Making the news today....

[openspaceman]

22 minutes ago, kevinjohnsonmbe said:

 

Cheeky whippersnapper, I've tried and failed more times than you've had hot dinners.

[Khriss]

.......there's me thinking this was a devious an treacherous plot by a  lil shouty Swede n now I see Kev has been planning his ascent to the throne all along   ?  K

[kevinjohnsonmbe]

43 minutes ago, Khriss said:

.......there's me thinking this was a devious an treacherous plot by a  lil shouty Swede n now I see Kev has been planning his ascent to the throne all along   ?  K

Turnip!

[Stere]

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Maybe it's time to recognise the unintended benefits that have come from this situation and build them into the vision for the future.

Milan is to introduce one of Europe’s most ambitious schemes reallocating street space from cars to cycling and walking, in response to the coronavirus crisis.

The northern Italian city and surrounding Lombardy region are among Europe’s most polluted, and have also been especially hard hit by the Covid-19 outbreak.

Under the nationwide lockdown, motor traffic congestion has dropped by 30-75%, and air pollution with it. City officials hope to fend off a resurgence in car use as residents return to work looking to avoid busy public transport.

The city has announced that 35km (22 miles) of streets will be transformed over the summer, with a rapid, experimental citywide expansion of cycling and walking space to protect residents as Covid-19 restrictions are lifted.

 

Milan announces ambitious scheme to reduce car use after lockdown | World news | The Guardian

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Coronavirus-hit Lombardy city will turn 35km of streets over to cyclists and pedestrians

 

[kevinjohnsonmbe]

Airlines appearing to be pulling out of Gatwick. 
 

All this talk of ‘support’ to the industry to see it through Brexit and COVID

 

How much is the potentially redundant (before it starts) Heathrow expansion...?

[TIMON]

Airlines appearing to be pulling out of Gatwick. 
 
All this talk of ‘support’ to the industry to see it through Brexit and COVID
 
How much is the potentially redundant (before it starts) Heathrow expansion...?

It’s beginning to look like a lot of established firms will be more like ‘start-ups’ once restrictions finally get lifted.

Maybe that will be a good thing if some of the big monopolies are broken.
I think one of the downsides of free-market capitalism is that eventually the big corporations swallow everything up.

Amazon being a case in point. I’ll be buying as little as I can through them, and as much as I can from the local high st once the lockdown is over

[Khriss]

Gatwick is an arse to get to an perfectly good tube train to Heathrow - which as there are fuck all people on Piccadilly Line , would be my journey of choice.  K

[scbk]

Crane fail during testing in germany, apparently this was due to be heading over here to the cromarty firth for work on an off shore wind farm

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

[Craig Johnson]

8 hours ago, scbk said:

Crane fail during testing in germany, apparently this was due to be heading over here to the cromarty firth for work on an off shore wind farm

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

if you look closely, you can see the broken hook almost hit the cab as the jib falls backwards

[tree-fancier123]

playing Rambo...

A botched attempt to topple the regime of Nicolás Maduro with an invasion using fishing dinghies has ended with two American mercenaries in jail and eight people dead, the Venezuelan government has claimed.

State television showed two dishevelled men, named as Airan Berry, 41, and Luke Denman, 34. Both are understood to have served in the US special forces. They were among 13 people the government says were captured following two landings by small boats along Venezuela’s Caribbean coastline.

“They were playing Rambo. They were playing hero,” said President Maduro, referring to the Hollywood action film series.