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Maik:

--- Quote ---Huge Bexleyheath sinkhole spanning residential street swallows motorbike

A big sinkhole spanning an entire street in Bexleyheath swallowed a motorbike after the road caved in on Tuesday night.

Shocked residents found a big chunk of street missing after it began cracking and a seven metre hole opened up.

Police and firefighters were called at 9pm on Tuesday and quickly cordoned off the road, and the council and Thames Water are investigating what happened.

No homes were reported damaged and no one was injured.

Witnesses reportedly saw a motorbike drive past without seeing the sinkhole. The driver tried to jump it, but ended up in the hole.
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https://www.itv.com/news/london/2022-06-22/huge-bexleyheath-sinkhole-spanning-residential-street-swallows-motorbike


https://youtu.be/a53-0q9F7Zo?t=1


Edit: interesting report on the Telegraph - 'Evel Knievel' motorcyclist swallowed up by 20ft London sinkhole

Maik:

--- Quote ---Polio is back: National incident declared in UK as disease spreads for first time in nearly 40 years
Britain was proclaimed polio-free in 2003 and the last wild case was detected in 1984

On Wednesday, the UK Health Security Agency (UKHSA) announced that a vaccine-derived polio virus had been detected in sewage from north and east London in February and April, suggesting there had been spread between individuals.

Health experts believe that the virus was probably imported from an individual who had recently been given an oral polio vaccine containing live virus, which was then shed in faeces, entering London’s sewerage system.

Polio can be spread by poor hand hygiene and, less commonly, through coughing and sneezing. The virus multiplies in the intestine and infected people excrete large quantities of virus in their faeces for several weeks.
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https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2022/06/22/polio-back-national-incident-declared-uk-disease-spreads-first/

U4ea:

--- Quote from: Maik on Wednesday, 22 June, 2022 @ 10:45:43 ---O'Leary's public utterances are often a load of shite.

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You mean always don't you?  :yahoo:

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