https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c720r1pxrx5o
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French railway network sabotaged
Not by cyber hackers but by co-ordinated arson attacks on signal boxes on the main high speed lines going north, south, east, and west of Paris. The attack on the line south to Lyon was foiled. Eurostar trains are either cancelled or delayed by hours.
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Seems like an awful lot was going on there that day. What I cannot understand is what the elderly lady is doing in the middle of it
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cjqep1ew419o.amp -
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/world-news/2024/07/25/melania-trump-memoir-autumn-intimate-portrait/
Who needs a pre-nuptial agreement? -
How could a woman die because staff didn’t check properly?
https://www.theguardian.com/society/article/2024/jul/24/inga-rublite-inquest-nottingham-queens-medical-centre -
Re US Presidential Candidates.
A TV debate is scheduled for Sept 10th on the ABC network.
It should now feature Harris vs Trump.
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The Olympic football and rugby sevens both kick off at 2pm today. Live on Eurosport.
Opening ceremony is on Friday evening. Will be interesting to hear the crowd reaction when the Israeli athletes walk in. But I expect the BBC will cut to the studio at that moment. -
Is this Britains thickest Lotto loser?
Man thinks that just by seeing the winning numbers on his Lotto app, in the results checker screen, he has won the jackpot. Even though he never bought a ticket for that draw or any draw.
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Dog mauled by unregistered XL Bully
https://uk.news.yahoo.com/girl-10-mauled-unregistered-xl-112257712.html
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Knives found . Man arrested
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Standards of Modern Journalism.
Headline in "The Standard".
The Metropolitan Police are looking for Graham Gomm, 63, who has been on remand for burglary offences at HMP Wormwood Scrubs.
Is it just me, but this reads that Mr. Gomm has been remanded for burgling Wormwood Scrubs? -
A repeat of that other sad story?
https://news.sky.com/story/four-males-found-dead-in-car-involved-in-crash-in-gloucestershire-13182592
Wait for updates as someone reports them
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Biden steps aside. (Edited)
Joe Biden has pulled out of the US presidential race. He has also endorsed Kamala Harris as the Democrat candidate.
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https://www.msn.com/en-gb/weather/topstories/uk-to-be-soaked-by-thunderstorm-from-hell-that-will-dump-21-days-of-rain-in-just-three-hours/ar-BB1qtLJd?ocid=msedgntp&pc=U531&cvid=3529ed421bfc46e7a2872060176cd042&ei=24
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Dementia diagnosis rising at alarming rate
As reported in the news today there has been a huge rise in confirmed cases in this country
Is it just due to a significantly higher age population or are there other factors.
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Source: New York Post
"Trump wore a “loose, large white bandage that covered his right ear” during the interview that was conducted on Trump’s private plane as he flew to Milwaukee for the Republican National Convention, according to the report.
No pictures were allowed to be taken of the former president wearing the bandage, per Goodwin.
Elsewhere in the interview, Trump said he’s “supposed to be dead.”
“A lot of people say it’s the most iconic photo they’ve ever seen,” he added of an image of him pumping his fist before being escorted away by agents.
“They’re right and I didn’t die. Usually you have to die to have an iconic picture,” he added."
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Older adults still have plenty of sex.
Thirty percent told AARP [ American Assoc Retired People ] researchers that they have sex weekly, 27 percent said monthly or less, and 40 percent reported having no sex in the last six months.
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I just had an email saying my Prime account needed renewing and my credit card had expired - at first glance it looked as if it might be genuine. It wasn't. (Of course the usual trick of 'expiring now' was used to try to prompt a response without caution.) I dare say that whoever is behind it is trying other 'Amazon' scams.
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500,000 homes sitting empty in UK while 100,000 families are homeless
https://metro.co.uk/2020/12/30/500000-homes-sitting-empty-in-uk-while-100000-families-are-homeless-13812966/
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Just watched the documentary about the new Malaria Vaccine how wonderful
https://www.ox.ac.uk/news/2024-07-15-c-te-d-ivoire-makes-history-first-nation-deploy-r21matrix-m-malaria-vaccine -
This Saturday evening, about 8pm, I drove 1.8 miles from North Cheam to Motspur Park.
Via Worcester Park's Central Road, which has more restaurants and take-aways than you can shake a stick at!
Counted 20 scooter riders with food deliveries in 5 minutes.
A lot of of them were showing L-plates, and definitely unworried about the 20mph limit.
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Were the police too slow to react
The link is live so it will change as reports come in
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/crime/leeds-riots-harehills-uk-why-latest-news-b2582440.html
This started over children taken into care? Are people too quick to react or overreact without knowing the facts or making assumptions.
How much of that reaction is caused by online bloggers -
Please look out for this and report it immediately!
Just seen this posted on another site and thought it's worth posting on here just to warn people of what's been going on with these poor dogs and cats. There's some really screwed up people outthere that's for sure...
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I wouldn’t forgive them either
https://amp.theguardian.com/uk-news/article/2024/jul/20/i-have-not-forgiven-met-officers-who-photographed-dead-daughters-bibaa-henry-nicole-smallman-mother-mina-smallman
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Would be grateful for recommendations preferable one were pressure can be adjusted to suit. I find it very painful.
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Sadly passed away last night after a battle with cancer
https://www.bbc.com/sport/snooker/articles/cjewjqnqwv4o.amp -
Can someone explain the small boats policy?
It may sound daft, but I'm not sure what it is.
I read that Labour will stop the use of hotels for those who crossed in small boats, but then read that these people crossing could then apply for asylum, which currently under the hotel scheme they couldn't? Or am I reading it totally wrong?This discussion is now closed.
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Found after all this time
https://www.kentonline.co.uk/canterbury/news/amp/school-evacuated-and-cordoned-off-by-police-309994/ -
FYI.
"Recorded executions soared to their highest number in almost a decade in 2023 with a sharp rise across the Middle East and in Somalia, where executions increased by more than six times, Amnesty International said today as it released its annual report on the global use of the death penalty
Globally, a total of 1,153 known executions took place in 2023, which does not include the thousands believed to have been carried out in China, marking an increase of more than 30% from 2022. It was the highest figure recorded by Amnesty International since 2015, when 1,634 people were known to have been executed. Despite this increase, the number of countries that carried out executions reached the lowest figure on record with Amnesty International.
The five countries with the highest number of executions in 2023 were China, Iran, Saudi Arabia, Somalia and the USA. Excluding China, Iran alone accounted for 74% of all recorded executions while Saudi Arabia accounted for 15%.
The USA also carried out an increased number of executions in 2023.
Due to state secrecy, Amnesty’s numbers do not include the thousands of people believed to have been executed in China, which remains the world’s lead executioner.
Similarly, the organization was unable to put forward figures for North Korea and Viet Nam, countries believed to resort to executions extensively.
Despite the actions of a few, progress continued. As of today, 112 countries are fully abolitionist and 144 in total have abolished the death penalty in law or practice.
Executions were recorded in 16 countries, the lowest number recorded by Amnesty International. No executions were recorded in Belarus, Japan, Myanmar and South Sudan, all of which carried out executions in 2022."
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Protestors get prison sentences
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/article/2024/jul/18/five-just-stop-oil-supporters-jailed-over-protest-that-blocked-m25
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Will it effect you
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/business/2024/07/19/outage-tech-internet-broadband-banking-uk-australia-world/ -
I was under the impression - wrongly it seems - that people over a certain age didn't have to pay for their tv licence. It would seem that you have to be receiving Pension Credit to get a free licence.
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Hybrid car explodes as Grandad saves toddler
https://www.manchestereveningnews.co.uk/news/greater-manchester-news/horror-man-child-suffer-burns-29561759.amp
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Biden Preparing Graceful Exit?
“If I had some medical condition that emerged, if somebody, if doctors came to me and said, you got this problem and that problem,” Biden said, according to a brief excerpt released by the network.
The comment is the latest in a series of shifting explanations by the president about what might cause him to reconsider. In an interview with ABC News this month, Biden said he would drop out only if the “Lord almighty” told him to. At a news conference in Washington several days later, he said he would stay in the race unless aides came to him with proof that he could never win.
In the BET [ Black Entertainment Television ] interview, he conceded that he “made a serious mistake in the whole debate” and would reevaluate his decision if one of his doctors changed their assessment of him.
Biden also said for the first time that he had expected to “move on” from the presidency and “pass it on to somebody else” but decided to run again because he believed his “wisdom” and experience would help heal the country’s worsening divisions.
“You may remember, Ed, I said I was going to be a transitional candidate, and I thought I would be able to move on from this and pass it on to somebody else,” the president said. “But I didn’t anticipate things getting so, so, so divided. And quite frankly, I think the only thing age brings is a little bit of wisdom.”
It is the most explicit that Biden has been in suggesting that he considered serving only one term in office when he ran in 2020.
At the time, he said he would be a transitional candidate who could serve as a bridge to a new generation of political leaders in the party.
That was widely seen at the time by many Democrats as Biden — the oldest person elected to the White House — hinting that he would pass the torch to Vice President Kamala Harris to run in the 2024 election."
This is a critical decision. Your thoughts?