Talking Pictures TV has started showing Z-Cars episodes from the early Seventies, though this one comes from the excellent Vintage British Television channel on YouTube. Like. Follow. Subscribe. One thing I have learnt is that Nicholas Smith - Mr Rumbold in Are You Being Served? - was also a semi-regular in Z-Cars when the comedy was launched in 1972. He played PC Jeff Yates on and off until 1975. You can see him in the episode above. Nothing much happens, yet it turns into a tragedy that stays with you. I don't remember Nicholas Smith from this era of Z-Cars, ...
Behind the scenes I am beginning to challenge politicians and public sector organisations in the Liverpool City Region area to begin to move their social media messaging accounts to BlueSky and other social streams. Let us suspend our rational minds and move into a hypothesis. This is that I stand in my front room and make the speech of my life. The arm movements, the jokes, the pathos, and facts are spot on. I then wonder who is listening to me and check the stats. Next to no-one! A few people would have seen me through the window and might ...
Time Out reports that the Telegraph has named what it believes to be the best pub in every English county, based on reports from its readers. So naturally I turn first to the winner for Leicestershire and for Shropshire. They are: Best pub in Leicestershire - The Swan at BraybrookeBest pub in Shropshire - The Sun Inn, Leintwardine The only problem is that Braybrooke is in Northamptonshire and Leintwardine is in Herefordshire. I don't expect the urban sophisticates of Time Out to know better, but shouldn't the Telegraph? Someone there has been misled by postcodes, as Braybrooke has a Market ...
For the past ten years or more I have tried to "honour" Holocaust Memorial Day on this blog, mostly with an extract from Primo Levi's records of his experiences, "Is this a Man.?" and "Truce." This year being the 80th anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz, by the Red army, there is so much media interest that a modest reference here to the details of the atrocity would be superfluous. I gather from one programme on BBC Radio that Levi found it difficult in the early years after the War to find a publisher: people preferred something more noble or ...
Liberal Democrat Leader Ed Davey's statement on Holocaust Memorial Day: 80 years ago, seven thousand people were finally liberated from Auschwitz. Free at last, after years of unimaginable misery. In the years before, 1.1 million people had been murdered by the Nazis at Auschwitz alone - mostly Jews. As we commemorate 80 years since Britain and her allies defeated the Nazis and ended the Holocaust, we must never forget those appalling atrocities. We must never forget how six million Jews were murdered by the Nazis; how so much inhumanity was inflicted on humans by humans. We must remember, so that ...
DUNDEE CITY COUNCIL - WEEKLY ROAD REPORT REPORT FOR THE WEST END WARD - WEEK COMMENCING MONDAY 27 JANUARY 2025 Lochee Road (West Marketgait to Park Street - rolling off peak (9.30am to 3.30pm) temporary traffic lights Sunday 26 to Wednesday 29 January for Scottish Water work. Seafield Road, Dundee - closed from its westmost end (in cul-de-sac) extending for a distance of no more than 20 metres in an easterly direction to facilitate a site access for a new housing development until November 2025. Blinshall Street (Douglas Street to 50 metres south) - closed until April 2025 for construction ...
The Guardian reports on claims by privacy campaigners that a new app designed to hold citizens' driving licences, passports and benefits documents risks being used as a "launchpad for a mandatory ID scheme". Their fears revolve around plans launched last week by Peter Kyle, the technology secretary, for a gov.uk app and gov.uk wallet, intended to save time and hassle for millions by allowing them to carry on their phones digital versions of paper documents, similar to e-government apps already in use in countries including Poland, Estonia and Iceland. These documents would include proofs of right to work in the ...
