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There are very worrying signs that AI is already out of control. Here's my starting point - I would like to see what others think. It's OpenAi's report into the "Hugging Face Incident" available here: https://openai.com/index/hugging-face-incident-and-the-road-ahead/ Here's the summary. The...

Gayton Road

The 2014 Tour of Britain cycle race started in Liverpool. The 2026 race started in Lincoln.

The name "Tower Hamlets" originally referred to a Liberty in the historic county of Middlesex. Another and better known Liberty in London is the Liberty of the Clink, in Southwark.

Clenchwarton

Peakirk

Rathrar is indeed a quadrivallate ringfort, but does not appear to be associated with any modern settlement. However the first president of the Republic of ireland, Dr Douglas Hyde, was born nearby at Castlerea. The current president, Catherine Connolly, was born in the City of Galway...

President Joe Biden's ancestors came from the area of Ballina and the president visited the town in 2023. Sixty years earlier President John F Kennedy visited Dunganstown in County Wexford, to which he had similar family connections.

Sutton on Sea

Washingborough

Glaslough is the furthest north of all towns which have won the "Tidy Towns" competition in the Republic of Ireland. The furthest south is Rosscarbery in County Cork

Sorry - forgot to quote the preceding station. After ........................... Maesmawr comes: ........................... Clydach Court Halt (I think)

@D6130 - our horizons are still unbroadened!

Cheadle Hulme was the site chosen for the first purpose-bult Waitrose supermarket in Northern England. The first in Scotland was built (perhaps unsurprisingly) in Morningside, Edinburgh.

Dolgellau

Bonwm Halt

The Tettenhall Dick is a variety of pear grown historically for use in perry making. A comparable example of a cider apple named after a settlement is the Sweet Alford, originally grown around Alford, Lincolnshire.

Trevor

Whittington

The Chatham dockyards were attacked and fifteen Royal Navy warships destroyed during the Raid on the Medway at the end of the second Anglo-Dutch War in 1667. In 1665 the war had opened with the Battle of Lowestoft which was considered a victory for the English although the bulk of the Dutch...