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On my first week back commuting as lockdown ended, pre-booked assistance failed to turn up on 8 out my 10 journeys that week. Ended up getting myself off at Waterloo by wheelieing off the train on four of those and having to pull the green handle at FNB on the other four. In my 5 years of daily...

It's probably also affected by the massive redevelopment of Lower Marsh. A number of independent shops have gone from there and there are three hotels along there at the moment and I think at least one more being built

It might be hard to find out what's actually being made/remade as a lot of productions shoot under alternative titles. Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom shooting in Hampshire was done under the title "Ancient Futures"

It was an group of men who'd set up a Three Card Monte game to fleece the tourists. Needed the police to get to both ends of the right one to avoid them escaping. At that point the river is in the turn from north-south to east-west which is why I'd use upstream or downstream given how bendy the...

From recent conversations with people who work in a large ambulance control room, they like it as it's more useful for them when people say Hyde Park for example. They can narrow it down as people often know they are in the park but not which side relative to the compass or local roads. I've...

I'd be interested to know how they'd done the passenger count to know it was 'full' and what the TOC classes as the current capacity for each carriage. Otherwise it's massively subjective and would be hard to legally defend why one person was allowed on but the next person wasn't

But for the emergency services, they are finding it a solution. From the time I've spent in control rooms, I know they'd give it the elbow sharpish if it didn't help 1598273196 That's exactly the point. Different needs use different systems. Like the marker posts on motorways that tell the...

It's a bit tricky with no mobile coverage. That's a key design feature with W3W that the app doesn't need network connectivity. You get the words and use the landline or send someone to the nearest place with reception Numbers are also unreliable with is why there are pro-words for all the...

To get the same accuracy as a 6 figure OS grid ref you need 16 digits of lat and long so that's not ideal. Obviously W3W isn't there to replace everything, I can't reduce a sun sight to W3W, that has to be lat and long and UK paper maps work really well with the OS grid ref but for passing...

Chunks of the developing world seemed to have skipped the fixed wide scale telephony and internet stage on gone straight to mobile and outside of the centres of population coverage is patchy so something like this will still work. IIRC Mongolia is using it as its 'postcode' system and there's...

Passing a full Lat and Long or OS grid ref in an emergency accurately is difficult for the majority of people who don't regularly use them. It's also no use just relying on the phone location as that may not be where you actually need the response to go to esp if mobile phone coverage in the...

Traffic was fairly heavy in London yesterday. My last three miles to work took over an hour compared with the 10 minutes it has been taking. Knightsbridge was a lot busier than I've seen it for a while

Once part two powers are invoked under the CCA. there's no requirement for any parliamentary scrutiny as in those situations things are moving far too fast for any scrutiny

It's fairly clear that if they had to repeal them, the government could just use the provisions of the CCA 2004, implement part 2 powers and have direct decision making and issue of regulations without then coming before parliament at all. Also there are significant derogations from the HRA in...

The availability of hand sanitiser itself is. People wearing masks badly in pink hi-viz wandering about clutching bottles of it actually increases the infection risk

Of course I haven't been stood at a bus stop because I was talking about trains. Buses, particularly in London have got their act together fairly well as regards access whereas the railways aren't much better than they were 20 years ago and new rolling stock hasn't made any difference regarding...

I'm not seeing many ablebodied people being inconvenienced to the point where they are having to delay trains just to get on them to go home from work having done an 11 hour day. It's the responsibility of NR and TOC managers to ensure that, despite the current situation, they still comply with...

Airports can be awful. I've had them insist on pushing me in my wheelchair when all I need is the aisle chair at the aircraft. It's one size fits none

I'd just like to be able to use the trains without having to bump myself and my wheelchair off or have to trip the doors using the green handle or physically blocking the doors to prevent the train departing. I've had assistance fails on 8 out of my last 10 journeys and they've all happened at a...

It definitely depends on the SUV. MY XC60 was great, the XC40 I looked to replace it with didn't have the space to lift my wheelchair frame over me onto the passenger seat. Was a similar problem with the Peugeot 3008 and 5008 due to the high centre console. The Tiguan was ok for me. I've got...