Morrisons must have good contacts in Tel Aviv - they put their petrol prices up the day before the Israelis started bombing Iran   

Indeed...............it took them five weeks to get to London in 1660, by train it took them three and a half hours !

The regiment was originally formed in 1650 as part of Cromwell's New Model Army. They did all that walking, some 10 years later, to support the (peaceful) restoration of the monarchy - after Cromwell abdicated.

When I bought my current car the only "free" colour was red - other colours were "available", inc black, at £500 + extra. What was it that Henry Ford said about his cars ?

I got caught up in a security "scare" in Valencia after the Madrid train bombing (2004 ?). This was the ultimate example of "we must be seen to be doing something" - no matter how pointless !! There was full airline style security for all the long distance trains (to Madrid, Barcelona etc), with queues stretching across the station and down the roads outside.
But.........my local train back out to Xeraco didn't even have a ticket check................and it was the local commuter trains that were bombed in Madrid !
If terrorists were looking for a target they couldn't have asked for anything better than the queues in and around Valencia Station.

From Telegraph.

1. Harlingen

Found it/them !

Probably not.  The aircraft that came to grief was MJ627.  There were 2 Spitfires doing flights from Chichester that day: BS410 & SM520. Couldn't see your "bomber" any where - if you can give me a rough time, I'll have another look.

The white stripes were D Day recognition markings.

This much vaunted "capacity increase" has been achieved by wholesale shortening of the trains outside of this "core". The Cardiff - Portsmouth service now shows one solitary return trip daily by a 5 car train. As I reported a couple of months back, 4 weeks daily commuting from Warminster to Southampton was an appalling experience - but I'm so glad to know it produced more seats from Westbury to Bristol !

How long ago was this "preposterous" idea put forward as being the gospel truth by GWR^▸ (Great Western Railway) with regards to the Cardiff - Portsmouth route ? ....................so don't hold your breath for the "local trains".

pm today: the Dorset/Somerset Air Ambulance was at Warminster (arrived from Swindon), the Wiltshire/Bath aircraft was at Semington (came from Swindon - Refuelling at home base ?), The Great Western aircraft was at Swindon. Busy day !

As a 78 year old I must confess that I do, at times, get a little weary of the calls for various clampdowns on "old" drivers. I have had cataracts in both eyes and a detached retina - yet my vision (unaided) is 20/20 (or, as we must say now, 6/6). Oh - and a clean licence. Yes, the coroner was quite right with his comments over these tragic cases. However, he could have made a stronger case to save far more lives by calling for a ban on under 25s from carrying passengers for a considerable period after passing the driving test- just to name one action. There are plenty more.

Looking at the graph below (from Gov.Uk)................and perhaps being somewhat simplistic, it might appear that you have to reach the age of 86 before you become as dangerous on the roads as a 17 - 24 year old. It seems that I am roughly 3 times as "safe" as a 20 year old - tell my insurance company that !!

"Air today, gone tomorrow" ??

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cze1l76lkp4o

One has to ask: "why didn't they.......................

Back in place !!  (Today's Telegraph)