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    Campaign for Family Friendly Trains: Tips for travelling with young children

    I think this is a great idea, but I will leave the tips to those who have/had children!
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    Settlement Association

    Keswick also has a nine-hole golf course.
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    Settlement Association

    A suburb of Sheffield also associated with Robin Hood is Loxley.
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    Travelling to Europe by train

    So you book your cheap advance ticket from Stockport to London, the train is delayed and you miss your Eurostar, and are dependent on their goodwill to put you on the next train - if there is space - without paying again. To avoid this you need - I think - a ticket from Stockport to London CIV...
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    France wants to expand cross-border and domestic night train services

    Please tell me how? Sheffield to Barcelona leaving no earlier than 1600 on Friday 15th July and returning no later than Wed 27th July at 2359. Thanks, John
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    No 10 rule breaking gatherings during 2020.

    I am sure you are aware that a party changing its leader, even the PM, does not trigger an election, so I wonder why you think this might happen?
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    Quality vs Cost and the slide to the bottom

    I wonder if anybody still knows how to darn - I don’t but my grandma did - now that socks are five pairs for two quid, and their quality is certainly acceptable. Whether the conditions in the factory where they are made are is another matter.
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    Envelopes That Have to be Licked.

    What’s a stamp?
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    When Will It All Go Wrong For The Tories/ Johnson?

    The trouble with YouGov polls is that I am not sure if they use a sound sampling method. Perhaps they do, perhaps they don’t.
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    No 10 rule breaking gatherings during 2020.

    I think the pertinent point about this is not that parties were held, nor rules broken. It is that they and the BBC were scaring, or trying to, scare the s*** out of us, yet the people attending these events were not at all scared. (Puts tin hat on). Did they perhaps know that it wasn’t as...
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    France wants to expand cross-border and domestic night train services

    Quite, so I can’t plan and budget ahead.
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    Settlement Association

    A nearby settlement in a similar steep narrow valley is Staithes.
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    France wants to expand cross-border and domestic night train services

    I want to go in July so ‘sorry we haven’t found any tickets’ on Rail Europe and similar in Trainline, whereas I could book my flight now.
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    Poll: If Boris Johnson leaves Prime Minister role, who should replace him as the Conservative leader?

    Larry the Cat - but was he photographed at any of those parties?
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    France wants to expand cross-border and domestic night train services

    I’m a rail fan and it would take a lot of convincing for me to go from Sheffield to Barcelona and back by rail for a ten day holiday. For a start, I could probably book my flight and train to Manchester in about twenty minutes. I wouldn’t have a clue where to start in booking rail, and that’s...
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    Things you don’t see outside any more

    There was none of this waiting for the bus to stop malarkey then. You walked towards the top of the stairs and shouted down!
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    Things you don’t see outside any more

    In Greater Manchester in the 70s, you just shouted ‘next stop please’ irrespective of bells. I was quite surprised when I moved to South Yorkshire and everybody used the bells.
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    Heinz Factory near Wigan to get its own siding?

    And there is even a rail-linked ketchup bottle factory on the site!
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    Which tramways have you used?

    Those not on the list: UK: Babbacombe, Scarborough Netherlands: Amsterdam, Den Haag Belgium: Antwerpen, Gent, Brussel, Kusttram, Thuin Italy: Milano, Roma Austria: Wien Switzerland: Basel, Geneve Slovakia: Bratislava Germany: Frankfurt am Main, Frankfurt an der Oder, Berlin, Brandenburg...
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    Things that used to be common place in people’s homes

    Good point. The only brands I insist on buying by name because I perceive them as better are: Domestos bleach (for unmentionable reasons) Bisto gravy granules And fortunately they are both always available at Poundland, and cost…well you can work it out

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