https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-67473254.amp

https://amp.theguardian.com/books/2023/nov/20/bob-mortimer-wins-bollinger-everyman-wodehouse-prize-for-his-mischievous-debut-novel

https://amp.theguardian.com/environment/2023/nov/20/defras-failure-to-protect-and-restore-water-bodies-unlawful-high-court-rules

If so your details might shortly be sold

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-12771763/amp/cyber-attack-british-library-ransom-sell-stolen-data-online-auction-criminals-millions.html

Very expensive. Do you think it us worth buying?

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2023/nov/20/revealed-huge-climate-impact-of-the-middle-classes-carbon-divide

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2023/oct/18/exercise-is-the-prescription-that-every-cancer-patient-deserves-and-one-theyre-in-control-of#comment-164916623 One of a series of articles in the Guardian by an oncologist. The evidence of how important exercise is to health seems to grow daily.

https://news.sky.com/story/amp/four-bodies-recovered-in-search-for-missing-teenagers-in-north-wales-12950375

https://www.hsi.org/news-resources/canada-enacts-historic-ban-on-elephant-ivory-and-rhino-horn-trade/

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-lancashire-67475416.amp

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What has the Government announced?

While the Government has not yet responded to the petition you signed, it has announced plans to ban XL Bully type dogs, and set out the rules that will apply to these dogs.

Under the new rules, which will come into force on 31 December 2023, it will be illegal to breed, sell, advertise, exchange, gift, rehome, abandon or allow XL Bully dogs to stray in England and Wales. From this date, these dogs must be kept on a lead and muzzled in public. From 1 February 2024 it will then become illegal to own an XL Bully dog if it is not registered on the Index of Exempted Dogs.

https://amp.theguardian.com/society/2023/nov/20/nhs-england-gives-key-role-in-handling-patient-data-to-us-spy-tech-firm-palantir

better than the pavement

https://www.lbc.co.uk/news/derby-teenager-sentenced-youth-detention-punching-elderly-man-death/

And four people injured

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-wales-67462539

https://ukmensday.org.uk/

https://news.sky.com/story/amp/train-strikes-full-list-of-december-2023-dates-and-rail-lines-affected-13009476

And not even an MP

https://news.sky.com/story/david-camerons-comeback-three-key-questions-people-are-asking-13007376

But it’s not new

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-12764111/amp/TOXIC-NHS-sees-competing-clinicians-lack-empathy-patients-risk-sexual-harassment-female-employees-rife-health-ombudsman-claims.html

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-12765069/amp/British-elite-runner-Tom-Evans-mugged-knifepoint-wedding-ring-watch-iPhone-trains-South-Africa-race.html?ico=amp_articleRelated_with_images

This must be the most outstanding instance of natures miraculous beauty.

https://www.msn.com/en-gb/travel/tripideas/20-totally-amazing-butterfly-species/ss-AA1jZfWd?ocid=msedgntp&cvid=91a7c5e43d594958a0c7513dfdd36202&ei=36

Good to see one council catching and prosecuting fly tippers but I think still having to book in many places to just go to the tip is making things worse

https://www.kentonline.co.uk/gravesend/news/amp/fly-tipper-fined-1-5k-after-being-caught-in-the-act-296967/

What idiots, bickering over something that they have no real say in, being the opposition

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-67432393

Now who can even consider trusting in them for the future. They’ve just shot themselves in the foot!

Poor man. What an awful way to die

https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-nottinghamshire-67255503.amp

Is there anything I can do about condensation drips from a skylight, it drips down the front of the cooker and on the floor, all I am doing is putting towels down each night.
I do put the extractor fan on as soon as i get up but can't leave that on all night.

What a sad story

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-derbyshire-67427229

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-birmingham-67429350

Just had a phone call from a friend asking which low calorie, refreshing drink I could recommend as she is fed-up with water. Limited storage in fridge. I only drink water/tea and maybe half a bitter shandy sometimes.

And it's not going well..
Got 3 things on order, 1 was due to be delivered Saturday, confirmed in the morning - later 'undeliverable returned to seller. yesterday email saying 'dropped of at address, which it wasnt.
1 to be delivered today email this morning says so, tracking still says being delivered today but it's not even 'out for delivery'
3rd one due Friday - wonder if i will ever get any of them ?

Their inclusive calendar excludes Christmas and Easter 🤬

https://www.msn.com/en-gb/lifestyle/lifestylegeneral/national-trust-accused-of-going-too-woke-after-releasing-2024-calendar-with-no-christmas/ar-AA1jSnEv

It’s most important days falling this year on the same weekend as tensions, protests and remembrance, it has been overshadowed. Today being the most important day, you may be hearing or heard fireworks tonight


https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/newsbeat-67138768

https://vm.tiktok.com/ZGe1q9P9R/

Would have at least been something they might have managed!

Some of the comments are funny 😄

https://vm.tiktok.com/ZGe19DdoA/

https://uk.news.yahoo.com/amphtml/man-89-cut-neighbours-hedges-as-they-hadnt-bothered-then-thanks-himself-in-newspaper-080908092.html

We gave our today for your tomorrow.

On this day, I remember poor little Laika too, every year.

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smithsonian-institution/sad-story-laika-space-dog-and-her-one-way-trip-orbit-1-180968728/

I bought one which I like but white snow is coming off. Thought of spraying with hair spray firm hold unless someone can suggest something else.

https://www.timeout.com/london/news/st-pancras-has-unveiled-its-spectacular-2023-christmas-tree-and-its-made-out-of-books-110323

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-beds-bucks-herts-67356354

A friend who has recently returned from a coach holiday to Lake Garda with her husband fell at home and husband couldn't get her up on his own (she suffered a stroke the day after her first Covid vaccination and hasn't had one since), ambulance came to help her get up, then nurses came to give her tests and verdict is she has Covid. Apparently some on the coach also had coughs and colds which might be par for the course in confined spaces and could be just a cold. Bossy Boots here has told her she should ring the coach company so see if any others have caught it as it could be where she picked it up and also the driver who collected and delivered them from home as it was a door-to-door service to the coach. She goes out rarely so it seems the most obvious place.

Took 2 watches into Timpsons for new batteries - £14 each !
It's ridiculous, I said 'no' and he dropped it to £10 each, still a lot I think.

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/nhs-brexit-medicine-supply-shortage-b2442211.html

Have members had trouble getting theirs

Our pharmacist tried 14 different places to get medication my husband was prescribed. It couldn’t be found and in the end he had to accept a similar but less effective type

Maybe a silly question but what is the best way to pin a poppy to my coat ?
Every year they fall off.

What was left out?
No new bill to ban the import of hunting trophies, after a Tory MP's bill to do so was timed out in the last parliamentary session

A bill to introduce a ban on so-called conversion therapy to change someone's sexual orientation or gender identity - promised since 2018

A bill authorising the construction of the HS2 rail line between Crewe and Manchester dropped

A draft bill to overhaul the treatment of people with learning disabilities and autism, mentioned in last year's Queen's Speech

Does anyone know if the roadworks/improvements to Junction 1 M20/Junction 3 M25 have finished? Last time I drove that way on the A20 there was a long queue in the J1 slip road.

https://news.sky.com/story/woman-hit-by-two-trains-in-horror-movie-says-avoidable-mistakes-led-to-loss-of-arm-and-leg-12998359?dicbo=v2-NFtMEMd

https://news.sky.com/story/amp/israel-hamas-war-rochdale-cenotaph-daubed-with-free-palestine-ahead-of-armistice-day-13002886

It is a start but maybe brings hope to some people not to have to travel to Switzerland. Copied from email I received.

Today, the Isle of Man’s Assisted Dying Bill passed its Second Reading with an historic vote of 17 to 7. MHKs have heard the overwhelming call for change from the Manx people and voted yes to dignity.

This means the Isle of Man is on the path to becoming the first part of the British Isles to legalise assisted dying. It joins countries like Australia, New Zealand and the US by acknowledging that dying people deserve choice at the end of life. This is a huge victory.

The Bill will now progress through further stages of scrutiny, consultation and debate. Assisted dying could be available as a choice for terminally ill islanders in 2025.

It wouldn’t have been possible without the incredible work of supporters in the Isle of Man. Whether it was writing to members of their parliament, telling their stories to local media, or attending the demonstration this morning, everyone has worked so hard. A huge thank you to you all for everything you’ve done to support the campaign.