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In England a driver can be speeding, using cannabis and a phone, overtake another vehicle, mount the pavement outside a school playground and kill a 4-year-old girl while uninsured β and receive just 3 years 10 months for causing death by careless driving.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
We're thrilled to announce that Discover Festival is back for summer 2026! Spark your curiosity on Saturday 13th June, as we welcome you & your family to our free, one-day festival of interactive fun in the heart of the North East. β‘
Find out moreβ¬
https://bit.ly/4cC59ub
#NCLDiscoverFest #WeAreNCL
what is the largest animal you are confident you could expel, singlehandedly, from a medium-size bookshop?
RULES:
- you have no resources beyond what is available in the shop
- you must remain more or less uninjured
- bookshop has 2 floors; animal is on ground floor, you can choose where you begin
"Other than that, Mrs Lincoln, how was the play?"
Fantastic reporting from Moya and @robbiejourno.bsky.social on the Glasgow fire.
Moderate, perhaps, but a surcharge for ruining cities is a policy step in the right direction. Go TfL.
a. Many congratulations
b. Love the 'pole vault only' event. π
Duplantis breaks pole vault record for 15th time - www.bbc.co.uk/sport/athlet...
This is very much worth your time today.
The importance of local journalism is something I believe so strongly in and I'm lucky to work with some super-talented people who are deeply dedicated to the North East.
www.chroniclelive.co.uk/news/north-e...
If I was the global economy, I would simply not make my energy system dependent on passing commodities through a narrow strait in a geopolitically tumultuous region.
An early incarnation of Dennis: a boy with a spiky mop of black hair and bandy, knobbly-kneed legs, walks down a street carrying a tin of red paint, watched suspiciously by a policeman
Itβs the 75th anniversary of a man in Dundee called David Law creating the βworldβs wildest boyβ, who lived in the pages of The Beano, and later that same year acquired a stripy jumper which he never again took off β and in 1968 got a dog as disciplined as its owner: Gnasher π§΅
Speaking after PMQs, Badneochβs spokesperson accused Starmer of seeking to βcompletely misrepresent our positionβ, arguing that Badenoch had never argued that the UK should join in the war. She had, he argued, just called for the UK to allow the US to use British bases for the initial attacks on Iran, and that she now supported UK action against Iranian military action targeting British bases in Cyprus. Asked if this was not the same as joining the war, he said: βWe are at war. The difference is, we're not joining the war. We're in the war.β Asked if Badenoch understood the goals of the war, the spokesperson said she did not receive the same intelligence briefings as ministers. Questioned as to how she could back a conflict without knowing its aims, he added: βWe support our allies.β
βWe are at war. The difference is, we're not joining the war. We're in the war.β
Kemi Badenoch's spokesperson had, it is fair to say, a few issues in explaining her position on the Iran conflict after PMQs.
Iran will not take part in the 2026 World Cup.
Iranian sports minister Ahmad Donyamali on state television:
"Considering that this corrupt regime [the US] has assassinated our leader, under no circumstances can we participate in the World Cupβ.
www.theguardian.com/football/202...
Surely the time has come for it to have its own breakaway cartoon strip?...
Keith Andrews' hair must be a joy to draw. π₯°
Keith Andrews' hair. π
Why? βoptimism biasβ: the conviction, apparently hard-wired into humans, that encourages us to move onward & upward rather than simply despair in the face of our inevitable demise; the strong feeling that things will be better (for our family & friends anyway) than all the statistics suggest. 2/ENDS
I'm no expert, but "getting the site ready for the development of".... sounds like many more years of waiting lie ahead.
Two 'world-classes' in two lines though! π₯³
I need to find out if anyone *didn't* get sent off. π
Imagine how Ron Saunders would have reacted. π€
'Elsevier made Β£1.04 billion in profit in 2025, according to its parent companyβs latest annual report, up 7 per cent on 2024.' 1/2
From the Guardian piece on Crispin Odey:
The Vegas Loop carried 16,400 passengers per day during the expo.
For context, Londonβs Elizabeth Line carries ~800,000 per day.
Even Victorian steam trains in 1860s London moved 3β4Γ more people per hour than Elon.
In case you didnβt already know: cars in tunnels arenβt the future of transitβ¦
"It's regrettable". π§
23 players sent off after mass brawl in Brazil - www.bbc.co.uk/sport/footba...
Crude oil prices, showing a very sharp increase in the last day, from around 65 to 101 dollars per barrel..
Oil prices wouldn't be all over the news today if more of our economy was powered by local, secure renewable energy.
This isn't an "energy crisis". It's a fossil fuel crisis.
44% of UK electricity came from renewables in 2025. More of that plus an electrified economy => no more oil shocks.
Huge fire around Glasgow Central station, reportedly started in a vape shop
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...
The major fire next to Glasgow Central station has spread.
Follow LIVE updates: www.heraldscotland.com/news...
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Morning all.
Photograph by Frank Martin. Charles Tumbridge riding through Kensal Rise, West London with his dog Susie in her sidecar kennel, 1962.
This conflict is incomprehensible.
BBC News - Dozens killed as Israeli special forces raid Lebanese village in search of 40-year-old remains
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Any Brummie of my generation will get a memory jolt when they look at the background of this picture. Can anyone help Mike with his query?
