A couple of weeks ago I posted a 1965 television report on Spurn Point and the lifeboat station there. The image above is taken from it. Now comes news that the RNLI is to close that station. Over to the Holderness & Hornsea Gazette: Leaving a place pivotal to the 200-year history of the station and even a home to their families in the past has been difficult for the crews, but structural issues with the jetty make it essential to operate from elsewhere, the RNLI said. Humber RNLI will continue to provide a vital lifesaving search and rescue service ...
Graham Lanktree explains how Boris Johnson sold out British farming: "Two prime ministers sat face to face across a grand Westminster dining room, the first ever free-trade agreement between their nations all but complete. On the table that evening were bottles of fine Australian wine, a rack of Welsh lamb - and the future of the UK farming industry." "Speaking to locals in the town, there are plenty of reasons to doubt his optimism. The Mayor Ben Houchen is a 'provincial, parochial solicitor from Stockton' who is 'completely out of his depth'. Or, as one man told me, he's a ...
Dependent on whom you listen to, AI is either going to save or destroy humanity. In common with most leaps in human knowledge, the reality lies somewhere in the middle. Winners and losers are guaranteed. Technology will race blindly ahead with society attempting to play catch-up and unable to do so because of its inability to know the unknown. The one known is that the AI genii is well and truly out of the bottle and won't/can't be stuffed back in. The trick therefore is how to regulate it in order to maximise the upside and minimise the downside. One ...
The Fulham West by-election 1938 was won for Labour by Edith Summerskill, taking the seat from the Conservatives by 52%-48% in the face of widespread predictions by pundits that the Tories would hold on. Why mention this?
The Independent reports that Boris Johnson has been accused of causing "embarrassment" for Britain after blundering into a £10bn trade deal concession with Australia in farcical scenes. They say that over a chaotic dinner in No 10 in early 2021, an Australian official is reported to have cobbled together an agreement over meat import quotas on his way to the loo, which he rushed to get Mr Johnson to sign before the final course: Liz Truss, who at the time was serving as international trade secretary and later tried to unpick the deal, is said to have been told later: ...
The council's shoppers' bus service restarted in June 2022 after being withdrawn at the end of March 2020 due to the pandemic. It aims to help older residents mainly in sheltered housing get to a supermarket and back each week. The service operates Tuesday to Friday every week and in the West End runs as follows : Tuesdays - Pick up at Tullideph Place (12.05pm), Logie lounge in Lime Street (12.10pm) then Pine Court in Logie Gardens (12.15pm) to take folk to Tesco Riverside and return. Thursdays - Pick up at Corso Street (10.10am), Pennycook Lane (10.15am), Muirlands (10.20am) and ...
I learnt tonight that Jamie Driscol, Labour's North of Tyne Mayor, has failed to make the longlist for the new North East Mayor. He is now staring at redundancy as, once the regional mayor is elected, the North of Tyne position is consigned to history. Driscol prospered in the Corbyn days and is described as the last Corbynista still in power. In office he was, at best, rather underwhelming. At
