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I kid you not, Ramsgate once had a railway station on the beach! I only discovered it when examining old maps. It was accessed via tunnel drilled through the cliffs which has had several other uses since the tracks were lifted including as an air raid shelter in WW2.

This reminds me a lot of the Cliff Richard case where the cameras were invited to film the raid despite the fact that he had no case to answer.

I was walking to the chip shop in Spon End when a family came out of the nearby tower block flats and also walked towards the chip shop. As they passed the charity donation bin on the corner the father of the family - who was by no means young - suddenly whipped a spray can out of his pocket and...

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/politics/2023/04/05/peter-murrell-arrest-latest-nicola-sturgeon-snp-probe/

Mine felt more like an eviction than a house move. Citizen were in a hurry to move me so they could knock my old place down (which they've yet to do nine months later). I was offline and totally incommunicado for nine days, no phone, no internet, no TV or radio. In some ways that was a blessing...

It was never actually nationalised. It was originally owned by local authorities which meant that people on low incomes could claim a rebate on their water rates.

And also this is the only period in history that the Earth has had TWO polar ice-caps. In fact, except during a so-called "Ice Epoch" like the one we're experiencing now, it doesn't even have one polar ice cap.

Super easy, barely an inconvenience.

"I'm going for a walk by the river so I'll leave my phone and the dog by this bench in case I fall in and drown."

It's chief purpose seems to be to help bullshitters on YouTube make videos telling us how it's going to "change our lives".

No, good advice would have been to tell me ask Google which has been more helpful than ChatGPT on every occasion.

Isn't that to do with the ransomware attack rather than the strikes?

I've yet to get a single useful answer from it. For example I asked what happened to the paddling pool in Stoke Green and it said I should try asking the council.

2019 https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2019/nov/11/brexit-party-will-not-contest-317-tory-seats-nigel-farage-says

Corbyn only lost because Farage sold out to the Tories. But for that the Tories would have been slaughtered and Labour elected with a landslide.

Harold Wilson and Michael Foot were once expelled from the Labour Party, whatever happened to them?

Begins again tomorrow so that's my evening taken care of: https://tvline.com/lists/the-nevers-release-date-season-1-new-episodes-tubi/