By John | December 28, 2009
Paignton is on the south coast of England in Devon. Comment from the original poster on YouTube two days ago:
A removal truck had been blocking the road outside our house for 3 hours and the drivers boss had just turned up, when they started the ignition it looked like they were going to try and [...]
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By John | December 14, 2009
It often seems to us that Britain has changed a lot in the thirty years that we’ve not been living there. In particular, it seems to be the most “Health & Safety” obsessed country in the world. Luckily, the Brits still have a sense of humour, as this blog entry testifies!
(Spotted by Ruth, who loves [...]
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I can’t recall having seen such an idiotic idea for a long time:
Internet users could face an annual charge of up to £30 to download music, under plans to be unveiled today that aim to tackle illegal file-sharing.
[British] Ministers are backing proposals that would enable millions of broadband users to pay an annual levy which [...]
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Apparently, a couple who has been living for ten years in room 1 of the Travelodge hotel at Grantham, UK, has been forced to move out of their room as the hotel has been closed for refurbishment. I really don’t think I could live in a Travelodge for 10 years.
(Posted from the Hotel Peninsular in [...]
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By John | February 23, 2008
When I read this in today’s Guardian, my first reaction was “but it’s not the 1st of April yet”. One the one hand data privacy experts in the EU has been fighting tooth and nail over the last years to prevent the USA getting a pile of personal data each time someone flies to or [...]
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By John | January 8, 2008
Jeremy Clarkson, the BBC Top Gear presenter, is regretting mocking the fuss made about the British government losing CDs with millions of sets of personal data on them. He published an article in the Sunday Times which included his bank account details, claiming that concerns about identity theft were exaggerated. Someone promptly transferred £500 from [...]
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By John | September 21, 2007
The BBC reports:
The UK has built up a stockpile of 100 tonnes of plutonium – enough to make 17,000 nuclear bombs, according to a Royal Society report.
Well, that should be enough for any conceivable (or inconceivable) purpose, when you consider that just over 6kg of plutonium was used in the bomb dropped on Nagasaki. I [...]
By John | September 16, 2007
The front page in today’s Observer:
‘Housing boom over’ as UK bank chaos grows
Britain’s house price growth will be halved next year as the global financial crisis exacerbates the impact of rising mortgage rates, according to Nationwide, the biggest mortgage lender.
After the dramatic bail-out of high street bank Northern Rock underlined the impact of the American [...]
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By John | September 10, 2007
From the Manchester Evening News a couple of days ago:
A VIOLENT thug attacking a shopkeeper never expected to come face-to-face with a superhero.
But as Gerard Smith went `berserk’ in a Manchester newsagents, passer-by Kevin Godin-Prior lifted his jumper to reveal a Spiderman costume and told him: “You don’t know who you’re dealing with.”…
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His latest installation at Glastonbury.
