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My house (mid-1950s build) used to have 2 gas pokers (one in lounge and other for boiler in kitchen) but these were needed to light the coke not cola fire as it was in a newly designated post war smokeless zone. Takes a bit of heat to get the coke to light. (On bayonet fittings)

Ninety six?

Open floor please. (Had this question in pub quiz a few weeks back, was wrong with 126 years, but managed to remember the right answer.)

116 years

Apologies for absence, my broadband flaked out in the heat. I was going to declare Open Track anyway, but if MotCO wishes to take the lead.....

Maybe then Isle of Man TT race, or Gordon Bennett trophy?

Going by the date, Winner of first race at Brooklands race track?

Seconded.

Woman 'over the moon' to retain Flatpack World Championship title BBC News - Manchester

Something to do with (horse?) racing, going Pell Mell?

Man who blamed dog for crash handed driving ban BBC News - North Yorkshire

75(ish)?

Thank you (didn't he make 7 pit stops in the ran and set fastest lap when going through the pit lane?), will be out for the evening so Open Track

Donnington Park?

Thank you. Man who blamed van crash on dog admits guilt BBC News - North Yorkshire

Thank you. As will not be here regularly, I declare Open Tables ;)

As Napier is associated with logarithms, would hazard a guess to do with some form of calculation.Multiplication maybe?

It seems the derailment was caused by debris washed out from the cutting slope, but here's been no movement of the underlying ground to trigger the sensors (tilt sensors AIUI). More likely to be a drainage issue of water running over the crest of the cutting?

Not nonsense.Not everyone. I Don't Have a mobile phone, this forum is probably the nearest to social media foe me.

Fred Truman?