BRFR Cake Stop 'breaking news' miscellany

[Pblakeney]

No jury would back you up for assaulting two teenaged boys. You would be found guilty and go to prison.

If it happened to one of my family then I'd accept that judgement.
But primarily, it shouldn't come to that.

 

[briantrumpet]

A sobering report on options for Skegness as sea levels rise and storms become more violent

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cm2p0epyll2o

Migrating people from Skegness and other seaside towns is among the options being looked at to protect Lincolnshire's coastal communities from flooding. More than 60,000 people are at risk of becoming flood victims unless Lincolnshire coastal defences are improved or other action is taken, a council boss has warned. Chris Miller, Lincolnshire County Council's head of environment, said 85% of defences would be unreliable after 2040.

I'm not sure that Skegnessians would appreciate the humour here, a parody of an old tourist poster that proclaimed "Skegness is SO bracing!"

 

[AuroraSaab]

Personally I think that we should also introduce the concept of restitution whereby the perpetrators have to put in positive community work, whether that's part of any earnings going to rape charities or to the victims, or being taken to give talks to offender groups or schools.

No. Let's not take rapists round schools to talk to children.

 

[Dorset Boy]

People want to be outraged, to have something/someone to blame. From iNews.

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Sky News did a piece on this which builds a lot of context. It covered the huge increase in UK residents who were born abroad.
The rate of increase has plummeted but it's still another 170,000 people onto the population.
Rate of immigration may be falling but...
2004, fewer that 6m were born overseas. It is now about 13 million with 1.5 million having arrived since 2022, more than the population of Birmingham.

 

[Beebo]

A sobering report on options for Skegness as sea levels rise and storms become more violent

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cm2p0epyll2o



I'm not sure that Skegnessians would appreciate the humour here, a parody of an old tourist poster that proclaimed "Skegness is SO bracing!"

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Only going to get worse as sea levels rise.
Thames Barrier was only designed to be functional until 2030. But they think they can keep it going until 2050.

Anyway. Viz had the right idea about Skegness 😁