Let's have a lovely week despite all of the worries and problems this world is going through ❤

Apparently the over population of squirrels is causing no end of trouble so they are to be given contraceptive pills!!! According to Breakfast tele (which I didn't see) but Husband did.

In Spain.
https://www.gbnews.uk/news/brit-holidaymakers-warning-as-little-known-beach-rule-could-see-you-fined-130/335794

This is the match that could decide who finishes 1st and 2nd in the group. Northern Ireland play Austria in the earlier match. Get your predictions in by 7.30pm for the 8pm kick off.
Good luck

What are they really singing

https://vm.tiktok.com/ZMNfK6huT/?k=1

Rises caused mainly by people living longer. More people over 100 then ever before.


https://www.un.org/en/observances/world-population-day

With the news being taken over by politics you may have missed this

https://news.sky.com/story/woman-27-stabbed-in-the-back-by-cyclist-in-east-london-near-to-where-zara-aleena-was-killed-12649720

There has been a rise in blasphemy arrests

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-10994767/Christian-mechanic-sentenced-death-blasphemy-Pakistan-argued-customer.html

https://www.forbes.com/sites/tanyamohn/2022/04/30/free-bikes-for-ukrainian-refugees/?sh=680bcb6c45fb

This isn’t just happening there. There are schemes in the UK too

Just watched the Men`s final, great game I think Djokovic had a great winning game, any other thoughts ?

Reading in the paper last week about the price of Lurpak now being £9 in some supermarkets. Thats for the 1 kg pack. One supermarket is even putting security tags on the tubs.
Anyway reading the article it was revealed that Lurpak is not 100% butter. It contains 28% rapeseed oil. I was shocked.
The only real butters are Anchor and Countrylife.

This is the latter of two matches in the Women's Euros today. The earlier one is Belgium v Iceland. France's standout player is Wendie Renard. She appear to be about a foot taller than any other player. She wins headers just by standing in the right place. Get your predictions in by 7.30pm for the 8pm kick off
Good luck

https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/gym-owner-traumatised-after-dvla-27431919

How could the DVLA have sent this out without checking

When the French mime artist Marcel Marceau died, on the radio, out of respect they had two minutes noise . 😂

Amelie Osborne Smith was attacked by a crocodile whilst on a gap year but returned to the area to see a school she funded.

This is the original story about the start of the fundraising

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-hampshire-60667251

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2022/jul/08/poacher-who-took-60k-of-salmon-and-trout-from-welsh-river-walks-free

Sat Jul 9, 11:59 PM 2 min 21° 21° above SE 10° above E Facebook Twitter
Sun Jul 10, 1:32 AM 6 min 63° 14° above WSW 10° above E Facebook Twitter
Sun Jul 10, 3:08 AM 7 min 72° 10° above W 10° above ESE Facebook Twitter
Sun Jul 10, 11:11 PM 1 min 15° 15° above ESE 10° above ESE Facebook Twitter
Mon Jul 11, 12:44 AM 6 min 51° 16° above SW 10° above E Facebook Twitter

Wimbledon organisers are thought to be absolutely livid that Russian tennis player Elena Rybakina has circumvented the ban on Russian players by switching allegiance to Kazakhstan shortly before the tournament.
She was born in Moscow and lives there so no doubting she is Russian.
As for the final itself, I think the other finalist, Ons Jabeur, will be the favourite.
Could be the first African, ethnically Arab, Tunisian winner. Or the first (not really) Kazakh winner.
But as I've said before tennis players represent themselves, not their countries. There should never have been a ban.
I think Rybakina will win

This is the latter of todays matches in the Women's Euros. Earlier Portugal and Switzerland will be playing. Netherlands are defending champions. But they did have home advantage back in 2017. They were coached by the woman who is now England manager, Sabrina Wiegman. Get your predictions in by 7.30pm for 8pm kick off.
Good luck

As 1st one is running exceptionally slowly
I hope that Clive will now close it so we can continue on this new thread

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/carrie-johnson-chequers-prime-minister-boris-johnson-buckinghamshire-b2118688.html

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-london-62095222

This man had been working with young and vulnerable young people for over 20 years

https://www.sussex.police.uk/news/sussex/news/court-results/crowborough-man-sentenced-for-child-sex-offences/

Although he has been sentenced any further information will be gratefully received by police regarding other possible offences

In a recently closed thread, someone said they had read that global warming was mainly due to natural causes and not human activity. Perhaps the article was written by the Global Warming Policy Foundation AKA Net Zero Watch.
https://www.opendemocracy.net/en/dark-money-investigations/global-warming-policy-foundation-net-zero-watch-koch-brothers/

With everything that happened yesterday Ringo Starr’s 82nd birthday was almost ovelooked

https://vm.tiktok.com/ZMNy1AVg2/?k=1

What an awful shame Rafa has had to stand down due to a tear in his abdomen. Shame he didn’t do it during the last match though. It has let his next opponent go through without a fight

This is the later of two matches being played today. The other was Spain v Finland. The match is being played at Brentford. Get your predictions in by 7.30pm for an 8pm kick-off.
Good luck

The mum who killed Baby P has been freed today after the parole board decided she wasn't a threat,even though Dominic Raab argued it was wrong to let a violent killer out so soon.
7 years for horrifically torturing and killing your son is a joke. People get longer for robberies.
Now we will be financing her to live in a bail hostel and then a home while she lives the life her baby will never get to have .

https://www.countryside-jobs.com/article/2020-07-24-the-increase-in-road-verge-wilding-and-the-role-of-native-flora?fbclid=IwAR1tWucpRkDi3UJSNTEbYdTaJMBgy-uUFmjph3F2yacjqGvCIlJYmJEqc7I

If you didn't realise that beekeeping doesn't help 'save the bees', and is actually contributing to the collapse of our wild bee species, please read this.
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2021/jul/24/this-only-saves-honeybees-the-trouble-with-britains-beekeeping-boom-aoe

I posted this in Save the Planet, but this is a mainstream subject that affects us all.

If we switched to renewable energy, the number of ships crossing the ocean would fall by 40% because they're just carrying fossil fuels.
https://billmckibben.substack.com/p/the-happiest-number-ive-heard-in

https://www.msn.com/en-gb/money/other/why-whiskas-cat-food-has-disappeared-from-tescos-shelves/ar-AAZjJ8A?ocid=msedgntphdr

https://www.froglife.org/2022/07/07/the-secret-lives-of-toads-in-trees/

https://www.msn.com/en-gb/news/world/the-delicious-irony-of-boris-johnson-s-downfall/ar-AAZkkIE?ocid=msedgntphdr&cvid=df7b50ab7253479ca5317fc3033f1bac

1.Katie Price
2.Simon Cowell
3. Alan Titchmarsh
4. Anne Robinson
5.The Dulux dog
6.Steve Davis
7.The opera bloke from the Go compare advert

It is for me, there are so many posts I have had to stop following lately there seems little point in being part of it.

Maybe some of will be moving home and will need to decorate but not with this skilfully made cake

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-wales-62073174

So calm down folks and enjoy this lovely eh… possibly sunny day .. maybe later

Some music to calm the mind


https://youtu.be/xMaE6toi4mk

This is tonight match in the Women's Euros being played in Southampton. Get your predictions in by 7.30pm. Kick off is 8pm.
Good luck

Boris will be gone by Friday

A collapse of the government?

In the last few minutes Rishi Sunak and Sajid Javid both resign

As the Womens Euros tournament is starting tomorrow, I thought we could have a competitive Predict The Score for the duration. One match each day through to the final.

Poor man

https://www.dailystar.co.uk/news/latest-news/ex-squaddie-who-beat-cancer-27371861?int_source=nba

https://www.itv.com/news/westcountry/2022-07-04/latest-south-west-traffic-updates-as-motorway-fuel-protests-begin

https://www.msn.com/en-gb/foodanddrink/other/fed-up-russians-are-served-mouldy-burgers-in-their-replacement-mcdonald-s-restaurants/ar-AAZcUXG?ocid=msedgntphdr&cvid=6dd9b5f9dfd942529f88cde1a7ca68f4

https://www.dailystar.co.uk/news/latest-news/prince-harry-dragged-around-like-27380380

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-10980099/amp/Trophy-hunter-killed-lions-elephants-shot-dead-robbers-ambushed-South-Africa.html?fr=operanews

https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2022/jul/02/boris-johnson-faces-investigation-into-claims-over-40-new-hospitals?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other

When and where are the hospitals 🏥 and can we afford them ? Surely we need them more than ever with new communities and towns being built.

https://www.ofcom.org.uk/phones-telecoms-and-internet/advice-for-consumers/scams/7726-reporting-scam-texts-and-calls

A history lesson

https://www.history.co.uk/article/syndrome-k-the-fake-ww2-disease-that-saved-jews-from-the-nazis