Yeah, I mean apparently this is being driven by charities for the blind, but you can even see in the main image for the article that there is a defined crossing over the cycle lane with different texture pavement tiles. The blind are far from being ignored here.
Most civil servants are good (for government workers) but the Home Office has been stacked with people by all the vile Home Secretaries the Tories have had over the last 14 years. Sacking them is prudent.
It’s more than that in the UK, unfortunately. Suella Braverman’s father ran British concentration camps in Kenya, she’s trying to restart the family business (funded entirely by the taxpayer), the reason they haven’t been processing people is simply so they have enough occupants for their new camps.
Water detective Dr Leon Barron studies London’s wastewater, analysing it in all its chemical, narcotic, polluted glory, before and after treatment. Amazingly, he still drinks the stuff from the tap...
NHS England said they were aware of an issue involving an incorrect death registration which was rectified by the patient’s GP but they do not notify the DWP of a death.
Let me guess, NHS England uses a version of Horizon, and DWP have special secret backdoor access into health records…
They are, that’s why they freeze things first and only proceed when they get a copy of the death certificate. Someone has to give them the death certificate, which is why nothing happened here for 4 months.
For bank accounts, this means you can’t withdraw their money until it’s gone through probate. However, if it’s a joint account then the surviving account holder can still use the account as normal. However if no one’s pushing for probate (and without death certificates) nothing much will happen for a while.
This is why it’s a bit of a non-story, nothing major happened ultimately, nothing was likely to happen soon (her carer’s payments stopped temporarily but it sounds like she didn’t realise until after the hospital appointment), and if anything the most surprising thing is that it took the “dead” person 4 months to even notice the mistake.
Exactly. The rolling stock is where all the money goes, meanwhile the public-facing train companies you buy tickets from (who rent rolling stock) operate at or near a loss. This way the train companies can negotiate better contracts with local governments - “Look, we’re barely making any money, we have to charge ludicrously high fares for piss poor service!”
Currently Network Rail owns and operates (nearly) all the railways, signals and ticket offices. Not sure about stations. Train companies rent rail stock, but they pay a high price for this and subsequently pass that onto the consumer, while maintaining that it’s necessary to charge expensive fares because their costs are so high.
The government owns Network Rail. The government will take over the rail companies, and this will probably end up staggered as different companies have different contract dates. The rail stock itself will probably remain under the same ownership with more or less the same ridiculous rental charges.
So all in all this probably won’t make that much difference.
You don’t apply for a permit, you go to LinesearchbeforeUdig - lsbud.co.uk. This is a free service anyone can use, and you’ll get emails from various asset owners with maps of what they have in the area you select. Some might try to charge for this, these ones are assholes.
As far as the law is concerned, it’s up to you to make sure you do it right and the costs for doing it wrong will all fall on your shoulders.
The only permit you need AFAIK is planning permission - which won’t be granted until you convince them you’ve done a sufficient line search. Aside from that, you need permission from the land owner, of course.
SunExpress’s German-American boss Max Kownatzki told trade publication TTG that one special flight operated by the Turkish airline for a group of Brits on a golfing break was drunk dry in the space of 25-minutes....
While the chance of dying in a plane crash is very low, if you get into a situation where the plane is going to crash then the chance of dying is very high. In which case, being drunk might make that experience a little more bearable.
"In a statement, the Ministry of Defence (MoD) said the Royal Air Force (RAF) will repel “any airborne attacks within range” of operations in the region....
The UK sells Israel weapons. The US sells Israel weapons. Unlike other countries, Israel pays more reliably. A good salesman looks after their best customers.
Also, it seems that since Israel suffered no significant damage from the attack, they’re not going to retaliate now. So the support worked, because otherwise there probably would have been more than minimal damge to Israel, they would have responded and we’d have open war between Israel and Iran.
This is the claim from the Guardian article about this:
Puberty blockers and hormone treatment had been given to young patients despite a lack of research into their impact
Frankly I find that hard to swallow, given that puberty blockers existed long before they were used to treat trans people. Puberty blockers were used to treat children with extremely early puberty, their effects are generally well known. Sure, there’s always the classic “more study is needed” line in academia, but this almost presents it as careless implementation of a new drug, rather than a known and approved drug given to more people.
Good estate (jlai.lu)
Transport secretary considers ban on floating bus stops in UK cycle lanes (www.theguardian.com)
Starmer to rip up Rwanda scheme and fund new anti-smuggling unit (www.theguardian.com)
‘I see cocaine in wild shrimp in Suffolk’: meet the scientist who analyses our wastewater (www.theguardian.com)
Water detective Dr Leon Barron studies London’s wastewater, analysing it in all its chemical, narcotic, polluted glory, before and after treatment. Amazingly, he still drinks the stuff from the tap...
Scarborough woman wants answers after being told she is dead (www.bbc.com)
cross-posted from: lemmy.ca/post/20347898...
The “Require videogame publishers to keep games they have sold in a working state” petition just got a response. (sopuli.xyz)
The recent stopkillinggames campaign has been my first exposure to UK petitions....
‘Huge disappointment’ as UK delays bottle deposit plan and excludes glass (www.theguardian.com)
Labour promises rail nationalisation within five years of coming to power (www.theguardian.com)
cross-posted from: feddit.uk/post/10932557...
Leasehold charges to be capped at £250 rather than cut to zero: Report – Mortgage Strategy (www.mortgagestrategy.co.uk)
Two UK water companies lack complete maps of sewage networks (www.ft.com)
Can you guess which ones?
Rwanda bill set to become law after protracted stand-off with Lords (inews.co.uk)
Brit passengers on four-hour flight to Turkey drink entire plane dry in 25 minutes (www.lbc.co.uk)
SunExpress’s German-American boss Max Kownatzki told trade publication TTG that one special flight operated by the Turkish airline for a group of Brits on a golfing break was drunk dry in the space of 25-minutes....
Infected blood scandal: Children were used as 'guinea pigs' in clinical trials (www.bbc.com)
cross-posted from: lemmy.smeargle.fans/post/148874...
MP raises security fears over a Chinese firm's involvement in North Sea windfarm developments (www.bbc.com)
Cross posted from: feddit.de/post/11081170...
RAF fighter jets deployed to shoot down Iran drones, MoD says (www.bbc.com)
"In a statement, the Ministry of Defence (MoD) said the Royal Air Force (RAF) will repel “any airborne attacks within range” of operations in the region....
Cass review urges ‘extreme caution’ in prescribing puberty blockers to trans youth (www.thepinknews.com)
Palestine activists arrested after halting production at Yorkshire weapons factory (morningstaronline.co.uk)