BRFR Cake Stop 'breaking news' miscellany

[Pross]

No comma required. She supports 'Palestine Action prisoners', who are those in prison for supporting Palestine Action.

I didn’t see the ‘I’ before oppose first time I looked.

 

[matticus]

They've decided that they are the grammar police, so any statement in which the two words 'Palestine' and 'Action' appear, even if they are in two separate sentences, override any niceties of punctuation or part-of-speech-ness. It's ludicrous. I assume protesters could avoid being arrested by simply omitting the word 'action', unless the police then decide that simply 'Palestine' implies 'Palestine Action'.

Asmentioned before, it's a linguistic question that really ought to be followed into the even further regions of ridiculousness, with linguistics professors telling the judiciary that this law is a total ass as it's being prosecuted.

Hang on ... is the "supporting terrorists" law an ass, or is putting Pal' Action on the list your problem?
IAMFI!

 

[PurplePenguin]

The much maligned CRT seems to have worked swiftly with the canal breach. They have put in place a temporary dam and added some water to refloat six boats and they've winched another back from the edge of the breach to safety. Next year, another temporary dam will be built and that boat will be refloated. That just leaves two stuck at the bottom.

I think many people forget that these are homes, so it's good that they some have got their homes back so quickly.

 

[Ian H]

Reinstating the canal is the important and difficult bit.

 

[First Aspect]

Reinstating the canal is the important and difficult bit.

It is the second one this year isn't it? I have a horrible suspicion that since most of them were built in a mad 20 year burst, they are all going to start to develop potholes at about the same time.

 

[Pross]

It is the second one this year isn't it? I have a horrible suspicion that since most of them were built in a mad 20 year burst, they are all going to start to develop potholes at about the same time.

My local one burst about 40 years ago. I had great success fishing right next to the dam for a while afterwards (the water filled side before anyone comments!)

 

[PurplePenguin]

Reinstating the canal is the important and difficult bit.

Sure, and I read that would be 6-9 months, but even that is quicker than many people expected.

 

[Dorset Boy]

 

[Beebo]

It is the second one this year isn't it? I have a horrible suspicion that since most of them were built in a mad 20 year burst, they are all going to start to develop potholes at about the same time.

I thought the other one burst its banks because it overflowed in very heavy rain.

This one seems to be a failure of the actual canal bed.

 

[briantrumpet]

The Brexit superfan who produced 'Brexit: The Movie' has been jailed for three years for financial fraud. (Obviously I'm not suggesting that *all* enthusiastic Brexiters were dishonest bastards.)

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-beds-bucks-herts-51404548.amp

Judge Martin Griffith said his actions were "a blatant piece of dishonesty".

Prosecutor Aqeel Noorali said Shipley, of Great Missenden, Buckinghamshire, contacted financiers Resourcing Capital Ventures Limited for a £519,000 loan in 2014.

The producer had "Photoshopped" his payslips to show an income of £377,000 and bank statements showing £540,000, he said.
His actual income was just under £20,000.

The money was to help fund a new company - Spitfire Capital Advisers Ltd - which Shipley set up with two others.

 

[briantrumpet]

Grim. Sounds like the ceiling caught fire in the basement bar, and there was only one escape route. Maybe red tape has its place. I would imagine there will be quite a bit of Swiss soul searching.

(In other news, I'd *almost* like to read why Kwasi Kwarteng thinks it was Michael Gove who destroyed the Tory Party.)

 

[presta]

Grim. Sounds like the ceiling caught fire in the basement bar, and there was only one escape route. Maybe red tape has its place. I would imagine there will be quite a bit of Swiss soul searching.

According to Sky news Thursday morning they were serving drinks with indoor fireworks attached, and the BBC have found a publicity video showing fireworks as well. A customer said he'd seen them spraying sparklers into the ceiling- was that draped in inflammable xmas decorations?

If thats the case, it was a disaster waiting to happen, I dont know how its allowed in a public place crammed with people.

 

[briantrumpet]

According to Sky news Thursday morning they were serving drinks with indoor fireworks attached, and the BBC have found a publicity video showing fireworks as well. A customer said he'd seen them spraying sparklers into the ceiling- was that draped in inflammable xmas decorations?

If thats the case, it was a disaster waiting to happen, I dont know how its allowed in a public place crammed with people.

It'll be interesting to see if they contravened existing regulations - in which case I'd expect there to be a prosecution - or whether the regulations are insufficient.

IIRC, fire curtains and having more than one escape route in theatres in England were introduced in response to an horrific fire in the Theatre Royal in Exeter, when over 100 people died. I'd certainly be nervous begin rammed in a basement bar with only one escape route, as when things go wrong with fire, things go wrong very quickly.

 

[Dorset Boy]

It'll be interesting to see if they contravened existing regulations - in which case I'd expect there to be a prosecution - or whether the regulations are insufficient.

IIRC, fire curtains and having more than one escape route in theatres in England were introduced in response to an horrific fire in the Theatre Royal in Exeter, when over 100 people died. I'd certainly be nervous begin rammed in a basement bar with only one escape route, as when things go wrong with fire, things go wrong very quickly.

Would you even know there was only one escape route? The bar has been there for 40+ years.
The sparklers in champagne bottles has been going for a while in all sorts of bars by all account.
A horrific tragedy with far too many young lives lost and altered, but undoubtedly there will be changes brought in as a result.

 

[briantrumpet]

Would you even know there was only one escape route? The bar has been there for 40+ years.
The sparklers in champagne bottles has been going for a while in all sorts of bars by all account.
A horrific tragedy with far too many young lives lost and altered, but undoubtedly there will be changes brought in as a result.

It's the kind of location and event where it would seem to be even more important to know, but few of us would check in the circumstances. I contrast, every time I do a concert in Exeter Cathedral, with multiple huge exits and a structure that is unlikely to go up in flames in just a few minutes, we get the standard (sensible) fire announcement.

I do frequently tend to have a metaphorical H&S hat on, as I'm often in charge of a lot of other people's children, and once your brain is trained to do on-site risk assessments, you don't turn it off even when you're not on duty.