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  1. From BBC NEWS

     

    The government is spending more than £9m on sending a leaflet to every UK household setting out the case for remaining in the European Union.

    The 14-page document, to be sent to 27 million homes, is designed to respond to public demand for more details about the EU referendum by setting out the facts behind the government's position.

    Leave campaigners reacted with fury.

  2. Bilbobobby - you are so right , this shambles is a serious accident waiting to happen - last Tuesday at about 1115 I was walking from the Maylord towards the alleyway leading to Tescos , in front of me and walking the same way was a couple with two young children running , perhaps to free .. Widemarsh St was chockerblock with parked cars and vans - I was aware of an Audi which had been parked further down the Street travel along Widemarsh St at a speed which was far to fast for the conditions. It was apparent to me that this couple had not seen the forthcoming danger , I shouted to them to stop the children , thank goodness they realised the danger and grabbed the children . Because of the haphazard parking we , who were going to the alleyway to Tescos were stepping out into the road in front of a parked van which seriously restricted the view to the right .

     

    Surely this Council and Cllrs are aware of this situation and for whatever reason chose to ignore it .

  3. British invention way before its time .

     

    The Fairey Rotodyne was a 1950s British compound gyroplane designed and built by Fairey Aviation and intended for commercial and military applications.[2] A development of the earlier Gyrodyne, which had established a world helicopter speed record, the Rotodyne featured a tip jet-powered rotor that burned a mixture of fuel and compressed air bled from two wing-mounted Napier Eland turboprops. The rotor was driven for vertical takeoffs, landings and hovering, as well as low-speed translational flight, and autorotated during cruise flight with all engine power applied to two propellers.

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  4. Greenknight - a very brave , well written post . Sincerely hope that ( If you both want to ) you can sort this situation out and move on . I can understand why you say that the trust was broken - trust is one of the mainstays of a marriage . Another one is having no secrets - I can't even tell Mrs U that I have taken Charlie our Golden Retriever a walk when I haven't . Of course with you and the secret male it's not knowing who it is , has he been to your castle and drunk your wine etc . I certainly would like to know who it is - that's all part of clearing the air and moving on . I feel for you my friend.

    My very best wishes

  5. Thanks Martin for this - we were aware but the publicity is now in the wider world.

    Mrs U has been looking after 28 hogs since last September - because of the mild weather only one really hibernated , she hibernated at the end of last September and only woke up 4 days ago . The others have all kept Mrs U busy what with feeding and cleaning them out daily . Hopefully she will be releasing them in different areas of the County in the next four weeks.post-862-0-24806700-1457886586_thumb.jpeg

    These are four little orphan hoglets that needing looking after towards the end of last year - all doing fine .

  6. Wonder what expertise / briefing these Cllrs have received which makes them experts in deciding where these salt bins should be located.

     

    As an aside , we have one salt bin in my "village " / hamlet . My country lane which contains a hill on a bend has never been gritted by the Council - however a resident of the lane regularly fills his trailer up with salt from this bin and scatters it on the hill around the bend . He is doing is so that he, plus other residents along the lane can drive into work the next morning - if it wasn't gritted the lane would become impassable and more than 12 residents of the lane would not be reporting for work .

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