BRFR Cake Stop 'breaking news' miscellany

[briantrumpet]

Alternative headline: "Housebuilder urges government to pump more money into the sector to make house prices for first-time buyers more expensive".

 

[briantrumpet]

Big news.

 

[glasgowcyclist]

Italian farmers/producers did not appreciate the mis-selling of Chinese tomato paste as Italian. There was also a successful backlash against the use of forced labour by China, so now China’s trying to offload to other countries. The problem is there’s nowhere that can take the volume now shunned by Italy.

Even products in UK supermarkets, supposedly made from Italian tomatoes, were found to contain Chinese tomatoes.

Full article here:
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/crezlw4y152o

Boycotts work.

 

[briantrumpet]

Italian farmers/producers did not appreciate the mis-selling of Chinese tomato paste as Italian. There was also a successful backlash against the use of forced labour by China, so now China’s trying to offload to other countries. The problem is there’s nowhere that can take the volume now shunned by Italy.

Even products in UK supermarkets, supposedly made from Italian tomatoes, were found to contain Chinese tomatoes.

Full article here:
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/crezlw4y152o

Boycotts work.

Thanks - had missed that.

 

[Psamathe]

Fly-tippers dump ‘mountain’ of waste in Oxfordshire field

Hundreds of tonnes of waste, stacked 10 metres high, appeared in a field between the River Cherwell and the A34 near Kidlington.

How does this happen in a moderately densly populated area. It's so massive must have been lots of lorries making multiple visits over a period of time yet nobody noticed, not the landowner/farmer, nobody driving past on busy A34?

And how many companies handle that volume of waste? Can't be that many within transport distance.

And 10m hight probably means diggers, etc.

 

[BoldonLad]

How does this happen in a moderately densly populated area. It's so massive must have been lots of lorries making multiple visits over a period of time yet nobody noticed, not the landowner/farmer, nobody driving past on busy A34?

And how many companies handle that volume of waste? Can't be that many within transport distance.

And 10m hight probably means diggers, etc.

That was my thoughts exactly wrt to this report

 

[Pblakeney]

That was my thoughts exactly wrt to this report

I put it down to fake news in one form or another as it simply does not appear to be possible as presented.

 

[briantrumpet]

I put it down to fake news in one form or another as it simply does not appear to be possible as presented.

I think the key will be the nearby dual carriageway.

 

[Pblakeney]

I think the key will be the nearby dual carriageway.

10m high for that length? They'd have to block the carriageway for hours to do so.
That's not just a couple of blokes chucking stuff from a trailer.

 

[briantrumpet]

Phew. That'll be relief for all those thought criminals. They'll be able to go the the land of the free (as long as you're white, Chiristian, own lots of guns, and vote for Trump).

 

[Psamathe]

10m high for that length? They'd have to block the carriageway for hours to do so.
That's not just a couple of blokes chucking stuff from a trailer.

That's why I was wondering/surprised how it happened. It's lorry after lorry after lorry for days and with diggers building up to 10m high (lorries can't build piles that high). You'd have thought even the farmer would have noticed something with all that coming and going. Some years back I used to live not too far away from the area and was commuting daily on that section of A34 and plenty of police partol cars (it's on the short section of A34 between Oxford city and nearest M40 junction (Bicester).

And how many private waste companies can collect that much waste and their audit trails show it evaporating. Occasions I've had skips and every time on collection I've been given a "Waste transfer notice" by the driver (from one of those carbon duplicate book things).

Made me check the data and long time off start of April.

 

[Ian H]

That's why I was wondering/surprised how it happened. It's lorry after lorry after lorry for days and with diggers building up to 10m high (lorries can't build piles that high). You'd have thought even the farmer would have noticed something with all that coming and going. Some years back I used to live not too far away from the area and was commuting daily on that section of A34 and plenty of police partol cars (it's on the short section of A34 between Oxford city and nearest M40 junction (Bicester).

And how many private waste companies can collect that much waste and their audit trails show it evaporating. Occasions I've had skips and every time on collection I've been given a "Waste transfer notice" by the driver (from one of those carbon duplicate book things).

Made me check the data and long time off start of April.

People have been prosecuted for dumping waste on their own land or even running unauthorised tips.

 

[briantrumpet]

People have been prosecuted for dumping waste on their own land or even running unauthorised tips.

Might be worth checking if there have been any unusual amounts appearing in the farmer's bank account lately, on that basis...

 

[secretsqirrel]

Phew. That'll be relief for all those thought criminals. They'll be able to go the the land of the free (as long as you're white, Chiristian, own lots of guns, and vote for Trump).

View attachment 11085

I can make a list of people, if he needs it.

 

[briantrumpet]

Guess the rag: