of life in Edwardian London

The journalist and adventurer Julio Camba wrote exquisite sketches about the strange habits of the English

www.theguardian.com

 

[Rita_Poon]

Book bound in human skin found in Bury St Edmunds museum

Horrible Histories author Terry Deary describes the book as a "sickening artefact".

www.bbc.co.uk

 

[NeilMorepies]

 

[Rita_Poon]

Toby Carvery owner admits cutting down ancient Enfield oak tree

The felling of a much-loved and centuries-old north London oak tree was initially reported to police.

www.bbc.co.uk

 

[Rita_Poon]

Nicotinoids banned in agriculture (because of the toxicity) available in supermarkets for household pet flea and tick treatments have poisoned off 50% of uk songbirds.

link when it lands.

 

[Blue 1]

Nicotinoids banned in agriculture (because of the toxicity) available in supermarkets for household pet flea and tick treatments have poisoned off 50% of uk songbirds.

link when it lands.

Flea treatments are so overused. I do my dog's about every 3 months and he's never had fleas or ticks in his life.

 

[Rita_Poon]

Flea treatments are so overused. I do my dog's about every 3 months and he's never had fleas or ticks in his life.

It's Neonicotinoids, it was channel4 news earlier. If I can get the vid I will post it. 100% of nests checked were poisoned.

 

[Bryan+]

Flea treatments are so overused. I do my dog's about every 3 months and he's never had fleas or ticks in his life.

That’s because you give him flea treatment

 

[Blue 1]

That’s because you give him flea treatment

Yeah, probably didn't phrase that particularly well.

The guidance is once a month, which is entirely unnecessary.

 

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German palliative care doctor charged with murder of 15 patients

The suspect, 40, is accused of setting fire to the homes of some of his alleged victims to cover his tracks.

www.bbc.co.uk

 

[Cake]

Question popped into my head after seeing Charles (our 'King') on the news (for a change...);

If he doesn't abdicate before he dies to give that Villa fan a go, if Camilla is still alive is she our 'ruler' on her own until she dies or resigns?

 

[Alanbileysfeathercut]

Gloria Honniford ,still presenting at 85.
Give someone else a chance....

 

[Rita_Poon]

oap drivers (specifically the blind ones) focused upon again.

Coroner's call for older driver eye tests after fatal crashes

Visual legal standards for motorists is "ineffective and unsafe", a coroner says.

www.bbc.co.uk

9 years after being told not to drive.

 

[tonyhorne]

Question popped into my head after seeing Charles (our 'King') on the news (for a change...);

If he doesn't abdicate before he dies to give that Villa fan a go, if Camilla is still alive is she our 'ruler' on her own until she dies or resigns?

No