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I heard something similar with Dunbar, to general amusement. I guess they had been correctly told that the emphasis is on the second syllable but overdid it.

Similarly Borders Buses 464 timetable has two stops called Post Office and two called Black Bull, in each case in different villages which are not named in the timetable. It also stops in Wooler at Bus Station (twice) and at Wooler Bus Station.

80%, really? In 2024 20K voted for him, slightly more voted for other mainstream candidates. In 2026 20K voted for him, about half as many voted for a joke candidate who successfully pitched himself as the stop-Farage candidate. Enough people who hadn't voted for Farage before voted against...

The turnout in 2024 was less than 60% so all this 'he got less than X% of the electorate' stuff is a bit meaningless. If I was a Faragiste, I would be happy that the great leader's vote stood up. He got the votes he wanted.

Disappointing that his vote went up from 2024, as he will no doubt tell us repeatedly. I still would rather Binface had not stood and given Farage a semi-credible opponent to beat.

Network Rail might say that they are not working on or from the right of way but using it to get to their own land (the station). What they do when they get there is their business.

I don't think either side has suggested that any of the disputed land is leased. Their claim to own the land underneath the railway (including the level-crossing), described in their 'long-awaited solum video', is based on a reading of an earlier disposition which is to me, as a layman...

It seems not. The official figures show who got the second preference votes but not where from. Roughly 200K first choice votes for the right, 330K for the centre-left First preferences Lab 251449 Reform 111928 Green 64968 Restore 46289 Tory 41021 Lib 14702 Ind 2969 Second preferences from...

They only count the second choices of those whose first choice has been eliminated.

Or maybe equally weak. There are just 1120 non-UK students at Aberystwyth (source) so it's not a major traffic source.

Many ex-polys have a lot of non-UK students. The top ten includes Hertfordshire, Coventry and East London. Hertfordshire has 19000 non-EU overseas students out of 33500 total students. . HESA data link here

The Airport Express (CAT) station at Wien Mitte is entered via 'The Mall' shopping centre.

It seems that in some cases coal merchants went on using their premises on railway land after rail deliveries had ended. A lengthy article from 'An overview of railway freight operations for modellers (from around 1830 to about 2010)' here includes: It is not clear how merchant, NCB and BR...

I was surprised to see an RAC road sign on the A698 yesterday. Is this a genuine anachronism? Picture from Google Streetview.

Borders Council has a number of stops without flag and pole officially designated as Hail & Ride. In one case (Eshiels Mill, X62) there is a flag on one side of the road only and the Hail and Ride designation is only used for the opposite side. They still seem to be willing to stop at other...