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.