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With the V90 and the 530, the slope of the tailgate means that the full boot length is only actually available for about a foot above the boot sill. This is where modern estates lose out over older ones

The load space in a Tourneo is about a foot shorter that the Outlander and the boot sill is 6 inches lower which means I'd have to lift things on and off my lap more rather than just sliding them as I do now. There also isn't an electric tailgate option so I'd need to screw/tie a strap to the...

I got a new car in December and ended up getting a Mitsubishi Outlander as it was the only car that met all my needs. Most modern estates have such an angle on the tailgate that you lose a lot of boot space, I could get more on my 2005 Astra estate that I could in the 2009 Insignia that replaced...

I hope these private laboratories will carry their share of maintaining the national respiratory and gastric organism reference libraries. I also think it's unlikely that private laboratories would be allowed to set up CL4 labs for testing for the more exotic organisms. They'd also have to share...

Are those clean rooms wet labs? That's one of the things you need and laminar flow hoods on the benches. With a CL3 lab the ventilation exhaust is the main thing. I suspect mot electronics clean rooms operate under positive pressure to keep dust out, CL3 rooms operate under negative pressure to...

During the Whaley Bridge incident in the summer, the military were regularly involved in the SCGs that took place because military assets were being used. The role of the military in an SCG is to take requests for effect and then pass that back to deliver that effect. RSGs during the cold war...

Even in late December there weren't any tests anywhere for Covid-19. While it was classed as a high consequence infectious disease, tests were only able to be carried out in CL3 labs that could do PCR on RNA strands. There aren't that many of those in the UK

Strategic coordinating groups are a common response to major incidents and meet all over the place across the year. They met in most counties that were affected by flooding earlier in the winter. It's all part of the UK's routine emergency planning and response set up. They are massively...

The National weekly flu report has all this data in if you want to dig for it. It includes GP consultations, hospitalisations and admissions to ICU. If you go back to the last 'bad' flu season then the information will be there.

Delivering some of my team's work would become incredibly difficult without air travel. Just the time taken to get to the US or far East would have a massive impact. Apart from the cruise liner passengers, everyone repatriated by the government had lived overseas for a number of years. An...

There is all the civil service staff supporting the response across Whitehall, most of who are working 0800-2000

There'll still need to be some level of commuter service into London as there are a number of essential services that need the staff to be able to get to work early enough

The majority of military medical capability comes from reservists, most of whom work in the NHS. As for logistics, I'm not sure they could mesh into the systems of the organisations that move thousands of tons of food etc every day in a straight forward manner. Trying to write a MACA request for...

What exactly would these troops be doing?

And there goes your power steering and braking assistance. I'm not sure how you'd connect with the car without knowing the details of it

Tornado nose cone paint is what you need for very shiny and durable toecaps. Tricky to get boots sprayed with it outside of the RAF though

If they chose to prioritise those who didn't strike over those who did and as a result those who did lost pay then that would be unlawful unless the formula for prioritisation was unchanged from before the strike action

It might be deemed victimisation, esp if the strikers are de-prioritised over other members of staff

It may be considered differently as it's not their money but that of their members that they are protecting

When I'm sat watching the guard put the ramp down while I'm waiting to get off the train twice a day it's fairly easy to notice this kind of thing. I'm also fairly observant and in previous jobs I've been responsible for specifying PPE. Just seems odd to me that the footwear varies so much given...