I'm helping a neighbour get back online after a long absence due to illness. She has a laptop with Windows 7 which she is thinking of resurrecting. I know W7 is no longer supported and I believe using...
I thought I'd seen just about everything there is to see in connection with the "climate emergency" but here's a goodie: Just back from the High Street. Saw a largish lorry with "Climate Emergency...
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-60047438 Since face masks have been shown to be largely useless in preventing the spread of the Omicron variant (and probably scarcely any better with the earlier...
https://www.msn.com/en-gb/money/news/no-more-covid-rules-in-england-before-new-year-javid-confirms/ar-AASbzsl?ocid=msedgntp New Year's Eve plans in England have been given the green light, as Sajid...
Professional snooker player (a former world champion) gets beaten by an amateur. He responds by saying it "isn't fair" that amateurs are allowed to enter professional tournaments:...
I agree with the "Green" campaigners: https://www.msn.com/en-gb/news/world/uk-s-biggest-carbon-emitter-drax-greenwashing-wood-fired-power-at-cop26-campaigners-say/ar-AAQBvZC?ocid=msedgntp But not...
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-59088498 The COP jamboree has made a decision to ban deforestation by 2030. Among the signatories are the USA and Canada and Drax gets the vast majority...
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-58417076 **Services may have to be cut unless NHS England receives an extra £10bn in funding next year, groups representing the health service have warned.** I can...
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/uk-58240835 Scroll down to 15:19: "The Scottish government is seeking to make many of its emergency coronavirus powers permanent, including the ability to close...
When will the police appreciate (and stick to) the extent of their powers?: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-56039285 Police were left "outnumbered" and "hugely frustrated" when hundreds of...
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-wales-55771996 People who queued for two hours after driving 20 miles to get milk from a farm's vending machine have been fined for breaching lockdown rules. “All of...
In a question yesterday, it was suggested that the UK could learn lessons from three Asian countries when trying to control the virus. One of them was China. So is this the way to go? Who would like...
There are around 26 million people in the UK aged 50 and over (which I believe is the target age group for vaccinations at least initially). This week 130,000 (0.5%) of that number were vaccinated....
I thought of adding further comments to this question: https://www.theanswerbank.co.uk/News/Question1726504.html but decided to add (yet) another for today's entertainment. My comments are (as usual)...
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-scotland-politics-54285720 “Universities have now pledged to make it "absolutely clear" to students that there must be no parties.” There must be no parties....
On 1st July the published number (cumulative) of Covid cases in the UK was 313,483. I could not find yesterday's figures. Today the total number of cases up to yesterday is 283,757 - a figure that by...
The thingy that keeps ditching me from AB and telling me I have won a major prize (from a BT draw or something) is back. Twice in the last ten minutes. https://eu.retailxirce.xyz/.....plus a load of...