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Thanks to Vishnavi Pandev and Secret London for the Headline.

On March the 17th this year a new visionary electric steam train is being launched in Essex’s Audley’s End Enchanted Garden. The ride mimics an actual steam train , sounds and steam and all without the environmental impact of burning coal and boiling vapour.

Visitors will be able to enjoy a ride around the Spring Gardens in full bloom with bluebells and tulips while gazing from the authentic but brand new train called the “Steamless Revolution.” Sounds a nice day out.

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Thanks to Tabitha Wilson and the Warrington Guardian for the Headline.

Congratulations to all for celebrating the staple of many family dinner take- aways in the UK. If you have a good “Chippy” near you , you are very lucky.

Tasty , Crispy, light batter is very important and I can tell if the oil in the oil fryers is not changed regularly. Not sure I really want beef gravy with fish (sounds a bit overkill). In my youth it would have been curry sauce with chips , but now I love a home made tartar sauce which I can get down in Cornwall when the mobile fish and chip shop visits our Camping site. There’s something very special about a fish and chip shop coming to you.

Whatever way you look at it with the costs of running any food business any take-away is costly and so naturally price does come into the equation , particularly when you have a few mouths to feed. So it is still a modern day treat, not a staple.

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Thanks to Ayodeji Adegboyega and Business Insider Africa for the Headline

Being surrounded in our town in the UK by what seems like continuous housing developments being put in with inadequate infrastructure and what seems to be a “build them quick” mentality, it’s interesting to read that the same process is happening in the Ivory Coast at the behest of a Moroccan billionaire.

Abidjan sounds a fascinating city, having being built on various islands and peninsulas in the Έbriέ Peninsula.

The investment is being used to build a luxury mixed-use development in Abidigan’s Zone 4 district. The project will feature four 20 -storey residential towers, office space and a major shopping centre. It marks a strategic shift by Addoha Group ( owned by Morrocan the billionaire investor) toward higher-margin, premium developments across Africa.

It seems the same business model throughout the World, the scheme is expected to start generating revenue shortly, Addoha Group are moving away from supplying much needed low cost housing in the markets it operates in throughout Africa to more profitable high end developments that generate increased profits.

This model has been used in our town of Swindon and frankly has lead to a town centre that is deserted and has looked like a building site for thirty years, will we ever learn?

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Thanks to BBC Online News for the Headline.

Large suitcases with “SMS Blasters” in them. In my day we used to get annoyed with “Ghetto Blasters”. Thankfully because the large suitcases being pulled along on the tube platform looked very suspicious, this scam was spotted. Within the suitcase was some sort of homemade electronic technology, probably based on a Raspberry Pi, which impersonates an actual phone tower.

Loads of people on the tube received texts saying that a parcel had been delivered to their house and to click on a link where they could retrieve it in exchange for a fee.A massive scam targeting a large amount of people. Some were bound to be fooled.

Apparently this scam is called “smishing” , well fraudsters , you were caught so you can “smish off!”

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Thanks to Ros Tappenden and BBC Online News for the Headline.

I love the South West Coast Path, I’ve walked a few miles on it , mainly in Cornwall. It always makes me feel in awe as I look out into the distance and see basically the sea with nothing between us and America. It just seems so utterly other worldly and to know that since ancient times people have looked over those cliffs too. Or walked on the beaches below, foraging or looking for shells or flotsam.

Unfortunately it will crumble , it will never stay the same. Perhaps that is the beauty of it. I know people have to be kept safe and warned not to go too near the edge and to be aware that there are crumbly bits and sometimes paths need to be closed and rerouted. It’s the very nature of nature and we must accept it. That is why Coastal Path’s are so beautiful, they are temporary.

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