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Offline Maik

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02/01/16
« on: Saturday, 02 January, 2016 @ 05:05:24 »
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New £150 fines for litter louts who think it is their 'human right' to drop rubbish
Adrian Evans, the chief executive of the Clean for the Queen campaign, also warned that littering has become so commonplace in Britain that some people think it is their "human right" to drop rubbish
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/politics/12066598/New-150-fines-for-litter-louts-who-think-it-is-their-human-right-to-drop-rubbish.html


Nice idea, couldn't see it working in Greece


Edit: Corrected year to 2016  :iroll:
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Offline TonyD

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Re: 02/01/15
« Reply #1 on: Saturday, 02 January, 2016 @ 10:41:07 »
It is a nice idea, but without enforcement the fine might as well be £1000, and it would still make little difference.


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Re: 02/01/15
« Reply #2 on: Saturday, 02 January, 2016 @ 14:12:49 »
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270lb man 'sits on son and suffocates him' while playing video game
The child's seven-year-old sibling witnessed the incident
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/270lb-man-sits-on-son-and-suffocates-him-while-playing-video-game-a6793441.html

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Re: 02/01/15
« Reply #3 on: Saturday, 02 January, 2016 @ 14:15:11 »
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'Anti-Isil group' claim responsibility for BBC shut down
New World Hacking says it carried out the distributed denial of service attack on Thursday morning
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/bbc/12078042/US-based-hacking-group-claim-responsibility-for-BBC-shut-down.html

BBC site still hit and miss for me

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Re: 02/01/16
« Reply #4 on: Saturday, 02 January, 2016 @ 15:34:46 »
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NHS hospital bosses given pay rises worth more than a nurse's annual salary
Some hospital chief executives have been given pay rises of up to £35,000

Some managers’ earnings rose by almost a quarter, the findings from more than 200 NHS trust boards show. Patients’ groups accused the NHS of “scandalous excesses” at a time when the health service is facing the greatest financial crisis in its history.

The head of the Royal College of Nursing said it was “immensely demoralising” to find that some executives had been awarded rises larger than a full year’s salary for the average nurse.

The highest overall package went to Dr Tracey Batten, the chief executive of Imperial College Healthcare, who was paid £290,000 plus a £50,000 relocation payment to move from Australia.

Several of those with the highest earnings left the NHS in recent months. The second highest earner overall was Peter Morris, the chief executive of Barts Health trust, on £275,000 until he resigned in February amid a growing financial crisis. The trust is now facing a deficit of £135 million, the largest any trust has ever had.

Another of the highest earners, Dr Keith McNichol, who came from Australia to run Addenbrooke’s Hospital, resigned in September — just before a damning inspection report saw the trust plunged into special measures. A salary of at least £260,000 made him the fourth best paid chief executive.

Tim Smart, who earned £255,000 a year as chief executive of Kings College Hospital Foundation Trust, announced his retirement in April, just after an inspection which later saw the trust rated as “requiring improvement”.

Katherine Murphy, the chief executive of the Patients Association, said she was concerned that the NHS had developed a culture of “rewards for failure”.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/health/12077917/NHS-hospital-bosses-given-pay-rises-worth-more-than-a-nurses-annual-salary.html

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Re: 02/01/16
« Reply #5 on: Saturday, 02 January, 2016 @ 17:22:10 »
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Challenge Accepted: Greek President Vows to Make Tsipras Wear Tie Again
http://sputniknews.com/europe/20160102/1032605587/tsipras-tie-greece-debt.html

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Re: 02/01/15
« Reply #6 on: Saturday, 02 January, 2016 @ 20:18:45 »
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270lb man 'sits on son and suffocates him' while playing video game
The child's seven-year-old sibling witnessed the incident
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/270lb-man-sits-on-son-and-suffocates-him-while-playing-video-game-a6793441.html

Rather more to it:  the guy did it deliberately as a "punishment" and ignored the boy's shouts.  On Xmas Eve. 

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Re: 02/01/16
« Reply #7 on: Saturday, 02 January, 2016 @ 20:49:16 »
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When the Kanellopoulos Museum in Athens commissioned Mark Reed to make a one-tonne, £20,000, tree sculpture out of steel he soon realised it would be too expensive to post it there. So he decided to deliver it himself on the back of his 1989 VW camper van.
http://www.itv.com/news/anglia/2016-01-02/a-norfolk-sculptor-has-driven-to-greece-and-back-to-deliver-a-work-of-art

Vid clip in link

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Re: 02/01/16
« Reply #8 on: Sunday, 03 January, 2016 @ 18:41:47 »
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When the Kanellopoulos Museum in Athens commissioned Mark Reed to make a one-tonne, £20,000, tree sculpture out of steel he soon realised it would be too expensive to post it there. So he decided to deliver it himself on the back of his 1989 VW camper van.
http://www.itv.com/news/anglia/2016-01-02/a-norfolk-sculptor-has-driven-to-greece-and-back-to-deliver-a-work-of-art

Vid clip in link

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He's from Norfolk - what do you expect?! (Sorry Norfolk!)  Apparently he's taking the dog over next month...  ;)

Actually it looked better than I thought.   :btu:

Tony