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Thanks to Stuart Rust and Patrick O’Hagan and BBC News for the Headline

The cost of three State visits were paid for by Windsor and Maidenhead Council in 2025 and none of that money has been reimbursed to them.

Quite rightly, the local council for the area has said that they will no longer cough up any more dosh after the £350,000 they spent on three high profile visits with celebrities’ attending banquets at Windsor Castle were not reimbursed.

The the up and coming visit of the President of Nigeria would have to be funded from elsewhere. No garden parties for the local councillors this year, then ,to thank them for their efforts . King Charles will have to find someone else to pay for the party.

Funny enough, the Council would rather use the funds they are responsible for, for local services for the people who vote for them. It’s even been raised by the local MP in parliament that the money should be reimbursed, and in true Civil Service fashion , the practical monetary elements have been shoved aside and it’s been said the whole thing is under review and that a number of government bodies should contribute and they would continue playing ping pong with the idea until everyone forgot who was owed what. (they didn’t say that but that is what they mean)

Still surprisingly despite the likes of Celebrities likes of Sir Elton John, Dame Kirstin Scott and Mick Jagger attending for free, well maybe they as well as the King are short of the readies just like us. We are all commoners basically. Still someone has to pay and pay their taxes and council tax too. We all need a break don’t we?

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Thanks to Sky News for the Headline

A plane , a Fokker 50 with 55 passengers and crew had to do an emergency landing in Somalia and overshot the runway and ended up in shallow waters in the Indian Ocean. Thankfully no one suffered any injuries which is truly miraculous as the wing of the plane snapped off on landing. Well done to the crew for ensuring everyone’s safety.

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Thanks to Mary Randolph- Freelance contributor and the Smithsonian magazine for the Headline.

I got to admit when I saw this headline at first , I thought of Cows, it was the Cows! I was wrong unsurprisingly.

Evidence shows in order to break down Methane in the atmosphere we need hydroxy radicals which are created with sunlight and various gases including air pollutants emitted from manmade processes such as nitrogen oxides. In other words we need pollution to reduce the Methane in our atmosphere.

A second factor was the role of Wetlands, the pandemic coincided with La Niᾔa, a periodic climate event that causes increased rainfall in tropical areas. Apparently the little methane producing microbes had a field day and saturated the atmosphere with more methane.

The solution, to this if there is one, is to increase the satellite imagery of these atmospheric gases to show what is happening. It’s just another way of those pesky little bugs getting on camera. The cows are not impressed.

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Thanks to Sana Noor Haq and CNN World News Online for the Headline.

A 25 year old lawyer, Mahnoor Omer, is taking the Pakistani Government to court to remove tax from “sanitary products” and class the products as essential, which if you are a woman they are.

This is indeed a no brainer and also would give more women with low incomes the chance not to have to worry about leakages and to improve their all round reproductive health. More importantly it will raise the profile of women and the practicalities of being a woman. Presently, with import duties in Pakistan every woman faces a 40% surcharge on products they use while menstruating.

Mahnoor is the petitioner, while the case is being brought by her associate Ashan Jehangir Khan. They are following up on legislation that has been put in place already in India and Nepal. I wish them success.

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