Has anyone noticed - there appears to be an issue with new posts?

[Dactylion]

Shirley?

[AtW]

"Major sea-level rise caused by melting of Greenland ice cap is ‘now inevitable’

Loss will contribute a minimum rise of 27cm regardless of what climate action is taken, scientists discover

Major sea-level rise from the melting of the Greenland ice cap is now inevitable,...

[AtW]

"British tourists could be turned away from Spain unless they can prove they have £760 to spend

New rules may force a family of four to show they have at least £3,141 in spending money

Holidaymakers may be forced to prove that they have at least £760 to spend in order...

[AtW]

""They once lit up summer nights, people read by their luminescence and they’ve been celebrated by everyone from William Shakespeare to Crowfoot, a 19th-century North American chief.

But glowworms have had their lights dimmed by a cult of tidiness in the countryside, the loss...

[AtW]

Kebab shop owner wanted better mobile connection for take aways, me luxury bedsit is now worthless

[AtW]

"Free-range eggs vanish from supermarket shelves

Biggest UK outbreak of bird flu late last year forced farmers to move all their chickens indoors

Free-range eggs are set to vanish from supermarket shelves from Monday, after an outbreak of bird flu forced farmers to move...

[d000hg]

AtW said it's official to me when he appeared as a giant squirrel in my dream last night.

So invasion has begun, but let's start today with:Can you imagine Boris making a briefing offering everyone firearms?!...

[AtW]

"Internet trolls who harass people online will be jailed, promises Nadine Dorries

Culture Secretary backs proposals for maximum five-year prison sentences to combat cyber bullying under new online harms legislation

Harassing and abusing people online will be made criminal...

[_V_]

Feel free to post anything here related to the upcoming doom this country faces. Be it political, economic or other.

[AtW]

"UK food and drink firms warn of shortages as ‘bailout’ of CO2 industry ends

Price of meat, beer and other products expected to rise after deal to help CF Industries is not renewed

UK food producers and brewers have warned of shortages of meat, beer and fizzy drinks, as...

[SueEllen]

This is fine until we get a nasty new variant around the time of the May elections.

I would wait until May day to end them all just so people voted the right way.

https://www.theguardian.com/world/20...er-no-10-plans

No 10 is drawing up plans to phase out England’s...

[AtW]

"Planners set to approve 51-storey London tower with only one staircase

Fire safety expert says it would be ‘utter madness’ to approve plans for one of UK’s tallest residential buildings

Permission to build a 51-storey skyscraper with a single fire escape for more...

[AtW]

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[AtW]

"Threadneedle Street to launch consultation on reforming lending rules next year that may let thousands of borrowers to take out bigger loans

The Bank of England is to consider relaxing mortgage affordability tests in a move that will stoke fears over a further surge in house prices....

[AtW]

Last orders tonight at 9pm and then pubs closed till spring?

[AtW]

"Ministers expected to sign off plan B Covid rules for England

Rules on home working and vaccine certification likely to be among changes brought in to tackle Omicron surge

Ministers are expected to sign off new rules to impose home working and vaccine certification across...

[AtW]

Omicron Covid cases ‘doubling every two to three days’ in UK, says scientist

Prof Neil Ferguson says coronavirus variant likely to be dominant strain in the UK before Christmas

The spread of the Omicron variant of coronavirus appears to be doubling every two to three days,...

[AtW]

"Middle-class drug users could lose UK passports under Boris Johnson’s plans

Campaigners say government going backwards by targeting ‘lifestyle’ users of class A drugs with tough criminal sanctions

Middle-class drug users are to be targeted as part of a 10-year strategy...

[AtW]

When Amazon came to town: Swindon feels strain as new depot sucks up jobs

Firm has hired 2,000 staff in a matter of months in Wiltshire town, with ripple effect on other businesses

In an industrial estate outside Swindon, it’s the busiest time of year at Amazon’s newest...

[AtW]

Stay calm!

It's too early - so you know what to do instead of desperately trying to do panic buying in 7-10 days.

[AtW]

"Vodka and coke in peril: Can shortage at Coca-Cola as Smirnoff maker suffers logistics issues

Coca-Cola Europacific follows the likes of Wetherspoons, McDonald's, Greggs and Nando's in facing supply chain problems - while drinks giant Diageo said it had also had to deal with a "challenging"...

[AtW]

"Wetherspoon’s short on some beers as Brexit affects deliveries

Pub chain confirms shortages of Carling and Coors, with one notice blaming ‘lack of lorry drivers and strike action’

The pub chain Wetherspoon’s is experiencing shortages of some beer brands, including...

[AtW]

"This weekend social media were filled with hundreds of posts from hospitality workers urging customers to #BeKind as bars and restaurants were filled with bank holiday punters.

Jim Walker, the chair of Cumbria Tourism, said hotel owners had noticed some grumbling from young first-time...

[AtW]

"UK to overhaul privacy rules in post-Brexit departure from GDPR

Culture secretary says move could lead to an end to irritating cookie popups and consent requests online

Britain will attempt to move away from European data protection regulations as it overhauls its privacy...

[AtW]

"Lake District holiday four times more expensive than Italy amid staycation boom

Price of UK trips grew over two years as more Britons opt for domestic breaks due to Covid travel restrictions, according to Which?

A holiday in the Lake District is now four times more expensive...

[AtW]

"HGV driver shortages could ‘cancel’ Christmas, warns Iceland boss

Richard Walker urges UK government to relax immigration rules to ease shortfall of skilled staff

The UK government must allow retailers to recruit HGV drivers from abroad to avoid a supply chain crisis...

[AtW]

"Property sales plummet after stamp duty cliff edge

Surging transactions stalled once buyers missed the maximum tax savings

Property sales plummeted in July after the stamp duty holiday was tapered and buyers' tax savings shrunk.

HM Revenue & Customs recorded...

[AtW]

"McDonald’s runs out of milkshakes and bottled drinks

Burger chain is latest victim of supply chain chaos strikes and follows KFC being forced to take some items off its menu due to shortages

McDonald's has run out of milkshakes and bottled drinks at 1,250 outlets after...

[AtW]

"Not enough turkeys for Christmas due to Brexit, poultry producers warn

Government urged to relax UK immigration rules after one in six jobs left unfilled since EU departure

UK poultry producers have warned that serious staff shortages caused by Brexit could mean there...

[AtW]

"KFC suffers supply shortage for food and packaging

KFC has warned that supply chain issues are disrupting both their food and packaging stocks nationwide.

In a tweet on Wednesday, the fast-food chain said some items would not be available because there's been "some...

[Paddy]

Army on 5 days notice to drive trucks to bring food and other essentials to supermarkets due to driver shortage after Brexit....

[AtW]

"Amanda Sommer claims all three of the men she has recently dated left her when they found out she worked on OnlyFans.

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The model from Hartlepool, County Durham, claims that all three of the men she has recently dated left her when they found out she worked on OnlyFans....

[Eirikur]

7 Fully vaccinated elderly die from this variant in one residential home.
https://www.reuters.com/world/europe...me-2021-08-06/

[AtW]

"Gold to $900 - macro bearish divergence

Are the 2020’s going to be the worst decade for buying Gold? I believe so.

The argument here is part technical analysis part fundamental, followed by challenging popular arguments.

First the TA. On the above 6-month...

[SueEllen]

Or third wave for those like me who downloaded the app and almost immediately deleted it when you found out actually how tulip it is.


https://metro.co.uk/2021/07/22/nhs-c...week-14970811/

A record number of people were...

[OwlHoot]

2021-07-22 Supermarket bosses beg shoppers not to panic buy as bottled water, bread, meat and frozen food runs low ..

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[Fraidycat]

CHINA is threatening to NUKE Japan on the eve of the Olympics if it intervenes in conflict with Taiwan, it has been revealed in a new video.

The communist republic said that it would declare "full-scale war" against Japan if the Taiwan disagreement escalates, stoking World War...

[AtW]

New personal (young, based on voice) banking manager called to invite for face to face meeting because “all is back to normal now”, FFS!

How is it back to normal now, I ask?

Because the Govt says so!

[AtW]

"The world faces an onslaught of coastal flooding starting in the mid-2030s due to a "wobble" in the moon's orbit, Nasa has warned.

Numbers of floods could quadruple as the gravitational effects of the lunar cycle combine with climate change to produce "a decade of dramatic...

[ladymuck]

https://www.theguardian.com/environm...han-it-absorbs

Amazon rainforest now emitting more CO2 than it absorbs

The Amazon rainforest is emitting a billion tonnes of carbon dioxide a year, according to a study. The giant forest...

[AtW]

“Scientists find cocaine in UK shrimp

Researchers in the UK have found traces of illicit drugs, pharmaceuticals and pesticides in samples of freshwater shrimp.

A study carried out by scientists from King's College London and the University of Suffolk tested the exposure of...

[AtW]

"Radioactive wild boar-pig hybrid emerges in nuclear wasteland of Fukushima

Scientists studying radiation impact on wildlife after the 2011 tsunami discover wild animals have been mating with domestic pigs

A hybrid species of wild boar and domestic pigs is marauding around...

[AtW]

“Gloomy Labour Loses Hope as Boris Johnson Upends U.K. Politics

Senior figures in Keir Starmer’s U.K. opposition Labour Party already see little hope of winning back power in the next general election as many as three years away.

One Labour official privately gave the party...

[AtW]

"Gravitational waves from star-eating black holes detected on Earth

Spacetime-altering shock waves ( ) came from massive neutron stars crashing into black holes millions of years ago

There are moments when life as an astrophysicist is like hanging around at the bus...

[AtW]

"Boris Johnson said that the Government was working towards a "return to pretty much life before Covid" on July 19, when all restrictions in England are due to be lifted.

The Prime Minister told reporters on Monday that he thinks we should continue to take a "cautious...

[Fraidycat]

What happened to all the other greek letters between delta and lambda, are there other variants they arent telling us about ?

https://uk.yahoo.com/news/lambda-sou...165031686.html...

[SueEllen]

..births last year.

We are turning into Japan.

BBC News - UK deaths outnumber births for first time in 40 years https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-57600757

Last year more deaths than births were registered in the UK for the first time since 1976.

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[AtW]

“John McAfee, Antivirus Software Creator, Found Dead in Spanish Prison

Madrid (AP) -- John McAfee, the creator of the McAfee antivirus software, has been found dead in his cell in a jail near Barcelona, a government official told The Associated Press on Wednesday.

Hours earlier,...

[AtW]

“New £50 note featuring Alan Turing goes into circulation

The new £50 note goes into circulation on Wednesday – but with consumers increasingly going cashless, for millions of people it may be months or even years before they see or touch one.

It’s been around for 40 years,...

[AtW]

So as some of you know I liked Mercedeses (sp?) because of their superior build quality thats manages hitting random brick walls and keeps the driver and passengers safe.

Over the years car manufactures were cutting costs every way they can and for a long time tyres were their target -...