regarding the acceptance of donations, some may find this news item relevant and interesting.
https://news.sky.com/video/robert-jenrick-accepted-75-000-in-donations-from-a-fitness-company-with-no-history-of-profits-and-no-employees-13224447

This £300 Winter Fuel Payment is just a one off payment isn't it? It's not a monthly top up.
So I think all the furore is being whipped up the the right wing media. The claims that not getting the payment will cause thousands to die can't be proven. Those pensioners may have died from old age anyway.
They can easily find the £300 in other ways. Go on one less Saga holiday. Stop buying scratchcards.

Hi everyone,....I have mentioned before on here that we lived in the States for 20 years and have USA Citizenship, Consequently we can vote for the presidential election. So, who do you think we should vote for (Trump or Harris) and WHY, ? also who do you think we should not vote for and WHY ?

Appreciate your thoughts and comments

California has made paedophilia legal.
https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2020-09-11/sb145-sex-crimes-law-gavin-newsom-lgbtq-rights

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https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/clyzwlpg6xwt

Before Horizon there was Capture. This was also faulty and led to the prosecutions of hundreds of sub-postmasters.
https://inews.co.uk/news/hundreds-post-office-convictions-second-faulty-it-system-3298040

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/starmer-boris-johnson-netherlands-partygate-book-latest-news-b2620385.html

Has seen the light and has stated today that she has left the Conservative Party stating they have moved too far to the right.
Former Tory chair Baroness Sayeeda Warsi has quit the Conservatives in a furious row just as the party is preparing to gather for a crucial conference on its future in Birmingham.
The Muslim peer was brought in as chair by David Cameron in 2010 to help detoxify the party’s brand and bring it into the 21st century.
But since leaving government in 2014 Warsi has had a difficult relationship with the Tory leadership consistently calling out racism and islamophobia in the Conservative Party. She has said that she is fed up of the party trying to gag her.

A Russian ship, spotted off Margate Kent, is carrying 20,000 tonnes of high explosive ammonium nitrate, more than seven times the amount that caused the catastrophic explosion in Beirut, Lebanon, in 2020. The ship has a damaged hull and rudder.
https://www.lbc.co.uk/news/ship-russia-maltese-explosives-fertiliser-kent-margate-english-channel/

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cm28el83dxno
Sounds hopeful!?

your GP or A&E who do you think you’ll be sitting opposite to and talking to? You might be surprised.
https://x.com/peterstefanovi2/status/1836441532724875353?s=61&t=v6RWq6UYZzjLNonXUSpS6g

Ja

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/clylrrdjg78o

What do you think

https://news.sky.com/story/amp/artist-behind-disturbing-sculpture-says-its-not-intended-to-cause-upset-13219881

https://www.manchestereveningnews.co.uk/news/world-news/foreign-office-warns-uk-tourists-29972527.amp

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cz6wjdjn0g7o.amp

Compensation for being attacked in prison.

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-13873301/amp/Burglar-phobia-kitchens-stabbed-prison-canteen-payout.html?ico=amp_articleRelated_with_images

Two schools strike over draconian policy

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cvg36qvg2d2o.amp

Much is made of gifts given to Keir Starmer but most people don’t check or know what their MP has received

Just a look at an MP from 2019 onwards to see what they went home with, holidayed , wore etc that was given

https://www.tortoisemedia.com/westminster-accounts-explore/

I have just discovered that @UncleAlbert can now be blocked. Well done Scooploop!

like to learn the correct way to carry out cardiopulmonary resuscitation, (CPR) you can learn the method here.
https://www.bhf.org.uk/how-you-can-help/how-to-save-a-life/how-to-do-cpr/learn-cpr-in-15-minutes

Name change

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c4geg72vjx9o.amp

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2024/sep/18/more-floods-britain-system-protect-us-scandal

Unlicensed homes being paid

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/crlrl0rkjr6o

Just come across this

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/boris-johnson-rishi-sunak-expenses-allowance-b2358359.html

It must be a struggle mustnt it

If planted by Israel were these pagers set off early , were they meant to go off on 7th October as a reminder of what was done last year

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/cwyl9048gx8t

Probably not the right place to post this, (but where is the right place)? but I thought this may bring a smile to people’s faces. A photo I snapped on my recent trip to Kassiopi.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cly8yj42g5wo.amp

https://consortiumnews.com/2024/09/17/john-kiriakou-russian-interference-3-0/

An interesting piece about foreign efforts to influence elections.

It’s still out there with new variants cropping up.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c1jddenj5p5o

Gunshots in his vicinity ! Making him out to be a hero yet again

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/c8dp10d4vq2t

https://growthbusiness.co.uk/the-new-labour-government-5-changes-to-employment-law-businesses-need-to-know-2576993/?gad_source=1&gclid=Cj0KCQjwi5q3BhCiARIsAJCfuZn7K16Zx2h9qT6i0oWoRZaXtBLa9nCWWprwQIBHAeE5-kQ0drjQHGwaApAVEALw_wcB

What do members think about the possible changes . Are they all necessary? Or helpful?

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cm2yym0dk9zo

https://www.kcl.ac.uk/news/uks-first-of-its-kind-medical-degree-course-opens

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cn8yyy0r7epo

After the minor controversy of accepting clothes made news this is an interesting look at the facts . Shame Lammy didn’t check before he made things worst by talking
Nonsense !

As young man murders his mother, brother and sister

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cp955rn2p12o

https://www.itv.com/news/2024-09-10/labour-to-make-biggest-change-to-private-rental-market-in-decades

https://news.sky.com/story/tunnels-under-childrens-bedrooms-and-silent-streets-sky-news-witnesses-flattened-city-in-gaza-13214261

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2024/sep/13/how-national-parks-failed-nature-and-how-to-fix-them

A new start for the NHS but no quick fix

https://news.sky.com/story/darzai-review-key-points-from-damning-new-report-into-state-of-nhs-13213159

Missed opportunity

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cy0re4wp8j2o

I’m Dennis, a recently retired electrician. I joined Scooploop recently and joined some local groups. Unfortunately, there is very little or no activity in any of them.

Compensation paid

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c0e8jy8y02zo.amp

https://www.glamour.com/story/donald-trump-still-cant-stand-women-2024-debate

This excellent analysis reveals DT's instinctive problem that will end his political career.

Starmer's stumbling leadership is prolonging the agony of the UK's lack of principled direction.

To my great surprise, my respected bookie contact has shortened odds on Tory Tom Tugenhadt to lead the country forward.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cy4lz3r3jzxo