Interesting and, yes, sobering, on many levels.

Only road rage though. Apparently one of my son's friends went by coach to Coventry recently and on the return journey, the driver got into an argument with two passengers, or would-be passengers, which developed into a physical fight. Police arrived and arrested the driver. The coach was somewhat delayed...

We don't know exactly what was broadcast, or prevented from being broadcast, nor do we know it was done by Russian agents. But we do know that Russian agents don't have to be based in Russia, just as eg Ukrainian drones attacking Moscow aren't launched from Ukraine, so I don't the location is implied.

Westbury or Uffington? They are separate horses.

A different aspect is raised in a Graudian article about shoplifting:
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2023/aug/27/shoplifting-out-of-control-forget-police-stores-need-to-up-their-game

What linguists call 'schwa'. 'Neutral e' is a more accessible description. 

Reading between the lines, she's doing a fair bit of couchsurfing too.

Russian hackers are being blamed.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-66630260

Most mentioned, most photographed and best travelled. Happy birthday Finn!

Was the owner impersonating a vicar?

I don't see option 3 on my screen.

I've only once in my life used Swindon bus station. That happened to be a rainy Monday this June. It struck me as being very like bus stations I remember from the 1970s, and that is in no way a compliment. I didn't pay any attention to the opening hours of the toilet, because that also would presumably be like a public toilet of the 1970s, with pools of pee and piles of poo on the floor, pages ripped out of pornographic magazines, and dodgy geezers standing round with dubious intentions.

Besides, I was on my way to catch a train, where all would be much more pleasant. On which, I wouldn't say the two stations were especially close now, nor is the train station well signposted from the bus station. I'm not sure about the other way.

In short, if they're going to knock it down, that's good.

(Oh, and there were lots of good things about the 1970s, but bus stations were not among them.)

I was going to say that things you can't imagine at the time, will nevertheless be invented and installed; but in fact, the original station was built only one year before the first Otis "safety passenger elevator" in New York, so by 1894 it was definitely a known thing.

I suppose there's a lesson here about making and keeping records even when you can see no use for them.

I don't remember that at all – but haven't adverts changed a lot! And museums, come to that.