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ABSpareEditor
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ToraToraTora
https://news.sky.com/story/trump-government-attempts-to-rip-up-31-environmental-protections-and-reviews-damage-of-greenhouse-gases-13327636 No one doubts climate change, the planet is continually... ...
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Canary42
In the wee small hours tomorrow (14th March), a partial eclipse of the moon is due. Will you be looking out for it ?   https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/ckg8jkzlj03o .      ...
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https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cvgw118nlkeo Came over the talk about the golf course! Right oh! ...
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Khandro
Gerry Adams notoriously said of the IRA: ‘They haven’t gone away, you know.’ The same is true of Islamist terrorism. In Syria, the new President Ahmed al-Sharaa sits atop an unruly coalition of... ...
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nicebloke1
GB news this morning said that the British love a peir? then go on to state that some have all but closed due to lack of visitors or they are falling apart. They also claim that peirs are a vital... ...
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naomi24
//It's because refuse collectors have been striking on and off since January - and it shows. Many streets are littered with the contents of the bins, with rubbish strewn everywhere as animals have... ...
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Clone
The tens of thousands of migrants, would they be conscripted?    https://www.thesun.co.uk/news/33789912/labour-conscription-uk-europe-frontline-war/ ...
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ToraToraTora
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cy5ng663d1wo why do they seem to need the steam tugs? ...
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naomi24
A story from BBC teievision news.  Police checking insurance on vehicles seized a car.  The driver called his partner to come and pick him up - who arrived in an uninsured vehicle so that too was... ...
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naomi24
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/mar/12/eu-retaliates-against-trump-tariffs-with-26bn-countermeasures   What a mess he's creating! ...
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https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cx2r3d0r8z0o Hardly anyone lives there, almost no GDP, almost no infrastructure, surely if a superpower wants you on board it's a no brainer? OK so they have... ...
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Hazlinny
What next for Nicola? https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cvg5j74ld9lo ...
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What with all the big world issues this may have passed under the radar but the Employment rights bill is on the way. Essentially it makes any pub banter a possible offence. Basically anything the... ...
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10ClarionSt
...and BBC gubbins. Only the beeb could turn this into a climate change report. They had "our climate change correspondent", the useless Justin Rowlatt, reporting on it. He gets money for old... ...
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https://news.sky.com/story/captain-of-solong-container-ship-involved-in-north-sea-crash-is-russian-national-company-says-13326888 Russian captain? mmmm! ...
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https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c9vy191rgn1o "A new four-lane highway cutting through tens of thousands of acres of protected Amazon rainforest is being built for the COP30 climate summit in... ...
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tomus42
25% US tariffs on Canadian steel have been increased to 50%...oh hang on stop press, they haven't. BBC News - https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/cly412xwz44t
Canada tariffs updates: White House halts... ...
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Spungle
Very good progress, and encouraging.  USA and Ukraine have called Russia's bluff. The ball is in Russia's court.  This will show whether Russia is serious about peace now or not.
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https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cy8pd7dn8v6o   ...
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If he forms a new party to rival Reform UK https://www.telegraph.co.uk/politics/2025/03/11/farage-rupert-lowe-row-huge-distraction-i-could-do-without/ musk is the world's richest man and a few... ...

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