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    Fire at Glasgow Central (08/03/26)

    Indeed, canals are used frequently by fire brigades, as they did with the Standedge Tunnel fire a few weeks ago, as it's basically an unlimited supply of water.
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    Fuel Price Scaremongering

    He's removed a lot of crude related sanctions and discussed this with Putin yesterday, the price of Brent crude dropped about $20 per barrel yesterday, although it's still around $95.
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    Fuel Price Scaremongering

    Cheapest current quote we've seen is £1.29 a litre, up from the 54p a litre we paid in Jan. fortunately it's getting warmer and we've 70% of the tank left.
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    Comedic "things you would ban": minor things that irritate you

    Indeed, Ford used to use number plates that were symmetrical (111 UVO is one that springs to mind) as the image could be reversed without affecting the number plate too obviously 1772719357 Plus if you're close enough to read it driving a vehicle behind you're far too close anyway.
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    Doncaster Sheffield Airport to reopen?

    I suspect he meant Kazakhstan as Almaty has a growing role as a hub, as does Baku in Azerbaijan. However we're still talking about fantasy and entirely unquantified demand here. Most flights that use them are either cargo (and so will use the far better connected and profitable EMA in preference...
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    Doncaster Sheffield Airport to reopen?

    There is no prospect of DSA having flights to Azerbaijan. To serve what market? They really are getting desperate with this nonsense now. 1772361562 Are MAI still involved? They’ve gone awfully quiet about it
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    CrossCountry Voyager Has Toilet Door Cut Off

    Psychological distress is considered a valid reason for a claim now. 1771494535 Psychological distress/ harm is a standard part of most personal injury claims, either on its own as the injury or as part of a larger claim. The law has a different viewpoint, personal injury lawyers just use the law.
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    Any A340-600s still in use?

    '...but safe' is the qualification.
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    Hull Trains Strike over dismissal

    Which doesn’t make this dismissal unlawful… and no dismissal is unlawful unless it’s been deemed to be so by a tribunal. A company choosing to settle doesn’t mean it’s unlawful either.
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    Any A340-600s still in use?

    'Underpowered' doesn't mean not capable or not legally capable of undertaking the task. I even used the words 'underpowered compared to...'.
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    Hull Trains Strike over dismissal

    It clearly wasn't unlawful as otherwise it would have been taken to tribunal. There's a reason why it hasn't been. ASLEF not liking a dismissal doesn't make it unlawful. 1771346515 If the information about a significant number of drivers having left ASLEF over this issue is correct then no-one...
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    Any A340-600s still in use?

    Not necessarily, there are plenty of different vehicles of all types that are underpowered but safe. My wife has a Fiat 500, it's perfectly safe but still underpowered in comparison to just about any other currently available car.
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    Any A340-600s still in use?

    I never stated they didn't or commented on the reasons airlines bought them, although it's worth noting that airlines moved straight over to purchasing the more powerful 500/600 series as soon as they were able to. They climb far slower than any other western passenger airliner still in use...
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    Hull Trains Strike over dismissal

    They aren’t remotely useless. They don't exist to overturn decisions that people don't like. They’re about whether companies followed their own policies and acted reasonably and fairly in accordance with them most of the time. If they did and the employee should have understood that then the...
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    Hull Trains Strike over dismissal

    This isn't what happened in this instance...
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    Eleanor LNER Doll

    Everyone has a choice… more people are choosing to use trains.
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    Eleanor LNER Doll

    I even said that just before. I was responding to a specific question that appears just above my post. A good chunk of people know that the puppet is called Eleanor (my mid teenage daughters do) meaning that they must have done some research into it. Just the same as there’s a good number of...
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    Eleanor LNER Doll

    It’s fairly well known that the puppet is called Eleanor so they must do. The name appears on the LNER website and in many other places that younger people than most of us on here use for social media access.
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    Usage of American English words on the British railway network

    Interestingly (well, maybe not, it’s a nerdy thing to know!) it was first isolated in elemental form by Aristid von Grosse (German nuclear physicist who married a Scottish woman, possible your colleague was married to his daughter, who was called Shane, if that helps) in 1934, and it was he who...
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    Eleanor LNER Doll

    The name isn't mentioned at all in the ads (just as Gio Comparo isn't in the Go Compare ads) so it does require someone to know that the character is called Eleanor. It's fairly straightforward once you do know that, but it's not something given to you in the ads.

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