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It will already get closer to Beckenham Junction than it would at Shortlands!

My sister voted for Brexit by postal ballot in May 2015, but a combination of Jo Cox's murder and my gentle quizzing of her beliefs had led her to bitterly regret it by Referendum Day. I suspect the result would have been even closer if the postal votes were excluded.

I'm not even familiar with satnavs, though I still drive. Never had the slightest inclination to buy one.

In Drakeford's case, he announced in 2021 he'd be doing this halfway through his current term, and yesterday marked the fifth anniversary of his taking up the post, so I don't think there's any great surprise here.

The whole point of Superloop is, supposedly. that by catching one such route to its terminus one can then transfer to another such route and so on ad nauseam, or, rather, when you reach the barrier of the Thames. Denying service to one of the termini, which was effectively what Roger was...

I think you'll find Rosindell has been 'asked' to stay away from the Parliamentary estate since some time ago while 'investigations' are made, exceedingly slowly, into allegations against him. He has not voted for months now.

It does seem an unbalanced squad, lacking in pace bowling and two of them getting on in age. Tongue should certainly have been included imo. Bashir's inclusion is 'interesting' to say the least! It reminds me of the inclusion of Virdi on a previous tour of India which also decided to award a...

It may not be due to Shortlands Station bridge, but it does provide the opportunity to divert that way at some future stage e.g. if it was decided that Bromley South station no longer needed to be served, for instance. We shall see!

You shouldn't be cycling after a few pints! :smile:

Given how few there were of them, and the getting on for sixty years since they were withdrawn, it's quite remarkable that one survived. There can be very few people still living who actually travelled on one - I certainly didn't, despite living not too far away.

I can't answer the question posed, but can only provide evidence of my recent experience. Last Tuesday around midday I telephone ordered two packets of narcissi to be sent first class post from the Isles of Scilly to two separate addresses in London, both arriving the following morning. Last...

Oh, he'll be a 'conspiracy theorist' then, for daring to express the reality as opposed to the Emperor's New Clothes element on here. :rolleyes: Yes, if you live in St Albans or Sevenoaks, Wokingham or Wallingford and have a lovely shiny, reasonably new EV, perhaps provided by your employer...

Not really an oversight, it was a deliberate decision taken at the time when Crossrail was being planned. There was some correspondence about this in Modern Railways at the time, with misgivings expressed. It could, however, be construed as a careless decision.

No, it wasn't. Not all EVs are Teslas, with their own charging networks deliberately inaccessible to other makes. The range of any electric car decreases with usage of the battery, and there is an astronomical cost when the battery needs replacing. Fact= sales of secondhand electric cars have...

So, whichever way you mess with the figures, it's still untrue to say it's in line with inflation. Personally, I'd like my State Pension boosted by these actuaries.:smile:

His total number of sixes during the World Cup, despite playing in most games, was precisely 0

Not fanciful at all. On the Geoff Buys Cars youtube channel, a recent video entitled 'They're Coming for Your Car - an Insurance Insider Speaks' spells out exactly what European insurance companies are discussing amongst themselves. Apologies, can't provide links through my inadequacy. Geoff is...

Electric vehicles will for the large part be confined to those able to charge at home and who normally confine their motoring in a day to considerably less than 100 miles. If and when diesel and petrol engined cars get banned, which could well happen if insurance companies refuse to insure them...

£18,600 to £38,700 in line with inflation? Wow, no wonder so many have been on strike!!

I used to have to go to school on a Saturday morning, which irked me. The only upside was that my bus route was reliable on that day, unlike the other days of the week. Just the once, the scheduled bus didn't turn up so I had to wait twelve minutes for the next. During the course of the journey...