BRFR Cake Stop 'breaking news' miscellany

[briantrumpet]

An interesting widescale (1.7m people) study on covid in Hong Kong...

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0264410X25013568?via=ihub

This study provides evidence-based principles for future pandemic vaccination strategies. Platform-switching heterologous boosting (from inactivated vaccines to mRNA vaccines) offers meaningful advantages for inactivated vaccine recipients, bivalent vaccines provide substantial additional protection, and vaccination-first approaches consistently outperform infection-first scenarios. These findings support proactive vaccination policies over reliance on infection-acquired immunity and inform rapid response strategies for future pandemic threats.

 

[briantrumpet]

Oo er. I guess it all depends what the profile of the NE coast is as to how catastrophic that might be.

 

[Pross]

Oo er. I guess it all depends what the profile of the NE coast is as to how catastrophic that might be.

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Just read that, sounds worrying.

 

[Psamathe]

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.

Seems there are others around the country and now a reason why the Environment Agency is really dragging its feet about clearing it up - seems they'll be liable for a massive Government Landfil Tax bill. Yet Environment Agency is part of Government and won't sort out problems because it faces paying a Tax bill!

Environment Agency faces landfill tax bill worth millions to clear illegal waste
Millions of pounds in landfill tax owed to the government has to be paid by the Environment Agency (EA) if it clears any of the thousands of illegal waste dumps across the country.

Of the £15m that taxpayers are paying for the clearance of the only site the agency has committed to clearing up – a vast illegal dump at Hoad’s Wood in Kent – £4m is landfill tax.
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[Dorset Boy]

Seems there are others around the country and now a reason why the Environment Agency is really dragging its feet about clearing it up - seems they'll be liable for a massive Government Landfil Tax bill. Yet Environment Agency is part of Government and won't sort out problems because it faces paying a Tax bill!

All about departmental budgets, innit

 

[Psamathe]

Seems there are others around the country and now a reason why the Environment Agency is really dragging its feet about clearing it up - seems they'll be liable for a massive Government Landfil Tax bill. Yet Environment Agency is part of Government and won't sort out problems because it faces paying a Tax bill!

All about departmental budgets, innit

I agree and to the detriment of the public's lives. They have inter-departmental squabbles whilst the public suffer. From the article (which I wouldn't expect people to read)

In July the dump caught fire and the blaze raged for nine days, forcing the school to close and residents to shut all windows and doors to avoid the toxic fumes.

Encvironment Agency are in my view not doing well. I have a Freedom of Information request pending with them and they are running it to the wire in that under thge rules they have 2 days left to provide the info - and it's uncontroversial and all they need to is send me a link to the information or e-mail me plans (which must already be in electronic format). It's just wanting plans for some river course adjustments they are currently making.