Showing posts with label Somerset. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Somerset. Show all posts
Thursday, June 11, 2026

Child mannequin found on train with can of cider

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BBC News wins our Headline of the Day award with the tale from the West Somerset Railway . The judges have declined to sign petitions calli...
Thursday, March 19, 2026

The Somerset & Dorset Railway branch to Burnham-on-Sea

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The YouTube blurb for this video says: The Friendly Line to Burnham was one of a series of delightful programmes in 1980 under the general t...
Monday, February 23, 2026

The Joy of Six 1479

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Richard Reich argues that employers will not share the gains from AI unless they are made to: "If the five-day workweek with five days...
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Tuesday, January 20, 2026

An Observer podcast series on The Real Salt Path

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If you were hooked by Chloe Hadjimatheou's reporting of the questionable veracity of The Salt Path, you may be interested to know that t...
Saturday, January 03, 2026

The Joy of Six 1456

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"At present the Tories are making the same mistakes as their continental cousins – aping the rhetoric and policies of the further right...
Thursday, October 23, 2025

The Joy of Six 1425

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"The Cabinet Office, Lord Gove and Ciga Healthcare were approached for comment but did not respond by time of publication." Byline...
Thursday, May 08, 2025

The West of England has a Lib Dem deputy mayor

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Kevin Guy, the Liberal Democrat leader of Bath and North East Somerset Council, will serve as deputy mayor of the West of England for the ne...
Saturday, April 26, 2025

The Joy of Six 1351

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"Years of historic underinvestment in favour of profit has run the business into the ground. It now finds itself on the brink of collap...
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Sunday, March 09, 2025

"Naked boys as pit-ponies": Conditions in the Somerset coalfield

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Back to the Somerset coalfield and a story that caught my eye in the splendidly populist and scandal-seeking John Bull magazine. Well, it ...
Wednesday, March 05, 2025

Steam power and an incline in the Somerset coalfield, 1971

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At the turn of the 20th century, there were 79 collieries at work in the Somerset Coalfield. The last two closed in 1973, when the nearby Po...
Wednesday, August 28, 2024

Conservationists say beaver bombing is the fault of government

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Why are there now so many beavers living on rivers across the south of England? Patrick Barkham will tell you: "Beaver bombing", ...
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Thursday, August 15, 2024

The Joy of Six 1258

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"The middle-income professionals in the seats we have just won will take a lot of persuading to pay more for better prisons, probation ...
Tuesday, July 16, 2024

Jane Ashdown: "I can't wipe the grin off my face"

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Jane Ashdown , the widow of the former Liberal Democrat leader Paddy Ashdown, has been talking to Somerset Live about her delight at the gen...
Wednesday, July 03, 2024

Ed Davey: Tomorrow's election is a once-in-a-generation chance to put an end to years of Conservative chaos

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Embed from Getty Images In an article posted on the Guardian's website this afternoon, Ed Davey describes tomorrow's election as ...
Tuesday, June 25, 2024

Labour is diverting its activists away from Lib Dem target seats

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Conservative fears of an electoral wipe out next Thursday will be deepened by analysis in the Financial Times suggesting that Labour is div...
Tuesday, June 18, 2024

Lib Dems will get their kicks on the A30

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George Parker and Anna Gross have been to Yeovil for the Financial Times, and who should they meet there but the leader of the Liberal Demo...
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Wednesday, June 12, 2024

Ed Davey bets a pint of cider that one of his Somerset candidates will win a larger majority than him

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Embed from Getty Images This just in from The Midsomer Norton, Radstock & District Journal with the Chew Valley & Wrington Vale Gaze...
Sunday, May 05, 2024

Ed Davey: The Liberal Democrats are back in the West Country

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A new Guardian article suggests the Liberal Democrats' strong performance in the local elections means its strategy of concentrating cam...
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Thursday, February 15, 2024

Lord Bonkers' Diary: They could most fairly be described as "repentant headhunters"

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The Look at Life film really exists and is online - the young Paddy Ashdown appears at about 6.35 and the comment on the Dayaks at 8.20. Ge...
Monday, December 18, 2023

PC Bodger's finest hour: The opening of Chew Valley Lake

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Writing about my mother's stories of the Somerset Constabulary in the 1950s, and of one PC Bodger in particular, the other day, I said:...