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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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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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Thanks to Dan Martin and Ellis Maddison of BBC News Online for the Headline

The final piece of my trio today about “trees” , the pieces show what a varied role trees play in our lives. This particular tree , an oak was planted in 1967, in memory of the Great Sir Winston Churchill in the village of Cossington in Leicestershire.

Sad to say it is again a story of House Building and Development. One hundred and thirty houses are to be built by Bellway Houses in the village with the only access suitable to the development being blocked by the tree that was planted in 1967 ,which had to go because the planning permission granted in 2022 allowed it to be removed for the development to have suitable access from the main street. The villagers fought this decision and tried to save the tree to no avail.

This week the tree was removed , though the developer has offered it’s trunk to the villagers to carve a memorial from and have arranged for a sapling from one of the trees acorns to be grown and planted nearby ( I’d check the D.N.A if I were the villagers). Other acorns from the tree were saved and hopefully will be planted out too, in various locations in the future.( again might be worth checking the D.N.A) .

So I’m sorry that the tree has gone, there is no going back and it is very sad, so I can understand the tears.

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