Has anyone else been sent one of these?
The VM landline phone service is going full fibre at the end of the month, so customers are being sent adapters so your landline phone can be plugged into your router or hub.
For me that means unplugging the router from the broadband cable upstairs to bring it downstairs to plug in the phone line. So I'm assuming (hoping) the new all fibre phoneline will also carry the broadband.
Will wait and see.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-dorset-65776291

Sadly two young people have died but there’s still confusion over what occurred

https://bit.ly/3pWouji

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New cash laws

Do you 🤔 think?

https://news.sky.com/story/raf-recruiters-were-advised-against-selecting-useless-white-male-pilots-to-hit-diversity-targets-12893684

Family and strangers come together

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-glasgow-west-65745388

Your comments and experience please.

At the French Open tennis this week there was a women's singles match between a Russian and a Ukrainian. The Russian won. At the end of the match they refused to shake hands, which is understandable. But it was only the Ukrainian who was booed off court. The Russian was applauded and cheered as she walked off.
Says a lot about the French and whose side they are really on.

I thought this was very sad when I first read it, one lady who I could actually listen to and admire. Just so young.


Daily Mail
https://www.dailymail.co.uk › news › article-12142899
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12 minutes ago — 'We are devastated... we really loved her': Emotional ITV News anchor Tom ... Emily Morgan following her death from lung cancer at age 45.

https://www.itv.com/news/2023-05-26/it-issue-causes-mass-cancellation-of-british-airways-flights-at-heathrow

But I’d prefer if people like Paloma Faith need to criticise a Disney film that she do it politely and not belittle herself or set a bad example with her unnecessary bad language in doing so .

https://www.nme.com/news/film/paloma-faith-criticises-new-the-little-mermaid-film-wtf-is-this-shit-3449165

😂

https://www.gloucestershirelive.co.uk/news/real-life/nurse-runs-life-spotting-black-8472174

https://savebritain.org/met-police-to-ignore-emergency-calls-related-to-britons-mental-health/

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-65731807

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-london-65697939.amp

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-australia-65522841

https://news.sky.com/story/amp/post-office-admits-abhorrent-racist-slur-was-used-to-describe-suspects-in-horizon-scandal-12890411

https://www.glastonbudget.org/

Saw this on tv this morning and it’s already on in Leicestershire.

What a super idea

Now he’s gone from his morning show he has to admit he has been lying for years. So he will not be presenting planned shows with ITV in the future

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-65729361.amp

Chelsea flower show. Three women arrested for criminal damage

https://www.itv.com/news/london/2023-05-25/paint-thrown-over-chelsea-flower-show-garden-in-just-stop-oil-protest

https://www.which.co.uk/news/article/the-4-most-convincing-scams-weve-seen-in-2023-so-far-a7bRP9s0KJvG?utm_medium=email&utm_source=engagingnetworks&utm_campaign=Supporters&utm_content=Scam+Alert+250523+-+A

https://news.sky.com/story/zombie-drug-claims-first-victim-in-uk-and-could-be-in-widespread-use-across-the-country-12888776

That's tv news and printed news.
https://www.msn.com/en-gb/money/other/gb-news-named-britain-s-most-loved-news-brand-just-two-years-after-launch/ar-AA1bAx6O?li=BBoPRmx

What do you think? Does it seem confusing? Necessary? Ridiculous?

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/video/news/video-2944247/Video-Council-unveils-confusing-10million-road-layout-Leicester.html

I wasn’t aware of this incident, very sad


https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-65691643

Does anyone know if Clive is okay?

Harry and Meghan’s spokesperson declared that the couple were chased and the Mayor twisted that statement by saying he doubted that it was a high speed chase (those words were not in the spokespersons statement)

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-65625886.amp

But what is the difference and does it matter?

Best painter in a generation
gone to restyle st peters gates

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/may/21/ex-gurkha-soldier-with-no-legs-reaches-summit-of-mount-everest

Eleven year sentence

https://news.sky.com/story/theranos-founder-elizabeth-holmes-set-to-serve-11-year-prison-sentence-after-judge-throws-out-latest-appeal-12882844?dicbo=v2-NJbw1zL

If this was the other way round, a theatre show for whites only, the screams of racism would be deafening.

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2023/05/20/tambo-and-bones-theatre-white-black-audiences/

George Logan who played Hinge has passed away at 78 years of age .

Here’s a link that includes an episode of their tv show Dear Ladies

https://beyondthejoke.co.uk/content/13537/george-logan-hinge-dies

I received an email today from a place I shop online.
It said they understand that it can be upsetting getting email suggestions for mothers or fathers days for some people and if I wanted to opt out of the upcoming fathers days suggestions to let them know.
I thought this was a really nice thing for them to do as I remember last year being upset after losing dad and getting some

And I nearly threw up.
There was a dance group all dressed in black and as each dancer was centre stage their voiceover was telling their story of how bad their life was, but dancing has saved them. It was unbelievably woke.

https://news.sky.com/story/four-children-including-11-month-old-baby-found-alive-in-jungle-weeks-after-plane-crash-12883326?dicbo=v2-EOL550M

https://vm.tiktok.com/ZGJ96HeMK/

https://www.msn.com/en-gb/money/other/household-bills-to-plunge-by-500-as-putins-energy-war-fails/ar-AA1bo8Cf

My Black & Decker dust buster gave up the ghost. Read reviews and not as good. No power suction. Any other suggestion? Cordless, rechargeable, handheld. Thank you.

Tory MP Miriam Cates has said the UKs low birthrate is a ticking timebomb because soon there will not be enough working age young adults to do all the jobs.
So we need to bring in more people from abroad.
But at the same time people are saying, "we don't want any more migrants, the country is full".
Can't have it both ways
https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2023/may/15/low-birthrate-is-uk-top-priority-tory-mp-tells-rightwing-conference-miriam-cates

Cultural Marxism is not anti-semitic.

https://www.which.co.uk/news/article/weak-banking-security-is-leaving-customers-vulnerable-to-fraud-aFsBs5U6nAFR?utm_medium=email&utm_source=engagingnetworks&utm_campaign=Supporters&utm_content=Scam+alert+040523+-+[Split:B]

Urgh

https://www.essexlive.news/news/essex-news/leytonstone-mcdonalds-hit-497k-fine-8406594

Take some guesses before opening the website.

https://www.gbnews.com/news/it-worker-sued-boss-who-marked-problems-with-xx-as-she-thought-they-were-kisses

Incompetence , strikes , price rises?
It’s all gone very very wrong

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-12097451/amp/Royal-Mail-makes-1-billion-annual-loss.html

Three weeks ago I sent a specially made present to a friend who had just come home from hospital. It never arrived. So this week I had it remade and sent by a tracked Royal Mail service. It arrived with my friend very quickly and was signed for .

Guess what arrived with it ?
Yes the identical article sent by ‘ordinary’ post three weeks ago. So where had it been all that time?

https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2023/may/15/keir-starmer-says-it-feels-wrong-eu-citizens-living-in-uk-cant-vote

https://bit.ly/3Jt2DGp

The BBC reports on lack of movement on the building or updating of most of those 40 promised hospitals . Showing some with leaking roofs

https://twitter.com/BBCBreakfast/status/1658703477390946304?ref_src=twsrc%5Egoogle%7Ctwcamp%5Eserp%7Ctwgr%5Etweet

Covid is really officially over. I knew I would be right eventually
https://www.ft.com/content/a0772e5a-9a42-453f-aee0-30e7c1b61cb2

A huge happiness and positive thinking industry, estimated to be worth US$11 billion a year, has helped to create the fantasy that happiness is a realistic goal. Chasing the happiness dream is a very American concept, exported to the rest of the world through popular culture. Indeed, “the pursuit of happiness” is one of the US’s “unalienable rights”. Unfortunately, this has helped to create an expectation that real life stubbornly refuses to deliver.

Because even when all our material and biological needs are satisfied, a state of sustained happiness will still remain a theoretical and elusive goal, as Abd-al-Rahman III, Caliph of Córdoba in the tenth century, discovered. He was one of the most powerful men of his time, who enjoyed military and cultural achievements, as well as the earthly pleasures of his two harems.

Towards the end of his life, however, he decided to count the exact number of days during which he had felt happy.

They amounted to precisely 14.