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Sideshoots - associated subjects / The Lighter Side / Re: Born to travel?
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on: August 16, 2017, 22:33:40
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There are a number of conventions to cover babies born in international waters or airspace, but they do not have a great number of ratifying states, and different countries follow different conventions. The effect is broadly similar - a child born in no man's land/sea/air will normally assume the nationality of the parents. It will be allocated the nationality of the state of registry of the ship/aircraft only if to do otherwise would render the child stateless. The UK▸ is a signatory to the 1961 Convention on the Reduction of Statelessness, rarely if ever invoked. What happens if a child is born to squabbling parents of different nationalities on a plane registered to a third country, I have no idea!
Drifting off-thread, I recall a child being born on a RAF▸ Hercules. Nationality was not in issue - the mother had entered labour with complications on a Scottish island on a night when the weather was atrocious. It was deemed essential that she should got to hospital. The only aircraft capable of evacuating her to hospital was the Hercules, and one was dispatched from RAF Lyneham (since closed) to get her. The child was born on the return leg. The pilot announced the birth to the air traffic control centre by reporting "POB is now 7" - POB being Persons On Board. It ended happily for all concerned.
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All across the Great Western territory / Buses and other ways to travel / Re: Buying a bus ticket
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on: August 07, 2017, 23:00:13
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Fares in Bristol and the West of England are easy to find from First's website. I use the mTickets app whenever I travel by bus, as it's cheaper and I like to keep the purse-strings tight, but it took a long time before it moved from weekly tickets to being generally useful. Maybe next time you go walkabout, it will be available for your trip.
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Sideshoots - associated subjects / The Lighter Side / Re: Trees Trees Everywhere I can't see the Wood for the Trees
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on: August 07, 2017, 22:49:54
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The greening of the valleys since the coal mines were shut down is in my opinion one of the more positive aspects of the industrial changes which occurred in the 70s and 80s. Though as they are still some way short of a tourist attraction then I would agree that tree clearance to give passengers views should probably come fairly low down NR» 's its of priorities, unlike in Scotland where I believe there is an effort being made on the Highland lines to do so.
"Such a scene of urban dereliction. I remember when this was all pitheads and steelworks!" |
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